湖南省汨罗市2020-2021学年高三上学期英语入学降温考试试卷

    Upcoming Events of New York Chinese Cultural Center

    Fan Dance

    Sunday, September8, 2:00pm-3:00 pm, $15 per child

    New-York Historical Society Museum & Library

    Learn Chinese fan dancing with an instructor from NYCCC! This program is a part of an exhibition which examines the history of trade and immigration between China and the United States.

    Dragon Boat Festival

    Friday, September13,2:00pm -2:30pm

    Fresh Meadows Park

    Come and celebrate with us in the thousand-year-old tradition of Dragon Boat racing! Be part of the audience and enjoy the excitement of this celebration. FREE ADMISSION! Click here for more information. Dragon Boat Festival will be held in Fresh Meadows Park.

    Dance to China

    Sunday, September15, 2 pm

Spruce Street School Auditorium, 12 Spruce St, New York, NY 10038

Join us in celebrating 43 years of preserving and continuing Chinese traditional dance. Students from NYCCC School of the Arts will be performing traditional Chinese dance, martial arts, and Beijing opera. Cost is $15 for adults, $12 for teenagers and senior citizens, $10 for children under 12.

    NYCCC School of the Arts Open House

    Saturday, September21, from 1:00pm -3:00 pm, $12 per child

    PS 124, Yung Wing School, 40 Division Street, New York, NY 10002

    Join us and see Chinese dance, kung fu, and acrobatic (杂技的)performances performed by our current students. Come and see our students' beautiful artwork on display and make some artwork yourselves during our hour of arts and crafts and face painting from 1-2 pm. The show will be from 2-3pm.

    “Beauty isn't about having a pretty face,” begins a motivational quote. “It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul. Oh, and pretty nails!”

    That may be Angela Peters' motto. Last July, Peters, rolled her wheelchair into a nail salon (沙龙) at the Walmart shopping center in Burton to have her nails done. But Peters, who has cerebral palsy (脑瘫), was turned away. The salon told her that they were afraid it would be too difficult to properly paint her nails given that her hands kept shaking. What was meant to be a day of beauty for Peters was now a disappointment.

    A Walmart cashier about to go on her break happened to see this. Ebony Harris recognized Peters as a Walmart regular. “She's just like everyone else. She wants to look pretty. So why can't she?” Harris said.

    Harris approached Peters. “Do you want me to do your nails?” she asked.

    A smile spread across Peters' face. “Yeah!” Harris led Peters into the supermarket, where they shopped for nail polish. They settled on a color that would catch every eye. They then made their way into a neighboring Subway, found a table for two, and started. Harris gently took Peters' hand into hers and carefully began painting her nails. “She moved her hands a little bit, and she kept saying she was sorry,” Harris said. “I told her, 'Don't say that. You're fine. ' She makes me look at life and appreciate it much more than I have.”

    Watching it all with surprise and admiration was Subway employee Tasia Smith. Smith was so taken by the scene that she wrote about it on Facebook. “She was so patient with her,” she wrote. “Thanks to the Walmart worker for making this beautiful girl's day!”

    Most of the new diseases we humans have faced in the past several decades have come from animals. The more we come into contact with wild animals, the more we risk a so-called disease “spillover” from animals to humans.

    “As people move and wildlife move in response to a changing environment, humans and wildlife and animals will come in contact more regularly,” said Jeanne Fair from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Fair argues that by shifting animal habitats, climate change will also make the opportunities for disease spillover more frequent. “Everything is sort of shifting and will shift into the future as the environment changes through climate change,” Fair said.

    Scientists, including climatologists and epidemiologists (流行病学家) on Fair's team at Los Alamos, are beginning to model how changes to the climate will impact the spread of infectious diseases. It's early days for this kind of research, but previous studies suggest that extreme weather has already played a role in at least one outbreak. Scientists say drought and deforestation have combined to force bats out of rain forests and into orchards (果园) in Malaysia to find food. Those bats, a common disease reservoir, then passed the Nipah virus through pigs to humans for the first time in the late 1990s.

    “We're going by the past data to really predict what's going to happen in the future,” Fair said, “And so, anytime you increase that wildlife-human interface, that's sort of an emerging disease hot spot. And so, that's just increasing as we go forward.”

    Jeffrey Shaman, head of the climate and health program at Columbia University's public health school, argues we don't yet know whether climate change will cause a net increase in infectious disease rates globally. For example, mosquitoes carry disease that affects millions of people across the world every year. As their habitats expand in some parts of the world, they might contract diseases elsewhere. Shaman says what we know for certain about climate change is that it will make it harder to predict where disease outbreaks will pop up.

    The royal family is filled with rules, and one in particular might explain why Princess Charlotte is a princess, but her kids likely won't be.

    When it comes to the British royal family, one thing is almost always true: they have a pretty confusing set of official rules and protocols. For instance, the royal family doesn't have a last name. And don't forget the fact that Queen Elizabeth celebrates two birthdays every year.

    If your head isn't swimming yet, consider the tradition of royal titles. As a British custom, only the daughter of a prince or a prince's wife may be considered a formal “princess”. The latter applies to Kate, who is both a princess and the Duchess of Cambridge thanks to her marriage to Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge. And their children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, also bear official royal titles because their father is Prince William.

