1 . When your pen is broken, the batteries (电池) in your toys run out, or you have some leftover food, what will you do with these things? You will probably throw them all into one bin. But actually, all of these pieces of rubbish need to be sorted (分类) separately.

Rubbish sorting is a big problem worldwide. In recent years, some Chinese cities have been working hard on it. Shanghai has worked with Alipay to create a “green account (账户)” service. Account owners get points by correctly sorting their rubbish. Through the Alipay app, they can exchange the points for milk, phone cards or other products. The city is asking all people living there to sort their rubbish into four groups: wet, recyclable, harmful and dry.

Wet waste is something you don’t want but that pigs can eat. Plastics, glass, paper and other things that can be reused are recyclable waste. Harmful waste includes things like medicine, batteries and bulbs. Finally, any waste that’s not wet, recyclable or harmful will go in the “dry waste” bin.

Many other Chinese cities are also sorting their rubbish in this way. For example, Shenzhen has been doing this since 2012. Students there also receive waste-sorting guidebooks that they must study. In fact, there are still many workers specially working for sorting rubbish by hand in China. There is still a long way to go. But it’s never too late for every Chinese to learn how to sort rubbish properly and protect the environment.

If you don’t sort your rubbish, all of it will go to a landfill (垃圾填埋场) and be buried together. These landfills can take up much ground that could be used for planting. The electronic waste you throw away, such as batteries or used mobile phones, can cause pollution. Other pieces of rubbish, like the metal part of a pen, can be used to make other things if they are properly recycled.

1. Shanghai creates the “green account” service in order to ______.

A．work with the Alipay app.	B．punish those who don’t sort rubbish.
C．exchange useful products.	D．encourage people to sort their rubbish.

2. After drinking up the milk, you can put the milk box into a “______ waste” bin.

A．wet.

B．recyclable.

C．harmful.

D．dry.

3. The last paragraph is mainly about ______.

A．why we should sort rubbish properly.	B．where our rubbish can be dealt with.
C．how some waste can be recycled.	D．what waste can cause pollution.

4. Which is NOT TRUE about rubbish sorting in China according to this passage?

A．There is still a long way to go in rubbish sorting.

B．There are many workers sorting rubbish by hand.

C．Students have to take waste-sorting classes in school.

D．Shenzhen has been doing rubbish sorting for a decade roughly.

2 . Most of us don’ t have millions of dollars to go door-to-door to persuade people to care about climate change.     1     So let’s talk to them about climate change. Because if we can’t convince our parents to take action on climate, who can we convince?

It might be a hard conversation. If you do accept this challenge, here are a few suggestions:

Talk to them with love and respect. If you’ve ever used any poisonous terms, please get rid of them from your vocabulary.     2    

Share a couple of informative articles on the topic. Bill Mckibben’s article in Rolling Stone is great and very readable.     3     The most important thing for them to understand is that on our current path we may no longer have a climate that allows for secure societies within the lifetimes of today’s children.

Once these unpleasant facts are laid out, make it clear that you aren’t blaming them for this. Your parents likely made all of their decisions with a strong sense of morality and social responsibility, and could only make those decisions based on the information they had at the time.     4     But now that you have provided this new information, talk about how it warns them，and all of us, to behave in new ways.

Encourage them to buy environmentally friendly goods and services as much as possible. Talk to them about trying to avoid using or use less fossil fuels. But given the urgency and severity of the problem, also make it clear that this will not be enough.     5    

A．But most of us do have parents.

B．Ask them to please care for both of them.

C．Otherwise, you’ re making everything worse.

D．There’s no need to flood them with data.

E．And give them a hug, because they’d probably like that!

F．This is a challenge that requires us all to act as citizens, not just as consumers.

G．Therefore, if they have done something improper before, it is not necessarily their fault.

3 . It's important to learn how we can protect the environment. Here are 5R rules for us.

Reduce. If you want to reduce waste, you should use things more wisely.    1     If everyone uses paper carelessly, soon we would not have any trees left. Other things are also being wasted, and people don't know what to do with the waste in big cities. So it is necessary to reduce the amount of waste we produce.

Reuse. You should always think of reusing things before throwing them out. For example,    2    . In a family, you may pass on such clothes to younger brothers or sisters.

Recycle. Bottles, cans and paper can easily be recycled. By doing so we can save lots of time and money. For example,    3    . The metal can be used to make new coke cans.

Recover.    4    . You have two choices: one is to throw the apples away, the second is to throw the rotten ones and keep the good ones. In this way, you are recovering the eatable parts of food.

Repair. If one of the legs of your table is broken, you should repair it. If you want to buy something newer and better, it is better for you to sell the old table, or     5    

Learn the rules to protect our environment. Let's try our best to make the earth cleaner and more beautiful.

A．give the clothes you do not use or the ones which are too small to the poor.

B．coke cans are sent to a factory, where they are smashed flat and melted.

C．A large number of trees are being cut down to make paper.

D．Trees are planted every year.

E．give it to people who can use it after repairing it.

F．don’t throw it away if you can use it.

G．When you buy a box of apples, there may be a few rotten ones.

4 . Most people don’t think much about the food scraps (残羹剩饭) they throw away; however, researchers in Tokyo have developed a new method to reduce food waste by recycling deserted fruit and vegetable scraps into strong construction materials.

