河北省张家口市2021届高三上学期英语期末考试试卷

Most Impressive Ways to Get from Place to Place

    Horse Caravan (马车)

    Go a bit old-school with a horse caravan in Ireland. While riding a horse may not offer much in the way of impressiveness, how about getting a horse to a carriage that includes cooking and sleeping areas? That sounds a bit more remarkable. Plus, the horse-drawn carriages allow a fresh perspective on the countryside and beaches.

    Terra Bus

    Made in Calgary, only roughly 20 of these Terra Bus Ice Explorer all-terrain vehicles exist and they almost all serve the Icefields Parkway and the Athabasca Glacier in Jasper, Canada. Designed specifically for glacier travel, the six-wheel, 49-foot-long vehicle looks like the most robust (强大的) tour bus on the planet. And it is. The Terra Bus Ice Explorer can handle 56 passengers and nearly any sort of ice, mud, sand, snow and rock the Canadian Rocky Mountains have to offer.

    The Central-Mid-Levels Escalator (自动扶梯)

    If this Hong Kong escalator system didn't exist, you'd have all sorts of stairs to deal with to climb between the western and central Hong Kong districts. This system of 20 escalators, built in 1993, combines to become the longest outdoor covered escalator in the world, running a total length of 2,624 feet and rising 442 feet in the process. From end to encl it's a ride lasting 20 minutes.

    Symphony of the Seas

    At 1, 181 feet in length and a gross tonnage of 228, 000, the Royal Caribbean Symphony of the Seas is the largest cruise ship in the world. The steel ship features seven distinct on-board neighborhoods, surfing, ziplining, ice-skating, 3D movies and pools. Symphony is powered by solar energy.

    In 1985. Charlie Burrell inherited (继承) a piece of land in West Sussex, England, which is 3. 500 acres. It had been in his family for more than 200 years. As it was a failing farm, he and his wife. Isabella Tree, were all set to run a traditional farm, but soon realized the costs far outweighed the profits. The land wasn't suitable for growing crops anymore.

    So. in 2001, the couple decided to try something else — an experiment in "rewilding", or restoring environments to their natural state. They reintroduced native species, including Tamworth pigs, Exmoor ponies, longhorn cattle, and deer. Then they took out all the fences and let the animals wander freely.

    In the following years, the land went through an incredible change. The once neat fields were covered with bushes, creating habitats where new plant and animal species could grow.

    Now it's home to many different creatures, including two rare species of bats, nightingales, peregrine falcons, white storks, and even turtle doves, whose numbers have dropped by 98 percent in the U. K. over the last few decades!

    "We were living in a biological desert. Now, ecologists are blown away all the time by just the amount of life here," Isabella said. "It shows the potential that this kind of project has for changing trends of biodiversity decline.

    What's more, the land is now profitable! Charlie and Isabella offer multiple services there, including walking tours, safaris, photography classes, and rewilding workshops. They also sell meat to control their large animal populations, and even allow visitors to spend a night outside in the tents they set up.

    What a promising outcome! This is amazing news for conservationists and shows that our planet can be returned to its natural glory, if only we let it. Now, it's a beautiful reminder of how ecosystems can be restored by letting Mother Nature take the control.

    When "irregardless" was included in Merriam-Webster dictionary, it caused wide disagreements. "Irregardless" has been in widespread and near-constant use since 1795, when a newspaper called The Charleston City Gazelle of Charleston Ga. , first used it. We do not make the English language, we merely record it," the dictionary's staff wrote in "Words of the Week".

    The word's definition, when we read it, would seem to be without regard. However, Merriam-Webster defines "irregardless" as "nonstandard" but meaning the same as "regardless". According to Merriam-Webster, "Many people find 'irregardless' to be a ridiculous word, as the ir-prefix usually indicates negative meaning; however, in this case it appears to make the meaning of ' regardless' stronger. "

    "It's not a real word. I don't care what the dictionary says," responds author Michelle Ray, who teaches English in Silver Spring, Md. And she says she's still planning to mark "irregardless" as incorrect on her students' work.

    An American newspaper the Baltimore Sun published the word in editor John McIntyre's commentary on Saturday: Irregardless' is too a word; you just don't understand dictionaries. People get upset about the dictionary because they think it is some sort of official document. But actually, it's not. It's just lexicographers identifying words that people use and trying to find out how they are spelled, how they are pronounced, what meanings they have and where they came from. "

    "The dictionary's recognition doesn't enroll a word as correct in the English language," McIntyre says. "It just says this is a word that a lot of people use in English. And here's what we know about it. " So it's a word, but its use is still discouraged in formal writing.

    A long-term dream for 3D bioprinting is that people on active waiting lists for organ donations might one day have the option of getting a bio-printed organ. Although the ability to produce a functional heart or kidney this way likely lies years in the future, realistic near-term goals include bioprinting simpler structures. Living tissues printed outside the body, however, would still require implantation operation, which often involves large incisions (切口)that increase the risk of infection and lengthen recovery time.

    Scientists in Tsinghua University are working on a way to print cells directly inside the body. The idea would be to use existing minimally invasive (微创)operation techniques to insert 3D printing tools into patients and then lay down new tissues.

    Much of the previous research has focused on treatments of skin and other tissues in the outer part of the body, because the necessary equipment is normally too large to access :he digestive tract (消化道)and other centrally located organs. Scientists in China wanted to develop a mini bioprinting robot that could enter the human body with relative case, so that they can use the technology for conditions like stomach ulcer (胃溃疡).

