一、单项选择
() 1. The new high - speed rail line has travel time between the two cities from over 9 hours to around 5 hours, making trips much faster.

A.increased
B.reduced
C.produced
D.recycled

() 2. If you don't separate waste into different groups, you will be 50 to 200 yuan according to the new rule.

A.paid
B.punished
C.managed
D.fined

() 3. Resources on the earth will one day if we don't make good use of them.

A.find out
B.take out
C.run out
D.hand out

() 4. —Everyone, remember our school doesn't allow you mobile phones.
—We will follow the rule, Mr Chen.

A.bring
B.to bring
C.bringing
D.brought

() 5. —Look at the clean streets and blue sky here. Our hometown is really beautiful.
—Yes! We mustn't drop litter everywhere so we can keep it .

A.by the way
B.on the way
C.in that way
D.that way

二、完形填空
When you think of blind boxes (盲盒), toys packed in small boxes may come to mind. But recently, many stores in China are food in them—they are leftover (吃剩的食物) blind boxes. In each box is food to the expiry (到期) date. If buys it, the food will be thrown away.
"We pack such as bread, cake and sandwiches in blind boxes, and sell these boxes at half the ," Wu Tian, who works at a convenience store in Beijing, said. At a bakery in Nanjing, for example, people only 15.9 yuan on a blind box. Inside, there are three kinds of bread that should be paid 45 yuan.
"Every time I bought a blind box, the of opening it hit me first. I felt happier how much money I saved. Wasting less food is also good for the environment. I enjoy it a lot," Zhang Kai, who buys leftover blind boxes, said.
In 2021, the total amount of food waste in China reached 160 million tons. A person may waste about 93 grams of food each meal, China Food Newspaper . The leftover blind boxes may help this. According to a platform of leftover blind boxes, more than 27,000 pieces of bread, which would be thrown away, were sold within a month.
However, there are still some . Some food in leftover blind boxes doesn't have any labels. people may not know when it was made, and the food may not be safe to eat. Also, since people can't what is put in the box, sometimes they may get a large amount of the same kind of food. If they don't like it, the food may still be .
() 1. A. taking
B. putting
C. bringing
D. giving
() 2. A. next
B. open
C. close
D. new
() 3. A. everybody
B. somebody
C. anybody
D. nobody
() 4. A. food
B. drinks
C. meals
D. gifts
() 5. A. number
B. price
C. money
D. amount
() 6. A. pay
B. take
C. cost
D. spend
() 7. A. excitement
B. sadness
C. interest
D. worry
() 8. A. asking for
B. looking for
C. thinking about
D. caring about
() 9. A. often
B. never
C. only
D. even
() 10. A. counted
B. reported
C. answered
D. remembered
() 11. A. of
B. for
C. with
D. from
() 12. A. differences
B. problems
C. examples
D. changes
() 13. A. And
B. But
C. If
D. So
() 14. A. dream
B. share
C. choose
D. prepare
() 15. A. wasted
B. bought
C. sold
D. taken