1 . Expecting to travel abroad but lacking a loose budget? Interested in meaningful volunteering programs but worried about issues like your security or working conditions? Here comes a right place for you — Kindred Spirit Elephant Sanctuary (保护区).

Highlights
●Volunteering with elephants and bringing them back into their natural habitat
●Making a difference in the conservation efforts to save elephants living under awful conditions
●Helping teach English to the communities and raising awareness about the captive (圈养的) elephant situation
●Wandering the forests and observe elephants’ natural behaviors in their home environment
Our Sanctuary

Our sanctuary has rescued 5 elephants from the tourism industry and we have now brought them home to live out their lives in the forest, in semi-wild conditions. We need volunteers to help us keep these elephants happy and healthy in their natural habitat. With volunteer support, we hope to return more elephants to the forest soon.

Your Tasks
●Performing research on the natural elephant behaviors and the surrounding forest
●Taking part in community projects such as teaching English at the school and to other locals
●Carrying out litter pick-ups with the kids to educate on waste management
Your Rough Schedule

Day 1: Pickup from Chiang Mai at 9 am. Travel through a national park and stunning mountain s until you arrive in our unique village. Meet your homestay family and the other volunteers, and immerse yourself in hill tribe culture.

Day 2: Wake up early to hike in the forest and find our elephants. Spend the morning recording and learning about these amazing animals and their natural behaviors. Return to the village in the late afternoon and take part in our community & camp & teaching projects.

Day 3: Another early start to hike to observe our elephants one last time. Return to Chiang Mai in the afternoon.

1. Which of the following is a feature of volunteer work at the sanctuary?

A．Looking after captive elephants with the locals.

B．Finding and Feeding elephants in natural forests.

C．Teaching people to conserve elephants’ natural habitat.

D．Helping rescue elephants living in the poor environment.

2. What should you do as a volunteer there?

A．Have the great ability to go hiking for days.

B．Participate in anti-poverty projects.

C．Undertake research into wild elephants independently.

D．Master local languages and know about tribe culture.

3. Where does this text most probably come from?

A．A travel journal.	B．A holiday brochure.
C．A geographical essay.	D．An educational website.

2 . More than one-third of the world‘s food is wasted or thrown away, most of which ends up in landfills, producing very large amounts of planet-warming greenhouse gases. Now, many studies show that it is becoming harder to grow enough food to feed an increasing population due to climate change and soil degradation.

But one of the most promising and simplest solutions lies in the problem itself: this wasted food — if composted (制堆肥) — could slow climate change and improve soil quality. Higher-quality soil also continues to absorb more carbon from the atmosphere, helping to improve plants and contributing further to fighting climate change. Returning one ton of organic matter to each hectare of soil would increase the production of cereal crops each year in Africa, Asia and South America by millions of tons.

While it is true that people can compost in their yards, community gardens, or even on their kitchen counters, larger-scale efforts, including infrastructure (基础设施) and incentives (激励) for consumers, would take it to the next level. Imagine if consumers could just leave unwanted food in a roadside bin for pickup, or drop it off at a local store, earning a few cents a bucket, just like what has been offered for recycling bottles or newspapers.

Moreover, in the case of composting, the payment incentive system would be great because the end-product of compost can be sold to farmers, making it an economically workable model, something that is often lacking in recycling, especially for certain materials, like many types of plastics.

Eventually, more widespread composting of food would pave the way for solutions to additional waste challenges, such as the disposal of packaging and clothing. This will have other positive effects as well; if more consumers compost, companies will be more inspired to make and use compostable packaging, clothing, and other products. While more compostable items are starting to emerge today, additional composting will further drive demand and innovation, and offer a game-changing solution for the planet.

1. What can be concluded from paragraph 1?

A．The great impact of climate change on food.

B．The burden of population growth on the planet.

C．The uneven distribution of food around the world.

D．The urgency of properly dealing with wasted food.

2. What can be learned about the approach to composting wasted food?

A．It is only workable on a small scale.

B．It would take a long term to have an effect.

C．It may raise people’s awareness of reducing food waste.

D．It requires comprehensive efforts to achieve a better effect.

3. What does the author think of the payment incentive system of composting food?

A．It is highly profitable.	B．It is easy to carry out.
C．It is a sustainable economic cycle pattern.	D．It is more effective than other recycling systems.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．How Wasted Food Could Be Reduced	B．How Wasted Food Could Impact Humans
C．How Wasted Food Could Save the Planet	D．How Wasted Food Could Become a Business

4 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

My cousin Allen, 19 years old, was the coolest star football player at the University of Minnesota. I wanted to be just like him. So when Allen asked me to join him on a spring fishing trip in northern Minnesota, I said yes!

