1 . Christmas was approaching. I still hadn’t prepared a gift for my wife Donna. However, Donna was good at
We had just moved to Italy and were still
Northern Italy is usually
Donna’s daily calls continued, and so did my daily visits. I still didn’t mention the
When approaching our home, Donna shouted, “You give me the best Christmas gift!” I was
| A．decorating | B．recycling | C．evaluating | D．planning |
| A．thoughtful | B．cheap | C．common | D．similar |
| A．exercising | B．unpacking | C．wandering | D．arguing |
| A．library | B．house | C．store | D．clinic |
| A．horribly | B．abnormally | C．reasonably | D．rarely |
| A．freeze | B．escape | C．starve | D．move |
| A．replaced | B．advocated | C．ruined | D．enriched |
| A．collection | B．treatment | C．approval | D．description |
| A．reward | B．topic | C．proposal | D．assistance |
| A．turn in | B．turn out | C．turn on | D．turn away |
| A．complaint | B．schedule | C．disappearance | D．prediction |
| A．proudly | B．silently | C．angrily | D．blindly |
| A．analyze | B．get | C．break | D．publish |
| A．frightened | B．thrilled | C．inspired | D．confused |
| A．purpose | B．theory | C．adventure | D．example |
People build bridges for a
Longview has a very busy street with many cars
The bridge
Giant Panda National Park,
The giant panda is
Connecting the 67 existing reserves and
The combination of these over 60 panda reserves is a commitment by the Chinese government to protect the species. What makes people
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Many animal lovers would like to do more to protect animals, but aren’t sure where to start or feel like they just don’t have the time. The good news is that there are many simple things you can do to help protect animals.
Think twice before you decide
When it comes to eating meat or other animal products, the decisions that you make can go a long way toward stopping the killing of animals. Consider eating a vegetarian(素食的) diet. If you aren’t ready to make this change, there are still things you can do. Do not buy animal products from companies known to use practices that go against the law such as using drugs to increase milk production in cows.
Help get the word out(传出消息)
Getting the word out about the problems of animals can be as easy as putting up a notice on your car. Also, talk to your friends and family members about important issues that are related to animals. Give some simple advice to a friend with a new pet about the serious pet over-population problem we’re facing. Turn to some books on the subject if you are not so clear about the advice you give your friend.
Write a letter
We’ve all heard the saying, “The pen is more powerful than the sword”. Put this idea to the protection of animals. If a company has practices or rules that are harmful to animals, write them a letter to let them know you are angry about them, and that you will refuse to buy their products until they make some changes. Write letters to state and local legislators(立法者) to let them know how important it is that they support legislation that protects animals. Make them know that their actions will have a great effect on your vote.
Be more loving
If you’re considering adding a dog or a cat to your family, think about getting one from a homeless-animal house rather than buying a pet. There are many wonderful animals just waiting for a home. By taking back an animal from there, you will be helping in the fight against pet over-population, as well as giving your money to those who are responsible for taking care of pitiful animals.
Let your actions be an example to others
It may sound simple, but one of the best ways to help animals is to let your actions speak to the world. You should do the following things first by yourself: Treat all living creatures with respect. Care about your pets and look after them well. Avoid (避免)entertainment places where people use animals to perform. Support legislation (立法)that does good to animals. All of these things set an example for others to follow.
Title: Ways of
| Think about your | ●Don’t eat meat or animal products. ● |
| Get the word out | ●Put up an animal-protection ●Talk to your friends and family members about. important animal issues. ●Give your friends some simple ●Get help from books if necessary. |
| Write letters | ●Let those companies that are doing harm to animals know about your ●Let legislators know the |
| Be more loving | ●Get a pet from a homeless-animal house. |
| Act as an example to others | ●Treat all living creatures with respect. ●Take good ●Do not go to places where animals ●Support legislation that is |
5 . The endangered pandas in Qinling Mountains might face a new threat (威胁): the loss of their food, bamboo, which makes up 99% of their meals.
Adult pandas spend most part of the day eating bamboo and have to take in at least 40 pounds a day to stay healthy. However, a new study published in Nature and Climate Change warned that they may soon find their food gone because most of the bamboo in Qinling Mountains might disappear by the end of the century as a result of rising temperature worldwide.
