1 . Eco-Friendly Changes You Can Make to Your Home

As part of the move to save the environment and money, many people have made lots of changes to their homes over the past few years, and the trend (趋势) is set to continue in the years ahead.     1     .

Switch out your light bulbs (灯泡)

You might not think that this could make a big difference.     2    . With LED light bulbs being up to75% more efficient than standard light bulbs, it could save about. $7.75 per month to light your home if you made the switch to LED.

Turn to solar energy (太阳能)

Rising energy costs are forcing people to look for new methods of powering their homes.       3    . It’s also a clean, renewable energy source, meaning not only is it cheaper for you, but environmentally-friendly to power your home.

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Wind power is more stable than solar, and it can be used to produce power. Like solar options (选择；选项) , using wind means that it won’t matter as you’ll have a continuous power source of your own.

Seal (密封) gaps around doors and windows

One very low-cost option to help your home be more efficient is to stop the air from leaving your home. If you have gaps around doors and windows, the air from your air conditioning system will be heading literally straight outside.     5    

A．Is wind power an option

B．The sun is one resource that isn’t going away

C．Is it a challenge to take advantage of wind power

D．So make the most of your air conditioning system

E．We’ve listed a few options to make your home more eco-friendly

F．This will increase your energy bill as your system will work harder

G．However, lighting accounts for around 9%of a typical home’s energy use

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. When did the woman begin to save money?

A．When Mike was jobless.

B．When her child started school.

C．When she borrowed money.

2. What can we know about a dollar shop?

A．It sells things at half price.

B．Things are poor in quality.

C．Everything is sold for $1.

3. What did Mike do with the coffee?

A．He threw away the cheap coffee.

B．He mixed two kinds of coffee together.

C．He kept the good coffee for the woman.

3 . 假定你是李华，有感于校园内存在的浪费现象，请根据写作要点并参考图画内容给校长写一封信。

写作要点：
1、说明写信的目的；
2、对这些行为进行批评；
3、提出建议。
注意事项：1、短文词数100左右；
2、信的格式、开头已给出，不计入总词数;
3、参考词汇：不道德的 immoral
Dear headmaster,

I am a student from Class 1, Senior 1. I am writing to you to share my views on the shocking waste of water, electricity and paper in our school.

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A worried student,

Li Hua

4 . “Finish your food. There are many hungry children in the world, you know.” Did your mom ever say that when you didn’t want to empty your dinner plate? It proves she wasn’t so far off-base and she would agree with the Clean Your Plate Campaign.

Started by non-governmental organizations, the Clean Your Plate Campaign asks people to save food by not wasting anything on the dining table. It was soon joined by millions of people across the country to fight against food wastage.

It is said that every year’s wastage of food in China can be up to 50 million tons, enough to feed about 200 million people for one year.

Our government supports the campaign, too. It has promised to make plans to reduce food wastage and follow a simple working style.

But solving the problem is something that requires effort from everyone. Every person needs to do his part to help reduce food wastage.

* Don’t buy more than you need. If you don’t think you’ll finish the pizza of large size, buy a smaller one.

* If you don’t finish your food in restaurants, take your leftovers(吃剩的食物) away.

*Freeze(冷藏) what you don’t finish eating — food can keep for a while in the freezer and then you don’t have to throw it away.

*Plan on smaller portions(份) when you eat meals, so you can finish what’s on your plate and make your mom proud!

Did you finish meals today? Are you a “Clean-Plate Type”? Join the Clean Plate Campaign and empty your plate.

1. What does the underlined part mean?

A．She cared you very much.	B．She liked joining campaigns.
C．She was strict with you.	D．She was wise and correct.

2. What’s the aim of the Clean Your Plate Campaign?

A．To help hungry children.	B．To encourage children to eat more.
C．To reduce food wastage.	D．To make dinner enjoyable.

3. How many tons of food are wasted in China every year?

A．About 20,000,000.	B．About 50,000,000.
C．About 200,000,000.	D．About 500,000,000.

4. What can we know about the Clean Your Plate Campaign?

A．It is popular with Chinese people.

B．It was started by our government.

C．It asks people to live a simple life.

D．It is for people eating in restaurants.

5 . 阅读下面短文，完成短文后的问题。

The great scientist Yuan Longping passed away on May 22nd, 2021. ①All Chinese people were very ________ when hearing the quite bad news. ②hunger, Mr. Yuan, millions of, helped, out of, people. So people want to do something to remember the great man. Many people think that saving food is the best way to pay back his super achievement. Actually, the whole society has been taking action to fight against food wasting for many years. The following is an example.

