安徽省亳州市阚疃金石中学2019-2020学年高二下学期英语线上教学评估检测（期中）试卷

Highlights at the Venice Biennale

    Ghana: Ghana Freedom

    This is the first outing at Venice for Ghana, and the country's pavilion （展馆）contains a huge amount of artistic firepower the architect David Adjaye has made a section of it with temporary walls of packed African soil; the philosopher Kwame has written the lead catalog essay; and it features not one but six artists, including the filmmaker Akomfrah and the sculptor El Anatsui.

    The pavilion succeeds best by mapping the rich history shared by Ghana's citizens. You can see it in the portraits from the 1960s by Felicia, regarded as the first woman in Ghana to work as a professional photographer.

    Roman Opalka: Telling Time

    In 1965, this Polish artist began his "Details", one of the most emotional projects of postwar art by painting the number 1 in the comer of a blank canvas. He took a breath, painted a 2, took another, painted 3 — and died, 46 years later, after painting the number 5, 607, 249.

    Small preparatory exercises for the number paintings, never before seen, appear inside a room of antique musical instruments, beautifully presented by the inventive director Chiara Bertoia. The pair have never been seen together, and when viewed face-to-face, you feel you have stepped into the space of a life.

    Jannis Kounellis

    After his early paintings copying the letters of Roman street advertising, Mr. Kounellis began to put natural materials in relief with cultural or historical relics. After several years of deep-thinking group exhibitions, the Fondazione hosts a show of this Greek-born Italian artist, who died two years ago and whose poetic combination of coal, stones, soil and used clothes made him a key figure.

    UK physicist Isaac Newton once said, "Nature is pleased with simplicity and nature is no dummy (傻子)." Indeed, Mother Nature can provide almost everything human beings need if we follow her rules. But if we break the rules, she is likely to be cruel and lash out at us.

    The outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (新型冠状病毒肺炎, NCP) in China and some other countries at the beginning of this year is an example. According to Xinhua News Agency, the new coronavirus is similar to a virus found in a bat in 2017 and probably has an intermediate host (中间宿主). It's believed that the virus originated from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, Hubei province, where live wild animals were sold.

    The Wall Street Journal reported that Dr Peter Daszak, president of the US-based health organization EcoHealth Alliance, said, "This outbreak is a lesson for us. On a global scale (规模), human population density (密度), wildlife diversity, and land use change are what drive new pandemics (流行病)."

    In ancient times, people needed to rely on nature to survive so they held it in awe (敬畏). For example, the American Indians believed that humans are a part of nature and nature is a part of humans. Chinese ancients always pursued the harmony between nature and human beings.

    However, as human beings master more knowledge and make more advanced tools, people try to change and even conquer nature. They use more land to make buildings, genetically modify (改变) plants, capture some wild and rare animals to suit their own needs. In this process, humans gradually lose contact with nature and even throw it out of balance. For example, cutting a large number of forests means carbon dioxide must build up in the atmosphere and it contributes to global warming.

    Although we don't know for sure what first caused the NCP outbreak, Brian Lamacraft at Medium said it's time for people to "reflect on our relationship with our planet" and "reconnect with this world and everything that we've been given". After all, according to US poet Gary Snyder, "Nature is not the place to visit. It's our home."

    Jennifer Udler was in the middle of a 50-minute session with a patient when it started to rain. Walking and talking about anxiety and stress, she and her teenage patient got wet. But when they made it back indoors, Jennifer said," Hey, look at us! We're wet, but we got through it! Now you can use that next time you have anxiety before and during an event." This kind of insight is key to her practice.

    Jennifer, a social worker whose practice focuses on adolescents, has been a therapist (治疗师)for 20 years. For most of that time, she practiced in a traditional office, but she noticed how easy it was for her running partners to open up about their problems. After doing some research, in 2013, Jennifer founded Positive Strides Therapy, where she conducts sessions while walking outdoors. She conducts all of her sessions outdoors and in all kinds of weather.

    "When somebody asks me if I specialize in walking therapy, I say, ' No, that's how I practice, ' " Udler said."I specialize in family systems theory. Walking in the park is just where I practice. "

    Despite the lack of formal research, Jennifer believes strongly in the benefits, saying that it can be helpful. "We'll be talking about ' moving forward ' as we are actually moving forward on the path, building muscle memory of how they can move forward and leave the anxiety behind. "

    And outdoor walking therapy doesn't just benefit teens. Jennifer said the adults in her practice welcome the humanizing effect of taking therapy outdoors.

Over Half of Young Chinese Block Parents on WeChat Moments

    We all know the feeling—you want to check what someone you care about has been up to on social media, and suddenly you find you are denied access to their feeds. It's an instant start of mixed emotions and speculations - when did this happen? Did I do anything wrong? What are they attempting to hide from me?

    And that's what half of Chinese parents have to deal with when they try to browse their children's WeChat Moments, also known as "Friends' Circle", as suggested by a recent survey released by Tencent, the Chinese Internet giant. According to the report, entitled Annual White Paper on Family Affection on WeChat Moments, about 52 percent of WeChat users aged 18 to 29 block their parents on Moments, a major feature on the platform that allows users to share everything they like with their WeChat contacts.

