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

A．An art teacher and a student.

B．A lecturer and a listener.

C．A host and a guest.

2. What does the woman use in her art?

A．Paint.

B．Metal.

C．Natural objects.

3. Where was the woman when she created The Watchers?

A．In New Zealand.

B．In Australia.

C．In Brazil.

4. Why does the woman plan to make her next artwork?

A．She likes the views in Brazil.

B．She intends to try new materials.

C．She wants to call on people to protect the environment.

4 . Where there are people, there are chickens. One result of a huge chicken population is a huge amount of chicken feather, which are normally burned or treated as rubbish, polluting the environment.

Ryan Robinson, a biology graduate from Imperial College London, believed there would be a different solution for this feathery waste. Therefore, along with designer Elena Dieckman, he has discovered a way to turn feathers into an insulating (绝缘的) material for buildings or a packing material for food or medicine. The pair has formed a start-up, called Aeropowder, to try and turn their invention into a commercial product. They believe the new material could have a range of uses.

“Currently feathers are mainly transformed in this country to a low-grade animal food called feather meal. Feathers can also be burned or thrown away. And these methods do not make use of their amazing natural properties (特性).” says Robinson.

It turns out that feathers are quite a wonder material. “Feathers are insulating due to their structure, which are hollow fibers,” says Robinson. Extra air in the fibers means less heat transfer. “What has been surprising is how well the material has performed, and we hope to continue to make it better and better. “The current form of Aeropowder’s material looks much more like a fattened brick of feathers. It’s flexible and light.

Aeropowder isn’t the first to try to find a further use for this very common waste product. In 2011, researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the US suggested that chicken feathers should be used to help produce a kind of environmental plastic. The next challenge will be to find a way for this material to be made close to where the chickens are, rather than sending it far away to a processing plant.

“There is still work to be done to get our material tested with early adopters,” Robinson says. “But in the long term, we wish to become the world experts in feather-based materials.”

1. Why did Ryan begin to search for the solution for feathery waste?

A．To produce environmental plastic.	B．To make big business profits.
C．To find better building materials.	D．To avoid its polluting the environment.

2. What’s the advantage of the feather building material?

A．It can keep the house warm.	B．It is easy to be made into bricks.
C．It is enough.	D．It helps heat spread quickly.

3. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．Ryan: an expert in feather-based materials

B．Feather meal: a new kind of animal food

C．Chicken feathers: a wonder material

D．Aeropowder: a new processing plant

5 . 假如你是李华，你的笔友Mike 从媒体上得知前段时间全国多地包括宁波等地出现雾霾，非常担心，写E-mail询问有关情况，请你回复。回复应包括以下要点：
实况描述       2.影响和成因           3.生活启示
注意：1.词数：100-120词。 E-mail的开头与结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

2.生词：雾霾 haze
Dear Mike,

Thank you very much for your concern.

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6 . 假定课上老师要求同学之间交换修改作文，请你修改一下你同桌写的作文。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。   

I think this wise to go to school on foot. First of all, walking to school is wonderful way to exercise and it’s good for health. Next, it’s fun to walk together and friends every day. We can talk about interested things and knowing each other better. What’s worse, if we walk, our parents won’t have to drive you to school. There will have fewer cars in the city. More walking and less driving help to make our city the cleaner. The streets won’t be as crowd as they are now. I hope more and more students will go to school on foot.

7 .

A．The demand of the job market.	B．The location of the hotel.
C．The damage to the environment.	D．The solution to the issue.

8 . When people argue about whether coffee is good for health, they’re usually thinking of the health of the coffee drinker. Is it good for your heart? Does it increase blood pressure?

Does it help you concentrate? However, coffee affects the health of the human population in other ways, too.

Traditionally, coffee bushes are planted under the canopy (树荫）of taller trees. However， more and more fanners in Latin America are deforesting the land to grow full-sun coffee. At first, this increases production because more coffee bushes can be planted if there aren5t any trees. With increased production come increased profits.

Unfortunately, deforesting for coffee production immediately decreases the local wildlife habitat, because native birds nest and hide from predators(捕食者）on the tall trees and migrating birds rest there.

Furthermore, in the long term, the full-sun method also damages the ecosystem because more chemical fertilizers and pesticides(杀虫剂)are needed to grow the coffee. The fertilizers and pesticides kill insects that eat coffee plants, and then the birds eat the poisoned insects and also die. The chemicals kill or sicken other animals as well, and can even enter the water that people will eventually drink.