A team made up of researchers from Michigan State University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has studied the effects of climate change on the bamboo in Qinling Mountains. They have found that bamboo is very sensitive to climate changes. “80% to 100% of the bamboo would be gone if the average temperature increases 3.5 degrees worldwide by the end of the century.” said Liu Jianguo, one of the report’s authors.
He added, “This is how much the temperature would rise by 2100 even if all countries will keep their promises in the Paris Agreement. But you know what is happening around the world.”
In recent years, China has been trying its best to protect the endangered pandas by setting up more and bigger natural reserves.
“But it is far from being enough and the endangered pandas need cooperation from the rest of the world, because their future is not just in the hands of the Chinese,” said Shirley Martin from World Wildlife Fund but not a member of the team.
The Qinling Mountains, in the southwest of China, are home to about 260 pandas. That is about 13% of the China’s wild panda population. In addition, about 375 are living in research centers and zoos in China.
1. What can we learn from the first paragraph?| A．Lots of the bamboo in Qinling Mountains will probably disappear. |
| B．Qinling Mountains cannot provide enough bamboo for the pandas. |
| C．Pandas in Qinling Mountains are just threatened by the loss of food. |
| D．Pandas have already eaten 99% of the bamboo in Qinling Mountains. |
| A．China needs more help from World Wildlife Fund. |
| B．Bamboo is sensitive to the changes of temperature. |
| C．China is making great efforts to protect the pandas. |
| D．It is difficult to control the temperature rise within 3.5℃. |
| A．About 260. | B．About 635. |
| C．About 2,000. | D．About 2,635. |
| A．The Disappearance of Bamboo | B．Necessity to Change Pandas’ Food |
| C．Efforts Made to Save Pandas | D．A New Threat Faced by the Pandas |
The year 2013 marked a turning point in my life. In June, my husband was offered a new Job in Ghana. Feeling that I had hit a career bottleneck as a photographer and copywriter (广告文字撰写人), I, without any hesitation, made the decision to relocate with him.
While my husband engaged in work, my visa didn’t grant me the same privilege. But that’s okay. I didn’t know what to do anyway. I was left isolated, homesick and lacking purpose. Our new home was a bungalow near a river that cut across expansive grasslands. With few people around our home, I turned to nature, which had been a fondness of mine since childhood. Every day, I would take my camera and wander around, photographing aimlessly.
It wasn’t long before September arrived, bringing the full flow of the rainy season. After one particularly bad thunderstorm, I found a finch (雀) — a poor little thing barely a month old with one wing broken — on the ground. Evidently, he had been abandoned by his flock, his nest blown from a tree. The sight was heartbreaking. He was the size of my lite finger. His eyes were tightly shut and he was shuddering, too young to survive alone. I somehow felt a connection with it. Immediately I scooped him up and cautiously placed him in a cardboard box with towels, mimicking a nest, and stayed up all night researching how to care for him.
The next day, he seemed to regain some energy. He woke with his mouth open, though still too weak to let out a call. I fed him some food and chirped (叽喳) at him. To my amusement, he chirped back and even climbed into my hand. I affectionately gazed at this adorable creature, who was now boldly pecking (啄) my fingers now and then. A surge of warmth ran through me. Tenderly stroking his feathers, I chirped a lullaby, singing him to sleep. Gradually, his eyes drooped and he drifted off. I couldn’t help but chuckle at the scene — as far as he was concerned, I was his mother.
Para 1. “I will take care of you.” I murmured, making my promise to him.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Para 2. At that moment I realized that as I dedicated myself to the finch’s care, something within me changed.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________7 . My wife and I just moved into a new home. One day I found a heartwarming
Amy wrote, “You might be new
The next day Amy
I promised I wouldn’t call animal control because he should
What an amazing person. Such a selfless
| A．flower | B．note | C．bag | D．book |
| A．checked | B．agreed | C．ordered | D．explained |
| A．raising | B．watching | C．understanding | D．praising |
| A．discussion | B．comment | C．request | D．promise |
| A．parents | B．couples | C．drivers | D．owners |
| A．noticed | B．bought | C．placed | D．took |
| A．left | B．asked | C．told | D．sold |
| A．cleaning | B．feeding | C．meeting | D．sheltering |
| A．helpless | B．happy | C．trapped | D．hidden |
| A．Usually | B．Still | C．Besides | D．However |
| A．powerful | B．smart | C．obvious | D．weak |
| A．puts off | B．drops off | C．cuts off | D．turns off |
| A．waste | B．make | C．spend | D．cost |
| A．turn up | B．show off | C．come on | D．go away |
| A．experience | B．excuse | C．practice | D．act |
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Dear John,
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Yours,
Li Hua
9 . Jeremi Swietochowski was doing his homework when he heard a thump (重击声). A bird had flown into the window and fallen onto the balcony (阳台) Swietochowski rushed to check on it. “Just when I was about to open the door. it flew away,” he said.
