浙江省钱塘联盟2023学年高二上学期期中联考英语试题

From art galleries to historic sites these small towns in Arizona will serve you with all they have to offer.

Jerome

Visitors come to explore its art galleries and special gift shops, like Nellie Bly Kaleidoscopes. They can also taste local drinks at Jerome's tasting rooms. Don't miss Jerome State Historic Park, where you can learn about the community's mining history. Jerome has several excellent hotels and restaurants,so you can spend your weekend here.

Bishee

This mining community is just 25 miles south of Tombstone. It was once the largest city between St Louis and San Francisco. It is popular for its art galleries, and great bars and restaurants. Several museums explore Bisbee's mining history, including Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum. Follow this with a tour of the Queen Mine. Drive to the Lavender Pit Mining Overlook for a more modern look at mining, a few miles south of Bisbee.

Tombstone

Wooden walkways line the dirt streets in the historic district. You can drop by the Bird Cage Theater, which is now a museum. You can also listen to live music in Big Nose Kate's Saloon while enjoying a burger.

Seligman

The last town on Route 66 is served as the inspiration for Radiator Springs in the animated movie Cars. Stop by Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In to see cars in the parking lot painted as the characters from the movie,or drop in at the Route 66 Gift Shop Visitor Center for nice gifts. If you're lucky, you'll meet Angel Delgadillo in the gift shop. He made Route 66 famous as a historic highway.

As today's high schoolers are facing too much homework, sports teams and clubs and high-rising college costs, many people are rethinking the idea of high schoolers part-time working. Are there still benefits of having a job in high school?

The answer is yes.

When I was 15 years old, my mother suggested that I get a job in order to pay for college. Delighted with my sporadic (零星的) babysitting work, I told my mother that, no matter what job I got, I'd never be able to cover college costs on a high school worker's pay.

My mother smiled and stated that there were plenty of other reasons why I should get a job beyond just the paycheck. So I found myself applying for and finally accepting a job as a swim instructor and lifeguard at my town's public pool. I ended up working part-time at the pool through all four years of high school.

Not everything about the job was marvelous, and there were times when I hated jumping in the pool on cold mornings and trying to talk kids into following my instructions, but overall, like my mother said, I got many benefits from the job beyond just the paycheck.

At my job, I made lots of new friends, more than I had made in high school. I also learnt lots of skills including CPR training and office experience. I was also able to use my work experience to stand out from other job applicants in college and get a paid research job as a freshman in college.

For many high school students, there are many benefits of having a job. Not only will high school jobs give you a way to make some money, meet new people, and develop some skills, you can also use your teenage jobs to get yourself a better job in college.

Cultural heritage sites are a nonrenewable resource. Today architectural heritage sites are being destroyed at an alarming rate. They're threatened by rising seas, pollution, overtourism, conflicts and so on. Recently, Notre Dame Cathedral has attracted international attention.

Since its main construction from 1163 to 1350, Notre Dame Cathedral repeatedly has been damaged and repaired. On April 15, 2019, the landmark's roof caught fire, causing the collapse of its spire （尖顶） and upper walls severely damaged. Work on the site began quickly. Through the work of photographer Tomas van Houtryve, writer Robert Kunzig, and artist Fernando Baptista, people will see restoring scenes where ruins are cleared and statues saved. Even the COVID- 19 pandemic caused only a two-month delay. Architects have said the expensive project is on track to be completed in 2024.

And    thorny questions arise. What duty do we owe the creations of our ancestors? What lesson can we draw from their presence?

Humankind has answered that differently. In Dresden, Germany, the Frauenkirche, an 18th-century baroque church, was famous for its bell-shaped dome（穹顶） . In February 1945, one of the most destructive bombing attacks of World War II reduced the city to ruins. After German reunion, the church was reconstructed using many of its original stones, as a symbol of peace and harmony. Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church also fell to bombing but had a different story. Its spire has been left a ruin on purpose to be a "warning monument" against war and destruction.

Like the Frauenkirche, Notre Dame is being rebuilt as close as possible to how it was before, including using the original, toxic metal—lead （铅） —for the roof, causing the debate about how to restore and maintain historic buildings. Actually, no one claims to have the "right" answers on preservation; there may not even be right answers. What people could do is to continuously monitor the global care of cultural heritage sites, as a matter of significance to humanity's past, present, and future.

Small planetary（行星） bodies is the big focus of space exploration in 2023 and People are eager to solve many of the mysteries about these tiny worlds. In 2023, the launching of two spacecrafts aims to explore some of the solar system's smaller bodies, in an effort to understand how worlds become suitable habitats for humans to live in.

The first task Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) was launched in April 2023 and is scheduled to land in 2031. This spacecraft from the European Space Agency (ESA) is designed to explore three of Jupiter's major moons: Europa, Callisto and Ganymede. They are thought to have oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen shells.

"The thing we are most interested in is the liquid oceans and in particular with Ganymede –we don't know the location, the depth ,the composition of these oceans," says ESA's Olivier Witasse, the project scientist. "While JUICE has many goals, the most exciting one is to hunt for life there as water is crucial to life ".

Due to  launch  in  October 2024 and  arrive  in 2030, the  other  spacecraft  Psyche  from  NASA  is  named  after  the asteroid(小行星) it will land. Researchers believe Psyche to be an exposed iron core of a young planet. Studying planetary cores  is nearly  impossible  on actual planets because they are so deep underground, so  Psyche could present a unique opportunity.

"The core is always crucial. For the Earth, it creates magnetic field （磁场 ） and gives off heat," says one of the researchers of Psyche, "One of the ways to answer why Earth is habitable is to study how it was built, and Psyche is part of that story. We don't know what we're going to find, and if blessed, we're going to be completely surprised because there was no previous data."

