江苏省常熟2021届高三下学期英语5月三模考试试卷

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The London Eye soars 443 fee into the sky and views stretching25 miles every direction. Since opening i 2000, it has been used as a backdrop in countless films and is loved by Britons and visitors alike. This is the UK most popular visitor attraction, visited by over 3.5 million people a year.

Each London Eye capsule holds up to 25 passengers comfortably. All capsules are fully air-conditioned an rotate (旋转) on a special device designed to keep everyone upright as the wheel makes a slow but progressive rotation. The full rotation lasts 30 minutes of an ever changing view of this dynamic city.

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I'm a standup comic. One day, a woman from The Daily News called and said she wanted to do an article on me. When she had finished interviewing me for the article, she asked, "What are you planning to do next?" Well, at the time, there was absolutely nothing I was planning on doing next, so I asked her what she meant, pausing for a moment. She told me she was interested in me! So I thought I'd better tell her something. What came out was, "I'm thinking about breaking the Guinness Book of World Records for Fastest-Talking Female."

The newspaper article came out the next day, and the writer had included my parting remarks about trying to break the world's Fastest-Talking Female record. At about 5: 00 p.m. that afternoon I got a call from Larry King Live, which I had never heard of, asking me to go on the show. They wanted me to try to break the record, and they told me they would pick me up at 8: 00—because they wanted me to do it that night!

Then I sat down to figure out what on earth I was going to do on the show. I called Guinness to find out how to break a fast-talking record. They told me I would have to recite something either Shakespeare or the Bible. Shakespeare and I had never really gotten along, so 1 figured the Bible was my only hope. I began practicing and practicing, over and over again. I was both nervous and excited at the same time.

Then I decided just to give it my best shot, and I did. I broke the record, becoming the World's Fastest-talking Female by speaking 585 words in one minute in front of a national television audience. I broke it again two years later, with 603 words in a minute. My career took off.

People often ask me how I did that. I tell them I live my life by this simple philosophy: I always say yes first; then I ask, "Now, what do I have to do to accomplish that?" Then I ask myself "What is the worst thing that can happen if I don't succeed? The answer is, I simply don't succeed! And what's the best thing that can happen? I succeed!

What more can life ask of you? Be yourself; and have a good time!

Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, suggested on Wednesday that improved child care support policies from the government might help pull more women into the labor market.

"Our peers, our competitors, advanced economy western countries, have a more built-up function for child care, and they wind up having much higher labor force participation for women," Mr. Powell said, "We used to lead the world in female labor force participation, a quarter-century ago, and we no longer do."

But Mr. Powell did voice qualified support for a few broader ideas. He made it clear that the labor market remained far from healed, that the pandemic's economic outcome has largely hurt women and minorities since the winter of 2020, and that both Congress and the central bank have a role to play in supporting working-class families until the economy has recovered more fully. As Mr. Powell implied, adult women in the United States hold jobs or look for them at lower rates than women in some other major advanced economies, such as Canada or Germany.

Research has suggested that the change may be linked to child care policies. In a 2018 paper that asked why the share of Canadians who work or look for  jobs had climbed even as United States labor force attachment had fallen, researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco pointed out that most of the gap owed to different outcomes for women. And they pointed to caregiving policy differences as a likely reason.

''Parental leave policies in Canada provide strong motivation to remain attached to the labor force following the arrival of a new child," the paper, written by the San Francisco Fed president, Mary C. Daly, and co-authors, pointed out  "The contrast between the motivations Canada and the United States offer prime-age workers to remain attached to the labor force is clear."

The fact 出at child care responsibilities fall heavily on women in the United States has come under a brighter spotlight during the pandemic, which has shuttered schools and disproportionately left women bearing added child care responsibilities during the traditional workday.

Time to load up some popular games: new research indicates pigs possess the mental capability to play video games. The study, published in Frontiers In Psychology, tested the ability of four pigs(Hamlet, Omelette Ebony and Ivory) 10 play a simple joystick (操纵杆) game with their noses, moving a cursor(光标) to four targets on the screen. Although the animals didn't demonstrate the skills to win a round any time soon, they did show an understanding of some elementary games.

Performing well above chance, the pigs appeared to recognize the movement of the cursor was controlled by the joystick. The fact that they did so well despite a lack of flexible fingers is "extraordinary", according to the researchers.

"It is no small achievement for an animal to grasp the concept that the behaviour they are performing is having an affect elsewhere. That pigs can do this to any degree should give us pause as to what else they are capable of learning and how such learning may impact them," said Purdue University's Dr Candace Croney, the study's lead author.

Researchers also noted that while the pigs could be taught to play the game using food as positive motivation, they also responded well to social interaction. In fact, when the game was made more challenging and the pigs became unwilling to participate in, "only oral encouragement by the experimenter "would see training continue.

These findings are the latest to highlight the intelligence of pigs. Not only have they been shown to use mirrors to find hidden food, but studies have also demonstrated how pigs can be taught to "come" and "sit" after oral commands.

"As with any sentient (有感觉力的) beings, how we interact with pigs and what we do to them impacts and mattes to them," Croney said. "We therefore have a moral duty to understand how pigs acquire information, and what they are capable of learning and remembering, because it ultimately offer the potential for how they understand their interactions with us and their environments."

The year 2020 marks the beginning of the decade of the yold, or the "young old", as the Japanese call people aged between 65 and 75, who continue to work and stay socially engaged.  . The yold are more numerous, healthier and wealthier than previous generations of seniors.

