广东省普宁市2020-2021学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题

Non-Credit Courses

The Pre-College Program offers non-credit courses. Students will experience college-level courses given by some of our college's leading experts and will receive written feedback(反馈) on their work at the end of the course. Pre-College students will also receive a grade of Satisfactory /Unsatisfactory and a certificate of completion at the conclusion of the program.

All non-credit courses meet from 9: 00 a. m. — 11:30 a. m. daily and may have additional requirements in the afternoons or evenings.

COURSE: Case Studies in Neuroscience

●June 11 —July 2

●Leah Roesch

Using student-centered, active-learning methods and real-world examples, this course is designed to provide a fuller understanding of how the human brain works.

COURSE: Psychology of Creativity

●June 15 —June 28

●Marshall Duke

Why are certain people so creative? Is it genetic(遗传的), or a result of childhood experience?

Are they different from everyone else? This popular psychology course highlights the different theories of creativity.

COURSE: Creative Storytelling

●June 2l —July 3

●Edith Freni

This college-level course in creative storytelling functions as an introduction to a variety of storytelling techniques that appear in different forms of creative writing, such as short fiction and playwriting.

COURSE: Sports Economics

●July 19 — August 1

●Christina DePasquale

In this course we will analyze many interesting aspects of the sports industry: sports leagues, ticket pricing, salary negotiations, discrimination, and NCAA policies to name a few.

Friends always ask why I, a middle-aged woman with no athletic talent, travel to perilous places-the jungles of Thailand or Borneo, for example，where the water is often unsafe and the food risky; places with infectious diseases, poisonous snakes and the wildest animals; some places where the locals are just a few generations past headhunting.

I never know how to answer. My travel decisions assumed a new gravity nine years ago after I suffered a stroke(中风). To prevent another stroke, my doctors told me, I'd have to take dangerously high levels of blood thinner for the rest of my life and any travel would be risky.

I had to think about what was important to me: family , of course, and friends. But then what? No matter how many times I thought about it, no bucket list was complete without travel. Then I had to decide how I might manage the risk. I had to decide how lucky I felt.

My return to travel after my stroke came in baby steps. The first real test of my travel courage came nine months after my stroke when I joined my husband, Jack, on a business trip to China. After we'd toured the remains of a Tang dynasty temple on a high mountain, Jack wanted to ride down on a toboggan(长雪橇).

Before the stroke it would have seemed like fun. But now? l hesitated. My mental klaxon(高音喇叭) screamed warnings about the consequences of a cut，a fall, and a crash. Then，gaining confidence from who knows where, I lowered myself carefully into the toboggan, which marked my adventure travel comeback.

In the years since then, I've traveled about twenty-five percent of the time. Through it all, my lucks held out — no deadly falls, no car accidents or serious infections. For me, adventure travel is a risk worth taking. Travel broadens my world and keeps me connected to nature. What's more, saying "yes" to travel keeps me connected to myself.

Many of us think, wrongly, that the moon doesn't change. For example, the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ruoxu once wrote that" Generations have come and passed away; from year to year the moons look alike, old and new."

However, a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience shows that the moon is in fact slowly shrinking over time. For the study, a group of US scientists examined and analyzed thousands of photographs taken by the NASA orbiter Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera(月球勘测轨道飞行器照相机). They found that there were lots of faults (断层) on the surface of the moon. These faults were formed by recent movement on the moon.

According to NASA, the moon is made up of pieces of rocks with a hot core. The moon continued to expand as it was born. But in this process, it released energy and cooled down. Then it began to shrink, like a grape shrinking into a raisin(葡萄干). Over the past several hundred million years, it has become 46 meters "skinnier". But due to its hard and rocky crust(外壳) , the moon's surface continues to push up. "Some of these quakes can be fairly strong around five on the Richter scale (里氏震级), "said Thomas Watters, a senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institutions National Air and Space Museum in the US.

But does that mean the moon is a dangerous place that human shouldn't try to explore and live on in the future?" Maybe not," reported The Telegraph. "This isn't anything to worry about. The moon may be shrinking, but not by much. It's not going anywhere, "Watters comforted us.

The new discovery proves that the idea that the moon is a dead, boring place is wrong. "We have been to the moon and we've done some great science, but there is still a lot we don't know. The moon is shrinking — we didn't really realize that until recently. It's a much more active and interesting place than we thought and we should explore that, "NASA scientist Nathan Williams said.

If you have some free time to socialize, do you prefer to spend it with your best friend or partner, or with a larger group of people?

A new study investigated what group size people actually look for and encounter in everyday life. The scientists asked more than 4, 000 people from the US and the Netherlands to report the size of their social groups for a wide variety of activities. For eight different activities ( going to a bar, chatting at work, chatting off work, having dinner, going on a holiday, going to a movie theatre, working on a project, playing sports) , people reported a group size of two more often than they reported larger group sizes. Interestingly, for about half of these activities, women reported a group size of two significantly more often than men did, suggesting that women prefer a social group size of two even more than men do.

The researchers also used a research technique called real-time experience-sampling(经验取样) in the second part of the study. 274 volunteers were asked seven times a day to report the last social situation they had experienced. The results were clear. Two was the most common group size with 52. 6 percent. Thus, this part of the study also suggested that two is the most common group size in social interactions.

So why do people prefer spending their time with one other person compared to spending their time with larger groups? Researchers explained that in general, social interactions with just one other person allow for more control of the situation, especially when it comes to reciprocity(互助). When we interact with just one other person, one's choices directly affect the other person and only that person. Thus, it is easy to distinguish whether there is mutual (双向的) cooperation ( for example, both people take turns paying for dinner) or whether someone acts selfishly ( for example, one person never pays the bill). In larger groups, the situation gets much more complicated.

