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3 . The world’s first 3D-printed wood log hive (蜂箱) is a new project developed by the Lacrima Foundation in Edinburgh to reduce the troubling decline of honey bee populations around the world.
The Lacrima Foundation is a charity that is “committed to the conservation and protection of one of the Earth’s most important inhabitant.” The charity teamed up with beekeepers in Europe to work towards a rewilding approach that would offer bees a natural nest habitat and, in turn, create resilience (复原力) among bee communities.
Honey bees are one of the most important pollinators (授粉者), and although they may seem small and insignificant, they are vital for the production of our food — we couldn’t eat without them! However, in recent years, bee populations have been severely impacted by the growing climate emergency and our intensive agriculture practices, including the overuse of pesticides.
With help from local partners, the Foundation created 3D-printed wood log hives, which allow the bees to live in an undisturbed ecosystem where they can carry out their lives. They install these hives in high sections of tree trunks to model natural conditions for the big honey bee populations.
Vince Moucha, chairman of the Lacrima Foundation, said, “Even though there are other people and organisations working in the field of natural beekeeping, the impact, progress and scope of these projects is minimal and slow, due to limited access to resources and clear vision. I am driven by responsibility and decided to act on it due to the urgency and importance of this matter.”
The Foundation will continue to work with beekeepers in the UK, Europe, and the United States to help our bee populations survive and thrive for them and us! Check out the Lacrima Foundation, where you can see their mission and donate to the cause and even get a honey bee gift bracelet in return.
1. What is the project of the Lacrima Foundation aimed at?A.Increasing the production of human’s food. |
B.Studying the cause of bees’ population loss. |
C.Developing new habitats for struggling bees. |
D.Teaming up with beekeepers for fundraising. |
A.To help bees avoid pesticides. | B.To adapt bees to the new habitats. |
C.To test the first 3D-printed hives. | D.To protect bees from climate crisis. |
A.The progress of other projects. | B.The effect of other organizations. |
C.The difficult position of bees. | D.The responsibility to care about people. |
A.Live in harmony with nature. | B.Benefit from the Foundation. |
C.Help bees survive with beekeepers. | D.Support the work of the Foundation. |
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Years ago, the authors conducted human-wildlife conflict surveys in the Tibet Autonomous Region’s counties,
This effort greatly expanded knowledge of the snow leopard’s distribution in this region,
Importantly, in the past few years, a number of major transportation infrastructure (基础设施) projects
6 . Plastic is low-cost and long-lasting. It is not easily degraded(降解) because natural degradation processes can’t deal with its chemical components(成分). It takes in other ocean-present harmful substances. These chemical and dangerous components are gradually got into the atmosphere with additives such as color, which turns out to be really harmful when the plastic breaks down.
The design and development of new plastic products was sped up after World War II. Life without plastic seemed impossible in the modern age. But even though plastic was quite convenient, the dark side of it was seen as people began to enjoy the throw-away community. Many plastic products, such as plastic bags, have a lifetime of a few minutes to hours. However, they’ll stay in the environment for hundreds of years. We are destroying the very world that nurtured us.
Just 9% of plastic has been recycled and 12% burnt after production rose in the 1950s, which leave s about 79% of the 8.3 billion tons produced sitting in landfills(垃圾填埋场) or damaging our fields, oceans, and waterways. And each year the plastic ends up as contaminants. So to beat plastic pollution, we need to work together.
While plastic burning reduces the amount of waste dumped into oceans and lands, harmful gases are still produced, which also leads to greenhouse gases. However, if we make a firm decision and use modern waste management methods, we will be able to create a safe and healthy world. It is high time that we as responsible global citizens, took on the duty of protecting our environment and made great effort in saving our mother earth, instead of just leaving everything to our government. So, ladies and gentlemen, let’s make a promise to successfully deal with plastic waste and protect our world from all possible risks.
