湖北省黄冈市2020-2021学年高一上学期期末质量检测英语试题

Most people are happy to receive gifts just because of their social customs, but in fact they don't like them, As the New Year approaches, we may be eager to see the joy on the faces of those who receive gifts. How to prepare a thoughtful gift? Here are some recommended brands for you.

Patek Pillippe, a Swiss watch manufacturer (制造商) founded in 1839, located in Geneva and the Vallée de Joux. A Patek watch isn't a device for telling time. It can transfer values across generations. It is intended to express the attitude of modern men towards parenthood. The real spirit of this brand is closeness, emotion and togetherness. Those are what you want enjoy and pass on from generation to generation.

Cognac. Cognac is a type of brandy made from distilled white wine. In fact, the word "brandy" comes from a Dutch word which means burnt wine. The origin of Cognac dates back to the 16th century when Dutch sellers came to a French region to buy salt, wood, and wine. And soon this brandy is named after its birthplace, a little town in southwest of France. Cognac is the most complex wine to make and it takes the longest time to produce—centuries, in some cases.

Frifuli is both the group name and the brand name. Founded in 1982 in Athens, Greece. Frifuli designs and manufactures jewelry. Today it has more than 390 stores in 25 countries around the world. At the beginning, Frifuli was to design and manufacture jewelry. With the addition of the watch series in 1994 and the accessories (饰品) series in 1998, Frifuli has gradually become a fashion brand covering the three fields of jewelry, watches and accessories.

Six weeks before his birthday, Giuseppe Paternò achieved the dream of a lifetime: He got a university degree.

Mr. Paternò's graduation has inspired news coverage around the world, partly because of his age. But he has mainly drawn attention because his life story speaks of commitment, a theme that has encouraged as millions of schoolchildren in Italy and elsewhere faces extraordinary uncertainty during the coronavirus pandemic.

Born in Palermo in 1923, the first of seven children in a "very poor family," Mr. Paternò began working soon after finishing elementary school. "The family was large, there was only one paycheck, we were under fascism, and times were tough," he said.

Eventually, he ended up at a publishing house where an enlightened boss persuaded his father to send him back to school for a three-year vocational degree. Mr. Paternò then worked for an insurance agency while he took private classes to become a telegraph operator. He used skills from the operator job when he was drafted into the navy in World War II. The job also opened doors to the State Railways Company, where he worked for more than four decades.

It was only after he retired, in the mid-1980s, that he returned to his books, taking theology courses through the Archdiocese of Palermo after a chance meeting with a philosophy professor who urged him to follow his love.

Mr. Paterno's son, Ninni Paternò, said that the family had not expected all the attention. "It's unbelievable!" the vounger Paternò said of his father. "He achieved his goal, but he didn't mean to be famous in newspapers around the world."

University officials are hoping that Mr. Paternò will continue his studies on waster's course. But he isn't so sure. "I have to admit that in this moment, I don't know whether I would do it with the same spirit," he said on Wednesday. Still, Mr. Paternò said he would probably continue anyway.

We recognize our friends' faces. And we're not alone. Many social animals can identify individuals of their own species by features of their faces. That's important, because they need to be able to change their behavior depending on who they meet. And a recent research has shown that some species of monkeys, birds, and domesticated (家养的) animals can even tell different faces apart by looking at photographs alone.

Ethologist Léa Lansade of the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment did an experiment to find out how well horses can recognize individual people in photographs.

She and her team first taught the horses how to "choose" between two side-by-side pictures by touching their noses to a computer screen. The horses were then shown photos of their present keeper alongside faces of unfamiliar humans. They had never seen photos of any of the people before. The horses correctly identified their current keeper and ignored (忽视) the stranger's face about 75%of the time. In fact, even though the horses didn't get it right every single time, they were at least as correct in picking out their earlier keeper as they were at identifying their present one.

The results suggest that not only can horses differentiate between familiar and unfamiliar human faces, they also naturally understand that photographs are two dimensional representations (二维呈现) of real life, without any other intimations such as smell or sound. And they're even better at this than our oldest animal parter, the domestic dog.

In addition, horses seem to have a strong long-term memory for human faces, like their long lifespan and history of domestication. In future experiments, the researchers would like to test whether looking at photos of people that they have had bad experiences with in the past might cause horses to act anxious or even avoidance. So maybe think twice before doing anything that might give a horse a long face.

Throwing away unwanted food has become a big issue in the developed world. While some of us do this, people in other parts of world are short of food. It's a shocking fact that a third of the world's food is wasted each year and that the actual figure is 1.3 billion tons of food, which is enough to feed a billion hungry people.

You may think supermarkets are the main contributors to this mountain of food. After all, they do threw away food that's past its sell-by-date and they often refuse to sell vegetables or fruit that are the wrong shape or look damaged. They've also been criticized (批评) for encouraging customers to buy more than they need through promotions (促销) such as "buy one get one free".

But the biggest responsible person for creating food waste is us. In Europe an incredible 53%of food waste comes from familes, which results in 88 million tons of food waste a year. So instead of filling our stomachs, our food is filling up landfill sites. Unfortunately this causes greenhouse gases which finally leads to global warming and climate change.

