Section Ⅱ LESSON 1 THE LAST LEAF 维度一：品句填词 1.He took a few steps （向后） to get a better view of the painting. 2.The dog was trained to （拿来） the newspaper every morning. 3.We spread a （毯子） on the grass and had a picnic in the park. 4.Please move the chairs （到旁边） to make room for the dance floor. 5.He s on the ice and landed on his back， causing everyone to burst into laughter. 6.He handed her a b notebook as a gift， encouraging her to fill it with her own stories. 维度二：词形转换 1.He had slipped on an （ice） pavement. 2.Tamara stared at him in （believe）， shaking her head. 3.In places the path can be wet and （slip）. 4.James started to work on ships as a （sail） when he was eighteen. 维度三：固定搭配和句式 根据括号内的汉语提示完成下列句子。 1.The story of his miseries is （令我难以置信）. 2.When I reached home， I （发现门锁着）. 3.I looked in her face for some response， but she just （盯着我） blankly. 4.His mind （一片空白） and he forgot what he was supposed to be doing. Ⅰ.阅读理解 Every minute， every single day， about a truckload of plastic enters our oceans.Since the 1950s， some 8.3bn tons of plastic have been produced worldwide， and to date， only 9% of that has been recycled. We buy a bottle of water， drink it for a few minutes， and toss its permanent packaging “away”.We eat potato chips， finish them， then throw their permanent packaging “away”.We buy produce， take it out of the unnecessary plastic wrap， then throw its permanent packaging “away”. The cycle is endless， and it happens countless times every single day.But here’s the problem — there is no “away”.Chances are， it ends up polluting our communities， oceans or waterways in some form. For years， we’ve been told the problem of plastic packaging can be solved through better individual action.But the truth is that we cannot recycle our way out of this mess. Recycling alone will never stop the flow of plastics into our oceans； we have to slow down the production of all this plastic waste.Think about it： if your home was flooding because you had left the tap on， your first step wouldn’t be to start mopping.You’d first cut the flooding off at its source — the tap.In many ways， our plastic problem is no different. We need corporations — those like Coca-Cola， Unilever， Starbucks and Nestlé that continue to produce throwaway plastic bottles， cups， and straws — to step up and take real responsibility for the mess they’ve created.Drink companies produce over 500bn single-use plastic bottles annually； there is no way that we can recycle our way out of a problem of that scale. This is their crisis to tackle.We will continue to do our part， but it’s time for the world’s largest corporations to do theirs.Some 32 ... ...
