辽宁省沈阳市五校联考2021-2022学年高二上学期期末考试英语试卷
辽宁
高二
期末
2023-01-04
110次
整体难度：
容易
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The following are some coding games, toys, and apps the kids in their life will love.
Think & Learn Code-a-pillar Twist
Best for ages: 3-6
Price: $34.99
It’s never too early to start learning programming. In fact, the earlier the better. This code-a-pillar lets preschoolers twist dials to create sequences and send the caterpillar on a programmed path. There are more than 1,000 possible coding combinations, so this toy will keep your child entertained for hours.
Robo Rally
Best for ages: 12+
Number of players: 2-6 players
Price: $39.99
Have some time to play with your kids? You’ll all love Robo Rally. You’ll use playing cards to direct robots’ moves, avoid obstacles, and make it to a checkpoint. Get ready for some friendly coding performance.
Robot Turtles
Best for ages: 4+
Number of players: 2-5 players
Price: $24.99
Designed by a programming expert, Robot Turtles challenges even younger kids to write programs using playing cards, making it a great way for them to become familiar with programming principles. It’s another one that you’ll want to play with your kids — and, we promise, you’ll enjoy it too.
GrokLearning
Best for ages: 13+
Price: $5 per year for students up to Grade 6, $30 per year for students up to Grade 7
GrokLearning is a series of online courses introducing students to coding. For kids who like a little competition, GrokLearning also hosts online coding contests that take place across the globe.
1. What do Robo Rally and Robot Turtles have in common?| A．Both are designed for kids aged 12+. |
| B．Both are designed by a programming expert. |
| C．Both are designed as cards playing instructions. |
| D．Both are suitable for parents to play with their kids. |
| A．Robo Rally | B．GrokLearning |
| C．Robot Turtles | D．Think & Learn Code-a-pillar Twist |
| A．The toys that help kids write programs. |
| B．Introductions of a series of online courses. |
| C．Some toys that will keep kids entertained for hours. |
| D．Introductions of some games, toys, and apps for kids. |
At a medical laboratory clinic in Waterloo, Ontario, an elderly woman sat on the edge of a waiting room chair belting out the Celine Dion tune My Heart Will Go On. With little effort, she was able to send her sweet, high-pitched voice exploding into every corner of the clinic. I had fun watching how people reacted. There was a lot of shifting in seats, but mainly they awkwardly turned away their eyes and tried to pretend there was nothing out of the ordinary going on.
I was there with my father, who was getting a routine blood test when the woman arrived. She settled into the seat directly across from my dad. I was concerned about how my dad would react to the possible interact on his space. He was 77 at the time and had been living with Alzheimer’s for several years. He was a brilliant, introverted man. When he was healthy, he considered it wholly bad mannered to bring more attention to oneself.
Her singing began gently, like a quiet hum. I glanced over at Dad. His smile was gone, and he was staring right at her. It seemed to be something like confusion. This wasn’t an unusual state for him, and I wondered whether he was actually seeing her at all or if he was lost somewhere deep in his mind, not really aware of her presence at that point.
Her singing slowly got louder. By the time she got to the chorus — “near, far, wherever you are…”, Dad looked a little stunned. Still, I watched for any sign of an irritated outburst. Instead, his face softened, and the tension eased in his brow. He no longer looked confused.
People say that Alzheimer’s is a thief, that it steals your loved ones slowly, day by day. There is so much heartbreaking truth in that statement. But certain experiences with my dad have allowed me to see a side of him that I never knew existed. That’s what happened for me that day in the clinic. When her song ended, the woman opened her eyes. My dad was still looking directly at her. “That was beautiful,” he said. And she smiled and said, “Thank you.”
4. How did people react to the elderly woman’s singing at the medical laboratory clinic?| A．They mainly looked away and ignored her. |
| B．They politely signaled to her to stop singing. |
| C．They enjoyed her singing and sang with her. |
| D．They felt quite annoyed and changed their seats immediately. |
| A．He was a shy man before getting Alzheimer’s. |
| B．He became annoyed on hearing the song. |
| C．He would like to sing with the woman. |
| D．He was getting a pre-operative test in the hospital. |
| A．I got to know that my father liked music. |
| B．Alzheimer’s steals many things from old people. |
| C．This song helped me understand more about my father. |
| D．Everyone with Alzheimer’s has experienced some bad moments. |
| A．Singing for patients with Alzheimer’s. |
| B．Some heartbreaking truths about Alzheimer’s. |
| C．Dad’s reaction to a woman’s singing at the clinic. |
| D．An elderly woman’s beautiful singing at the clinic. |
Most people don’t think much about the food scraps (残羹剩饭) they throw away; however, researchers in Tokyo have developed a new method to reduce food waste by recycling deserted fruit and vegetable scraps into strong construction materials.
