四川省攀枝花市2020届高三英语第三次统一考试试卷

    Interested in getting ahead over the summer? Then stay on course by taking advantage of Alvernia's Summer Session. It lets you get ahead with a large selection of undergraduate and graduate courses. You can attend the class in classrooms or online, or you can take mixed courses if you like. We offer several flexible sessions at all three locations in the summer to help move you closer toward graduation. All courses are officially recognized and credits you earn are transferable.

    You don't have to be admitted to Alvernia to take classes this summer. Our Summer Session is open to all Alvernia students and to students from other colleges and high schools, as well as adult professionals and lifelong learners.

    And if you're taking a course with us, you'll have full access to the library, gym, cafes, and computer labs. Alvernia's Summer Session is a perfect option for students who:

    Want to lighten their course load for coming terms.

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    Just want to take a course for fun.

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    The bus screamed to a stop in Nazareth, Israel. Five Australian backpackers boarded and struck up a conversation with me. They asked typical travelers' questions — where was I going and why was I traveling alone? My plan was to travel with a friend of a friend, I explained, but when I called her that morning, she didn't pick up and I had no other way to reach her. My stomach was in knots, but I decided to head out anyway, thinking I might run into her if I traveled to Tiberius, where we had planned to go together.

    "Why don't you travel with us?" one of the backpackers offered. They were experienced adventurers who would work for a few months, save, then travel for as long as they could. Their current plan was to explore the Middle East and Europe in three months.

It seemed risky to travel with perfect strangers, but my instinct said yes. For the next two weeks, I explored Israel with the backpackers and learned to trust my instincts in all types of new and interesting situations. When they hooked a ride, I took the bus, but when they wanted to steal into the King David Hotel's swimming pool, I led the way. The world opened up to me because I chose to travel alone. I joined complete strangers, who became close friends. Years later, one couple from the backpacking group even flew from Sydney to Phoenix to be in my wedding. The trip was such a special experience that it gave me confidence in all areas of my life. Since then, I've backpacked alone across South Africa, sky-dived from 12, 000 feet in New Zealand and even moved across the U.S. with no job lined up.

    On my third day wandering in Israel with my new friends, I ran into the woman I was supposed to meet. Though I was happy she was all right, I was grateful she hadn't picked up the phone.

    "Don't tell anyone". We hear these words when someone tells a secret to us. But it can be hard to keep a secret. We often tend to "spill the beans", even if we regret it later.

    According to Asim Shah, professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine, US, keeping a secret may well" become a burden". This is because people often have an "obsessive (强迫性的) and anxious urge to share it with someone".

    An earlier study, led by Anita E. Kelly, a scientist at the University of Notre Dame, US, suggested that keeping a secret could cause stress. People entrusted with secrets can suffer from depression, anxiety, and body aches, reported the Daily Mail.

    But with secrets so often getting out, why do people share them at all? Shah explained that people often feel that it will help them keep a person as a friend. Another reason people share secrets is guilt over keeping it from someone close to them. A sense of distrust can develop when people who are close do not share it with each other." Keeping or sharing secrets often puts people in a position of either gaining or losing the trust of someone." according to Shah.

    He added that talkative people could let secrets slip out. But this doesn't mean that it is a good idea only to share secrets with quiet people. A quiet person may be someone who keeps everything inside. To tell such a person a secret may cause them stress, and make them talk about the secret.

    Shah said that to judge whether to tell someone a secret, you'd better put yourself in their position. Think about how you would feel to be told that you mustn't give the information away. Shah also recommended that if you accidentally give up someone's secret you should come clean about it. Let the person know that their secret isn't so secret anymore.

    Scientists, psychologists and English academics at Liverpool University have found that reading the works of the classical writers like Shakespeare and Wordsworth has a great effect on the mind, catches the reader's attention and triggers moments of self-examination.

    Using a special machine, they monitored the brain activity of 30 volunteers as they read works by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot and others.

    In the first part of the research, the brain activity of 30 volunteers was monitored as they read passages from Shakespeare's plays, including King Lear, Othello, Coriolanus and Macbeth, and again as they read the text rewritten in a simpler form or modern language.

    While reading the common texts, normal levels of electrical activity were shown in their brains. When they read the works of Shakespeare, however, the levels of activity jumped because of his use of words which were unfamiliar to them. The result of the test showed that the more challenging passages cause a greater degree of electrical activity in the brain than the common ones.

    Scientists went on to study the brain activity as it responded to each word and recorded how it lit up as the readers came across unusual words, surprising phrases or difficult sentences in the classical works. As a result, this lightening up process of the mind lasted longer than that when volunteers read common texts, encouraging further reading.

