四川省宜宾市翠屏区2022-2023学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题

    Choose Your One-Day-Tours!

Tour A - Bath &Stonehenge including entrance fees to the ancient Roman bathrooms and Stonehenge -￡37 until 26 March and ￡39 thereafter. Visit the city with over 2,000 years of history and Bath Abbey, the Royal Crescent and the Costume Museum, Stonehenge is one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5,000 years.

Tour B - Oxford & Stratford including entrance fees to the University St Mary's Church Tower and Anne Hathaway's -￡32 until 12 March and ￡36 thereafter. Oxford: Includes a guided tour of England's oldest university city and colleges. Look over the "city of dreaming spires(尖顶）" from St Mary's Church Tower. Stratford: Includes a guided tour exploring much of the Shakespeare wonder.

Tour C - Windsor Castle &Hampton Court: including entrance fees to Hampton Court Palace -￡34 until 11 March and ￡37 thereafter. Includes a guided tour of Windsor and Hampton Court, Henry VILL's favorite palace. Free time to visit Windsor Castle(entrance fees not included).With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four Kings and one Queen. Now this former royal palace is open to the public as a major tourist attraction. Visit the palace and its various historic gardens, which include the famous maze(迷宫) where it is easy to get lost!

Tour D –Cambridge including entrance fees to the Tower of Saint Mary the Great -￡33 until 18 March and ￡37 thereafter. Includes a guided tour of Cambridge, the famous university town, and the gardens of the 18th century.

    When I was 3 years old, I was found to be deaf in my left ear and have a small problem in my right. Being hard of hearing has been difficult, but I've never lived in a state of self-hating sorrow.

    Imagine being able to shut out all sounds as you lay your head down to sleep by simply rolling over onto one side. That's my reality when I sleep on my “good ear”, and it even makes me feel like a superhero sometimes.

    People call my deaf side my “bad ear”, but when I wear my hearing aid, I have access to a range of features(特征)that some other deaf people don't.

    In cinemas, for example, with one click of a button I can enjoy a whole film as though it were whispered to me from the mouths of the actors.

    Having a hearing aid hasn't always felt good, however.

    On the first day I got my aid, when I was 8, I took it to school for show-and-tell. As I explained how it worked to my classmates, a boy yelled out, “Aren't those for old men?”

    At that moment, I felt different. It took a long time for me to get over that sense of being so unlike my peers(同龄人).

    But it's not just choolkids who can make us deaf and hard-of-hearing people feel like burdens(负担).

    Every video on social media that lacks subtitles, for example, means an entire community of deaf people is unable to enjoy it.

    Completely deaf people are excluded from enjoying many movies too, as subtitles in cinemas are almost impossible to find.

    And with hearing aids costing around $2,500 each, it can be hard for many people to afford to be able to listen to the things that others take for granted.

    As for me, I can listen to music, enjoy films, and catch conversations – I'm lucky.

I'm deaf, but I can still hear everything. I've been blessed with wonderful life experiences.

Chocolate could soon be a thing of the past, after scientists warned that the cacao plant, from which chocolate is made, could disappear within 32 years.

Over half of the world's chocolate comes from just two countries in West Africa-Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana-where the temperature, rain, and humidity (湿度) provide the perfect conditions for cacao to grow. But the threat of rising temperatures over the next three decades caused by climate change, is expected to result in a loss of water from the ground, which scientists say could upset this balance.

According to the related data, a temperature rise of just 2.1℃ could spell an end for the chocolate industry worldwide by 2050. Farmers in the region are already considering moving cacao production areas thousands of feet uphill into mountainous area — much of which is currently preserved for wildlife. But a move like this could destroy ecosystems that are already under threat from illegal farming and deforestation.

Part of the problem, according to Doug Hawkins, is that cacao farming methods have not changed for hundreds of years. "Unlike other tree crops that have benefited from the development of modern, high producing kinds and crop management techniques to realize their genetic potential (潜能), more than 90% of the global cocoa crop is produced by small farms with unimproved planting material," he said, "It means that we could be facing a chocolate decrease of 100,000 tons a year in the next few years."

Now scientists at the University of California at Berkeley have teamed up with American candy company Mars to keep chocolate on the menu. Using the controversial (有争议的) gene-editing technology known as CRISPR they are trying to develop a type of the cacao plant able to survive in dryer, warmer climates. If the team's work on the cacao plant is successful, it could remove the need for farmers in West Africa to relocate to higher ground, and perhaps even allow cacao to be grown elsewhere in the world.

A couple from Miami, Bill and Simone Butler, spent sixty-six days in a life-raft(救生艇) in the seas of Central America after their boat sank.

Twenty-one days after they left Panama in their boat, Simony, they met some whales(鲸鱼). "They started to hit the side of the boat," said Bill, "and then suddenly we heard water." Two minutes later, the boat was sinking. They jumped into the life-raft and watched the boat go under the water.

