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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 [nɪəl