云南省玉溪市重点学校2022-2023学年高二下学期期中英语试题

What is the weather like?

What will the woman do?

Why did people vote for the woman?

What does the man think about engineering?

What does the man like best about the box of chocolates?

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At The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1, we celebrate creativity, openness, and generosity. We hold many events—both onsite and online—where diverse cultural, artistic, social, and political positions are welcome, to share the most thought-provoking modern and contemporary art, and hope you will enjoy them.

Talking Together About Collaboration (合作)

Monday, June 19, 11:30 a.m.

The Museum of Modern Art

Free with Museum admission

The ongoing Talking Together conversation series provides an opportunity to think deeply about a broad but timely theme. Understanding that art provides connections to each other and the world around us, we will consider this month's theme, "collaboration," through selected works in the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends.

This session is led by Paula Stuttman.

Drawing Is a Way of Thinking

Monday, June 19, 1:30 p.m.

The Museum of Modern Art

Free with Museum admission

The act of drawing allows us to understand an artwork through mark making (微迹创作). Join us in this ongoing series as we explore artworks through drawing and conversation. This week we draw from a selected work in the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends.

This session is led by Paula Stuttman.

Sunset Viewings

Monday, June 19, 8:15 p.m.

MoMA PS1

One of artist James Turrell's celebrated Skyscapes, Meeting is a site-specific installation (现代雕塑装置) that invites viewers to look upwards toward a clear view of the sky. The installation features a multicolored lighting program synchronized (同步) to sunrise and sunset.

When the sunset lighting program falls outside of regular museum hours, MoMA PS1 is hosting special after-hours viewings on Monday evenings. These events have limited capacity and require an advance ticket.

Postwar Art Wore Red

Thursday, June 29, 11:30 a.m.

The Museum of Modern Art

Free with Museum admission

Join us for a lively discussion about the work of artists featured in the exhibition Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, which shines a spotlight on the impressive but still relatively under-recognized achievements of women artists after the end of World War II. This session is led by Tamara Kostianovsky.

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As a boy, John Kerr wanted to be a fireman or a park ranger(护林员). Looking back on that childhood fantasy, he says, "I think it was calling me."

Instead, he spent four decades at WGBH in Boston, one of public broadcasting's flagship stations. He retired in 2005 at the age of 65 without any particular post-career goal in mind. After several idle weeks, he decided to drive his camper to visit family in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

In route, he casually stopped at the Yellowstone Park Foundation, which raises funds for Yellowstone, America's first national park. As it happens, the foundation was hiring people to educate park guests on wolves. Kerr signed on. After working there for several weeks, at the urging of his daughter, Kerr applied to the Student Conservation Association for an internship (实习).

To say that Kerr stood out in the intern crowd is a massive understatement. Most interns were college and even high school students. But, in a sense, he had been ready for this since his youth. His outdoor adventures with his grandfather had given him a love of nature, and, as an adult, he had helped out at the local fire department on medical calls.

He also had something else. There are 31 million Americans between the ages of 44 and 70. Some retired and looking for a third act, some looking for a more satisfying career, searching for something where they feel as if they're making a contribution, doing something to make their neighborhood, their country, their world just a little bit better. Kerr also had that deep urge to do something more.

From his internship, he moved up to ranger, educating park visitors, making for safe encounters between guests and animals, and responding to medical emergencies. He treasures his stewardship (管理) of what he describes as one of the most beautiful places on Earth, andrevels inmoments when he treats a visitor to an up-close look at one of the park's wolves or bears through his telescope, an occasion that can move visitors to tears.

"These are rich and all-too-rare moments," recalls Kerr, "I never forget them."

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Doctors commonly view excessive (过多的) daytime sleepiness as a sign of disturbed or inadequate sleep. But a new study suggests it could also signal depression or even diabetes (糖尿病), regardless of whether an individual doesn't sleep well.

Among a random sample of 16, 500 men and women ranging in age from 20 to 100 years old from central Pennsylvania, 8.7 percent had excessive daytime sleepiness.

