江西省宜春市三校2020届高三上学期期末考试考试英语试卷



英语试卷

说明：本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分，全卷满分150分。考试用时120分钟。
注 意 事 项：
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第Ⅰ卷（选择题，共100分）
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
例：How much is the shirt?
A. ￡19.15.
B. ￡9.15.
C. ￡9.18.
答案是B。

1. What does the woman ask John to do?
A. Leave the room for a moment.
B. Have a discussion with Pete.
C. Get something to eat.
2. How much will the speakers pay for the match?
A. £24. B. £42. C. £48.
3. Why can’t the woman pick up the man now?
A. Her car is under repair.
B. She can’t open the car door.
C. She locked her car keys in her house.
4. Where are the speakers?
A. In a restaurant. B. In the man’s office. C. In a theater.
5. How does the man feel?
A. Relieved. B. Worried. C. Angry.
第二节(共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A notebook computer. B. A mobile phone. C. A new T-shirt.
7. What can the tiny computers do?
A. Receive messages.
B. Switch lights on and off.
C. Operate the air conditioner.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What is the woman doing?
A. Deciding on the time for a holiday trip.
B. Learning about some festival customs.
C. Looking through her schedule.
9. When is Easter this year?
A. April 6th. B. April 8th. C. April 9th.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. How will the man go to the Art Museum?
A. By motorbike. B. By bus. C. By car.
11. What should the man do when he comes to the third turning?
A. Turn right. B. Turn left. C. Go straight.
12. Where is the Art Museum?
A. Opposite a bus station. B. Beside a hotel. C. Behind a bank.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. How often will the man be available to work?
A. No more than two evenings a week.
B. Up to three evenings a week.
C. At least three evenings a week.
14. Why does the man apply for a part-time job?
A. To gain work experience. B. To improve his social skills. C. To earn money.
15. What is the man good at?
A. Solving problems. B. Communicating with people. C. Working in a group.
16. What will the man do on September 10th?
A. Have a lesson. B. Work for the community. C. Meet the woman.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. From whom did the speaker get the information of the project?
A. Her neighbors. B. Her cousins. C. Her friends.
18. Where did the speaker come from?
A. China. B. Thailand. C. Australia.
19. What does the speaker ask her family to do?
A. Learn about sea animals.
B. Recycle as much as possible.
C. Take part in the cleaning project.
20. What will One-Day Clean-up focus on on January 11th next year?
A. The woodlands. B. The seaside. C. The rivers.
第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A, B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Your creativity and ideas can help other teachers. Submit your art lesson plan or activity today. Don’t forget to include additional resource documents or a photo.
Wet Chalk Painting Grades: K -4th
Lesson Plan Objectives: Development of fine motor skills（协调性）and creatively expressing the child’s ideas and thoughts by a new medium.
Materials Needed : Colored chalk, water, drawing paper, sponge, and newspapers.
Lesson Procedure: Dip the colored chalk into water and draw on the paper. Another way is to put the drawing paper on newspapers, dampen it with a wet sponge, and then draw.
Submitted by: Jack
Sidewalk Drawing Grades: K -5th
Lesson Plan Objectives : Development of the creative process by doing artistic drawings in a new way and development of fine and gross motor skills（全身协调性）.
Materials Needed : Sidewalk or outdoor chalk and lots of sidewalk.
Lesson Procedure : Give the children the chalk and let them draw whatever they choose on the sidewalk. You may also consider using this in teaching some other lessons（i. e. science）.
Submitted by: Peter
Rose 一Colored Lorgnette Grades: Any
Materials Needed: Half an egg carton（包装盒），scissors, glue, colored paper, scotch tape（通明胶带），and a seven inch stick.
Lesson Plan Objectives: Child will construct an object that allows them to view the world in a variety of colors and will learn why certain objects in their colored environment look the way they do when certain colors are mixed.
Lesson Plan Procedure : Cut windows in the bumps of half an egg carton. Glue circles of colored cellophane over the windows with rubber cement. Tape on a stick for a holder.
