1 . Nature is all about relationships: the interconnected links between the living and lifeless, and how they harmonize beautifully into a whole that might not be immediately apparent to us humans, as the complexities of the world sometimes escape the grasp of our relatively short-sighted understanding. Perhaps that's why the urgency of the climate crisis and other environ-mental issues don't truly hit home for some; because that important data is presented in a dry, factual way that doesn't touch the deeper parts of our collective soul, in a way that would move us to realize what is being lost.

Clare Celeste is an environmentally-minded artist creating artworks that aim to highlight the precious biodiversity of the planet. Using paper that is complexly cut and then hand-assembled piece by piece, Celeste forms imaginary landscapes of plants and animals that are folded or pressed between glass.

Growing up in Brazil, Celeste says that her earliest childhood memories were of green, tropical ecosystems slowly being eaten up by the rapid expansion of nearby cities.

Celeste said, “When I made a series of combinations, I realized that many of the species in the illustrations had already gone extinct. Humans have wiped out 68 percent of all our planet's biodiversity since 1970, so working with old illustrations can be very heartbreaking as much of the diversity in these beautiful old illustrations has been wiped out by human activities.”

Celeste explains some of the motivations behind this series of paper works: “I wanted to convey the beauty of our planet's plants and animals, while also introducing a more architectural or human-made element with the geometric (几何图形的) patterns. Having grown up in Brazil, I was surrounded by dense urban spaces that often had rich jungle growth just wanting to break through the concrete architecture. I suggest we go back to our love: our love of nature, of our children, of future generations. Because when we love something deeply, we are required to act—to save it when it is threatened.”

1. What can we infer from the first paragraph?

A．People are connected with each other.

B．People find data on nature boring to study.

C．People can't solve the climate crisis on their own.

D．People don't fully understand environmental issues.

2. What did Celeste remember about her childhood?

A．Cities were rich in green plants.

B．Buildings were decorated with plants.

C．Urbanization destroyed the local biodiversity.

D．Nature was a mixture of natural artworks.

3. What can be inferred from Celeste's words in paragraph 4?

A．Most species die without adapting to environment.

B．Humans feel painful at the loss of species.

C．Her paper cuts represent the extinction of species.

D．Human activities have severely damaged biodiversity.

4. What motivates Celeste to create her works?

A．The desire to protect the biodiversity.

B．The desire for a good childhood memory.

C．The idea of imagining landscapes.

D．The hope of preserving natural beauty.

2 . I looked out of the door of my 100 year-old house and saw my newly built garden. I realized nothing is rubbish. I was full of_________and appreciation.

I_________to look at the things that we usually think of as_________—plastic bags, polluted water, rubber bands, and newspapers, clothes and furniture we_________. I also began to think, act and live according to a belief that all things have the_________of being reused as long as we try to_________it. And I explored the worth of_________. I mean recycling isn't just about_________rubbish like putting glass and paper in_________bins. It also requires creativity, commitment and even love.

My neighbors would put the autumn__________by the roadside to be picked up by the garbage truck. This didn't__________with my newfound concept of recycling trash, so I made a new__________with moving boxes and put up a__________saying, ''Dump（倾倒）leaves here". I watched carefully through the autumn as my neighbors__________the leaves in the new garden and I also watered the leaves__________with rainwater and collected dogs' waste as fertilizer, Then I__________flower seeds. Finally, I had a new__________garden, full of colorful flowers.

Nothing has to be really__________. If you try hard enough, everything can be recycled. I even used my bath water to water my garden, though it might be a little__________for my friends. But I think if we all can turn waste, sometimes a little dirty, into__________, the world will be a much better place.

1.

A．joy

B．sympathy

C．doubt

D．regret

2.

A．refused

B．hesitated

C．liked

D．started

3.

A．wealth

B．garbage

C．investments

D．necessities

4.

A．packed up

B．brought up

C．threw away

D．gave away

5.

A．value

B．request

C．confusion

D．consequence

6.

A．own

B．find

C．forget

D．lose

7.

A．collecting

B．recovering

C．recycling

D．competing

8.

A．sorting

B．picking

C．spotting

D．recording

9.

A．uniform

B．broken

C．limitless

D．separate

10.

A．fruit

B．rice

C．leaves

D．vegetables

11.

A．compare

B．deal

C．communicate

D．fit

12.

A．platform

B．garden

C．picture

D．schedule

13.

