1 . People are increasingly wearing gloves and masks in public, in order to protect themselves and reduce the spread of COVID-19 (新冠病毒). Obviously, though, those gloves and masks need to come with proper disposal (处理) directions.

To bring awareness to the current problem, Algarra started a campaign , TheGloveChallenge. “If you see a glove, snap a shot,” Since launching the campaign on March 23, Alagarra said they’ve received over 700 pictures from people all over the United States and in other countries including Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Canada and Japan.

Everywhere you look in America, it seems, there are discarded gloves and masks in streets and parking lots, left behind by people who couldn’t be bothered to find a nearby trash bin. It got so bad in New York City over the weekend, that Ryan McKenzie, who lives in Manhattan, began cleaning it up. “I couldn’t believe what I saw so I went to the store and bought a grabber to pick them up. It’s hateful and needs to be brought to people’s attention. "

After receiving so many reports of gloves and masks left behind in Parsippany, New Jersey, the local police department issued a warning: “ Clean up and properly deal with your used gloves and wipes. If you do not, you can be charged and fined up to $ 500.”

Of course, it shouldn’t take a heavy fine to encourage people to clean up after themselves. There are quite a few reasons why leaving your gloves behind is among the worst things you can do during this pandemic. If the used gloves have the virus on them, you could infect essential workers (一线工人). The concern that led you to put on gloves in the first place shouldn’t be reserved for you and your family; you should be just as concerned about others getting corona virus, too.

1. What is the purpose of the campaign?

A．To praise Algarra’s generous behavior.	B．To collect as many pictures as possible.
C．To get recognition from other countries.	D．To raise people’s awareness of the problems.

2. What does the underlined word “discarded” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Worn-out.

B．Newly-bought.

C．Thrown-away.

D．Highly-praised.

3. What can we infer from the fifth paragraph?

A．We should show concern for others’ health.

B．Facial masks should be worn in a proper way.

C．More gloves should be set aside for future use.

D．Essential workers can suffer CO VID-19 easily.

4. What is probably the best title of the text?

A．TheGloveChallenge, a Campaign Dealing with Viruses

B．Stop Throwing Used Gloves and Masks on the Ground

C．Used Gloves and Masks Do Harm to the Environment

D．Ryan McKenzie, the First Man to Pick up Masks & Gloves

2 . The next time you are tempted to order takeout or buy food and drinks on the go, you might want to hold off. The results of a major new study may be enough to startle you to adjust your consumption habits, as they reveal significant amounts of global plastic litter linked to takeout food products.

The study analyzed 12 million pieces of litter collected from oceans and rivers, shorelines, the sea floor, and open waters. Researchers found that 80% of items were plastic, and nearly half (44%) was related to takeout food and drinks — specifically, single-use bags, plastic bottles, food containers, and food wrappers. Other items included plastic caps and lids and disposable cutting tools. Lead study author Dr. Carmen Morales said, “I was shocking to find out that bags, bottles, food containers and cutting tools together with wrappers account for almost half of the human-made objects on a global scale.” Deserted fishing nets and ropes were another problem researchers noted, although more so in the open ocean, not along or near shorelines.

Based on their analysis, the researchers made three suggestions: 1) Replace takeout food and drink containers with materials that are more readily biodegradable; 2) introduce bans on avoidable plastics: and 3) use deposit refund schemes to incentivize reusable products.

Until that day comes, however, it’s up to us as consumers to change the way we choose products in order to avoid unnecessary plastic packaging — and there is an better time to get started than now, as Plastic-Free July kicks off. If you have not yet heard of it, Plastic-Free July is an annual month-long challenge to reduce one’s use of single-use plastic and to discover alternatives to purchasing, consuming, and transporting food (among other items). Keeping this new study in mind, here are some practical suggestions for reducing takeout-related single-use plastics in one’s day-to-day life.

1. What does the underlined word “startle” probably mean?

A．Guarantee.

B．Prohibit.

C．Stimulate.

D．Promise.

2. How do the researchers conduct the study?

A．By analyzing the data.	B．By performing experiments.
C．By doing questionnaires.	D．By comparing the impact.

3. What may be talked about in the following paragraph?

A．Things we should do properly.	B．Ways to buy reusable products.
C．Further study made by researchers.	D．The impact of Plastic-Free July.

4. What may be the best title-for the text?

A．Ordering Takeout has Become a Trend	B．Thrown Wastes Do Harm to the Ocean
C．We should Form Right Consumption Habits	D．Plastic Waste from Takeout Is a Big Problem

3 . In Song of the Whale, an installation at the Yukon Arts Centre, Joyce Majiski shared the story of a one-year old humpback whale(座头鲸) who died after she was caught in a fishery rope.