Submitted by: Jennifer
21. Which art lesson plan is presented by Jennifer?
A. Wet Chalk Painting. B. Sidewalk Drawing.
C. Rose - Colored Lorgnette. D. Rainbow Fan.
22. What common material does Wet Chalk Painting and Sidewalk Drawing require?
A. Scissors. B. Chalk. C. Stick. D. Sponge.
23. Rose - Colored Lorgnette is aimed at .
A. encouraging the child to paint at will
B. developing the child’s motor skills
C. expressing the child’s ideas and thoughts
D.bettering the child’s understanding of colors
B
Daniella Wride was brushing her daughter’s long brown hair when she noticed that with each comb, masses of the hair were coming out. That was January 1, 2017. Within 20 days, seven-year-old Gianessa Wride’s hair was completely gone, and her doctor said the hair would never grow back. Gianessa had become one of the 6. 8 million Americans with alopecia, an auto-immune disease that causes hair loss.
Alopecia isn’t painful, but for kids who suffer from it, the severe pain comes from standing out from the crowd. For the most part, the students in Gianessa’s first-grade class in Salem, Utah, were understanding. But the occasional jokes of “Baldy”(秃子) made her feel like an abandoned child. “I didn’t want her to feel that she wasn’t like the other kids,” her mother said.“I tried covering her baldness, but the artificial hair was uncomfortable. ”
Then comes the school’s traditional “Crazy Hair Day” in April, a great just-for-fun celebration where all the kids and their parents can express their wild sides a bit. Daniella and Gianessa decided that rather than hide Gianessa’s baldness under the artificial hair, they would celebrate it. Daniella bought scrapbook-sticker(贴纸) jewels and decorated her head with flowered designs and even a deer. “They just fit her personality,” Daniella smiled. “She’s so lovely. ”
On the morning of the competition, Gianessa was nervous. Would her friends think it was funny? However, with her mother’s encouragement, she had nothing to fear. Impressive Gianessa was a hit and a winner of the crazy-hair competition. Gianessa is now glad that she dared to go bare. “I was sad at first when I lost all my hair,” she told people. “But now I love being bald. I can do things to my head that other kids can’t. I’m thinking now it might be fun to decorate my head with some colourful butterflies and flowers. ”
24. Why was Gianessa different from other kids?
A. She was born bald. B. She suffered from hair loss.
C. She was talented in hair designing. D. She had her head fully shaved.
25. How did others react to Gianessa’s disease?
A. Her doctor was quite optimistic. B. Her mother gave her artificial hair.
C. Her classmates were all considerate. D. Her school offered her special help.
26. What could Gianessa do on the “Crazy Hair Day”?
A. She could tease others. B. She could decorate her hair.
C. She could shop scrapbook-stickers. D. She could show her personality.
27. What is the main idea of the text?
A. The girl faced her disease in a most beautiful way.
B.. The artificial hair built up the girl’s confidence.
C. The competition served as a way to make a change.
D. The disease was cured with mother’s love and care.
C
Google’s new camera, called Clips, is a smart device. It comes with a case that has a clip (夹 子), but it’s not designed to be worn on your clothing. Most interestingly, it uses artificial intelligence to take photography out of your hands and captures moments entirely on its own!
What sets this roughly 2-inch by 2-inch camera, with a three-hour battery life and Gorilla Glass for toughness apart is that it is specially intended for candid moments, like when a child does something cute that may happen too quickly for you to pull out your smartphone.
The Clips device, it uses machine learning algorithms ( 计 算 程 序 ) to help capture scenes. Those algorithms include face recognition. “Once it learns that there’s a face you see frequently, it’ll try to get nice photos of those faces,” said Juston Payne, the device’s product manager. And they also want it to recognize facial expressions, which involved “training it to know what happiness looks like”. The Google team also trained it to recognize what not to shoot—like when a child’s hand is over the lens, or if it is tossed in a dark purse.
The only way to see the images is by connecting the camera with your phone, as it has no screen for viewing or editing.