A．building

B．tent

C．sign

D．show

14.

A．piled

B．polished

C．decorated

D．cleaned

15.

A．unwillingly

B．hardly

C．seriously

D．casually

16.

A．submitted

B．sowed

C．removed

D．reserved

17.

A．smelly

B．annoying

C．imaginary

D．attractive

18.

A．useless

B．careless

C．priceless

D．defenseless

19.

A．pleasant

B．vivid

C．violent

D．disgusting

20.

A．trouble

B．treasure

C．terror

D．trade

3 . An environmental advocacy groups have launched Cut Carbon Not Forests, a campaign to expose the UK’s wasteful subsidies for companies that burn trees for electricity and to put pressure on policymakers to support reform. In the face of the climate emergency, and as the UK government seeks a “green recovery” from the coronavirus pandemic, the campaign led jointly by Biofuelwatch, Dogwood Alliance, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and the Southern Environmental Law Center, calls for an end to these money, redirecting billions of pounds to fill a critical funding gap for genuinely clean and renewable energy solutions like solar and wind.

The UK is the largest user of biomass electricity in Europe, backed by more than £1 billion a year in government subsidies, paid out via a fee on energy bills. However, burning wood in power stations is no better for the climate than burning coal. Further, much of the wood in question is cut down and shipped in from sensitive forests overseas, destroying habitats and wildlife.

“The climate emergency requires us to build a genuinely clean-energy economy and end wasteful subsidies for dirty biomass energy,” said Almuth Ernsting, Co-Director of Biofuelwatch. “Cutting down trees, shipping them from forests overseas and burning them in power plants was never compatible with the need to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees; that’s even clearer today. It’s long past time to redirect this aid to genuine climate solutions like wind and solar energy.”

Research shows British public opinion aligns with a push toward biomass subsidy reform. YouGov polling found 82% of respondents were worried about the impact on wildlife if trees in forests were being cut down to supply power plants. Only 3% of respondents thought the government should promote biomass energy using trees shipped in from overseas forests, which is the UK’s primary source of supply. By contrast, a large majority said the government should promote solar and wind power.(332 words)

1. What is the campaign for?

A．More subsidies should be used in genuinely clean and renewable energy.

B．More subsidies should be given to companies that burn trees for electricity.

C．More subsidies should be used by the policy makers.

D．More subsidies should be used to cut down forest.

2. Why does the campaign think burning wood is wrong?

A．Because wood is clean and renewable energy.

B．Because cutting wood overseas is bad for habitat and wildlife.

C．Because burning coal is better for the climate.

D．Because wood is hard to grow.

3. What does the underlined word “aligns with” in paragraph 4 refer to?

A．Oppose.	B．Support.
C．Dislike.	D．Hate.

4. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．The government has done a good job in promoting the solar and wind power.

B．Cutting trees can cut down the Carbon emission

C．Most people in British support the campaign.

D．Trees shipped from overseas do no harm to the local environment.

4 . Would you sail over 12,900 kilometres across the Pacific Ocean in a boat made from plastic bottles?

In 2010, a crew of six people did. They sailed on the Plastiki, an 18.3-metre boat made from recycled materials. Everything about the Plastiki was environmentally friendly. The sails were produced from recycled plastic and the masts that held them from used aluminum pipes. Organic materials, such as glue made from nuts and sugar, were used to keep the bottles in place. To power the boat, solar panels and wind turbines were used.

During the journey, crew members lived in a plastic cabin. Their daily routine consisted of sleeping, eating and doing chores. For food, they mainly survived on fresh vegetables grown in a hanging garden as well as canned and dried food. They also ate fresh fish, but were surprised to discover that they found more plastic than fish. “From above, the oceans still look beautiful and untouched,” David said, “but just below the surface is this toxic stew that could quickly end up on our dinner plates.”

The leader, David, organised the voyage in order to draw people’s attention to the environmental dangers our oceans face and the need to recycle plastic. He planned to visit damaged coral reefs and islands in danger from rising sea levels. However, his most important objective was to see the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a huge mass of plastic particles floating in the North Pacific. David hoped that, by sailing through the Patch, he could show the world how serious plastic pollution had become.

Unfortunately, the Plastiki was more difficult to control than expected. Therefore, the boat missed its main destination. However, the crew did make stops at islands in the mid-Pacific, where they picked up supplies and talked to local students. Along the way, they battled fierce ocean storms, torn sails and temperatures that reached up to 38°C.

