广西玉林市北流重点高中2021-2022学年高二上学期开学质量检测英语试题

Sunshine For All

The Beijing Sunshine Secondary School students are holding a charity show at the school hall of Beijing Sunshine Secondary School, Sunny Street, Sunshine Town.

Date: 29 April

Time: 7: 30 p. m. -9: 00 p. m.

We hope to raise money to help poor children go to school

Ticket price: $20

Donations are welcome.

Programme:

7: 30p. m. Introduction  7: 40 p. m. Songs  8: 00 p. m. Break

8: 15p. m. Speech  8: 30 p. m. Drama 9: 00 p. m. End of the show

Project Hope is an organization that raises money to build schools and buy books or poor students. We would like to thank the following for their help and support:

The teachers at Beijing Sunshine Secondary School

The Star Shopping Mall for the costumes

Sunshine Advertisement Company for the posters

    NOT all memories are sweet. Some people spend all their lives trying to forget bad experiences. Violence and traffic accidents can leave people with terrible physical and emotional scars. Often they relive these experiences in nightmares.

    Now American researchers think they are close to developing a pill, which will help people forget bad memories. The pill is designed to be taken immediately after a frightening experience. They hope it might reduce ,or possibly erase(抹去),the effect of painful memories.

    In November, experts tested a drug on people in the US and France. The drug stops the body releasing chemicals that fix memories in the brain. So far the research has suggested that only the emotional effects of memories may be reduced, not that the memories are erased.

    The research has caused a great deal of argument. Some think it is a bad idea, while others support it.

    Supporters say it could lead to pills that prevent or treat soldiers' troubling memories after war. They say that there are many people who suffer from terrible memories.

    "Some memories can ruin people's lives. They come back to you when you don't want to have them in a daydream or nightmare. They usually come with very painful emotions," said Roger Pitman, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "This could relieve a lot of that suffering."

    But those who are against the research say that changing memories is very dangerous because memories give us our identity (特质). They also help us all avoid the mistakes of the past.

    "All of us can think of bad events in our lives that were horrible at the time but make us who we are. I'm not sure we want to wipe those memories out, "said Rebecca Dresser, a medical ethicist.

    In our everyday lives we meet situations in which we take many things for granted（不去重视）.We only treasure things when they are gone.This is a sad truth of human nature.One day,I found myself as a witness to a similar situation.

    One evening,I left work and boarded the train.After entering,I noticed something unusual.The center of the car had a few empty seats while both ends were crowded with people standing.I didn't pay much attention and sat down on one of the empty seats.I sensed a funny smell.It wasn't long before I noticed a homeless person sleeping on three seats in front of me.He was bleeding from his nose.Why wasn't anyone helping him?

    His clothes were torn and he was giving off a strange smell.Along with the smell,his eyes were dull,watery and red.Occasionally he scratched himself and people looked at him as if he had committed a crime.As the train stopped at stations and more people came in they covered their noses and faced away from him.All the seats around him were empty.

    Suddenly,he began to swear at the people around him.A plain clothes policeman who looked like a construction worker took out his certificate and showed it to the homeless man.The officer,not wanting to touch the homeless man, told him his rights and directed him to exit the train.As the officer walked the man out of the train,the homeless man turned around and said "MY HOME!" and started crying.

    A man doesn't value things until they are gone.If he didn't have a home,at least he had freedom.Now he has neither.No one wants to help someone who won't help himself.

Apple and Google have teamed up to launch a mobile phone tool to follow the contacts of people infected with coronavirus (冠状病毒). The technology is a form of contact tracing, a method used to identify people who may have had contact with infected individuals in an attempt to prevent additional spread of disease. If a device user becomes infected with the virus and agrees to share that information, the record could be used to inform other people that the user could have infected.

Major technology companies—including Google and Facebook—have been denounced in recent years for not protecting user privacy. In some cases, companies have been accused of secretly selling user data. In the past, Apple chief Tim Cook has criticized Facebook and Google for putting profits ahead of user privacy.

However, now numerous technology companies and organizations have been seeking to develop tools to help fight COVID-19. Health and government officials have called for such technology to help fight the current crisis.

In announcing the new system, Apple and Google said its developers had built in "strong protections around user privacy." The companies said the technology would not identify personal information or record user movements. It is designed to only catch data about when users' phones have been near each other. Data will not be kept on company servers, Apple and Google added. The two companies also said they would "openly publish information" about their work for others to examine.

Pam Dixon is director of the not-for-profit World Privacy Forum. She told The Associated Press that after discussing the new system with a top Apple official, she is convinced that people's privacy will be protected.

"I think they've taken care of some of the really big problems," she said. Dixon notes that the companies are able to turn of the system when it is no longer needed. The government is not going to have identity information of those testing positive.

