Climbers at Qomolangma are being asked to cle...

Climbers at Qomolangma are being asked to clean up after themselves.

Qomolangma has earned the nickname（绰号）the World's Highest Garbage Dump（垃圾场）.

Climbing Qomolangma,the world's highest mountain,just becomes more challenging.The government of Nepal is telling climbers they cannot leave trash on the trails.Each climber will have to come down the mountain with at the least 18 pounds of garbage.That's the average amount of trash a climber leaves behind on Qomolangma.

Officials say climbers are responsible for their own trash.“We are not asking climbers to pick up trash left by someone else,”said the Nepal Tourism Ministry.“We just want them to bring back what they took up.”

More than 4,000 people have reached the 29,035-foot summit（顶峰）in more than 60 years.Leaving trash along the way helps climbers keep their bags light so they have energy to reach the summit.“The trash problem in Qomolangma is not new.”Burlakoti says.“When the people started to climb the mountain,they started to leave their garbage there.”They have left behind bottles,food boxes and equipment.

The new rule came into effect in April,2014.To make sure it is followed,climbers will have to deposit money（交保证金）before they climb.Once they climb back down the mountain,officials will check climbers at a return camp to make sure they have the required 18 pounds of trash.If they do,their money will be returned to them.If they do not,climbers will not receive their deposit and they will not be given a permit the next time they want to climb Qomolangma.

The goal is to make sure no more litter will be left on Qomolangma."As we offer Qomolangma to all the people of the world they should take responsibility to clean it."Burlakoti says,“After seeing the results from this,we will also apply this rule to other mountains.”

1.Why does Qomolangma get the nickname the World's Highest Garbage Dump?

A. The white snow on it looks like white trash.

B. The government of Nepal transported trash onto it.

C. There is too much trash left on it by climbers.

D. The government of Nepal has used up the resources on it.

2.Climbers left trash along the way in order to______.

A. provide guidance for other climbers

B. help climbers themselves find their way

C. get timely medical rescue when in danger

D. reach the summit without too much load

3.If climbers want to climb Qomolangma again,they must______.

A. get the climbing license

B. have a large bag

C. get the permission from the local people

D. bring back the required trash in the last climbing

4.What is the best title for the text?

A. Protect our beautiful mountains

B. Bring back your litter when climbing

C. A new rule of protecting the earth

D. Qomolangma belonging to the world people

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阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

Mountain climbers around the world dream about going up Qomolangma, the highest mountain in the world. But many people who have climbed the mountain have left waste material that is harming the environment.

A team of Americans is planning the largest clean-up effort ever on Qomolangma. They will make the risky trip up the mountain next month.

The team of eight Americans will be guided by more than twenty Sherpas of Nepal(尼泊尔夏尔巴人). Their goal is to remove all the rubbish they see. They will spend two months cleaning up the mountain by gathering oxygen bottles, fuel containers, batteries, drink cans, human waste and all kinds of disposable products(一次性产品). They are expected to remove at least three tons of rubbish in large bags.

Team leader Robert Hoffman is making his fourth trip up the mountain. He says he hopes to bring Qomolangma to the condition it was in before the first successful climb fifty years ago. He says he hopes the effort will influence other people to clean up the environment closer home.

Disposable products on Qomolangma are a major concern. So the clean-up team will take along newly developed equipment to collect and treat disposable products. Over the years, the disposable products have polluted the mountain. In the warm season when the ice melts, the polluted water flows to Nepali villages below. The problem has gotten worse in recent years because climbing Qomolangma has become more popular.

【写作内容】

1．以约30个词概括短文内容要点；

2．以约120个词就 “Cleaning the World”这个主题写一篇短文，并包括如下要点：

（1）你所居住的地方周围存在怎样的环境问题？

（2）你认为这个问题是什么造成的？

（3）为帮助解决这一问题，你做了什么？

【写作要求】

1.可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称

【评分标准】

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Scientists are preparing to launch the world's first machine to clean up the planet's largest mass of ocean plastic.

The experts believe the machine should be able to collect half of the detritus in the patch – about 40,000 metric tons – within five years. In the past few weeks they have been busy welding together giant tubes that will sit on the surface of the sea and form the skeleton of the machine, creating the largest floating barrier ever made。

The system, originally dreamed up by Mr. Slat, will be shipped out this summer to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, between Hawaii and California, and which contains an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. It will be the first ever attempt to tackle the patch since it was discovered in 1997.