Concerned it could seem strange? Yes, Payne admitted, but he said they addressed that by making it obvious what it is. A green light on the front signals that it is on. Besides, unlike a camera meant to monitor your home, it is not connected to the Internet.
“This product is only possible because of the way that silicon(硅) has advanced,” Payne said that now they could squeeze the technology down into a device this size. Going forward, we’re likely to get more assistance from the artificial intelligence packed into our apps and gadgets.
28. What is the most outstanding feature of Clips?
A. It enables easy Internet access. B. It is equipped with tough glass.
C. It can be worn on your clothing. D. It allows of hands-free photography.
29. What does the underlined word “candid” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A. Awkward. B. Brief. C. Touching. D. Unforgettable.
30. What makes Clips a reality according to Juston Payne?
A. The advance in technology. B. The popularity of the Internet.
C. The screen for viewing and editing. D. The rise of the smartphone industry.
31. What does the text mainly talk about?
A. New gadgets in the age of apps. B. Artificial intelligence in daily Life.
C. A new digital camera from Google. D. An alternative way to photograph.
D
Blue Planet II's latest episode(情节) focuses on how plastic is having a destructive effect on the ocean and slowly poisoning our sea creatures. Researchers recently also found that sea creatures living in the deepest place on Earth, the Mariana Trench, have plastic in their stomachs. Indeed, oceans are drowning in plastic.
Though it seems that the world couldn't possibly function without plastics, plastics are a remarkably recent invention. The first plastic bags were introduced in the 1950s, the same decade that plastic packaging began gaining popularity in the United States. This growth has happened so fast that science is still catching up with the change. Plastics pollution research, for instance, is still a very early science.
We put all these plastics into the environment, but we still don't really know what the outcomes are going to be. What we do know, though, is disturbing. Ocean plastic is estimated to kill millions of marine animals every year. Nearly 700 species, including endangered ones, are known to have been affected by it. One in three leatherback turtles, which often mistake plastic bags for jellyfish, have been found with plastic in their bellies. Ninety percent of seabirds are now eating plastics on a regular basis. By 2050, that figure is expected to rise to 100 percent.
And it's not just wildlife that is threatened by the plastics in our seas. Humans are consuming plastics through the seafood we eat. I could understand why some people see ocean plastic as a disaster, worth mentioning in the same breath as climate change. But ocean plastic is not as complicated as climate change. There are no ocean trash deniers(否认者), at least so far. To do something about it, we don't have to remake our planet energy system.
This is not a problem where we don' t know what the solution is. We know how to pick up garbage. Anyone can do it. We know how to deal with it. We know how to recycle. We can all start by thinking twice before we use single－use plastic products. Things that may seem ordinary, like using a reusable bottle or a reusable bag—when taken collectively, these choices really do make a difference.
32. Why is plastics pollution research still a very early science?
A. The plastics pollution research is too difficult.
B. Plastics have produced less pollution than coal.
C. Plastics have gained popularity too fast for science to catch up.
D. The world couldn't possibly function without plastics.
33. How did the author support his opinion in Paragraph 3?
A. By citing quotes from leading experts.
B. By making a comparison and contrast.
C. By listing examples from his own experience.
D. By presenting solid statistics.
34. What does the author intend to tell us in the last paragraph?
A. We reap what we sow.
B. The shortest answer is doing.
C. All things are difficult before they are easy.
D. Actions speak louder than words.
35. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. The oceans become choked with plastic.
B. Ocean plastic is a global issue.
C. Blue Planet II has left viewers heartbroken.
D. Plastics gain in popularity all over the world.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
It is believed that raisins (葡萄干) were discovered in the Middle East, where they were treasured. Any food that wouldn't spoil in the hot sun was very valuable. Prehistoric drawings in France show that raisins have been enjoyed in southern Europe for thousands of years. 36 In 1000 B.C. the Jews paid their taxes with raisins. Two jars of raisins in ancient Rome could buy one slave boy. 37
In North America, the original mistake of leaving grapes to wither （枯萎）on the vine was not the only time raisins accidentally became popular. In the 1870s many people were growing grapes in California. 38 Most Americans had never heard of raisins at that time. In September, 1873 a severe heat wave struck the area. Before the growers could pick all their grapes, they withered on the vine. The grapes were lost. One grower took the dried grapes to a grocer in San Francisco. 39 The new accidental raisins grew into a major industry in California. Today almost all the raisins eaten in the United States are grown in California. California produces a third of the world's raisins.
