1 . Scientists say a huge percentage of bird species are in danger because their habitats, or homelands, are disappearing.

Traditional migration paths take birds through countries that are not protecting the places for birds to stop, rest and feed. The scientists studied the migration or flight paths of almost 1,500 species. They decided that 91 percent of them passed through dangerous areas.

The major danger for migratory birds is development. Buildings and pavements have covered the places where birds stop and feed as they move from one part of the world to another. One of the scientists who worked on the study says “Many of these important places have been lost to land reclamation because of urban, industrial and agricultural land expansion”.

The problem, according to scientists, is that many of these small birds die along their migration paths because they don’t have a safe place to feed and rest. There is no place to restore their energy for the next part of their journey. Countries in North Africa, Central Asia and those along the coasts of East Asia are having the most difficult time in protecting land. The scientists say these countries do not have enough areas that are safe for birds. One species that doesn’t exist now is the Eskimo curlew. “Our world gets poorer every time we lose a species,” one of the scientists says.

The researchers say countries need to work together and come up with safe stopping areas for birds that pass through their boundaries. For example, one country might have preserved safe zones for migrating birds. But a neighbor country might not. A bird might die.

One scientist who is not connected with the report tells Los Angeles Times that while some habitats are changing, more work can be done to make urban areas safe for birds.

He says small changes, like planting more native plants or keeping cats out of the areas birds would be likely to use, could make a big difference.

1. What mainly caused the disappearing of birds’ habitats?

A．The decrease of awareness to protect birds.	B．Natural disasters.
C．Overuse of land by human beings.	D．The rising sea level.

2. What may be the main reason for many birds’ death on the way of migration?

A．Tiredness and hunger.	B．Beast attack on the ground.
C．Hunting of humans.	D．The long journey.

3. According to the last two paragraphs, how should we protect the migrating birds?

A．By keeping fewer cats or dogs.

B．By restoring their destroyed habitats.

C．By helping change the birds’ migration paths.

D．By preserving the ecological environments on their migration paths.

4. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

A．To call on people to protect the birds’ habitats.

B．To analyze the reasons for disappearing of birds’ habitats.

C．To offer some solutions to the problem of birds’ habitats.

D．To tell us a huge percentage of bird species are in danger.

4 . Most of us are used to the sound we hear in daily life, such as loud music, the television, people talking on their phone and even pet dogs barking in the middle of the night.     1     . However, when these sounds keep you from sleeping all night or the traffic starts to give you a headache, it turns into noise pollution. For many of us, the concept of pollution is limited to nature and resources. However, noise that tends to damage the natural rhythm (节律) of life makes solid pollutant.

    2    . Man-made noises such as horns, airplanes and even cars can be too loud for our hearing range. Constant exposure to loud noise can easily result in the damage of our eardrums and loss of hearing.

Too much noise pollution in working areas such as offices, construction sites, bars and even in our homes can influence psychological health. Studies show that the occurrence of aggressive behavior, disturbance of sleep, and constant stress can be linked to excessive(过度的) noise levels.     3    .

Loud noise can certainly influence your sleeping pattern.     4    , if you don’t have a good nights’ sleep. For example, your performance may go down in the office as well as at home. It is therefore recommended to take a sound sleep to give your body proper rest.

As of now, there do not exist many solutions to such pollution.     5    , when it comes to what an individual can do. It is only when our understanding of noise pollution is complete, can we take steps to get rid of it completely.

A．You’ll feel it hard to deal with others

B．It may lead to problems related to tiredness

C．But everybody can help to reduce the noise in their homes

D．These, in turn, can cause more severe health problems later in life

E．Many firm measures should be taken to remove loud noises in our life

F．Our ears can take in a certain range of sounds without getting damaged

G．All of these have become a part of the urban culture and rarely disturb us

5 . Every day is Earth Day — probably you’ve heard it before. Nearly all Americans have access to a plastic recycling program. You may be surprised to learn how many types of plastic packaging can be recycled into new, useful products!

Ford Motor Company has been helping to promote the use of environmentally-friendly auto parts — and one way they’re doing that is by using recycled plastic bottles for underbody shields (底盘保护罩) and other auto parts on cars.

