1 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of teaching a young couple to dive (潜水) in Thailand on one of my favorite reefs (礁). The weather conditions were perfect, with mild currents and excellent sight of the beautiful ocean and the bright, vivid corals. Even with their masks on, I could see the smiles on my students’ faces.

The div e couldn’t have gone better. However, things changed as we made our way back to the boat. As we swam back along the reef, I noticed the current (水流) changing As it did, huge quantities of trash and plastic began to flood the area . I saw small reef fish swimming amongst the straws, plastic bags and other bits of rubbish. I noticed that some of the fish were pecking away (啄) at the plastic. By the time we got back onboard the boat, there were bits of plastic floating all around us. It looked more like a trash site than the ocean.

When I got home, the first thing I did was to go online and research plastic pollution in the ocean . I was surprised to find out that over the past decade, divers and beach lovers have seen a lot of changes in the oceans. Even very remote locations were suddenly filled with plastic and other chemicals. Plastics were entering our oceans at an alarming rate —up to 12 million tons each year. This huge amount of plastic was wreaking havoc (破坏) not only on the environment, but also on the marine animals that lived in the ocean, such as sea turtles and sea birds. Some of them were sadly mistaking the pieces of plastic for food. Pollution has brought our oceans to the point of disaster, and unless we make a great change, then our oceans and all of its living things, will be at risk.

Since that unforgettable plastic-polluted dive, I have become an ocean supporter and spend my days trying to get the message out there about just how harmful ocean pollution is, not only to marine life, but also to mankind.

注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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Then the idea came to me: I could appeal to my fellow divers to take action.

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I decided to take it a step further to try and stop those companies producing single-use plastics.

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2 . Textile (纺织品) waste is a growing problem for our environment. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported the US throws away more than 11 million tons of clothing every year. That is why some small businesses spotting the problem are beginning to recycle in ways they haven’t before.

Create Good Company is a clothing company that tries to produce sustainable (可持续的) clothing and repurpose older clothing into updated fashionable items. Maggie. Hendricks, the owner of Create Good Company, said, “If you can revamp what you find, why wouldn’t you do that instead of buying new things?   It’s a big issue not to create new waste. I would say we are 90%recycled materials.”

According to the EPA, the average consumer (消费者) throws away 81.5 pounds of clothes every year. “Anywhere between 10%-17%of the waste that’s going into landfills (废弃物填埋场) is made up of things like textiles and clothing,” said Danny Katz with the CoPIRG Foundation.” A lot of the clothing that we’re producing doesn’t even get worn, so it’s going right to the landfill or even being burned and contributing to pollution that way. It’s really worrying.”

This is why businesses like Create Good Company exist—to use outdated clothing and turn it into dresses or jackets.

“There’s just so much waste and so many big companies that might not think about it,” Hendricks said. “Just standing with other like-minded people who are interested in sustainability is important.”

Another important element Hendricks has focused on is creating these items and selling them at an affordable price.

“Sustainability sometimes is green washed in companies and they make things more expensive,” Hendricks said. “That’s not how we become a sustainable world. I think making products affordable is important to me. I want to buy things that are better for the environment without throwing my pocketbook in the fire.”

1. What does the underlined word “revamp” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Share.

B．Decorate.

C．Replace.

D．Improve.

2. What makes Danny Katz worried?

A．The use of old clothing.	B．The cost of textile pollution.
C．The effect of clothing waste.	D．The future of the textile industry.

3. What does Hendricks care more about when it comes to a sustainable product?

A．Its sales.

B．Its price.

C．Its producer.

D．Its quality.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．The EPA’s measures to reduce textile waste

B．Small businesses working to prevent textile waste

C．Textile businesses’ social responsibility and their waste

D．Consumers being aware of the seriousness of textile waste

4 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Researchers and wetland protectors in Wuhan, Hubei Province, are stepping up efforts to allow more wildlife to survive in their natural habitat.     1     treasured species of ducks is one of the animals benefiting from the growing focus     2     the environment.

In 2012, Baer’s pochard, the blue-headed duck,     3     (list) as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature after its numbers declined due to a bad habitat. The ducks were rarely seen in Wuhan until bird-watchers observed     4     (they) living in the city in 2014. Despite that, no proof showed that, so far, the ducks     5     (turn) from migratory birds to resident birds in the city because researchers would not attach tracers to the animals     6     (prevent) humans disturbing them.