In Denmark, a woman called Selina Juul has been working hard to stop this problem. She moved from Russia many years ago and was amazed to see so much food in the supermarkets. But to her surprise，she found that people were buying more than they needed and throwing too much away.

She persuaded some supermarkets to stop selling their items in large amount so that people bought only what they needed. She produced a leftovers (剩菜) cookbook and she's now set up an education programme in schools. This has helped reduce by 25%in food waste, which shows that something can be done.

Clearly, we need to think twice when we put something in our shopping cart, and when we're at home we should make the most of the food we have—using recipes that use up our leftovers or even sharing them with our friends and neighbours.

When applying for American universities, many students believe that public universities are more formal than private ones. Famous American Ivy League (常春藤) colleges, however, are all private, while other top institutions are public.

This is one of their biggest differences. Public universities are funded by the state through taxation while private universities are funded by donations. Tuition fees (学费) of private universities are usually much higher in comparison.

Different student pools

To ensure the education of students in the state, public universities mainly include local people who enjoy discounted tuition fees for studying in their home state. This is partly because many local students cannot afford high tuition fees.

Different school scales (规模)

 They will also have larger class size. But private colleges are not as large and have smaller class sizes to show its strength.

School establishment history

Private universities enjoy a longer history than public ones.  But it wasn't until the mid-19^th century that some first-class public universities appeared, such as the University of California, Berkeley.

Students need to consider completely which one is suitable for them in various aspects such as teaching quality and social activities.

A. Different sources of funding.

B. Different amount of tuition fees.

C. But which one is better between the private ones and public ones?

D. So what are the differences between these two types of universities?

E. Most public universities have bigger campuses and larger student bodies.

F. Private universities, however, have a higher percentage of international students.

G. Princeton University, one of the oldest Ivy League schools, for example, was founded in 1746.

Once upon a time, a very strong woodcutter 1 for a job in a wood merchant and he got it. The pay was really good and so was the 2 condition. For those reasons the woodcutter was 3 to do his best. His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he was supposed to work.

The first day the woodcutter brought 18 trees, which he all had 4 himself. "Congratulations!" the boss said, "Go on that way!" Deeply 5 by the boss's words the woodcutter tried harder the next day but he could only bring 15 trees. The third day he tried even 6, but he could only bring 10 trees. Day after day he was bringing less and less trees. "I must be losing my 7," the woodcutter thought. He went to the boss and said 8, adding that he could not understand what was going on.

"When was the last time you 9 your axe?" the boss asked. "I had no time to do that, because I have been very busy trying to cut trees…" answered the woodcutter.

Our 10 are like that. We sometimes get so busy that we don't 11 time to sharpen the "axe" in life. It seems that everyone is busier than ever, but less 12 than ever. Why is that? Could it be that we have forgotten how to 13 "sharp"?

There's nothing wrong with activity and hard work. But we all need to spare some time to relax, to think and meditate to learn and 14. If we don't take the time to sharpen the "axe", we will become dull and lose our  15.

In the past 40 years, the power of China  (see) by the world. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, our country has become one of the strongest countries of the world from an  (extreme) poor one, including economy, military and science and technology. With a rapid development of our country, some western countries especially the USA are not  (will) to see a powerful China, so they make troubles for China in all aspects in the international society.  our country is not what she used to be now, we will never give in to any stress.

Our country showed its advantage of socialism system again in 2020,  the COVID 19 broke out quickly in the world. Unfortunately, many western countries were wondering  to do at that time while people from all  (walk) of life in China worked together to take action. So we could get the epidemic  (control) quickly and began to recover our economy. During this period, many heroes like Zhong Nanshan and Li Lanjuan,  didn't think about their personal safety, became "the most beautiful reverse walkers". We are proud of them,  we also take pride in our country.

1）简单介绍春节饮食习俗；

2）推荐一道你家乡的特色菜；

注意：

1）词数80左右；

2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

Dear Peter,

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Wish you have a good time here.

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

As a sixth grader, I found it hard to fit in and make friends.

Our teacher had assigned (分派，布置) "secret friends" for the coming week. She wrote each kid's name on a piece of paper and threw them into a glass; then we each closed our eyes and picked out one. By the middle of the week，everyone had turned this assignment into a competition to see whose secret friend could leave the best gift. It seemed that everyone was getting cool presents from their friend except me.

On the last morning of our assignment. I walked into my classroom and noticed a package with a box of powder (胭脂粉). The girls sitting near me laughed at the gift I had received. What's worse, the powder had already been opened.

I tried to forget about the embarrassing gift, but when I was in the bathroom during the break, the girls started speaking ill of my secret friend of giving it to me. I quickly joined in. "How terrible," I heard myself saying "What could my friend be thinking by giving me such a stupid gift? My grandmother wouldn't even want it." The girls laughed at my remarks (评论) and rushed out of the bathroom. I stayed to wash my hands and let water run through my fingers as I thought about what I had just said. It wasn't normal like me to say mean (刻薄的) things like that about someone.

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Then I saw my classmate Janet come out of a bathroom booth (厕所隔间), tears streaming down her face.

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Along with my apologies, I explained the reason.