2 . 你校将以六月八日世界海洋日为主题，举办英语征文比赛， 请你写一篇短文投稿。内容包括：
1.海洋的重要性；
2.保护海洋的倡议。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节， 以使行文连贯。
Dear fellow students,
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Yours,

Li Hua

4 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Home to the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers, the Sanjiangyuan area on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (高原), is known as “China’s water tower.” It is a     1    (whole) significant plateau wetland ecosystem and serves as     2     unique ecological defense for the country.

Decades ago, serious environmental degradation (恶化) in Sanjiangyuan,     3     was caused by climate change and human activities, resulted in a large number of lakes drying out and wildlife numbers falling sharply. In 2016, the pilot program for the Sanjiangyuan National Park management system     4    (launch). Through painstaking development and innovation, efforts have been made     5    (turn) the park into a symbol of the progress of China’s ecological civilization.

Over the past decade, the ecological environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau     6    (experience) enormous changes. Water conservation in the area has risen     7     11 percent every year, reaching 75 percent mark compared with 64 percent 10 years ago.

The     8    (establish) of the national park has enabled local residents to change from exploiting (开发) nature to becoming its protectors, some of them     9    (serve) as tour guides for visitors from home and abroad.

Today, as people wander on the vast land of Sanjiangyuan, looking at the expansive mountains, glaciers, lakes and pastures,     10     catching sight of wild animals and birds, they cannot help be impressed by the vastness and beauty of nature and its biodiversity (生物多样性).

5 . 假定你是校英语报编辑李华，在4月22日“世界地球日”(Earth Day )来临之际，请写一封英文倡议书，呼吁同学们低碳生活，关爱地球。内容包括：
1.校内浪费现象；
2.低碳生活的重要性及措施；
3.提出倡议。
注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear schoolmates,
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Li Hua

7 . Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

The Problem With Fast Fashion

There’s nothing quite like new clothes, is there? The UK certainly loves them. According to a report by the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), the UK consumes five times more clothes today than it did in the 1980s. That’s more than any other nation in Europe and amounts to around

26.7 kg per person.This results in 235 million garments being dumped into landfills - victims of fast fashion.

Fast fashion is defined as “an accelerated fashion business model ”involving “increased numbers of new fashion collections every year,” “quick turnarounds(周转期)”and “lower prices,” according to the EAC. Globalization means that clothing is made in countries where labour is cheaper. These savings are passed on to consumers, who then consider the clothes they own disposable - easily replaceable with something more trendy. And that creates problems.

First, there’re the environmental costs. Manufacturing any kind of textile costs resources. For example, synthetic fibres, which are made from plastic, have a larger carbon footprint than natural ones. Natural fibres, although more carbon-efficient, still require more water to grow. And further resources are used as the cloth is dyed, made into clothing and transported to retail for sale. Secondly, the fast-fashion industry is under pressure to put the latest trending items on shelves faster, which can lead to workers being exploited and forced to labour in poor working conditions. In countries such as Bangladesh, Ethiopia and the Philippines, workers are paid wages that are insufficient to live on. One worker in Ethiopia told the BBC that they had to deal with intolerable conditions, such as withheld overtime payments, verbal abuse, and unsanitary toilets.

So what can be done in the UK to reduce clothing waste? The EAC has recommended eighteen improvements to the UK government, from increasing tax on purchases to fund recycling centres to introducing more sewing lessons in schools, encouraging a make do and mend attitude when things become worn out.

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9 . Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
假设你是明启中学学生李明，学校计划在每个班级组织“防灾减灾日(Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Day)”主题班会以提高学生防灾减灾意识，普及灾难应对常识。请你给班主任写一封信提出你对该主题班会活动设计的建议，内容应包括：
1.你的建议；
2.你的理由。
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10 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fil in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Nore that there is one more word than you need.

A. approached        B. claims             C. cover        D. crises          E. hardly        F left G. occurrence        H. reluctantly        I. spill            J. stricken        K. warnings

THE WILSONS RIVER broke its banks on the night of February 27th while Lismore, a town of around 30, 000 in New South Wales, was sleeping. Its residents slept through early-hours emergency     1     that “risk to life was approaching”. Within bours the town was submerged. Residents scrambled into their attics. Mothers carried children onto rooftops. An army of locals launched tin boats into the floods to save them. Four people died.

Eastern Australia has been     2     by what politicians call “once-in-1, 000-year” flooding. It has already had a rainy summer because of La Nia, a phenomenon which triggers downpours there. Brisbane, Queensland's capital, received almost 80% of its annual rainfall in less than a week in February, flooding 15, 000 homes. As the rain     3     northern New South Wales, it ripped up roads and drowned herds of cattle. Storms hit Sydney on March 8th, causing a dam to     4     over. Some 50, 000 people in the state have been forced to evacuate.

Scientists are careful when blaming floods on global warming because everything from rainfall to urban development contributes to them. Whatever the cause, extreme weather is now a regular     5     in Australia. In 2019 and 2020 vast lands of the country were torched in bushfires which destroyed more than 3, 000 homes and killed 33 people.

When disaster strikes, official aid is often slow to come. In 2019 the federal government set aside almost A$4bn ($2. 9bn) fora fund that would help it respond to     6     and relieve future ones. But it has spent     7     any of that money. It has now deployed the army and is dishing out cash to victims, but locals get angry that they were     8     for days without power or fuel as supplies of food and water shrank.

A debate now continues about how or even whether places like Lismore should rebuild. Analysts think the floods might trigger insurance     9     worth more than A$3bn. Premiums (保险费) are already so high in disaster-prone towns that many locals can no longer afford     10     . “If we are going to start thinking every time there's a natural disaster that we have to give up and leave because it's too hard, then where are we going to live?” asks Lismore's mayor, Steve Krieg. That is becoming a question for ever more Australians.