Ⅰ.完形填空
(2023·山东潍坊一模)
Anuar Abdullah is a 61-year-old diving instructor in Malaysia.When he isn’t 1 —he’s back out in the water 2 ,studying,and restoring coral reefs(珊瑚礁).
Now,as climate change becomes an 3 threat,governments,corporations,and others are coming to him for 4 .
Abdullah has no degree in marine biology or 5 training—just an amount of experience.In just the past decade,thousands have 6 to him to learn how to grow corals,and he now has around 700 volunteers 7 and has already restored hundreds of acres of coral reefs.
In 2017,Thailand’s government asked Abdullah to 8 the recovery of one of its most famous tourist attractions,Maya Bay,because it had 9 half its coral population. 10 were kept out of the site for three years while Abdullah led a team of 120 people in 11 new corals.
In 2021,after Typhoon Rai,the island of Cebu in the Philippines asked Abdullah to save what was 12 of the shoreline’s coral reefs.And earlier this year,Abdullah launched a new effort to build the world’s largest coral nursery in the Red Sea.There was a 13 on the nursery at the U.N.climate change summit(峰会),COP27,but Abdullah did not attend.He 14 conferences,he says.And he had 15 to do.
1.A.teaching B.diving
C.learning D.reporting
2.A.picking B.judging
C.describing D.observing
3.A.early B.artificial
C.apparent D.uncertain
4.A.help B.money
C.power D.honor
5.A.temporary B.formal
C.natural D.complex
6.A.devoted B.led
C.backed D.traveled
7.A.at once B.at first
C.in demand D.in action
8.A.initiate B.evaluate
C.highlight D.justify
9.A.regained B.lost
C.increased D.removed
10.A.Visitors B.Researchers
C.Volunteers D.Officials
11.A.guarding B.decorating
C.planting D.maintaining
12.A.hidden B.left
C.preserved D.ruined
13.A.contest B.presentation
C.course D.topic
14.A.witnesses B.records
C.schedules D.hates
15.A.interviews B.trips
C.work D.trade
