题目内容
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Lately I’ve been concerned about the environment. Last weekend I participated in the great Canadian shoreline ________. On that day, my mother and I arrived at 9:30 a.m. More than fifty people ________ and all the volunteers were divided into groups.
The shoreline has four sections with the last two being the most ________ terrain(地形)—steep hills, lots of trees and rocks. We chose section four and after a brief speech from the organizer, we set off. We saw a lot of waste along the way, like newspapers, ropes, bottles, caps, bricks and cigarette ends.
________, we filled almost 30 bags with 160.5 kilos of garbage, including ________ 1,000—1,200 cigarette ends. It was amazing how much we were able to ________. I couldn’t believe the ________ we made — the shoreline looked clean! ________, we had to leave the bricks as they would have broken our garbage and recycling bags! I did find one tire but it ________ so deep in the mud and dirt that I couldn’t dig it out, ________ with the help of one of those metal rods.
________ the waste was easy; it was trying to keep a record of everything we found that was the ________ part. We had a sheet with many categories (种类) of items to ________. It’s great to get all ________ but it wasn’t much fun for the volunteer stuck ________ recording all the information. Our purpose was to make the shoreline ________, not to write lines and lines of what we have discovered.
We often hear some people ________ about their surroundings. If you are one of them, I’d like to say the only way to change things is by ________ rather than complaining. We need to teach by ________. We can’t blame others ________ we start with ourselves. I was very happy to make a small change by cleaning up a little bit of our shoreline.
1.A. cleanupB. tourC. picnicD. camp
2.A. wore outB. showed upC. look aroundD. called back
3.A. interestingB. comfortableC. distantD. difficult
4.A. In doubtB. In additionC. In allD. In advance
5.A. mainlyB. completelyC. approximatelyD. gradually
6.A. requestB. receiveC. accomplishD. afford
7.A. planB. visit C. decisionD. difference
8.A. BesidesB. HoweverC. ThereforeD. Instead
9.A. continuedB. cameC. wentD. looked
10.A. evenB. alsoC. thenD. still
11.A. Throwing awayB. Picking upC. Breaking downD. Digging out
12.A. hardB. similarC. specialD. normal
13.A. rememberB. recordC. findD. request
14.A. workB. picturesC. numbersD. data
15.A. inB. onC. forD. about
16.A. dirtyB. comfortableC. cleanD. careful
17.A. chatB. complainC. discussD. quarrel
18.A. doingB. thinkingC. questioningD. watching
19.A. theoryB. explanationC. exampleD. experience
20.A. althoughB. ifC. whenD. unless