“The underbody shield is a large part, and for a part that big, if we use solid plastic, it would likely weigh three times as much,” said Thomas Sweder, a design engineer of Ford Motor Company. “We look for the most durable and highest performing materials to work with to make our parts, and in this case, we are also creating many environmental benefits.”

In the past decade, the global use of plastics in vehicle parts has grown quickly. Ford alone uses about 1.2 billion recycled plastic bottles per year, about 250 bottles per vehicle on average.

When plastic bottles are thrown into a recycling bin, they are collected with thousands of others and cut into small pieces. These pieces are typically sold to suppliers who turn them into fibers, by melting and pressing them. Then they are mixed together with other various types of fiber in a process and used to make a sheet of material which is formed into the auto parts.

Due to its light weight, recycled plastic is ideal for the manufacturing of underbody shields. These shields reportedly also help create a significantly quieter environment on the new 2020 Ford Escape.

This is not the only way that Ford has been committed to environmental protection; the automotive company recently partnered with McDonald’s coffee suppliers to recycle all of their coffee roasting biowaste into headlights.

“Ford is among the leaders when it comes to using recycled materials such as this,” Sweder said. “This material meets all of our requirements for durability and performance.”

1. Why does Ford choose recycled plastic as environmentally-friendly materials?

A．Because it’s new and useful.	B．Because it’s durable and light.
C．Because it’s cheap and easy to get.	D．Because it’s portable and well-performed.

2. What does Paragraph 5 mainly talk about?

A．The global use of plastics.	B．The mixing process of fibers.
C．The advantages of plastic bottles.	D．The formation of the new auto material.

3. What does the underlined word “This” in Paragraph 7 refer to?

A．Recycling coffee roasting biowaste.	B．Improving vehicle parts.
C．Recycling plastic bottles into auto parts.	D．Creating a quieter environment.

4. What can be the best title of the passage?

A．Ford Takes the Lead in Plastic Recycling.

B．Every Day is Earth Day.

C．Ecological Auto Underbody Shields.

D．A Pioneer in Promoting Environmental Protection.

6 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the speaker?

A．An environmental official.

B．A program producer.

C．A scientist.

2. Where did the speaker do the task?

A．In a boat.

B．At a university.

C．At a TV station.

3. Why are the sharks returning?

A．There is more food to eat .

B．The water quality is better.

C．Hunting is forbidden.

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

Trash is a big problem. You do your part to reduce, reuse and recycle it.     1     is it enough?

I do my part to recycle things and bring my bags for purchases, but I am far     2     producing zero waste. Recently a family of four in California talked about their zero — waste lifestyle on a television show which     3     (great) inspired me to some extent. The family live in a wealthy country. While     4     (raise) two children, Bea Johnson, the hostess     5     (determine) to live a zero ---waste lifestyle since then.

Her children just pack their     6     (lunch) in bags which they can reuse the next day. They have simplified their lives so completely that they are able to pack up easily and spend     7    (extend) periods of time travelling and doing things they love. They are able to pay for the trips because they spend 40%     8     (little) on living expenses. They also rent their home while they are gone and give detailed instructions to the renters on     9     they can create a zero-waste lifestyle.

I'm happy about the achievement that they have gained; meanwhile I     10     (encourage) by their example to do more in the future.

8 . "Like a monster, it destroys everything. " That's how one school girl described a tsunami（海啸）.

On Dec. 26, 2004, a magnitude-9. 1 earthquake in Indonesia set off a massive tsunami. It killed more than 230,000 people across four countries and cost an estimated $ 10 billion in damage.

Nov. 5 is World Tsunami Awareness Day and at the United Nations Wednesday, disaster risk reduction was high on the agenda.

"What I can tell you is that the tsunami wave cannot be stopped," said Bulgarians U. N. Ambassador Georgi   Velikov Panayotov. He was on vacation in Thailand in 2004 and survived the tsunami. "What we can do is build early warning systems and, of course, educate the population about the damaging power of the tsunami wave," he said.

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake rocked northeastern Japan triggering a fierce tsunami that also damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, south of Sendai.

"When the big earthquake hit Japan in 2011, people thought that we were prepared for it," said Japan's U. N. Ambassador Koro Bessho. "It caused severe damage. We had dams； we had drills. However, we had been counting on something that hits every 100 years and the earthquake was of the size of possibly every 500 years or thousand years, he said.