    However, while Prince George's future children will also carry their father's royal status, any children that Princess Charlotte has will not automatically be considered princes or princesses. Why? Royal custom dictates that royal titles are passed down via sons, but not daughters.

    However, while Prince George's future children will also carry their father's royal status, any children that Princess Charlotte has will not automatically be considered princes or princesses. Why? Royal custom dictates that royal titles are passed down via sons, but not daughters.

    "Royal titles are inherited through sons, so if Princess Charlotte has children they would not automatically inherit the titles (his or her royal highness) HRH, Prince, or Princess,” Lucy Hume, associate director of etiquette experts Debrett's, told Town& Country.

    Of course, exceptions can (and will!) be made. (Learn about every time the British royal family broke their own protocol.) The Queen has offered HRH status to other royal offspring in the past, including the children of Queen Elizabeth's daughter, Anne. Although Princess Anne and her husband, Captain Phillips, declined, perhaps Princess Charlotte will be extended the same offer when her own children are born.

    Chocolate is popular with people around. Hot chocolate has been used for many years to treat diseases and fight bad moods. It's known as a special healthy drink from the 16th to 19th centuries, and sometimes was taken as a medicine. . Let's enjoy the following health benefits of drinking hot chocolate.

    ●. Drinking hot chocolate can help improve your brain power and improve your overall brain health. The flavonoids (黄酮)increase the blood flow and oxygen to your brain helping you think better. If you want to improve your memory, try drinking two cups of hot chocolate a day.

    ●It contains more antioxidants（抗氧化剂）. ，so drinking hot chocolate is a better way to get chocolate's powerful antioxidants than drinking green tea and wine. Hot chocolate contains a little bit more antioxidants than a bar of chocolate, which are released when the drink is heated up.

    ●It improves your mood. Chocolate, including hot chocolate, is a well-known mood adjuster. . Hot chocolate contributes to the release of a beneficial chemical, which helps to improve your mood and make you feel happier.

    ●It's good for your heart health. The flavonoids found in hot chocolate are good for your heart health. . Choose healthy hot chocolate and be sure to drink it in moderation. Remember, chocolate itself contains sugar and fat, so you can't allow yourself to drink more than two cups a day.

A. It can help you lose weight

B. It improves your brain health

C. This tasty drink helps fight stress, anxiety and depression

D. Hot chocolate contains more antioxidants than green tea and wine

E. Flavonoids reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering blood pressure

F. Drinking hot chocolate helps prevent the absorption of nutrition from other foods

G. Now, people don't consider hot chocolate as a medicine but drink it even more than ever

    It'd 1 been climbed by local and foreign men  and local women, but a Western female, who'd 2 unaccompanied and wanted to climb the mountain, was quite 3.

    I explained that I'd been 4 for some time—in research and in physical strength—and showed them the 5 I had from their government authorizing my climb. I stressed that I'd be very 6 to keep their local traditions and hire one of their villagers as a guide, but it seemed to do little to reduce their 7.

    The male villagers told me that the quick mud I'd meet would swallow me. While they couldn't remember anyone this bad actually 8, they seemed convinced it was a real 9. The village women, however, smiled at me, indicating their 10 for my climb.

    The men 11 relaying stories of unpredictable danger. However, I was 12 because my aunt's words kept 13 in my ears—the greatest risk is not taking a risk, and we should always 14 our dreams.

    Eventually, the men agreed to an 15 that seemed to put them at ease with my climb. Besides the local guide I'd hire, they also 16 me to hire three guards with guns, for protection.

    As I started walking down the dirt path toward the mountain, I was 17 not only by my new mountain support team, but also by every village woman. They danced in circles around us as if in 18 of a victory.

    I knew I wasn't the first Western female to make the climb. But with the women villagers 19 me, I felt a strong sense of 20. And I suspected they felt the same.

    We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Li Wenliang.

    Dr. Li Wenliang, one of the eight “whistleblowers” who tried  (warn) fellow medics of  novel coronavirus when it first emerged in Wuhan, died early on Friday. Wuhan Central Hospital  (confirm) in a statement released on  (it) official Weibo account. “Our hospital's ophthalmologist Li Wenliang was  (unfortunate) infected with coronavirus during his work in the fight  the coronavirus epidemic,” the statement read,  (add) “He died at 2:58 a.m. on February 7 after attempts to resuscitate were unsuccessful.”

    “After emergency treatment, Li Wenliang passed away,” the Central Hospital of Wuhan announced on Weibo, China's version of Twitter. “We deeply regret and mourn Li's  (die).”

    Dr. Li is a hero,  will live in our hearts forever. May God bless all the courageous doctors and  (nurse) fighting on the front line.

    High school is considered the most important stage. As senior three student, it will not be long before I graduated. Now I have many things to share in my fellows. First of all, I'd like to express my thank to those who lent me a hand when I was disappointing. It was their kindness which helped me regain my self-confidence when I lost my heart. Besides, I anxious want to clear up some misunderstanding with my friends in order to keep our friendships forever. With the National College Entrance Examination approached, I strongly recommend that we could value time and redouble efforts to study so that we can get into a key university.

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