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Unit 3 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
单元素养评估卷
第一部分 听力
第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
While we are burning hot here, it is winter in South America. The Andes Mountains are situated along
the Argentina-Chile border. Once the first snow falls of early June start lo drop, skiers are ready to enjoy
the nightlife of ski towns all along the border.
Caviahue
Meaning “site of gathering and celebration”, this spot draws people with its long ski season, natural
beauty, and hot springs.
Season: June 15th to September 30th
Tel/Fax: （011）4314-8212/9180
Website: http://www.caviahue.com
Cerro Castor
The newest ski resort in Argentina, this winter playground is near Ushuaia—the world's southernmost
city. The stable and cold temperatures of Castor allow it to offer the longest ski seasons in South America.
Season: June 17th to October 16th
Phone: 54 290-1499301
Fax: 54 290-1430680
Website: http://www.cerrocastor com
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This resort features 11 skiable kilometers divided into 9 tracks, a double 1, 000-mcter-long chairlift line
that joins the 900-meter-high and the 1,350-meter-high areas, where snow is guaranteed throughout the
winter.
Season: From June 15th to October 5th
Phone: 54 294-4409000
Fax: 54 294-4409000, int. 118
Website: http:// www.cerro-periiomoreno.com
Cerro Catedral
Cerro Catedral was one of the first ski resorts in Argentina. Cerro Catedral has continued to gain a
reputation for itself-all the while updating its facilities. The resort has 39 lifts, which allow access to 600
hectares （公顷）of skiable surface divided into 53 well-signaled runs of various difficulties.
Season: From June 18th to October 10th
Tel/Fax: （012） 4672-2947/7672
Website: http:" www.catedralaltapatagonia.com
21. Which number should you call if you want to take a hot spring bath?
A. 54 294-4409000 B. 54 290-1499301
C. （012）4672-2947/7672 D. （011）4314-8212/9180
22. Which of the following offers the longest ski season?
A. Caviahue B. Cerro Castor
C. Perito Moreno D. Cerro Catedral
23. What's the feature of Cerro Catedral?
A. Cultural appeal. B. Beauty and comfort.
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B
Efforts to preserve the Amazon rain forest are growing ever more urgent as the ecosystem’s
destruction accelerates. A recent study shows that a new program combining on-the-ground monitoring
with satellite data and smartphone technology could help put the brakes on Amazon deforestation (毁林)—
and potentially that of forests elsewhere.
The scientists cooperated with 76 local communities, 36 of which participated in using satellite-based
“early deforestation alerts”, an early-alert system on a smartphone app, to watch over the forest and to
inspect forests and document damage. Over the next two years the participants were paid to work as forest
monitors and received monthly alerts via the app when satellite data indicated local forest losses. Monitors
investigated alerts and inspected for deforestation in the areas. They reported confirmed losses back to their
communities, which decided whether to deal with the affairs on their own or inform state authorities.
The researchers analyzed the same forest-loss satellite data from the given time period in all 76
communities. They found the program reduced forest loss by 8.4 hectares (公顷) in the first year—a 52
percent reduction compared with the average loss in the control communities, says Tara Slough, an
economist at New York University. “This reduction in deforestation was concentrated in communities
facing the largest threat of forest loss”, she adds.
Results for the program were less striking in its second year, when forest loss was reduced by only 3.3
hectares compared with that in control communities. The researchers explain that a Peruvian government
campaign against coca planting that year may have discouraged deforestation in both experimental and
control communities, narrowing differences between the two groups in the program.
Experts say this approach to dealing with Amazonian deforestation looks promising. Local groups
may continue the work they started in the program. “We want to apply this in other communities. In doing
so, we are making a contribution to the world,” wrote Francisco, a community member involved in the
research.
24. What can we learn about the new program?
更多资料添加微信号：hiknow_007 淘宝搜索店铺：乐知课堂A. It applies to all the forests. B. It adopts multiple technologies.
C. It involves no human participation. D. It solves the problem beforehand.
25. How did the researchers conduct the study?
A. By analyzing the data. B. By surveying the monitors.
C. By observing the area. D. By investigating the damage.
26. What do the researchers think of the effect of the program?
A. Stable. B. Positive. C. Unconvincing. D. Discouraging.
27. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?
