湖北省襄阳市第一中学2021-2022学年高一下学期3
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一、阅读理解
1. Great inventors like Thomas Edison have impacted people's
lives with their inventions.While their contributions are certainly valuable, other amazing inventions were actually created by children!
The trampoline
Trampolines are great for both fun and exerci, but they are a fairly recent invention. In the 1930s, George Nisn was inspired to make a bouncy“net" after eing a circus performance. He thought it more entertaining for performers to continue bouncing instead of landing in a net. So, at the age of 16, he made it by stretching
thick cloth in a metal frame.
The Popsicle
Cold weather led to the creation of a delicious invention-the Popsicle. Frank Epperson was just 11 years old when he accidentally created his first Popsicle. He was making himlf a soda drink and left his glass outside overnight. When he found it in the morning, it had frozen solid with the stir (搅拌) stick still in the glass. And the first Popsicle was born.
Braille
Three-year-old Louis Braille experienced a rious eye injury
that blinded him in both eyes.He struggled to read by moving his fingers across raid letters, but that proved very difficult. At the age of twelve, Louis learned about a communication system where messages could be read silently with fingertips. He changed it and created Braille. It s now ud around the world!
BEACON
When Hannah Herbst was just 14 years old, she was named America's Top Young Scientist for inventing a device called BEACON. After
receiving a letter from her Ethiopian pen pal, Hannah was inspired to create a device that could conv
ert the energy from ocean waves into electricity which she hopes will help people without easy access to electricity.
【小题1】Which of the inventions greatly benefits the blind?
A．The trampoline. B．The Popsicle.
C．Braille. D．BEACON.
【小题2】Who was awarded a national title for his/her invention? A．George Nisn. B．Frank Epperson.
C．Louis Braille. D．Hannah Herbst.
【小题3】What do the child inventors have in common?
A．They were all awarded for their amazing inventions.
B．They all made improvements on previous inventions.
C．They were all teenagers when they made their inventions.
D．They all invented great things that influence people's lives.
2. Jack was born without eyes. He was very lucky as he grew up having other kittens(young cats) to socialize with, and was ud to people from the moment he was born. However, when it came time to彝族摔跤
排气扇安装find the kittens homes, no one knew where Jack would end up.
That's when I got an email from my friend. All she asked was “Do you still want one of the kittens? There's one here with no eyes and no one would like to take him.” Without thinking, I told her that I did want the kitten.
When we first brought him home, Jack stayed mostly in my room. After about a day he had no issues running around and climbing on everything. At times he gets lost in the hou, he'll stop. But we just call him and talk to him and it isn't long before he finds his way back to us.
A few weeks after getting Jack, we got a new farm cat named Bear. Jack and Bear have become best friends. It doesn't matter that he can't e. He always knows when Bear is around. He'll run across the yard straight to Bear and wrap his front legs around his neck in a big hug. They run after each other around and wrestle. They'll lie down in the grass together when tired.
Jack is truly an inspiration. I've owned lots of kittens in my life, but Jack is the happiest and most playful. He doesn't feel
sorry for himlf. He doesn't need pity. I think Jean, owner of Gumbo, another eyeless cat, said it best when she told me that cats don't have disabilities, they have adaptability.
【小题1】Why did Jack come to our home?
关于坚持的演讲稿A．I liked an eyeless cat. B．I didn't mind whether he was blind.
C．No other young cats kept him company. D．My friend ordered me to take him home.
【小题2】What does the underlined word “issues” in the 3rd paragraph mean?
A．Difficulty. B．Fun. C．Luck. D．Business. 【小题3】Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A．Jack likes to play with a new eyeless cat.
B．Jack is good at talking and playing with people.
夏凉休闲情侣C．Jack quickly adapts to the new environment.
D．Jack and Bear lie down on the sofa together when tired.
【小题4】What can we learn from the passage?
A．A cat has nine lives. B．All is well that ends well.
C．God helps tho who help themlves. D．A good beginning makes a good ending.
