1 . A student-led push to get solar panels installed at a middle school in Tacoma is receiving national recognition from a clean energy nonprofit organization called Generation 180. The girls involved are advocating and fundraising for the project.

Sammy Firkins, Gwen Newport and Annie Son will talk about their idea to generate solar electricity at Jason Lee Middle School in a panel discussion organized by Generation 180. In 2019, the three of them teamed up with their science teacher, Kathy Hall, to push for solar panels to be installed. Hall, who uses solar power at her own house, said it’s long been a dream of hers. The school would be the first in the Tacoma district to use solar energy.

The girls presented their idea to Gov. Jay Inslee’s STEM Education Innovation Alliance meeting in early 2019 and received enthusiastic support. They then spoke to the Tacoma school board and obtained buy-in from the district, though they were told the district did not have the roughly $ 200,000 for the 277 solar panels and that they would have to fundraise. They’ve since raised more than half that amount through grants and individual donations.

Gwen Newport said she’s always cared a lot about environmental issues and that she’s troubled that climate change does not get the attention it deserves. “At this point, I feel like it’s kind of been given to my generation almost as our responsibility now and so being able to be a part of this project and take action is really important to me,” she said.

The solar panels have not been installed at the school yet. But Hall said she estimates that the project will reduce the school’s power costs by about $ 14,000 a year, and that it also will serve an educational purpose. “We will have live data always streaming available so that people can see how the panels are working and how they relate to the amount of electricity we’re using, and it will be an incredible learning tool,” she said.

1. What is Generation 180?

A．It is the name of the girls’ team.

B．It is a project to use solar power.

C．It is a nonprofit environmental group.

D．It is a student-led push to install solar panels.

2. What is the third paragraph mainly about?

A．The girls raised enough money for the project.

B．The Tacoma school board rejected the project.

C．The girls made great efforts to fulfill the project.

D．The district covered the expenses of solar panels.

3. How does Gwen Newport feel about climate change?

A．Confident.

B．Concerned.

C．Relieved.

D．Content.

4. What is the main purpose of the project?

A．To advocate for donations.

B．To serve as a learning tool.

C．To protect the environment.

D．To cut down the school’s expenses.

2 . Help Hermit Crabs

Hermit crabs are nature’s recyclers. They eat waste and help keep oceans and shores clean. Unlike other crabs, the hermit crab has a thin outer shell over its soft tail. This makes the hermit crab easy prey for hungry predators. Hermit crabs stay safe by living in old seashells. A hermit crab is picky; it tries on many shells until it finds one that fits just right. In recent years, however, many hermit crabs have had trouble finding their perfect homes. What is the problems There are not enough shells to go around!

One reason for the seashell shortage is that ocean water is not as clean as it once was. This has caused chemical changes to sea water. Some sea animals, like snails, are affected by these changes. Now there are fewer snails making shells. People visiting the beach often take shells home as souvenirs. This is another problem. Other people even take shells for their own pet hermit crabs! They do not realize that hermit crabs in the wild need those shells too.

Now people are working to solve this hermit crab housing shortage. They are teaching beach-Boers to leave seashells where they belong — at the seashore! Some people even make fake seashells that they hope the hermit crabs will like. For example, a group called Project Shelter invited people who visited their website to create different designs for hermit crab shells.

These designers had a lot to consider. What kind of material should be used to build a seashells. The material must be light enough for the hermit crab to carry, but strong enough to protect the crab from predators. The man-made shells could not contain glue or any other substance that might harm a hermit crab. Another challenge with building a hermit crab home was the opening to the shell. Too big would mean the crab would not feel safe. Too small would be uncomfortable, and the crab would not want to move in.

The Project Shelter shells are placed in the wild for hermit crabs to find. Lucky hermit crabs can move into these new dream homes.

1. Where can hermit crabs stay safe?

A．In different old seashells.	B．Behind the waste they’ll eat.
C．In their own thin outer shells.	D．Under the stones at the seashore.