These two events sent the countries of the region into overdrive to review and improve disaster preparedness. In 2015 the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction was born. It aims to help create a better understanding of disaster risk and improve preparedness for an effective response.

Indonesia is made up of thousands of islands which are disaster-prone（易受灾地区）. Willem Rampangilei, head of the Disaster Management Agency of Indonesia, said his government now has plans for every disaster-prone city.

Countries at risk are also expanding their education programs. Children from an early age are taught how to react in case of a tsunami and then go with their classmates to higher ground away from coastal areas to avoid the walls of water the tsunami triggers.

1. What does Georgi Velikov Panayotov mainly talk about?

A．The general features of a tsunami.	B．Ways for humans to face a tsunami.
C．His suffering in the 2004 tsunami.	D．The loss caused by the 2004 tsunami.

2. In Koro Bessho's opinion, why did the 2011 earthquake cause severe damage?

A．It caused a fierce tsunami.	B．It destroyed a nuclear plant.
C．The size was beyond expectation.	D．There was no effective defense system.

3. What common belief pushed different countries to take action to face a coming tsunami?

A．Children should be protected by all means.

B．The improvement of preparedness can reduce damage.

C．Proper response in case of a tsunami can save one's life.

D．Stronger measures should be taken in disaster-prone areas.

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

A．World Tsunami Awareness Day

B．Nations Attacked by Massive Tsunami

C．The Unpredictable and Destructive Disaster

D．Learn from Disasters to Prevent Future Ones

9 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Last Sunday ，I went sightseeings with my friends in the Fair Lake park. The moment when I entered the park,the beautiful flowers and green trees came onto sight. The visitors enjoyed themselves very much that they all took pictures standing under the trees. I was enjoying the flowers in blossom while I noticed the young couple in a boat eating, talking and laughing loudly.What made me annoying was that they spat and threw rubbish such as banana skins into the lake,ignored the sign“Don't Litter!”near the bank. The way to improve our behavior in public places,I think, is we must promote the public's aware through various activities concerning morality.

10 . A study has warned that seafood supplies from the world's oceans could be almost gone by the middle of the century. The researchers say there has already been a breakdown in wild populations of almost one third of currently fished sea-foods. The study says that means their catch has fallen by ninety percent from their highest level. Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia Canada led the intentional team that did the study. Professor Worm says species have recently been disappearing from oceans at an increasing speed. At this rate he says all seafood species could collapse by 2048.

Other studies have also warned about the dangers of overfishing and the effects on ocean environments. But not everyone thinks the oceans are likely to be empty, in, fifty years.Some scientists said parts of the world do have problems but others are doing a good job of protecting fish populations. Government officials in several countries with large fishing industries also questioned the research.

The study appeared earlier this month in Science magazine.

The researchers say damage to oceans affects not only fish populations but also the productivity of ecosystems. These complex systems help control water quality. The scientists say the loss of different kinds of sea life appears to increase the risk of fish kills and beach closures from harmful algae growth.

The scientists examined the results of thirty-two experiments and observed forty-eight protected areas. They also looked at records of catches worldwide. They studied records from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization from 1950 to 2003. And they examined archaeological information and other historical records for twelve coastal areas. That research reached back over a thousand years.

Boris Worm says the findings are, in his words, “beyond anything we suspected.”But he also said the situation is not too late to core. He said that with good fisheries management, some species could completely recover in three to ten years.

1. The two underlined words “their” in the first paragraph most probably mean        .

A．researchers'	B．fisherman's
C．sea foods'	D．the oceans'

2. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．All the scientists don't believe that all seafood species will disappearing very soon

B．Most government officials disagree to the seafood-disappearing research

C．Some scientists are doing a good job of protecting fish populations

D．It's too late to take any action to improve the situation.

3. According to Boris Worm,             .

A．Some people are doing a good job of protecting fish populations

B．Overfishing is one of the causes for the loss of seafood species

C．things are getting worse though efforts can be made

D．some more species will come into being with right measures

4. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A．To call on people to protect the ocean environment

B．To introduce a study about the disappearing of sea foods

C．To report different opinions about the seafood research

D．To criticize the present fisheries management