河南省洛阳市2019-2020学年高二下学期英语期末质量检测试卷

2020 Bunny Chase

    Spend some quality time with your family while following clues (线索), do some crafts (手工), find Easter eggs, chocolate and small prizes. Keep your eyes open for the golden ticket! If you find it, you'll be the winner of an AMAZING prize to make the outdoors great this summer. Register at die Wolf Centre on Sunday, April 12th, between 11 am and 1 pm. Participation Fee is regular Wolf Centre admission ($30 per family). You can pre-pay your admission online here.

Astronomy

    JUNE 26 9:30 PM – 11:30 PM

    Fascinated by the night sky above? Book a space for the whole family on one of our summer astronomy programs. Take a walk with our onsite astronomer who will guide you through the stars. A typical evening astronomy program lasts approximately 1.5 to 2 hours, and runs rain or shine.

    Cost: $20.00 per adult & $15.00 per child (17 & under)

    For more information or to make a reservation, book online, call 1-800 -631 - 2198 (Ext. Main Office) or email reservations@ haliburtonforest com.

Natural History

    Haliburton Forest offers a series of Natural History Presentations. Partnered with individuals (个人)as well as organisations, these 1 -- 2 hour Tuesday night seminars will vary in themes. Topics may cover research being conducted at Haliburton Forest, natural landscapes and ecosystems, local wild animals and plants, or even environmental concerns.

    Cost: There is no charge for this event.

Green and Gold Camp

    Come and spend a week with us at Green and Gold Camp on the Sacramento State Campus between 7/10/2020-7/14/2020! Days are filled with scavenger (拾荒者)hunts, river walks, the Challenge Center, water activities, arts and crafts, games and more! Your adventure begins at Sacramento State.

    Cost: $290 per camper

    Toni Morrison was an American writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her novels. Beloved, Song of Solomon and others explored the way African-Americans search for freedom and identity in a country obsessed with skin color. Morrison was nearly 40 when she published her first novel The Bluest Eye in 1970. The Nobel Prize committee described her writing as language itself, a language she wants to liberate from race. Her novels discussed America's past, focusing on black history and the effects of slavery and racism. She culled her characters "the unfree at the heart of the democratic experiment".

    In 1988, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved, the story of a mother who kills her baby daughter rather than permit her to be born into slavery. It became a best-seller and was later made into a film with Oprah Winfrey. Many Americans admired her as the country's greatest living writer, including former President Barack Obama.

    She was born in 1931. She attended Howard University, an all-black university in Washington, D. C. At Howard, she read African. British and American literature, including writers William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. After a short marriage, she became a single mother of two sons and worked as a book editor in New York.

    Several publishers rejected her first book The Bluest Eye but it impressed The New York Times' book critic John Leonard, who believed Morrison was an important new voice. He said her writing was "so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry".

    Morrison enjoyed her literary fame and was proud of her Nobel Prize.

    Conflict is part of everyday life. It is not always a bad thing— it can lead to good discussions and improvements in the relationship between two people. However, if it's not handled properly, it can be destructive and can bother your studies or other areas of your life.

    We all have different styles of approaching conflict. Some of us avoid, others compete, give in, adjust or cooperate. Each of these styles has its strengths and weaknesses. So it's important to know how you approach conflict. Remember that blaming others and refusing to take responsibility for your role in a conflict can only worsen the conflict and lead to more anger, frustration (挫折), or fear. On the other hand, making the effort to listen without judgement, trying to understand the other party's needs, and searching for solutions in which everyone wins lead to healthy conflict resolution and may result in positive change. If you find that you can't work it out with the other person, you may want to seek the help of a neutral party, to help you work through the conflict.

    Whether you use the services of a third-party mediator or negotiate a solution between yourselves, the following principles are important to constructive conflict resolution: address the conflict before it becomes much more complex; separate the person from the problem; focus on interests rather than sticking to your position; commit to finding a mutually （相互地）beneficial outcome; avoid blaming others; listen actively; keep the lines of communication open; focus on the future.

    Be aware of the possibility that you may just have to agree to disagree. Not all conflicts can be resolved. For most people, values are negotiable and they are not always in line with the values of others. In a diverse community like we have now, we must accept and be respectful of difference.

    Natural disasters take many different forms and can happen without warning. Earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, droughts, typhoons, and hurricanes are all natural disasters.

    The earthquake of 26 December 2004 resulted in one of the worst natural disasters in living memory. It was a massive underwater quake and occurred in the Indian Ocean. This caused a huge tsunami (海啸) to cross the Indian Ocean. It destroyed coastlines and communities and brought death and destruction to many people. The survivors needed fresh water, food and shelter as well as medical help. People from all over the world gave money.

    The surface of the Earth has not always looked as it does today; it is moving continuously (although very slowly) and has done so for billions of years. This is one cause of earthquakes, when one section of the Earth crashes with another. Scientists can predict where this might happen and the area between plates is called a fault line. However, earthquakes do not always happen on Fault lines, which is why they are so dangerous and unpredictable.

