广东省广州市八区联考2020-2021学年高一上学期期末教学质量检测英语试题

Few places in the world can be as good as Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. This UNESCO World Heritage site has snow-capped mountains and, in its valleys, deep blue lakes. Grizzly bears and mountain lions live in its forests. It is different from most other World Heritage sites due to its location in two countries. This land actually combines two large national parks-Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada, and Glacier National Park in Montana, United States.

Back in 1931, local Rotary Club members had the idea of uniting the two parks. The Rotarians believed the area could be better protected and enjoyed as one, and their governments agreed. Then, in 1995, UNESCO agreed as well, and the two parks became a single World Heritage site.

For visitors, Waterton-Glacier Park offers many wonderful things to see and do. Have a picnic or go for a hike- or have a picnic on your hike-and be ready to take lots of pictures. On the lakes, take a boat tour, go fishing or simply go for a swim.

Whatever activities you choose, amazing views will surround you. For example, a road tour anywhere in the park will pass through wonderful scenery. Don't miss the drive westward along the Going-to-the-Sun Road. You will never forget the great views.

A number of small towns lie within Waterton-Glacier Park or close to it. In these places, you can get a bite to eat, buy gifts or find a place to stay. One must-see is the town of Waterton and Prince of Wales Hotel. Camping in the park is a very popular activity. Many campsites are available on a first come, first served basis while some need to be reserved. If you camp, be sure to keep food locked away at night. Otherwise, you may have an unwanted visit from a bear.

Words cannot describe beautiful Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. You have to see it for yourself！

Like many inventions, language translators were imagined by writers long before they became real. In Hugo Gernsback's 1911 novel A Romance of the Year 2660, characters use a video telephone that can translate from one language to another. A language translator also appears in Murray Leinster's 1945 First Contact. In that story, humans and creatures from another planet made a translation device together after asking for contact with one another. The idea of the language translator didn't become truly popular, however, until the "universal translator" appeared in the 1970 Star Trek series, which delighted television viewers at that time. That device was universal in the sense that it could translate any language that it came across.

The first real language translator was demonstrated (展示) by engineers from IBM company and Georgetown University in 1954. Their machine could only translate Russian sentences into English.

Language translators have come a long way since then. Today, online translations can be accessed easily at no cost to users. With translation apps, users sometimes don't even have to look things up. All they need to do is point their cellphone's camera at some writing, and a translation immediately appears. If users want to translate something being said aloud, they just turn on their phone's microphone. All of these features save time and effort.

Translation apps on phones make foreign travel much easier than before. They are invaluable and convenient when it comes to communicating with taxi drivers or hotel waiters who don't speak a traveler's native language. But these apps are far from perfect. Sometimes a translation makes no sense, forcing the user to guess what the translation means. At other times, the user might not know that the translation has failed until he or she shows it to a native speaker.

11 years after the tragedy of Wenchuan, a 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan Province again last night.He was Wanghao, who, after Wenchuan, devoted himself to developing China's earthquake early warning system that last night saved hundreds of lives.

At 22:55 on 17 June, 2019, the Continental Earthquake Early Warning Network warned Changning County of Yibin City 10 seconds in advance of the quake hitting the area.Among them, the Sichuan capital of Chengdu received early warning 61 seconds advance.

Besides Chengdu, other citizens in Leshan, Ya'an and Deyang also received the earthquake warning through their TV sets and text messages.

In just a few seconds, many people were saved. People reported that once they received the warning online, they ran out of the building and stayed in the open air, waiting for rescue. Xinhua News reports showed that professional rescue forces reached the spot in about half an hour.

That is all because of the creator of this system, Wang Hao, Director of the Sichuan Key Laboratory of Earthquake Early Warning. Shocked by scenes of the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008. he got the idea of returning home to focus on early warning system research. "Even with just 10 seconds of warning, people have more chances to escape", he said.

A. People in over 180 schools and 110 communities were able to find shelters in time.

B. 79 counties in Sichuan have already set up TV and mobile phone early warning services.

C. Unsurprisingly, local netizens found the alarming system "really useful".

D. This time, however, the disaster has found a hero.

E.As a Sichuan local, we should do something for our hometown.

F.Why could so many people be saved from injury or even death?

G.Many other places in Sichuan also received early warnings.

Lifeart is a student-run organization founded by one of my best friends at my school in Boston, US. It gathers its members together to make artwork to sell for one1: funding cancer research.

Since the students at our school can only2us so much, we took our artwork to the3of Boston one spring day to try and sell it to the4.

We set up near the entrance of an underground station, thinking that people might be more likely to5our artwork if they were going home. It was quite6to control the situation at first. It was7that day, so our canvases（帆布）kept on falling over, and the price tags kept on blowing away. All of us were quite8as well and were afraid to ask people if they would consider buying our artwork.

Finally, one of the brave girls, Luna, talked to our first9. Although he did not buy anything, it gave a little bit of10in the rest of us. Then I tried to talk to a Korean woman passing by. I felt a little11when she said that she didn't have time, but my courage had grown with this short conversation with a12.

At the end of the day, we sold a respectable amount of artwork. It might not have been as much as we13, but we agreed as a group that the14of gaining and exercising our courage made up for the15.

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Lionel Andres Messi was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1987. As Messi grew up playing soccerhis older brothers, his controlling and kicking the ball became as(nature) and easy as breathing. At the age of 4, Messi joined a local team(coach) by his father. Starting at age 6, he played for six years witholder boys' team. Around the age of 10, he(find) to have a growth hormone deficiency(生长激素不足) . Because of this condition, he would never grow taller than 170cm. Messi never stopped(improve) his soccer skills or scoring goals.

In 2000, at the age of 13, Messi went to Barcelona, Spain. Futbol Club Barcelona (Barca), one of the great European(team) , was impressed with his skills for such a young player. In his very first game, he started making soccer history. He scored a goal, becoming the(young) Barca player to do so in an important league match.

Messi is now a master in soccerhas led his teams to win over 30 medals, including an Olympic gold medal. The soccer's little superstar will achieve more goals in the future.