In the centre of the show is an eight-metre-long model of the baby whale’s skeleton(骨架),   each bone carved(雕刻) from Styrofoam(聚苯乙烯泡塑料) collected from the ocean and beaches.

“Water is the one thing that connects us all --–we’re a planet of water---and we have a lot of disrespect for it.”

“There are a lot of things that we have done to contribute to the death of these creatures. Again, we need to pay attention to what we’re doing. If we thought about how connected we are as creatures on this planet, maybe we’d do things a little differently,” Majiski said.

Speaking of starting to set up the project, she describes it as “despairing.” Eventually, the search for an intact(完无缺的) whale skeleton that would allow the study of individual bones led her to Salt Spring Island. There, Majiski studied each bone of the young humpback whale, first in sketch (素描) form and then by carving models from collected Styrofoam.

The majority of the Styrofoam came from the Ocean Legacy Foundation, a non-profit that does ocean cleanups. The organisation says over 6.5 million tons of rubbish enter the world’s ocean each year. When degrading (降解) in the ocean, Styrofoam breaks down into small particles that can be eaten by ocean animals.

It is also messy material to work with as an artist.

"The Styrofoam looks really awful. It’s all big pieces that are black and crumbly(易碎的). They’ve been floating around in the ocean and degrading and washed up on shore.

“It’s really dirty and crumbly and I didn’t want to breathe any in as I carved. I mean, I wore a mask all the time and coveralls and gloves. I was cleaning myself and everything every hour or so depending on how much I was carving,” said Maiiski.

In total, Majiski carved 177 pieces.

1. What is Majiski’s purpose in holding the show?

A．To get people to think about ocean pollution.

B．To show the artistic attraction of carving.

C．To call on people to reduce fish catches.

D．To encourage the recycling of waste.

2. Why did Majiski go to Salt Spring Island?

A．To spend a holiday.

B．To study where whales are found.

C．To look for a suitable whale skeleton.

D．To raise money for animal protection.

3. What does the underlined word "It" in paragraph 7 refer to?

A．Styrofoam.	B．The baby whale.
C．Working with plastics.	D．Carving the whale s skeleton.

4. How can Majiski's carving work be described?

A．It was quick and smooth.	B．It was slow but interesting.
C．It was boring and depressing.	D．It was difficult but meaningful.

4 . With the outbreak of the COVID-19, multiple kinds of protective medical equipment, such as disposable(一次性的)masks, have been consumed. Market research indicates a sharp increase rate of 53% in the mask market alone. People often use these types of protective equipment and then throw them without thinking of the consequences, both on the ecosystem and human beings.

Disposable surgical masks are severely affecting the ecosystem. When improperly-handled masks enter the water system, they break up into smaller pieces. Complete masks can trap marine animals, resulting in their impaired mobility and even death. Meanwhile, the poisonous plastic particles will cause marine animals to be poisoned to death or weakness when they consume plastic. Furthermore, these harmful pollutants can severely affect reproduction, growth, and the development of the young. Just like their effects on marine animals, these pollutants can also contribute to severe harm in human bodies, especially in the neuron system. Exposure to micro plastics may cause particle poisoning, cellular damage and neuro-degenerative (神经退化的) diseases like Alzheimer’s disease(阿尔茨海默症).

Despite the potential harm to the ocean system and human neuron system, improperly-handled disposable masks will likely become a dangerous public health threat under the environment of a global pandemic. Instead of helping us fight against the COVID-19, to some extent, micro plastic pollution also causes the potential risk of speeding up the spread of the virus. Micro plastic particles in the ocean can be mixed up with water vapour to form aerosols in the atmosphere because they are small enough to enter the water cycle, where they are transferred from the marine system to the atmosphere in vast amounts and become a source for the disease COVID-19. thus causing the virus to speed up the spread of the global pandemic.

Humans will eventually suffer from the wrongdoing in the ocean systems because humans are nothing but temporary residents of the planet. Just like what the famous English anthropologist, Jane Goodall, has said, “Every individual matters. Every individual makes a difference.”

1. The underlined word “impaired” in paragraph 2 probably means“_________”.

A．strengthened	B．damaged
C．completed	D．influenced

2. The improperly-handled masks lead to following outcomes EXCEPT_________.

A．the impact on marine lives’ reproduction, growth and weakness

B．the destruction to human’s neuron system, cellular system

C．the huge economic loss for people living near the sea

D．the great burden of micro plastic particles on ecosystem

3. The main idea of paragraph 3 is_________.

A．to describe the negative effects of disposed masks on nature and human beings.

