甘肃省张掖市2022-2023学年高二下学期第一次全市联考英语试题

A Travel Peru

Peru is a perfect touring destination: Everything from the ancient Inca culture and centuries-old Spanish villages to deep rainforests, high mountains, and a beautiful coastline.

Amazon Rainforest Tour

Arriving at Amazon rainforest, you'll spend one day traveling by boat to your hotel in the middle of the forest. You can then spend three days exploring the rainforest with a local guide and enjoying the plants and animals unique to the rainforest.

Machu Picchu Tour

This four-day walking tour will take you to the city of MachuPicchu. There you will have a day to explore and be amazed by this ancient city. Especially amazing is the Inca's dry stone method of building. Inca builders cut stones to exact sizes so that nothing was needed to hold walls together, other than the perfect fit of the stones.

Cusco Tour

Spend four days enjoying the unique Spanish and local Indian culture high in the Andes at Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th until the 16th century. Stay in a local hotel, visit the museums, admire the architecture, enjoy the excellent local food, and go shopping at the local markets.

Lake Titicaca Tour

Enjoy the beautiful countryside as you spend a day driving along the new highway connecting Cusco to Lake Titicaca. There, a boat will take you to stay with a local Uros family on an island for three days. Both the island and Uroshomes are made of water plants from the lake.

For more information about other package tours around Peru, contact us at turinfo@travelperu. org.

Cassius Marcellus Clay was born on January 17th, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. In his younger years he had no interest in sports until an accident happened.

When Cassius was 12, his new bike was missing. Reporting the theft to Policeman Joe Martin, he said that he was going to beat whoever had taken his bike. Martin, who had been coaching youth boxing for decades, asked the boy, "Do you know how to fight?" When Cassius admitted that he didn't, the officer suggested, "You'd better learn!"

It was the beginning of his boxing career. Cassius devoted himself to boxing training. Although he wasn't very talented in boxing, he worked harder than anyone else in the gym. He'd rush to the gym every day as soon as school was over and would even train on Saturdays. Outside of the gym, Cassius stayed away from anything that would influence his training. He was showing the kind of determination and discipline that other boxers didn't have.

Under the guidance of Martin and his friend, young Clay began winning games one after another. By the age of 18 he had won 108 games, 6 Kentucky Golden Gloves championships and 2 national AAU titles.

Today he is recognized as the greatest athlete of modem times. He always carried a self confidence and believed in his ability that he can put his competitors off guard before the first round bell had even sounded.

A 14-year-old scientist took home $25,000 from a national science competition for inventing a liquid bandage that could replace antibiotics （抗生素）.

Kara Fan from San Diego, CA won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fan came up with a special liquid bandage that could replace the overuse of antibiotics. "I want to show my invention of the liquid bandage to more people. I think it is important for more people to be aware of the serious crisis and do something about it," Fan said.

The 3M Young Scientist Challenge is a national competition for middle school students, which takes place every year. The students are tasked with coming up with an idea or invention that solves existing problems.

Ten finalists are chosen to compete for the title of "America's Top Young Scientist" and a grand prize of $25,000. After being selected, they work with scientists to make their idea come to life. Each competitor is judged on their invention's creativity, scientific knowledge, persuasiveness（ 说 服 力 ） and communication, and overall presentation. Apart from Kara Fan, other finalists included Jaya Choudray, who invented an airflow control robot that helps to save energy in a home, and Caroline Crouchley, who invented a climate-friendly transportation system that doesn't need a diesel engine or electric motors.

3M holds the competition for students in grades 5-8 because its research has shown that their interest in science fades, which is terrible for a country. And they want to inspire the young to develop love in science.

Cities are diverse ecosystems. In addition to visitors from the wild, such as coyotes（丛林狼） in Los Angeles or boars （野猪）in Berlin, a large number of species share our urban areas. As our cities spread, we need to think about what it is like for other species to have human neighbors.

Because cities are built for humans, they do not always provide suitable habitats for wildlife. For example, most city parks are kept neat and tidy so that humans will find them beautiful. But when we cut grass or plant flowers, we destroy natural habitats.

Our actions sometimes help other species. When a bridge in Austin, Texas was repaired, engineers added small gaps running along the length of its bottom. This made a good home for bats, and soon the bridge was the home of thousands of bats. At first, people were afraid of the bats and tried to get rid of them. Now, they have come to value their winged neighbors. The bats are a tourist attraction, and they eat lots of bugs every night.

There are also structures built with the aim of bringing wildlife into the city. The Beijing Olympic Forest Park is a good example. The park used native plants and created open, natural spaces for wildlife. The result is a zone in Beijing with over 160 species of birds. In many ways, the park is the opposite of a zoo. Instead of being kept in cages, wildlife can move about freely.

Another example is a 2011 proposal for a tall "Birdscraper" building in New York. The building is intended to protect birds and fight pollution at the same time. It would be in the middle of a lake, birds would sit on it, and their droppings would fall into the water. The droppings would

help wafer plants grow well and then create oxygen through photosynthesis （光合作用）. If we learn to share our space, we can become better neighbors to the wildlife around us. If we do not, more species will become extinct and our own future will be endangered.