    All the disasters are very dangerous and continue to kill thousands of people each year, but they are nowhere near the most dangerous disaster to ever happen on earth. One type of event in the earth's history has regularly killed millions of beings: asteroid (小行星) impacts (撞击). About once every million years the Earth is hit by a piece of rock and ice from space large enough to cause massive destruction (including earthquakes, volcanoes and ice ages) and sometimes to kill entire species. Sixty-five million years ago more than half the earth's species were killed by such a disaster, including all the dinosaurs (恐龙). Disasters on the Earth may seem dangerous, but the biggest threat to humans is likely to come from space.

    If your parents will retire soon, to live comfortably in retirement, you need to persuade them to save until it hurts. They may think they can't afford to save or fear losing money to had investments (投资),but they have to overcome those fears, because a financially (财政上) secure future will be up to them.

    They can start by saving as little as $10 a paycheck or putting away half their next rise. A small amount of money can produce massive amounts of wealth over time.

    People used not to worry about saving for their later years because many had pensions, and they didn't live as long as people do now. But they can no longer count on their employers, partly because the employers might not he able to afford their pensions, and most people don't stay with one employer. Consequently, they should depend on themselves for retirement.

    You can advise them to start by contributing 1% of their pay. If the 1% contribution hurts, then they can slay at that level until it doesn't hurt any more. If it doesn't hurt, then increase their contribution (by another 1%.) Do that until it hurts.

    They just ask for a small cup of coffee instead of a large cup in the coffee house or they can try to skip drinking soda daily at lunch. In time they will benefit a lot from today's' efforts when they retire.

A. They can start small.

B. The key is getting started.

C. But believe you can make it.

D. Many people change jobs every few years.

E. It's easy to cut a dollar a day from most budgets.

F. People give lots of excuses for not saving for retirement.

G. Some seniors are confident that they will be supported by their children.

    That was a happy evening for the little Down syndrome (唐氏症) girl —a teenager the size of a ten-year-old. She and her family were 1 themselves at McDonald's. She made her way to the restroom. Her younger, but 2, brother sat quietly. He noticed something, which3, she had not noticed.

    Four teenagers had taken an interest in the little girl the moment they4her. They were openly laughing and pointing,

    The brother 5 for his sister. He walked to the guys. They paled slightly and looked alarmed as this total stranger — a year or two their 6 — placed his hands 7 on their table. They studied each other while he was clearly in their 8, and while they were most definitely out of their comfort zones, The brother9 with one hand for one of them to move over. He 10to sit right down next to them. Somewhat in11, and thrown completely off-guard, they made space for him. "I was watching you making fun of my sister, he quietly12 them. All four stumbled (磕磕绊绊) over their words in their rush. "Who? That was your sister? We weren't making fun of her! We13 we would never 14 anyone. We just felt sorry for her.", But he told them again, "I watched you." They 15, knowing they had been caught red-handed and maybe even realizing their 16 and cruelness. Maybe they even sense the love this guardian had for his sister. The brother turned to his17and then he said 18"I feel sorry for people like YOU!”

    Then he walked away. When the sister went back to her seat, the four looked 19, making sure they looked absolutely anywhere 20that little girl.

    Beijing Daxing International Airport, located on the capital's south side, (build) in less than five years at a cost of $17 billion. The airport was designed the late Iraqi- British architect Zaha Madid and it is designed (handle) 72 million passengers a year.

    Despite that, its builders say travelers will need to walk no more than 2,000 feet to reach any boarding gale.

    The vast, star-shaped airport, (lie) about 30 miles south of downtown Beijing, has 4 runways and 268 parking bays. It has a terminal area of 700, 000 square (meter). Given the distance from central Beijing, the new airport required a lot of investment to connect it to the capital. As matter of fact, when you add the cost of new road and rail links and other infrastructure (公共设施),the cost of the project hits $63 billion (total).

    Beijing Capital Intentional Airport, is the world's second busiest after Hartsfield- Jackson Atlanta International Airport, is nearing capacity (容量).The capital has a. (three) airport, Nanyuan, for domestic (国内的) flights, but the (govern) says that it will close Nanyun Airport once Daxing Airport is in operation.

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的同用抖线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：

1）每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2）只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

    My favorite sport is playing ping-pong. I had been playing ping-pong ever from I was young. I began to play ping-pong at age of five. Now I can play it quite well. When watch or playing ping-pong, I feel so greatly! Though with a round ball and small bats, it practises quick reaction or decision. Sometimes I would rather to play doubles because we can practised teamwork as well. There are a lot of ping-pong table in our school and in our neighborhood. My friends and I often play together in my spare time.

1）校内外环境；

2）教学设施；

3）学习生活。

注意：

1）词数100左右；

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Peter

Yours,

Li Hua