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2025-2026学年度高二英语第二学期选择性必修三
Unit3 Environmental Protection单元练习卷
考试时间：120分钟 满分：120分
第一部分 阅读(共两节，满分 50 分)
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、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
A
STINSON BEACH CLEAN-UP PROJECT
Help us keep Stinson Beach clean this summer! Warmer weather and handfuls of holidays bring more people out to the beach which sometimes means more garbage too; join us once per month to clear litter and maintain the beauty there.
When: One Friday a month between May and September. 10: 00 am—1: 00 pm.
Where: Stinson Beach parking lot.
Supplies: We invite volunteers to bring their own reusable supplies! Limit waste by bringing your own bag or bucket and gloves if possible — but don’t worry if you don’t — we’ll have some supplies on site for you to use.
Group entry: Groups of five or more require special arrangements and must be confirmed in advance. Please review the List of Available Projects and fill out the Group Project Request Form.
Age, Skills, What to bring:
Volunteers aged 10 and up are welcome. Read our Youth Policy Guidelines for youth under the age of 15.
Bring your completed Volunteer Agreement Form. Volunteers under 18 must have the parent approval section signed.
We’ll be working rain or shine. Bring layers for changing weather and rain gear (雨具).
Bring a personal water bottle and sunscreen. Wear clothes that can get dirty. Long pants and closed-toe shoes are required.
No experience necessary. Training and tools will be provided. Fulfills community service requirements.
1．What is the aim of the project
A．To attract the tourists. B．To beautify the beach.
C．To provide trip study. D．To conduct a research.
2．What is required for volunteers under 18
A．Fine weather. B．Rich experience.
C．School uniform. D．Parent permission.
3．What does the project provide for volunteers
A．Training. B．Long pants. C．Rain gear. D．Water bottles.
B
Whenever Ian Falconer walked past piles of old plastic fishing nets near his home in Cornwall, one thought kept running through his mind: What a waste! Determined to find a better solution, he decided to turn these deserted nets into something valuable.
Having studied environmental and mining geology at university, Falconer, then 52, used his knowledge to design a simple system that could cut up, clean, melt(熔化) , and reshape the worn-out nets into thin threads(线) for 3D printing. The process was both clever and practical. First, the nets were washed to remove salt and seaweed. Then, they were cut into small pieces and gently heated until they softened. From the melted plastic, Falconer pulled long strings, which cooled into smooth, flexible threads ready for reuse. From his garage, he built what he called a “micro-factory”, where waste could be turned into useful materials. Only by trying, he believed, could change truly begin.
Since the launch of his company, OrCA, in 2017, Falconer has raised over 1 million from investors from more than 40 countries. The funding helped him develop special machines able to process over 20 kilograms of nylon(尼龙) nets every hour. What once cost fishers 500 a tonne to throw away can now sell for up to 35,000 after recycling.
In his small shipping-container workshop stand shelves filled with new products — sunglasses and bike parts — all made from the recycled material. So valuable have these nets become that when Falconer sees them piled high by the harbour, he sees money instead of rubbish.
Yet Falconer’s ambition stretches far beyond Cornwall. Knowing that millions of tonnes of nets pollute oceans in developing countries, he now plans to send his portable recycling system worldwide. Each mini “factory”, which fits inside a shipping container, could be placed in any harbour — turning harmful waste into profit while protecting the sea.
4．What led Falconer to start the recycling project
A．His desire to help the locals. B．His hope to win wide recognition.
C．His annoyance at the waste of nets. D．His curiosity about 3D printing technology.
5．How does Falconer’s system work
A．By combining salt and seaweed. B．By reshaping sea waste into plastic.
C．By transforming old nets into new threads. D．By replacing nylon with greener materials.
6．What is the significance of Falconer’s project
A．It boosts small factories. B．It offers a win-win solution.
C．It promotes the nylon industry. D．It improves local fishermen’s life.
7．What message does the text mainly deliver
A．Many hands make light work. B．Actions speak louder than words.
C．Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. D．One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
C
For 34-year-old Megan Swann, turning magic into something green was trickier than it first appeared. “You soon realize when you’re working as a magician and doing parties that no one wants to hear about deforestation while you are performing the ‘torn and restored newspaper’. ‘Happy birthday: the world is burning!’ doesn’t really work,” she laughs.
But she kept working hard to create “environmental magic” — a new take on the age-old art form that aims to inspire climate awareness. In a show designed for schoolchildren, she performed many tricks such as the “needle through balloon” representing heat being trapped and “endless water” demonstrating the impact of turning off the tap. “I tried to link the tricks to actions that people watching could take. The element of surprise in magic can be quite good because your brain tries to think back to whether you could have seen that coming and so you remember it,” she says.
