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选择性必修第一册 UNIT 3 CONSERVATION(二)
Ⅰ.阅读理解
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Franco Bergamino is like a surprise “hidden recipe” among young people in southwest
China’s Chongqing Municipality，where the 62-year-old Italian chef runs a dessert house called
Mimosa.
The dessert house serves wine jelly with green pepper cheese，jasmine mousse and peach-
Oolong cake—fusion( 融 合 ) desserts that combine Italian specialties with local Chinese
ingredients(原料)．
Bergamino used to run two dessert houses in his hometown of Turin，both having a history of
90 years.In 2016，he settled in Chongqing and set up a dessert workshop.
“I especially like Chongqing，where the food and culture are completely different from my
hometown.Life here is like ‘the other side of the coin’，” he said.
With the help of his local English-speaking friends，he overcame the language barrier and
even learned some Chongqing dialects(方言)．More importantly，he has got used to the Chinese
table culture of “sharing food together”．
Bergamino said，back in Turin，frequent customers to his shop would buy the same desserts
and they would be disappointed if they were sold out.The situation in Chongqing，however，is
very different.Customers expect different desserts each month，and they would be disappointed if
the dessert menu stayed the same，he said.
From 2016 to 2022，Bergamino felt a huge change in the taste of Chinese customers.“In the
past，Chinese guests always said that my desserts were too sweet.Now more and more people have
accepted the authentic Italian tastes.Mimosa’s consumers are mainly between 25 and 35，a group
that is more willing to try overseas tastes partly due to China’s continued opening to the outside
world，” he said.
“I hope I can live to 95 and still work，” he said，so that he can，besides bringing
authentic Italian desserts to more customers having a sweet tooth，let more people feel the fusion
of Chinese and Italian cultures in his desserts.
1．How does Bergamino like his life in Chongqing?
A．It’s aimless. B．It’s hard to adapt to.
C．It’s stressful. D．It’s completely new.
2．What do we know about Mimosa?
A．It has a secret recipe. B．It has a history of 90 years.
C．It’s more popular with young people. D．It’s a window of western table culture.3．Which of the following best describes Bergamino’s business?
A．Challenging but promising. B．Booming but uncreative.
C．More and more profitable. D．More and more controversial.
4．What’s Bergamino’s expectation in his future dessert career?
A．To add more Italian elements. B．To promote cultural combination.
C．To set up more dessert houses. D．To expand the age group of consumers.
B(★)
John “Charlie” Veron—widely known as “the Godfather of Coral Reef(珊瑚礁)”—is a
celebrated expert who has personally discovered nearly a quarter of the world’s coral species and
has spent the past 45 years diving Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.But now the 73-year-old is
raising the alarm about its future.The Great Barrier Reef，one of the natural wonders，is 2,300
kilometers long and is the only living organism that can be seen from space.It is considered a World
Treasure Site due to its biodiversity(生物多样性) with 30 species of whales，dolphins and
sharks.Within the reef itself，there are also a number of tiny organisms and fishes.
However，its health is threatened.After the recent mass bleaching(白化) events，Veron dived
in many areas of the Great Barrier Reef to see the damage for himself.“I was seeing and feeling it
and it was absolutely shocking，” he says.
Veron says the mass bleaching events in the past few years—and the possibility of losing one
of nature’s greatest treasures—were a wake-up call for the world in the wider battle against
climate change，which，together with the rising sea temperature，is considered the greatest
threats to the reef.
Fortunately，earlier this year，the Australian government announced nearly 400 million
dollars in new funding towards scientific projects designed to help the reef.
There has been criticism in Australia about the slow process for the funding.“It won’t be
wasted，though，” Veron says.“As scientists will be able to create a sort of seed bank to
protect the species until the climate is good enough to rebuild the reef.What the scientists hope to
do is to help nature along a bit after the big carbon dioxide increase is over and it starts to come
down.”
