Unit 2 单元话题短文填空练习-2023-2024学年九年级英语上册单元重难点易错题精练（仁爱科普版）

Unit 2 Saving the Earth

单元话题短文填空练习

（2022秋·福建泉州·九年级福建省泉州第一中学校联考期中）A report shows that the processing center has to deal with a lot of garbage every day. The garbage has     1     (increase) by over 2, 000 tons since last year. The     2     /meɪn/ reason for that is takeout (外卖) food. To     3     this problem, Beijing passed a rule last year. According     4     the rule, takeout food companies (公司) hotels, and restaurants don’t     5     /'ɒfə/ plastic boxes or bags for free any more.

Eleme, Meituan and Baidu, the three of China’s takeout food companies, receive about 60 million orders every day. If each order     6     (produce) one plastic bag and two plastic boxes, the used boxes would be 2,400 kilometers     7     if they are put in a line. And if we put the plastic bags together they would cover 1.2 million square meters—even     8     (big) than 168 soccer fields. However, the     9     /'gʌuənmənt/ might need more methods to make the rule effective. But if customers ask takeout food companies to use plastic bags, what should the companies do? So     10     is necessary to change people’s eating habits, too. After all, we only have one earth.

 

（2023·福建福州·福建省福州第一中学校考模拟预测）阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标或所给单词的提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的单词， 要求所填的词意义准确、形式正确，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。

The world has experienced a lot of extreme (极端的) weather this year because of environmental    11    [tʃeɪndʒ]. Scientists think Carbon emissions are the main reason after    12    (study) the subject for many years. To solve the problem, CO2 is turning into a hopeful choice. “The beauty of carbon is that you can make so many different things,” Volker Sick,    13    researcher at the University of Michigan, told the reporter.

Making meat from CO2 is a way to    14    [ri:′ju:z] it. It is hard to imagine that the food could be    15    (produce) from CO2, but that is exactly one of the astronauts’ foods. As we all know, the process is rather difficult.    16    the cost is very high. However, it makes the food    17    [nɪəlɪ] 100 times more environment-friendly than others. Scientists are trying their    18    (good) to improve the process. And scientists want to make the public have the ability to afford it.

Then, making    19    (shoe) from CO2 is also a new technology. A sports shoe company is trying to make parts of shoes with carbon.

Besides, Air Company is selling a kind of perfume (香水) made      20      CO2. The perfume helps the new company get popular with the young.

 

（2022春·福建福州·九年级福州三牧中学校考期中）Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature). It falls on the last     21     ['sætədeɪ] of March every year. On this day, every family and business will turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical things for     22     hour to tell people the need to take action on climate change.

Earth Hour was first     23     (hold) four years ago in Sydney,     24     [ɒ'streɪlɪə]. About 2.2 million people and thousands of business turn off their non-essential lights. Following Sydney’s lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in March 2008. More than 400 cities, thousands of business and over 50     25     (million) people around the world turned off their lights for one hour. Earth Hour 2009 was much larger. 88     26     (country) and 4,088 cities took part in Earth Hour 2009. It is ten times more cities than Earth Hour 2008     27     (have).

Earth Hour 2010 took place on March 27, 2010     28     8:30 pm to 9:30 pm local time. We believe it must be another largest climate event in the     29     ['hɪstəri].

We have only one     30    . Let’s love it.

 

（2022秋·福建福州·九年级统考期末）As the world’s third-longest river, the Yangtze River runs through one-fifth of China’s land area. The Yangtze River Economic(经济带)     31     /'kʌvəz/ eleven provinces and cities, making up about forty percent of China’s total population and GDP.

On December 26, China passed the Yangtze River Protection Law, which came into force on March 1, 2021. It is the     32     (one) law to protect a waterway in China.

    33     mother river is in great need of protection because something is     34     /rɔŋ/ with it. For example, because of overfishing and water pollution, the river’s Chinese paddlefish has died out there. There’s also desertified (沙漠化) land and soil pollution near the river.

Fishing will not be     35     (allow) in all of the Yangtze’s natural waterways,including its major branches and lakes. Those who are      36      /kɔ:t/ fishing will be fined 50,000 to 500,000 yuan,     37     to Xinhua news agency.

Digging sand will be     38     (strict) limited in the river. Many companies are digging sand along the river. However, this has led to lower water levels on the river, which has caused the river’s water to decline (下降).

Companies and factories along the river will need to focus on the green     39     (develop). They will be moved away      40      their activities do harm to the waterways, the law says.

 

（2021秋·福建龙岩·九年级统考期中）阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标或所给单词的提示，在每个格内填入一个适当的单词。

The Yangtze River is China’s mother river. On December 26th, 2020, China passed the Yangtze River Protection Law, which has     41     (take) effect since March 1st, 2021. It is the first law to     42     /prəˈtekt/ a waterway in China.

The “mother river” is in great need of protection     43    something is wrong with it. For example, because of overfishing and water pollution, the Chinese paddlefish that used to live in the Yangtze River has died     44    after surviving for 150 million years. There’s also desertified (荒漠化的) land and soil pollution near the upstream part of the river in Qinghai Province.

The Yangtze River Protection Law includes bans on     45    /ækˈtɪvɪtɪ/ that could damage the river. It also includes heavier punishment for those who don’t follow the law.

According to the law,     46    (fish) will be banned in all of the Yangtze’s natural waterways including     47     (it) main lakes. Those who are caught fishing will be fined 50,000 to 500,000 yuan.

Sand mining (开采) will be strictly limited in the river valley. Many companies are mining sand along the river as sand is a rare resource. However, this has led     48    lower water levels on the river, which has caused the river’s water quality to decline.

According to the law, companies along the river will need to care about green     49     (develop). Companies that produce     50     /ˈdeɪndʒərəs/ chemicals will be asked to move away.

 

（2021秋·福建南平·九年级统考期中）阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标或所给单词的提示，在每个空格内填入一个恰当的词，要求所填的词意义准确、形式正确，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。

Do you play Ant Forest? It is     51     online game on Alipay. Players     52     /kə'lekt/ “energy” by doing something environmentally-friendly. They can grow and water     53     (they) own “trees” with the “energy”.     54     the “trees” are big enough, Alipay with some other companies (公司) will plant real trees in the desert area of China. Every year millions of trees are     55     (plant) in this way.

This is part of China’s tree-planting     56     /'prəʊɡræm/. It hopes to stop the desert from becoming larger. Since 1978, China has planted over 66 billion trees     57     the north. It is known as “the Great Green Wall”. For example, Saihanba in Hebei Province was     58     /wʌns/ a desert, but now it has become the