Now, Swann is working with Ilan Kelman, professor of disasters and health, and the pair are challenging climate pessimism through her magic. “Professor Kelman is really keen to work with me on the message of hope. Our job is to get people taking action and committed to sustainability,” as she puts it. “It’s about turning that hopelessness into action.”
Swann tries to avoid anything too dark. “I think I have the positivity element exactly right. which people don’t expect when they hear it’s climate themed.” And she has new tricks up her sleeve, including an act that sees her predict the future outcome of our actions, producing flags from around the world with various positive stories about their climate policies.
But why is magic such a remarkable way of turning those who’ve given up on sustainability into climate advocates “It’s an unusual way to engage people and it’s really visual. It appeals to everyone,” she answers, before puzzling over the question further. “It reminds us that even impossible things can be done.”
8．How did Swann find her environmental magic after first trying it out
A．Promising. B．Engaging. C．Heartbreaking. D．Demanding.
9．What does Swann consider when designing her environmental tricks
A．The difficulty of performance. B．The potential climate benefits.
C．The relevance to practical actions. D．The inclusion of climate science.
10．Why is magic a great way to raise climate awareness according to Swann
A．It inspires a sense of possibility. B．It encourages creative thinking.
C．It shows the gravity of climate issues. D．It teaches children how to perform magic tricks.
11．What is the main purpose of the passage
A．To profile Swann’s magic for climate awareness.
B．To promote Swann’s upcoming magic shows worldwide.
C．To argue that magic is superior to traditional climate lectures.
D．To evaluate the long-term impact of magic on carbon reduction.
D
New research challenges the widespread belief that artificial intelligence (AI) is driving a major rise in global greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists from the University of Waterloo and the Georgia Institute of Technology analyzed U.S. economic data alongside estimates of how frequently AI tools are used across different industries. Their aim was to understand what might happen to the environment if AI adoption increases along its current path.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 83 percent of the nation’s economic activity relies on petrol, coal and natural gas. These fuels release greenhouse gases when burned. The researchers noted that total energy use from AI in the U.S. matched the electricity consumption of Iceland, yet this amount remained insignificant when viewed at national or global levels.
“It is important to note that the increase in energy use is not going to be uniform. It’s going to be felt more in the places where electricity is produced to power the data centers,” said Dr Juan Moreno-Cruz, a professor at the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development at the University of Waterloo and Canada Research Chair in Energy Transitions. “If you look at that energy from the local perspective, that’s a big deal because some places could see double the amount of electricity output and emissions. But at a larger scale, AI’s use of energy won’t be noticeable.”
“For people who believe that the use of AI will be a major problem for the climate and think we should avoid it, we’re offering a different perspective,” Moreno-Cruz added. “The effects on climate are not that significant, and we can use AI to develop green technologies or to improve existing ones.”
To develop their findings, environmental economists Moreno-Cruz and Dr Anthony Harding reviewed a variety of economic sectors, the types of jobs within those sectors, and the share of tasks that could potentially be performed by AI. Moreno-Cruz and Harding intend to apply the same approach to additional countries in order to understand how AI adoption may affect environmental outcomes across different regions of the world.
12．What is the primary goal of the research
A．To promote the development of green AI. B．To measure energy consumption worldwide.
C．To warn about AI’s growing energy demands. D．To assess AI’s potential environmental effects.
13．What can be said about AI energy consumption in the U.S.
A．It contributes to petrol-based activities. B．It will soon reach the global emission target.
C．It has small influence at the national level. D．It exceeds Iceland’s electricity consumption.
14．What do researchers plan to do next
A．Extend their research to more countries. B．Shift focus to AI’s economic advantages.
C．Develop AI applications to stop emissions. D．Reduce the energy use of AI in data centers.
15．Which of the following is the main idea of the text
A．AI technology drives greenhouse gas emissions. B．AI energy consumption urgently needs regulating.
C．Data centers emit more than previously estimated. D．AI’s impact on climate is much smaller than believed.
第二节(共5小题，每小题2.5分，满分12.5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Sustainability over Style
From the 1950s onwards, as companies increasingly switched to using plastic, competition accelerated and packaging became the best way to signal a distinct identity. 16 Just 10 percent of plastic packaging is recycled globally.
There is a simple yet powerful way to improve both plastics recycling and reuse — make brands use similar packaging for products in the same category. Let’s take recycling first. Even with decades of consumer education and investment in infrastructure, it is too expensive to sort much plastic packaging into individual subtypes. Pigments (色素)can’t be eliminated and sorting by colour is expensive, so much coloured plastic gets downcycled into grey pipes or building material.