1. What is Paragraph 1 mainly about?A.The harm of plastic. | B.The convenience of plastic. |
C.The protection of plastic. | D.The use of plastic. |
A.Happy. | B.Worried. | C.Excited. | D.Relaxed. |
A.Things that cause pollution. | B.Things that produce plastic. |
C.Things that cost money. | D.Things that help people. |
A.A short story. | B.A speech. | C.A newspaper. | D.A notice. |
7 . The amount of sea ice surrounding Antarctica has reached its lowest level since modern records began, for the second year in a row. Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean’s surface around the planet’s polar regions. It forms at much lower sustained temperatures than freshwater ice does, at around-1.8 degrees Celsius. Sea ice builds up during the winter until it reaches its maximum extent, and then melts (融化) away in the spring and summer until it reaches its minimum extent.
In Antarctica, where summer and winter are relative to the Northern Hemisphere, sea ice normally reaches its maximum extent in September when sea ice covers around 7 million square miles. At its minimum extent at the end of February, historically only around I million square miles remains. Last year the minimum sea ice extent was less than 772, 000 square miles, the lowest total since scientists began recording sea ice extent with satellites in 1979. On 21 February this year, that number had reduced to just 691, 000 square miles, which is roughly 40 per cent less than the average between 1981 and 2010.
The record-breaking minimum was expected after an extraordinarily hot January which was the seventh-warmest since records began 174 years ago. “By the end of January, we could tell it was only a matter of time until the record was broken,” said Will Hobbs, an Antarctic sea ice expert at the University of Tasmania and the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership. Antarctica’s minimum sea ice extent will likely continue to decrease in the coming decades as global temperatures rise as a result of human-caused climate change and more multiyear ice, which acts as a seed for new ice growth, melts away.
Sea ice is crucial for polar predators(捕食性动物) such as penguins in Antarctica and polar bears in the Arctic, which use the ice as a platform for hunting. But the sea ice also helps stabilise ice on Antarctica. “Lower sea ice extent means that ocean waves will pound the coast of the giant ice sheet,further reducing ice shelves around Antarctic,” said Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.
1. What can we know about sea ice?A.It can be seen on any ocean’s surface. | B.It forms at about -1.8 ℃. |
C.It melts all the year round. | D.There is more sea ice than freshwater ice. |
A.There are two seasons in Antarctica. |
B.Scientists have been recording the change of sea ice. |
C.Sea ice in Antarctica has been on decline in the past decades. |
D.The ecology in Antarctica needs to be improved. |
A.The earth becomes warmer. | B.Multiyear ice disappears completely. |
C.Ocean waves destroy the giant ice sheet. | D.Human beings occupy Antarctica. |
A.Human activities have caused global warming |
B.Measures should be taken to stop sea ice decreasing |
C.Sea ice is significant for polar animals |
D.Antarctica’s sea ice reaches its lowest level since records began |
8 . When she first started learning about the climate change from one of her elders,Fawn Sharp was invited on a helicopter flight over the Olympic Mountains to survey the Mount Anderson glacier.But the glacier was gone,melted by the warming climate.Sharp had a deep sense of loss when she discovered the glacier wasn’t there anymore.
Loss is a growing issue for people working and living on the front lines of climate change.And that gave Jennifer Wren Atkinson,a full-time lecturer at the University of Washington Bothell,US,an idea for a class.
This term,she taught students on the Bothell campus about the emotional burdens of environmental studies.She used the experiences of Native American tribes(部落),scientists and activists,and asked her 24 students to face the reality that there is no easy fix—that “this is such an intractable problem that they’re going to be dealing with it for the rest of their lives”.
Student Cody Dillon used to be a climate science skeptic(怀疑论者).Then he did his own reading and research,and changed his mind.
Dillon wasn’t going into environmental work—he was a computer-science major.Yet,the potential for a worldwide environmental catastrophe seemed so real to him five years ago that he quit his job and became a full-time volunteer for an environmental group that worked on restoration(恢复) projects.
Six months into the work,he decided that Atkinson’s class was just what he was looking for—a place where he could discuss his concerns about a changing climate.
Atkinson said she hoped the class helped her students prepare themselves for the amount of environmental loss that will happen over their lifetimes.