When the Plastiki finally sailed into Sydney’s harbour, the crew were greeted by cheers. The Plastiki’s journey had shown that if we understand how to use waste materials efficiently, they can be transformed into valuable resources. It had also revealed that it was more important than ever to deliver a serious message: our oceans are filling up with plastic faster than we thought.

1. What was special about the Plastiki?

A．It had high-tech equipment.	B．It was made of green materials.
C．It once crossed the Pacific Ocean.	D．It had a professional crew on it.

2. What was the purpose of the Plastiki’s voyage?

A．To protect endangered ocean life.	B．To test the safety of a new boat.
C．To stop people using plastic products.	D．To highlight the plastic waste problem.

3. Which of the following best describes Plastiki’s voyage?

A．Boring but carbon-free.	B．Controversial but fruitful.
C．Aimless but comfortable.	D．Challenging but significant.

4. What message is conveyed in the last paragraph?

A．Limited resources should be valued.

B．Actions must be taken by individuals.

C．Plastic waste can be turned into treasure.

D．Environmental problems can be easily solved.

6 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Exploring Beyond

Following the call of our restless genes has not ended well for all explorers. The British explorer Captain James Cook died in a fight with Hawaiians ten years after he received the precious map from Tupaia. His death, some say, brought to a close     1    Western historians call the Age of Exploration. Yet it hardly    2    （end）our exploring. We have remained enthusiastic about filling in the Earth's maps; reaching its farthest poles, highest peaks, and deepest trenches（海豹）; sailing to its every corner and then flying off the planet entirely. With the NASA Rover Curiosity now    3    （stir）us all as it explores Mars, some countries and private companies are preparing to send humans to the red planet as well. Some visionaries even talk of having a spacecraft    4    （send）to the nearest star.

NASA's Michael Barratt—a doctor, diver, and jet pilot; a sailor for 40 years; an astronaut for 12—is among those    5    ache to go to Mars. Barratt consciously sees himself as an explorer Cook and Tupaia. "We're doing what     6    did," he says. "It works this way at every point in human history. A society develops an enabling technology,     7    it's the ability to preserve and carry food or build a ship or launch a rocket."

Not all of us    8    ride a rocket or sail the infinite sea. Yet,     9    a species, we're curious enough and interested enough by the prospect to help pay for the trip and cheer at the voyagers return. Yes, we hope to find a better place to live or acquire a larger territory or make a fortune. But we also explore simply    10    （discover）what's there.

7 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

In 2004, the junior high school student, now 13, launched the basketball-themed Hoops of Hope,     1     “charged” people in his neighborhood $1 for every basket he shot. Since then, thousands of youngsters have picked up on the idea and raised more than $325,000 for the cause. “It works     2     kids of my age want a chance to do something great and be part of something like this,” Gutwein told China Daily.

“I realized these kids weren’t any     3     (difference) from me, except that they were suffering     4     (terrible) and I wanted to do something to help     5     (they),” he said.

    6     the help of non-government organizations, Hoops of Hope has built a school for HIV/AIDS orphans and a medical lab in Zambia in South Africa.

Another participant, Li Yeqiao, a 15-year-old student at Beijing Bayi Middle School, told the conference how the group seeks to improve the way electronic waste     7     (deal) with, and encourages people     8     (save) water and care for animals. “We have developed 3R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) living habits. Our initiatives (首先行动)    9     (have) a positive impact on the local environment.” Li said.

British animal behavior expert Jane Goodall introduced the Roots & Shoots concept to China in 2000 to promote environmental and humanitarian education programs to     10     (child). There are now 300 of such groups in the country.

8 . For 30 years we have been told how temperatures have been rising rapidly to unheard of levels. This is causing polar ice to melt, sea-levels to rise and has brought about a dangerous increase in extreme weather events. These intense climatic changes would likely present challenges to our society and environment.

The causes of climate change are mainly anthropogenic (人为的) in nature. Since the industrial revolution, human activities have increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The increased amount of gases which absorb heat has led to more heat being kept in the atmosphere, causing global warming.

The certainty of global warming can be seen through some of the natural phenomena like the effect on crops and extreme weather conditions around the world. The most recent assessment report says that the earth’s average temperature has risen by 0. 74 degrees in the period from 1906 to 2005, and that the average temperature will continue to rise. There have also been more violent downpours, sea levels have risen and the ice at the world’s poles and on its mountains is melting. The rising sea level is flooding the low-lying countries in Asia and small islands in the Pacific. This may lead to the displacement of millions of people, loss of millions of land and consequently billions of dollars.