Worldwide industrial and household food waste amounts to hundreds of billions of pounds per year, a large proportion of which consists of edible scraps, like fruit and vegetable peels. This unsustainable practice is both costly and environmentally unfriendly, so researchers have been searching for new ways to recycle these organic materials into useful products.

“Our goal was to use seaweed and common food scraps to construct materials that were at least as strong as concrete,” explains Yuya Sakai, the senior author of the study.

The researchers borrowed a “heat pressing” concept that is typically used to make construction materials from wood powder, except they used vacuum-dried, pulverized food scraps, such as seaweed, cabbage leaves, and orange, onion, pumpkin, and banana peels as the component powders. The processing technique involved mixing the food powder with water and seasonings, and then pressing the mixture into a mold at high temperature. The researchers tested the bending strength of the resulting materials and monitored their taste, smell, and appearance.

“With the exception of the sample from pumpkin, all of the materials exceeded our bending strength target,” says Kota Machida, a senior collaborator. “We also found that Chinese cabbage leaves, which produced a material over three times stronger than concrete, could be mixed with the weaker pumpkin-based material to provide effective reinforcement.”

Given that food waste is a global financial burden and environmental concern, it is crucial to develop methods for recycling food scraps. Using these substances to prepare materials that are strong enough for construction projects, but also maintain their edible nature and taste, opens the door to a wide range of creative applications from the one technology.

1. Why do the researchers search for new ways to recycle organic materials?

A．Because they want to reduce waste and preserve the environment.

B．Because they want to make a fortune by recycling the food waste.

C．Because the construction of strong material needs much food waste.

D．Because the amount of food waste is too large to store at the moment.

2. Which step is NOT necessary in the process?

A．Press food scraps into powder.	B．Improve the strength of Chinese cabbage.
C．Mix food powder with seasonings.	D．Press the food powder at high temperature.

3. What is a suitable title for the text?

A．Food Scraps Are Stronger Than Concrete	B．Throw Away Food Scraps —A New Waste
C．Buildings With Food Scraps —A New Trend	D．Turn Food Scraps Into Construction Materials

4. Where is the text probably from?

A．A food report.	B．A biography book.
C．A recipe book.	D．A science magazine.

5 . What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A．Ways to save water.

B．Schools’ facilities.

C．Cities’ water supply.

6 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the relationship between the speakers?

A．A couple.

B．Classmates.

C．Colleagues.

2. What do the speakers decide to do?

A．Stop using paper cups.

B．Prepare boxes for different waste.

C．Reduce the use of paper, plastic and cans.

7 . A company in San Francisco, California, has found a way to turn used plastic bottles into women's shoes. Every day, millions of Americans drink water and other liquids from plastic bottles. More than 60 million of them are thrown away each day. Many of the plastic bottles end up in landfills or are burned with other waste products.

A San Francisco-based company called Rothy's, however, turns this plastic waste into environmentally friendly shoes. Roth Martin is the company's co-founder. He explains how they turn plastic into soft material for women's feet. They take plastic, clean it, and break it down into small pieces. Then they press them through a device that makes soft fibers. Those fibers are then bonded together. This is done by a 3-D machine. It is designed to reduce waste while people are making the shoes. The knitted stuff and the inner part of the shoe are then attached to the shoe's outer part called the sole（鞋底）. This outer sole is also made from environmentally friendly material: responsibly sourced no-carbon rubber.

Rothy's shoes are sold online. They are flat shoes, with either a rounded or pointed toe. They come in different colors and designs. They cost either $ 125 or $ 145 per pair, depending on the design. After American actress Gwyneth Paltrow discovered them, the demand for the shoes grew. Martin says there is no shortage of material to fill that demand. “We're not going to run out of water bottles any time soon, so we have a limitless supply of material, and I think that is a good sign for our future.” When the environmentally friendly shoes wear out, customers can return them at no cost to a company that uses the recycled material to make other products.

For now, the shoes are only available to be shipped in the United States. However, the company says it will add international shops in the near future.

1. How are used plastic bottles usually dealt with?

A．They are used to make shoes.

B．They are buried or burned.

C．They are changed into soft material.

D．They are returned to factories for reuse.

2. What does the underlined word " knitted" in the third paragraph mean?

A．Combined.	B．Fixed.
C．Spotted.	D．Repaired.

3. Which of the following directly helped to increase the sales of Rothy's shoes?

A．The design and color.

B．The reasonable price.

C．The power of famous people.

D．The company's advertisement.

4. What is the purpose of the text?

A．To advertise a new kind of shoes.

B．To describe the process of making shoes.

C．To introduce a new way of recycling plastic waste.

D．To stress the importance of environmental protection.

9 . 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。

Dear friends,

Do you want to live in a beautifully world? If so, this is our duty to protect the environment.

We can just started from little things around us. First, we can stick to habit of walking to school instead of take a car or a bus. Second, it’s also importance to reuse everything and value our school’s environment by picking up rubbish and turning on the lights. Besides, it is necessary what we should protect flowers and trees. And also by growing different plant, we can make our world green. Let’s all to take action now and try our best to protect the environment.

Thank you!