1 . Sustainability for kids can start with a seed. We put together some ways to involve the whole family in protecting the environment.

Go on a hike. Parental involvement in early childhood education looks different in various settings from preschool to home and to the grocery store.     1     Going on a hike together can be an ideal thing to investigate a local ecosystem, look for signs of the changing season, and gain an overall appreciation of the world outdoors. Plus, by bringing an extra garbage bag and gloves to pick up trash along the way, parents can show kids some educational activities.

Go green for holidays. Make holidays fun while also supporting a green environment for kids. Use LED lights for decorative lighting.     2     Decrease your carbon footprint and purchase holiday gifts from local shops.

    3     Parents don’t need an acre of land to teach their children that food doesn't grow at the grocery store. All they need is sunlight, water and dirt. A windowsill is the perfect spot to grow herbs. A back deck can grow beautiful tomatoes. Plant peach seeds in a small container.     4    

Recycle together. Recycling activities for kids can be fun and support family involvement in education at the same time.     5     Then work with them to make something new out of the recycled items, such as making boxes out of recycled cardboard and storage tins out of recycled cans.

A．Plant a “garden”.

B．Don’t buy food from the grocery.

C．Protecting the environment for kids is important.

D．Parents should tell children what they can recycle.

E．And the children can watch a little peach tree grow.

F．Recycle Christmas trees instead of throwing them away.

G．To a child, every setting and every moment can be a teachable one.

2 . About 400 pounds of food is wasted per day from 5 pm to 8 pm in Douglass Dining Hall. “We scrape(刮掉) the food from the conveyor belt into the buckets by hand. Working for Dining Team Green, I don’t expect to basically become a garbage girl,” Roll said. “We do the work because we care much about it. We all have a responsibility to take care of the environment.”

To have more approachable composting(把……制成堆肥) machines on campus, Roll now has a new sustainable project investing in Lomi, an automated compost machine. “I learned about Lomi through an ad,” Roll said. “Funny enough, I just saw it and thought it perfect. It really interested me how the mechanism worked. ”

Lomi is a new technology that can break down food waste into natural compost. According to Roll, it breaks down waste in the way: grinding(碾碎) the food into plant fertilizer. Unlike most composting machines, Omi can compost animal products, such as small bones. Another huge benefit is that it doesn’t have smell and can convert waste to compost in a shorter time.

Roll plans on using the compost in the Gilbert community garden so that Dining Team Green can give back to the community. “It’s very exciting to see our food waste that would otherwise have gone in the trash and pollute the environment go to our community,” she said.

Roll is excited to introduce a new form of composting to the residents. She hopes that this machine will inspire other composting machines in all residential buildings. “I want Lomi not only to be a way to reduce food waste on the floor, but an educational tool to make people compost in a real way and not just talk about it in a theoretical sense,” Roll said.

1. Which of the following can best describe Lomi?

A．Elegant.	B．Widespread.
C．Low-powered.	D．Environmentally friendly.

2. What does paragraph 3 mainly talk about?

A．The reasons for designing Lomi.	B．The impact of wasting food.
C．The solution to food waste.	D．The advantages of Lomi.

3. What may be Roll’s expectation?

A．More people will get involved in composting initiatives.

B．Dining Team Green will become an educational tool.

C．More developed composting machines will be invented.

D．Dining Team Green will build community gardens.

4. What can we know about Roll?

A．She lives in the Gilbert community.

B．She is a member of Dining Team Green.

C．She knows a lot about residential buildings.

D．She plans to design more composting machines.

3 . 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 the southern Turkish city of Antakya, a pregnant woman under the rubble (碎石) of a collapsed building     1     (pull) out to safety by Chinese and local rescue teams on Thursday, three days after the catastrophic magnitude-7.7 earthquake and its aftershocks     2     (strike) the country and northern Syria.

People who lost their homes looked for temporary shelter and food in freezing winter weather and waited by piles of rubble     3     family and friends might still lie     4     (bury). The death toll in Türkiye     5     (rise) to 14,351 so far.

The Chinese rescue team, consisting of 82 members rushed to one of the worst-hit     6     (area) in Türkiye as soon as they landed at the Adana international airport on Wednesday.

    7     (arrive) at the scene, the Chinese rescuers immediately joined their Turkish partners to carry out     8     rescue plan and saved the woman, according to Zhao Yang, deputy leader of the Chinese rescue team.

The team sent by the Chinese government set to join the international rescue effort. As of midday Thursday, 10 Chinese civilian teams     9     places including south China’s Shenzhen and Wenzhou have already departed for or arrived in Türkiye     10     (help) with the rescue work.

4 . 假设你是李华。下周你校将举办英语征文比赛，主题为“践行低碳生活，从我做起”。请你写一篇短文投稿。内容包括：
1.你对低碳生活的理解；
2.具体做法；
3.发出倡议。
注意：词数80左右。
参考词汇：emission 排放；carbon dioxide二氧化碳
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5 . Over the past four decades, more than 450 butterfly species have been hit by the falling numbers. In the US alone, the number of monarch butterflies (黑脉金斑蝶) has seen a drop of 80%, from scientists recording millions of them in the 1980s, and only 29,000 in 2020. It’s part of a wider possibility across the insect group. In 2017, scientists in Germany raised alarm bells after finding that insects had fallen by more than 70% in 30 years.