In 2019, the Wuhan Bird Watching Society started researching and rescuing the habitats of the duck. They found that the ducks feed on     7     (plant), shrimp and snails. The birds also like to rest in the shallow water     8     food is more than enough.     9     (base) on the results, the team will create an area toward the restoration of the habitat in the city’s Qijiawan for the blue-headed duck, first     10     (discover) in the area.

5 . 你校将以六月八日世界海洋日为主题，举办英语征文比赛， 请你写一篇短文投稿。内容包括：
1.海洋的重要性；
2.保护海洋的倡议。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节， 以使行文连贯。
Dear fellow students,
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Yours,

Li Hua

6 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Home to the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers, the Sanjiangyuan area on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (高原), is known as “China’s water tower.” It is a     1    (whole) significant plateau wetland ecosystem and serves as     2     unique ecological defense for the country.

Decades ago, serious environmental degradation (恶化) in Sanjiangyuan,     3     was caused by climate change and human activities, resulted in a large number of lakes drying out and wildlife numbers falling sharply. In 2016, the pilot program for the Sanjiangyuan National Park management system     4    (launch). Through painstaking development and innovation, efforts have been made     5    (turn) the park into a symbol of the progress of China’s ecological civilization.

Over the past decade, the ecological environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau     6    (experience) enormous changes. Water conservation in the area has risen     7     11 percent every year, reaching 75 percent mark compared with 64 percent 10 years ago.

The     8    (establish) of the national park has enabled local residents to change from exploiting (开发) nature to becoming its protectors, some of them     9    (serve) as tour guides for visitors from home and abroad.

Today, as people wander on the vast land of Sanjiangyuan, looking at the expansive mountains, glaciers, lakes and pastures,     10     catching sight of wild animals and birds, they cannot help be impressed by the vastness and beauty of nature and its biodiversity (生物多样性).

7 . A recent study has found that using wood for construction instead of concrete and steel can reduce emissions. But Tim Searchinger at Princeton University says many of these studies are based on the false foundation that harvesting wood is carbon neutral (碳中和). “Only a small percentage of the wood gets into a timber (木料) product, and a part of that gets into a timber product that can replace concrete and steel in a building,” he says. Efficiencies vary in different countries, but large amounts of a harvested tree are left to be divided into parts, used in short-lived products like paper or burned for energy, all of which generate emissions.

In a report for the World Resources Institute, Searchinger and his colleagues have modelled how using more wood for construction would affect emissions between 2010 and 2050, accounting for the emissions from harvesting the wood. They considered various types of forests and parts of wood going towards construction. They also factored in the emissions savings from replacing concrete and steel.

Under some circumstances, the researchers found significant emissions reductions. But each case required what they considered an unrealistically high portion (一部分) of the wood going towards construction, as well as rapid growth only seen in warmer places, like Brazil. In general, they found a large increase in global demand for wood would probably lead to rising emissions for decades. Accounting for emissions in this way, the researchers reported in a related paper that increasing forest s between 2010 and 2050 would add emissions equal to roughly 10 percent of total annual emissions.

Ali Amiri at Aalto University in Finland says the report’s conclusions about emissions from rising demand are probably correct, but the story is different for wood we already harvest. “Boosting the efficiency of current harvests and using more wood for longer-lived purposes than paper would cut emissions,” he says. “We cannot just say we should stop using wood.”

1. What is wrong with previous researches according to Searchinger?

A．They got wrong statistics.	B．They were applied in limited countries.
C．They included too many factors.	D．They used an incorrect concept.

2. What does paragraph 2 mainly talk about?

A．The process of the new research.	B．The background of the new study.
C．The challenge of the new research.	D．The achievements of the new study.

3. When will the emissions drop off greatly according to the new study?

A．When the rising global demand for wood is completely met.

B．When the increasing forest harvests are widely restricted.

C．When a high portion of wood is used for global construction.

D．When wood is fully efficiently employed for lasting purpose.

4. What is Ali Amiri’s attitude toward the new result?

A．Favorable.

B．Doubtful.

C．Objective.

D．Critical.