Researchers, who considered a wide range of possible reasons for why these individuals were excessively sleepy during the daytime, found that excessive daytime sleepiness was more strongly associated with depression, diabetes and overweight than with sleep-disordered breathing.

Depression was by far the most significant risk factor for excessive daytime sleepiness, researchers reported in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. The likelihood of being excessively sleepy during the daytime was more than three times higher in those who reported they were being treated for depression. These searchers also observed strong ties between excessive daytime sleepiness and diabetes. Individuals reporting treatment for diabetes were close to two times more likely to report excessive daytime sleepiness than those who were not being treated for diabetes. Being overweight also increased the likelihood of excessive daytime sleepiness.

Excessive daytime sleepiness was more common in people younger than age 30, who were in a state of unmet sleep needs and depression. As for the over 75 crowd, increasing medical illness and health problems were the causes.

Sleep-disordered breathing—brief episodes when breathing stops during sleep—was not a significant player in excessive daytime sleepiness. This was consistent with prior studies that had reported only weak associations between sleep-disordered breathing and excessive daytime sleepiness.

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Plastic is everywhere. A lot of it ends up in the ocean. Most plastics in the ocean break up into very small particles called "microplastics"— less than five millimeters in length or about the size of a sesame (芝麻) seed. It is the most common type of marine debris (垃圾) found in the ocean. Plastic debris can come in all shapes and sizes and be harmful to our ocean and water life.

Microplastics come from various sources, including larger plastic debris that degrades into smaller pieces. In addition, microbeads, a type of smaller microplastic, are very tiny pieces of manufactured polyethylene (聚乙烯) plastic added as exfoliants (法角质剂) to health and beauty products, like toothpastes. These tiny particles easily pass through water systems and end up in the ocean, posing a potential threat to water life. What is worse, these microbeads or plastic particles in the marine environment are eaten by plankton (浮游生物), which are then eaten by fish. They continue to work their way up the food chain until they reach our dinner plates.

New research has shown that household dust is a more likely source of microplastics. According to researchers, 114 pieces of microplastic settle on a dinner plate during the 20-minute duration of a meal, adding up to anywhere between 13,000 and 68,000 pieces per year. And when you breathe in air, you could be breathing in the microscopic plastic particles as well.

How about drinking water? The non-profit journalism organization Orb Media tested 259 bottles of water bought from 9 different countries. The tests found that there was an average of 10.4 plastic particles (0.1 millimeters or larger) per liter of water. That level of microplastics in bottled water was double the level found in tap water. The findings suggest if you drink one liter of bottled water per day you could be consuming tens of thousands of microplastic particles each year.

It is apparent that the problem of microplastics is still a huge one.

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Apps play tricks on you to turn an activity into a habit. It's not necessarily a bad thing to encourage healthy behaviors such as exercising or playing word games.  Here's how to recognize when your tech habit might be an unwelcome obsession (着迷)，and practical steps foryou to take back control.

Do a cost-benefit analysis.  That's why we need to try doubly hard to do self-assessments of how features such as streaks (打卡时间) or leaderboards are helping and hurting us. Think over whether the behavior they inspire in you contributes to or detracts from your welfare.

Build in "cheat days". They are like days off from a strict diet.  It can also help toschedule days off from our habits—whether it's running, reading the news or scrolling Instagram.

 Especially for young people, it can be helpful to plan in advance activities that might be a distraction. If your teen knows he's allowed one hour on YouTube at 7 p.m., then he can relax without thinking about when he'll be able to hop on his favorite app.

 Tech companies, schools, social institutions and governments all have a responsibility to help reset standards of technology use. For example, schools have experimented with locking up students' phones so they can't use them during the school day. And the government in some countries have restricted the time young people are allowed to spend playing video games or using social media apps.

