安徽省安庆市第七中学2023-2024 学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题
安徽
高二
期中
2024-01-21
67次
整体难度:
适中
考查范围:
主题、语篇范围
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Dance Classes
Ballet
Ballet teaches grace, posture (姿势) and flexibility. Students focus on the use of proper ballet items (物品), expanding their knowledge of classical ballet techniques and improving motor skills for classical ballet practice. The class is a formal ballet class.
Age: 8 — 10
Date: September 7, 2019 — May 16, 2020
Time: 10:30 am — 12:00 am on Saturdays
Creative Movers
Students can explore creative movement, balance, focus, the development of skills, motor planning and balance. The class helps build strength, flexibility and self-confidence, and allows children to realize expression in a positive and encouraging environment. Children use their imagination to celebrate movement and have lots of fun.
Age: 3 — 5
Date: September 7, 2019 — January 18, 2020
Time: 9:00 am — 9:45 am on Saturdays
Jazz
Jazz includes movements from both classical ballet and dance techniques. This class will focus on traditional Jazz dance. Students will be introduced to jazz-style rhythms and movements. In order to ensure proper placement for your child, we invite all students to participate in a sample (示例) class. Students and parents work with program staff to meet students’ personal dance goals.
Age: 5 — 6
Date: September 7, 2019 — May 16, 2020
Time: 2:00 pm — 3:00 pm on Saturdays
Hip Hop
Students will be introduced to several different aspects of hip hop dance including Popping, Locking, Breaking and Tutting in a high-energy environment. Our hip hop instructors are highly knowledgeable and will provide students with a wonderful view of hip hop dance.
Age: 7 — 10
Date: September 7, 2019 — May 16, 2020
Time: 1:00 pm — 2:00 pm on Sundays
1. Which class is suitable for 4-year-old children?A.Ballet. | B.Creative Movers. | C.Hip Hop. | D.Jazz. |
A.Make use of all the ballet items. | B.Learn the long history of jazz. |
C.Dance with famous modern jazz dancers. | D.Get to know jazz-style movements. |
A.It is open in the afternoon. | B.It is available on Sunday. |
C.It teaches traditional dances. | D.It has the most skilled teachers. |
Former Disney child star Jennifer McGill recently shared how, after her mother passed away, she went through an extremely dark period in her life.
Jennifer was born ready for the stage. She grew up in a loving home in Texas. And by age 7, she begged her mom to let her enter contests. Jennifer’s mom was uncertain. But seeing her daughter’s high energy and unshakable love of the stage, she finally supported her daughter’s wish.
Jennifer won many contests, and soon her parents were advised to have her audition (试演) for The New Mickey Mouse Club, a Disney show. Jennifer tried out and landed her dream job.
Many of Jennifer’s costars on the show went on to run after their careers. But after many years as a Disney child star, Jennifer didn’t feel ready for Hollywood just yet.
“I just needed to grow up and grow wiser in order to be the artist I thought I was meant to be,” she said. Instead, Jennifer chose to go on to college — a decision her mother fully supported.
Jennifer’s parents were supportive throughout her career and schooling. But her mom was her champion — a constant source of support. Unfortunately, when Jennifer was 24 years old, her mom passed away.
“The biggest light and fan was gone, the person who’d reminded me that I was unique and valuable. I was kind of lost,” she said. The next several years grew very dark. She began feeling herself lonely. She felt lifeless and purposeless.
Much as Jennifer still missed her mother, she realized she should get her life back to normal. She’s now pursuing a new career in music. She also spends her time coaching young artists. She encourages them to put fame at the bottom of their list.
4. What do we know about Jennifer from Paragraph 2?A.She loved her mother deeply. | B.She had a natural talent for acting. |
C.Her parents didn’t support her acting career. | D.Her mother was for her decision from the very beginning. |
A.She was much wiser than them. | B.She kept practicing her acting skills. |
C.She got herself ready for Hollywood. | D.She decided to continue her education. |
A.The death of her mother. | B.The loss of support from her family. |
C.The failure to become a Hollywood star. | D.The lack of courage to pursue her career. |
A.Never forget the social duty. | B.It is important to earn fame in the career. |
C.Never think too much about being famous. | D.Get away from sorrow as soon as possible. |
We truly are what we eat-and what our ancestors ate. Food has changed who we are and how we developed for hundreds of thousands of years. From processing to preserving to cooking, what humans did and continue to do to food played a big role in shaping our evolution.