B．to advise readers to deal with the improperly-handled masks.

C．how the improperly-handled masks help spread the virus.

D．how to deal with the virus.

4. What is the purpose of this article?

A．To explain a serious phenomenon caused by the virus.

B．To advocate a proper solution to solving the disposable masks.

C．To compare the sufferings between marine animals and human beings.

D．To analyze the harmful results of the improperly-handled masks.

5 . 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。

Last month Hong Kong officers found 131,000 kilograms of broken computers, TVs and phones     1     (send) from Japan.

Things like these are called ewaste. Dealing with them is not     2     easy job because dangerous poison can be found in them. Every time an old computer breaks down, it needs to be dealt with     3     (safe). What is worse, at present, broken computer parts are usually buried. It may be     4     (hundred) of years before they are really gone in the earth. Many places in China are polluted by ewaste. Guiyu in Guangdong province is one of     5     (they). It has to deal with 1. 5 million kilograms of ewaste each year, from     6     it makes 75 million yuan. But it comes     7     a cost. Much of the poison in ewaste finds its way into the environment

Luckily, the Chinese government presents a new environmental protection law, the     8     (strict) one we have ever had. Computer companies like Lenovo and Dell will be required     9     (take) back their old computers. Hopefully, the problem with ewaste     10     (solve) in the near future.

6 . Carbon dioxide makes up less than one percent of the Earth’s atmosphere. But the gas is very important to life on Earth. Scientists are finding that processes involving carbon dioxide affect our climate in ways that are difficult to understand. Last month, a committee of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington released a report. It confirmed that increased about six-tenths of a degree Celsius in the last one hundred years. The report also confirmed evidence that the level of carbon dioxide is increasing.

The best information about climate in the past comes from tests of ice many kilometers deep in Antarctica and Greenland. The tests show changes in temperature during the past four-hundred-thousand years. These tests show that levels of carbon dioxide today are the highest ever measured. These findings have led scientists to believe that carbon dioxide is a major cause of climate warming.

Carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere when fuel is burned. Oil, coal and wood are all fuels that release the gas. When biological waste breaks down, it also releases carbon dioxide.

However, plants use carbon dioxide in the process called photosynthesis. This process provides food for almost all life on Earth. Some groups that support burning oil and coal want to increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. They oppose international efforts to control carbon dioxide.

Some scientists believe that forests and trees are able to capture large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air. Some groups even suggest carbon dioxide could cause plants to grow faster.

A recent study in North Carolina found that more carbon dioxide in the air could cause trees to grow faster. But the researchers found the effect appears to last for only three years. Another study showed that much of the carbon dioxide that is taken in by trees is released within three years. The study noted that leaves release carbon dioxide when they fall from trees and break down in the soil. Plants also naturally release carbon dioxide through the process of respiration.

The natural balance of gases in the atmosphere is a complex scientific issue. The debate over carbon dioxide is only one part of efforts to understand world climate change.

1. The committee report of National Academy of Sciences in Washington reveal that________.

A．ice from Antarctica and Greenland is appropriate to show the change

B．carbon dioxide is released mainly from the fuel

C．level of carbon dioxide increases with global temperatures

D．carbon dioxide is helpful for tree growth

2. According to this passage, those people disagree with the control of carbon dioxide because________.

A．they think that carbon is beneficial for plant growth

B．they want to use more fuels that can emit carbon dioxide

C．they think carbon dioxide is not the main reason for global warming

D．they think it will destroy the natural balance of gases in the world

3. The word “issue” in the last paragraph can be replaced as ________.

A．organ	B．topic
C．publication	D．result

4. Those studies carried out in North Carolina suggest that ________.

A．trees’ function for absorbing carbon dioxide is limited

B．carbon dioxide is the main cause for global warming

C．leaves falling from trees can emit more oxygen

D．more carbon dioxide is beneficial for trees’ growth for many decades

7 . You’ve heard that plastic is polluting the oceans — between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes enter ocean ecosystems every year. But does one plastic straw or cup really make a difference? Artist Benjamin Von Wong wants you to know that it does. He builds massive sculptures out of plastic garbage, forcing viewers to re-examine their relationship to single-use plastic products.