3. Heat is a killer —and climate change is driving up its body count. On average, about 37 percent of heat deaths can be tied back to human-caud climate change, according to a new study in Nature Climate Change.
The study looked at data from 732 places in 43 countries over a period of about three decades, from 1991 –2018. They ud information including heat deaths and temperature readings from tho places to build computer models that calculated how many deaths could be related to climate change.
The numbers varied depending on location, with a larger percentage of climate-change related deaths occurring in warmer countries than cooler ones.
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"Overall, about 166,000 people died of heat-related deaths between 1998 and 2017, according to the World Health Organization. Due to climate change, more people are being expod to heat waves than ever before. Between 2000 and 2016, the number of people expod to heat waves incread by around 125 million.
There is one obvious limitation to this new study - while hundreds of locations were included, many areas of Africa and Southeast Asia were not, due to a lack of data. Gathering that information in the future will be very important for new efforts to create a global accounting of heat-related deaths and illness. Obtaining the data will be key for science to provide the information needed to help the countries adapt.卧底归来在线观看
"We are thinking about the problems of climate change as something that the next generation will face," said Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera, the lead author of the paper. "It's something we are facing already.We are throwing stones at ourlves."
That's in line with other rearch, which has found that climate change is already a disaster for human health. Older people are particularly vulnerable, with heat-related deaths for this age group increasing by about 54 percent between 2000 and 2018. Some areas of the planet are getting hit wor than others, with extreme conditions happening even more frequently than predicted.
【小题1】How did the rearchers carry out the study?
A．By analyzing previous information.
B．By doing survey all over the world.
C．By building computer models to monitor.
D．By comparing places and temperatures.
【小题2】What is the key way to address the limitation to this new study?
A．To warn people of the changing climate.
B．To think of ways to keep away from heat.
麻将台上淫C．To gather more heat-related health data.
D．To provide more shelters for African countries.
【小题3】What does the underlined word "vulnerable" in the last paragraph probably mean?
A．Inactive. B．Quite different.
C．Honorable. D．Easily hurt.
【小题4】What is the main idea of the text?
A．Extreme weather is around the corner.
B．Climate change contributes to more deaths.
C．Heat is the result of global climate change.
D．Climate change is going from bad to wor.
4. If you follow luxury resorts (度假地) or travel influencers on Instagram, odds are good that you’ve en at least one “floating breakfast”.
In ca you’re not familiar with them, here’s what to know: they’re your typical hotel room rvice breakfast-think toast, fruit, coffee and the like — rved in a pool instead of in bed. Usually, they’re placed on large plates or colorful baskets, then
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accessorized (配饰) with bright tropical flowers to make them even more photogenic.
The breakfasts are particularly popular in Asia and the Pacific, especially at warm-weather private flat resorts in places like Thailand, Fiji and the Maldives.
Nearly everyone agrees that the trend began in Bali, although no specific resort ems to get the credit for coming up with the idea first.
While the breakfasts have become more common on resort menus
over the last five years, the coronavirus pandemic has made them more popular than ever as hotel guests are avoiding buffets and public dining rooms.
“Across the cour of the past year, in-suite dining has become extremely popular, especially for tho eking comfort in the safety and their room,” Jann Hess, general manager at Amanjiwo in Bali. “The floating breakfast is a popular choice.”
After all, the floating breakfast needs a pool to float in — and a private pool is a much better choice than a shared pool where a splashing (飞溅的) kid might make the whole thing topple over.
Though the gorgeous colors and dramatic plating of floating breakfasts make them perfect for social media, asking people to stand in the pool before they’ve fully woken up or had caffeine ems like a potential recipe for disaster.
James Booth, a Sydney-bad reporter, tells that, for him, the special meal worked better in concept. Though Booth had pre-scheduled a specific time for the breakfast to arrive, he ended up oversleeping about 20 minutes, meaning he’d misd the optimal window for consuming it.
【小题1】What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us?
