1 . When thinking about what you can do to help the planet, do you support regenerative (再生) agriculture? Do you even know what it means? While it sounds like something that is up to farmers, there are ways that the rest of us can support it; one way is to practice soil-friendly eating.     1    .

Eat a variety of foods

A group of different foods can be good for getting a variety of nutrients, and by eating different types of foods, you’ll help create demand for a wide variety of agricultural products, which is better for soil.     2    .

Embrace the pulses (豆类)

The pulses are cheap and great alternative to meat.     3    . Pulse crops are able to pull nitrogen from the atmosphere into the soil. This process is called nitrogen fixation and provides a natural fertilizer, which is available for subsequent crops.

Make sure meat is sustainably produced

    4    . However, if you do shop for meat, look for the meat which has been produced sustainably. For example, animals feeding on pasture (牧草) rather than grain are better because grain requires a lot of land, water and agrichemicals. Animals take a lot from the soil, so it’s important to support owners of pasture who work to keep their soil healthy.

Reduce food waste

Reducing food waste has been getting much attention recently. By some accounts, it is one of the most important things we can do to fight the climate.     5    .

A．We generally recommend eating less meat or none at all

B．It also helps ease the strain on soil since it reduces its workload

C．Almost everyone mentions the need for regenerative agriculture

D．It turns out that they are also a top choice for soil-friendly eating

E．Here are some steps for how to eat in ways that are harmonious with soil

F．If we don’t take care of the soil, the soil will lose its ability to take care of us

G．Food diversity helps with soil fertility when land is used to grow multiple crops

3 . 习近平总书记一直提倡“厉行节约，反对浪费”的社会风尚，假定你是某中学的学生会主席，请以此为主题，向全校同学写一封倡议书，号召同学们“从我做起，拒绝浪费”。要点如下：
(1) 珍惜粮食；
(2) 不浪费学习、生活用品；
(3) 合理使用零用钱。
注意：(1) 词数80左右（开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数）；
(2) 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear fellow students,
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Thank you!

The Students’ Union

4 . Tips for Green Travel with Kids

Traveling doesn’t mean letting go of all the eco-friendly choices we work so hard to achieve in our daily life. Here are a few tips for green travel with kids:

Booking nonstop flights whenever possible will reduce carbon emissions (碳排放).     1    , check in with other local airports to see if nonstop flights are available. You might have to drive a bit further, but saving on carbon emissions makes it worthwhile.

Whether you’re flying or driving, it’s easy when traveling to pull into fast food restaurants for snacks.     2    . My kids love to help plan snacks. I let them create their own snacks for the trip at home.

Reusable water bottles are easy to bring along whenever you travel. At the airport, keep your reusable bottles empty until you have passed through the security (安检).     3    . Single-use plastic water bottles create unnecessary waste and the plastic can be harmful to your health.

    4    . Open a few windows and turn off the air conditioner. You should also help your children keep their good, green habits from home to place while traveling. Sometimes vacation can mean more than one shower each day — once in the morning and again after getting out of the pool. Pay attention to the number of showers and the length of showers.     5    .

A．Too much carbon emissions seriously pollute the environment

B．But you can pack healthy food before starting off

C．In this way, you can save water and energy

D．Fill them up on the other side of the security checkpoint

E．Security check is a necessary part of each trip

F．Save energy by turning off the hotel room lights when you head out for the day

G．If the closest local airport doesn’t have nonstop flights to a certain place

5 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Dongying city in China’s Shandong Province has witnessed ecological improvements in the Yellow River Delta, thanks to various     1    (effect) measures to improve wetland restoration and protection.

Years ago, the wetlands there     2    (threaten) due to less water from the river and other factors.     3    (protect) the wetlands ecosystem, the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve was established in 1992. Since then, the city     4    (carry) out several management projects and restored the biotic (生物) population in the zone.

Dongying has been adopting a comprehensive wetlands restoration model by giving high priority to protecting the nature reserve and letting nature restore     5    (it) . Over the past three years, it’s transferred 469 million cubic meters of water to the nature reserve, which has recovered the ecological functions of the wetlands there.