Tips on How to Survive the Exam Season

When it comes to, the exam season, a lot of you may feel stressed, depressed or even want to escape. Here we have pieces of advice to help you get it through.

During the semester, going to lectures and taking a lot of notes are the first steps in the learning process. Now, at the end of the week, gather all the notes you took during the week and run through your notes quickly. If yes, great. If not, you have a lot of time left to understand before the exams take place. You can ask a friend, a teacher, you can look it up on the Internet or go to a library. This takes a little effort, but the results are great.

Switch between different types of revision.

  Something that really helps is to plan different types of active studying while revising. You can, for example, study using flashcards for an hour, then work on the summary for an hour, then have lunch, etc.

Make the facts more relatable.

There are many different ways to do so. I'm going to give you two examples and the first one is to create vivid images, which can be really helpful for studying history. The second is to make yourself familiar with new words by looking for words that look alike in other languages.

Teach and learn outside of the classroom.

In my experience, teaching is the most efficient way of studying. By explaining he materials to yourself or to someone else, you'll remember them a lot better. The idea is to sit down and take turns explaining certain topics of the study material.

Test yourself with past papers.

At the end of the whole study process, you should prepare yourself to do past apers properly. Time yourself, don't cheat, and mark it as if it were your real exam. Pay attention to the mistakes and revise the part you didn't do well on until you can't get it wrong any more.

A. Prepare yourself in advance.

B Make sure to be tough on yourself.

C. Even if you are motivated to study, everyone gets bored after a couple of hours of studying.

D. While doing this, constantly ask yourself, "Do I understand what I am reading?"

E. Ask your parents or other family members to act as teachers

F. Try to imagine how the events took place and this allows you to remember certain details more accurately. .

G. Look for a study buddy or small study group, and discuss everything you have studied before the exam.

I will never forget one summer in my childhood. While walking in the attic (阁楼)，I stepped on something and 1 down, with my hand landing on a floorboard that popped up and almost hit my head. When I 2 and looked inside the open space. I could not believe my eyes: There was gold in there! I 3 a handful of shining gold cubes, ran to the bottom stair and 4 , "Mama, I found gold up there under floor!"

Back up the stairs I dashed but my brothers almost knocked me down as they ran right by me. When mama opened the door and 5 her head in, she 6 said, "Honey, that's insulation (隔热材料). Now put it all 7 ."

I felt really disappointed. I had thought I made a real 8 .

When I 9 inside to put "the gold" back, my hand touched what felt like a book. I pulled it out. It was old and small: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, which I'd never heard of. And 10 I was bored, I decided to see what was inside this little book. To my 11 , it was a book of passages, phrases and proverbs, and I could tell that this was going to be 12 .

So I spent quite much time on it and found 13 in these pages. As I didn't know how to express things clearly, I often 14 to talk about them. This book helped me 15 that I didn't need to feel ashamed or 16 , because other people had similar experiences.

When I went to college, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations came with me. Over the years, I've kept my 17 copy, which to this day I often 18 . Although it was a coincidence (巧合) to find the book, it liberated (解放) me in a way. It helped me see more than my young mind and heart were able to 19 .

The book discovered under those floorboards was, 20, gold.

Like Peking Opera and other traditional national arts in China, Piyingxi or the shadow play show, (know) as a Chinese  (culture) heritage, has spread to many countries. Vivid design and a rich variety of (color), beautiful costumes, change of lighting, and unique singing, together make up the fascinating world of a shadow play.

As  old form of storytelling and entertainment, shadow play artists use plain figures in front of a bright cloth (create) the illusion (错觉) of moving images. The figures are usually moved  people behind a thin screen. Shadow play is not (entire) a show of shadows, but rather a show of silhouettes (剪影).

That day I (watch) a shadow play show at the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, and was fascinated by the wonderful (perform). Most young people have little understanding of what a shadow play is，despite its 2000-year-old history. It is a pity that nowadays young people don't know how to appreciate this traditional art,  is our precious folk art. Let's preserve it!

增加： 在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除： 把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改： 在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

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。

When I look at this picture, I realize of how fast time flies. I have grown not only physically, and also mental in the past few years. About 3 month after this photo was taken, I entered my second year of high school and become a new member of the school music club. Around me in picture are that were very important to me at that time, car magazines and musical instruments. I enjoyed studying different kinds of cars and planes, play pop music, and collecting the late music albums. This picture often brings back to me many happy memories of your high school days.

1）多跟同学交流沟通；

2）积极参加学校活动；

3）向老师寻求帮助。

注意： 1）词数：100左右；

2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3）开头和结尾已给出，不计人总词数。

Dear Chris,

……

Yours,

Li Hua