广东省东莞市重点中学2023-2024学年高二上学期10月期中英语试题

Attractive lakeside cottages and cabins

Lafitte's Landing Guest Quarters, Uncertain, Texas

There are five cottages featuring high ceilings and spacious bedrooms. Lafitte's is a certified Backyard Wildlife Habitat, so you don't have to go far for bird-watching. Explore the lake on a steamboat, or head to Caddo Lake State Park for night adventures such as Owl Nights and Bat Watches.

Rates: Summer nightly rates range from $559 to $1,899

Lake Placid Lodge, Lake Placid, New York

With 17 cabins sitting along the shores of Lake Placid, the arts-and-crafts-style Lake Placid Lodge offers an exciting summer lake experience. Lakefront cabins come outfitted with hand-built beds and stone fireplaces. Go for a hike, or hit the lake for swimming, fishing, or boating.

Rates: Rates are $120 per night for double occupancy; each additional person is $20 per night.

Lake Crescent Lodge, Olympic National Park, Washington

Its cottages and cabins are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Choose between one-and two-bedroom Singer Tavern Cottages, or stay in the always favored (and often booked) Roosevelt Fireplace Cabins. Spend your days hiking in the surrounding Olympic National Park, or exploring Lake Crescent by boat.

Rates: Nightly rates for cottages and cabins range between $317 and $398.

Tamarack Lodge Resort, Mammoth Lakes, California

It is on the peaceful shores of the Twin Lakes. Choose between recently built Deluxe Cabins and old wood-and-stone cabins. Swimming, fishing, boating, biking, and hiking are popular pastimes.

Rates: Summer cabin rates range from $369 to $999 per night.

The widely known Spanish festival of San Fermin (西班牙奔牛节) started on Monday. The nine days of festival, where‘the running of the bulls' is one of the main attractions, is made up of a rocket fired into the air from the town hall in front of a crowded main square. Thousands of people from around the world would gather at the square and more would spend those days in the city enjoying the festival which involves many activities of different kinds accompanied by drinking and eating．

The program includes 459 main activities.Around 71 percent of them involve music, there are around 82 activities for families and there will also be fireworks, apart from the main attraction, ‘the running of the bulls'. The ‘running of the bulls' takes place every morning and thousands of people run alongside and in front of the bulls. Every year there are injured people and some have been killed all over the years, while the bulls are killed in the afternoon bullfight. 3,350 members of the police will watch over the festival and more than 100 members of the Red Cross will attend the ‘running of the bulls' to deal with injured people．

The festival was vividly depicted by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises which made the festival internationally known. The festival dates back to the 13th century and the origin is the celebration of the patron saint(守护神) of Pamplona. This celebration was originally held on October 10 but in 1591 people from Pamplona changed the date to July to enjoy better weather and when the livestock market(牲畜市场) took place, although bullfights were first documented in the 14th century．

I have a special place in my heart for libraries. I have for as long as I can remember. I was always an enthusiastic reader, sometimes reading up to three books a day as a child. Stories were like air to me and while other kids played ball or went to parties, I lived out adventures through the books I checked out from the library.

My first job was working at the Ukiah Library when I was 16 years old. It was a dream job and I did everything from shelving books to reading to the children for story time.

As I grew older and became a mother, the library took on a new place and an added meaning in my life. I had several children and books were our main source(来源) of entertainment. It was a big deal for us to load up and go to the local library, where my kids could pick out books to read or books they wanted me to read to them.

I always read ,using different voices ,as though I were acting out the stories with my voice and they loved it! It was a special time to bond with my children and it filled them with the wonderment of books .

Now, I see my children taking their children to the library and I love that the excitement of going to the library lives on form generation to generation.

As a novelist, I've found a new relationship with libraries. I encourage readers to go to their local library when they can't afford to purchase a book. I see libraries as a safe haven(避风港) for readers and writers, a bridge that helps put together a reader with a book. Libraries, in their own way, help fight book piracy(盗版行为) and 1 think all writers should support libraries in a significant way when they can. Encourage readers to use the library. Share library announcements on your social media. Frequent them and talk about them when you can.

