浙江省杭州第二中学2025-2026学年高三上学期10月月考英语试题（详解+二次开发）

AMHS International Dinner FAQs

Saturday, November 5,6-8pm

What is this event?

International dinner is a celebration of culture and diversity within the Magnet community, complete with entertainment from some of Magnet's talented musicians thanks to Mr. Grimshaw!

Who can participate?

Made for all to attend as a community building event.

What does the canteen provide?

The canteen provides the tables, plateware, chafing dishes (保暖锅), serving pans, drinks and gloves. $75.00 will be offered per table to help offset (补偿) food costs.

What do I (or my team) have to provide?

The table for each country (which can be one person or a few people working together) will have to pick a country and provide 2-4 dishes from that country. The dishes should each be made to serve 150 small sample size portions. The pans provided will fit neatly into chafing dishes. Please also bring your own serving containers and any decorations that might enhance the table. Examples would be tablecloths from the country or a small flag from the represented country.

When do I bring the food?

The food should be brought hot (if to be served hot) the night of between 4:45-5:00pm.

Who can volunteer?

Anyone can volunteer — students, parents, supporters. Students can volunteer and will be used as servers and clean up the night of and for set up on Friday, November 4 (3:45-5:30pm). Our biggest need is for people to take a table and bring food for that table. Sign up here.

What is the ticket price?

Ticket price is $15.00 per person or $40.00 for a family.

Questions? email amhsinternationaldinner@gmail.com

AMHS= Academic Magnet High School       FAQs= frequently asked questions

Now in a striking new hardcover edition, Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb — seasoned trader, renowned risk expert, knowledgeable scholar, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan — has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill.

This book is about luck — or more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. Set against the backdrop of the most notable forum in which luck is mistaken for skill — the world of trading — Fooled by Randomness provides captivating insight into one of the least understood factors in all our lives. Writing in an entertaining narrative style, the author tackles major intellectual issues related to the underestimation of the influence of happenstance on our lives.

The book is populated with a number of characters, some of whom have grasped, in their own way, the significance of chance: the baseball legend Yogi Berra; the philosopher of knowledge Karl Popper; the modern financier George Soros; and the Greek voyager Odysseus. We also meet the fictional Nero, who seems to understand the role of randomness in his professional life but falls victim to his own irrational foolishness.

However, the most recognizable character of all remains unnamed —the lucky foolwho happens to be in the right place at the right time — he embodies the "survival of the least fit." Such individuals attract devoted followers who believe in their mentor's (导师) insights and methods. But no one can copy what is obtained by chance.

Are we capable of distinguishing the fortunate charlatan (冒充内行的人) from the genuine innovator? Must we always try to uncover nonexistent messages in random events? It may be impossible to guard ourselves against the unpredictability of the goddess Fortuna, but after reading Fooled by Randomness we can be a little better prepared.

A philosophy of artful thinking is a good way to avoid this. To think artfully means to solve problems using not just our brains, but also our hands, eyes, and ears, along with our emotions. This approach taps into the cognitive (认知的) resources that are spread throughout our bodies but often go unused.

Changing how we think is hard work. And it starts with a mindfulness practice. Accessing artful intelligence requires being mindful of how we think with our body, how we use our limbs (四肢), organs, and emotions to make sense of the world. Be mindful of all the different messages your body is sending you as well as the different roles and functions your bodily actions can play. For example, gesturing (做手势) in conversations is not just communicative. These movements often help the speaker to smooth out their thought process and assist in getting the words out.

Today, Big Tech is pushing a message of artificial-intelligence craziness and fear. What makes you stuck in it? It's seeing the same things wherever you look. Big Tech gives you screens, hoping that your attention will always be attracted by their devices. If you want to find more freedom in this AI-filled world, improve your ability to mindfully shift your attention between different objects or levels of focus. Remember everything is born of a choice.

Artful thinking demands effortful mindfulness to ensure that what we do, what we hope to achieve by using these technological tools, will not weaken our humanity. As Thich Nhat Hanh said, "Mindful living is an art, and each of us has to train to be an artist."

For decades, Body Mass Index (BMI) dominated weight assessments. This simple height-weight calculation sorts people from underweight to overweight. Yet Dr. Melanie Jay from NYU points out its problems: BMI gives the same ranges for 20-year-old athletes and 70-year-old grandparents. It ignores muscle mass, bone density, and health conditions, sometimes regarding fit individuals as overweight. Recent studies show that nearly 30% of people classified as overweight by BMI actually have healthy body fat percentages and normal metabolic profiles.

Newer metrics like the Body Roundness Index (BRI) focus on waist size instead of weight. "Belly fat is more dangerous than overall weight," says Dr. Jay. Research indicates fat around organs produces harmful chemicals linked to diabetes and heart disease. However, even BRI has limitations — it can't distinguish between fat types or account for medical conditions affecting belly size, such as digestive disorders.

Doctors increasingly emphasize overall health markers over specific weights. "Instead of focusing on a'magic number,' we examine blood pressure, cholesterol (胆固醇), sleep quality and energy levels," notes Dr. Jay. For those with weight-related conditions, even 5-10% weight loss can significantly improve health. A 2023 study found patients who achieved modest weight reduction showed better health markers than those pursuing extreme weight loss.

