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1、为深入贯彻落实党的十九大精神和习近平总书记的重要指示精神，保障人民安居乐业、社会安定有序、国家长治久安、进一步巩固党的执政基础，束城镇深入贯彻全市扫黑除恶会议精神，强化措施，深入扎实开展扫黑除恶专项斗争Unit 4Global warming.阅读理解A(2017山东济南高三高考模拟考试)Thrift stores are a refuge (避难所) for countless items from landing in garbage piles. Value Village, for example, saves more than 650 million pounds of cloth
2、ing from landfills (垃圾填埋场) each year, making it one of the largest recyclers of used garments in the world. Their stores give a second life to 1.8 million pounds of clothes every day, which is equal to 600 midsized cars. Almost 100 percent of clothing and textiles are recyclable, yet 85 percent of t
3、hem end up in landfills. Its estimated that the average person throws away 70 pounds of clothing a year.Lindsay Coulter is the socalled “Queen of Green” with the David Suzuki Foundation, educating people on how to live a greener life by making changes around the house. She says that donating or shop
4、ping at thrift stores is an excellent way to exercise all three of the three Rs：reduce, reuse and recycle. She says, “Whether its a purse or a pair of shoes, its really worth considering going to thrift stores as another point of contact to help reduce your consumption.”Coulter points out that since
5、 landfills are airtight, textiles take longer to break down. “Id imagine things like an old towel, a rag or an old Tshirt will last a really long time，”she says. The beauty of thrift shopping is that the supply is neverending, so if you dont find what youre looking for one day, its likely to show up
6、 in no time. One person who knows this quite well is Jodi Jacyk, costume specialist in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia. She says the majority of items for the universitys productions are purchased secondhand. Because of her shrinking budget, items like clothi
7、ng and shoes are thrifted from Value Village. “We are constantly thrifting and we reuse costumes for many years. Thrift shopping is a much easier, cheaper way to do things，”she says. The next time you need to lighten your closet, take the opportunity to go thrift shopping to lighten both your carbon
8、 footprint and your financial burden at the same time. 【解题导语】本文主要介绍了一种环保的生活方式，即去慈善商店捐或购买二手衣物。1What is a “thrift store” according to the text?A. It deals with daily garbage. B. It sells secondhand items.C. It exchanges new clothes. D. It donates used items. 答案与解析：B考查细节理解。根据第二段的第二句“She says that donat
9、ing or shopping at thrift stores is an excellent way to exercise all three of the three Rs: reduce, reuse and recycle”可知，慈善商店是收纳并出售二手货的店。2Why did Lindsay Coulter advise shopping at thrift stores?A. To be friendly to the environment. B. To make a change of lifestyle.C. To reduce the cost of the famil
10、y. D. To collect money for the Foundation. 答案与解析：A考查细节理解。根据第二段的“educating people on how to live a greener life by making changes around the house”可知，Lindsay Coulter建议到慈善商店里购物是为了让人们过上更环保的生活，对环境友好。3What do we know about Jodi Jacyk? A. She doesnt budget carefully. B. She complains a lot about her job.C
11、. She is a fan of thrift shopping. D. She is known as “Queen of Green”. 答案与解析：C考查推理判断。根据第四段的“One person who knows this quite well is Jodi Jacyk”“We are constantly thrifting and we reuse costumes for many years”可推知， Jodi Jacyk热衷于在慈善商店里购物，是这项活动的粉丝。4What is the authors attitude toward thrift shopping?A
12、. Conservative.B. Cautious.C. Doubtful. D. Supportive. 答案与解析：D考查观点态度。根据最后一段“The next time you need to lighten your closet, take the opportunity to go thrift shopping to lighten both your carbon footprint and your financial burden at the same time”可推知，作者是支持这种到慈善商店里购物的环保行为的。B(2017山东济南高三高考模拟考试)People n
13、eed to seek out new foods because the world has so many mouths to feed. As of 2015, there are more than seven billion people on Earth, according to the United Nations. And by 2100 that number may double. Feeding all of these people means not only improving the way foods are grown, but also finding n
14、ew sources of nutrition. And that_quest is becoming ever more urgent. If nothing changes, within 35 years, the worlds appetite will be greater than the amount of foods produced. Thats according to a report released last year. It was prepared by the Global Harvest Initiative, a private agriculture gr
15、oup based in Washington, D. C. Global warming, too, is changing food production. Scientists predict that rising temperatures will reduce the growth of important crops like wheat, corn and soybeans. Lowincome developing countries will be hit the hardest. When harvests fall, crops become more expensiv
16、e. And since those foods are also used to feed animals like cows and pigs, meat prices, too, will rise.All over the world, researchers are racing against the clock to figure out how best to feed more people in a fastchanging world. And some surprising ideas have begun to come up. Two years ago, scientists introduced the first burger made from meat grown in a lab. The project cost
