专题04 环境保护

2023中考英语阅读理解专项练习（常考+热门话题）

专题04 环境保护

一、阅读单选

Lots of kids have been trying to find ways to help save the Earth. Some of them are encouraged by the “30 by 30” plan: Fifty countries have promised to protect 30% of Earth’s land and waters by 2030.

One of the kids is 11-year-old Beckett from Georgetown, Texas. He wants to help protect endangered species (物种). In 2019, he began working with Rainforest Trust. “I was really interested in trying to stop climate (气候) change,” he said.

With the help of his schoolmates, Beckett has started a group called Protection of Earth. The group organized a local Run and raised more than $700. The money helped to save more than 1,000 acres (英亩) of rainforest land. When the COVID-19 came, Beckett put together an online activity called Trivia: People could test their knowledge of birds, endangered species, and climate change. That raised $600 for rainforest land.

In Los Angeles, California, 10-year-old Justin is worried about frogs. Justin calls them “magical, because they come in different colors.” Last year he joined Rainforest Trust to help Ecuador’s rainforest and its frogs. He appeared on local TV news, and many people learned about what he had done. That helped him raise $2,000 to save almost three acres of Cloud Forest.

Justin hopes he can encourage other people to understand why frogs are so cool. “Frogs are telling us the planet needs help,” he said. “If frogs are dying wherever you are, that’s bad because it means the water you are drinking is polluted.”

1．How many kids are mentioned in the passage?

A．One. B．Two. C．Three. D．Four.

2．What group did Beckett set up?

A．Rainforest Trust. B．Protection of Earth. C．Magical Frogs. D．Ecuador’s Cloud Forest.

3．How did Beckett raise money during the COVID-19?

A．By organizing a local Run. B．By speaking on local TV news.

C．By starting Trivia online. D．By working for rainforest land.

4．The underlined word “him” in Paragraph 4 refers to (指代) ________.

A．Beckett B．Justin C．Beckett’s schoolmate D．Justin’s brother

5．What is Paragraph 5 mainly about?

A．Protecting frogs means protecting ourselves. B．People put great interest in climate change.

C．Two kids raised money for COVID-19. D．The water you are drinking is polluted.

Life today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has many new problems. One of the biggest problems is pollution.

The more people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people. When people used up the land or the river was dirty in one place, they moved to another place. Humans (人类) are now polluting the whole world.

Pollution comes in many ways. We see it, drink it and even hear it. Air pollution is still the most serious. It’s bad for all living things in the world. The pollution of SO₂, is now the most dangerous problem of air pollution. It comes from heavy transportation (交通) . Water pollution kills our fish and makes our drinking water dirty. Noise pollution makes us become angry more easily.

6．Life now is ________ than it was hundreds of years ago.

A．more difficult B．more comfortable C．more terrible D．more interesting

7．Why was the pollution not so serious many years ago?

A．The population in the world was not so large.

B．There wasn’t so much waste in the past.

C．The people in the past knew how to protect environment.

D．The earth was cleaner many years ago.

8．What pollution is the most serious?

A．Noise pollution. B．Water pollution.

C．Air pollution. D．Waste pollution.

9．SO₂ in the air comes from ________.

A．heavy transportation B．farming industry

C．daily life D．people’s breaths

10．The last paragraph mainly tells us that ________.

A．pollution comes in different ways B．water pollution kills our fish

C．people have to save the earth D．air pollution is bad for all living things in the world

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