福建省三明市2023-2024学年高二上学期期末英语试题（音频暂未更新）

Is your child interested in a camp with Girl Scout（童子军）activities? Attending a summer camp with this focus is a perfect way for them to explore while giving them experience and confidence. Browse our selection and find the perfect fit for your child.

Code Ninjas Camps（CNC）

Transform your child's love for technology into an exciting learning adventure. Guided by our team of Code Senseis, Code Ninjas Camps empower kids to gain valuable tech skills and make new friends. It's an unforgettably fun learning experience! Our camps invent, inspire and create to bring out the inventor and creator in your child this Summer and Spring Break.

Fighting Illini Sports Camps（FISC）

The University of Illinois has committed itself to the development of well-rounded summer camp programs for boys and girls. Camps are offered for boys and girls in cheer leading, cross country, golf and swimming. Also offered are camps for boys in baseball, football, gymnastics and wrestling, as well as camps for girls in basketball, gymnastics, soccer, softball and volleyball. Team camps are available in Cheer leading, Basketball, Football and Volleyball.

Girl Scouts of Central Indiana（GSCI）

Campers will enjoy the great outdoors, improve their mental health, make new friends and learn more about themselves! Girl Scouts of Central Indiana has five unique camps, each situated on beautiful sprawling acres, and each with their own special touch. Activities vary by camp program/event/location, and may include: hiking, swimming, jumping on the giant trampoline, horse or pedal car riding. It's definitely more fun than you'd ever expect for such a great price!

My long-distance cycling career of 13 years and 35,000 kilometres ended as I approached 75 in 2019. The realisation of this dawned on me slowly during my last ride in the US summer of that same year. Although I am now no longer strong enough to endure the long days and big climbs, day in and day out, I have my memories.

Long distance cycling brings pain, anxiety and exhaustion, but these pale into insignificance compared to the joy and satisfaction of climbing huge mountains or seeing spectacular sights for the first time. Real joy would come when I was alone, on my bicycle, in some remote and beautiful place. You could say that these same feelings could have been experienced in a car, but I know this not to be true. I had time to observe nature and life, all of which would have been bypassed in a car.

I enjoyed meeting and beating the daily schedule I had set for myself. I enjoyed the ever-changing vegetation, the people, kind, unkind and indifferent, whom I met along the way. No matter how hard or easy the ride was, I always enjoyed the achievement of arriving, followed by a hot shower and bed, when I could find a motel. On the other nights, I was happy to camp. Meeting a diversity of people with different perspectives on life was easy. The cycling devices allowed me to strike up conversations in pubs and cafes and I got to see and experience the very best in people.

The road ahead always loomed large, as did the mountains, the cold, the mosquitoes and the rain. The road behind is just memories, lack of pain and anxiety, some soon to be forgotten, others to be valued and boosted with the retelling.

Cycling taught me to like who I am. I am finally happy with and accepting of my introverted（内向的）personality. I have more persistence and courage than I ever imagined. These trips all required courage, courage which I never knew I possessed.

At Marine Mammal Laboratory, laboratory director Herman put a dolphin through its paces. Using hand signals, Herman asked, "Is the ball in the pool?" The dolphin correctly pressed a lever（杆）for "YES". Herman asked it to push the ball to a basket. It did. Then he signaled his pupil to do it again, but he removed the basket. Herman expected the dolphin to be confused. Instead, it carried the ball to the NO lever and stopped there. Herman was astonished. "This is a totally untrained, invented response," he said, "We never dreamed the animal would ‘think' the problem through like that."

To get a closer look at these amazing creatures, Herman and his team spent a week on board the Jennifer Marie. Whenever they heard the cry "Dolphins!" they slipped into the water. The dolphins approached, curious about them, observing them with dark, liquid eyes. Dolphins love to imitate. If they swam on their backs, Dolphins did too. If they dived, Dolphins followed. This talent can be carried to extraordinary lengths. In one instance, a trainer blew a puff（泡）of cigarette smoke against the window of an observation tank. A young dolphin rushed to its mother, nursed briefly, and spat（吐）out a cloud of milk against the glass.

Herman said "We're still in the early stages of learning about the intelligence of these animals and our ability to communicate with them." Scientists are amazed at dolphins' intelligence, but fear for the future of these trusting ocean creatures.

Dolphins' trouble could be sharks, killer whales or, worse yet, a fishing vessel. Indeed, in the past three decades, commercial fishing, especially the biggest threat—the drift net fishing, has greatly decreased the world's dolphin population. Every night in the North Pacific, hundreds of Asian fishing vessels put out these "curtains of death," each up to 50 miles long. Floating with the currents, they sweep up all sea life in their path. People wonder what the world would be without dolphins.

In a world where fire threatens more and more homes, scientists have developed a surprising type of material that might keep some buildings safer: thin sheets of fungi（真菌）.

Underneath every mushroom is a branching network of root like structures called a mycelium（菌丝体）. Now researchers have successfully grown these networks into pizza-size sheets that could act as a fire retardant in building materials, according to a new study in Polymer Degradation and Stability.

"Using a biological material like mycelium has enormous benefits", says senior author Everson Kandare. Unlike asbestos, which is still sometimes added to building materials as a fire retardant, mycelium does not release poisonous compounds when exposed to fire. "When there is a building fire, it often isn't the flame intensity or the heat that kills or injures people," says Kandare, an engineer at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. "It is the smoke and the poisonous metal that comes out of building materials."