For twenty days they had tins of food, biscuits, and bottles of water. They also had a fishing-line and a machine to make salt water into drinking water — two things which saved their lives. They caught eight to ten fish a day and ate them raw(生的). Then the line broke. "So we had no more fish until something very strange happened. Some sharks(鲨鱼) came to feed, and the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the surface. I caught them with my hands."

About twenty ships passed them, but no one saw them. After fifty days at sea their life-raft was beginning to break up. Then suddenly it was all over. A fishing boat saw them and picked them up. They couldn't stand up. So the captain carried them onto his boat and took them to Costa Rica. Their two months at sea was over.

Make Stress Work for You

Stress can come from all directions. Rather than only looking for ways to change the stress-filled situations, look for stress that can work for you. These methods are suggestions to make stress work in your favor.

Colors of the walls, floor coverings, and furniture can reduce stress. Cooling greens and blues are positive colors that can reduce stress and create a sense of well-being.

Choose friends carefully. Your choice of friends can be the key to stress reduction. Friends should be people who help us to increase our strengths and create solutions to stressful situations.

Stop and look at yourself. Take time to recognize signs of stress like anger, work and sleep habits. As you become aware of these signs, you are beginning to identify how to make stress work.

We can accept what we cannot change by changing what we can Make choices that are realistic, not out of reach.

Don't say yes to everything. Recognize what your strengths are and focus on taking the time to do a project built on them. Taking on too many projects results in loss of control and creates stress.

Maintain a sense of humor. And laughing creates less wrinkles (皱纹) than worrying.

A. We live in a stress-filled world.

B. Leave time for the unexpected.

C. Accept what cannot be changed.

D. Create environments that reduce stress.

E. They support us and make us feel that we are not alone.

F. Laughing at oneself can release potential stress from the inside.

G. When you come across a difficult situation, stop and think of how to use it to make things better.

Many things didn't come easily for Jenny as she grew up. Simple activities like speaking clearly, walking and writing were1 because of cerebral palsy (大脑性麻痹). However, her parents' 2, combined with Jenny's own determination, proves miracles are3.

When Jenny's parents4 she was suffering from cerebral palsy as a baby, doctors advised them to5 her up. "She will never care for herself, smile or even recognize her parents. Why not have another child that would be6 and won't take so much effort to raise?" said the doctors. 7 to follow such advice, Jenny's parents instead8 helping their daughter become better. They offered her great care. Their efforts were 9 as Jenny's health steadily improved. Then one day, Jenny said that she was10 to turn seven. If she still couldn't walk or write, how could she succeed in school? Thus, Jenny and her parents faced a new11.

At age eight Jenny's vocabulary went beyond that of other 8-year-olds, 12 she couldn't speak clearly. Poor health prevented her from going to13, so Jenny's dad bought a computer for her to study at home. Her health14 so much that she began to walk at age 12.Then, at 15, Jenny discovered something that15 the door to the rest of the world: English. Jenny can 16 with two fingers but can't write by hand. 17 this, she had to learn English strictly through memorization. Her mom helped by circling18 words in the magazines she studied, and then she looked up the words in an e-dictionary. Soon she could19 entire articles without help.

Now Jenny works as a part-time translator and she also hopes to help others with disabilities become20 someday.

Venice of Italy is one of the world's top tourist (destination). Before the COVID-19, around 20 million visitors visited the city a year, which caused many problems such as pollution from ships and being overcrowded. (deal) with these problems, city officials are planning to charge tourists for visiting the city's historical centre and its beautiful canals (运河). According to Italian La Stampa newspaper, visitors may spend between 3 euros and 10 euros (enter) into Venice. This probably starts from summer of 2022. There are also plans to set a limit on the number of visitors can enter the centre each day. may be necessary for tourists to book their visit to Venice ahead of time.

Venice officials (talk) for many years about the number of visitors crowding to the city. Environmentalists are (extreme) worried about the damage the ships do to undersea species in the Venice Lagoon. Venice's famous squares and architecture are also ad-vised to put under the (protect). Italian Culture Minister says that Venice should (add) to the list of Danger Sites of United Nations' culture agency. However, a hotel worker says Venice needs tourists because they spend big.

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

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。

I'd like to share some ideas on why to have a healthy family. First, parents are supposing to treat their children equally, which is important for the family. Beside, children and parents benefit from have some day-to-day routines. Therefore, it's necessarily to follow daily routines. In an addition, every member had better giving other members proper expectation. Finally, you should love my own family. In other words, if you want to own a healthy family, it is the positive attitude that is great importance. I hope that my advices can be helpful.

1）活动目的

2）具体内容

3）谈谈你的感想和收获体会。

注意：

1）词数100左右；

2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,

……

Yours,

Li Hua