1. Why are all participants dressed in green?
A.To look young and energetic. |
B.To match the theme of the campaign. |
C.To keep the team easily manageable. |
A.Planting trees. | B.Designing posters. | C.Collecting garbage. |
A.Organize the campaign. |
B.Stop driving cars. |
C.Drive students to do activities. |
A.Repair lights. | B.Decorate classrooms. | C.Paint school boards. |
1. What kind of panda sleeps the most?
A.Adult pandas. | B.Sub-adult pandas | C.Baby pandas. |
A.By providing a more natural environment. |
B.By finding mates for them. |
C.By training their survival skills. |
A.Animal protection. | B.Pandas’living habits. | C.Different wild animals. |
3 . Imagine driving down a 10-lane highway and knowing that, high above your head, a mountain lion is quietly going along its way. This remarkable image could soon be the reality for drivers on one of California’s busiest roads, as the world’s largest wildlife overpass(天桥) begins construction in April.
The history-making project will comprise a green bridge built across the 101 highway near Los Angeles, creating a passage between two parts of the Santa Monica Mountains. The overpass will allow safe passage for lizards, snakes, mountain lions, etc. with an acre of local plants on either side and vegetated sound walls to dampen light and noise for night-time animals as they go across.
The project, nearly a decade in the making, comes at a crucial time. Beth Pratt, a conservation leader with the National Wildlife Federation, feels as if she is running the last mile of a marathon. Pratt has spent most of the last decade planning the project, persuading transportation officials of its importance, and bringing donors to fund it.
The project is breaking records in many ways: not only is it the largest crossing in the world, but it’s also an engineering wonder. Robert Rock, a landscape architect who led the design, says this nature-centered type of construction makes it unusual among other wildlife bridges and underpasses around the world, which are typically made of cement(水泥)and steel. This one is designed to integrate into the environment on both sides — and send a message to the people driving below.
About 300,000 cars pass through this area each day, and Pratt calls it an opportunity for millions of Angelenos to see how humans can live more harmoniously with nature.“Someone could be in rush-hour traffic, and there could be a mountain lion right above them,”she says. “I think that’s such a helpful image, and one that inspires me that we can right some of these great wrongs.”
1. Why is the overpass built?A.To attract visitors to watch the wildlife. |
B.To help animals cross over a highway. |
C.To bridge two mountains near Los Angeles. |
D.To allow more traffic during rush hours. |
A.It is a long journey. |
B.It comes a little late. |
C.It has little official support. |
D.It has brought economic benefits. |
A.It stands out among similar structures. |
B.It does harm to the local environment. |
C.It has got little attention from engineers. |
D.It has inspired constructions worldwide. |
A.It’ll transform the image of the state. |
B.It’ll provide pleasant habitats for animals. |
C.It’ll be a reminder for us to care about nature. |
D.It’ll create job opportunities for the local people. |
Maggie and Alex live in a tall building in a neighborhood in the center of the city. There are no trees near their building, but they are happy in their home and it is close to their jobs.
In the part of the city where they live, there is not much fresh food to buy. The stores only have processed foods in packages. Maggie and Alex and all the other people in the building have to eat food that they buy in boxes and plastic containers.
This makes so much garbage that no one knows where to put it. While they wait for Fridays, when the city collects the garbage, all the neighbors put their trash into bags and sometimes leave it in the hallway or on the big, sunny roof. The whole building looks terrible. No one can spend time playing on the roof because it is full of trash.
One day, Maggie and Alex decide to make a change. They go up to the roof and separate all the recycla-ble garbage, like cardboard, plastic bottles, glass, and aluminum cans. Then they take all of the garbage down to the street for the garbage collectors.
But they do not carry down the plastic bottles! They cut off the tops and use them as pots to plant tomatoes and carrots. They plant herbs, too.
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Maggie and Alex tell their neighbors about their project.
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Now the roof looks beautiful like a garden.
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6 . Along with the standard pigments(颜料)and paintbrushes,artist Sean Yoro(known as Hula), requires an unconventional piece of equipment for his particular brand of mural(壁画) making: a paddleboard.
The Hawaian muralist, balanced on the top of the floating platform, describes women from various sites across the world, whose homelands are often threatened by the effects of global warming.
For his most recent project, titled "What If You Fly", Hula traveled to Baffin Island, off the coast of Nunavut, Canada, to paint a portrait of local Inuit woman Jesse Mike, who lives there with her daughter.
In a short film telling of the artist's process, Mike explains her frustrating previous experiences working with filmmakers who reported on the terrible circumstances troubling her endangered landscape. "For most people, it's about the polar bears, it's not about the people. "she said. "Well, let's make it about the people. "
Hula and his team spent 14 hours searching for the perfect iceberg canvas(油画布),knowing all the while that the ice itself, and any image created on the top of it,would soon melt away into nothing.
"It's a little ambitious to do this larger than life ice mural in the Arctic, and somehow, at the same time, make a connection to the human culture, "climber and filmmaker Renan Ozturk said of the project.
When Hula found his proper ice, he painted a portrait of Jesse he took earlier on his camera. Working against the power of time and Mother Nature, the artist aimed to finish as much of Jesse's portrait as he could before the iceberg disappeared.
The massive image, Hula's most remote and technically challenging piece yet, communicates a memorable reality—the consequences of climate change, first and foremost, affect people.
1. What is "What If You Fly"?A.A film about the muralist. | B.A project conducted by Hula |
C.A painting based on a local Inuit. | D.A woman called Jesse Mike. |
A.They only reported on terrible circumstances. |
B.They didn't focus on human beings. |
C.They just reported on frustrating experiences. |
D.They showed no sympathy to the endangered landscape. |
A.He made an attempt to paint on varieties of materials. |
B.He was ambitious enough to explore Mother Nature. |
C.He warned people of the consequences of global warming. |
D.He wanted to show his unconventional painting. |
A.A Muralist and an Inuit |
B.Arctic Ice Painting, Memorable Reality |
C.Mother Nature, Massive Images |
D.Standard Tools, Unconventional Paintings |