The new mycelium sheets, grown into protective carpets up to a few millimeters thick, could prevent such building materials from burning in the first place. Mycelium contains a lot of carbon. When exposed to fire, the sheet briefly burns, releasing water and carbon dioxide into the air, leaving behind a black layer of carbon.

This study is the first to integrate these properties into a useful building material. Kandare suggests mycelium could replace the fire retardant foam（泡沫剂）, which can produce CO and other poisonous products when it burns.

The RMIT team has been reaching out to mushroom farmers to see whether they could promote the technology for commercial use. Kandare says, "Mycelium can grow in the dark, which means its energy needs are relatively minimal. Even better, mycelium is a biological material, and any waste it leaves behind can be used as fertilizer."

Traditional Chinese medicine（TCM）is an ancient system of health and wellness that's been used in China for thousands of years. It has saved millions of lives around China's vast territory by providing vital information on diagnosis（诊断）, treating common medical problems and diseases, and emphasizing prevention. If you do not have previous experience with Chinese culture or medicine, be prepared for a cultural experience.

Several thousand years ago, The Medical Classic of the Yellow Emperor put forward the principle that one should develop yang energy in spring and summer, And in China's long history, the principle has proven of great value for good health and longevity of life.

According to TCM theory, yang energy is the power for inner organs. "Summer treatment" takes advantage of abundant yang energy in nature during summer, when yang energy is outward and upward. It is the right time to supplement（补充）yang energy by internal or external traditional Chinese medicine methods. This helps to adjust to the balance of yin and yang in the body, resulting in a more effective outcome.

 Therefore, it is the best time for the human body to supplement essence and store vital substances throughout the whole year. TCM holds that Gao Fang, the cream formula, is the best choice for tonification（滋补）in winter. By adjusting qi, blood, yin and yang of the body, it can achieve the effects of treatment, regulation, and nourishment.

"Sprouting in spring, growing in summer, harvesting in autumn and storing in winter" is the law of development in the nature. It needs to be in agreement with timing and the seasons. With such direction, ancient Chinese people handed down to later generations medical texts for an orderly-arranged daily life.

A. while protecting yin energy in autumn and winter.

B. It's necessary to the function of various body parts.

C. The same is true for the way of health preservation.

D. when the body engages in active digestive processes.

E. It will relieve your medical condition and enrich your life.

F. Winter is the season for storage of everything, including energy.

G. Summer is a good season to build up your bodies through exercise.

Despite facing numerous blows, Kieran Behan kept going. This remarkable man has 1  the world, not only with his gymnastic skills, but also his unshakable 2 .

Behan had a（n）3  for gymnastics and became a part of the school team. However, his 4 childhood changed when he was ten, due to an operation. The unfortunate turn of events left him in a 5 . The doctors told him that he would never walk. 6 , against all odds, the young Behan returned to the gym 15 months later. Unfortunately, tragedy struck again when he was 12 years old. While working on the high bar at school, Behan 7  and hit the back of his head. This brain injury damaged his inner ear, taking away the two most crucial 8  of a gymnast: balance and coordination. This time, the doctor was even more 9  that he would never walk again. Nevertheless, Behan 10  to believe any of that. Over the next three years, he made 11  to recover. He managed to make a 12  to the gymnastic world.

In 2016, Behan made it for the 2016 Olympic Games, his final Olympic appearance. He managed to complete his 13 and came in 38th in the event. Behan said, "If I've 14 anyone out there, then that's a（n）15 I'm going to be so proud of. To have gone out there and given it my all, you can't really ask for much more."

Though known as the "father of hybridrice", Yuan Longping considered himself a farmer because he continually worked the land in his research. His parents wanted him to pursue a career in science or medicine. However, concerned him most was that farmers often had poor harvests and a serious shortage of food to eat. To tackle this crisis, he chose to study agriculture. Yuan （convince）that the answer could be found in the creation of hybrid rice. Through intense effort, Yuan （overcome）enormous technical difficulties to develop the first hybrid rice. Today, about 60 percent of domestic rice （consume）in China is comprised of crops （generate）from Yuan's hybrid strains. Yuan's innovation has helped feed not just China, but many other countries that depend on rice as well. His （late）vision for "seawater rice" has also become a reality.

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I was a bad boy in a village in India. At least I was labeled that way because I had no interest in school or studies. I used bad language, hung around with other "bad" boys, skipped school and ran through the fields. No one thought I would do anything worthwhile with my life. And I'd heard many people in our village talking. "Why bother going to school? These kids end up back on the farms anyway. He'll never amount to anything." My parents and teachers were disappointed with my average marks.

My mother envisioned a different future and knew the value of education to create a better life. By the time I entered the 12th grade, I had taken a good look at myself and realized the life I was creating. The bad boy image troubled me. I didn't believe I was a bad boy. I didn't want to be a bad boy. These realizations forced me to acknowledge that my mother was right—education was my only way out. I worked hard to finish my high school, and then I decided to apply for higher education in university. But this village bad boy faced too many challenges.

Firstly, my family had very limited money. In addition to that, my grades were not good. There was very little chance I'd gain admission to a university. Still, I took a chance and applied. The last day of admissions, I visited the university to check my result. I looked down the list, and there it was, "Parashram J. Patil". Finally, I'd been admitted. Now, it was the last day to pay, so I had to find money to cover my fees.

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