    The research also found that reading poetry especially increases activity in the right hemisphere (半 球) of the brain, an area connected with" autobiographical memory", driving the readers to think carefully about their own experiences based on what they have read. The academics said this meant the classical works of literature are more useful than self-help books.

    Philip Davis, an English professor who has worked on the study in the university's magnetic resonance center, announced this week:" Classical literature acts like a rocket-booster to the brain, which provides extra power for the brain. You may never imagine how powerful it is. The research shows such kind of literature can create new thoughts and connections in the young and the old."

    It's easy to make a fitness decision on New Year's Eve. According to a recent study,

    60 percent of people give up on their decision by February. However, you can increase your chances of success with these stick-with-it strategies (策略).

    Start by asking yourself," Why?"

    A fitness decision is rarely about fitness. It's important to ask yourself why this fitness decision is important to you on a deeper level. Discover exactly what that something is and use it to push yourself to keep going when you feel like giving up.

    You're far more likely to stick to your goal if you make it as specific as possible. Determine exactly what you're going to do and when you're going to achieve it. Deadline are necessary, if you're serious about making your fitness decision stick.

    Start small and build motivation.

     Instead, break your fitness goal into a series of smaller challenges, and celebrate every victory along the way. Fitness resolution is hard. Focus on the progress you're making, no matter how small it seems.

    Focus on fun.

    When it comes to making a long-term change, fun is fundamental. It's hard to consistently force yourself to do something you hate.  Listen to your favorite music at the gym. Do everything you can to make your physical activity enjoyable, because that's the only way you're going to want to keep doing it.

A. What's motivating you to make a change? B. So, if you hate running, try cycling instead.

C. New Year's Eve is a great opportunity to have fun.

D. Be specific about what you want to accomplish and set a deadline.

E. Write down your fitness decision and share it with your family and friends.

F. If you try to change too much too quickly, you're setting yourself up for failure.

G. The challenge lies in putting it into practice and sticking with it for the long-term.

    How did you do it, Dad? How have you managed not to take a drink for almost 20 years? It took me almost 20 years to have the1to even ask my father this very personal question. When Dad first2drinking, the whole family was on pins and needles every time he got into a3 that, in the past, would have started him4again. For a few years we were afraid to bring it up5 this addiction would begin again.

    "I had this little poem that I would 6 to myself at least four to five times a day," was Dad's reply to my 18-year-old unasked question." The words were a constant7 to me that things were8so hard that I could not deal with them," Dad said. Then he9the poem with me. The poem's 10, yet profound words immediately became 11of my daily routine as well.

    About a month after this12 with my father, I received a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a 13of daily sayings of wisdom with one listed for each day of the year.

    It has been my14 that when you get something with days of the year on it, you naturally turn to the page that lists your own15.

    I 16opened the book to April 17 to see 17 words of wisdom this book had in store for me. I was18 when I looked at the page, and then19 of disbelief and appreciation rolled down my cheek. There, on my birthday, was the very poem that had   20 my father for all these years! It is called the Serenity (平静的心) Prayer.

    God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.

    I have a successful career as an educational consultant. But my life wasn't always so great. I had a learning disability from  early age and suffered a lot in public schools.

    My life improved  (surprising) when I discovered art. The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words. I went to a workshop and gradually got good at  (produce) things with clay. Here I learned my first important lesson: I was disabled in language, I could still be smart and well express myself with clay. And my confidence came along.

    I got my next lesson from rock climbing. It was a fun thing but I was scared from the  (begin). I soon noticed it wasn't a talent thing; it was practice. So I did it more. After about five years of climbing, I  (find) myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall. I learned that if you love something and do it all the time, you will get much (good) at it.

    Later I practiced reading and writing every day,  I used to avoid as much as possible. After two hard years, I was literate (能读会写的).

    After I  (go) through the long process over the years, now I've got to a point in my life where I know I'm smart enough  (dive) into an area that is totally unknown, hard, but interesting.

注意：1） 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2）只允许修改 10 处，多者（从第 11 处起）不计分。

    Graduation finally came. My classmates and I made up our mind do something. Someone suggested make a video to record our experiences at school and we agreed. Material collecting took us a whole week, during it we interviewed our teachers and took picture of every aspect of school life. The editing part after that was tough. We debated over what to put them into the video. Some disagreements were unavoidable, and the video turned out perfect. Several days later, when the video was played on a graduation ceremony, it was very popular for everyone. What a wonderfully time the students and teachers shared! That surely gives us a great sense of achievement.

1）写信原因；

2）培训课程的时间、地点；

3）报名方式及截止日期。

注意：1）词数 100 左右，文章开头已给出，不计入总词数;

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：汉字书法 —— Chinese Calligraphy

Dear John,

    ……

Yours

Li Hua