增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2. 只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
When it come to the ocean, its pollution is becoming more and more serious. World Ocean Day, fall on June 8th, is aimed at raising aware of preserving the ocean.
The ocean plays a key role in our world. Not only does ocean offered us sufficient food, and it maintains the balance of nature. Thus, it is crucial for us preserve the ocean. First of all, place importance in our daily actions. For example, garbage can’t be thrown into the ocean.
What’s the more, we can also hand out booklets to call on more people to preserve the ocean. The more people are involved, the good the ocean environment is.
All in all, it is high time that we devoted ourselves to preserving the ocean. To preserve the ocean is to protect ourself.
2 . Unless action is taken immediately, there is a good chance that all the oceans of the world will be dead. How can this possibly happen?
We have already seen that people allow all sorts of waste products to flow into the sea. It is almost impossible to measure how much waste water and industrial waste end up in our oceans, but we can find out how much oil is poured into them legally and illegally. It is illegal to pour oil into the sea close to the shore, but when a ship is many miles out to sea there are no such rules. Scientists have different ideas as to the amount of oil put into the sea, but the lowest figure for oil poured in European waters alone is nearly 200,000 tons every year. Some people say the figure could be ten times as high.
It is not only our coasts that suffer from oil pollution. Among other things, many shell fish (creatures which live in water), and have a hard shell — oysters and mussels, for example — now have high amounts of poisonous substances. Next time you have shell fish to eat, how can you be sure that they are free from oil pollution? You cannot see the effects and you cannot taste them, either. It is really quite a problem.
1. This passage is mainly about_________.A.pollution in the oceans |
B.the amounts of oil in the sea |
C.the amounts of poison in shell fish |
D.oil pollution in the waters |
A.Oil ships which meet and strike each other. |
B.Oil poured at sea when the oil tanks are cleaned out. |
C.Oil coming out of the bottom of the sea. |
D.Oil from waste water and industrial waste. |
A.Pouring oil into the sea from land, especially when there is no other choice. |
B.Allowing waste materials to flow into the waters. |
C.Pouring oil at seaside. |
D.Going fishing when the water is polluted by oil. |
A.The seas around Europe and Africa. |
B.The Atlantic Ocean. |
C.The Arctic Ocean. |
D.The Black Sea and the Mediterranean mainly. |
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧ ),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:
1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Since last year, the haze (霜)weather had happened many times in my hometown, when it has done great harm to our life. What’s worse, many people have to see the doctor due with serious diseases caused by the haze.
People have realized the harm effects on their health and the importance of protect the environment. Measures have taken to reduce the haze. The government suggests each citizen goes to work by public transport.
As for me, I go to school by bike and on foot every day. Besides, I will tell the others to protect the environment, too. Now, it’s time for each of us to contribute to the environmental protection, doesn’t it?
4 . The essence (本质) of fast fashion is to make clothes inexpensively and quickly, to get new trends and styles into stores and online as soon as possible, and it comes at a high social and environmental cost. Keeping production costs low means they can make their clothes cheap, using cheap labour in unsafe working conditions, and in countries with bad environmental regulations.
Throw-away culture is deeply rooted in our society; three in five of our clothing pieces are thrown out within a year. Fast fashion brands keep the consumers hungry and feeling like they need more by attracting them with newness and convincing the consumers that they need what they’re selling. This only results in increasing textile waste as people no longer want but throw it away.
Criticisms of the fast fashion industry include its negative environmental impact: water pollution, the use of toxic (有毒的) chemicals and increasing levels of textile waste. Textile dyeing is the second largest polluter of clean water globally, after agriculture. Fast fashion companies rely on their products being made cheaply and quickly, so they avoid talking when it comes to being aware of their impact on the environment. Greenpeace’s recent Detox Campaign showed that many brands use toxic and dangerous chemicals in their supply chains, and many of the chemicals are either banned or strictly controlled in lots of countries.
In conclusion, the fast fashion industry has a bad effect on our environment through fast fashion brands’ ecological practices and only continues to make the problem last for a long time in the future through extreme consumerist culture. In order for change to happen, the common people need to open their eyes and take measures to prevent the fast fashion from growing.
