广东省惠州市重点中学2022-2023学年高三11月第四轮测英语

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Perhaps you have ever heard the saying: Change is the only constant. Everyone, without doubt, goes through changes in their life, whether it is a physical state of aging or a mental state of emotional maturity. However, some are afraid to make the conscious decision to move or they think it's too late to have a fresh start.

I have a friend named Jack. At the age of 37, he is a Senior Manager at one of the Big Four. He has a great salary, owns his own apartment and enjoys the fine things in life, but not without the heavy burdens that his job brings. On the surface, it looks like he has got life figured out. Yet when I once asked if he was happy with his work, he answered that he some- times wished to quit his job to do something less stressful. But he'd become accustomed to this lifestyle and felt that it would be too late to give it up to achieve a new ambition.

For him, the risks are too high, so whether he can't abide his present job or not, he has to choose to suck it up. You might have come to a similar situation as Jack's or you might be a Jack. You're now facing a wall. No matter what it is—the stress of your job or the terrible feeling, it's time that you had to decide whether you'll tear down that wall or continue to let it enclose you. I suggest pushing back the boundaries and breaking the fixed patterns. Why do you feel it's too late to start over? That is simply because you're comparing yourself with others—younger or more successful individuals. In fact, you should compare yourself with the older version of you.

Don't become that person who lets life pass by only to regret it when you are making your way into old age. Don't let your life plateau（停滞不前）and waste away in the daily chores. Don't give up the potential you still have hidden and be locked away by your current state. Now, you'd better bravely start going after the things you want to do, without abandoning your dreams, ambitions and responsibilities.

A 2020 study in the journal Science concluded that marine heat waves have increased more than 20-fold as a result of climate warming. The authors found that in the first decade after satellites began recording ocean temperatures (i.e., after 1981), there were 27 large marine heat waves, with an average duration of 32 days and an average peak temperature anomaly of 8.5°F; in the 2010s, there were 172, which lasted 48 days on average with an average peak temperature almost 10°F above normal.

Much remains unclear about marine heat waves. For example, explains Nicholas Bond, research scientist at the University of Washington and Washington's state climatologist, there is the question of why so many persist for weeks or months. "There must be something else going on that helps maintain them," he says. He notes that one explanation is that as the ocean surface warms, it radiates heat into the atmosphere that prevents cloud cover from forming, exposing the seawater to increased sunlight and further warming.

However, enough is known about marine heat waves for scientists to be gravely concerned about their potential impacts. Of special note is the fact that those impacts can last long after the heat waves have disappeared. After three years of the Blob, the waters of the northeastern Pacific began to cool in 2016; but years later, scientists are still determining the extent to which the region's ecosystem is likely to return fully to its pre-Blob status. Similarly, notes Scannell, who is a data scientist with Jupiter Intelligence, Inc., following the 2010-11 Western Australia event, "lots of kelp (巨藻) forests died, and it takes literally decades for those ecosystems to bounce back".

Eric Oliver, a scientist from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, expressed his own opinion about the potential impact of the heat waves in tropical waters. "I think that's really a tough issue," he says. Life in the tropics, he notes, is adapted to "quite a narrow range of temperatures. So that's where things can get really messy. We can have complete shifts in tropical systems."

Living in a city is a well-known risk factor for developing a mental disorder, while living close to nature is largely beneficial for mental health and the brain. A central brain region, the amygdala (大脑杏仁核) involved in stress processing, has been shown to be less activated during stress in people living in rural areas, compared to those who live in cities, hinting at the potential benefits of nature. "But so far the hen-and-egg problem could not be resolved, namely whether nature actually caused the effects in the brain or whether the particular individuals chose to live in rural or urban regions," says Sonja Sudimac.

To achieve causal evidence, the researchers from the group examined brain activity in regions involved in stress processing in 63 healthy volunteers before and after a one-hour walk in Grunewald forest or a shopping street with traffic in Berlin. The results revealed that activity in the amygdala decreased after the walk in nature, suggesting that nature elicits beneficial effects on brain regions related to stress.

"The results support the previously assumed positive relationship between nature and brain health, but this is the first study to prove the causal link. Interestingly, the brain activity after the urban walk in these regions remained stable and showed no increases, which argues against a commonly held view that urban exposure causes additional stress," explains Simone Kühn, head of the group.

The authors show that nature has a positive impact on brain regions involved in stress processing and that it can already be observed after a one-hour walk. This contributes to the understanding of how our physical living environment affects brain and mental health. Even a short exposure to nature decreases amygdala activity, suggesting that a walk in nature could serve as a preventive measure against developing mental health problems and reducing the potentially disadvantageous impact of the city on the brain.

In order to investigate beneficial effects of nature in different populations and age groups, the researchers are currently working on a study examining how a one-hour walk in natural versus urban environments impacts stress in mothers and their babies.

It's a long debated topic: Which is more effective, group studying or studying alone?

We've all experienced getting together with classmates to study for an upcoming exam and spending the entire time talking or joking around. So if you are the one who can be so distracting, it's strongly recommended that you should study alone. The following are some benefits of studying alone.