Last year, Dongying built a real-time monitoring network for bird species at the nature reserve, which ensures that birds are free from disturbance of human activity and     6    (put) the habitats of cranes and other species under key protection. As     7    result, the nature reserve has seen an obvious increase in the variety and number     8    bird species. Home to 371 bird species, it’s become an important stop, wintering ground and breeding place for migratory     9    (bird). Dongying is currently working to build the Yellow River Estuary National Park,     10    will cover 3, 523 square kilometers, including land area and sea area, to explore pathways for the protection of Delta ecology.

6 . Despite the bad reputation of sharks, they are crucial to the health of the marine ecosystem and can even help fight climate change.

In the shallows of Shaik Bay, Western Australia, seagrass is food for the sea cows, which can weigh as much as 500 kg and eat roughly 40 kg of seagrass a day. Sea cows are a rich source of food for tiger sharks. By keeping the sea cow population controlled, tiger sharks here help the seagrass grow sustainably. A booming seagrass meadow stores twice as much CO₂ per square mile as forests typically do on land.

But tiger shark numbers are declining. Off Australia’s northeast coast of Queensland, tiger sharks are estimated to have fallen by at least 71 percent, largely due to overfishing. A reduction in tiger sharks means more seagrass consumed by herbivores (食草动物) and less carbon stored in sea vegetation. This raised the question: What if they were absent from the Shark Bay — would the seagrass-dominated ecosystem survive?

To find out, researcher led by Rob Nowicki of Florida International University, spent time in Eastern Australia, where shark numbers were lower and sea cows ate seagrass largely undisturbed. “When uncontrolled, sea cows can rapidly destroy wide areas of seagrass.” said Nowicki.

Those findings emphasized that tiger sharks were playing an important role in preventing the reduction of seagrass in Shark Bay. If their populations continue to decline, the resilience of carbon-rich ocean ecosystems will likely decrease.

          When it comes to stimulating shark numbers, there have been movements toward more sustainable fishing, but a large percentage of the industry have not changed their methods, which is a reason why the population of many marine top predators (捕食者) continues to decline.

Aside from supporting sustainable fishing, Nowicki said the only way to truly protect marine life is to reduce our global greenhouse gas emissions. “Ultimately, if we are going to protect our ecosystems in the centuries to come, we are going to need to solve climate change while undertaking species protection at the same time.”

1. Why are tiger sharks vital to the marine ecosystem?

A．They feed on various sea animals.	B．They can store large amounts of CO₂.
C．They can prevent the loss of seagrass.	D．They influence marine species’ health

2. What does the underlined word “resilience” in Paragraph 5 mean?

A．Remark.

B．Recovery.

C．Bother.

D．Accident.

3. What is the main cause of the population reduction of many top predators?

A．Unsustainable fishing.	B．Lack of protection.
C．Climate change.	D．Loss of seagrass.

4. What’s the purpose of the text?

A．To tell the number of tiger sharks is decreasing.

B．To show climate change causes the loss of seagrass.

C．To tell environmental protection is at the top of the agenda.

D．To show tiger sharks are vital to the health of the marine ecosystem.

7 . Ninety-seven percent of Earth’s water is ocean. No blue, no green. If you think the ocean isn’t important, imagine Earth without it. Fifty years ago, when I began exploring the ocean, no one realized that we human being could do anything to harm the ocean.

For me, as a woman scientist, it all began in 1953 when I first tried diving. In 1979, by using a submersible, I had a chance to reach the ocean floor which was six miles offshore and 1,250 feet down. Since then, I’ve used about 30 kinds of submarines. We need new deep-diving submersible. We need to see the undersea mountains and understand life in the deep sea. Exploring and protecting the wild ocean is my big wish.

What’s worrying us is that an ice free Arctic Ocean may happen in this century. That’s bad news for the polar bears. Additional CO₂ is not only driving global warming, but also changing ocean chemistry, making the sea more acidic. That’s bad news for coral reefs and oxygen-producing plankton(浮游生物). Actually, nearly half of the coral reefs have disappeared. We’re putting hundreds of millions of tons of plastic and other rubbish into the sea. We’re blocking the ocean, poisoning the planet’s circulatory system. Most of the turtles, sharks, tunas and whales are way down in numbers. All of these are part of our life support system.

Health to the ocean means health for us. I wish we would use all means—films, explorations, the web, new submarines—and campaign to stimulate public support for ocean protected areas. My wish is a big wish, but if we can make it happen, it can truly save and restore the ocean, the blue heart of the planet. For the children of today, for tomorrow’s children: as never again, now is the time.

