云南省昆明市2022届高三上学期12月摸底考试英语试题

Cambridge University Botanic Garden is private property. Visitors are welcome in accordance with the following rules made by the Botanic Garden Syndicate.

Time of opening and closing:

The Garden is open every day throughout the year except for the Christmas holiday period.

January, November & December      10 am-4 pm

February, March & October        10 am-5 pm

April—September            10 am-6 pm

The Glasshouses and Cafe close half an hour before the Garden closing time. The Botanic Garden Shop closes fifteen minutes before the Garden closing time. The latest admission time is half an hour before the Garden closing time.

Guidelines for all visitors:

As the Garden is a learning resource, visitors can get the most out of their visit if provided with educational activities here. Please remember the Garden is also a peaceful place where people come to relax.

If you have any queries, please do contact us via the Enquiry desk on 01223 336265. All groups intending to visit the Garden must book their visits at least a week in advance.

The buttons below are for recreational group visits only.

Group Booking Form B is for groups that include adults, under 18's and children.

Fourteen-year-old Thuch Salik became an overnight star last year, after a video of him selling souvenirs at Angkor Archaeological Park in multiple languages and dialects went popular online.

At the time of the video being filmed, Thuch lived with his parents and two brothers close to the park. His parents had relocated the family from the city of Battambang to Siem Reap to work in the tourist trade, but got into great debts during the move.

Thuch was always a bright boy and often begged his mother to allow him to study foreign languages, but she had no money to provide lessons for him. Yet this didn't fail the determined teenager.

"I learned from tourists. When they say something, I listen. One day, two days, three days, I listened," said Thuch. "I remember, and I say like the tourists."

Since the video was posted, Thuch and his family have received donations and offers of help from around the world.

Initially, Thuch went with his mother and younger brother to Phnom Penh and was sent to BELTEI International School by a Cambodian businessman. This month, however, Thuch Salik flew to China to begin his study at Hailiang Foreign Language School in Zhejiang Province, China.

Zhejiang Hailiang Charity Foundation will fully cover Thuch's expenses until he finishes university, or even doctoral study, according to a statement from the Hailaing Education Group.

The group revealed that a major factor in giving Thuch this chance to realize his dreams is due to their newly-launched "One Belt One Road" International Talent Study-in-China Philanthropic Program. As a part of this program, Hailiang will offer scholarships to talented youths in BRI countries from poor backgrounds.

The "junk DNA" may be useful in developing future cancer treatments, according to a new report in the journal Nature Immunology. The discovery was led by Wilmot Cancer Institute investigators and University of Rochester biologists Vera Gorbunova, Ph.D., and Andrei Seluanov, Ph.D..

The DNA elements under research are known as retrotransposons (逆转录转座子). The bad side of them is that if left to run amok, they can give rise to tumors (肿瘤). Researchers, however, discovered that if they are kept in the correct balance and controlled properly, retrotransposons can cause the immune system to destroy cancer.

Much of the Gorbunova and Seluanov lab's work involves the blind mole rat (鼹鼠), which lives underground and seems unaffected by cancer. In the latest scientific paper, researchers found that the anti-cancer approaches behind retrotransposons are present in human cells, and planned to use the information to find new ways to stop cancer cell growth.

They focus on rats because they are genetically similar to humans and have a diverse range of lifespans (寿命). Gorbunova and Seluanov previously discovered that blind mole rats prevent cancer by activating "concerted cell death," but the approaches at play were a mystery. Now, the researchers believe retrotransposons may be one key piece to the puzzle. Why? Because they discovered that blind mole rats have evolved to retrotransposons to their advantage to kill cancer cells.

At first the researchers believed the approaches behind retrotransposons were unique to blind mole rats. However, they found the same approaches at work in human tissue cells. The researchers still need to figure out exactly how blind mole rats have achieved the balance between activating and controlling retrotransposons. For now, though, they will focus on the power of selfish genetic elements to be, well, not so selfish.

Who gets to decide what is content worth posting? Content worth engaging?

On social media, it's an algorithm (算法) — a computer program that matches your particular likes and follows with others who have similar likes and follows. But even more than that, it's based on how much content you create. If you don't feed the social media monster on a regular basis, it refuses to expose what you post for others to see.

Thus, some bloggers share heavily filtered (过滤) photos of tourist attractions on the social media and lifestyle platform to get traffic. However, this practice sometimes disappoints other users of Instagram who go to those locations after seeing the pictures.

Since the bloggers don't clearly state that their pictures are works of photography, they are considered as travel guides. After the viewers visit those places in person, they find a big gap between reality and what they have seen online, leaving them feeling frustrated.

Last week, one famous app issued a statement on its social media account, admitting that some users have "over-beautified" their online travel diaries.