The World Water Day has been celebrated annually on 22 March since 1992. Each year has a different theme, looking at things like the role of clean water in the world of work, ways to stop wasting water, finding ways to supply water to underprivileged groups and so on.

But it is also vital for sanitation (卫生). It is estimated that more than 700 children under the age of seven die every day from illnesses linked to unsafe water and poor sanitation. The right to water and sanitation was recognized as a human right. These include rural communities, people who have been displaced due to war and local conflicts and areas where climate change is making water more and more scarcer.

Apart from the obvious health issues, a lack of accessible clean water means that people —often women and children. — spend hours every day walking to and from distant water supplies. This means they don't have time to dedicate to work, studies and other domestic duties. And people who are not able to walk to get their own water are particularly vulnerable(易受伤害的).

There are many charities working on creating sustainable supplies of clean water for different communities around the world. But the fundamental problem of increasing demand for a limited resource can only be addressed by more efficient use of water, especially in industry and agriculture. Waste-water recycling，capturing rainwater，more efficient irrigation techniques and reforestation are all examples of how water can be used more efficiently.

We should support charities, raise awareness, take part in the World Water Day events that are happening all around the world and, of course, be careful with how we use water in our own lives. Visit the UN World Water Day website to find out about an event near us. Follow World Water Day on social media and help spread the world about this incredibly important issue.

A. Clean drinking water is fundamental.

B. As individuals, what can we do to help the issue?

C. The search for water becomes their main occupation.

D. This important work needs to continue and to expand.

E. Every living cell in the body needs water to keep functioning.

F. In normal conditions, the human body can only survive three or four days without water.

G. However, there are still at least 2.1 billion people around the world living without safe water.

"Mom, I don't like you," my two-year-old son said. "Okay… is that because you love me?" I asked.

"No, you're not lovely."

That night, as I washed my face, l1a little longer in the mirror — not because I was hurt by his2, but because I noticed there was no light in my eyes.

l took out a pen and started writing a list — a list to3myself; a list to put sparkles (火花) back into my eyes. l once made many lists but 4accomplished anything. This time would be 5!

The first goal on my list I wanted to achieve was 6 a Polar Plunge to raise money for the Special Olympics. On that day, when I7 into my 1980s workout clothes, Jack smiled, "Mom, you look pretty. "Maybe, just maybe some light8 my eyes.

When coming out of the cold lake, I felt happy and proud. I kept screaming, "I9it!" But one of the most exciting parts of the day was when I stood in front of my 10 , which was taped on the refrigerator door. I 11 item number one. With that, I began to take back my life.

Everyone taking part in the Polar Plunge received a shirt. Whenever I wore it, Jack asked, "Is that your Polar Plunge clothing?" I answered 12, "Yes!" "I want to do that too. "I was happy he remembered I jumped into a 13 lake, and that he wanted to do activities with me.

With each14 crossed off (划掉) the list, a piece of myself is15. Not only am Is howling my family it's important to dream, but I'm showing myself that I'm worth it.

A break dancing video of a middle-aged man has gone viral on social media in recent days. The man in the video is Duan Lifu, (direct) of the Qianwei County Education Bureau in Leshan.

On the day the video was being made, Duan paid a visit to Qianwei First High School (deliver) a speech to discuss educational issues with teachers and parents. After  hour-and-a-half long speech, Duan performed this break dance, through he expected to help relieve students' pressure.

"After giving the speech, I gave students my phone number and invited them to ask questions about thingsare interested in. Then I felt a(n) ( enthusiastic) atmosphere than before, so I asked my colleagues to connect cell phones with Bluetooth, and improvised (即兴表演)the short break dance, "Duan said.

Duan said that his break dancing was self-taught he was a student 30 years ago. He hadn't danced for nearly a decade. "I learned to break dance when I was at a similar age to these students."

With a series of professional dance moves, including space sliding and mechanical dancing, Duan's dance(draw) cheers from the students.

The video was  (wide) posted on social media and many netizens also cheered for Duan,(praise) him as a very lovely leader.

1）出发和返回时间；

2）可否带同伴；

3）午餐安排。

注意:

1）写作词数应为80左右；

2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Scout could clearly remember the night she had to leave her home in Poland. It was the beginning of World War II and her family had to escape as soon as possible. She quickly packed a suitcase with a few pieces of clothing, her diary, and her most prized treasure, a silk scarf. Scout and her best friend, Betty, had persuaded their parents to buy them matching scarves, which they took as a symbol of their friendship. Scout didn't know she was going to America and would not be returning.

Scout kept that special silk scarf for many years. One day she decided to give it to her granddaughter, Eliza, to wear to her first job interview for good luck. Scout was afraid that Eliza would lose the scarf, but the granddaughter promised, "Don't worry, Grandma. Nothing's going to happen to your scarf. You'll see that it's going to bring both of us luck. "And with that, Eliza kissed her grandmother and left for the interview.

Leaving the interview, Eliza felt confident that she had got the job so she decided to celebrate by going to a restaurant. Sitting at her table, Eliza felt an elderly woman staring at her for a longtime.

"I'm sorry. Do I know you?" Eliza asked.

"I'm sorry, dear, but you remind me of my best friend," the old woman replied. "She looked like you and used to wear a scarf just like yours." Eliza listened carefully, with her eyes and mouth wide open. She had heard stories of her grandmother's best friend and knew the meaning of the scarf. Could this woman be Betty, her grandmother's childhood friend?

注意:

1）续写词数应为150左右;

2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。