A. Amazon Protecting the Rainforest B. Experts Testing Early-alert System
C. Communities Dealing With Deforestation D. Smartphone Watching Over the Forest
C
Last year saw one of the poorest salmon returns on record in North America. Yet, we are eating more
fish than ever before. Aquaculture (水产养殖) production has tripled in the last two decades to meet this
need, and another historic move was made by the FDA earlier this year, when a company received the first
ever nod to sell a genetically modified salmon, a bioengineered version of the Atlantic salmon.
US-based AquaBounty, the firm which received the go-ahead, said it would begin stocking fish in
supermarkets “as soon as possible”. The first commercial harvest is expected at the end of 2020. At the
moment, Argentina, Brazil and China have also granted environmental approvals for genetically modified
fish farming trials.
This genetically modified salmon is actually a fish injected with the DNA of two other edible fish. The
long road to the current version of the GM fish began in the 1980s when a physiologist named Garth
Fletcher read about the work being done to genetically modify mice and wondered whether it could apply
to salmon. He understood that the fish’s growth hormones are most active in some seasons and considered
changing this so that the hormones are always active. Cut to 2019, Fletcher’s GM fish is able to reach adult
size in 16 to 18 months, compared with 30 months for natural Atlantic salmon, while consuming 25% less
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In the United States, Atlantic salmon is endangered, so catching it is heavily restricted. It is currently
imported from Chile, Norway and Canada. If the production and sales of AquaBounty go as planned, this
will all change. And simultaneously, the company claims that farming the fish in their land-based
hatcheries will lower the transportation cost as well as emissions associated with importing the fish as is
currently done.
This has not all been without stiff opposition, and protestors who have sent nearly 2 million comments
to the FDA have had issues on three main fronts. Health risks, being the main one, as it has been with
several other genetically modified foods in the past. The environmental group Earth Action says no one can
predict what will happen when people start eating the fish over time.
28. What can we learn about AquaBounty?
A. It is a firm located in Argentina.
B. It performs research into GM fish.
C. It deals with the production and sales of fish.
D. It is the only firm allowed to produce GM fish.
29. One of the advantages of the GM salmon is that ______.
A. it has proved to have no health risks
B. it costs 25% less than imported salmon
C. it can meet people’s ever increasing need
D. it grows faster than natural Atlantic salmon
30. Protestors against GM salmon worry that ______.
A. fish markets will be seriously disturbed
B. GM food has potential health problems
C. GM salmon may not be up to the standard
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31. The underlined word “This” in the last paragraph probably refers to ______.
A. the nod to sell a GM salmon
B. the lower cost of GM salmon
C. the prediction about what will happen
D. the import of salmon from Chile, Norway and Canada
D
The world’s coral reefs are in bad shape. Climate change has led to coral whitening. Overfishing has
disturbed the ecosystems that keep reefs healthy. Poisonous runoffs from human industry are destroying the
“rainforests of the sea.” A new study has highlighted another threat to coral reefs：plastics.
Researchers analyzed corals from reefs in Southeast Asia and Australia. Almost everywhere they
looked, they saw bits of plastic, including chip wrappers, Q-tips, garbage bags.
The team estimates that at least 11 billion plastic items are trapped in coral reefs in the Asia-Pacific
and that number is increasing alarmingly. This could spell disaster for the world’s reefs. The likelihood of
the corals developing a disease jumps from 4 to 89 percent when corals come into contact with plastics.
Further investigations are needed to determine precisely how and why plastics make coral open to
different diseases. But it seems that plastic debris（碎片）slices open the skin of the corals, exposing them
to bacteria.
“Plastic debris can cause damage to coral tissues by accelerating invasion of bacteria or by exhausting
resources for immune system function during wound-healing processes,” the authors of the study write.
Drew Harvell, co-author of the study, says that plastics also “shade the light coral needs and cut off water
flow.”
It is vital to preserve the health of coral reefs for a number of reasons. Many marine creatures make
their homes within the reefs. Reefs also protect coastlines from waves and tropical storms, support fishing
industries and generate billions of dollars for the worldwide tourism industry every year.
