浙江省温州市苍南县2021-2022学年高二下学期第一次月考英语试题

Although Adrian Wood had already sent her three oldest children off to White Oak Elementary School in Edenton, North Carolina, she was anxious when it was her youngest son Amos's turn to start classes. Adrian said, "Sending Amos to school was such a different path. He was 3 when he started school. He had autism（自闭症）and he didn't speak."

Amos struggled to make friends and fit in, but there was always one person there who was very happy to see him. Raymond Brown has worked at the school as a guard for the past 15 years. All of the students know and love him, and he's truly a friend to all. He started calling Adrian's son "Famous Amos" on day one. To the mom's surprise, Amos quickly began responding with a cheerful "Hey, Brown" whenever he saw him. "He wasn't even saying 'daddy' at home, so it was really something, "Adrian said.

"Amos is a hard friend to have," Adrian explained, "He takes a lot more than he gives and that's tough for children. But those kids saw that he was popular and loved, and they started fighting over who would get to hold Amos' hand on the way to the classroom. It meant so much to me that he was favored by the other children at school, and Mr. Brown had a big hand in that."

About a year ago, school officials nominated Mr. Brown for North Carolina's School Hero, a $20,000 prize. When the results came out and he didn't win, Adrian was heartbroken. She couldn't let the disappointing results stand, so she took to Facebook and created an annual "Famous Amos" prize for Mr. Brown in their community. Her neighbors answered the call, donating $35,000 in just one week! Townspeople and school officials gathered in March to celebrate Mr. Brown and give him the money they'd raised. Principal Michelle handed him a giant check and thanked him for everything he does to help kids like Amos find their way.

    Mary Lyon was a leader in women's education in the nineteenth century. It was a time when women's education was not considered important in the United States. States did require each town to provide a school for children, but there were not enough teachers. Most young women were not able to continue their education. If they did, they often were not taught much except the French language, how to sew clothing, and music.

    Mary Lyon felt that women's education was extremely important. She believed women were teachers both in the home and in the classroom. Mary opened a school for young women in the village of Buckland. She suggested new ways of teaching, including holding discussion groups for students.

    Then, Mary began to raise money for her dream school for the higher education of women. This school would own its own property (财产), guided by an independent group of direction. Its finances would be the responsibility of the directors. It would not depend on any one person to continue. And, the students would share in cleaning and cooking to keep costs down. In 1837, Mary Lyon opened Mount Holyoke Seminary for Women. In 1893, 34 years after her death, under a state law, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary became the first college to offer women the same kind of education as men.

    Mary's efforts led to the spread of higher education for women in the United States. Her influence lasted as the many students from her schools went out to teach others.

When the explorers first set foot upon the continent of North America, the skies and lands were alive with an astonishing variety of wildlife. Native Americans had taken care of these precious natural resources wisely. Unfortunately, it took the explorers and the settlers who followed only a few decades to decimate a large part of these resources. Millions of waterfowl (水禽) were killed at the hands of market hunters and a handful of overly ambitious sportsmen. Millions of acres of wetlands were dried to feed and house the ever-increasing populations, greatly reducing waterfowl habitat (栖息地).

In 1934, with the passage of the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act (Act), an increasingly concerned nation took firm action to stop the destruction of migratory (迁徙的) waterfowl and the wetlands so vital to their survival.Under this Act, all waterfowl hunters 16 years of age and over must annually purchase and carry a Federal Duck Stamp. The very first Federal Duck Stamp was designed by J.N. "Ding" Darling a political cartoonist from Des Moines, lowa, who at that time was appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt as Director of the Bureau of Biological Survey. Hunters willingly pay the stamp price to ensure the survival of our natural resources.

About 98 cents of every duck stamp dollar goes directly into the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund to purchase wetlands and wildlife habitat for inclusion into the National Wildlife Refuge System — a fact that ensures this land will be protected and available for all generations to come. Since 1934, better than half a billion dollars has gone into that Fund to purchase more than 5 million acres of habitat. Little wonder the Federal Duck Stamp Program has been called one of the most successful conservation programs ever initiated.