2. According to the passage, what should be put in the webs?

A．The methods to recycle the wastes.	B．The ways to help the hermit crabs.
C．The materials of seashells.	D．The designs of websites.

3. What does the underlined word “fake” in Para. 3 mean?

A．man-made

B．perfect

C．hard

D．comfortable

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A．The Project Shelter Group.	B．The shortage of the seashell.
C．New homes for hermit crabs.	D．The recyclers of the nature.

3 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

China has developed a technology that is able to transform desert lands into available soil. The technology    1    (develop) several years ago by researchers at Chongqing Jiaotong University. They invented a paste (黏合剂)    2    (make) of a material found in plant cell walls that, when mixed    3    sand, is able to keep water, nutrients and air.

According to CGTN (中国国际电视台), Chinese scientists have achieved success in growing crops in areas with bad conditions caused by lack of rain and    4    (extreme) hot temperatures. One particular area is in a desert in North China’s Inner Mongolia. Over 70 kinds of crops are growing there. Many are not planted by humans but they just grow    5    (they), And the costs of artificial materials and machines for transforming sand into soil is much    6    (low) compared with regular methods. Now, nearly 500 acres of sand is being turned into farms producing corn,    7    (tomato) and sunflowers. A reforestation (重造森林) project is also currently in progress,    8    is set to reforest 50% of desert land in three years.

Researchers are looking into expanding their project this fall, with    9    plan to transform another 500 acres of desert. In the next few years, the scientists are    10    (confidence) that they can turn over 30,000 acres more into rich ground.

4 . Every year, butterfly(蝴蝶) lovers in California go out in November to count monarch butterflies. They     1    (get) a worrying result from their fall monarch count in 2018—    2     number of monarchs had dropped by 86% since 2017.

The orange and black monarch butterflies are famous     3     their long migrations(迁徙)—they fly thousands of miles every year. In the spring and summer they fly north; in the fall they fly south again.

Monarchs, like most butterflies, are     4    (terrible) important for plants. They help create more plants by spreading pollen(花粉) between plants. In turn, monarchs depend on plants for food. And they depend completely on a plant called milkweed     5    (lay) their eggs.

But monarchs have been facing growing problems for years. As more and more wild land has been turned into large farms, the monarchs have had trouble     6    (find) enough milkweed. Many farms also use chemicals     7     will kill insects in order to protect their plants. These chemicals also affect monarchs. Besides, pollution has made milkweed less     8    (health) for the monarchs than it used to be.

Scientists say monarchs will be in danger of dying out in the next 20 years if nothing     9    (do) to save them.

    10    (thing) that people can do to help include planting milkweed, controlling the use of chemicals, protecting wild areas, and planting trees.

5 . If the three Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle) is a guideline to save the planet, garbage-sorting is where the   efforts start. Since May 1, Beijing has started to carry out mandatory garbage-sorting in new efforts to better protect the environment. Under the new regulation, residents are required to classify household waste into four categories: kitchen, recyclable, hazardous and other waste. People who fail to sort their garbage properly can be fined from 50 to 200 yuan, reported Xinhua.

Some residential communities in Beijing have introduced rewards to encourage residents to sort their garbage. According to Xinhua, residents can earn points by classifying their domestic waste correctly and then exchange the points they accumulate for daily necessities such as soap.

Garbage sorting practices have reached over 70 percent of housing estates in 18 cities, including Shanghai,     Xiamen and Hangzhou, according to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. Shanghai first enacted a mandatory garbage-sorting regulation in July 2019 and has had a 90 percent compliance (服从) rate among its housing estates.

According to a report by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, over 90 percent of the public believe that garbage-sorting is important for the protection of the environment. However, garbage-sorting is still a big problem in China. Only 30 percent of participants said they think they are completely sorting their waste, the report noted. According to Xinhua, it’s partly because many people lack the willingness to sort their own waste. Also, some previous garbage regulations didn’t include fines for people who failed to obey them.

