1 . 三月最后一个周六的20:30-21:30为地球一小时，为倡导同学们节约用电，你校将以此为主题，举办英语征文比赛。请你写一篇短文投稿，内容包括：
1.电的重要性;
2.节约用电的倡议。
注意：
1.词数100左右;
2.短文的题目和首句已为你写好。

Save electricity, save our earth

Earth Hour falls on the last Saturday of March, from 20:30 to21:30.

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2 . 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。
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3. 请将④句中下划线部分翻译成汉语。
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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。
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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, ____________________________________________

3 . 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.

4 . 10月16日是世界粮食日，你校将举办以“节约粮食”为主题的英语征文比赛，请你写一篇英语短文投稿，内容包括：
1.节约粮食的意义；
2.节约粮食的倡议。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.短文题目和首已你写好。

Less Waste, Better World

October 16th was named officially by the UN in 1981 as World Food Day.

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5 . 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.

6 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. fertile   B. rewoven C. deep-rooted D. recapture   E. produce   F. needlessly G. foodstuffs H. minerals   I. worthlessly   J. document   K. deforested

The Promise of the Circular Economy

The origins of the expression “waste not, want not” can be traced to the 1500s.We feel bad when we expend resources     1     (like leaving lights on when we’re away) or throw out things that shouldn’t have become trash (like uneaten, past-its-prime produce). This is a     2     guilty feeling.

But we do waste in ways big and small. The result is this shocking fact: Of the     3    , fossil fuels, and other raw materials that we take from the Earth and turn into products, about two-thirds end up as waste. And, more likely than not, that waste is part of a larger environmental problem.

“Plastic trash drifted into     4     soils, rivers and oceans. A third of all food rotted, even as the Amazon was     5     to produce more,” writes senior environment editor Robert Kunzig in “The End of Trash”. Climate change is what happens when “we burn fossil fuels and spread the waste – carbon dioxide -- into the atmosphere.”

What if we could     6     waste and turn it into something else? This concept, called the circular economy, is not entirely new. For generations, in Prato, Italy, old wool sweaters have been reduced to their knitting thread and     7     into new clothes. And environmentalists have supported the ideas of “reduce, reuse and recycle” since the 1970s.

Kunzig was sent to     8     where the new circular economy is taking hold. They found a lot of examples. In London, researchers are feeding rotted farm     9     to insects, which are made into animal feed. In hotel kitchens around the world, chefs are reducing waste from     10     like cookies, yogurt and Coke with AI garbage cans that measure it.

“It reminds me of a line in Diner, a movie I love: If you don’t have good dreams, you got nightmares.” Kunzig said, “The circular economy is like that -- it’s a dream we have to try to make real.”

7 . 假设你是天津晨光中学学生李津，你的美国朋友Mike得知我国正在号召国民展开“节约粮食人人有责”的行动，特写信来询问如何开展相关活动。请根据以下提示，给他回复一封建议信，内容包括：
（1）简要表达你对此活动的看法；
（2）开展节约粮食活动的建议措施（量胃盛饭等）。
注意：
（1）词数不少于100；
（2）开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
（3）请适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯。
参考词汇：胃口appetite   光盘行动Clean Plate Campaign   吃播mukbang
Dear Mike,

I am more than delighted to know that you are interested in what our country has done in reducing food waste.

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Yours

Li Jin

8 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．The boss.

B．The supervisor.

C．The president.

D．The manager.

2.

A．To wear warm clothing in winter.

B．To turn off the lights when leaving the office.

C．To cooperate with cleaning staff in their cleaning.

D．To come to work earlier during the winter months.

3.

A．If they have energy saving suggestions.

B．If their offices become too cold.

C．If someone doesn’t cooperate with the new program.

D．If they have a complaint.

9 . In the United States, farmers who are trying to earn money find the situation difficult to deal with. The United States Department of Agriculture found that more than half of the small farms in California do not make money. But the United Nations reported at least one third of the food is wasted by not selling it out in time.

One California farm family is using social media to change the situation and reduce wasted food. Nick Papadopoulos is the manager of Bloomfield Farms in Sonoma County. He was sad and worried to watch his employees returning from some weekend farmers’ markets with top quality unsold products.

Mr. Papadopoulos said he would find boxes of leaf greens and carrots left in a storehouse. The vegetables would go bad before the next market day. One night, he began thinking about the matter of wasted food when he didn’t know how to deal with 32 cases of broccoli (西兰花). Usually he would give it to chickens and use the rest to make fertilizer (肥料). He thought he shouldn’t let the farm products go to waste.

Then his daughter showed him a book she bought online. Suddenly it hit him that he could offer the food at a low price by advertising it on the farm’s Facebook page on Sunday nights. The deals were open to anyone using the social media website. In the first week, some neighbors came to his home to buy the vegetables. Another week, the buyers were a group of friends. And now many people wait to buy his cheap products.

After his success, Mr. Papadopoulos helped to set up a website called cropmobster. com, which is a place where people deal with food production at low prices, feeding the hungry. Since March, the website has stopped more than 20, 000 kilograms of food from going to waste.

1. According to the United Nations, much food is wasted mainly because          .

A．there is too much food	B．the food can’t be sold out
C．the food isn’t of good quality	D．the prices of the food are high

2. Where did Nick’s farm products use to be sold?

A．On weekend markets.	B．On a food website.
C．In the supermarkets.	D．Beside his farms.

3. How did Nick deal with his unsold farm products in the past?

A．Gave them to the poor.

B．Sold them at lower prices.

C．Put them in a storehouse for the next chance.

D．Gave them to chickens and turned them into fertilizer

4. What does cropmobster. com mainly deal with?

A．Improving the farm products.

B．Improving the farmers’ incomes.

C．Providing cheap food for the poor.

D．Helping farmers sell out farm products.

10 . 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.