Fortunately, farmers in Central and South America are beginning to grow more coffee bushes in the shade. We can support these farmers by buying coffee with such labels as “shade-grown” and ‘"bird-friendly”. Sure, these varieties might cost a little more. But we’re paying for the health of the birds, the land, ourselves, and the planet. I think it’s worth it.

1. How do farmers get more land to grow full-sun coffee?

A．They move to other countries.

B．They cut down trees.

C．They turn grassland into farmland.

D．They buy more land from other farmers.

2. Compared with the traditional method, what advantage does the full-sun method have?

A．It can increase the production of coffee.	B．It can promote peopled health.
C．It can provide more nests for birds.	D．It can protect the ecosystem.

3. Which opinion does the author agree with?

A．People should buy full-sun coffee.

B．Farmers should change the places to grow coffee.

C．Shade-grown coffee should be supported.

D．Pesticides should be forbidden in coffee planting.

4. What can we learn from the passage?

A．It is quite worthwhile to buy shade-grown coffee at any cost.

B．Farmers all have realized the importance of protecting the environment now.

C．The full-sun method does good to the health of human beings in the long run.

D．South American farmers are taking action to plant coffee bushes in the traditional way.

9 . A

Five meteorologists who were trapped for two weeks after polar bears surrounded their weather station are now able to leave after the creatures were chased away. Their supervisor told NBC News early Wednesday.

Russian officials had feared the siege could last for another month, the time it would take to reach the islands in the Kara Sea, high in the Arctic Circle. But on Tuesday night a research ship took a detour to assist those weathermen, station supervisor Vasily Shevchenko told NBC News. The ship run by Russia’s state-run oil firm Rosneft frightened away the bears using its helicopter, before resupplying the weather station with more food and puppies. The puppies are not yet big enough to deter the bears, but the station is planning to draft in a replacement adult guard dog as soon as possible.

Some of the bears had taken to sleeping directly outside the windows of remote outpost. There was no risk of the researchers starving because they had a year’s worth of food, but they were forced to take dangerous trips to a nearby building, holding a gun for protection, according to Shevchenko.

Polar bears are an endangered species. In Russia, it’s a crime to shoot them unless in self-defense. The bears usually leave the islands in the summer, but this time they were trapped by the melting ice, an apparent sign of climate change, according to Shevchenko. “They’ve stayed on the island because there is nowhere for them to go,” he said.

The animals suffer from global warming because it shrinks the floating ice that forms their main hunting ground. According to the environmental group the World Wide Fund for Nature, known as the WWF, this has got some polar bears to go near human habitats in search of food.

1. What did the research ship do to help the five meteorologists?

A．Drive them home.	B．Shoot all the bears.
C．Use its helicopter to scare the bears away.	D．Supply the weather station with more money.

2. The underlined word “deter” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to “______”.

A．stop

B．respect

C．protect

D．raise

3. What made the bears trapped on the island according to the text?

A．Sea Pollution.	B．Climate change.
C．Humans’ hunting.	D．Animals’ hunting

4. What can we infer from the text?

A．People in Russia can hunt bear for money.

B．The melting ice will kill all the polar bears.

C．The five meteorologists hated the bears very much.

D．WWF made some contributions to protecting polar bears.

10 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Nature Turns Human Pollution into Striking Glass Beach

For years, Ussuri Bay, on Russia’s Pacific shoreline, was a junkyard for glass bottles and waste from a nearby porcelain (瓷器) factory. But nature found a way to turn all those     1    (use) materials into a colorful glass beach.

The story goes that many years ago, truckloads of glass and porcelain     2    (pour) in Ussuri Bay, but instead     3    what should have been a landfill for waste, Steklyashka beach is actually one of     4    most excellent tourist attractions in the world Years of erosion (侵蚀) have rounded and polished the pieces of glass and porcelain into beautiful stones of various colors,     5    has created a wonderland.

Once considered a no-go zone, Steklyashka beach is now popular with both locals and     6    (tourist), and has been afforded special     7    (protect) by authorities in the Primorsky Krai region. In the summer, it’s a unique bathing spot, and in the summer, people     8    (regular) drive from the port city of Vladivostok, about 30 minutes away,     9    (take) photos of this breathtaking natural kaleidoscope (万花筒)     10    (highlight) by snow and ice.

Photos of the breathtaking glass sand of Steklyashka beach have recently gone viral online, after an article in the Siberian Times revealed this wonder to the whole world.