The healthiest weight, experts agree, isn't found on charts but through sustainable habits. "When you eat nutritiously and stay active, your body finds its natural healthy weight," advises Dr. Freedhoff. For some, medications or surgery may help, but the real goal is lifestyle change — not to achieve an ideal number on your scale. True health,after all, is measured not by a momentary reading on a scale, but by the daily choices that nourish both body and life.

We have projects that sit waiting to be completed. Some people start college but never graduate. We have books that we never finish reading. Many people are great at beginning things but can't seem to finish strong.

Not finishing what we started has been a repeated problem for us. We have to face it. Whenever we delay, or put to the side, the things that will help us accomplish our goals, we stop developing our potential.

Not finishing not only causes us to stop making progress but also we find it harder whenever we do decide to start again. Consider this: every time I begin a new exercise program my muscles are sore (疼) for a few days. After a few weeks of routine, the muscles get accustomed to the program and grow stronger. Thus, no more sore muscles. Well, when I take some time off I fear starting again.

Strong finishers are able to focus on getting the best result from anything that they start. So how do we know that we are a strong finisher? Along with the huge feeling of accomplishment, other people will begin to notice the change. They will have no choice but to recognize our strong finishing ability. We will be rewarded with more trust from them.

A. The list goes on and on.

B. We should have the confidence.

C. Why don't we have the interest any more?

D. Sounds silly, but that is what we do all of the time.

E. I know that my muscles are going to be sore again.

F. They will see we are able to climb and conquer the mountain.

G. Not being a strong finisher can limit our ability to conquer our goals.

Passing drivers3 to help. A nurse appeared and4 my neck and someone called 911. The fire department arrived, and, with much5, removed me from the vehicle.

Soon, I learned I had broken my back and neck and would need to be transported to another hospital equipped to handle serious6. The doctors there ordered a plastic body cast (全身石膏) to be made for me. When I was finally discharged, I was told to keep the body cast on for four months.

I had always been active, so being restricted was completely7 to me. I felt like I had lost8 of my life. I decided to get my life back. I began physical therapy and after9 forty days, I returned to my job,10 my body cast underneath my clothes. While I had to limit how I moved, I could function fairly11.

When the body cast12, I continued physical therapy and was doing yoga within one year. I never13 my ability to recover. I always kept my eyes on the14, which was regaining my normal activities, even though I couldn't do all the things in15 the same way I did before.

I was fortunate to be alive and to have the ability to do what I could still do.

Su Shi was a poet, politician and educator, but he had many other strings to his bow. One of the many talents of this (amaze) clever and creative man was cooking. By far and away his most famous dish is Dongpo Pork.

Su Shi was also a master calligrapher, (rank) first of the four great calligraphers of the Song Dynasty.Prior to his adulthood, he had studied the calligraphy of Wang Xizhi and later on in life, he turned to the works of Yan Zhenqing. Nonetheless, Su Shi's calligraphy reflected his open nature and desire for self-expression. His "Cold Food Observance" (tell) of his time in exile (流放). The rising and falling strokes (笔法) are expressions of Su Shi' s emotions, and the story builds, so do the characters.

In addition to being a gifted calligrapher, Su Shi was a (distinguish) painter. The trees, rocks and (bamboo) he produced with a few twists and turns of his paintbrush were free and simple in style, but varied and expressive in meaning. To Su Shi, an old tree was particularly (symbol), as it represented surviving difficult times but still (continue) to stand tall and grow. Su Shi's perspectives the art of painting were also innovative. Through his painting, he began to explore an artist could express their innermost thoughts and experiences through their works. In his eyes, painting was poetry, and poetry was painting.

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Are Life Skills Classes Necessary?

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My brother and I are only a year apart in age. When we were little, people would ask if we were twins. We lived in the mountains and only had each other for a long time, so we weren't just brother and sister, we were best friends.

Everything changed after our parents divorced. He went to live with my father, I with my mother. Sometimes he visited us and sometimes I visited them, but we grew more distant each time. By the time I was thirteen, we'd stopped hanging out altogether. I think the only time we ever spoke was at Christmas, and it was all polite but painfully awkward, like he was a complete stranger instead of my little brother.

Several years later, after being accepted to a major university three thousand miles away, I made a bold plan: to drive across the country on my own. The idea of traveling alone thrilled me, filling me with excitement and a hint of nervousness, though I knew that the road could be lonely and unpredictable — endless stretches without seeing a single person, and sometimes even wild animals crossing out of nowhere. My parents, however, thought it would be safer if my brother came along as my travel companion on the long drive to college. Needless to say, we were both furious (愤怒的) about the idea. The last thing either of us wanted was to spend a week in a car together — he, with a sister he barely knew, and I, with a "babysitter" I never asked for. But it was settled.

Two weeks later, we set off. For the first six hundred miles, neither of us spoke much unless absolutely necessary.The silence was thick with tension, and it didn't take long before we argued over what music to play, how fast to drive, and when to take breaks, each of us stubbornly sticking to our own way, rolling our eyes and sighing in frustration.

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Paragraph 1: Just when I thought the trip would be unbearable, something unexpected happened.                            

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Paragraph 2: Still trembling from the accident, I realized he was holding my hand.                                                                    

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