浙江省浙大附高2020-2021年高一下学期4月月考英语试题

If you find yourself checking your phone first thing in the morning, if you find you're text-messaging while walking, checking your phone instead of working on an important assignment-you are addicted.

Don't worry. The new NoPhone might be just the thing you need. It looks and feels exactly like a smart phone, but it does nothing. It's just piece of plastic that you can carry around in your hand to fool yourself.

NoPhone is currently prototype(手机模型) that will cost only $12 once it hits the market. Its makers are trying to raise $30,000 in order to cover the production and marketing costs.

Dutch designer Ingmar Larsen, who helped create the NoPhone, said that he had the idea as a joke along with his friends Van Gould and Ben Langveld. To their great surprise, the idea received a lot of attention online and people from all over the world started placing requests for NoPhone of their own, so that's when the three friends decided to raise money for mass production.

David H said, "I used to sleep with my phone in my hand, but my night terrors would cause me to throw it across the room in an unconscious panic. With the NoPhone, I can still enjoy the comfort of holding a phone in my sleep without waking up to a broken screen. Thanks, NoPhone."

If you're interested in NoPhone, but concerned about not being able to take selfies anymore, don't worry. The makers do have an update at no extra charge--the mirror sticker (贴纸). That way; they say, you can enjoy "real-time" selfies with your friends whenever you want.

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the most popular of modern artists. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is showing its respect and admiration for the artist and his powerful personality with an exhibition bringing together over 200 paintings, sculptures, drawings and more. Among the works and masterworks on exhibition the visitor will find the best pieces, most importantly The Persistence of Memory. There is also L'Enigme sans Fin from 1938, works on paper, objects, and projects for stage and screen and selected parts from television programmes reflecting the artist's showman qualities.

The visitor will enter the World of Dali through an egg and is met with the beginning, the world of birth. The exhibition follows a path of time and subject with the visitor exiting through the brain.

The exhibition shows how Dali draws the viewer between two infinities(无限). "From the infinity small to the infinity large, contraction and expansion coming in and out of focus: amazing Flemish accuracy and the showy Baroque of old painting that he used in his museum-theatre in Figueras," explains the Pompidou Centre.

The fine selection of the major works was done in close collaboration(合作)with the Museo Nacional Rcina Sofia in Madrid, Spain, and with contributions from other institutions like the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. Florida.

We all need to eat, and when we go to buy food at the supermarket, we're offered many choices. But we often buy food that's been produced in huge amounts and that's travelled many miles before it ends up on our plate. So for some growing their own food is a better choice--and it tastes good too!

From growing vegetables in little pots on your balcony (阳台) to taking care of a small piece of land, there are many ways to produce home-grown food. It can be backbreaking work-digging, weeding and watering the soil, but the result is fresh, home-grown fruits and vegetables, helping us keep a "five-a-day" diet.

The recent Covid-19 pandemic lockdown means demand for homegrown food has seen a comeback in the UK. Miriam Dobson from the University of Sheffield, told the BBC that some people have been spending lot of their time on their plots(小块菜地), growing plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables-which, at times, have been challenging to buy in supermarkets. She says "Coronavirus has reminded people of the weakness within our global food system. In such a difficult time, interest in self-support rises."

But for those with little space, solution to grow your own vegetables lies closer to home-using pots. Sheila Brand lives in a third-floor flat in Rotterdam. She has managed to grow tomatoes and eggplants and is already harvesting raspberries. She told the BBC watching the plants grow "is very exciting: 'Oh it's got a new leaf'"

As well as the benefits of saving money and enjoying tasty food, growing our own from a balcony or window ledge not only improves our wellbeing and immediate environment, we can actually grow a lot of vegetables. So, maybe it's time for us all to get planting and develop our green fingers!

How similar are language and music?

Language is part of our daily lives, no matter where we live in the world. . Both language and music play a huge role in our culture and here are some of their similarities.

Both language and music have a writing system.

In English we record language using the alphabet, which is a collection of letters. Similarly, we use notes to keep a record of music. Musicians read notes and create meaning in the form of music. By writing pieces of text or music, we are able to share experiences through time. We can read the ideas or hear the composition of someone who lived hundreds of years ago.

You can make a good guess at where someone is from by listening to the language they use. In the same way, we know that styles of music are different around the world, giving us the opportunity to explore many different cultures through their music and providing us with music for every situation.

Both share emotions

of course you may be able to see it on my face, but you will know for sure through my words. Similarly, music can sound angry, sad or happy. Music can show you exactly how the composer was or is feeling, and allow us to share in that emotion. When you feel happy, you might want to sing and dance to a happy song to celebrate your happiness. I think we have all used music to express or process our emotions often combining it with language in the form of song lyrics.

A. Both are expressive.

B. Both vary with cultures.

C. How do you know that I am angry?

D. We use language to express our thoughts.

E. So just as you read English, you can read music.

F. Similarly, music is part of many people's lives.

G. In contrast, you probably also listen to sad music when you are feeling down.

It's often said that you can judge a person by looking at what's on their bookshelves. Well, when I asked myself this question a few years ago, I made a(n)1discovery. Pretty much all the 2 on my bookshelves were written by British authors, and there was almost nothing in translation from other 3. What a shame! So, I decided to begin my4 reading project.

But how could I find books from much of the rest of the world? I had to ask for5. So in October 2011, I started my blog, and I 6 a short appeal(呼吁) online. Within hours, people began to 7. At first, it was friends and colleagues. Then it was friends of friends. And soon, it was 8.

Four days later, I got a(n)9from a woman called Rafidah in Kuala Lumpur. She said she loved my project, 10if she could go to her local English-language bookshop and choose my Malaysian book and post it to me. I 11accepted, and a few weeks later, a package12containing nothing but two books- Rafidah's choice from Malaysia, and a book from Singapore that she had also 13for me. At the time, I was14that a stranger more than 6,000 miles away would go to such lengths to help someone she would probably never 15.

But Rafidah's kindness 16 to be the pattern for that year. Time and again, people went out of their17 to help me. And books often came from 18sources. A writer even emailed me an unpublished translation of his novel to me, allowing me to become one of the 19 people ever to read that book in English.

That year, thanks to kind strangers from the four 20 of the world. I read books from over 100 countries.