“We are already changing the planet—so many species are going to be lost,displaced or massively impacted,” she said.“The future isn’t going to be what they imagined.”
1. Why did the author mention the case of Fawn Sharp?A.To lay a basis for Fawn Sharp’s further research. |
B.To prove Fawn Sharp’s work is similar to Atkinson’s. |
C.To lead into the issue of loss caused by climate change. |
D.To show scientists’ concern about the Mount Anderson glacier. |
A.Simple. | B.Difficult. |
C.Common. | D.Interesting. |
A.To explore how different people deal with climate change. |
B.To get students more concerned about the environmental issue. |
C.To find solutions to the environmental issue of Olympic Mountains. |
D.To teach students how to conduct research about environment. |
A.It made him work as a part-time volunteer for restoration projects. |
B.It made him realize a planet-wide climate disaster would happen. |
C.It encouraged him to be more involved in environmental protection. |
D.It discouraged him to work on restoration projects for the environment. |
9 . Naturalist Enzo Suma, who is now 40, lives in Puglia, a region in southern Italy whose long coastline faces the Adriatic Sea. Floating waste accumulates in this relatively enclosed part of the Mediterranean, unlike the open ocean, where the waste tends to be spread over a vast area. Feeling concerned about that, Suma makes it a habit to pick up the washed-up waste along the shore, especially after big winter storms.
One day, Suma was walking along the beach near his home when he discovered a bottle of Coke. Suma noticed on the bottle that the price, clearly printed on the bottom, was in lire, a currency (货币) that hadn’t been used in Italy since it was replaced by the euro in 2002. Could a plastic container have well survived in the Mediterranean, he wondered, for about two decades?
That led him to founding the Archeoplastica museum. It has a collection of about 500 unique pieces recovered from Italian shores and the Coke bottle is the first one of them. All collection demonstrates the unsettling life force of plastic waste in the environment. “Seeing that a product people may have used 30, 40, or 50 years ago remains still unchanged, you’ll feel different. It’s a great shock,” Suma said to a reporter. So Suma often exhibits selected pieces from the Archeoplastica collection at local schools around his hometown of Ostuni.
“The playful side of the work allows you to arrive at the less beautiful side of things,” Suma acknowledged. “Plastic is a kind of useful substance. But it’s unthinkable that a water bottle, made from a material designed to last so long, can be used for just a few days—or even minutes—before becoming garbage. Clean the beaches. Clean the oceans. Recycle. But if we are still throwing out plastics, none of those are going to be long-term solutions.”
1. What’s Suma’s concern about his living place?A.Its long coastline is disappearing. | B.Big storms frequently hit the area. |
C.Floating waste spreads over a vast area. | D.The waste pollution on shore is worsening. |
A.They have a history of more than half a century. |
B.They were quite valuable before turning into waste. |
C.They’re more like educational exhibits than garbage. |
D.They have stronger life force than ordinary plastic products. |
A.Creative, devoted and socially responsible. | B.Enthusiastic, ambitious and adventurous. |
C.Generous, cautious and humorous. | D.Curious, efficient and playful. |
A.The birth of plastics has greatly served humans. |
B.The key to tackling the plastic pollution is to stop littering. |
C.The plastic problem can be solved by cleaning and recycling. |
D.People should be more aware of the powerful functions of plastics. |
10 . This year, why not think of Earth Day as being like New Year’s Day?
Send your kids out to play. Sign up for the 1,000 hours challenge, where families accumulate (积累) 1,000 hours of outdoor play in a year.
Learn how to cook five easy main dishes well. By promoting your kitchen skills and developing some of your own recipes, you won’t be so much interested in take outs and all the related packaging waste.
Walk or bike, don’t drive.
A.Shop second-hand. |
B.Try some zero waste beauty products. |
C.It’s a chance to make a lifestyle change. |
D.If that’s too much, aim for two hours of daily outdoor play. |
E.Discover the satisfaction that comes with using what you have. |
F.See if you can use your own leg power for all trips under three miles. |
G.And you will be more likely to use up food in your fridge before it goes bad. |