1. What’s one of the characteristics of fast fashion?A.Causing a lot of anxiety. | B.Making people buy old clothes. |
C.Selling most clothes through stores. | D.Producing clothes quickly. |
A.They are mainly sold online. | B.They are made in unsafe countries. |
C.They are made by cheap labour. | D.They save the cost of advertising. |
A.Natural. | B.Surprising. | C.Absurd. | D.Puzzling. |
A.Changing fast fashion brands’ working conditions. |
B.Changing clothes stores’ sales model. |
C.Introducing stricter laws for factories. |
D.Raising public awareness of preventing fast fashion. |
5 . Around the world, people are realizing the significant problems caused by plastic waste. In the last 65 years, we have become increasingly dependent on plastic. It’s easy to understand why: it’s cheap to produce, light — therefore easy and cheap to transport — and incredibly strong and durable.
One popular solution to the problem is to prohibit single use plastics. In the British supermarkets, shoppers are encouraged to make more environmentally-friendly choices in packing and transporting their food.
However, such plans may not be beneficial to eliminate (消除) the use of single-use plastic altogether.
Another issue is that alternative materials to plastic are often more environmentally harmful than plastic. Take paper bags, for example.
Clearly there is a need to reduce plastic waste and its impact on the environment.
A.But it’s these advantages that also make it so harmful. |
B.They are very fragile and rarely reusable, unlike plastic. |
C.One of the fields where single-use plastic has a vital role is medicine. |
D.However, simply banning their single use may not be the best option. |
E.It also boosts the local economy and save costs in managing littering and waste. |
F.Bans on single-use plastic items like drinking straws are also coming into place. |
G.According to a research, they require four times more energy when produced than a plastic bag. |
6 . Drive through any suburb in the US today, and it’s hard to miss the bins that have become companions to America’s trash cans. Recycling has become commonplace, as people recognize the need to care for the environment. Yet most people’s recycling consciousness extends only as far as paper, bottles, and cans. People seldom find themselves facing the growing problem of e-waste.
E-waste rapidly increases as the techno-fashionable frequently upgrade to the most advanced device and the majority of them end up in landfills(垃圾填埋地). Some people who track such waste say that users throw away nearly 2 million tons of TVs, VCRs, computers, cell phones, and other electronics every day. Unless we can find a safe replacement, this e-waste may get into the ground and poison the water with dangerous toxins(毒素), such as lead, mercury, and arsenic. Burning the waste also dangerously contaminates the air.
However, e-waste often contains reusable silver, gold, and other electrical materials. Recycling these materials reduces environmental problems by reducing both landfill waste and the need to look for such metals, which can destroy ecosystems.
A growing number of states have adopted laws to ban dumping(倾倒)e-waste. Still, less than a quarter of this waste will reach lawful recycling programs. Some companies advertising safe disposal(处置)in fact merely ship the waste to some developing countries, where it still ends up in landfills. These organizations prevent progress by unsafely disposing of waste in an out-of-sight, out-of-mind location.
However, the small but growing number of cities and corporations that do handle e-waste responsibly represents progress toward making the world a cleaner, better place for us all.
1. What can we infer from the first paragraph?A.Most of America’s trash cans are made of recycled material. |
B.E-waste cannot be put into trash cans in the US. |
C.Most Americans have realized the dangers of e-waste. |
D.Many Americans now have access to recycling bins. |
A.reduce. | B.heat. | C.absorb. | D.pollute. |
A.Progress is being made in handling e-waste. |
B.A growing number of states ship the e-waste to developing countries. |
C.A large number of cities have begun to handle e-waste responsibly. |
D.The world will become cleaner by disposing of waste in an out-of-sight location. |
A.To tell us how to recycle e-waste. |
B.To talk about the future of e-waste. |
C.To encourage us to deal with e-waste properly, |
D.To discuss if it’s necessary to recycle e-waste. |
7 . The idea of turning recycled plastic bottles into clothing is not new. During the last five years, a large number of clothing companies, businesses and environmental organizations have started turning plastics into fabric to deal with plastic pollution. But there’s a problem with this method. Research now shows that microfibers could be the biggest source of plastic in the sea.