For farmers, monarch butterflies pollinate (授粉) a very large percentage of food crops. It is very important t protect them because their disappearance could have a huge economic influence. Butterflies are also helpful in the coal mine for other insects, as it is easier for them to feel the environmental change. and relatively easy to record.

Leading environmental organizations have been working hard to find new ways of recording the number of butterflies. As of now, there is no long-term data to develop good protection methods. The scientists wanted to address the challenge that long term recording programs worldwide have faced: they are focusing on training locals as insect experts, which requires much money. They came up with a new method to the problem. In Yasuni National Park, they hired park rangers (护林员) who were trained and then carried out recording. The rangers were able to recognize butterflies with an 85% success rate, which is important for these kinds of recording programs to be successful.

Compared with other recording projects, this study represents a long-term solution. “Our method increases the chance of recording in the long term by reducing the money spent on it such as wages,” said lead author Maria Checa. “Furthermore, it also offers opportunities for public organizations to achieve their environmental goals.”

1. How does the author develop the first paragraph?

A．By telling a story.	B．By listing numbers.
C．By showing possible results.	D．By discussing different reasons.

2. How are butterflies different from other insects in feeling the environmental change?

A．They are quicker.	B．They are lazier.
C．They are slower.	D．They are more inactive.

3. What does the underlined word “address” in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Discover.

B．Solve.

C．Invent.

D．Balance.

4. What’s Maria Checa’s attitude towards the new method?

A．Uncaring.

B．Disapproving.

C．Positive.

D．Doubtful.

9 . The process by which rich land becomes desert is called desertification(沙漠化).     1    The U. N. says up to 45 percent of Africa’s land is impacted by desertification, worse than any other continent.

Africa’s Great Green Wall is a project to build an 8000-kilometer-long forest across 11 of the continent’s countries. The project is meant to contain the growing Sahara Desert and fight climate change.     2    They include limited political support, lack of money, weak organizational structures, and not enough consideration for the environment. Just 4 million hectares of land have been turned into forest since the work on the Great Green Wall began 15 years ago.     3    

Launched in 2007, the project aims to plant a forest from Senegal on the Atlantic Ocean in western Africa to Eritrea, Ethiopia and Djibouti in the east.     4     It could also reduce levels of climate-related migration in the area and capture hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air.

    5    They say some progress has been made in recent years in the east of the continent. For example, efforts in Eritrea and Sudan have resulted in nearly 140, 000 hectares of newly planted forest.

The U. N. desertification agency says the project will need to plant an average of 8. 2 million hectares yearly to reach its goal of 100 million hectares by 2030.

A．It has severe impacts on the environment.

B．That is only 4 percent of the program’s goal.

C．However, it is difficult to carry out the project.

D．But the project has been facing many problems.

E．The project would create millions of green jobs in rural Africa.

F．Despite many problems, those involved in the project remain hopeful.

G．Some countries have struggled to keep up with the demands of the project.

10 . Several big wildfires have been brought under control in Chongqing with the help of local motorcyclists. The city government has called for volunteers to join in the tough firefighting, and a large number of motorcyclists have played an important role and won widespread praise.

According to the city emergency management bureau on Wednesday, wildfires in Chongqing’s Dazu and Tongliang districts have been brought under control, and other fires-in Fuling, Kaizhou and Wanzhou districts-have been extinguished (熄灭).

The local government mobilized 1, 152 emergency rescue workers and four helicopters to put out the fires in the city’s Beibei district and evacuated (疏散) 46 people to safety shelters.

“It is my honor and duty to guard my hometown, ” said 27-year-old Li Xin, owner of Yueqi Motorcycle Club. On Sunday night, upon hearing the fire breakout, Li organized a team of 15 club members to sign up to support firefighting in Beibei’s Xiema county, the center of the local blazes.

The team members, with an average age of 29, took turns using five dirt bikes and four road bikes to carry materials and equipment to firefighters and to transport people and necessities.

“The unpaved mountain paths and newly dug fire barriers require really good motorcycle skills, ” Li said, adding that even the best motorcyclist on the team might lose his balance and fall as he carried heavy materials and equipment in a large farmer’s back-basket. He said that to prevent heatstroke in the extreme outdoor heat, the team gave up dressing in thick riding suits. They also joined in cutting wood and putting out fires, working more than 12 hours a day on average. “We will stick to the site until the fire is out, ” he added.

In the extreme heat and drought (干旱) conditions, motorcyclists have been devoted to fighting against fires.

1. What is the purpose of paragraph 2?

A．To give warnings.	B．To recruit more volunteers.
C．To stress the danger of fires.	D．To introduce the background of the report.

2. According to the text, motorcyclists ________.

A．were dressed in thick riding suits

B．delivered only extinguishers to firefighters

C．reported the updates of the wildfires on the spot

D．volunteered to cut wood and help with firefighting work

3. Which of the following best describes Li Xin?

A．Smart and confident.	B．Responsible and generous.
C．Caring and strong-willed.	D．Brave and honest.

4. What is the best title of the text?

A．Motorcyclists Helped Extinguish Chongqing Wildfires

B．Wildfires in Chongqing Destroyed a Large Area of Forest

C．Firefighters Made Efforts to Put Out Wildfires

D．Chongqing Wildfires Were Put Under Control