With the cold weather drawing nearer, few people will choose swimming as a daily or usual activity. . Here come the reasons.

Good for your brain.

Swimming is one of the best activities you can do all year round, which benefits your body and your mind. Swimming has been found to increase blood flow to the brain, which leads to more oxygen.

Work your muscles.

Every time you swim, it is like doing a mini-resistance work out. Eachkicks and pull works your muscles more than you could imagine, especially your arms, shoulders and glute us — the muscles that are in active all day when you're sitting at your desk.So along with building fitness, it is a wonderful full body exercise.

Lift your spirits.

  They can cause a positive feeling into your body which makes you happy. Swimming has been shown to reduce stress and tension. The repetition, movement and the breathing can help you to relax, and that's why swimming is also regarded as a relaxing exercise.

While swimming is an individual sport, it is also very social. You can meet people from all walks of life when swimming. Have a chat in the lap pool, join a swimming club or get involved in social water sports to get to know people in your community. Besides, the great thing about swimming is that you can do it — rain or shine. Although your backward backyard pool, the river or beach cools down over winter, most inside swimming pools run heated pools year round, so you've got no excuse to stop swimming.

A. Meet new people. B. Benefit your body.

C. These chemicals can control your thought and action.

D. However, swimming in winter is of great benefit in cold days.

E. And that means you're experiencing better memory and sharp mind.

F. Exercise gives off chemicals in your body called endorphins （内啡肽）.

G. Swimming also works your abs （腹肌）and will reduce your waist line.

When I think of the word perfect, I think of something only a few can achieve, anything that I can compare myself to. For a few weeks, I have been1  one girl who is in a few of my middle school classes.It seemslikeshe has a  2 life- lots of friends, all A's, and everything anyone could ever want,  3 in my point of view.

One day, I was talking to my teacher about one of the upcoming tests when I saw the girl 4   me in a strange way. I    5   started to feel surprised and think, "Why is shelooking at me? Did I do something wrong? Is my hair messed up?" When the class was dismissed and everyone was 6 to their next class, she caught up to me and said," I just thought you should know, I think you are really 7  . "I then watched her as she walked away and thought, "She thinks I am pretty?"

The whole day, I 8 up thinking about one thing. That was, "Why does she think that?" After thinking about that 9 in my head through each second of the day, I came to learn one big10 : everyone has their own in securities even though they may not be discovered on the 11 . In this case, I was thinking that she was everything I wanted to be and she thought the     12 of me. Both of us are not perfect. It is our 13 to either accept that and love ourselves or keep torturing(折磨) ourselves with 14   . I think that being able to fully love yourself is the  15 meaning of the word perfect.

A promising subject will provide you with knowledge and also better career(opportunity). Sowhat subject should you choose in college? In October, Shanghai Ranking Consultancy  (announce) the 2020 edition of the Best Chinese Subjects ranking.

The ranking selected the universities on the Chinese mainland,   offer master's degrees in 96 national first-level subjects. (base) on factors such as research projects, awards and achievements etc, the consultancy evaluated the universities' performances in eachsubject.

  (fortunate), in terms of quantity, Zhejiang University ranked first with 59 subjects on the list, followed by Tsinghua and Wuhan University with 58 entries each.

There are 236 subjects from 90 universities that  (regard) as "top Chinese subjects". Peking University and Tsinghua University tied for first place with 24 top subjects. Eight subjects of Zhejiang University ranked among the top three,  (include) optical engineering andcivil engineering. Subjects were classified into 13 fields. For computer science and software engineering, Tsinghua University had the  (high) score.

Experts point out that number of subjects provided by Chinese universities is growing. Meanwhile, thanks consistent investment （投资）into China' shigher education departments and programs like the Double First-Class Initiative （双一流）, the academic programs are improving.

My six year old boy Jonathan broke a limb（枝条） of my azalea( 杜鹃花) bush and asked me, "Can I take this to school today, mom"? With a wave of my hand, I sent him off. And then I turned my back so he couldn't see the tears in my eyes.

I was in low spirits all day, washing and drying clothes, and thinking how love had disappeared from my life. As hanging up the last of my husband's shirts, I looked at the clock-4 :30. Jonathan's class ended at 3: 15. It was late and I hurriedly drove to the school.

I was out of breath by the time I knocked on the teacher's door. I peered through the glass. She opened the door and let me in.

"I want to talk to you about Jonathan," she said. I prepared myself for the worst. Nothing would have surprised me. "Did you know Jonathan brought flowers to school today?" she asked. I nodded, thinking about my favorite bush and trying to hide the hurt in my eyes.

"Let me tell you what happened yesterday,"" the teacher continued. "See that little girl?"I saw a bright eyed child laugh and point to a colorful picture taped to the wall.

"Well, yesterday she was almost crazy. Her mother and father are going through a divorce. She told me she didn't want to live. She wished she could die. I did all I could to comfort her, but it only seemed to make matters worse. "

"Today I  watched your son walk to  that child and hand her some pretty pink flowers, whispering something. "

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Para. 1 I knew at once what had happened and felt my heart swell with pride.