2 . 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。

Live video provided by the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) showed that    1    staff member turned on a seawater pump    2    around 1:00 pm local time (0400 GMT),    3    (mark)the beginning of the controversial ocean discharge, while concerns and opposition persisted among local    4    (fisherman)as well as in neighboring countries and Pacific island countries.

Under scorching heat, hundreds of Japanese from all across the country    5    (gather)in

front of the TEPCO headquarters in     6    (center)Tokyo on Thursday morning, demanding the Japanese government and TEPCO    7    (stop)the ocean release.

Taeko Fujimura with Japan's National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations, also known as Zen-Noh,said the ocean discharge "cannot be forgiven" and was "     8     (extreme) unreasonable."Fujimura stressed that the ocean discharge,    9    is to continue for at least 30 years, will cause    10    (significance)environmental damage." It will pollute the sea, the marine life within it, the environment, and the Earth."

4 . Do you know how much India struggles to gather the waste plastic water bottles? According to a Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) report from 2012, India generates 15, 000 tonnes of plastics a day, of which the gathered ones only achieve 60%. The trashed-but-not-gathered plastic waste leads to land and water pollution. posing serious threat to the environment.

After seeing that, Ankur Chawla, a drink expert, undertook research to find a solution, after which he realised the biggest problem the country faced was disposing of plastic waste. To address it, he wanted to come up with a solution where they do not add to the problem of waste. Fortunately, Ankur was not alone. He met Bhrigu Seth who was into green farming. Both of them found that they shared a common goal and it didn’t take long for them to draft a plan of action. It is estimated that over 90 percent of aluminium(铝) drink cans in India are recycled. Instead, 70 percent of the cans are manufactured through recycled waste. After going through challenges at hand, the pair made up their minds.

Before taking the next step. both co-founders visited five-star hotels and took samples of water in aluminium cans, asking them whether they would give it a shot if something like that comes in the market. The pair received an overwhelmingly positive response. They then determined to launch Responsible Whatr, natural spring water drink packed in an aluminium can to solve the problem of waste plastic water bottles.

As one of India’s first natural spring water drink, Responsible Whatr offered an environmentally friendly and endlessly recyclable aluminium can. It’s a non-alcoholic drink that was launched with a vision for an eco-friendly future and an agenda to reduce single-use plastic pollution.

Going forward, Ankur and Bhrigu aim to cooperate with airports and ecommerce gates which would help them in directly reaching the homes of high networth individuals (HNIs). They also plan to tie up with corporate firms and cinema halls and join hands with NGOs that are fighting for the conservation of beaches and oceans.

1. What inspired Ankur to conduct his research?

A．Plastics remained the major bottle material.

B．Uncollected plastics caused severe pollution.

C．Plastics accounted for most of the daily waste.

D．The amount of plastic waste was beyond control.

2. What was Ankur and Bhrigu’s solution to the problem?

A．Creating a new packaging design.	B．Developing an alternative to plastics.
C．Launching a rubbish sorting program.	D．Increasing the recycling of plastic cans.

3. What was Responsible Whatr aimed at?

A．Removing plastic pollution.	B．Promoting aluminium cans.
C．Advertising non-alcoholic drinks.	D．Advocating a sustainable approach.

4. How do Ankur and Bhrigu plan to expand their market?

A．By cooperating with NHIs.	B．By introducing new products.
C．By targeting profitable NGOs.	D．By establishing diverse channels.

7 . A snow leopard stared down from a steep rock high in the peaks of Mongolia. She was on the lookout for a snack. Noticing a wild goat below, the snow leopard rocketed down the mountainside. The wild goat struggled to escape. But with one 30-foot leap, the cat caught up. Seconds later, she was secured her meal and looked for a place to enjoy it.

These endangered cats are nearly impossible to see. Their spotted coats act as invisible cloaks(披风)by mixing into the rocky mountains of the 12 Central Asian countries where the cats live. The mountains the snow leopards call home are rough and extremely cold in the winter. But these cats have some amazing body parts that make living in the area no big deal. In addition to hiding them, a snow leopard’s soft, thick fur keeps it warm in the bitter cold.

Few humans have seen snow leopards in real life, but hunting scenes like the one above have been recorded on video. Snow leopard experts need to gather more information about the secretive cats’ lives to help protect them. To do that, researches use high-tech tools to spy on the shy animals. They gently trap the wild cats to put on satellite radio collars to know where the cats wander.

Even though snow leopards live in some of the most rugged mountains on Earth, people pose the biggest threat to their survival. Poachers(盗猎者)can sell a snow leopard’s hide and bones for thousands of dollars. Sheepherders(牧羊人)often kill any snow leopard that attacks their sheep. Hunters target goats, wild sheep, and other animals for food-removing important snow leopard food. The more scientists can learn about snow leopards, the better they can protect these rarely seen cats from humans who harm them.

1. What’s the function of the first paragraph?

A．To lead to the theme of the passage.

B．To describe how snow leopards hunt.

C．To show the main food of snow leopards

D．To show snow leopards have a good ability of adaption

2. Why can snow leopards survive in extremely cold environment?

A．They don't go out in winter.

B．They have unique body characters.

C．Their living regions are large enough.

D．Their thick fur can help camouflage (伪装).

