广东深圳市福田区红岭中学（教育集团）2025-2026学年度第一学期第二学段考试高一英语试题

Use the Healthy Eating Plate as a guide for creating healthy, balanced meals-whether served at the table or packed in a lunch box.

Building a Healthy and Balanced Diet

The Healthy Eating Plate presents a simple visual guide to building a healthy meal. By showing different food groups on one plate, it stresses balance, choice, and everyday eating habits.

These guidelines highlight what matters most in healthy eating:

• The type of carbohydrate (碳水化合物) in the diet is more important than the amount of carbohydrate, because some sources — like vegetables (other than potatoes), fruits, whole grains, and beans — are healthier than others.

• It advises consumers to avoid sugary drinks, a major source of calories — usually with little nutritional value — in the American diet.

• It encourages consumers to use healthy oils, and it does not set a maximum on the percentage of calories people should get each day from healthy sources of fat. In this way, the Healthy Eating Plate recommends the opposite of the low-fat message promoted for decades by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Your Plate and the Planet

Just as different foods can have different impacts on human health, they also have different impacts on the environment. Food production is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (排放), and it places an enormous demand upon our earth's natural resources.

I learned that he was a recent West African immigrant with a few young children, working hard to provide for his family. I could relate: I am the daughter of two Ethiopian immigrants who made their share of sacrifices to ensure my success. I told him I was on a college break and headed home to visit my parents. That's how he found out I go to Harvard. An approving eye glinted at me in the rearview window (后视镜), and quickly, we crossed the boundaries of rider and driver. I became his daughter, all grown up — the product of his sacrifice.

And then came the fateful question: "What do you study?" I answered "history and literature" and the pride in his voice faded, as I knew it might. I didn't even get to add "and African-American studies" before he cut in, his voice thick with disappointment, "All that work to get into Harvard, and you study history?"

Here I was, his daughter, squandering the biggest opportunity of her life. He went on to deliver the age-old lecture that all immigrant kids know. We are to become doctors (or lawyers, if our parents are being generous) — to make money and send money back home. The unspoken demand, made across generations which my Uber driver laid out plainly, is simple: Fulfill your role in the narrative of upward mobility so your children can do the same.

I used to feel anxious and backed into a corner by the questioning, but now as a junior in college, I'm grateful for their support more than anything. This holiday season, I've promised myself I won't huff and get annoyed at their inquiries. I won't defensively respond with "but I plan to go to law school" when I get unrequested advice. I'll just smile and nod, and enjoy the warmth of the occasion.

To gain a better understanding of skin's properties, Guy German and his colleagues hired a group of volunteers ranging in age between 16 and 91. They then used a low-force device to stretch small tissue samples of their skin to simulate everyday forces applied to the body's largest organ. The results clearly showed that as skin stretches one way, it also contracts (收缩) in the other direction. These contractions grow larger with age, forming wrinkles in the process.

German compared the dynamics to a popular, flexible children's toy. "If you stretch SillyPutty, for instance, it stretches horizontally, but it also shrinks in the other direction — it gets thinner. That's what skin does as well," he said. "As you get older, that contraction gets bigger. And if your skin is contracted too much, it folds. That's how wrinkles form." There is a bit more to it than just Silly Putty. According to German, your skin's mechanical properties get somewhat "unstable" as you age and "things degrade a bit".

So people with more physically active careers such as construction workers are likely to have more aged, wrinkled skin than office employees. But German stressed although different careers may lead to different skin conditions, taking proper skin-care measures is crucial for everyone.

While mechanical stress may be the biggest influence on how wrinkles initially develop, protection against major issues like sun damage and hormonal (激素的) imbalances will keep your skin healthy. Even if your skin is smooth, it doesn't mean it is immune to UV radiation. So be sure to continue applying suncream to yourself. Wrinkled or not, your body will be better off for it.

The researchers used some clever techniques to analyze van Gogh's brushstrokes. They treated the varying brightness of the paint colors as a stand-in for the energy of physical movement in the atmosphere. What they found was astonishing. The patterns in The Starry Night correspond to two important principles in fluid dynamics: Kolmogorov's law and Batchelor's scaling. Don't worry if these terms sound abstruse — let's break them down.