At the beginning of the year, the artist built a piece called “Strawpocalypse,” a pair of 10-foot-tall plastic waves, frozen mid-crash. Made of 168,000 plastic straws collected from several volunteer beach cleanups, the sculpture made its first appearance at the Estella Place shopping center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Just 9% of global plastic waste is recycled. Plastic straws are by no means the biggest source (来源) of plastic pollution, but they’ve recently come under fire because most people don’t need them to drink with and, because of their small size and weight, they cannot be recycled. Every straw that’s part of Von Wong’s artwork likely came from a drink that someone used for only a few minutes. Once the drink is gone, the straw will take centuries to disappear.

In a piece from 2018, Von Wong wanted to illustrate (说明) a specific statistic: Every 60 seconds, a truckload’s worth of plastic enters the ocean. For this work, titled “Truckload of Plastic,” Von Wong and a group of volunteers collected more than 10,000 pieces of plastic, which were then tied together to look like they’d been dumped (倾倒) from a truck all at once.

Von Wong hopes that his work will also help pressure big companies to reduce their plastic footprint.

1. What are Von Wong’s artworks intended for?

A．Beautifying the city he lives in.	B．Introducing eco-friendly products.
C．Drawing public attention to plastic waste.	D．Reducing garbage on the beach.

2. Why does the author discuss plastic straws in paragraph 3?

A．To show the difficulty of their recycling.

B．To explain why they are useful.

C．To voice his views on modern art.

D．To find a substitute for them.

3. What effect would “Truckload of Plastic” have on viewers?

A．Calming.	B．Disturbing.
C．Refreshing.	D．Challenging.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．Artists’ Opinions on Plastic Safety

B．Media Interest in Contemporary Art

C．Responsibility Demanded of Big Companies

D．Ocean Plastics Transformed into Sculptures

8 . A great amount of dark, sticky tar(焦油)was reported along Israel's coast last week. An off-shore oil tanker is believed to have leaked out.

The floating oil can form tar balls as it is pushed by wind and waves on the ocean's surface. After a violent storm, the tar balls were seen ashore. Israel has about 190 kilometers beaches. The tar has already had a big effect on the local wildlife. Volunteers were working quickly to rescue sea birds, turtles and fish. Some animals were covered in oil or tar. Others had swallowed it. The body of a young whale was found washed up on shore. The whale appeared to have died after swallowing a black oily liquid.

The government has asked people to avoid going to the beach, since tar exposure can make people sick and do harm to the skin. A number of volunteers had to be taken to the hospital after breathing in the air polluted by chemicals from the tar.

Experts from Israel and countries in Europe are still trying to figure out exactly what happened. The leak is believed to have taken place about a week ago, when there were strong storms in the area. Israel believed that a ship leaked tens or even hundreds of tons of oil in the Mediterranean. Experts are working together to review satellite images of ships that passed through the area, and they have a list of about 10 ships that are the most likely ones to leak out.

The Israel Nature and Parks Authority warned that the “consequences will be seen for years to come”. Israeli environment minister Gila Gamliel said on Saturday that there is no more floating oil visible off Israel's coast, “which is a very animative condition”. However, the ministry warned that large waves are forecast this week. The waves could carry the sticky tar from beach to beach, which could make clean-up efforts more difficult.

1. What brought the tar balls to the shore?

A．An oil ship.	B．A strong storm.
C．The sea animals.	D．The Floating oil.

2. What can be inferred about the oil tanker leak?

A．Israel has found out the cause of the leak.

B．Volunteers have tried hard to stop the leak.

C．When the leak occurred hasn't been figured out.

D．Which ship is responsible for the leak is unclear.

3. What does the underlined word “animative” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Challenging.

B．Encouraging.

C．Rare.

D．Natural.

4. In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?

A．Health.

B．Science.

C．Environment.

D．Trade.

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。

The water is sitting in around 1000 tanks at the former nuclear power station, but the amount is growing    1    (day) as rainfall and groundwater    2    (enter) the site continue to be polluted. With an average of 160 tonnes a day being added last year, the International Atomic Energy Agency expects existing capacity will be full by mid-2022.

That is     3     the Japanese government is reportedly going to approve a strategy    4    discharging the water to the ocean, as    5     (recommend) by scientific advisers. The release would start in around 2022 and continue for decades.

The news sparked immediate     6     (complain) from Japanese fishing groups and covering warnings that China    7    (ban) Japanese seafood imports. But are people right to be worried about the    8     (environment) and health effects of releasing such a large amount of contaminated water?

Much of the existing water     9     (filter) already by a process designed to remove more than 62 radioactive contaminants. The Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the firm    10    runs the site, have emphasized that the main radionuclide(放射性核) remaining is tritium(氚). Francis Livens at the University of Manchester, UK, says this is very hard to separate because it is a radioactive isotope(同位素) of hydrogen, and so part of the water molecules themselves.