3. How do researchers know more about snow leopards?

A．Spending more time searching for them.

B．Trapping snow leopards to examine them.

C．Using advanced technology to track them.

D．Surfing the internet to get more information.

4. What does the last paragraph mainly tell us?

A．The process of researchers’ job.

B．The snow leopards, awful living conditions.

C．The threat that humans pose to snow leopards.

D．The reasons why some persons kill snow leopards.

8 . 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。

Henan Province     1     (strike) by terrible rainstorms in July, 2021. Heavy rainfall raised the emergency     2     (respond) for meteorological disasters to level I,       3     (high) level in a four —tier system, in Zhengzhou. The National Meteorological Center said hourly precipitation (降水量) in Zhengzhou reached 201.9 millimeters once in an hour.

Nearly 11.45 million residents in 139 counties across the province were affected due     4     the record —breaking heavy rainfall     5     started on July 16, said Li Changxun, deputy head of the province’s Department of Emergency Management on 26th, July. Hundreds of thousands of houses collapsed, and more than 1.31 million residents were relocated to safe places.    6     total of 63 people had been killed with five people     7     (miss), reported by 26th, July, Li said,     8    (add) that repair crews were hurrying to fix bridges, electrical substations and gas pipelines to help return people’s lives to normal.

Though flooding during the summer months is an annual occurrence in parts of China, recent rains have alarmed scientists and officials, raising questions as to whether we should be prepared     9     (deal) with more extreme and unpredictable weather     10     (cause) by climate change.

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

    1     (doubt), Earth is becoming warmer and there is strong evidence of     2     causes the dramatic change in the global climate. Actually, the “greenhouse effect” is     3     (blame). The rise in temperature has     4     (lead) to an increase in extreme weather and natural disasters worldwide, not only     5     (cause) serious damage, but also costing human lives. To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, governments need to consider making policies and     6     (take) appropriate actions and measures while we as individuals can also reduce our “carbon footprint” by restricting the amount of carbon dioxide our lifestyles produce.

China     7     (make) great progress in space programme in recent years, including Yang Liwei’s successfully orbiting Earth in the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft in 2003 and Chang’e 4’s exploring the surface of the far side of the moon to make     8     (measure) and observations.

The future of space exploration remains bright.     9     the difficulties, scientists hope future discoveries will not only enables us     10     (understand) how the universe began, but also help us survive well into the future.

10 . Portugal’s white storks (鹳) were once a migratory bird (候鸟), known to leave the area each winter to travel to Africa’s warmer climate, but recently they have been staying put.

Surprisingly, though, the storks’ number has actually been on the rise. There are now thought to be more than 14,000 birds in Portugal in winter — a ten-time increase over the last 20 years. Any unusual change of an animal’s natural behavior often has negative influences.

It has been thought that their increase has a close relationship with a growing number of landfill sites (垃圾填埋场) in the area, providing the birds with a supply of fatty and dirty rubbish to eat, including junk food. Was it the junk food that stopped them migrating, or is Europe’s warming climate to criticize? Researchers sought to figure out exactly why their natural behavior had changed in this way. To understand, a team kept an eye on 48 white storks by equipping them with small GPS computers, which recorded their movements five times a day, checking how often they traveled to landfill sites as well as how fast they flew.

The conclusions were shocking. The birds also established more homes next to landfill sites — the team said that 80% of white storks were spending most of their time by the rubbish all year round, according to the results. The storks eat almost anything. “Every time after a truck with rubbish came, they collected what they could,” says Aldina Franco of the University of East Anglia in the UK. The storks have even been known to eat plastic, including old computer parts. “Really what they are trying to get at is rubbish that we throw away... like hamburgers, burnt meat and fish,” said Franco.

This rich and colorful supply of food will soon become hard to find, though, as new laws from European Union (EU) order that waste food be recycled. Open-air landfills will also be replaced by covered equipment, which birds will not be able to eat.

The white storks therefore face an uncertain future. Will they migrate to Africa as they had done for hundreds of years before, or will they stay put? No one knows. “I wonder what the Portuguese storks will do once the landfill sites are all closed, and we are going to continue to watch these storks and see how they will respond to the changes,” said Aldina Franco.

1. What do you know about the team’s research?

A．Researchers equipped 48 small computers on white storks.

B．The GPS computers were used to record white storks’ movements.

C．The conclusions the team got were the same as they predicted.

D．Researchers found Europe’s warming climate accounted for storks’ staying put.

2. What can be inferred from paragraph 4?

A．The landfill made the storks lose their homes.

B．The landfill helped increase the number of storks.

C．Open-air landfills will be replaced and storks will die out.

D．The landfill gave the storks food and in turn, influenced where they lived.

3. What can we learn from what Aldina Franco said?

A．He will continue to do research on white storks.

B．The Portuguese storks can eat whatever we throw away.

C．People should prepare more healthy food for white storks.

D．White storks will migrate to Africa if the landfill sites are closed.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．White Stork Will Migrate Again After Rubbish Is Recycled

B．White Storks’ Staying Put Contributed to Rubbish Recycling

C．White Storks’ Staying Put in Winter Concerned Scientists

D．Climate Change will Be the Test for White Storks’ Migration