40 Raisins also provide potassium, magnesium, calcium and certain B vitamins. Without added preservatives(防腐剂), raisins will stay fresh, delicious and nutritious if kept in a cool place. Raisins are tiny, portable and above all delicious.
A. They have been used for necklaces and as religious symbols.
B. Raisins are children's favorite snacks.
C. The grapes were either eaten as fresh fruit or were made into wine.
D. The grocer was unwilling to buy the dried grapes.
E. Raisins are high in iron, which is important to children's growing bodies.
F. Roman doctors believed raisins could cure anything from mushroom poisoning to old age.G. The grocer's customers discovered that raisins made a delicious treat.
第三部分 英语知识运用 （共两节， 满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
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，选出可以填人空白的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
From a young age, Michael Platt loved two things: Martin Luther King and cupcakes. He remembered statistics about income inequality and children hunger. But he also 41 afternoons at his computer in his Bowie home, awestruck by YouTube bakers who transformed a base of eggs, flour and water 42 edible(可食用的)works of art.
Michael saw a way to 43 his twin passions. At age 11, he founded a bakery that operates on the Toms one-for-one model: For every cupcake, cake or cookie Michael 44 , he donates another to the homeless and 45 . Michael, now 13,said he 46 enjoys handing out cupcakes to kids.
Sometimes Michael bakes to 47 money for hunger-fighting nonprofit groups, too. He spent a morning last weekend teaching a baking class to raise money for No Kid Hungry.
He can keep up with his baking in part because he is homeschooled by his mother, who quit her job to 48 Michael full time. Michael 49 from public school—and his mother from job—after his epilepsy(癫痫) was diagnosed in sixth grade. His epilepsy became too 50 and too frequent to allow him to sit in a classroom, his mother explained.
“It was a very, very 51 time, ” she said of the period after the diagnosis, during which Michael had to 52 his physical activity. "He had to stop everything he 53 :Gymnastics, climbing trees, diving. So that’s when he kind of threw himself into baking,” she said. Baking, Michael said, makes him feel 54 .
But when he started the bakery, he knew from the beginning that he wanted his 55 to do more than make money. Michael hopes his cupcakes spread awareness of the past and 56 others to work for social equality.
Sometimes, Michael 57 , he grows tired of being in the kitchen. Then he remembers the 58 boy he met once while 59 cupcakes. A couple of days afterward, the boy’s father messaged Michael on Facebook to say that his son, encouraged by Michael’s example, now aspired(向往) to 60 a baker, “That inspired me,” Michael said.
41. A. spent
42. A. about
43. A. separate
44. A. throws
45. A. thirsty
46.A. gradually
47. A. save
48. A. attend to
49.A. withdrew
50. A. real
51. A. pleasant
52. A. limit
53. A. forgot
54. A. sad
55. A. attitude
56. A. adapt
57. A. believes
58. A. poor
59. A. picking out
60. A. teach
B. cost
B. with
B. connect
B. burns
B. hungry
B. generally
B. pick
B. lead to
B. graduated
B. normal
B. significant
B. clear
B. adored
B. calm
B. skill
B. follow
B. refuses
B. diligent
B. giving out
B. employ
C. wasted
C. from
C. hold
C. sells
C. black
C. especially
C. get
C. turn to
C. heard
C. exciting
C. inadequate
C. practice
C. appreciated
C. amazed
C. business
C. inspire
C. imagines
C. anxious
C. making out
C. convince
D. took
D. into
D. achieve
D. eats
D. foolish
D. only
D. invest
D. respond to
D. escaped
D. severe
D. rough
D. exchange
D. explored
D. wealthy
D. explanation
D. inform
D. admits
D. lovely
D. working out
D. become

第II卷
第二节：语法填空（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。
When in 1984 I. M. Pei, then the most sought-after architect in America, 61 ( present) his plans for a 70-foot glass pyramid in the 18th-century courtyard of the Louvre, the general 62 (react) was anger. Because Mr. Pei was Chinese-American, he 63 ( apparent) had no under standing of the Louvre, or Paris, or France.