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near Indonesia had the highest amount of plastic rubbish, while reefs near Australia had the lowest. This
could be because Australia has the best waste removal system. It suggests that there is a relatively easy fix
to the issue.
“We can clean up the problem,” Harvell told Fears. “It’s so much easier than climate change.”
32. What does the underlined part in the first paragraph refer to?
A. coral reefs B. ecosystems
C. runoffs from human industry D. plastics
33. How could plastics make coral reefs open to diseases?
A. By cutting off the food supply.
B. By bringing bacteria to the sea.
C. By speeding up the immune system function.
D. By hurting the facial tissue and exposing them to diseases.
34. Why are Indonesia and Australia mentioned in the 7th paragraph?
A. To advertise for the waste removal system.
B. To show optimism about solving the plastics problem.
C. To praise the efforts made by the Australian government.
D. To emphasize the importance of dealing with plastics problem.
35. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. Threats to Coral Reefs. B. Plastics Endangers Coral Reefs.
C. Coral Reefs and Climate Change. D. Protecting Coral Reefs for Our Future.
第二节（共5小题：每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
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Every minute, every single day, about a truckload of plastic enters our oceans.
1. __________ And to date, only 9% of that has been recycled.
We buy a bottle of water, drink it for a few minutes, and toss its permanent packaging “away”. We eat
potato chips, finish them, then throw their permanent packaging “away”. We buy produce, take it out of the
unnecessary plastic wrap, then throw its permanent packaging “away”.
The cycle is endless, and it happens countless times every single day.
2. __________ As far as we try to toss a piece of plastic—whether it’s into a recycling bin or not—it does
not disappear. Chances are, it ends up polluting our communities, oceans or waterways in some form.
For years, we’ve been told the problem of plastic packaging can be solved through individual action.
3. __________ But the truth is that we cannot recycle our way out of this mess.
Recycling alone will never stop the flow of plastics into our oceans; we have to get to the source of
the problem and slow down the production of all this plastic waste. Think about it: if your home was
flooding because you had left the tap on, your first step wouldn’t be to start mopping. You’d first cut the
flooding off at its source—the tap. 4. ________
We need corporations—those like Coca-Cola, Unilever, Starbucks and Nestlé that continue to produce
throwaway plastic bottles—to step up and take their responsibility for the mess they’ve created. 5.
__________. We will continue to do our part, but it’s time for the world’s largest corporations to do theirs.
A. This is their problem to deal with.
B. Plastic pollution is becoming very serious.
C. But here is the problem—there is no “away”.
D. In many ways, our plastic problem is no difference.
E. We think that if we simply recycle we’re doing our part.
F. It’s impossible for us to get rid of plastic pollution completely.
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第三部分 英语知识运用（共三节，满分40分）
第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
[2021·日照模拟]Just a few months earlier, I would never have pictured myself acting in a play in
front of two hundred people. If not for my __1__， Mrs. Sather, I might never have found that opportunity.
In the first and second grade, I was extremely __2__. It just wasn't in my personality to be very
outgoing. I would escape in my writing. Mrs. Sather, always __3__ me to write more. I think she was one
of the first people to see my inner __4__.
One day, she announced our class was going to __5__ a play, a takeoff on The Wizard of Oz. “I need
someone to play the lead part of Dorothy.” A few excited hands __6__. Mine, of course, was not one of
them.
After school, Mrs. Sather said to me, “Dallas, I was __7__ you didn't raise your hand. You're great at
memorizing things, and you have such a sweet personality. Perfect for Dorothy! I had you in __8__ for
Dorothy while writing the play! If you __9__ don't want to, though, I won't make you. It's your __10__.”
I realized it was time to show the world who I really was. I __11__ the role. Fastforward through five
months of __12__， line memorizing, and costume creating, we were ready.
At the end of the play, when the audience stood and applauded, I knew they were not just __13__ for
my performance that night, but for the __14__ that they knew would come in later years because of my
newfound __15__.
