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修改: 在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词的下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均限一词。
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John went shopping in a store, and he forgot to bring a bag. So he buys a shopping bag. After arriving home, it occurred him that he could make a bag by using his old trousers. Several hours late, he made himself a very nice bag. His mother was amazing at what he had done. Avoiding spending money unnecessary is a way of saving. And making a good use of things is an approach to protect the environment. What’s more, it is helpful for us to improve the ability to make thing by hand. It not only brings us pleasure but reduce waste around us.
2 . A man from Ivory Coast has found a creative way to repurpose (稍加改动) footwear that washes up on the beach-he turns it into artwork.
Aristide Kouame is a 26-year-old artist. But he says no one would know this when they see him going around beach areas picking up flip-flops (人字拖) and other kinds of footwear. They probably think he is gathering the old objects to sell on the street. But Kouame has recognized the real value of such waste. He has created artworks from the material that can sell for up to $1,000. He cuts the rubber and plastic bottoms from the footwear into pieces and uses them to create largo collages (拼贴画).
“This is the rubbish people have thrown into the sea and the sea brings it back to us because it doesn’t want it,” Kouame told Reuters News Agency. He was collecting material from a beach in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s economic and cultural capital. “I make art from used shoes. It’s a way to give Life to the objects that litter the beaches,” the artist explained.
Sitting on the floor of a narrow street, Kouame creates shapes, letters and faces with the rubber pieces he picked up on the beach. His method is not costly and does not harm the environment. Plastic and other waste-including large amounts of lost flip-flops-litter most city beaches in West Africa. The waste is thrown away in cities and carried out to sea. But a lot of it ends up on the beach later.
In just a few years, Kouame’s methods have caught the attention of Ivory Coast’s art establishment and his works have hung in galleries in Ivory Coast and in oilier countries. His works have included large portraits of civil rights and political leaders such as Nelson Mandela. Other pieces were created to draw attention to world problems, including climate change, COVID-19 and economic inequality.
The United Nations estimates that about 13 million tons of plastic waste is put into the world’s oceans each year. Two of Africa’s biggest waste producers, Ghana and Nigeria, share the same Atlantic coastal areas as the beach where Kouame searches for supplies. For his part, Kouame says he plans to keep collecting and creating. “My goal is to get people lo question the issue of their environment, in order to create a better life.”
1. Where does Kouame create his artworks?| A．On a beach in Abidjan. | B．In galleries in Ivory Coast. |
| C．On the floor of a narrow street. | D．In the coastal areas shared by Ghana and Nigeria. |
| A．Making money by selling his artworks. |
| B．Arousing people’s environmental awareness. |
| C．Purposing footwear that washes up on the beach. |
| D．Catching the attention of Ivory Coast’s art establishment. |
| A．Kouame collects used items to sell on the street. |
| B．Kouame has drawn a large portrait of Nelson Mandela. |
| C．Plastic and other waste litter everywhere in West Africa. |
| D．Tons of waste is thrown into the world's oceans annually. |
| A．Amazing Artworks Made of Rubbish |
| B．A Creative Way to Get Rid of Rubbish |
| C．Aristide Kouame, Waste Collector from Ivory Coast |
| D．Ivory Coast Man Turning Old Flip-Flops into Artworks |
3 . China will establish coordination（协调）mechanisms at both regional and national levels to promote coordinated efforts to protect the country’s longest waterway, according to the newly passed Yangtze River Protection Law, the nation’s first such legislation.
Adopted on Saturday after a third review by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress—the country’s top legislature, the law states that a national mechanism will guide and coordinate Yangtze conservation work in accordance with the principle of “promoting well-coordinated enviromnental conservation and avoiding excessive development”.
Aside from deliberating（审议）on major protection policies and planning, the mechanism will also conduct coordination, of major transregional and departmental issues, as well as supervise and inspect the completion of major Yangtze conservation work, according to the law, which will take effect on March 1.
Governments of the 19 provincial-level regions in the river basin, including Jiangxi and Hubei provinces and Shanghai, will draft local laws, regulations and planning in a coordinated manner. These regions will also cooperate with each other in rolling out supervision and law enforcement measures to create coordination to systematically protect and develop the entire Yangtze basin.
Drafted in accordance with local characteristics of the basin and its outstanding issues, the law aims to “promote green transformation of economic and social development in all respects in the Yangtze basin and realize harmonious coexistence of people and nature”, said Wang Ruihe, an official with the NPC Standing Committee’s Legislative Affairs Commission. “Yangtze protection work is multifaceted（多方面的）and complicated,” Wang said. In addition to central and local governments, work needs to coordinate different reaches of the river, industries and laws, Wang added.
The new legislation also imposes various bans and restrictions on activities with environmental dangers and introduces heavier punishments for violations.