5．Why is the Great Barrier Reef considered a treasure site?
A．It is a natural wonder. B．It can be seen from space.
C．It has a rich variety of species. D．It is home to a great many fishes.
6．What’s Veron’s attitude to the future of the reef according to the last paragraph?
A．Uncaring. B．Doubtful. C．Uncertain. D．Positive.
7．What does the passage mainly tell us?
A．Climate change is threatening biodiversity.
B．The Great Barrier Reef is in danger of extinction.
C．Scientists have found major factors in the reef’s bleaching.D．Veron has made great contributions to environmental protection.
8.What is the text?
A．A news report. B．A travel guide. C．A research plan. D．A journal entry.
Ⅱ.完形填空
Days earlier ， Sarah Bellamy had received a mysterious email saying that a wealth
management company was interested in discussing the financial crisis of Penumbra.Now，when
she was 1 to unload her groceries onto the conveyor belt(传送带)，her phone rang.“They
told me that MacKenzie Scott was 2 in investing Penumbra，” Bellamy remembers.
It was a familiar 3 for hundreds of other nonprofit leaders—all 4 the woman who
has become one of the most 5 and surprising philanthropists(慈善家) in the world.Her name
is MacKenzie Scott—the writer，first Amazon employee，and former wife of company founder
Jeff Bezos.However， 6 Scott divorced，she had 7 more than $12 billion of her fortune
to help others.As this story went to press，Scott had just 8 her latest money bomb，revealing
in late March that she’d given away $3.9 billion.
Scott’s only 9 of her recipients is that they help maintain her privacy.It’s impossible
to 10 a Scott grant(拨款)，to send her a thank-you note，or to contact her directly；she and
her closest advisers almost never 11 to requests for interviews.Even Bellamy has been 12
not to identify the person who informed them 13 her donations.
Rey Saldana，CEO of a network of nonprofits，says，“Scott is a person who 14 a
significant amount of power by the value of her wealth and understands how to actually 15
power.”
1．A.preparing B．thinking C．enjoying D．picking
2．A.absorbed B．devoted C．interested D．frustrated
3．A.doubt B．experience C．scenery D．pattern
4．A.apart from B．thanks to C．but for D．regardless of
5．A.pleased B．troubling C．happy D．generous
6．A.because B．if C．as D．although
7．A.given away B．given off C．given out D．given in
8．A.agreed B．donated C．passed D．worked
9．A.demand B．click C．pressure D．application
10．A.adapt to B．apply for C．focus on D．fix on
11．A.devote B．write C．respond D．link
12．A.allowed B．permitted C．asked D．wanted
13．A.in B．on C．under D．of
14．A.holds B．comments C．judges D．identifies
15．A.preserve B．serve C．handle D．share
Ⅲ.语法填空China added a laboratory to its permanent orbiting space station on July 25,2022 as it moved
toward completing the structure in coming 1. (month)．
The Wentian lab module was launched from the Wenchang space base on the tropical island
province of Hainan with 2. large crowd of amateur photographers and space lovers
watching.After 13 hours of flight，it 3. (successful) docked(对接) with the Tiangong
station’s main Tianhe living module at 3：13 a．m.,4. had been launched before
the Wentian lab module.
The Wentian was designed 5. science and biology experiments，and its feature
is that the 23-ton lab module was 6. (heavy) than any other single-module spacecraft
currently in space.It was followed by a second lab module，the Mengtian，sent on October
31,2022.Three astronauts 7. (be) then living in the core module(核心舱) on a six-
month mission and oversaw the Wentian’s 8. (arrive) and docking.
A Long March 5B－Y3 rocket，China’s most 9. (power)，carried the module
in the third such launch since the Chinese space station entered its construction stage.It took place
after the Tianzhou-class cargo(货物) spacecraft and the Shenzhou-14 crewed spacecraft.
China’s space program launched its first astronaut into orbit in 2003,10.
(make) it only the third country to do so on its own.
