北京市顺义区2021-2023年中考英语一模试题分类汇编：阅读表达

北京市顺义区 2021-2023年中考英语一模试题分类汇编 阅读表达 2023年北京市顺义区中考一模英语试题 四、阅读表达（34至36每题2分,37题4分,共10分) 阅读短文,根据短文内容回答问题。 Earth-helping Heroes April 22 is Earth Days 54thbirthday! The event was created in 1970 to celebrate our planet, draw people’s attention to environmental problems, and encourage them to act. Now, Earth Day is celebrated around the world. We still face many challenges, such as climate change, plastic pollution, and deforestation. But we can all make a difference. Her Trees Save Lives Adeline was 12 when her family’s home flooded. She wanted to help. She learned that mangrove trees(红树林) play a key role in flood protection. But the trees were being cut down. Adeline gathered classmates to plant 200 mangrove trees during a school break. They started a group called Friends of Nature, which works to protect the region’s biodiversity, fight climate change, and teach environmental awareness. Teens’Two-Fold Invention Expanded polystyrene ( EPS) foam（(膨胀聚苯乙烯泡沫) is the white, light weight object used to make things like takeout-food containers, foam egg cartons and packing”“peanuts”. It takes up a lot of space and is difficult to recycle. Except crowding landfills, EPS breaks into small pieces as it floats down waterways into oceans,harming wildlife along the way. Three teenagers in Ohio worked together to invent a way to not only keep it out of landfills but to filter(过滤) water as well. They looked at EPs’s chemical makeup and saw that it was mostly carbon. They did about 50 hours of experiments to turn it into activated carbon（活性炭),a material that can filter water. Finally, they succeeded ! Solar for Her School When Claire was in seventh grade, she learned about plans to expand and modernize her middle school. Claire asked the school to add solar panels (太阳能板)to the project because she thought clean energy would contribute to a truly modern school. The school liked the idea but said it could contribute just $25,000——one-fifth ofthe cost. So Claire organized a group of