Do you know what makes you happy? Write a list of all the things that make you happy. How many of them are fun? Most of them? So, if you spend your time doing all these fun things, you'll be really happy, won't you?

Well, maybe not. For most people, fun isn't enough for real happiness. Paul Dolan wrote a book called Happiness by Design. If most of the things on your list are about pleasure, that is what you think makes you happy. But you also need activities with purpose.

It's easy to do well in subjects you like, but subjects you don't like are less motivating. They're not fun for you, but you have to study them so you need to find purpose. An "A" in a subject you hate won't help the world. Each person can study one part until they understand it and then teach it to the rest of the group. The purpose becomes helping the team.

Go back to your list of things that make you happy. Can you add any? Remember, some activities might bring both pleasure and purpose.

Now you need to design a happy life. Paul Dolan believes people should "decide, design, do". First decide what brings you pleasure and/or purpose -that means your two lists. For example, you might love riding a bike but never have time to do it. So, ride to school or the library or the shops. Some parts of our lives are good or bad luck, but we can still design the rest to make more happiness.

A. But can you be part of a study team with friends?

B. How many of them are activities that bring purpose?

C. There are different ways we can find pleasure in things.

D. He thinks happiness comes from both pleasure and purpose.

E. If you're a student, your "job" is studying and passing exams.

F. If you think something makes you happy, then it makes you happy.

G. Then, don't just think about these activities, fill your life with them.

A woman was walking along the beach on a damp day, lost in thought. Suddenly she was 1 back to reality by a sound of someone shouting. It was from a man. just visible through the 2. His arms wide, he shouted "Come, blessings!" He took a 3 in one direction and then another, shouting constantly, "Come, blessings, come!"

The woman stopped 4 the scene. Here was a man she thought calling blessings into his life 5 and eagerly. It was such a pure, direct spiritual call for something he 6. She started walking toward the man, hoping to speak to him and express her 7 to him for the inspiration she had got from his calling. As she walked, the wind continued to 8 his voice. "Come: blessings! Come: blessings, come!" She started to speak the simple yet 9 words along with him feeling 10 inspired each time.

Just then, a big floppy-eared(耳朵松软的) dog suddenly jumped toward the man from the mist with 11. The woman now was 12 enough to hear him crying to the dog: "Blessings! There you are! I thought I had 13 you!"

At first the woman felt 14 for making such a ridiculous mistake. She 15 a dog named Blessings for a wonderful moment of communication with God. But 16 she continued her walk: she smiled contentedly. She had received the inspiration to ask clearly and plainly for the 17 and other blessings she longed for. It was 18, even if the bearer of the message had four legs and a tail.

Perhaps, she thought it was not a 19 that the man had named his dog Blessings. And perhaps the dog had not been lost 20.

How do you call blessings like hope and peace into your life?

    Some time after 10, 000 BC, people made the first real attempt to control the world they lived , through agriculture. Over thousands of years, they began to depend less on could be hunted or gathered from the wild, and more on animals they had raised and crops they had sown.

    Farming produced more food per person hunting and gathering, so people were able to raise more children. And, as more children were born, more food (need). Agriculture gave people their first experience of the power of technology (change) lives.

    By about 6000 BC, people (discover) the best crops to grow and animals to raise. Later, they learned to work with the (season), planting at the right time and, in dry areas, (make)use of annual floods to irrigate(灌溉)their fields.

    This style of farming lasted for quite a long time. Then, with rise of science, changes began. New methods (mean) that fewer people worked in farming. In the last century or so, these changes have accelerated. New power machinery and artificial fertilizers(化肥)have now totally transformed a way of life that started in the Stone Age.

He must a bad cold, for he has got a sore throat.

I will you no matter what happens.

A terrible fire in the building last night.

(the fact) that Qian Xuesen was a great success.

It's high time that we dealt with the problem of air pollution .

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Dear Terry,

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Yours,

Li Hua