安徽省蚌埠市2020-2021学年高一上学期期末学业水平监测英语试题

The UK is filled with unbelievable palaces and historic castles. Now you can take 360 degree virtual (虚拟的)tours of the attractions by just clicking(点击)your mouse at home.

Buckingham Palace

The Queen's palace offers 360 degree virtual tours of rooms including the Throne Room, Grand Staircase and the White Drawing Room. There are clickable "information points" which when clicked can explain the history of the rooms. CLICK HERE

Palace of Holyrood House

The Queen's official palace in Edinburgh is packed with history. The palace is usually open year round to the public, but for those who can't visit for whatever reasons, you can take virtual tours of some of the amazing rooms including the Morning Drawing Room and Royal Dining Room. CLICK HERE

Blenheim Palace

Blenheim Palace offers 360 degree virtual tours of some of its beautiful state rooms from the grand Drawing Rooms and Saloons to the Great Hall. You can choose to listen to the audio (声首) guide which not only gives you a quick look inside, but offers lots of exciting details. CLICK HERE

Edinburgh Castle

Here is a great visual trip to Edinburgh Castle. You can visit the historic ruins and have some wonderful views of Edinburgh itself. You can also zoom in (拉近)or out to get an idea of the museums and interesting places to explore, as well as 3D models of the castle. CLICK HERE

It was the first time I watched him carefully. Before this, Jack had just been the friendly young man assigned by the hotel to help me on trips into the wildlife park nearby. But then he caught my attention by asking me to shut up.

"It's just a garden spider, don't scream(尖叫)!" he said, looking at the small thing with more love than I could find in others. I had indeed screamed, but a spider was on my clothes, and we were in the jeep in the middle of the wildlife park.

I wanted him to pick the thing up and throw it out of the jeep right at that moment. However, he did something quite else. He gently let the spider onto his own knee and drove on, as if nothing had happened. I sat there staring at the spider for any sudden movement — if a tiger had walked by then, I would not have even looked at it.

I was frightened that the man was completely OK with a spider on his knee. About 15 minutes later, he pushed his knee forward to the dashboard (仪表盘)and the spider immediately climbed off his knee and onto the jeep. "The poor thing had been trying to get off me," he said." I only sensed that it was trying to reach the dashboard, so I helped him.

I wondered then about this man, who thought about the spider with such kindness. . Where and when did I lose my love towards the unfamiliar? Now, when faced with a row of ants in my way, my first thought is no longer to attack them. I just skip over them and we both carry on. The ants were already wise, but thanks to Jack, I learned to live with the not so beautiful bits of nature.

After just a few days of training, dogs in Germany can be able to identify people who got COVID-19, according to researchers. The dogs, part of a study by a university in Germany, were able to sniff (嗅出)out the virus exactly.

According to the study published in BMC Infectious Diseases, after receiving training for just five days, eight dogs from Germany's army could identify people with COVID - 19. They sniffed the saliva(唾液) of more than 1,000 people, both healthy and ill identifying the virus with a 94% success. "We think this works because people with the virus have completely changed their chemical smells, and we think that the dogs are able to sense the specific smell changes on those patients," Professor Dr. Maren Von said in a video on the study Thursday.

Dr. Holger Volk, another professor from the university, said that dogs have a sense of smell that is 1,000 times better than humans, so they have great potential (潜力) within the medical field. "We know for a very long time that dogs have been used in all walks of life, but for identifying patients, it's a new thing at present," Volk said. "People have not really realized the potential a dog could have to tell patients from healthy people.

Don't think it's an impossible task to pass your reading tests. Lots of people have shared their successful reading secrets here.

Read a passage twice before looking up an unknown word.

If you're reading to gain new vocabulary, you should treat it as a "fill in the blanks" exercise. At first, you'll have to read every paragraph twice.  The second time you read it, focus on the words you don't know. Try and work out what each word means from the sentences before and after. If you had to guess the meaning, what would it be?

Whenever you are reading in English and learn a new word, don't let it slip away! Write it down with a short definition (定义)or a little drawing. Some students like to keep a specific notebook for this— their own personal dictionaries! Several studies have shown that writing a piece of information down on paper helps you to remember it more easily.

Read out loud.

If you're going to put time in your reading skills, you may as well get some extra practice for your speaking skills too!  It's a great way to get used to speaking English too.

Divide your time into skim reading and deep reading.

You should spend some of your reading time "skim - reading texts". This way, you learn how to get a general sense of what's going on without understanding every single word.  This is when you really focus on understanding everything that's going on.

A. Write down new words.

B. Try reading some passages out loud to yourself.

C. It's normal to forget how to read words correctly.

D. Reading resources should be a little hard for you to skim.

E. You should spend the rest of your reading time “deep reading texts”.

F. Follow these tips to make use of your reading time as effectively as possible.

G. The first time, you'll probably get the general idea but be confused by a few words.

After a tornado touched down in a small town nearby, all the local newspapers carried many stories on families who suffered the hardest. A particular photo especially 1 me. A young woman stood in front of a 2 mobile home, together with a young boy and a tiny girl standing before the ruins, eyes wide with 3 and fear. This would be a good 4 to teach my children to help those less 5than themselves.

I held the 6to my seven-year-old twins, Brad and Breit, and to three-year-old Meghan. “These 7 people now have nothing," I said, "We are 8 to share what we have with them”. I brought three large boxes and asked the boys to 9 some of their less favorite things. The boys 10the toys they had chosen into one of the boxes 11 I filled the third box with clothes. Meghan12quietly and then walked up with Lucy, her 13 but much-loved doll hugged tightly to her 14"Oh , honey," I said, "You love her so much." "Lucy makes me happy. Maybe she'll make that 15girl happy, too." Having watched their baby sister, Brad brought one of his favorite action figures, and Bret 16 some of his prized match-box cars from his room.

Taking the cue from my little one, I 17 my old jacket from the box of clothes. I 18it with the new green one bought last week. True 19 is giving what you cherish most. I, who had 20 to teach, had been taught.