河南省部分市2022-2023学年高一下学期期末考试英语试卷分类汇编：阅读理解

河南省部分市 2022-2023学年高一下学期期末考试英语试卷分类汇编 阅读理解 河南省洛阳市2022-2023学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题 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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A What is Earth Hour？ Earth Hour is an annual global campaign that encourages people and businesses around the world to switch off electricity at the same time for one hour.Earth Hour started in Australia in2007 when 2.2 million people in Sydney turned off all non-essential lights for an hour.Since then it has grow in to a massive global event.In 2013,millions of people in 7,000 cities and towns around the world switched off their lights for 60 minutes at the end of March.Every year landmarks and well-known buildings around the world take part and go dark for Earth Hour.The campaign even went into space when astronauts reduced power on the International Space Station in2011 Who organizes Earth Hour? Earth Hour is organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).It was started by Andy Ridley who is executive director of Earth Hour Global,WWF.He came up with the idea because he wanted to raise awareness of environmental issues by asking people to do something positive to help the planet.Switching off the lights for an hour can make a small difference to the amount of energy we use but Earth Hour is also a symbolic event to make people think about the problems of climate change. Why March? The end of March is around the time of the spring and autumn equinoxes(昼夜平分时)in both hemispheres (respectively,when sunset times are at similar times.This means that a global"lights out"event has most visual effect at this time of year. UK events As well as famous London landmarks such as Big Ben.London Eve and Buckingham Palace switching off their lights,there are many other events around Britain.On the WWFs interactive map you can see which people,businesses,schools,organizations and landmarks are taking part each year and what they are doing 1.When and where did Earth Hour begin? A.In Britain.in 2007. B.In Sydney,in 2013. C.In London,in 2011 D.In A