    The resulting micro robot is just 30 millimeters wide—less than half the width of a credit card — and can fold to a length of 43 millimeters. Once inside a patient's body, it unfolds to become 59 millimeters long and can start bioprinting. The team has constructed clever mechanisms that make the system compact when entering the body yet extend to provide a large working area once past the tight entry. In their experiments, the researchers in China fitted the micro robot onto a long tube that can be inserted through bodily openings and successfully snaked it through a curved pipe into a transparent plastic model of a stomach.

    Restaurants, schools, dentist offices are all keeping more windows open to let in more fresh air. Now researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have come up with a device that's like noise-cancelling headphones-but for a building.

    It works on the same principle, so it detects noise that's coming into the windows and then cancels the noise. A microphone samples incoming noise, and then sends the speakers instructions on what sort of antinoise to give out. The result is to cancel out the incoming sound.

    At the same time it allows air to keep flowing into and out of the window. The device is just a prototype—so it's still expensive. And it doesn't block out all sounds. It masks sound at frequencies from 300 to 1,000 Hz.

    The technology will probably come in handy in Singapore as this country already has a lot of green buildings that use natural ventilation. But the downside is: when you have lots of openings in the buildings, the noise comes in. The group of window speakers could do the trick—especially if people prefer peace and quiet to a good view, which folks at home tend to do all night.

A. But this also lets in more noise.

B. The green buildings are energy-saving.

C. This includes the noise of freeways, trains and planes.

D. So you need some way to manage the increasing noise.

E. The headphones are designed for us to cover up our ears.

F. Compared with a closed window, the antinoise device is almost as good.

G. The device looks like a group of small speakers and fits over an open window.

    When 10-year-old Eric Jones learned how to grow pumpkins (南瓜)in the planting club of his school, he was 1to grow his own pumpkins. He thought it would be a great way to pass time and get rid of 2. At home he found a piece of3in the backyard and put in the work to gather, clean, and plant seeds and wanted to4his crop in fall.

    The boy's curiosity work turned out5and his boredom paid off. He ended up with an enormous harvest. As it was much more than the family can consume, the boy set out to 6 . He wanted to sell the pumpkins to raise fund for Boone County Cancer Society. His mom Corrie did some advertising on social media, but she didn't expect his crop to become a big 7

    While pumpkins aren't 8the first choice when people buy vegetables. Eric had no problem getting customers to buy his. 9. they knew the earnings were going to support a good 10

    It was 11 that people lined up for the pumpkins. Within a few weeks, those pumpkins helped him raise $720! At that point. he and his mom headed to Boone County Cancer Society and 12 every penny to them.

    What he did was very helpful to the organization. The director said fundraising 13 a lot to providing treatment for patients who are 14 and Eric's donation can make a difference.

    Eric plans to do it all over again next year! In his words. "The people don't slop having 15, so why should I stop selling pumpkins?"

    A custom may take generations to form, especially in terms of choosing symbolic food for a holiday. But eating birthday noodles in China for National Day is a new custom, is quickly gaining popularity in China.

    The Chinese have been eating and developing various kinds of noodles thousands of years.  is a widely practiced custom for people (enjoy) a bowl of noodles on their birthday as a symbol of longevity (长寿). Their family members may also have noodles to share the joy and express their blessing. National Day is birthday of China, and people eat birthday noodles to show their best (wish) for the motherland.

    Many video bloggers and official accounts took the chance to  (proud) introduce their local noodles to the country and show people's enthusiasm for  (take) part in the activity. Before this year's National Day holiday, a new book with pictures, recipes and stories of 365 different noodles from across China (publish) by the People's Publishing House. It also (contain) more than 170 teaching videos to help readers make noodles.

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The Sports Festival Comes to a Close

    Just before we got married, my husband, Spode, and I bought the house from the Gehards, who were moving to Australia. As they couldn't take much abroad with them, they left almost everything in the house to us, among which were two bookshelves packed with thick books. I liked the fine furniture, the tasteful kitchenware and even the pictures on the wall but I didn't think much of the books.

    The day they handed over the house to us, we walked around in the house with the Gehards for the last time. They told us about the good times they had and the stories behind the objects in the house, giving me a sense of warmth of a family. When Mr. Gehard led us to the bookshelves, he said to us, "These are great books written by the great minds in human history. I hope you can read them." Though Spode and 1 were not much of bookworms, we promised them we would, because we knew we could make Mr. Gehard feel better that way. We could see that it was hard for him to say goodbye to the house as well as the books, both of which he treasured so much.

    After we moved in, to keep our promise to Mr. Gehard, Spode managed to find some time each day to read some pages of those great books. It was not typical of him, because he was one of those who would rather spend most of their spare time before screens. Curiously enough, as time went by, his interest in the books grew gradually and he began talking to me about what he read with amazement. To find out what accounted for his newly developed fondness for those serious-looking thick books, I also picked one up. Finally, we both found attachment to the books and made it a rule to read in the evenings. Reading became part of our life. Those books opened up new worlds for us, gave us new visions and enriched our life in many ways.

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One evening as we were reading, a small piece of something fell onto the desk from between the pages of the book I was reading.

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But as we had lost touch with the Gehards, how could we return the stamp to them?