1. Why will coordination mechanisms be established?| A．To pass the Yangtze River Protection Law. |
| B．To protect the Yangtze River. |
| C．To improve the coordinated efforts. |
| D．To ensure regional harmony. |
| A．They will supervise each other in a coordinated manner. |
| B．They plan to regulate the manner of coordination. |
| C．They will cooperate with each other in all aspects. |
| D．They will develop an inspection system for the entire Yangtze basin. |
| A．The law will promote all aspects of economical development. |
| B．The law will promote ecological harmony in the Yangtze basin. |
| C．The law will promote the steady transformation of society. |
| D．The law will promote the coexistence of living things in nature. |
| A．What activities will be punished. |
| B．What reaches of coordinate are needed for protection. |
| C．How these local governments cooperate. |
| D．How the law affects the local environment. |
4 . The LEGO Group, whose plastic building toys are familiar to many people, has been working on making LEGO bricks out of recycled plastic. The bricks aren't ready yet, but the company says it's making progress.
Since roughly 1960, LEGO bricks have been made from ABS plastic which makes LEGO bricks very tough and gives them great clutch power so that the things users build don't fall apart easily. Sadly, ABS plastic can't really be recycled and it takes an extremely long time to break down.
However, since 2015, LEGO has been trying to make earth-friendly products. Making bricks from recycled materials could cut pollution from the company's bricks by 70%. But making bricks out of recycled plastic is challenging. The goal is to make bricks out of PET plastic, which is softer than ABS plastic and can be found in things like bottles and clothing. A recycled one-liter plastic bottle could make about ten 2×4 LEGO bricks. Over the past three years, the company has tested over 250 different ways of creating LEGO bricks from recycled plastic. A team of more than 150 people are working on the problem. Tim Brooks,who focuses on environmental responsibility at LEGO, says that experimenting and failing is “an important part of learning”.
Now, the company says they can make a good 2×4 brick from PET. One important step was finding a way of adding things to PET plastic to make it tougher and give it better clutch power like ABS. They will also work on shaping bricks into other forms and adding color to them-right now they are just white. The bricks will go through many different tests, which will take at least a year.
The company aims to make all their main products out of sustainable materials by the year 2030. “We know kids care about the environment and we want to tell them we're working on it.” said Mr. Brooks.
1. Which of the following can best describe LEGO bricks made from ABS plastic?| A．Strong and firm. |
| B．Recyclable and soft. |
| C．Cheap and familiar. |
| D．Popular and new. |
| A．Because the company wants to show that it's making progress. |
| B．Because this has always been LEGO's goal since its foundation. |
| C．Because using PET plastic bricks can reduce pollution to the earth. |
| D．Because PET plastic bricks are much softer and cheaper. |
| A．LEGO has found a way to make colorful PET plastic bricks. |
| B．It's not necessary to put things into PET plastic to make it tough. |
| C．A lot of tests have been carried out and there will be more tests. |
| D．Children keep asking the company to replace ABS plastic bricks. |
| A．LEGO becomes a leading toy company |
| B．LEGO works to make bricks from recycled plastic |
| C．LEGO recycles plastic toy bricks to protect the environment |
| D．LEGO makes the best of ABS plastic to reduce cost |
5 . In most parts of the world, many students help their schools make less pollution. They join “environment clubs”. In an environment club, people work together to make our environment clean.
● No-garbage lunches. How much do you throw away after lunch? Environment clubs ask students to bring their lunches in bags that can be used again. Every week they will choose the classes that make the least garbage and report them to the whole school!
● No-car day. On the no-car day, nobody comes to school by car--not the students and not the teachers! Cars give pollution to the air, so remember:
Walk, jump, bike or run.
Use your legs! It’s lots of fun!
● Turn off the water! Did you know that some toilets can waste twenty to forty m3 of water an hour? In a year that would fill a small river! In environment clubs, students mend those broken toilets.
We love our environment. Let’s work together to make it clean.
1. Environment clubs ask students ________.| A．not to forget to take cars | B．to go to school by car every day |
| C．not to throw away lunch bags | D．to do exercise every day |
| A．much water | B．a lot of money | C．a long river | D．a toilet |
| A．walk to school every day | B．help teachers |
| C．bring their lunches in bags | D．make less pollution |
6 . Recycling plastic has always been a stop-start effort, and the wide variety of plastics we produce, the pollution from waste, and other limitations make recycling an economic(经济) problem. It’s estimated(估计)only 9% of plastic ever created has been recycled. But with the help of a chemical process, Canadian Miranda Wang and her company BioCellection want to change that.
Stability is one of plastic greatest qualities and downside. There's limited evidence that some plastics can biodegrade (生物降解)but largely photo-plastics degrade in the sun. It’s a long process, and the truth is that we can only estimate how long it takes. Wang is looking to break the inaction and BioCellection's task is to make most plastic waste recyclable.
She outlines two current methods. One is to take plastics like water bottles, wash them, cut them, melt and reconstitute them. “That's a very limited process” she says, due to the requirement that plastics be “clean” . The other, which can handle dirtier plastics and a level of pollution, is called hydrolysis(热解). Intense heat is applied to break down plastics so they can be reused as oils for energy, but “it’s not economical,’’ she says.
BioCellection’s solution builds on research from over ten years ago, Wang explains, when a US study discovered pure polyethylene powder (聚乙烯粉)could be broken down by a catalyst (催化剂). Wang and her co-founder Jean hit upon a bacterium being able to eat plastic. In the years since, they engineered a comparable catalyst capable of doing the same job, only faster, which even works on plastics no one else can recycle at present. “We have now found a catalyst that is much cheaper than the one that was used before, Wang says.