The apology came after users complained on social media about their experience following travel guides on the app, only to find out on actual visits that the places are poles apart from the skilfully retouched images they saw. One of the most well-known cases involved the "pink beach" of Fuxian Lake in China's southwestern Yunnan province, which often appears online in dreamy pink images, but in reality is more similar to the colour of red bricks.

"If it's OK to photoshop promotion pictures for tourist sites like this, I can turn the bushes downstairs in my neighbourhood into a Norwegian forest in any minute," one of the most upvoted (置顶) comments on the app said. Others argued that the problem lies with the bloggers rather than the platform.

Many of us have piles up boxes on albums of photos that we haven't picked up in years. The coming New Year marks the season of renewing — the perfect time to take a trip down memory track. Here are ways to finally organize, use and clear away your family photos.

. If you're a history fan, you can piece the photos together to form your family tree. If you know where the photos were taken, spend a rainy afternoon going over related information at the local library. You can also hire a genealogist (谱系专家) or upload photos online to genealogy sites if you're willing to pay for research.

Donate. Most of us find it difficult to throw photos away, let alone the ones that have been passed down from generation to generation. . These institutions welcome donations, especially if you can provide some background information about your photos.

Recall. Pass around family photos and albums at your next family gathering. ! This is a great chance to learn more about your family and introduce your kids to their late relatives who they have never met.

Digitize. Printed photos are typically stored in attics, basements and closets. . Just preserve photos by scanning them yourself. Saving photos to the cloud will give them a safe home where they'll stay lively forever.

Delete. After you've backed up your collection with digital copies, you can feel better about throwing away printed photos that you didn't display or use. . This makes it easier to find and share important photos online.

A. Display

B. Research

C. Keep them in an accessible place

D. Light the fireplace and let the storytelling begin

E. It's also important to remove outdated ones regularly

F. But there are some historical societies accepting them

G. Therefore, they are easily affected by fires, floods and dust

Nikki Halkerston, 45, from Scotland, was looking for sea glass, pottery and shells on Broughty Ferry Beach on Thursday when she saw a small, one-inch porcelain (瓷) doll. "I was just looking for a certain type of shell when it 1 my eyes and I just thought ‘oh wow'!" Halkerston told SWNS.

"There wasn't a mark on it, it wasn't even 2 or chipped and it's probably been in the 3  for years and years," she 4.

According to SWNS, the doll is called a Frozen Charlotte, which is 5 a 19th-century American folk tale about a woman who refuses to dress 6 on her trip to a New Year's Eve ball —

7 her mother's wishes —and 8 to death on the 20-mile journey.

Halkerston said that 9 she knew the dolls were called Frozen Charlottes, she didn't realize at first how special her find was until she 10 a picture online.

"I got about 450 people saying ‘wow that's probably the 11 find.' It's really hard to find them in one piece like that, and 12 they're broken and you find a head or an arm," Halkerston told SWNS.

SWNS reported that today, Frozen Charlotte dolls 13 for between about $21.23 USD (£15) and $141.54 USD (£100), though Halkerston thinks her find is on the 14 end, since it's in such good 15.

16, her daughter Melissa likes the doll, so Halkerston 17 to keep it. "I was thinking at first I was going to sell it but now I know it's so 18 that I wouldn't," Halkerston said. "I think it's

19 that it's lived through that amount of 20 and was found by me."

Shanghai never made anyone  (disappoint). Located in the mouth of Yangtze river, with the nickname "Paris of the East" or "Pearl of the Orient", Shanghai makes  (it) a famous place for street food lovers from all over the world. With the mix-culture  East and West, Shanghai's unbeatable and attractive food culture in sweet and oily cuisines is well-known everywhere. While  (comfortable) knocking about the street food corner of Nanjing West Road, you just cannot miss a few typical Shanghainese cuisines,  are usually served as breakfast for local Shanghainese.

Are you  (hunger) and don't know what to eat? Just 4 pieces of Shanghai pan-fried dumplings can make your stomach feel better after a few hours  (wander) in search of food. This tasty dish is usually what Shanghai  (cook) are eager for after a long day inside the kitchen. Da Bing in Chinese literally refers to "large pancake". Not only Da Bing is a popular street food dish  it is also a favorite in Chinese restaurants. As one of the Chinese "Four Kings of Breakfast", Da Bing is a perfect substitute for rice at any meal and can  (eat) as snack at different times of the day.

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I left my umbrella in a clinic when seen a doctor last week. I had to pick it up from the medical workers today. So on the phone, I asked the nurse what it would be convenient for the staff. There was a moment of silent, and then she said anytime will be OK except between 12 and 2. I got to there at 11:30 am and I told my name to reception nurse. She looked at me careful for a while. "Patient rarely ask what time is convenient for us. But they usually only expect us to meet at a time convenient for them. Thank you for getting inside everyone else's mind!" she said.

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