However, these remarks did not annoy him. With quick enthusiasm and wide smiles, he took them. He had been asked to design 64 new entrance for the museum and 65 everyone’s surprise, instead of adding on some concrete block, he had created a great welcoming space: put a winding staircase underground and capped it with a ray of light 66 did not hurt the old facades(外墙)。
When he was a child, his imagination 67 ( shape) by his family' s ancient gardens at Suzhou in Jiangsu. There, he would wander winding 68 ( path) through fantastic rocks towards pavilions (亭子)，unconsciously 69 ( absorb) the beauty of the surroundings.
Mr. Pei built a hotel complex at Fragrant Hill outside Beijing, after returning to China in 1974. He regarded this as a chance 70 ( bring) the Chinese away from their dull eastern European blocks and back to the domestic traditions they had lost.

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
I always have a dream to be a fluency speaker. Therefore, I am too shy to say a word in public. What is beyond my wildest imagination is fortune should bless me with a chance to realize my dream. One day, my English teacher asked me to go to her office and told us that I was given an opportunity to participate in an English speaking competition. Hear this, I could hardly hide my excitement. When making preparation for the competition, I write my speech carefully. I discussed it with my teacher and got many advice on how to improve it after I finished the composition. Under the help of my English teacher, I made a great progress.
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
红旗社区针对本社区居民垃圾分类情况,计划于下周举行一次关于垃圾分类的讲座，请你代表社区写一封公开信，内容包括：
1 .垃圾分类的好处；
2.讲座具体时间和地点；
3.邀请居民参加。
注意:
1. 词数100左右,开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇:垃圾分类garbage classification
Dear sir or madam,
I'm writing this letter to call on attention to the community lecture concerning garbage classification.

英语试卷答案
一、 听力： 1—5 ACBAB 6—10 CBABC 11—15 ACBAB 16—20 CACBC
二、阅读理解：21—23 CBD 24-27 BBDA 28-31 DBAC 32-35 CDBA
36-40 AFCGE
三、完形填空：41-45 ADBCB 46-50 CCAAD 51-55 DABBC 56-60 CDABD
四、语法填空：
61.presented 62.reaction 63.apparently 64.a 65.to
66.which/that 67. was shaped 68.paths 69. absorbing 70. to bring
五、改错：
Line 1: fluency改为fluent; Therefore改为However     
Line 2: is后面加that
Line 3: us改为me
Line 4:Hear改为Hearing
Line 5: preparation改为preparations; write改为wrote
Line 6: many改为much
Line 7: Under改为With; 删掉a

书面表达参考范文：
Dear sir or madam,
I' m writing this letter to call on attention to the community lecture concerning garbage classification. Given that most neighbors fail to classify garbage properly though they really try to, our community will organize this lecture in an attempt to guide this deed.
Garbage classification is of great significance. Firstly, not only can it cope with pollution issue effectively but more space originally occupied by wasteland will be spared. Secondly, we can undeniably make a difference by taking advantage of recyclable garbage
To fulfill your obligation to live an eco-life, come and join in the lecture to be given at 3 p. m. next Sunday on the playground of Hongqi Primary School. Only with combined efforts can we make our neighborhood better
Yours;
Hongqi Community

(Text 1)
W: Look John, would you mind leaving the room for a minute? There’s something I need to discuss with Pete here.
M: Of course not. I’m feeling a bit hungry anyway. I just want to go out for something to eat.
(Text 2)
W: How much are the tickets for the match?
M: The cheapest are £21 and the next ones are £24.
W: That’s not bad. Last time I paid £28. We won’t save much if we get two cheaper tickets.
M: That’s true. Let’s go for the more expensive ones then.