1） Minimum distractions

When you lock yourself away in your room, there tend to be less distractions than when you are studying in a group. There are literally no distractions, unless you1 re the one who feels the need to clean everything when you study.

2）Personal study environment

You may require classical music, a comfortable room, and a cup of tea while you study. Someone else may require complete silence, and no snacks at all. Studying alone allows you to set the perfect study environment so you get the most out of studying. Some students learn best with flashcards, while others learn best when they reread chapters. Find your learning style, and you can get better results.

3）Personalized learning content

Only when you study alone, you're able to focus on exactly those topics. It's easy to look over the material you1 re already familiar with. The hard part of studying is to learn what you don't understand.

A. You can learn whatever you like.

B. Nobody is moving around or talking near you.

C. That is what you can¹1 achieve in group studying.

D. Everyone is different, which means everyone learns differently.

E. There may be some topics in class that you really need to work on.

F. You leave the group without accomplishing anything to get you ready for your exam.

G. Studying alone also allows you to use the study strategies that are the most effective for your learning style.

The fourth-graders walk up to a mirror — one after another — at a school in southwest Atlanta.

"I'm a good person!" a boy 1 a face mask adds.

Another boy follows, "I'm strong and 2," before hurriedly walking away. In the background, their teacher, Acker, holds up the mirror in front of the kids and 3 them on. "Yes! Louder! Love it!" she calls out.

Acker teaches science at Gideons Elementary School, and she's on a 4 to boost her students' confidence and 5. The kids returned to school this month after a year of virtual learning, and said their 6 words every morning before class starts.

Acker 7 this with her 5-year-old daughter since she developed verbal language skills, and loved how they both felt 8. "The best part about doing the affirmations is the feeling after I say them," Acker says. "And the feeling I see my students feel or that they 9 after they do it. Their attitude is better, their self-confidence is 10 and we have a better day."

Mental health issues are 11 among children nationwide as they struggle with 12, uncertainty and pandemic. Many adults report that the pandemic has been hard on their mental health. For kids, some experts say, it has become a(n) 13.

And more so this year, kids "need all of the kindness and compassion we can 14," says Dr. Marcuetta, a psychologist.

Children develop their 15 based on how grown-ups speak to them, making teachers a key influence and positive affirmation a crucial first step, she adds.

Porcelain, also called fine china, (feature) its delicate texture, pleasing color, and refined sculpture, has been one of the (good) artworks introduced to the Western world through the Silk Road. The earliest one (find) made of Kaolin (高岭土) in the Shang Dynasty (17^th-11^th century BC), and possessed the common aspects of the smoothness and unaffected quality of hard enamel (瓷釉), while pottery wares (陶器) were more widely used among most of the ordinary people. Anyway it was the beginning. In the following (dynasty), due to its durability and shine, porcelain rapidly became necessity of daily life, (especial) in the middle and upper class. It was made the form of all kinds of items, such as bowls, cups, tea sets, vases, jewel cases, musical instruments and boxes, as well as pillows for traditional doctors to feel one's pulse.

Through the development of over 4000 years, now is still a brilliant kind of art that attracts thousands of people. The Porcelain Capital, Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province, has been praised for thousands of years, will be certain (satisfy) your appetite for beauty.

1）考试不诚信的现象；

2）诚信考试的重要性；

3）你的呼吁。

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1）词数80左右;

2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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When school was over, the day was fading and it started to drizzle(毛毛雨). I stood at the school gate, with a loaded backpack on my shoulders. It was Friday again: a weekend of joy with unlimited sleeping hours and dinner courses specially made to my taste, a weekend at home. I waved goodbye to my friends as they jumped into their fathers' warm and comfortable cars. Curiously, this gave rise to a disturbing feeling in me. It was not exactly what they called jealousy, but something like dismay(沮丧). I knew all I could expect was an old bike Mom would ride along on, with the badly-oiled chain creaking(嘎吱作响) against the wheel to announce her arrival.

Every Friday when Mom came to pick me up for the weekend, it was a moment full of great expectation and great unease. I always felt my face burning as we rode our way in and out of the numerous cars and saw my friends' faces sticking out of the car windows. It was like stepping into a ballroom with beautifully dressed ladies and finding yourself in a smelly T-shirt.

To tell you the truth, Mom is quite a headache once in a while. She just looks a homely middle-aged housewife. Being a practitioner of DIY, she knits most of my sweaters, chiefly in old styles. Whenever caught by some curious classmates asking what brand my sweaters are, I'd force a smile and reply in a half joking manner: homemade.

I couldn't remember when I started to find her such an embarrassment. As a little boy, I relied on her so much. She had been working at home, cooking in the kitchen, knitting by the lamp or riding across town to buy me a book I badly needed. It had always been much fun riding with mom. But just now there seemed to be something standing between us, something that made her so strange to me and me to her.

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Today she showed up in a raincoat.

……

Mom tried to cover me with the back of the raincoat again as a storm set in.