1 . 听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题。
1. When will the man travel to Boston?| A．In March. | B．In April. | C．In May. |
| A．To watch a sports event. |
| B．To receive some training. |
| C．To take part in a marathon. |
1.人物介绍（谁、事迹）；
2.成为你眼中英雄的理由；
3.该英雄人物对你的影响。
注意：1.写作词数应为 80；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the whole year into 24 solar terms. “Cold Dew”, also
Here are three things you should know about Cold Dew. Firstly,
4 . Sunflower season is right around the corner. Here are several most beautiful golden fields near London for you to explore.
Garsons Farm
At Garsons Farm you will find three separate sunflower fields across its 155 acres. You’ll need to buy a crop farm pass (￡4 for adults ,￡ 1 for kids ) in advance. This farm is also home to over 75 varieties of fruits, vegetables and plants that can be picked during your visit, but be sure to check crop availability on its website beforehand.
Hitchin Lavender Farm
This spot is most famous for its purple crops of lavender(熏衣草), but it is also home to dozens of sunflower! You will be charged￡ 6 for your entry to the farm. And for￡ 50 you can hire a personal photographer and have your very own photos with the plants.
Cotswold Farm Park
Cotswold Farm Park was founded to help protect rare species of farm animals in 1971. You will not only find flowering sunflowers but plenty of furry four-legged friends, too. The park also contains several photo stations throughout the field. Tickets must be booked in advance and cost ￡ 7 per adult.
Broomfield Farm
This fruit farm is open every Saturday and Sunday for those who want to see sunflowers on their weekends! It produces all kinds of fruits, vegetables and flowers that you can buy in their farm shop or pick yourself during your visit. You are allowed to bring a picnic with you and the￡4 entry is taken off your “pay and weigh” bill at the end.
1. What’s the entry fee for a couple and two kids if they go to Garsons Farm?| A．￡4 | B．￡ 6. | C．￡ 7. | D．￡ 10 |
| A．At Garsons Farm. | B．At Broomfield Farm. |
| C．At Cotswold Farm Park. | D．At Hitchin Lavender Farm |
| A．Sunflower lovers. | B．Holiday campers. |
| C．Field researchers. | D．Nature photographers. |
More than 500 pieces of relics
Tang Fei, chief of the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute, said, “The new discoveries demonstrate once again that the
Originally discovered in
6 . How to Be a Good Upstairs Neighbor
One must remember to be polite when living in an apartment building. You may unintentionally bother your neighbors with actions that you think to be harmless.
Place carpets in your apartment if you have hardwood floors. Doing so is another way to decrease the sound of steps coming from an upstairs apartment. You can also put your furniture on these carpets.
Close your windows when you can. A floor is usually about three meters high, so it’s quite easy to hear your conversations.
Do your cleaning on weekend afternoons.
| A．Wear slippers while in your upstairs apartment. |
| B．It becomes much easier when your windows are open. |
| C．No matter what you do, consider your neighbor’s requirements. |
| D．There’ll be a time when you will run a cleaner to clean your room. |
| E．This is especially true for those people who live above an apartment. |
| F．It will disturb your downstairs neighbor who has to work the next morning. |
| G．This keeps your furniture from moving around, thus limiting noise a downstairs neighbor may hear. |
7 . Online Events at Natural History Museum in December
Dinosaur Activities for Families
Catch up on our Nature Live Program and find out everything about dinosaurs with Museum scientist Paul Barrett. You can learn to bake tasty biscuits with footprint-shaped holes. You can also follow our simple instructions to draw a cartoon T-Rex and read on to find out how artists bring dinosaurs to life with their pictures.
Dates: All day and every day.
The Science of Whale Earwax
What can a whale’s earwax tell us about its life, health and the quality of the oceans over many decades? Join Museum researcher Richard Sabin to discover some of the fascinating ways we study whales, and how vital museum collections are in helping us to understand and conserve these amazing animals.
Date: December 28 (12:00-12:45)
Darwin’s Fossils
Join Museum scientist Lorna Steel to discover how Darwin’s study of fossils shaped his scientific thinking. You can ask questions while the talk is happening. Head to the video on YouTube and type your question into the chat box during the broadcast.
Date: December 24 (10:30-11:15)
Love Naturally
Attracting a mate can be a tricky business for any species. How can birds do it? Have a night with Lates Online. Take a drink, turn on your computer, and join researcher Juan Camilo on the Friday of every week. You can explore the wilder side of dating. And you can rewatch past Lates Online events on the Museums YouTube channel.
Time: From 19: 30.
1. What can you learn to do in the Dinosaur Activities for Families?| A．Make a dinosaur cartoon. | B．Preserve dinosaur footprints. |
| C．Bake dinosaur footprint cookies. | D．Make a sculpture of dinosaur. |
| A．Asking orally face to face. | B．Entering your questions in the chat box. |
| C．Mailing your questions to the museum. | D．Broadcasting your questions in the chat room. |
| A．Paul Barrell. | B．Lorna Steel. | C．Juan Camilo. | D．Richard Sabin. |
8 . Multiple Tour Dates in 2020 & 2021
This is the most exciting tour to Egypt ever offered! Led by the world’s most famous archaeologist, Dr. Zahi Hawass, The Royal Tour to Egypt provides unparalleled access to the wonders of Ancient Egypt. Unlike conventional tours，only the Royal Tour offers its participants VIP entry to areas of the ancient sites closed to the general public. Visit the Giza Pyramids and Luxor Temple outside of regular opening hours for a more intimate and crowd-free experience. Have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to stand between the paws of the Great Sphinx (狮身人面像) instead of seeing it from the viewing platform. You will hear secrets never told before and spend time in the esteemed company of Dr. Mostafa Waziri，Egypt’s Head of Antiquities. Former First Lady，Mrs. Jehan Sadat，will host you in the living place of Egypt’s late president Anwar Sadat—an experience normally reserved for royalty and heads of state.
