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。

Last week, I went back to my hometown, which used to be a beautiful place, with green trees all over the mountains and a small river winding through the whole countryside in mind. I couldn’t wait to see my hometown, which I had always been dreaming of. The mountains, the trees, the river and the people there have always been in my mind these years.

While I was on the way to my hometown, I looked out of the bus window to enjoy the beautiful scenery at the same time. My hometown came nearer and nearer. However, I couldn’t believe something strange came into my eyes: all the trees along the road were gone and lots of sand was blowing in the wind! I wondered if I had taken a wrong bus. In fact, I hadn’t.

The bus finally arrived. I quickly got off, looking around the place I used to live in. Everything had changed！Trees were gone, leaving the bare mountains and a dry river. Seeing this, I couldn’t help bursting into tears. I rushed onto a mountain, trying to find a single tree there, but I failed. There was nothing but sand. I stood still, lost in thought. In the rest of that day, I could hardly talk. I was just wondering why people cut down all the trees and the river dried up.

It was not until the next day that I had a chance to talk with my grandfather, who had lived there for over eighty years. I expressed my puzzlement to him directly. “Well,” he said in a sad voice, “nobody here wants to cut down trees and make the river dry up, if possible. But all of us have no choice！” My grandfather continued, getting a little excited. “As the population grows larger and larger, people needed more food to feed themselves. They had to cut down the trees to make room for growing rice to make a living. Besides, people had to channel water into the fields. Day by day, trees were gone and the river dried up.”

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       After I came back from my hometown, it took me a long time to calm down.
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       Nowadays, science and technology is developing rapidly.
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2 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一个完整的短文。

It was a pleasant morning. Meena was leaning out of her window and feeding the birds. The roads were empty because of COVID-19 lockdown. Just then a strong blow of wind came and Meena saw something flying in the air from distance. “Is it a kite?” Meena thought. As it came closer, Meena saw that it was a mask.

Curious to know where the mask came from, she ran to catch the mask and finally ran to the beach nearby. The mask fell into the sea water. As Meena looked around, she saw many masks floating in the sea and lying on the beach. She wondered where they came from.

Suddenly Meena heard a low voice nearby so helpless as if crying out for someone for help. She went closer to the voice – it was a huge turtle from the sea, with something stuck into his mouth. Apparently the turtle was choking (噎住) and in great pain. Meena moved closer to him, without wasting any time pulling it out of his mouth – it was a mask! The turtle finally recovered from the pain and seemed to express relief from his eyes as if to say “thank you” for her kindness.

Meena was sad to see so many masks thrown around. Just then she saw a man dumping rubbish here, with many single-use masks poured out. “Stop!” she screamed. “Please don’t throw the waste here. The turtle might swallow the mask again and fall sick!” The man stopped at once. He was sorry for his actions and decided to help clean the beach. He called a few people from the village to help them clean it. In no time the beach was free of rubbish.

Meena was happy and couldn’t wait to go home and tell her mother about it. Her mother was very proud of her, and told her the importance of throwing single-use masks into a rubbish bin so that animals wouldn’t swallow them. Yet Meena was still worried. She didn’t want the turtles to fall sick again due to people’s ignorance.

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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。

“Shouldn’t I stop wearing a mask?” asked Meena.

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The next day Meena and her mother gave out their homemade cloth masks around the village.

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3 . Your own backyard may be a fun place to play. You may have trees to climb, and insects to study.     1    . But did you know these things are related to each other through the food chain? Every part of nature belongs to a community where each member uses the lower members to stay alive.

Every part of the world has food chains, including the oceans and the deserts (沙漠).     2    , the whole chain could fall apart. The food chain is most disturbed (扰乱) by people because we build neighborhoods on the land where animals live and we pollute the environment. Both these actions make it difficult for other living things to survive. Still there is a lot we can do to protect the parts of food chains. Here are some ideas that can help:

    3    . Make your backyard a place that other living things can enjoy. Plant more flowers and trees. And, most of all, try not to disturb the places where other animals live.

Do not pollute the environment. Recycle (回收) any material you can.     4    . Having fewer cars on the road means having better air for all of us to breathe.

Keep learning about and respecting (尊重) plants, animals, and the environment.     5    . You may even pass it on to your own children someday. It's important that as many people as possible protect nature and keep the food chain whole.

A．Share your space

B．If you ever want to see it

C．But if one part is taken away

D．We depend on each other for food and survival

E．Ride your bike or walk to places that you need to go

F．You can then pass this information on to your parents and friends

G．Maybe you hear birds singing or see your pet cat sleeping in the sun

4 . It was once a shoreline buried by enough garbage to make it invisible (看不见的), thus, given the unfortunate nickname "toilet bowl" . Now the Philippines' Manila Bay beach is totally different, compared with a few months ago. It happened so suddenly and extremely that it brought tears to the eyes of the local people.

The cleanup started on 27 January, when 5, 000 volunteers descended on Manila Bay to remove over 45 tons (公吨) of garbage, marking the beginning of a nation-wide environmental campaign. But some two months before this great movement began, a quiet revolution was already underway.

During the first week of December 2018, Brooklyn- based Bounties Network collected three tons of garbage from Manila Bay every two days through a project that paid a small group of people, mostly fishermen, with a digital currency (数字货币) based on the Ethereum system.

For the mostly non-bank -using Filipino fishermen, this was a first-ever experience with a digital currency. It's one that proves decisive in enabling poor communities around the world to take up arms in the fight against humanity's waste.

There are signs that this recycling-for-digital payment industry may be just about to take off. Earlier in September 2018, Plastic Bank, a Vancouver -based company powered by IBM technology, also started a similar project. They set up a project in Naga, a town in southern Luzon, the country's largest island, building a collection point to let people exchange plastic and recyclable materials for digital payouts through a system.

That both these pioneers have chosen the Philippines as their first location is not surprising considering the country's contribution to ocean waste. A Wall Street Journal study in 2015 revealed that the Philippines make the third-largest amount of plastic waste into global oceans.

1. Why did people call Manila Bay beach“toilet bowl” ?

A．It looked like a huge bowl.	B．There were plenty of toilets.
C．It was covered by rubbish.	D．People loved the toilets here.

2. What does the underlined phrase“descended on”in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Completely depended on.	B．Suddenly arrived at.
C．Occasionally decreased to.	D．Gradually disappeared from.

3. What made poor communities willing to fight against waste?

A．The benefits to their homeland.	B．The desire to make a difference.
C．The chance to escape ocean pollution.	D．The experience with a digital currency.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Online system helps end ocean pollution.

B．Manila Bay beach is suddenly removed.

C．Plastic Bank is powerful in recycling waste.

D．Philippines make a great amount of waste.