2021-2022学年辽宁省葫芦岛市高二（上）期末英语试卷
一、阅读理解（本大题共15小题，共37.5分）
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Drone（无人机）Training for Recreational FlyersWhen：Saturday 12 December Website：au
Where：Hall ACT
Cost：﹩285 pp（per person）
This is the perfect training cour if you plan to buy a drone soon.Best of all,no experience is required and the drones will be provided,so you just need to book online and come along on the day.The training cour is held at Hall ACT.The 4-hour beginners cour is ﹩285.This includes written material,u of the Drone-wi aircraft for flying and morning tea.If you are under 18 years of age,you will need to be accompanied by a parent or grown-up friend or relative.Book your place today au/our-training-cours.
Led by Martin Bass and Tim Robinson,commercially rated drone pilots with considerable experience,this training cour is a chance to get.
Basic Knowledge
Recreational drone flying and the law
Risks and how to manage them
Flying environment
Basic Flying Skills
Pre-flight planning and checks
Aircraft handling skills
Obstacle avoidance
Your Instructors：
Martin Bass.Martin is a pilot with over 20-year experience.He is also a commercial drone pilot and enjoys recreational drone flying as well.In his other role as a consultant and trainer to local government,Martin is an experienced educator and holds an honorary position with the University of Western Sydney.
Tim Robinson：Tim is an experienced photographer as well as a commercial drone pilot.His
photos are about nature and wildlife.Tim存续期
is also an experienced adult educator and has lectured at the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Canberra.
1.What do we know about this training cour？______
A. It will last for an hour.
B. It requires experience of flying drones.
C. It asks people to pay more for morning tea.
D. Teenagers are not allowed in with no companion.
2.What can people get through this cour？______
A. High-level drone flying skills.
B. A chance to be a commercial drone pilot.
C. An understanding of different aircraft types.
D. Knowledge of dealing with risks of drone flying.
3.What do Martin Bass and Tim Robinson have in common？______
A. They work at the same university.
B. They are experienced in photographing.
C. They are good at commercial drone flying.
D. They pay much attention to wildlife protection.
B
Sitting straight at his desk,Sami Sabeaallil turns on the lights,places his mobile phone on a lfie stic
k and starts greeting his viewers. "Hi everyone,this is Sami," he sa第三次工业革命
ys in Chine. "I will recommend you some toys tonight…"
Every day,Sami livestreams（网络直播）on Douyin（China's domestic version of TikTok）for one or two hours,promoting his toys to Chine buyers.Bad in Yiwu City,the world's largest trading center for daily consumer goods in East China's Zhejiang Province,the
22-year-old said he is likely the first foreigner to get into livestream lling in Yiwu and take advantage of China's skyrocketing（突飞猛涨的）e-commerce industry.
Sami has been lling his toys on his Douyin account since last June.Most of his videos are about his products or show him hanging around Yiwu's markets.For a video he published last October,he invited dozens of foreigners from various countries to express their love for China,which got nearly 30，000 likes.
As a young Chine-speaking foreigner,Sami attracts much attention on China's social media.He now has only about 28，000 followers on Douyin but his goal is to have 10 million
followers within two years.
The COVID-19 pandemic is verely hitting the economy of many countries and has caud great loss among Yiwu's producers and suppliers.Sami decided to try livestreaming and look for more Chine domestic buyers via Douyin.As an owner of a Yiwu-bad toy company,Sami ud to have half of his orders from overas.However,overas orders have not been satisfactory in the past year,so he is gradually shifting his business to Chine market as the epidemic（传染）situation in China has largely improved.
A few potential buyers have reached Sami and one of them bought over 100，000 yuan（﹩14，860）of toys from him,which Sami described as "a good beginning".
Sami is not the only foreigner in Yiwu interested in livestreaming promotion.According to Yiwu Industrial and Commercial College,quite a few of its 140 overas students say they will try livestreaming e-commerce industry after graduation.
The college is offering its overas students cours on China's livestream lling market,which include how to attract more followers,how to lect su年轮说歌词
itable products,how to interact with audiences and how to shoot and edit short videos.