Mr. Slat was 16 and still at school when he was diving in Greece and first saw for himself the amount of plastic polluting the sea. “There were more bags than fish down there,” he recalls. Two years later he came up with a solution, quit university after six months and set up The Ocean Cleanup as a company. Mr. Slat, 23, says the first plastic to arrive on shore will be a major milestone. “We as a humanity created this problem, so I think it's our responsibility also to help solve it,” he said.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) spans 617,763 sq miles - more than twice the size of France, and contains at least 79,000 tons of plastic, research found last month. Most of it is made up of “ghost gear” – parts of abandoned and lost fishing gear, such as nets and ropes – often from illegal fishing vessels.

Ghost gear kills more than 100,000 whales, dolphins and seals each year, according to scientific surveys. Seabirds and other marine life are increasingly being found dead with stomachs full of small pieces of plastic. Creatures eat plastic discarded in the sea thinking it’s food but then starve to death because they are not feeding properly. Others are trapped and die of starvation or are strangled or suffocated by ghost gear.

1.What does the underlined word in the first paragraph probably mean?

A. waste.　　 B. ocean.

C. system.　　 D. machine.

2.According to the passage, most of the Garbage in Pacific is made up of _____ .

A. fishing vessels

B. dolphins and seals

C. giant tubes

D. abandoned fishing gear

3.why do some creatures in The Great Pacific Garbage Patch die of starvation?

A. because they were killed by Ghost gear.

B. because they were suffocated by ghost gear.

C. because they didn't like eating plastic.

D. because they are not feeding properly.

4.What is the main idea of the Passage?

A. news about the first machine to clean up ocean plastic.

B. report about the death of marine life

C. information about ocean plastic.

D. the reason for inventing a machine.

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.After the party was over, the children were asked to _____the fire.

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If _____ to look after luggage for someone else, inform the police at once.

A. asked                B. to ask                C. asking                D. having asked

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If _____ to look after luggage for someone else, inform the police at once.

A．asked            B．to ask             C．asking            D．having asked

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If _____ to look after luggage for someone else, inform the police at once.

A. asked    B. to ask    C. asking   D. having asked

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What are the speakers discussing?

A. The number of talks to give.

B. The questions to ask after talks.

C. The time to spare between talks.

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A small dog should be belly-up after eating a handful M＆M’s, at least according to conventional wisdom. But watching “Moose”, a friend’s five-pound Chihuahua, race around a living room after his sweet snack makes one wonder: Is chocolate truly poisonous to dogs?

Dogs and humans have similar tastes. But unlike humans, our companions experience dangerous effects from eating chocolate — it can poison them and in some cases is fatal. Chocolate’s danger to dogs depends on its quality.

Chocolate is processed from the bitter seeds of the cocoa tree, which contain a family of compounds known as methylxanthines（一种衍生物）. This class of substances includes caffeine and the related chemical theobromine(可可碱). Chocolate contains a significant amount of theobromine and smaller amounts of caffeine. These chemicals can cause a dog’s heart to race up to twice its normal rate, and some dogs may run around as if “they drank a gallon of espresso,” according to Hackett.

Dogs are capable of handling some chocolate, but it depends on the animal’s weight and the type of chocolate it eats. Unsweetened baking chocolate contains more than six times as much theobromine as milk chocolate, although amounts vary between cocoa beans as well as different brands of chocolate. Less than four ounces of milk chocolate is potentially fatal for Moose and other small dogs.

Around every confection-centered holiday — Valentine’s Day, Easter and Christmas — at least three or four dogs are hospitalized overnight in the animal medical center at Colorado State. But in 16 years, Hackett has seen just one dog die from chocolate poisoning, and he suspects it may have had an underlying disease that made it more exposed to chocolate’s heart-racing effect.

1. The underlined expression “belly-up” probably means______.

A. dead            B. poisonous                 C. running around  D. having a headache

2. All of the following are true EXCEPT______.

A. chocolate’s danger to dogs depends on its quantity and quality

B. people buy lots of chocolate around Valentine’s Day

C. an ounce of unsweetened baking chocolate is safe for Moose

D. there must be some theobromine or caffeine in espresso

3. What can we learn about Hackett?

A. He is an animal doctor.         B. He is a pet shop owner.

C. He is the owner of Moose       D. He is a doctor in a small hospital.

4. It can be inferred from the passage that Hackett believes that__________.

A. chocolate is truly deadly to dogs

B. it’s OK to give chocolate to a big dog

C. pets are usually ignored around confection-centered holidays

D. a healthy dog probably could survive a chocolate poisoning

5. The passage is mainly about__________.

A. the poisoning of Moose

B. the compounds of different chocolates

C. a handful M＆M’s chocolate is poisonous

D. the relation between methylxanthines and chocolate poisoning

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If ________ to look after luggage for someone else, inform the police at once.

A. asked　　 　　　　　　　 　 B. to ask

C. asking　　 　　　　　　　 D. having asked

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