③A university student ________ Liu Jichen, has developed an app—Clear Your Plate. After a meal, people can use the app on the phone and take pictures of their empty plates. After the pictures are dealt with by the app, people will get some points. Then they can change the points into some gifts from the website. Now this app is very popular with young Chinese and has more than 1 million users. ④Mr. Liu said, “It’s important to encourage young people to develop the habit of saving food.”

Technology is a helpful way to save food but not the only one. ⑤Anyway, we must keep the good habit of thrift forever, just like what scientist Yuan said and did. ⑥If everyone tries to save food, ____________________.

1. 请根据文意在①句和③句空白处各填入一个恰当的词，使句意完整。
①________ ③________
2. 请将②处下划线词汇连成语意完整的句子。
________________________________________________________________________
3. 请将④句中下划线部分翻译成汉语。
________________________________________________________________________
4. 请从文中找出能替代⑤句中下划线黑体单词的一个动名词。
________________________________________________________________________
5. 请根据文意补全⑥句，使句意完整、语法正确、符合逻辑。
If everyone tries to save food, ____________________________________________

6 . 阅读下面短文，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空，必要时可加助动词或情态动词。

These years, online eating shows, or Mukbang (吃播), have got increasing popularity. Many people like to watch them when they are eating or     1     (feel) hungry.

In fact, the online eating shows came from South Korea. Many hosts of such shows become popular for their ability     2     (eat) large amounts of food. But these shows have also received criticism   (批评) for their waste of food.

On Aug. 12, CCTV exposed (曝光) several Chinese hosts who were pretending (假装) to eat large amounts of food while on camera, but actually later threw it away. To stop this practice, many video platforms, including Douyin, Kuaishou and Bilibili,     3     (delete) videos that show food waste, and have posted messages like “stop food waste and eat reasonably”.

In June 2020, the United Nations       4     (warn) that the world is facing the worst food crisis (危机) in 50 years. About a third of the world's food     5     (waste) every year. In China,plenty of food     6     (end) up in rubbish bins every year.

For this, many places in China have started to take action. In Shanxi Province, local restaurants have started to serve half portioned (半份的) dishes to avoid waste. And in Wuhan, the restaurants have started to use the “N 1 mode”. For example, only enough food     7     (order) for nine people at first when a group of 10 people come to eat. More food is only brought to the table if required.

7 . Scientists at the University of Minnesota report Thursday in the journal Science that about a third of all food grown around the world never gets eaten. In terms of calories per person, cutting food waste is more of an immediate opportunity to feed more people than increasing crop yields around the world.

“But not all these calories are equal, when you look at how they hurt the global food supply,” says Paul West, who led the study. “Throwing away a pound of boneless beef effectively wastes 24 times more calories than discarding a pound of wheat. If you throw out some cabbage at a fancy restaurant in upstate New York, it doesn’t have much impact on the world’s food system. But throwing out a small steak has a huge impact—maybe more than all the cabbage in the restaurant put together. Wasting other animal products, such as chicken, eggs and dairy, has less effect on the global food supply than beef, but still more than vegetables and grains.

The US, China and India together throw out enough food each year to feed more than 400 million people, the team found. And the biggest global contributor to that loss is the US. Each day the average Americans waste up to about 1,200 calories per person. They throw out 290 effective calories from beef. They also waste about 550 calories from chicken and pork.

On the other side, India wastes the least amount of food and meat of the three countries. Each Indian, on average, effectively throws out about 44 calories a day, mostly rice and wheat.

China falls between the US and India. Each Chinese person wastes about 280 calories of wheat and rice every day. But the Chinese also love pork and each person effectively tosses 200 calories from pork each day. “The food service industry in China has really high amounts of waste,” West says. “It’s a cultural standard for them to order seven to nine dishes in restaurants to honor the guests. All that food doesn’t get eaten.”

1. What is the most direct way to feed more people in the world?

A．Reducing food waste.	B．Eating less than necessary.
C．Growing more crops.	D．Replacing grain with meat.

2. What does the underlined word “discarding” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Eating.

B．Buying.

C．Wasting.

D．Donating.

3. Which country is the most wasteful in the world?

A．India.

B．The US.

C．The UK.

D．China.

4. What message does West seem to convey in the last paragraph?

A．China should adopt Western food culture.	B．The number of dishes should be limited by law.
C．Chinese people should eat more wheat and rice.	D．Food waste in Chinese restaurants is very serious.