After planning the trip, we gathered clothes and supplies and then set off on our adventure. We reached the Superior National Forest by early evening. On the way to our campsite, Allen pointed to a small house faraway in one of the mountains, saying that it was the ranger station (护林站) where the foresters worked. A jeep stopped beside the small ranger station. Allen told me that our campsite was in the deep of the forest, really far away from the highway.

Only when we made it to our campsite, did I realize that we were really in the middle of nowhere. Somehow I was a bit worried. Luckily, Allen appeared to know all the tricks of an experienced camper. Soon after we gathered enough wood from the forest floor, he started the campfire using only stone and steel, no matches. After a day of travelling, we were very hungry. We ate beef and rice and some soup as well.

Exhausted, we crawled into our sleeping bags early. Allen was still talking about his past camping adventures when a sudden wind picked up from the north. The temperature dropped and it began to snow. Allen knew of a way to increase the temperature inside the tent. He dragged a log from the woods, wrapped aluminum foil (铝箔) around the log and then placed it near the campfire. The heat from the fire reflected into the tent. Soon the tent was warm again and thoughts of lake fish filled my dreams.

续写要求：1、续写词数应为150左右;2、请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Para 1:

“Wake up! Jim! Our tent is on fire!” Allen awoke me in panic.

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Para 2:

A jeep appeared.

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7 . You’ll boost your brainpower if you brave the unknown, says our memory expert, Jonathan Hancock.

There’s a lot to cope with when you go off to university, and the academic work is just the start. There are new friends to meet, new opportunities to choose between, new responsibilities to accept... and, for most students, a completely new city to explore.

We recently drove our daughter Evie 150 miles to start life as a fresher. It was a struggle to find the car park, let alone navigate the maze of corridors that led to her room. Before we left that evening, we’d taken her to the local supermarket, and we knew that she had flatmates and phone apps to get her orientated. But the scale of the challenge ahead was clear — to find her way in an unfamiliar world.

The good news for Evie — and learners everywhere is that exploring new habitats is hugely beneficial to memory. In a recent study, volunteers walked around a simulated forest environment. Then some of them took the same walk again, while others explored a different forest. And that second group performed significantly better in memory tests straight after. According to the researchers, that was because navigating the new environment stimulated their dopamine (多巴胺) systems-setting up their brains for learning.

So leaving home to study for a degree makes perfect sense. What’s more, young minds seem to gain most from being in strange surroundings. But we may all be able to gain some of the benefits, even if it’s just by stimulating our senses and challenging our thinking skills. Here are three things to try:

(1) Go somewhere new to tackle an upcoming learning task—like memorizing a speech in the library or revising for an exam on a park bench — and take an unfamiliar route to get there.

(2) Play video games that get you moving through new landscapes. Then see whether it improves your success with other learning tasks, like practising a dance or mastering phrases for a foreign trip.

(3) Get lost in your imagination! To warm yourself up for learning, picture a city you know well, but imagine you’re stranded in a part of it that you’ve never visited. Then try to fancy exactly how you’ll get out.

1. What happened when they sent their daughter to her school according to Paragraph 3?

A．They found a park for all their efforts.	B．They were new to the surroundings.
C．They got lost in the maze of corridors.	D．They had no phone apps to rely on.

2. According to the passage, which is not a good way to boost your brain power?

A．Taking an unfamiliar route to go home.

B．Playing some video games that help you explore new surroundings.

C．Getting addicted to playing video games before revising for the exam.

D．Imagining yourself getting out of a new city before memorizing a speech.

3. Why did the second group in the study perform better in memory tests?

A．Because their dopamine systems were activated.

B．Because they entered the same environment twice.

C．Because they had flatmates and phone apps to help them.

D．Because they walked around a simulated forest environment.

4. What is the main idea of the article?

A．The need for finding parking spaces in unfamiliar cities.

B．The impact of exploring a new environment on our minds.

C．The benefits of playing video games for improving learning tasks.

D．The significance of picturing familiar cities for memory enhancement.

10 . 假定你是李华，上周你参加了学校组织的“走进社区”社会实践活动，请你向校英文报投稿，介绍本次活动。内容包括：
1.活动内容；
2.活动感受。
注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

A Community-based Social Practice Activity

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