“It’s a must to have a legal guarantee to promote garbage sorting,” Liu Jianguo, a professor from Tsinghua University, told China Daily, “Aside from China, many countries like Germany, Spain and Britain, also ask people to sort waste into specific categories. In Japan, there is a fixed time for the sorting of each kind of garbage and littering.”

1. What can we learn about the new regulation in Beijing?

A．It hasn’t been put into use yet.

B．Residents can sort the garbage as they like.

C．People can get money if they classify their domestic waste correctly.

D．Those who can’t sort the garbage as the new rule requires shall be fined.

2. What’s the problem in garbage sorting in China?

A．Most people are unaware of its importance in protecting environment.

B．Some people don’t want to take the trouble to sort the garbage.

C．Only residents in big cities can sort the trash correctly.

D．The government doesn’t have enough money to support garbage sorting.

3. What can we infer from Liu Jianguo’s words?

A．It’s difficult to carry out garbage sorting in China.

B．Some laws in garbage-sorting are needed.

C．People in developed countries can better sort the garbage.

D．We should learn from Japan.

4. What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Garbage sorting, a new start in China	B．New regulations in Beijing
C．Argument on garbage sorting	D．How to sort domestic garbage

6 . 假定你是李华，你的英国朋友Lucas就你校开展的以“建设绿色校园”为主题的环保周活动来信向你咨询相关情况，请你用英语给他回信，内容包括：
1. 环境保护的重要性；
2. 你在活动中的表现；
3. 你的感受。
注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Lucas,
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

7 . In the past five years, about 2.8 billion of school textbooks were sold per year, with total spending of 20 billion yuan ($3 billion), news magazine Outlook Weekly reported, citing data released recently by the National Press and Publication Administration.

If these textbooks are reused for one year, the costs saved can be used to help build around 40,000 Hope Schools in impoverished regions.

The figures show that in 2018, the number of retailed textbooks for primary and secondary schools was 2.93 billion copies, totaling 25.99 billion yuan. If all of them are reused, a total of over 20 billion yuan will be saved per year.

Zhao Dehua, in charge of a company recycling resources, said many college graduates sell the textbooks they have accumulated over the years at an average price of 1 yuan per kilogram. As these textbooks are mostly used to produce recycled paper, the cost is even higher than that of raw paper as the processing procedure of recycled paper is complicated.

At present, free textbooks related to music, art and P.E for the nine-year compulsory education have been reused, but account for less than a fraction of the total number of textbooks. Because of the supply chain obstruction, which increases the costs to match supply with demand, the lack of sound platform and service supporting system for the second-hand textbook trade, most of the textbooks used for compulsory education and higher education end up as waste.

“Every year, second-hand booksellers collect textbooks at a price of about 4,000 yuan a ton, which is more than twice the price of ordinary waste paper, but the number of people who come to collect second-hand books is still few,” Zhao Dehua said.

Besides, the incomplete policies and regulations might bring second-hand book sales platforms and sellers to legal risks.

“Establishing the system of textbook recycling can not only save resources, but also help to cultivate students’ consciousness and sense of responsibility,” said Zhu Pin, deputy head of a school of nine-year compulsory education in Jiangxi province. The school has set up a system for reusing the textbooks and the books are disinfected every week.

1. What can we learn from paragraph 4?

A．College students sell textbooks in order to make profits.

B．Recycled paper is mainly used for environmental considerations.

C．The cost of recycled paper is greater than that of raw paper.

D．Certain groups of collectors tend to choose second-hand textbooks.

2. What is the problem of reusing textbooks?

A．It is blocked because of lack of funds.

B．The supply of recycled textbooks is not adequate to meet the demand.

C．The regulation of second-hand textbooks has not been carried out yet.

D．A large number of second-hand textbooks are not used properly.

3. What measures does the school take to use the second-hand textbooks?

A．The school frees recycled textbooks from bacteria regularly.