A. Use digital timers.

B. Schedule a limited amount of time for your habit.

C. It's hard to be mindful of why we do what we do.

D. Limiting tech overuse can't be only your responsibility.

E. But even a good habit can cross the line into unavoidable overuse.

F. Actually, doing your favorite activity without a goal can be relaxing.

G. However, don't be so motivated by rewards that you ignore signs your body needs a rest.

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In many ways, Gitanjali Rao is an ordinary 11-year-old, lively and chatty, yet her scientific spirit makes a huge difference. Last month, she 1 the top prize at the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge for her invention.

What 2 Gitanjali's work was that her city faced a water emergency with too much lead (铅) in its water. "The idea didn't 3 to me until I saw my parents try to do water tests. The test strips may show inaccurate results, which weren't very 4. " she recalled.

She then searched for suitable materials with continued efforts and 5 found that carbon nanotube (纳米管) sensors can be used to sense chemicals. Gitanjali 6 to build a small blue housing using the 3-D printer at her school with computer chips and a battery inside. A free app, which Gitanjali designed under 7 from her computer science teacher, sends the data to a linked phone through a(n)8 device.

The process of designing her project wasn't always 9 , though. Kathleen Shafer, a scientist paired with Gitanjali as her teacher in summer, 10 along the way. In the award ceremony, Gitanjali also 11 her success to her parents' constant support and 12 to try "crazy ideas". Gitanjali received $25, 000 to further develop her program along with the great 13 of winning the contest. According to Shafer, who 14 Gitanjali, "she shows a lot of motivation to solve 15 issues through science".

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Until late February this year, the publicity of Zibo barbecue had achieved  (limit) success. That is, until some college students attending a job fair in the city went to try the barbecue and took videos of themselves  (enjoy) the food and posted them onto social media.

The  (passion) youths unknowingly started a trend that has spurred the hashtag: "College students visit Zibo to try barbecue in groups" to go viral on social media.

Since it went viral, youths from across the country  (crowd) into Zibo to try its famous barbecue.

 makes barbecue special in Zibo is that the skewers (串肉扦) are 70-80 percent cooked before being brought to the table, where people can finish off the cooking at their own little stove of hot coals. On top of that,  (dine) have pancakes, green onions and other dressings,  enable them to assemble their own barbecue-filled package a bit like how traditional Peking duck is prepared.

"Zibo barbecue going viral is not  (accident)," Yin Qidi, head of the city's commerce bureau, said at a news conference held to address the barbecue craze  March 10.

To take advantage of   (it) recent fame, the city plans to hold a barbecue festival around the May Day holiday, said Yin.

你校将举行英语作文比赛。请你以"Benefits of Exercising Regularly"为题写一篇短文参赛，内容包括：
1. 定期运动的好处；
2. 你的建议。
注意：
1. 词数80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Benefits of Exercising Regularly

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文.

It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. The crops were dying. Cows had stopped giving milk. The streams were long gone back into the earth. If we didn't see any rain soon, we would lose everything.

I was in the kitchen making lunch for my husband and his brothers when I saw my six-year-old son, Billy, walking toward the woods. I could only see his back. He wasn't walking in his usual way. He was obviously walking with a great effort, trying to be as smooth as possible. Minutes after he disappeared into the woods, he came running out again, toward the house. I went back to make sandwiches, thinking that whatever he had been doing was completed. Moments later, however, he was once again walking in that unusual way toward the woods. This activity went on for over an hour: walking cautiously to the woods, and then running back to the house. Finally, my curiosity got the best of me. I quietly walked out of the house and followed him on his journey.

He was cupping both hands in front of him as he walked; being very careful not to spill (洒出) the water he held. I followed him secretly as he went into the woods. Branches and thorns (荆棘) slapped his little face but he did not try to avoid them. He might have a much greater purpose, I thought. As I looked at him secretly, I saw the most amazing sight. Several large deer appeared threatening in front of him. But Billy walked right up to them, at the sight of which I almost screamed at him to get away. And I saw a baby deer lying on the ground, obviously suffering from heavy loss of water and heat exhaustion, lift its head with great effort to lap up the water cupped in my beautiful boy's hand.

注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

When the water was gone, Billy jumped up to run back to the house.

……

Instead of criticizing him like his father, I decided to help him.