Forests are home to many plants and animals. They also matter to humans in different ways. In China, Tree Planting Day arrives on March 12. It was set up to remind people about the importance of forests.

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They enrich the soil. They take in CO₂ and give out O₂.

They provide food They are home to 80 percent of the

for millions of people. world’s animals, plants and insects.

Chart Ⅰ

China’s forest coverage（覆盖率）

Chart Ⅱ

China planted 3.6 million hectares of forest in 2021, according to the National Afforestation Committee（国际造林委员会）. That’s more than double the area of Beijing. The committee called on all adults to plant three to five trees a year. During the past 40 years, volunteers planted nearly 79 billion trees across China. China has become the country with the largest increase in forest resources（资源）and the largest area of planted forests.

People are also encouraged to take part in greening projects. Alipay’s Ant Forest is one way to help. Users get “green energy” points through daily actions, and the project will plant real trees for them. More than 600 million Chinese have used this app to live greener lifestyles and help protect the environment. Ant Forest has planted more than 360 million trees in China since 2016.

Besides big projects, China also focuses on（专注于）small actions in cities. The committee said China now has more than 20,000 “pocket parks”—mini parks in cities. It has also built more than 80,000 kilometers of green pathways（道路）across the country.

Chart Ⅲ

In the future, China will take more actions to help our environment so that we can reach the goal of achieving carbon neutrality（碳中和）before 2060 successfully.

1．Please translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.

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2．Please add a subtitle（小标题）in ________ in Chart Ⅰ.（No more than six words.）

3．How many percent of China’s forest coverage were increased from 2003 to 2021?

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4．How can we get “green energy” points from Ant Forest?（Two examples are OK.）

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5．What small actions has China taken to go green?

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6．What can you do for our country’s greening projects?

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The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was a great success. China has kept the promise to hold a green Olympics. Many green actions made it possible, like providing environmentally friendly smart beds, using new energy(能源) cars, supporting sporting places with 100% clean energy and reusing rain and snow water.

Take making ice as an example. China didn’t use R507, a common material to make ice, because it isn’t friendly enough to the environment. Through 18 months’ hard work, China independently developed the CO₂ direct cooling technology.

A net of tubes runs under the ice. High-pressure liquid(液态) CO₂ goes through them to create heat(热) exchange. The CO₂ evaporates(蒸发) under the ice surface. The evaporation takes in heat and turns water on the surface into ice. And the CO₂ goes into another circle. This technology helps to make ice better and faster. And above all, it is much greener because there’s no new CO₂ produced. Among all the 15 ice sporting places in the Winter Olympics, 7 used the CO₂ direct cooling technology to make ice. As a result, much less pollution was caused.

Beijing did so much more to save energy. Beijing built the new sporting places with green materials. As for the old ones, Beijing used new glass walls to take the place of traditional walls to let more natural light in. 70% of the waste heat was also reused to keep warm and dry. And a large number of new energy cars were used at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is the first to truly achieve carbon neutrality(碳中和), and it has set new standards in green technologies. Some newspapers say China has set an example for the world in environmental protection and green development.

7．How long did it take China to develop the CO₂ direct cooling technology?

A．18 months. B．100 weeks. C．15 days. D．7 years.

8．The writer writes Para. 3 to show ________.

A．why the CO₂ goes into another circle

B．how the new ice-making technology helped

C．how sporting places used the new technology

D．why the liquid CO₂ runs through the net of tubes

9．According to the passage, we can infer(推断) that ________.

A．all the buildings will be built with glass walls in the near future

B．the CO₂ direct cooling technology may be widely used in the world

C．the high-pressure liquid CO₂ will totally take the place of R507 soon

D．no new standards in green technologies may be set after the Olympics

10．Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A．A New Green Ice-making Technology B．Green Technologies Used in Sports

C．A Shared Future of Green Development D．The Green Beijing Winter Olympics

More than 1,000 schools across the UK have signed up（报名）to a project with the aim of helping schools become carbon neutral（碳平衡的）by 2030. Carbon neutral means cutting down carbon emissions（碳排放）to zero or balancing them out in other ways. Carbon emissions are gases such as carbon dioxide（CO₂）that come out into the atmosphere, where they make climate change worse. This has also caused the temperature rise.

Emissions are caused by all sorts of human activities, such as burning fossil fuels（coal, oil and gas）to make energy, cutting down forests and some types of farming. Becoming carbon neutral includes cutting the amount of carbon emissions a school produces and balancing those that are left by taking some carbon out of the atmosphere.

The project also shows how small changes can make a big difference. These might include thinking carefully about energy use, cutting waste, growing food closer to where it’s eaten and walking or cycling to school if it is possible. Ways of balancing out the carbon emissions that a school still makes include planting trees and plants that take in CO₂ as they grow.

Ysgol Bro Dinefwr Secondary School in Wales has promised to run entirely on renewable（可再生的）energy（such as wind and solar power）within the next three years. At Down High School in Northern Ireland, the students are looking after their own bees. So when flowers and crops produce food, that helps. Other schools have projects to cut food waste by weighing it after each meal to know how much is not being eaten. Some put the waste into a system that can turn this waste into useful things. They will be put on the garden to help plants grow.

Climate change is seen as a major global challenge. We can see it all around us. So join together, find out ways your school can put efforts to, and talk to a teacher about signing up.

11．Which statement would the author most probably agree with?

A．Human activities influence the environment.

B．The fight against climate change will not succeed.

C．More UK schools should be introduced to the world.

D．We could deal with the climate change without changing our behavior.

12．How could the schools reduce carbon emissions?