17 If product categories followed uniform guidelines for plastic type, colour, labels and adhesives, recyclers could cheaply recover far more material. This could finally make recycling economically viable and help achieve the dream of “circularity”, in which a new bottle is made from an old one.
The case for standardised reuse systems is as compelling. Reuse systems based on standardised packaging and shared infrastructure could capture 40 percent of the market, versus 2 percent under a fragmented approach, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Standardised packaging may sound like an attack on capitalism to some, but brands already produce similar packaging for milk jugs in the UK and for toothpaste tubes in many countries. 18 Brands could still use labels, washable inks, embossing and other techniques to differentiate themselves.
Admittedly, it is hard to imagine rivals like Procter & Gamble and Unilever voluntarily agreeing to put their shampoo in the same-coloured bottles. But as data amounts about the billions of dollars lost each year from single-use plastics that are burned or landfilled — and research sheds more light on the health risks linked to thousands of poorly studied chemicals in plastics — brands may find their corner is harder to defend.
19 In Europe and other parts of the world, policy is already requiring reuse targets and the use of more recycled content. Standardised packaging offers brands a path to meet such goals while avoiding a jump in complexity and costs. Similar shampoo bottles won’t solve everything, of course. But such changes increasingly look like good business sense. 20
A．Increasingly, brands may not have a choice.
B．Meanwhile, reusable packaging remains rare.
C．Standardisation could dramatically improve things.
D．Without them, truly circular packaging remains a distant dream.
E．And standardised packaging wouldn’t mean that all products have to be identical.
F．But as brands added complexities, the already fragile economics of plastics recycling collapsed.
G．They could also still use their own shapes and sizes of packaging, so long as these don’t make sorting difficult.
第二部分 语言运用(共两节，满分30)
第一节：完型填空(共15小题，每题1分，满分15分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
When 17-year-old Mia sat through her high school biology lesson on the decline of native pollinators （n. 传粉昆虫), she had no idea that a simple idea would turn into a community-wide movement. She 21 that 90% of local wild bees had lost their natural 22 as roadside grasslands were cleared and native wildflowers were removed to keep the city neat.
Mia decided to 23 a plan: to plant native wildflowers in unused roadside areas of her community, to provide food and shelter for the declining bees. She first went to the community committee with her idea, but was 24 — the members worried the flowers would look like messy weeds and damage the community’s appearance.
Instead of choosing to 25 , Mia spent two weeks working with her biology teacher to make a 26 report, including photos of successful projects from other cities, expected effects and daily management rules. She 27 the report to the committee again, along with a 200-signature petition from her classmates and neighbors. This time, she 28 got a 10-square-meter patch of land for a trial.
Mia and her classmates 29 the wildflower seeds in early spring. For months, they watered, weeded and checked the growth of the plants. By late summer, the patch was filled with blooming flowers, and bees and butterflies began to 30 . Neighbors who once doubted the plan were 31 by the beautiful scene and the return of the insects.
The project’s success 32 quickly. Other communities in the town began to start their own wildflower patches, and even the local city government included the model into its 2026 urban 33 plan.
Mia says the experience taught her a valuable lesson: you don’t have to be a scientist to make a 34 to the environment. 35 , young people with small ideas and steady determination can also drive great changes.
21．A．learned B．admitted C．doubted D．imagined
22．A．food B．habitat C．energy D．knowledge
23．A．judge B．follow C．design D．buy
24．A．accepted B．praised C．invited D．refused
25．A．give up B．take up C．put off D．hold back
26．A．vague B．casual C．detailed D．difficult
27．A．returned B．presented C．lent D．copied
28．A．never B．even C．hardly D．eventually
29．A．removed B．buried C．planted D．hid
30．A．return B．leave C．escape D．wander
31．A．annoyed B．shocked C．disappointed D．frightened
32．A．faded B．spread C．dropped D．changed
33．A．educational B．commercial C．environmental D．tourist
34．A．promise B．choice C．comment D．difference
35．A．Actually B．Therefore C．Instead D．Otherwise
第二节：语篇填空(共 10 小题;每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
People always assume noise is a problem unique to animals, because many animals depend on sound to find food, detect hunters and communicate with one another, 36 that this sound-related stress is a phenomenon entirely absent from the non-living-feeling plant kingdom. But 37 new study by Ali Akbar Ghotbi-Ravandi, a botanist at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, reveals that plants suffer too.