Travel like a Pharaoh (法老) with first-class service from start to finish! Tour dates and more information:
www.royalegypt.com
contact@archaeologicalpaths.com
US phone: 917-719-1974
| A．It offers a chance to have close contact with the Great Sphinx. |
| B．Its participants have access to the wonders open to the public. |
| C．Its participants can travel with a Pharaoh all through the tour. |
| D．It is free of charge to visit the Giza Pyramids and Luxor Temple. |
| A．Being led by a famous archaeologist. |
| B．Being told the stories by the current president. |
| C．Being accompanied by Egypt’s Head of Antiquities. |
| D．Being received by the former First Lady in her house. |
| A．By text-messaging. | B．By reading the guidebook. |
| C．By visiting the website. | D．By calling the agent in Egypt. |
9 . When public health officials started telling Americans that hand washing is one of the most powerful weapons against the spread of the coronavirus, Terence Lester wondered, “What about the homeless?” Lester had been homeless himself for a time as a teenager, and today he runs a nonprofit in Atlanta called Love Beyond Walls that helps raise money for and awareness of homeless people. He knows all too well that in the best of times they are lucky to find a public bathroom that will let them in to wash up occasionally, not to mention several times a day.
Lester’s experience of creating temporary shelters with his nonprofit led him to another idea: temporary handwashing stations, the kind you see at outdoor music festivals. He mentioned the idea to his friend Lecrae Moore, a Grammy-winning Christian rapper, who eagerly donated enough money to buy 15 of the $ 150 washing stations. They called their project Love Sinks In. “If leaders in this country are asking people to wash their hands, we also have to provide the tools to people living on the margins of society who are more likely to catch and spread the coronavirus,” Lester says.
After its success in Atlanta, the group sent sinks to Birmingham, Alabama; Oakland, California; Columbus, Ohio; and Austin, Texas, where a partner organization installed the sinks in parks and other public spaces, thanks to a $ 13,000 donation from Google. (In addition to the startup funds, it costs about $ 500 a month to keep each sink stocked with soap and clean water.) One Atlanta hand washer, Sam, left a note on a sink that said, “God bless you! The hand washing the others!” One Atlanta hand washer, Sam, made sure his gratitude didn't go unnoticed. He left a note on a sink that said，“Thank you all for not forgetting about us.”
1. What makes Lester know the homeless well?| A．His research into the homeless. | B．His personal experience. |
| C．The public health warming. | D．The nonprofit organization. |
| A．He fixed handwashing stations at musical festivals. |
| B．He installed the sink for hand washing in person. |
| C．He launched the project Love Sinks In. |
| D．He created temporary shelters. |
| A．The homeless are unlikely to develop coronavirus. |
| B．The project involves individual and collective efforts. |
| C．The homeless have good public health consciousness. |
| D．Handwashing is the most effective way to cure coronavirus. |
| A．Grateful. | B．Negative. |
| C．Concerned | D．Doubtful |
10 . Be black or white, the exact color of a person’s skin is determined by a combination of his parentage and random chance and it affects how every single person treats you. You can’t take your skin off, even if you’re terrified or ashamed to wear it, even if you’re sick and tired of wearing it.
Freddie Gray, who was arrested in 2016 for possessing a legal knife and died in police custody(拘留), was born Black. Tamir Rice , who barely lived more than one being Black, was shot at the age of 12 for playing with a toy gun in 2014. Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed in March when two plainclothes police officers entered her apartment unannounced, didn’t choose to be Black. But the police officers who shot her chose their careers. They chose to shoot her, too. Police across America also chose to shoot 336 other unarmed Black people from 2013-2019.
Each of these victims did not possess a weapon at the time of their murder, and in all but few of the cases they lost their lives because someone "thought" they were reaching for a gun that turned out to be a wallet, cell phone or nothing at all. This is absolutely unacceptable. We're not saying they shouldn't have been captured with all necessary force and imprisoned accordingly. A criminal is a criminal and should be handled as such. But even a criminal, as long as he lives in this great country, is an American worthy of justified handling and a fair trial.
Black people don’t get to sign up for lives of discrimination and terror. They often found themselves moving through wave upon wave of white faces that usually mirrored the same emotions—shock, disbelief and anger. It is the fear of black skin that plays a part in each of these murders. African Americans can no longer tolerate the unjustified killings of their loved ones. As a country, it’s time to start effective dialogues to end this pitiless trend. It has to be a long struggle and pain before Black people overcome prejudice to win the chance of being understood by white ones.
1. What is the author’s purpose of mentioning the murders in Paragraph 2?| A．To provide examples of unjustified killings of Black people. |
| B．To give an explanation why police officers choose to shoot black people. |
| C．To offer a description of Police officers’ hatred towards black people. |
| D．To make an analysis of how hard lives black people were living. |
| A．Forgiving. | B．Cautious. |
| C．Disapproving. | D．Indifferent. |
| A．The process of overcoming prejudice towards the black is on its way. |
| B．Black people are ashamed to wear their skin color which leads to injustice. |
| C．Black people will turn to violence to stop the unjustified killings among them. |
| D．The police should have chosen a proper way to treat black “criminals”. |
| A．Prejudice from Whites |
| B．Blacks Call for Justice |
| C．Policemen’s Fair Trial |
| D．Fight for Mutual Trust |