Processed food isn’t just a modern invention, created in factories from artificial ingredients. It is as old as humanity itself and may have helped create our species. Processing doesn’t necessarily mean adding chemicals-it also includes hitting or slicing(切片) or changing the food in any way before eating. Compared to our ancestors, modern human teeth, jaws and faces have gotten smaller relative to overall skull size because of making food easier to chew, especially from cooking. Processing food also led to a huge gain in leisure time. The less time people spent chewing, the more time they had to develop complex oral language.
Cooking food was one of the biggest changes in human history. Researchers believe it could have occurred between 1.8 million and 400,000 years ago, Harvard professor Richard Wrangham said, according to National Geographic. Cooking increases the energy and nutrients we get from food. Without cooking, according to the BBC, an average person would have to eat around 5 kilos of raw food to survive and we’d have to spend most of the day chewing.
Cooking food also breaks down its cells, so our stomachs need to work less to absorb the nutrients our bodies require. “This,” said Professor Peter Wheeler from Liverpool John Moores University, UK, “freed up energy which could then be used to power a larger brain. The increase in brain-size mirrors the reduction in the size of the gut(肠道).”
Processed food literally shaped us as a species and made us human-the only species on Earth who can cook.
8. What can we know about processed food?A.It is mostly created from artificial ingredients. |
B.It appears at least since the beginning of human beings. |
C.It makes food easier to cook. |
D.It changes the way we talk. |
A.It practices human chewing skills. | B.It saves energy for humans to develop brains. |
C.It reduces food digestion of humans. | D.It costs human more leisure time. |
A.Reflects. | B.Benefits. | C.Influences. | D.Functions. |
A.Humans changes as food decreases. | B.Processing food makes who we are today. |
C.Cooking food makes where we are today. | D.Humans develop gradually as food changes. |
The possibility of self-driving robot cars has often seemed like a futurist’s dream, years away from coming into reality in the real world. Well, the future is apparently now. The California Department of Motor Vehicles began giving permits in April for companies to test truly self-driving cars on public roads. The state also cleared the way for companies to sell or rent out self-driving cars, and for companies to operate driverless taxi services. California, it should be noted, isn't leading the way here. Companies have been testing their cars in cities across the country. It's hard to predict when driverless cars will be everywhere on our roads. But however long it takes, the technology may change our transportation systems and our cities, for better or for worse, depending on how the transformation is managed.
While much of the debate so far has been focused on the safety of driverless cars, policymakers should be talking more about how self-driving cars can help reduce traffic jams, cut emissions (排放) and offer more convenient and affordable choices to move around. The arrival of driverless cars is a chance to make sure that those cars are environmentally friendly and more shared.
Do we want to copy or even worsen the traffic of today with driverless cars? Imagine a future where most adults own their self-driving cars. They accept long, slow journeys to and from work on crowded highways because they can work, entertain themselves or sleep on the ride. They take their driverless car to a date and set the empty car to circle the building to avoid paying for parking. Instead of walking a few blocks to pick up a child or the dry cleaning, they send the self-driving minibus. The convenience even leads fewer people to take public transport — an unwelcome side effect researchers have already found in ride-hailing (网约车) services. Policymakers should start thinking now about how to make sure the appearance of driverless cars doesn't worsen the transportation system we have today. The coming technological development presents a chance for cities and states to develop transportation systems designed to move more people, and more affordably. The car of the future is coming. We just have to plan for it.
12. What can we learn from the first paragraph?A.Self-driving cars are not allowed in the real world. |
B.Driverless taxies will be seen everywhere on the road in a short term. |
C.California is not alone in testing driverless cars. |
D.Self-driving technology will definitely benefit transportation system. |
A.how driverless cars can help deal with transportation-related problems |
B.how driverless cars can travel safely |
C.how driverless cars can travel faster |
D.how driverless cars can move more people |
A.Journeys to and from work become longer. |
B.More and more people abandon public transportation. |
C.There is no place to park them. |
D.They may result in traffic jams. |
A.Preparing Cities for Robot Cars | B.Future Technology Underway |
C.Transportation System in the Future | D.Robot Cars on the Road |