1. Why does the writer say “No blue, no green.” in the first paragraph?

A．To tell us the colors of the earth.	B．To refer to the ocean and the land.
C．To show the importance of ocean.	D．To encourage us to explore the ocean.

2. What should we do to protect the ocean according to the text?

A．Make joint efforts.	B．Save life support system.
C．Encourage children to take action.	D．Explore the ocean by new technology.

3. What’s the writer’s attitude towards the current situation of the ocean?

A．Negative.

B．Concerned.

C．Uncertain.

D．Indifferent.

8 . The first time ever I realized that plastic was a serious matter for our planet was during a road trip in Western Australia, almost 12 years ago.

We ______ at a supermarket along the Coral Bay coast to buy some groceries and the lady at the counter told us they didn’t sell any shopping bags in order to prevent plastic in the

______ and to help preserving the endangered turtles living in that area. After a first reaction of surprise, we ______ all our shopping in our arms and left.

This was just one of the many experiences I’ve lived that made me more ______ about my impact and pushed me to adopt different habits to live and ______ more sustainably.

Our trip to Borneo was another life-changing ______ that has strengthened my resolution to a zero-waste lifestyle. While traveling in some Asian countries, we came to know that ______ drinkable water was always a challenge. So we had to travel with our water bottle, and we ______ to avoid using plastic during our trip.

Besides, we were also ______ impressed by our stay on Libaran Island. A sustainable turtle conservation ______ and the community had made big efforts to ______ the beaches and creatively re-use plastic for ten years. Despite that, the shore is ______ daily with tons of plastic coming from the tides.

Facing this global issue ______, raised in me a feeling of sadness and anger that soon turned into ______: to do as much as possible to reduce plastic in our life. Small changes can ______ a difference!

1.

A．stayed

B．visited

C．worked

D．stopped

2.

A．land

B．ocean

C．district

D．supermarket

3.

A．threw

B．picked

C．dropped

D．carried

4.

A．sure

B．proud

C．conscious

D．comfortable

5.

A．travel

B．deliver

C．remove

D．play

6.

A．story

B．growth

C．experience

D．suffering

7.

A．free

B．cheap

C．valuable

D．safe

8.

A．failed

B．managed

C．hesitated

D．happened

9.

A．firmly

B．violently

C．deeply

D．dramatically

10.

A．action

B．project

C．schedule

D．protection

11.

A．dry up

B．tie up

C．clean up

D．take up

12.

A．washed

B．proved

C．rushed

D．injured

13.

A．on purpose

B．for sure

C．to an extent

D．in person

14.

A．confusion

B．determination

C．frustration

D．satisfaction

15.

A．make

B．do

C．achieve

D．find

9 . 假设你是某中学的学生李华，最近参加了学校的“低碳生活社”。现在请根据社团有关章程，用英语写一封电子邮件给你的美国好友Jack，介绍你们社团及其活动情况。提示：

社团名称	低碳生活社
社团宗旨	低碳生活，从我做起
成员义务	衣：衣着朴素，收集旧衣赠灾区人民 食：在饭堂吃饭时按量取食，吃天然或简单包装食品 住：少用空调，使用节能灯，循环用水、纸张等 行：步行、骑自行车或使用公共交通工具 玩：选择能源消耗少的娱乐，如爬山、游泳、打球等

注意：1.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
2.词数不少于100(开头已给出，但不计入总词数)。
Dear Jack,

How have you been? I’m glad to tell you that I have recently joined the “Low-carbon Living Club” in our school.

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Truly,

Li Hua

10 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Last Thursday, we have had a class meeting to discuss where to go for our autumn trip. We came up with several choices such as going boating, climbing a mountain, and going to park. Finally, we decided to go mountain climbing. The next day, we left to the mountain early in the morning. While climbing the mountain, we enjoyed the warm sunshine and the beautiful sceneries. However, when we reached the top, we were shocking to see rubbish here and there, such as bottles and banana peels. We felt sadly that many tourists didn’t take good care of nature. Soon, they started to pick them up. With all the rubbish putting in the rubbish bin, the place looked many more beautiful than before. When we came back, it was 5:30 in the afternoon. We were tired and happy.