Currently focusing on plastic films like shopping hags, the three-hour process breaks clown plastic into chemicals that can act as the building blocks for more complex plastic products.
“Right now we’re able to achieve about 70% transformation from plastic waste material to these chemicals,” she adds, saying they’re working to increase that figure.
1. Why has so little plastic been recycled?| A．Plastic is chemically stable. | B．Recycling plastic led to pollution. |
| C．We produced various plastics. | D．Most photo-plastics degrade in the sun. |
| A．Highly effective and dynamic. | B．Expensive and pollution-causing. |
| C．Limited and energy-consuming. | D．Widely used and recognized. |
| A．Polyethylene powder. | B．Chemical products. |
| C．Plastic films. | D．A catalyst. |
| A．Miranda Wang and her company. | B．A new plastic recycling method. |
| C．The greatest downside of plastic. | D．Transformation of plastic waste. |
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Dear editor,
I’m Li Hua. Nowadays, the earth is becoming warmer and warm. In my opinion, global warming is harmful to the earth or us human beings. If the earth is becoming warmer, the sea level rise by several meters. What’s worse, extreme weathers such as severe storms, floods, droughts and so on will appear frequent. In addition to, diseases will spread and many species may disappear. In your daily life, we should walk, ride a bike or take a bus instead of driving a car, that will contribute to reducing the level of carbon dioxide. This is also important to recycle materials to reduce pollution. Only in this way can we prevent the earth from become warmer.
Yours,
Li Hua
8 . This summer, many areas of the US have been suffering historic droughts (干旱). Climate change has brought very high temperatures and less-than-normal rain and snow to the country.
Although the region is a tropical rainforest, Tikal was built in a place that got little rain for half the year. Additionally, it had no year round lakes or river—although it did have an important spring. The Maya also did not have a system to reach groundwater.
“As Tikal grew, people there would have had to cut down parts of the surrounding rainforest to raise food.
The Maya would have used cut-and-burn techniques and let the forest grow back after a few years.
Although the Maya changed the environment with their farming and other practices, they had much less impact on the climate than we do now. The Maya understood that they have to have balance.
| A．If you abuse the world, it's going to come back |
| B．At the same time, they left enough of it in place |
| C．So they built tanks to collect and store rainwater |
| D．They would have served different, important purposes |
| E．That means there is less water to drink and less water for crops |
| F．Tikal was home to tens of thousands of people during the years 600 to 800 |
| G．Thousands of years ago, the Maya people suffered from the same problems |
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Would you like to be a greener person to protect our environment? Here was some advice. You should reduce waste you produce daily. You can use all sides of the paper and collecting the drinking bottles. Remember to sort the waste so that it can be well recycle. It would be better for you turn off the power in your house when you go out. Instead of driving your car everywhere, you can save energy by either walking nor riding a bike. Beside, take a bag along when shopping to avoid using too many plastic bag. Last but not least, never spit in the public. It is real easy to be an eco-friendly person.
10 . Raising a baby takes a lot of work, especially when that baby is a king penguin. Now, it looks like climate change will make life even harder for these birds. A new study suggests that warmer waters could make their numbers decrease.
Most king penguins live on the Crozet Archipelago, about 1, 000 miles north of Antarctica. After the penguin chicks are born in November, which is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, both parents spend 4 months collecting fish to feed their babies. When the fish move to deeper waters in March, the adults leave their chicks alone for months and swim hundreds of miles south. There, near the Antarctic ice, they spend the winter eating seafood to add to their own energy stores. In October, the parents return to their home.
Scientists from France have been studying king penguins for more than a decade. Starting in 2008, Yvon Le Maho and his partners put electronic(电子的) ID cards under the skin of hundreds of penguins. These are the same type of cards you might put in your dogs or cats so that you can track them. The cards have allowed researchers to get everything about penguins, such as how long they live, whether they return from their winter trips, and if their babies manage to survive the winter.
Ocean surface temperatures vary from year to year. To see whether water temperatures affect the penguins, Le Maho compared his data with temperature records. Previous research had shown that fewer fish and other creatures grew when the water was warmer. Le Maho suspected(怀疑) that this drop would make it harder for adult penguins to survive the hard times ahead. Indeed, his results showed that fewer adults survived during winters when the water was especially warm.
King penguins can live for up to 30 years. And for now, the population still appears healthy. But a warming trend(趋势) could spell big trouble for a bird that depends on cold and ice.
1. When do adult penguins most probably stay with their babies?| A．In April. | B．In July. | C．In August. | D．In December. |
| A．King penguins. | B．Your dogs or cats. |
| C．Electronic ID cards. | D．Scientists from France. |
| A．Harmful. | B．Unimportant. | C．Helpful. | D．Unknown. |
| A．To introduce penguins' daily life. |
| B．To call on the protection of baby penguins. |
| C．To present a study of penguins' raising babies. |
| D．To warn us about the climate change affecting penguins. |