(Text 3)
W: Hello? David? Thank goodness, you turned your cell phone on. I locked my keys in the car. Can you wait about an hour? I called the repairman and he’s on his way.
M: Don’t worry, then. I’ll just take a taxi.
W: I’m really sorry.
(Text 4)
M: Pardon me, would it be possible to get a table by the window? My co-workers and I are celebrating a colleague’s promotion, and we’d like the nicest view.
W: Let me check the reservation book to make sure that the table is free.
M: OK.
(Text 5)
M: We’re moving very slowly again now. I’m going to miss my meeting if we don’t speed up soon.
W: Yes, we seem to be late most days at the moment.
(Text 6)
M: Is this the T-shirt with tiny computers?
W: Yeah, tiny computers are put into your T-shirt, and they do things like checking air temperature, switching lights on and off, taking phone calls for you.
M: They can take phone calls?
W: Yeah.
M: What, through your shirt? You’re joking!
(Text 7)
M: Hello, Erin. What are you up to?
W: Well, I want to plan for a trip this year and I’m just thinking about when I should take my holidays.
M: I see. I guess the obvious times are Easter or around Christmas and New Year’s.
W: Um … So when is Easter this year?
M: Let me see. April the eighth. So Good Friday is April the sixth and Easter Monday is April the ninth. You could take a trip during that holiday then.
W: Sounds good.
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M: Hello.
W: Hello. 168 Motel Reception. What can I do for you?
M: This is the room 8658. I want to know how I can get to the Art Museum.
W: You can take Bus 5, and the bus station is across the street from the hotel. The driver will tell you which station to get off.
M: Yes, but I’ll drive my own car.
W: Oh, then you drive along the street in front of our hotel, turn right at the third turning, and then take the first left. Keep straight on until you see the road sign that says “Art Museum”, and then you follow the sign. It will direct you to the Art Museum. It is behind a bank.
M: OK. Thank you.
W: You’re welcome.
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W: Hello. Care for the Community. How can I help you?
M: Oh, good morning. I’m interested in doing some part-time work for your organization. My name is Philippa Tailor. I’m a student at Brookfields University.
W: Good morning, Philippa. When would you be available to work? Days? Evenings?
M: Well, days would be difficult, as I have classes then. I was thinking maybe a couple of evenings a week, or maybe three. But no more than that.
W: OK. Philippa, why are you interested in working for us?
M: Well, I major in Social Care Studies. I’m hoping to apply for a job in social care when I graduate, and this would give me some work experience in this field.
W: Great. And what makes you suitable for this kind of work, do you think?
M: Well, I have very good communication skills. That’s my strong point, I think. And I’m a good listener. Sometimes you can help by just listening, you know.
W: I agree. Hmm, right. What I’d like to do, if it’s OK with you, is fix an appointment so we can meet and talk about this some more. It wouldn’t be anything formal, not an interview or anything like that. Er, how are you fixed for Tuesday 9th September at 4:30?
M: Ah, I’m sorry. I have a lesson then. Would Wednesday be possible?
W: The 10th? Yes, that would be fine.
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W: This summer I took part in a really interesting project. It’s called One-Day Clean-up and its aim is to clear the world’s natural environments of rubbish. I heard about its work from my neighbors who used to take part some years ago. I thought it would be fun and persuaded a couple of my cousins to come along with me. But it wouldn’t matter if you took part on your own. You’d soon make friends with other people there. Most of the people there were teenagers. We were a very international group in my team. Over half of the people there were from Australia, like me, but there were also people from China, Thailand and the USA. Most teams were working on the south coast of the country, but mine was working on the east. We had to pick up all the rubbish that we could find on the seaside. It has all made me realize how important it is for everyone to be aware of the environment. I’m determined now to get my family to recycle as much as possible. It’ll be worth it if we can make our seas safer for all those beautiful sea animals. So, if you’d like to join me taking part in this Day next year, it’ll be on January 11th. The focus on that day will be on getting rubbish out of rivers. There’ll be a day later in the year on cleaning up woodlands.