4.Why did Sami start livestreaming？______
A. To increa the sales of his toys.
B. To build a reputation in his field.
C. To catch up with the Internet trend.
D. To be the first foreign livestreamer.
5.What do we know about Sami's videos on Douyin？______
A. They made him world famous.
B. They showed his love for China.
C. They attracted a numbe法定陪产假
r of followers.
D. They recorded people's lives in Yiwu.
6.What is the conquence of COVID-19 for Sami？______
A. He has clod down his toy company.
B. His overas orders decread by half.
C. The number of his followers has fallen sharply.
D. He makes efforts to attract more Chine buyers.
7.What is the function of the last paragraph？______
A. To provide background information.
B. To summarize the previous paragraphs.
C. To introduce a new topic for discussion.
D. To call on people to u more livestream.
C
More often than not,we think the taste of food is largely to do with the ingredients（成分）and the way it's cooked.However,according to a new study published in the Journal of Consumer Rearch,sitting and standing also affect how we enjoy food.
It turns out that food tastes better when we're sitting down.Lead author Dipayan Biswas,a professor from the University of South Florida in the US，looked specifically at how the vestibular（前庭的）n,which is responsible for balance,posture and location awareness,works with our n of taste.
He found that standing for even a few minutes caus people to feel physical stress.This makes our taste buds（味蕾）less nsitive.Gravity pushes blood to the lower parts of the body,causing the heart to work harder.This increas the heart rate and leads to incread stress hormones（荷尔蒙）.All of the reduce nsory nsitivity,which impacts taste and flavor.Our mouths can't taste or feel temperature as well when this happens.
When people experience discomfort,foods that normally taste good aren't as pleasing,says Science Daily.
Biswas gave 350 participants each a pita chip and had them rate its tastiness.Tho who stood while eating gave it a lower rating than tho who sat in comfortable chairs.Next,Biswas and his team gave participants bite-sized brownies from a well-known local restaurant.The brownies are widely considered to be very tasty.Tho who sat down to eat rated them highly. However,when the
baker added extra salt,the results were opposite.Participants who stood up to eat the brownies didn't notice that the brownies tasted saltier,while tho who were ated found the brownies weren't so delicious.
In addition,the team tested posture's effects on temperature perception（感知）.Participants were given cups of hot coffee.Tho who stood up didn't think it was so hot.However,they drank less than tho sitting,suggesting on that physical stress may also impact appetite （食欲）.
So if you really want to enjoy your meal,t采取措施英语
ry to find yourlf a comfortable at.But if you're
trying to lo weight,eating while standing could be helpful becau people tend to eat less while standing.Plus,the physical stress of standing may burn more calories.
8.What did the new study find about our ability to taste food？______
A. Posture may have an effect on how we taste it.
B. The vestibular n is linked with our tongues.
C. Stress makes good food taste disgusting.
D. Hormones tell our tongues what tastes g太皞
ood or bad.
9.What could happen when people鹦鹉怎么画
eat standing up,according to the study？______
A. It could lead to a lower heart rate.
B. It could lead to a higher amount of stress hormones.
C. Their mouths could become more nsitive to temperature.
D. They could be more satisfied with the food than tho who sit to eat.
10.What did the rearchers intend to test by adding extra salt to the brownies？______
A. What flavor of brownies was best received.
B. Why standing to eat leads to a lower rating of food.
C. How posture influences people's nsory nsitivity.
D. How physical stress affects people's appetites.
11.What is the authors attitude toward the finding of the study？______
A. Positive.
B. Doubtful.
C. Concerned.
D. Uncaring.
D
Almost everyone has heard the expression, "the calm before the storm".It is usually ud to describe a peaceful period just before a very stressful situation or a ten argument.
British sailors created the phra in the late 1600s；they noted that before certain storms the as would em to become static and the winds would drop.
But why is it often so calm before a storm？Science has given us the answer.According to US infotainment（资讯娱乐）website HowStuffWorks,a calm period occurs becau many storms,such
as tornadoes and hurricanes,draw in all the warm and humid（湿的）air from the surrounding area.As this air ris into the storm clouds,it cools and acts as "fuel for the storm,like petrol in a car".
Once the storm has taken all the energy it can from the air,it is pu很欣慰是什么意思
shed out from the top of the storm clouds and falls back down to ground level.As the air descends （下降），it becomes warm and dry.Warm,dry air is stable,so once it covers an area,it caus a calm period before the