Social Media

Social media can be defined as web-based mobile media that are used for people to interact, connect and communicate with each other. It often involves the creation and sharing of content( writing, pictures and videos) that people make themselves, mostly through the Internet.

 The first type involves people getting together to work on a project, for example, Wikipedia. Blogs and microblogs (such as Twitter) are another type of social media. There are other websites like YouTube that allow people to share content such as pictures, articles or videos.  These sites allow people to stay in touch with friends, make new ones and join communities. Facebook is an example of this type. Many people like to play games on the Internet and, yes, there are social media games as well. These games allow gamers to interact with each other and play with or against other gamers. The popular game World of Warcraft is a good example. The final type of social media is websites like Second Life, where people can picture they are in the real world. 

Social media are different from traditional media. With social media, many individual people in different places create content. Another difference is that people who produce content in social media don't need very special skills.  It takes only a few minutes to write a twitter post, for example.

 But whatever you might think, social media is here to stay.

A. And social media can be produced much faster.

B. In general, there are six different types of social media.

C. Another type of social media is social networking sites.

D. They can also create avatars (化身) and use and create objects.

E. Some people think social media is good and some think it is bad.

F. In traditional media, people need special skills to produce something.

G. Social media are one of the fastest-growing industries in today's world.

It was New Year time. We were travelling in a van (货车) 1  toys to the homeless. When we 2  the spot, something caught my eye. Something or someone was moving in the rubbish. Soon I 3  that it was the home of a poor family. There were two children, both about my age at the time, and a lady I supposed to be their mother. They sat there hopelessly.

As a little girl myself I was 4  interested in the little girl. How 5  our lives were. She lived for the day, 6  through the rubbish for something to fill her stomach. I on the other hand was well looked after and never had to worry about 7 . I had a good education and thus a 8  future. I looked at the little girl. The only 9  she had was the worn-out dress that she was wearing.

Seeing this little girl I made the decision to give away a doll that had belonged to me straight away. When the van came to a 10 , I stepped out, called the girl over and 11 the doll in her hand. At first she looked at me with 12 and wasn't certain what to do, but then she smiled and I saw 13 in her eyes. I went back into the vehicle and we started to 14 off, and that's when we realized the little girl was running behind. We stopped again and opened the door. The girl had 15 with us. She looked directly at me and said two simple words "Thank You".

It was  a close women basketball match between China and Japan  all the audience were holding their breath from the beginning to the end.

Listening is an active, not a passive behavior and it   hearing, understanding and remembering.

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Dear Alex, 

Yours,

Li Hua

I met the Man of the Trees in summer ten years ago, when I was visiting Uncle Jita.

Those were difficult times. People were cutting down our forest, and there was often flooding. Sometimes our water supply was dirty. When our pump(水泵)did have clean water, we had to wait in line for ages. When the pump wasn't working, we had to walk five kilometres to the closest stream.

But I was happy. I was going to see my favorite uncle. When the day finally arrived, Dad drove me to Uncle Jita's house and left. Once he saw me, Uncle Jita announced, "Tomorrow we're going to explore a magical place. Here is my camera, Amy. You can take photos of what you see."

The following day, we woke up and left early on a boat. The trip was exciting. But when we got off, there was ... nothing in front of us. "I don't want to take pictures of this," I complained.

Uncle laughed,"Start walking, Amy. I promise you'll be surprised." After some time, I could see the outline of a forest in the distance. A little closer, there was a man waving to us.

"That's Kabir. The forest you see is his. He planted every single tree." As we walked towards Kabir, Uncle explained that thirty years ago, the whole area was a wasteland. But one day Kabir decided to change all that and started planting trees. Thanks to him, part of the wasteland is now a paradise(天堂).

Uncle introduced me to Kabir, who had gray hair and a determined face. "Jita told me you like animals. Are you ready to see some?" he asked. "Of course!" I replied. We continued walking and soon were under the trees. I turned my head and was amazed at the difference between the two places. All because of the efforts of one man.

Like Uncle said, Kabir's forest was magical. We saw deer, rhinos, and even tigers. During lunchtime, Kabir explained how, by planting trees, it was possible to stop the land from eroding(侵蚀).

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Hearing this, I turned to my uncle, "I think we can plant trees too. "

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In the years that followed, people in our village worked hard to carry out our plan.