A．By moving to the countryside. B．By cutting waste and planting trees.

C．By providing more spaces for students. D．By burning coal instead of gas to make energy.

13．Why does the author give examples of the schools in paragraph 4?

A．To praise these schools. B．To show the difficulties in the project.

C．To call for more schools to take action. D．To explain the efforts made by the government.

14．What is the best title for the text?

A．How to Help Plants Grow B．Schools Sign Up to Help the Planet

C．Carbon Emissions in the UK Schools D．Our Planet, a Wonderful Living Place

Climate change is a big problem humans are facing. How can we deal with it? Reducing carbon emissions (碳排放) is important. But what if we could capture carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the air and use it to do other things?

Recently, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said that his company is working on a new program. It’s going to take CO₂ out of the air and turn it into rocket fuel.

It will not only be good for Earth, but “will also be important for Mars,” Musk said. The air on Mars is made up of 95 percent CO₂. If we could turn CO₂ into fuel, we could travel the long journey from Mars back to Earth in the future.

The idea may sound strange but it’s not totally crazy. There are already some technologies that might help with this. According to Di-Jia Liu, a chemist at the Argonne National Laboratory in the US, the carbon atoms (原子) in CO₂ and the hydrogen (氢) atoms in water can be combined to make methane (甲烷) or ethanol (乙醇). They could be used as fuel. If we do this on Mars, energy from the sun might be used as a catalyst (催化剂).

The idea will also make space travel more eco-friendly. “If the CO₂-based fuel could be used in a rocket launch, we could prevent 715 tons of CO₂ from being put into the air,” said Stafford Sheehan from Air Company, a US company that focuses on CO₂ collecting technologies.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

15．What is SpaceX working on?

A．Reducing CO₂ emissions. B．Building a new rocket. C．Turning CO₂ into fuel.

16．What advantage will the program bring if it succeeds?

A．It will take energy from the sun.

B．It will make it easier to travel from Mars to Earth.

C．It will take 95 percent of CO₂ out of the air.

17．What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?

A．How CO₂ can be turned into fuel.

B．Where CO₂ can be taken.

C．How the energy from the sun can be used.

18．What can we learn from what Stafford Sheehan said?

A．Scientists use 715 tons of CO₂to launch a rocket.

B．There will be no CO₂ emissions anymore.

C．SpaceX’s idea would be good for the environment.

“Look! The community center is having an art contest,” said Grace. She was holding a flyer(传单).

Mrs. Simon read the flyer aloud. Everyone agreed they would like to enter the art contest. Mrs. Simon said, “Our classroom supply of art materials is low because it’s the end of the year. I’ll check with Mrs. Rice to see what she has.”

Mrs. Rice, the art teacher, didn’t have any art materials. “I won’t be getting a supply until next year,” she said. The whole class was upset. “How can we enter the art contest without art materials?” asked Grace.

“Maybe we can raise some money. We could have a bake sale,” suggested Hal.

“I don’t think there’s time,” Mrs. Simon said.

“Let’s use the paper in the recycling bin,” Pablo said. Pablo did not often raise his hand. He rarely spoke up, so everyone was surprised when he offered an idea.

Hal said, “I’m curious about your idea. I want to learn why you would use old paper.”

“So we can save Earth’s resources,” replied Pablo. “When we use recycled paper, we use natural materials and save trees.”

“We can also use this old string and these wire hangers.” added Grace.

Now the class had to decide what to do with the materials. Pablo had another idea. “We can fold the paper into cranes. Then we can attach the cranes to a frame to make a mobile.” Mrs. Simon taught the children how to fold the paper into cranes. Then everyone helped attach the cranes to the mobile.

On the day of the art contest, the paper crane mobile hung in the large community center room. The huge space was crowded with art projects. From far off, the class spotted their project. The crane mobile swayed(摇摆) gently as people walked past. The paper cranes appeared to be softly flying.

The judges checked each art project. They looked closely at the crane mobile.

The paper crane mobile won the prize for the most creative use of materials. As the class proudly accepted their prize, they could not stop grinning (咧嘴笑). Grace exclaimed, “We made our art project, and we saved the Earth at the same time!”

19．How did the whole class feel when they knew they couldn’t get any art materials?

A．Happy. B．Surprised. C．Upset. D．Nervous.

20．What did they decide to do with the old materials they found?

A．To DIY wire hangers. B．To make paper cranes.

C．To raise some money. D．To build a center room.

21．According to the passage, their art project won the prize because they ________.

A．made the most wonderful work of art in class

B．decorated the center room with the paper cranes

C．worked as a team and solved the problems together

D．made good use of old materials and saved the Earth.

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参考答案

1．它（植树节）的设立是为了让人们意识到森林的重要性。/设立它（植树节）的目的是让人们明白森林很重要。

2．What can forests do?/Why do forests matter?/Why are forests important?/The functions of forests/…

3．4.83%.

【导语】本文主要介绍了中国的绿化情况以及为实现碳中和所做的努力。

1．It“它”，指代植树节；was set up“被设立”；to remind people“为了让人们意识到/明白”；about the importance of forests“关于森林的重要性”。故填：它（植树节）的设立是为了让人们意识到森林的重要性。/设立它（植树节）的目的是让人们明白森林很重要。

2．根据图片和对应图解可知，这里讲的是森林的作用和重要性。故填What can forests do?/Why do forests matter?/Why are forests important?/The functions of forests/…

3．根据图表“2003—18.21%”和“2021—23.04%”可知，从2003年到2021年，中国的森林覆盖率增加了4.83%（23.04－18.21=4.83）。故填4.83%.

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