B．The school proposes regulations for wasting second-hand textbooks.

C．The school calls on students to participate in the system of textbook recycling.

D．The school requests the government’s support.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Textbooks recycled for less waste

B．Recycled textbooks used for compulsory education

C．Reusing textbooks good for environment and wallet

D．Reusing textbooks good for collection

8 . 红旗社区针对本社区居民垃圾分类情况，计划于下周举行一次关于垃圾分类的讲座，请你代表社区写一封公开信，内容包括：
1 .垃圾分类的好处； 2.讲座具体时间和地点； 3.邀请居民参加。
注意：1. 词数80词左右；开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇:垃圾分类garbage classification
Dear sir or madam,

I' m writing this letter to call on attention to the community lecture concerning garbage classification.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours

Hongqi Community

9 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Every Wednesday at 7 pm, a group of running enthusiasts from different countries gather at a bar in Shanghai before setting     1     on their 5-kilometer run. But this is no ordinary run. These people     2     (arm) with trash (垃圾) bags. The members of this group don’t simply run for the sake of good health. They do it for the sake of the Earth     3    well.

Called “plogging”, this new fitness activity originated in Sweden in 2016 and was introduced to Shanghai in 2018. The term is a combination of the words “jogging” and “plocka upp”,     4     means “pick up” in Swedish.

By the summer of 2018, just a few months after Trash Running China was founded,     5     (it) WeChat group had grown to include more than 400 runners. To make the activity more fun for both     6     (newcomer) and regular ploggers, Trash Running China also     7     (frequent) organizes longer weekend runs in the suburban areas. “We want more people to hold small ‘plogging’ groups and have a     8     (responsible) to organize trash running activities in their own neighborhoods,” says Eisenring, who founded Trash Running China. “ ‘Plogging’ is a way     9     (know) the people and the city a bit more,” says Robbin Trebbe, one of the     10     (late) runners to join the group.

10 . C
The production of coffee beans is a huge, profitable business, but, unfortunately, full-sun production is taking over the industry and bringing about a lot of damage. The change in how coffee is grown from shade-grown production to full-sun production endangers the very existence of, certain animals and birds, and even disturbs the world’s ecological balance.
On a local level, the damage of the forest required by full-sun fields affects the area’s birds and animals. The shade of the forest trees provides a home for birds and other special(物种) that depend on the trees’ flowers and fruits. Full-sun coffee growers destroy this forest home. As a result, many special are quickly dying out.
On a more global level, the destruction of the rainforest for full-sun coffee fields also threatens(威胁)human life. Medical research often makes use of the forests' plant and animal life, and the destruction of such species could prevent researchers from finding cures for certain diseases. In addition, new coffee-growing techniques are poisoning the water locally, and eventually the world's groundwater.
Both locally and globally, the continued spread of full-sun coffee plantations (种植园)could mean the destruction of the rainforest ecology. The loss of shade trees is already causing a slight change in the world's climate, and studies show that loss of oxygen-giving trees also leads to air pollution and global warming. Moreover, the new growing techniques are contributing to acidic(酸性的) soil conditions.
It is obvious that the way much coffee is grown affects many aspects many aspects of life, from the local environment to the global ecology. But consumers do have a choice. They can purchase shade-grown coffee whenever possible, although at a higher cost. The future health of the planet and mankind is surely worth more than an inexpensive cup of coffee.
1. What can we learn about full-sun coffee production from Paragraph 4?

A．It limits the spread of new growing techniques.

B．It leads to air pollution and global warming.

C．It slows down the loss of shade trees.

D．It improves local soil conditions.

2. The purpose of the text is to        .

A．entertain

B．advertise

C．instruct

D．persuade

3. Where does this text probably come from ?

A．An agricultural magazine.

B．A medical journal.

C．An engineering textbook.

D．A tourist guide.

4. Which of the following shows the structure of the whole text?

A．	B．
C．	D．