Troubled by the serious situation, world leaders came together for the 2015 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Paris. The climate talks led to 196 countries reaching a landmark agreement that will, for the first time, commit nearly every country to lowering planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to address global climate change. That was certainly an encouraging step forward for our earth and mankind!

As the world leaders continue to commit themselves to monitor our sick planet, we need to continue to take small steps to heal the world. We are left with not much of a choice. If only we could just pack our bags and migrate to Mars!

1. What does paragraph 2 mainly talk about?

A．The information of industrial revolution.

B．The greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

C．The reasons of climate change.

D．The result of extreme weather events.

2. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．We have made great achievements.

B．Some measures are still required to take.

C．Mars is suitable for people’s living.

D．Some countries will receive urgent aid.

3. Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Long Live Planet Earth!

B．Environment Changes Rapidly!

C．What Serious Global Warming!

D．How Important the UN Agreement Is!

4. Which of the following shows the structure of the whole text?

A．	B．
C．	D．

9 . Although billions of locusts(蝗虫) appearing on East African countries greatly panicked farmers in 2020, they managed to see through this unexpected crisis. “Their success primarily results from a technology-driven anti-locust operation,” said Mr. Cressman, an officer in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

Normally, these locusts live alone across the deserts of North Africa, Southwest Asia and the Middle East. But when rains arrive, they change from a slightly brown into a deep yellow and form groups of more than 15 million insects per square mile. Such quantities of locusts can consume the equivalent amount of food in a single day as more than 13 000 people.

Locust trackers in Sudan and Eritrea find the insects by using a tablet-based program to transmit data to authorities so experts can design appropriate control strategies. But people who want to use this system might encounter a technological problem: The version of the tablets that the locust-tracking program was written for is not manufactured and newer tablets are unsuitable for the software.

Rather than rewriting the locust-tracking software for newer tablets, Mr. Cressman thought creating a simple smartphone app would make anyone collect data like an expert. He sought help from Dr. Hughes, who had already created PlantVillage to track a crop pest. Borrowing from this blueprint Dr. Hughes and his colleagues completed eLocust3m, which anyone with a smartphone can use. The app presents photos of locusts at different stages of their life cycles, which helps users diagnose what they see in the field. The locations are then automatically recorded by GPS and algorithms(算法) double check submitted photos. If necessary, pesticide-spraying aircraft will take position.

The F.A.O. estimates that this effort in East Africa has prevented the loss of agricultural products with a commercial value of $ 1.5 billion, saving the livelihood of 34 million people.

1. What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 2?

A．Summarize the previous paragraph.	B．Provide scientific data for readers.
C．Add some background information.	D．Introduce a new topic for discussion.

2. What may trouble potential tablet-based program users?

A．The low adaptability of the software.	B．Too many versions of new tablets.
C．The complex process of transmitting data.	D．The urgency of rewriting the software.

3. What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A．Cressman created a smartphone app.

B．ELocust3m is based on PlantVillage.

C．Operating ELocust3m needs much training.

D．Users should record where they find locusts.

4. Which of the following shows the structure of the whole text?

A．

B．

C．

D．

10 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Following pressure from animal activist groups , Apsara, the management authority for the Angkor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap, Cambodia announced in June 2019 it would ban elephant rides in early 2020. Now the process has already begun.

An Apsara press    1     (represent) said, “The elephant is a big animal,     2     it is gentle and we don’t want to see the animals     3     (use) for tourism activities anymore. We want them to live in their    4     (nature) surroundings.”

In 2016, an elephant named Sambo died at Angkor Archaeological Park,     5     (draw) worldwide attention. Her death was blamed     6     a combination of heat stroke arid exhaustion from ferrying so many human beings around. Two years later, the World Wildlife Fund     7     (publish) an in-depth look at the dwindling populations of the Asian elephant, noting that the     8     (species) population had declined by 50% in just three generations.

The ban comes at a time when more and more travelers and tourism organizations around the world have moved to eliminate animal-related attractions. Most recently, Trip Advisor-one of the world’s biggest travel listings and booking sites--announced that     9     would not sell tickets to any sites     10     breed whales or dolphins in captivity, such as the theme park Sea World in the US.