8 . 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。

From 8 a.m to 10 a.m each morning, dozens of low-income families and cleaners in the Tangqiao neighborhood would line up in front of a food bank     1    (collect) free vegetables and fruits.

The food bank,     2     (create) by Shanghai Oasis Ecological Conservation and Communication Center in 2014, is the first of its kind in the country. The food bank collects donated products—    3     (usual) food items close to their “best before” dates from supermarkets, producers or restaurants. After collecting enough food, the bank donates it     4     the needy. According to the Oasis, the     5     (establish) of such food banks is aimed not only at saving food that otherwise would be wasted,     6     at helping low-income people and protecting the environment.

Oasis has seen its food bank network extended (扩大……的范围) to at least 11 provincial-level     7     (region), including Beijing, Sichuan Province, the Xinjiang Uygur Region and Liaoning Province. Oasis said that 580 tons of food worth more than 31 million     8     (save) by the end of 2019. The food,     9     was produced by 202 food companies, was distributed (分发) to 760,000 individuals.

It was not until recently when the country started a nationwide campaign (活动) to avoid     10     (necessary) food wastage that such banks have become better known.

9 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. astonishing   B. processing   C. ensure   D. blame   E. virtually F. routinely     G. occurs       H. consequences I. admitted   J. decent   K. estimated

As many sit down to enjoy plentiful holiday meals this season, it’s also a good time to note the growing problem of food waste.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, it is     1     that one-third of food produced for human consumption worldwide annually is lost or wasted.

The economic and environmental impacts of food loss and waste are     2    . More than a quarter of the world’s agricultural land is being worked to grow food that nobody eats.

What’s the difference between food loss and food waste? Waste happens toward the back end of the food chain, at the retail and consumer level. Loss, on the other hand, mostly     3     at the front of the food chain — during production, post-harvest, and     4     — and it’s more common in the developing world, where all of the food usually can’t be delivered in     5     shape, to consumers.

In developed nations, extreme-efficient farming practices, plenty of refrigeration, and first-rate transportation and storage     6    that most of the food they grow reaches the retail level. But things go rapidly south from there.

Store managers     7     over-order goods, for fear of running out of a particular product. The British supermarket chain Tesco, for example,     8     throwing out nearly 50,000 tons of food within their UK stores during the latest financial year.

Consumers are also to     9    . We often order too much food in restaurants without taking leftovers home. We overbuy when there is a discount for invitingly packaged food. When we store food, many of us take “use by” dates literally, and we suffer no     10     for dumping eatable food into a bin.

10 . It is reported that half of the food the world produces is never eaten but thrown away instead. Wasteful people in rich nations, however, are not the only food buyers. Poor countries, too, are throwing out perfect good food. According to Elliot Wooley, a professor who studies at Loughborough University, what should be noticed is that developed and developing countries have different causes for their waste.

Because of few food production methods, in developing countries, food is usually wasted while it is still in the field or during the storage and transportation process, but once food is sold, people usually eat everything they buy. In the United States and other developed countries, people throw away as much as half the food they buy.

Such a change among countries calls for special solutions. Professor Wooley’s answer to food waste is a smart-phone app that he created. It would inform people of how many goods they have bought, how long they will last and so on. At the international meeting held last month in Vietnam, the professor said the result from an experiment shows that people who used the app cut down the amount of food they wasted by 34 percent.

But Jeremy, a student from Germany thinks Professor Wooley’s app is not enough to prevent food waste. “It might help those who already want to change the way they use the food they buy, but it could also encourage them to waste more because they no longer have to pay attention to how much food they buy,” Jeremy said.

“The problem is that as food is getting cheaper, people are buying more food than they need, which will surely result in a huge waste,” Jeremy added, “so one way to prevent food waste is to persuade people to stop buying too much food in their first place.”

1. Which of the following is TRUE about food waste?

A．People in rich countries are more likely to waste food.

B．People in poor countries don’t value food at all.

C．Some countries waste food before it is sold.

D．All countries waste food before it is sold.

2. According to Professor Wooley, how could we prevent waste?

A．By using his app, food waste could be reduced.

B．By encouraging people to save food.

C．By informing people of the amount of food they buy.

D．By educating people to save food since childhood.

3. The student Jeremy doesn’t think much of the app because ________.

A．he has developed another app to prevent food waste

B．the app could only apply to those who plan to save

C．it will surely decrease more food waste

D．people still haven’t realized how serious waste is

4. According to Jeremy, what might be the best way to prevent food waste?

A．Buying food without control if it is cheap.

B．Persuading people not to throw away food.

C．Making laws to forbid people to waste food.

D．Persuading people not to buy more than they need.