1．A.partner B．teacher C．parent D．classmate
2．A.shy B．weak C．energetic D．ambitious
3．A.recommended B．allowed C．encouraged D．accompanied
4．A.drawback B．peace C．character D．strength
5．A.perform B．watch C．write D．enjoy
6．A.put down B．reached out C．shot up D．drew back
7．A.excited B．amused C．afraid D．surprised
8．A.store B．mind C．memory D．comparison
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10．A.turn B．choice C．luck D．fault
11．A.accepted B．played C．created D．remembered
12．A.practicing B．learning C．observing D．communicating
13．A.celebrating B．chatting C．cheering D．congratulating
14．A.praises B．efforts C．beliefs D．performances
15．A.skill B．confidence C．interest D．hobby
第二节 语法填空 （共10小题；每小题1. 5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（一个词）或括号内单词的正确形式.
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。
Scientists often compare coral reefs to underwater rainforests, yet unlike the leafy plant base of a
forest, corals are animals.The soft organs inside the hard parts of corals are naturally transparent and
get___23___(they) famously brilliant color from algae(藻类）living inside them.
When corals experience stress from hot temperatures or ___24___ (pollute),they end their
interdependent relationship with this algae,typically forcing them out ___25___turning white, though one
recent study indicates some corals turn a bright neon color when stressed.Corals are still alive when they
bleach(白化），but they're ____26____ risk-essentially immunocompromised(免疫功能低下）－and
many ___27___ (eventual) starve and die, turning a dark brown.
People first noticed coral bleaching events in the 1980s.The problem worsened in 2016, when an El
Nino weather pattern, ___28___causes warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean, ___29___（mix) with an
already unseasonably warm ocean and killed off a third of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef.Since then,
roughly half the corals on Australia's famous reefs ___30___（die) in following bleaching events, risking
an underwater landscape 1,500 miles long.
Scientists around the world are looking for all kinds of ways to protect and maybe even revive
corals.One option is ___31___ (create) more marine protected areas-essentially national parks in the
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reefs ___32___ (healthy), and so much stronger.
第四部分：写作
第一节 应用文写作(15分)
47. 假定你是李华，是第一中学的一名学生，请你就学校附近一些印染厂偷排未经处理的废气所造
成的极大影响与危害，给常熟市长写一封信反映这一污染问题。内容包括：
1.写信目的；
2.排放未经处理废气的危害；
3.你的诉求。
注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已经给出，不包含在词数内。
参考词汇：printing and dyeing mill 印染厂
Dear Mayor,
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
_________
Yours,
Li Hua
第二节 读后续写(满分25分)
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应
为150左右。
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themselves, dipping the town of Oso in twice the usual rainfall.
When the sun at last shone on Saturday, Anna's three older kids ran outside to play with friends.
Inside, Anna nursed their youngest, four-month-old Kristian. Suddenly Anna heard a sound — like the roar
of a jet. The lights began to shine in an unsteady way. She rushed outside in
time to see a half-mile-wide tsunami (海啸) of mud and sand thundering down the hill toward them.
Scared, Anna gathered everyone into the bedroom farthest from the falling hillside.
Kris, Anna's husband, a 31-year-old carpenter, was pulling woods with great effort when he got a
hysterical (歇斯底里的) call from Anna.
“The mountain had fallen，” she cried. Houses had been swept away. He knew it was the landslide.
The man sped back toward State Route 530 and home. But traffic on SR 530 had come to a stop. The
highway and everything on both sides of it were covered with sand, fallen trees, and
chunks of what used to be home. A roof sat in the middle of what had been the road. Kris jumped out of the
truck and ran along the highway. Almost immediately, the mud came up to his knees.
After stepping across fallen trees and pieces of walls, he heard a woman scream for help. As he
followed the sound through mud that was now waist-high, he found the river was rising. Soon he had to
climb over the house to reach the source of the cries, about 100 yards from the road.
He finally reached a dark-haired young woman buried under pieces of walls, furniture, and trees. Her
head was bloody and she was holding a baby boy. The baby wasn't looking good, and the mother said she
couldn't feel her own legs. Kris kept her talking while he pulled away the wood, metal, and furniture
springs trapping the mother and child. At last, he was able to free them.
注意：续写词数应为 150 左右。
Meanwhile, Kris heard a man letting out a cry of pain from the ruins.
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With the rescue team now taking the lead in freeing the man, Kris moved on to rushing home.
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