Not all birds are so lucky. According to a study, between 365 million and a billion birds are killed each year in the United States by flying into glass.
“Birds, of course, don’t mean to fly into buildings. It’s the reflectivity (反射性) of the windows that tricks (欺骗) them,” says Christine Sheppard. director of the glass-collisions (玻璃碰撞) program at the American Bird Conservancy. “When birds see reflections of trees-to them, they are just more trees that they can fly into.”
Sheppard and others, including environmentalists and building designers. work to make buildings bird-friendly to lower the number of bird collisions.
One method is to use less glass. Another is to cover a glass building with some kind of screen. The Orange Cube, in Lyon, France, is a good example of this method. The screen can be seen by birds, but it doesn’t block natural light. A third method is to use special glass. This was done in New York City. on a huge glass building called the Javits Center. It used to be one of the city’s deadliest buildings for birds.
Officials agreed to use patterned glass to take the place of some glass in2009. Building designer Daniel Piselli worked on the project. “We need to consider what humans need and what birds need” Piselli says. He notes that with glass. “the main thing is to put something on it that birds can see so they are not tricked by reflections and people can still enjoy daylight through the glass.”
Work on the Javits Center project was completed in 2014. “We ended up bringing down collisions by more than 90%,” Piselli says.
1. Why did the author think the bird was lucky?| A．It wasn’t hurt by an enemy. | B．It could fly freely in the sky. |
| C．It received good care from its owner. | D．It wasn’t killed after hitting the window. |
| A．They need to stop to have a rest. | B．They want to play tricks on humans. |
| C．They’re trying to get inside the buildings. | D．They’re confused by reflections in the windows. |
| A．Reasons for making friends with birds. | B．Ways to make buildings safer for birds. |
| C．The disadvantages of glass windows. | D．Great examples of new high buildings. |
| A．It was very successful. | B．It was unacceptable to bird lovers. |
| C．It took longer to complete than expected. | D．It played a big role in stopping air pollution. |
10 . My wife isn’t a cat person. So when our daughter Flora started asking for a cat several years ago, my wife politely refused her requests and we didn’t give it a second thought. Flora, though, shares some of my wife’s persistence, so she continued to ask for a cat repeatedly for several years.
Then a couple of things happened that made us take a closer look at things. When we went to Flora’s parent-teacher conferences, the teacher first handed us an essay about how my daughter wanted a cat, and then an imaginary story about where she would like to go on vacation: Catville.
It was then that my wife and I came to the realization that our daughter wasn’t just messing around here. And it was time for us to break down. But before we brought our new cat home, my wife sternly warned us that she was not going to be the one to take care of or clean up after the cat. Flora was going to take full responsibility. Fine, my daughter said.
We welcomed our mini family member into the house right around Christmas. We named her Goldy. When we got her, she peed everywhere. But other than that, she was perfect. My tough-talking wife gradually fell in love with Goldy. And Goldy fell in love with her. Of course, it’s not just my wife who loves Goldy. We all do.
There are so many things about that cat that absolutely brighten our life, highlighted by how she nearly bursts with affection when we come home or wake up in the morning. From the moment Goldy came into our house, it seemed unreasonable that we didn’t have a cat before then. We should have settled down to the decision much earlier.
1. What led the family to rethink about the idea of keeping a cat?| A．The author’s promise. | B．The teacher’s advice |
| C．The wife’s expectation. | D．The daughter’s effort. |
| A．Seriously. | B．Defensively. | C．Anxiously. | D．Mildly. |
| A．Inspiring and patient. | B．Principled and kindhearted. |
| C．Ethical and traditional. | D．Positive and professional. |
| A．A Healing Cat | B．My Determined daughter |
| C．Best Decision Ever | D．Family Means Everything |