    About 62 percent of the young interviewees said that parents "are neurotic about everything," along with reasons such as fear of parents' disapproval, rejection to parents' nagging(唠叨), and seeking privacy. "My parents don't know Moments very well, so I just told them I don't use it anymore," said Qin Jianping, a 28-year-old. He added that his parents had been leaving comments requesting updates on his dating status on every post he made on Moments since he broke up with his girlfriend two years ago. Xie Yun, a 26-year-old, said that while she didn't block her parents entirely, they were in a specific group to which she only shares positive posts. "I don't want my parents to see minor setbacks in my life," she said, adding that once her parents saw a Moments picture of her hand getting slightly burned while cooking, and they traveled all the way to her city to make sure she was all right.

    The report also found that more than 49 percent of Chinese parents use WeChat as a main channel to communicate with their children. Roughly 36 percent of the parents who took the survey said they checked every post made by their children. When asked how they would react to being blocked, some parents said they would initiate a conversation with their children to find out the reason, while others said they wouldn't care. And some parents just outsmart their kids in this hide-and-seek game online. "I didn't realize I was blocked until I compared what I could see on my phone to what my son's aunt could see," said Chen, a mother of a 27-year-old son. "I chose to remain silent on this and now I'm following my son's posts through his aunt."

    If you are already making the time to exercise, it is good indeed! With such busy lives, it can be hard to try and find the time to work out.  Working out in the morning provides additional benefits beyond being physically fit.

    Your productivity is improved. Exercising makes you more awake and ready to handle whatever is ahead of you for the day.

    Your metabolism(新陈代谢) gets a head start.  If you work out in the mornings, then you will be getting the calorie(卡路里) burning benefits for the whole day, not in your sleep.

     Studies found that people who woke up early for exercise slept better than those who exercised in the evening. Exercise energizes you, so it is more difficult to relax and have a peaceful sleep when you are very excited.

     If you work out bright and early in the morning, you will be more likely to stick to healthy food choices throughout the day. Who would want to ruin their good workout by eating junk food? You will want to continue to focus on positive choices.

    There are a lot of benefits to working out, especially in the mornings. Set your alarm clock an hour early and push yourself to work out! You will feel energized all day long.

A. You will stick to your diet.

B. Your quality of sleep improves.

C. You prefer healthy food to fast food.

D. There is no reason you should exercise in the morning.

E. You can keep your head clear for 4-10 hours after exercise.

F. After you exercise, you continue to burn calories throughout the day.

G. If you are planning to do exercise regularly, or you're doing it now, then listen up!

    Being jobless for the last three months, I am upset nowadays. My son has lost his 1 from a good school and he might have to go to a less qualified school. I have moved from a spacious (宽敞的) apartment to a small one in order to 2 my living expenses. My wife has built extra stress. On top of that, my father in-law 3 a week ago, which has added fuel to fire, 4 our family into a more terrible state.

    In these circumstances I have two mental 5 : either to feel upset and keep losing my peace of mind, or 6my negative thoughts with super mental powers about self-confidence and consistency, and7applying for new jobs with positive attitude.

    I choose the second option because I believe that the pain I am 8 today will build up my 9. My strengths will then increases my confidence and make me a 10 man one day. I understand that good and bad stages are part of 11. While good times make me happy, bad times 12 the "inner' me.

    Two months later, 13, I have finally landed on a job which is very exciting and offers a nice salary. Time has healed my wife's mental stress 14 the death of her father. My son has already been accepted by another good school because the admissions for new academic year were still 15!

    As I am back on the track of normal life, I can 16 say that the most important things that helped me 17 the crisis (危机) were my consistent character of patience, and 18attitude towards life. So, while I wish you all the best life can19 you, I would highly recommend taking the same attitude towards life 20you are trapped in any of such situations.

    Alibaba Group's communication app DingTalk, (original) designed for China's white collar workers, adapted to the virus outbreak by  (offer) the service to help educate pupils nationwide. The company said that more than 12 million students in China

      (take) online courses now via DingTalk. A sudden surge(猛增) in demand last Monday even triggered (触发) temporary breakdown of the software.

    Last Sunday, in the Apple store for Chinese mainland (user), the average rating for DingTalk was 2.5 stars out of 5. Days before that, its rating even dropped to low as 1.3. Both DingTalk and Tencent Meeting are among the apps (use) in live-streaming classes, and that's they got such low ratings from unhappy pupils, who believed that

      (they) original extended holiday was ruined by those apps.

    To respond to the unfair unreasonable ratings and comments from naughty pupils, DingTalk released a video twice on its official Weibo account, with the theme: Young master, I beg you for your mercy!

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删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

    Mr. and Mrs. Zhang all work in our school. They live far from the school, and it takes them about a hour and a half to go to work every day. In their spare time, they are interesting in planting vegetables in their garden, that is on the rooftop of their house. They often get up earlier and water the vegetables together. They have also bought for some gardening tools. Beside, they often get some useful informations from the Internet. When summer came, they will invite their students pick the vegetables！

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