Habitability （宜居性） in our solar system is still a huge mystery, but the two spacecrafts should bring us one step closer to understanding it.

The use of fossil fuels in transportation is one of the major reasons for climate change. A survey by the Asian Development Bank indicates that Asia's carbon dioxide emissions from transportation increased 3.9 percent yearly, nearly twice the global level.

If left unchecked, emissions from transport will continue to rise. By 2050, Asia's demand for transportation will likely double from the current level. They should aim to achieve the low-carbon goal in transportation.

 For example, the energy efficiency in transport systems is dissatisfying and dependence on high-carbon energy resources is heavy. The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) proposed several strategies for Asian cities to become low-carbon in transport.

First, shorten travel time and distance. City planning should be focusing on reducing people's travel time as well as cutting carbon emissions through practical measures. They also have introduced " 15-minute life circles" to shorten travel time and distance.

Second, improve transportation structure. It is important to encourage the use of low-carbon transportation means and reduce high-emissions vehicles. Most Asian cities including Yichang in China and Jakarta in Indonesia are not large and thus suitable for building effective and economic public transit systems. These successful practices have set up examples for other Asian cities to follow.

Third, promote the use of clean energy. Public vehicles such as taxis, shared cars, service cars, and sanitation vehicles should be the first to stop using fossil fuel and go electric, followed by private cars, trucks and ships.

As the continent with one of the largest number of developing economies, Asian is key to pushing the global low-carbon transition. With regional joint efforts, the transition could be more practical and hopeful.

A. To carry it out requires promoting the use of clean energy.

B. However, there are multiple challenges to be overcome.

C. To achieve the low-carbon goal, strategies should be adopted.

D. Bus Rapid Transit （BRT） systems in some Asian cities has been promoted.

E. This strategy is to increase the efficiency of energy in transportation and reduce emissions.

F. It is important for countries here to solve environmental problems caused by transportation.

G. Many Asian cities have introduced online education and remote working during the COVID- 19.

Taylor Hash desired to become a career pilot and she was under training. One day, she had just started building up hours of flight time when a 1 struck. As she guided the Diamond Star plane off the runway at airport, on her third-ever independent 2 , the front tyre of her plane fell off.

Taylor was3 at that point that she had just lost crucial landing equipment. " I didn't feel anything on the take-off4 ." she said.

5 pilot Chris Yates, though, saw something and immediately took action. He knew that Taylor would have to make a difficult emergency landing. He6 the control tower and said, "The Diamond Star that just took off lost its nose wheel tyre on the runway."Yates asked people there to put him through to Taylor so he could help her. When Taylor learned what had happened, she was in7 .

8 ,Yates knew that the most important thing would be to keep Taylor calm so she could follow him9 . Yates started by reassuring Taylor and told her that she could10 above the field until she was ready to land. "When you touch down, I just want that stick all the way back. You're gonna hold that stick back like you don't want that nose to touch," he11 her.

Despite feeling unsure, Taylor trusted Yates. With palms sweaty and lips12 ,Taylor successfully create a best landing chance. Ultimately, she strained every nerve to manage to land13 .

No sooner had Yates extended his arms than Taylor hugged him tightly with tears of14 rolling down cheeks. Yates smiled, patted on her shoulder and encouraged, "it was your excellent skill that help yourself15 the emergency successfully. I am so proud of you."

The Old Tea Forests in Pu'er,Yunnan Province, gained the World Heritage Site status at the ongoing 45th session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO, (become)China's first World Heritage Site related to tea.

The newly named heritage site  (consist) of five well-preserved old tea forests, stand 1,250 to 1,500 meters above the sea level; three protective barrier forests; and nine ancient villages.

The cultural landscape was  (joint) created by the ancestors of the Blang people and the native Dai people.

The local people created ideal light conditions for tea trees, thereby producing quality organic tea leavesthe use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

The cultural landscape represents the ecological ethics and (wise)that can inspire sustainable development in the world today, said Chen Yaohua, director of Peking University's World Heritage Research Center, who (lead) studies on the site for the past 12 years. Li Qun, another director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, commented that China would (strength)efforts to better protect the heritage site so that climate change would (solve) to ensure that the lasting, outstanding and universal values of the old tea forests were passed from generation to generation. "I (be) international exchanges and cooperation that help themselves to take more responsibilities in protecting the site," Li also said.

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Every  few years, humpback whales come to the water area in San Luis Obispo, California, for a  few  days while migrating, which attracts hundreds of visitors and whale lovers. In November 2020, over 20 whales were around, feeding on silverfish. Each one is huge, about 15 metres long.

At that time, I lived nearby and I was always crazy about whales so I invited my friend Liz Cottriel to go out on a ship to check them out the next morning.

"No way," Liz hesitated. She was scared of whales and sharks, and was worried that the ship would overturn while we were in it. But I told her there was nothing to worry about and we probably would have an unforgettable experience.

Convinced, Liz joined me and we set off at 8:30 the next morning. For the first half hour we didn't see anything. Then I spotted two pairs of whales, swimming towards us at fast speed. Though it was the first time we had seen the large creatures at such a close distance, we intended not to turn around immediately we met them. Instead, we chose to wait for their approaching.

One of the whales breached(跃出水面), then went down and hit the water really hard, leaving what looks like a layer of oil and also large waves.The boat started rocking wildly. At that moment, we realized it was too close.

All of a sudden, a large group of fish started jumping out of the water into our ship. Their movement sounded like cracking glass around us. I was terrified. Then I felt our ship lifted out of the water – about two metres, we later learned. I figured the whale was going to drag us down somehow, and I had no idea how deep we'd be sucked underwater.

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What I didn't realise at the moment was that Liz and I were in the whale's mouth.

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It suddenly struck me that whales have huge mouths but tiny throats.