1 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What will the weather be like tomorrow afternoon?

A．Sunny.

B．Snowy.

C．Rainy.

2. What does the woman advise the man to do?

A．Visit his friends another day.

B．Stick to his plan.

C．Stay at home.

3. How does the woman hope to spend her Saturday?

A．Training.

B．Relaxing.

C．Learning.

4. Where are the speakers?

A．In Birmingham.

B．In Worcester.

C．In London.

5 . Placed before you are two pots. Each contains 100 balls. You are given a clear description of the first pot’s contents, in which there are 50 red balls and 50 black balls. The economist running the experiment is tight-lipped about the second, saying only that there are 100 balls divided between red and black in some percentage. Then you are offered a choice. Pick a red ball from a pot and you will get a million dollars. Which pot would you like to pull from? Now try again, but select a black ball. Which pot this time? Most people choose the first pot both times, despite such a choice implying that there are both more and fewer red balls than in the second pot.

This fact is known as the Ellsberg paradox after Daniel Ellsberg, who called the behaviour hate uncertainty. It reveals a deeper problem facing the world as it struggles with climate change.            

Ignorance of the future carries a cost today: uncertainty makes risks uninsurable, or at the very least expensive. The less insurers know about risks, the more capital they need to protect their balance-sheets against possible losses.

Insurance is a tool of climate adaptation. Indeed, insurance calculators have as big a role to play as activists in the fight against climate change. Without insurance, those whose homes burn in a wildfire or are destroyed by a flood will lose everything. Insurance can also be a motive for corrective action. Higher insurance expenses, which accurately reflect risk, stimulate people to adapt sooner, whether by discouraging building in risky areas or encouraging people to move away from high fire risk land. If prices are wrong, society will be more hurt by a hotter world than otherwise would be the case. Politicians considering financial aid for home insurance on flood plains ought to note.

1. The experiment of the two pots shows that ___________.

A．instinct sometimes works better than reasoning	B．most people prefer predictability to uncertainty
C．people are willing to take risks to get a reward	D．it is impossible to always make the right decision

2. What’s the functions of insurance?

A．It raises people’s awareness of climate change.	B．It prevents people from taking risks.
C．It motivates people to adapt to risky environment.	D．It helps climate refugees to relocate.

3. What’s author’s attitude towards financial aids for home insurance?

A．Opposing

B．Supportive

C．Uncertain

D．Ambiguous

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

A．Prevention is better than remedy	B．Improving forecast can reduce uncertainty
C．Uncertainty pushes up the price of insurance	D．Speedy action is urgently needed for climate change

8 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What season is it now?

A．Fall.

B．Spring.

C．Summer.

2. What was the weather like this afternoon?

A．Windy.

B．Rainy.

C．Foggy.

3. What will the weather be like this evening?

A．Cold.

B．Pleasant.

C．Cloudy.

4. What will the daytime temperature be in the next three days?

A．About 40 degrees.

B．About 50 degrees.

C．About 60 degrees.

10 . European Union scientists said on Wednesday that 2023 would be the warmest year on record. The average world temperature for the first 11 months of the year hit the highest level on record, 1.46 degrees Celsius above the 1850 to 1900 average.

The record comes as governments are in negotiations at the COP28 meeting in Dubai. Governments are deciding whether to gradually stop the use of coal, oil and gas, the main source of warming emissions.

The 2015 Paris climate agreement set a goal of limiting worldwide temperature rise to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial times. Above that limit, scientists warn of severe effects on weather, health and agriculture.

Diplomats, scientists, activists and others have been meeting in Dubai to find ways to limit warming to those levels. But the planet is not cooperating. They say Earth is on its way to reach 2.7 to 2.9 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times. C3S records go back to 1940. United States government records go back to 1850. Using information from ice cores, tree rings and corals, scientists have said this is the warmest 10-year period Earth has seen in about 125,000 years. That dates back to the time before human civilization.

Scientists say there are two driving forces behind the six straight months of record hot temperatures. One is human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and gas. And El Nino, the natural warming of surface waters in the Pacific, is making it worse.

Samantha Burgess, deputy director of C3S, said in a statement that “the November temperatures, including two days warmer than 2C above preindustrial, mean that 2023 is the warmest year in recorded history, which is very likely to be a cool year in the future unless we do something about our dependence on fossil fuels.”

1. According to the passage, what is the natural driving force behind the temperature record?

A．El Nino.	B．The burning of coals.
C．The dependence on fossil fuels.	D．The use of gas

2. What is Burgess’s attitude towards the record?

A．Pessimistic.

B．Optimistic

C．Unclear.

D．Concerned.

3. What can be the best title for the text?

A．Whether to depend on fossil fuels.	B．2023 would be warmest year on record.
C．El Nino makes global warming worse.	D．Main source of warming emissions.

4. What is going to be talked about next?

A．What was the temperature condition in the preindustrial time.	B．How to deal with global warming.
C．How to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.	D．Why is 2023 likely to be a cool year in the future.