Kolmogorov's law describes how energy moves from larger to smaller scales in turbulent flows. Imagine a big swirl breaking down into smaller and smaller ones. This is what happens in the atmosphere, oceans… and amazingly, it's what van Gogh's work seems to represent. Batchelor's scaling, on the other hand, deals with how small-scale turbulence behaves. The researchers found that the fine details in van Gogh's brushstrokes match this principle, which describes how substances like heat or pollutants spread in a turbulent fluid.

Finding both of these patterns in one system is rare, which makes this discovery even more exciting. "It reveals a deep and intuitive understanding of natural phenomena. Van Gogh's precise representation of turbulence might be from studying the movement of clouds and the atmosphere or an inborn sense of how to capture the dynamism of the sky," says Yongxiang Huang, the study's lead author. The fact that an artist in the 19th century could capture these complex dynamics so accurately is mind-blowing. This research opens up exciting possibilities for the intersection of art and science. It shows that beauty and scientific accuracy aren't mutually exclusive — they might be more closely linked than we realize.

So, the next time you look at The Starry Night, remember that you're not just seeing a beautiful painting. You're witnessing a snapshot of the swirling, turbulent dance of the atmosphere.

It turns out that the house's owner is not poor. Instead, he is an extreme minimalist (极简主义者) who chooses to limit his number of belongings. Minimalists follow this philosophy to varying degrees, but they generally claim that cutting down on excess stuff leads to a more fulfilling life. With fewer possessions, they don't have to spend much time cleaning, thinking about what they are missing, or trying to keep up with the latest trends. They can then dive into hobbies that ignite their passion like exercising, traveling, and being with loved ones.

Extreme minimalism isn't for everyone, but a mild form of it has grown in popularity recently, thanks to Marie Kondo's best-selling book The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up. Her philosophy of keeping only items that "spark joy" has resonated with millions, encouraging people to declutter their homes and minds. This shift toward intentional living reflects a broader desire to simplify daily life, moving away from excess and toward greater focus on what truly matters. They discover that fewer possessions often mean less stress and more clarity.

Kondo stresses that minimalism is not merely about throwing things away or holding onto what you want to keep. Even if you are not ready to become a minimalist, you may want to consider reducing the number of things you own, for it seems that letting go of things can truly make room for happiness.

A. This frees up their time for things that they find meaningful.

B. Such a balance helps people avoid the trap of mindless consumption.

C. No warmth, no life traces — just a cold, empty structure, not a home.

D. Even those who don't embrace full minimalism find value in scaling down.

E. Instead, it's about striking a balance between personal joy and possessions.

F. Minimalism goes against consumerism by dramatically scaling down possessions.

G. So you wonder whether the resident is too poor to buy more things to fill the house.

I carefully8 the pine's strong trunk, straight and solid, and added the graceful branches. Once lost in my sketching, I9 noticed the fly buzzing around me. Hence, I jumped when Mr. Weston suddenly remarked, "You've captured the essence of the tree's10 beautifully on paper." "Thanks." I smiled, glancing up. "If you spread out the roots near the surface, the tree could11 sufficient water and soar even higher." I noticed the knobby bumps (疙瘩状突起) of roots12 out of the ground all around the tree. I'd never realized how13 a tree's roots stretched outward. It struck me that if I wanted to grow, I had to start14 too.

That evening, I filled out the art camp application, ready to stretch my15 out into new earth. I thought I am the pine.

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The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, surrounded by the Nanling Mountains and facing the South China Sea, is home to a diverse ecosystem. As a (globe) biodiversity hotspot, it features striking landscapes and rare wildlife.

To allow the public (appreciate) the area's natural wonders, Dynamic Bay Area: Biodiversity Photography Exhibition was held in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, this month, with display of more than 80 photos by local (photograph) and conservationists. The five-day event (seek) to plant a seed of awareness, inspiring deeper connections between people and nature. All the pictures were taken during last year's 5,000-kilometer journey across the area's diverse landscapes.

Divided into four chapters-Mountains, Rivers, Sea and City, the event revealed the area's (hide) wonders: from the Chinese white dolphins in the Lingdingyang waters the spoon-billed sandpiper in the waters of Zhanjiang. Wandering through the exhibition, visitors were transported to the heart of the area's natural world, (experience) the spirit of a land where every creature and element of nature tells a story of wonder.

The exhibition showcased the successful integration of environmental conservation into regional development, illustrating a path urban advancement and biodiversity conservation walk hand in hand. It reminds us that by observing the natural world (close), we foster a stronger commitment to its preservation.

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