 Of the 3.7 years of increased life expectancy (预期寿命) in rich countries between 2000 and 2015, says the WHO, 3. 2 years were enjoyed in good health. Working is one of the factors that are helping people stay healthy longer. A German study found that people who remain at work after the normal retirement age manage to slow the cognitive (认矢口的) decline. The yold are also better off, while the wealth of ail other age groups declined.

The yold are not just any group of old people They are challenging the traditional expectations of the retired as who are wearing indoor shoes and look after the grandchildren.  They become one of the fastest rowing group for airline business. They spend much more, when taking a foreign holiday, than young adults. So they are vital to the Tourism industry. They are also changing education and finance Because of the importance of pensions,  the yold are transforming insurance companies from passive distributors of fired an nuities (年金) to financial service providers for customers who want to manage their pension pots more actively.

 They find that older workers have, if anything, slightly above-average productivity and that teams of workers from multiple generations are the most productive of all. Societies should be better off because public spending on health and pensions should be lower than expected, as people work longer and need less medical care.

Today, some big things will have to change, under pressure from the yold themselves. The most important is public attitudes towards older people and in particular the expectation that 60-somethings ought to quietly retire into the background.  The yold will demand that companies become more age-friendly and, in the process, help change attitudes towards aging itself.

A. Healthy yold people will require great changes in health spending.

B. Many companies discriminate against older workers by offering training only to younger ones.

C. The rise of the yold will definitely be a blessing to both culture and economy.

D. Health worsens with age, but the yold are resisting the decline better than most.

E. Many bosses think productivity falls with age, but studies in Germany suggest otherwise.

F. That will disturb consumers, service and financial markets.

G. The yold, in their new appearance as the young old, are expected to change the world.

What are the foods that you can only taste in memories? Your mother's biscuits? The pies you made as a child? And what are the recipes that help you 1your memories?

This morning, for the first time in over a year, I made Dutch Babies, a kind of pancake. I'm a poor cook who's always 2to pull anything out of the oven that isn't burnt. But 3 , I get lucky.

Making Dutch Babies brings to my mind some of the 4 memories of my life. I've made Dutch Babies many times for sleepovers and 5 . They were always a hit, 6 I burned them.

After my kids grew up, I didn't cook much for years, except for holidays or other7 occasions. When we had a family 8, I'd make Dutch Babies for breakfast.

I can't recall the last time I made Dutch Babies, before today. I know it was 9 a year, before life was  10for COVID-19, and we stopped having guests.

So why did I make them this 11 for only my husband and me? It's been a(n) 12 year for all of us, filled with things we couldn't do. I was 13to celebrate being alive.

Good food can feed a hungry crowd. But if it's made with love and 14 . it can fill a(n) 15with the hope of better days to come. So, add your own memories.

Lantern Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. This is the first full moon of the new year,(symbol) unity and perfection. Lantern Festival is an important part of Spring Festival and (mark) the official end of the long holiday. There are many legends concerning the origins of Lantern Festival.

According to one legend, a celestial (天上的) swan came down to the world where it was shot down by a hunter. The Jade Emperor, the (high) god in Heaven, vowed to avenge(为...报复)the swan. He planned to send a troop to Earth on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with orders to kill all humans and animals._ the other celestial beings disagreed with this course of action, risking their lives  (warn) the people of Earth. As a result, before and after the fifteenth day of the first month, every family  (hang) red lanterns outside their doors and set off firecrackers and fireworks, giving the impression  their homes were already burning. By successfully tricking the Jade Emperor in this way, humanity was saved from death.

Over time, Lantern Festival  (gradual) evolved into its present form. When Buddhism was introduced to China during the Eastern Han Dynasty, the emperor commanded that on the night of the full moon of the first lunar month, lanterns should  (light) to honor Buddha, adding a new dimension to Lantern Festival. And according to Daoism, Lantern Festival is associated  the primitive Goddesses of Heaven and Fire, who were born on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

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A Theme Class Meeting

A boy named Ali had a large and harmonious family, happily living with his sisters, parents and grandmother. His grandmother loved everyone a lot and was respected by 11 family members. She was very old, yet sometimes she would recall things from her past and share with them. Sometimes they would believe her but at other times they would think that Granny might be mixing up the facts due to her old age.

One day, when Ali was in school, suddenly while knitting (编织), Granny remembered something and she couldn't contain her emotions so she got up to tell her son—Ali's father. She walked as fast as she could to his room and said," You always asked about my birth date but do you know today's the day when I was born."

She looked at her son with an excited expression, expecting an immediate response. However, her son wondered how she could remember her date of birth in this old age when she forgot so many other things. So he didn't pay much attention to this. Disappointed at her son's reaction, Granny then went to Ali's mother and Ali's sister, but like Ali's father, nobody believed her.

Disheartened, she went and sat in the terrace (庭院). When Ali returned from his school, he found his grandmother sitting alone with a sad expression. Ali asked his Granny about the matter, but she said there was nothing to worry about. After a lot of persuasion she revealed what was troubling her — nobody seemed to care that it was her birthday today!

After hearing what Granny said, Ali thought of a plan. Purely by chance, some of Ali's friends were playing nearby so he shared his plan with them.

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His friends were all willing to help Ali achieve what he planned.

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Ali was so happy to see his Granny with tears of joy shining in her eyes.