Worldwide industrial and household food waste amounts to hundreds of billions of pounds per year, a large proportion of which consists of edible scraps, like fruit and vegetable peels. This unsustainable practice is both costly and environmentally unfriendly, so researchers have been searching for new ways to recycle these organic materials into useful products.
“Our goal was to use seaweed and common food scraps to construct materials that were at least as strong as concrete,” explains Yuya Sakai, the senior author of the study.
The researchers borrowed a “heat pressing” concept that is typically used to make construction materials from wood powder, except they used vacuum-dried, pulverized food scraps, such as seaweed, cabbage leaves, and orange, onion, pumpkin, and banana peels as the component powders. The processing technique involved mixing the food powder with water and seasonings, and then pressing the mixture into a mold at high temperature. The researchers tested the bending strength of the resulting materials and monitored their taste, smell, and appearance.
“With the exception of the sample from pumpkin, all of the materials exceeded our bending strength target,” says Kota Machida, a senior collaborator. “We also found that Chinese cabbage leaves, which produced a material over three times stronger than concrete, could be mixed with the weaker pumpkin-based material to provide effective reinforcement.”
Given that food waste is a global financial burden and environmental concern, it is crucial to develop methods for recycling food scraps. Using these substances to prepare materials that are strong enough for construction projects, but also maintain their edible nature and taste, opens the door to a wide range of creative applications from the one technology.
8. Why do the researchers search for new ways to recycle organic materials?| A．Because they want to reduce waste and preserve the environment. |
| B．Because they want to make a fortune by recycling the food waste. |
| C．Because the construction of strong material needs much food waste. |
| D．Because the amount of food waste is too large to store at the moment. |
| A．Press food scraps into powder. | B．Improve the strength of Chinese cabbage. |
| C．Mix food powder with seasonings. | D．Press the food powder at high temperature. |
| A．Food Scraps Are Stronger Than Concrete | B．Throw Away Food Scraps —A New Waste |
| C．Buildings With Food Scraps —A New Trend | D．Turn Food Scraps Into Construction Materials |
| A．A food report. | B．A biography book. |
| C．A recipe book. | D．A science magazine. |
In the far North, fire season usually doesn’t start until June, when snow has melted away and summer lightning storms sweep into the region. So scientist Sander Veraverbeke was confused when in May of 2016 he saw little patches of fire on some satellite images from Alaska and the Northwest Territories.
“I was like, what the hell is going on?” says Veraverbeke, an Earth scientist at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
What he saw on the satellite images were “zombie fires,” remains of burns from the previous year that somehow stayed alive, smoldering underground, through the long, cold winter.
Zombie fires aren’t an entirely new phenomenon in the Arctic; fire managers have noted occasional flare-ups in past decades. But Veraverbeke’s team found that their occurrences are tightly linked to climate change, happening more often after hot, long summers with lots of fire and suggesting that these still-rare events could become more frequent.
“The sheer fact that this is happening is evidence for how quickly the region is changing,” he says.
Like all forests, the wooded stretches of the Arctic sometimes catch on fire. But unlike many forests in the mid-latitudes, which thrive on or even require fire to preserve their health, Arctic forests have evolved to burn only infrequently.
Climate change is reshaping that mode. In the first decade of the new millennium, fires burned 50 percent more acreage each year in the Arctic, on average, than any decade in the 1900s. Between 2010 and 2020, burned acreage continued to creep up, particularly in Alaska, which had its second worst fire year ever in 2015 and another bad one in 2019. Scientists have found that fire frequency today is higher than at any time since the formation of boreal (北极的) forests some 3,000 years ago, and potentially higher than at any point in the last 10,000 years.
12. Why did Sander Veraverbeke feel puzzled?| A．Because he saw something unusual from some newspaper pictures. |
| B．Because he didn’t realize there were zombie fires in the Arctic. |
| C．Because the fires started burning earlier than he previously expected. |
| D．Because there was much snow in Alaska and the Northwest Territories. |
| A．Burning | B．Releasing | C．Exploding | D．Weakening |
| A．They play a role in preserving the forests. |
| B．Zombie fires are a new discovery of Sander Veraverbeke. |
| C．Zombie fires tend to happen after hot summers with lots of fire. |
| D．They burned 50 percent of the area in the Arctic between 2000 and 2010. |
| A．To help readers learn about the Arctic. | B．To show concern about climate change. |
| C．To call on people to control zombie fires. | D．To warn readers of the dangers of zombie fires. |