Dr. Mark Browne in Santa Barbara, California, has been studying plastic pollution and microfibers for 10 years now. He explains that every time synthetic clothes go into a washing machine, a large number of plastic fibers fall off. Most washing machines can’t collect these microfibers. So every time the water gets out of a washing machine, microfibers are entering the sewers and finally end up in the sea.
In 2011, Browne wrote a paper stating that a single piece of synthetic(合成的) clothing can produce more than 1, 900 fibers per wash. Browne collected samples from seawater and freshwater sites around the world, and used a special way to examine each sample. He discovered that every single water sample contained microfibers.
This is bad news for a number of reasons. Plastic can cause harm to sea life when eaten. Studies have also shown that plastic can absorb other pollutants.
Based on this evidence, it may seem surprising that companies and organizations have chosen to turn plastic waste into clothing as an environmental “solution.” Even though the science has been around for a while, Browne explains that he's had a difficult time getting companies to listen. When he asked well-known clothing companies to support Benign by Design-his research project that seeks to get clothes that have a bad effect on humans and the environment out of the market, Browne didn’t get a satisfying answer. Only one women’s clothing company, Eileen Fisher, offered Browne funding.
1. What has happened during the past five years?A.Fabric has become much stronger. | B.Plastic pollution has been less serious. |
C.Many plastic bottles have been reused. | D.Microfibers have been greatly improved. |
A.It is adding microfibers to the clothes. |
B.It is worsening environmental problems. |
C.It is making synthetic clothes last longer. |
D.It is doing great damage to washing machines. |
A.It has achieved great success. | B.It hasn’t got anything done. |
C.It is known to very few people. | D.It is facing some difficulties. |
A.It’s important to learn to recycle |
B.It’s never easy to solve pollution problems |
C.Recycled plastic clothing: solution or pollution? |
D.Are human beings moving forward or backward? |
8 . Engineers have put a huge garbage collector to gather plastic material in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, the world's largest spread of garbage, twice the size of the state of Texas.
The Ocean Cleanup organization created the collector. The group's founder, Boyan Slat, an inventor born in 1994, was just 16 when he was moved to clean up the oceans when he was on a dive and saw more plastic bags than fish
Last Saturday, a ship pulling the pipe-shaped floating barrier left San Francisco. Attached to it is a screening skirt that hangs three meters down in the water. The screen is designed to collect the plastic as it moves through the water. Sea animals can safely swim under the barrier
The cleanup system also comes with lights powered by the sun, cameras, and other special devices, so the system can communicate its position at all times. That way a support ship can find it every few months to remove the plastic that has been collected.
Shipping containers will hold all the plastic gathered , including bottles and fishing equipment and are expected to be back on land within a year. Then the plastic will be recycled. The free-floating barriers are made to survive extreme weather conditions and damage from continual use. They will stay in the water for twenty years , thus collecting 90% ofthe garbage in the area.
The Ocean Cleanup has received $ 35 million in donations to pay for the project, hoping to put 60 free-floating barriers in the Pacific Ocean by 2020. "It's important to turn off the taps on plastic entering the ocean, but I also think people can do more than one thing at a time to deal with this problem," Slat said.
1. What drove Slat to invent the collector?A.The interest in invention. |
B.His failure to dive due to rubbish. |
C.The sight of too many plastic bags. |
D.His knowledge ofgarbage in the Pacific Ocean. |
A.It reaches into the water to collect the plastic. |
B.It has large containers to produce power. |
C.It forms barriers to protect sea animals. |
D.A ship drags it along in the ocean. |
A.The support ship. |
B.The floating barrier. |
C.The plastic to be recycled. |
D.The position of special devices. |
A.Sending more collectors into the ocean. |
B.Inventing more ocean cleanup devices. |
C.Stopping plastic from entering the ocean. |
D.Banning the use ofplastic bags in boats. |