Working with a team of workmates, Dr Ghotbi-Ravandi grew two species in his lab that are 38 (common) found in urban environment — French marigolds and scarlet sage. None of the plants exposed to the traffic noise did well. Study of their leaves revealed that they were suffering. The chemical compounds 39 (indicate) stress in them were found at much higher levels in both samples exposed to the traffic noise.
The team also found that a range of hormones normally related to healthy 40 (grow) and development in plants were present at significantly reduced levels in them. Even the freshly cut leaves exposed to noise consistently 41 (weigh) less than those grown in silence.
Their findings make 42 clear that the noise of traffic bothers plants enough to cause powerful stress responses, 43 are not much different from those in plants exposed to drought or heavy metals in their soil.
Though plants lack ears, the impact 44 (generate) by the noise of traffic damages their health and maturity. The next step is 45 (see) whether some plant species can develop self-protection in the process.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 (满分15分)
46．假定你是李津，你校交换生Chris看到以下图片，对“绿水青山就是金山银山”这句话很感兴趣，发邮件向你进一步了解。请你给他回复邮件，内容包括：
1. 解释含义；
2. 举例说明。
注意：1. 不少于100；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头结尾已给出。
Dear Chris,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Jin
(满分25分)
47．阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
I’m Lila, a volunteer in Maple Leaf Community. Our neighborhood, once a comfortable and tidy place, lies in the heart of the city. But lately, the garden and the empty corners near the entrance have turned into a dirty place, covered with all kinds of garbage.
At first, it was just a few candy wrappers and plastic bottles left behind. But soon, more and more people started dropping unwanted things there — old shoes, broken boxes, and even leftover food. The terrible smell of the garbage spread everywhere, making it impossible for neighbors to walk past comfortably. What’s worse, the dirty water from the garbage seeped (渗入) into the garden soil, killing the beautiful roses and making the small stone fountain smelly.
I tried my best to persuade the residents to help clean it up, but no one was willing to spare any time. Even when I took photos of the dead roses and the smelly fountain to show them how bad the situation was, they still turned a blind eye.
One Saturday morning, I ran into Leo, a young architect who grew up in this community and had just moved back after working abroad. When he saw the messy garden and the piles of garbage, his face fell with shock and disappointment. “We have to fix it.” His determination gave me new hope, so we decided to hold a community meeting together.
The meeting room was crowded but quiet. I stood up first, holding up the photos I’d taken. “Our community is dying,” I said, my voice tight. “The garbage isn’t just ugly — it’s making us sick and destroying the place we call home. We should take immediate action.” Mr. Hale, a retired worker who’s lived here for 30 years, shook his head and said, “Cleaning this up will take too much time and energy. It’s useless to even try.” His words made the others whisper in agreement. I felt my hope dying fast, and looked over at Leo helplessly.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150个左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Leo raised his hand, saying, “Count me in.”
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We held a group cleanup over the few days.
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参考答案
题号 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
答案 B D A C C B D D C A
题号 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
答案 A D C A D F C E A D
题号 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
答案 A B C D A C B D C A
题号 31 32 33 34 35
答案 B B C D A
36．and 37．a 38．commonly 39．indicating 40．growth 41．weighed 42．it 43．which 44．generated 45．to see
46．Dear Chris,
I’m glad you’re interested in this saying! It means a good natural environment (lucid waters, lush mountains) is as precious as gold and silver — eco-friendly development brings long-term benefits instead of short-term gains from damaging nature.
For example, many villages now develop eco-tourism: they protect forests and rivers, and then attract visitors. Locals earn money by running inns or selling local products, while keeping the environment intact. It’s a win-win situation!
Would you like me to share more examples of such villages
Yours sincerely,
Li Jin
47． Leo raised his hand, saying, “Count me in.” He grabbed a pair of gloves and a large trash bag from his backpack, his eyes full of resolve. “This community isn’t just yours or mine — it’s ours. If each of us does a little, we can bring it back to life.” His words struck a chord with everyone. I joined him immediately, and soon, several young residents stood up, offering to help. Mr. Hale looked guilty, stood up slowly, and said he’d help too. Before long, most people picked up tools, and we began cleaning the garden and corners together.
We held a group cleanup over the few days. Some collected the trash while others cleaned the smelly fountain and pulled out the dead plants. Leo used his architectural knowledge to teach us how to arrange the garden neatly after cleaning, to avoid future messes. Day by day, the community changed: the sidewalks were clean, the fountain ran clear again, and we planted new rose bushes in the garden. Residents chatted and laughed as they worked, and Mr. Hale even brought homemade cookies for everyone. In the end, we put up “No Littering” signs and made a rule — everyone takes turns keeping the community clean.

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