四川省泸县2021-2022学年高二下学期第一次月考试英语试题

Cornwall, England, may be most famous for its beautiful beaches and rich history, but the county is also a major foodie destination.

Edie's Kitchen

A family restaurant helmed by a chef with good international experience, it offers a seasonal, local menu that changes on a monthly basis. It particularly stands out from the rest, with all reviews praising the wait staffs attentive, friendly attitude. The restaurant is open for supper from Tuesday to Saturday. On Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, Edie's is also open for lunch.

Daaku

Daaku provides guests with a cheerful and colorful space to avoid Cornwall's sometimes troublesome weather. Adorned with old Bollywood posters, traditional Rajasthani decorations, and Indian artwork, the dining room is perfect, and its menu changes weekly to serve the best seasonal produce. It opens on Thursday and Saturday nights.

The Blue Peter Inn

If you're looking for an authentic Cornish pub experience，look no further than this one. Housed in a whitewashed building surrounded by the historic fishermen's cottages of picture-perfect Polperro, it overlooks the harbor. The menu focuses on local seafood and meat with top choices including fish and chips, and beef burgers. It opens every Saturday night with live music.

Mangia

If you're headed to Falmouth to explore top attractions，make sure to book a table at Mangia. This independent, family-run pub may be small in size, but it serves classic Italian favorites. Chef and owner Valter Floris comes from an extensive background in Italian baking. Advance booking is almost always required. It opens in the evenings from 6 pm—last orders at 9 pm, Tuesday to Saturday.

In 2011, Bloomberg selected the World's 10 Best Transit Poems. Here's one of them:

To You

Walt Whitman

STRANGER! If you,

Passing, meet me, and desire to speak to me.

Why should you not speak to me?

And why should I not speak to you?

Poetry has always been a special way to communicate emotions. And usually, reading poetry is an activity done at home or in the library. But now, a new project has made poetry part of the daily lives of those who commute. Recently Shanghai Metro started the project —— Poetry on the Underground, in which commuters can read poems while travelling on the underground. This is similar to the project of the same name that has been running since 1986 in London.

Judith Chernaik, founder of London's Poems on the Underground, said that the poems could be from great poets or unknown lovers of English poetry. In Chernaik's view, these poems —— known as a wonder of the city —— aim to bring poetry to passengers, and show a wide range of styles. The styles may range from classical to contemporary, domestic to international.

Whether you love or hate poetry, this project "has proven to be an excellent way of introducing poetry, with passengers often wanting to read more", according to the local government organization Transport for London.

The project also covers current events. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Londoner Michael Rosen wrote a poem to share his experience of 48-day intensive care earlier this year. The poem was shown on the London underground. "We had a very strong feeling that the times have been so difficult for everybody in all kinds of ways," Chernaik told The Telegraph. "Although normal life is starting to resume, we all know it's still very dangerous. We felt a strong sense of responsibility. We felt our poems needed to acknowledge the problem but also offer some hope. " Indeed, it's often poems with love and reassurance that strike a chord (共鸣) with people.

Many have been posting lines from poems on the social networking platform Instagram. One post includes the lines "And you will find your feet / Again on fresh pastures of promise" from Time to be Slow by John O'Donohue. Another has the lines "Everything changes / We plant trees for those born later" from Cicely Herbert's Everything Changes.

The project reminds us that even through troubled times, poetry reminds us we are human. The more reminders of that, the better.

Though it is not good for us to expose ourselves to sunlight for too long, allowing ourselves appropriate amount of exposure to sunlight gives us many benefits and affects us in a number of ways.

Without the sun, life would not have developed. It gives us energy and heats our world. The sun gives us light and thus in turn we are able to see the beautiful colors in our world. It makes us feel good when we feel the warmth of its rays on our shoulders. We store the energy from the sun to help build and heat our houses.

Without sunlight we would not be able to survive. Sunlight gives balance. All living things live in a food chain and at the beginning of the food chain conies the plant which absorbs sunlight and transforms light energy into chemical energy ,which will then be absorbed by another life to be turned into a new kind of energy and so on.

One of the benefits that we can get from sunlight is that we can receive vitamin D from sunlight. It helps us to keep a healthy body, control the amount of minerals in the body, which is needed to help keep our bones and teeth in good condition and helps to keep a well-balanced mind.

Different places on the earth receive varying degrees of sunlight, which will decide the region's climate. For example, the farther away it is from the equator (赤道),the sharper the angle of the sun's rays that reach it, which means that sunlight coverage will be more spread out, and receive less heat than lower latitude(纬度)areas nearer the equator.

China's hot word, tuhao, may be in Oxford English Dictionary.

In Chinese, tu means rude and hao means rich. In recent years, people use this term to describe those who spend money in an unreasonable way. The word became more popular with Apple's gold-colored iPhone, which is loved by China's rich people. The color became known as "tuhao golden". The word is now often used to refer to people who have money but lack taste.

There are two other Chinese hot words: dama and No Zuo No Die, which may also be taken in the dictionary. Dama, meaning middle-aged women, was first used in the Western media by the Wall Street Journal. Thousands of Chinese women were buying a large amount of gold when the gold price had gone down. Another phrase No Zuo No Die, meaning if you don't do stupid things, they won't come back to bite you, is also very popular. Other words, such as Maotai, Chinglish and dim sum have also been included in the dictionary.

BBC World News recently made a special program called "Tuhao, let's be friends!"" The frequent use of Chinglish by foreign media suggests that foreign people are looking more to the lifestyle and popular culture of China," says Zhang Yiwu, professor of Beijing University.

What does this trend suggest about the Chinese language's influence?

Xing Hongbing, a professor from Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) said "These show that Chinglish is now being accepted by the rest of the world and they play important roles in daily life of Chinese. Behind these Chinglish words and phrases are the Chinese culture. They are reflections of the changes and trends in the Chinese society and they help people from other countries to understand what's happening in China. "

Evaluating Sources(来源) of Health Information

Making good choices about your own health requires reasonable evaluation. A key first step in bettering your evaluation ability is to look carefully at your sources of health information. Reasonable evaluation includes knowing where and how to find relevant information, how to separate fact from opinion, how to recognize poor reasoning, and how to analyze information and the reliability of sources.

Go to the original source. Media reports often simplify the results of medical research. Find out for yourself what a study really reported, and determine whether it was based on good science. Think about the type of study.

Watch for misleading language. Some studies will find that a behaviour "contributes to" or is "associated with" an outcome; this does not mean that a certain course must lead to a certain result. Carefully read or listen to information in order to fully understand it.

Use your common sense. If a report seems too good to be true, probably it is. Be especially careful of information contained in advertisements. Evaluate "scientific" statements carefully, and be aware of quackery(江湖骗术).

Friends and family members can be a great source of ideas and inspiration, but each of us needs to find a healthy lifestyle that works for us.

Developing the ability to evaluate reasonably and independently about health problems will serve you well throughout your life.

A. Make choices that are right for you.

B. The goal of an ad is to sell you something.

C. Be sure to work through the critical questions.

D. And examine the findings of the original research.

E. Distinguish between research reports and public health advice.

F. Be aware that information may also be incorrectly explained by an author's point of view.

G. The following suggestions can help you sort through the health information you receive from common sources.

Since our twins began learning to walk, my wife and I have kept telling them that our sliding glass door is j ust a window. The1is obvious. If we 2it is a door, they'll want to go outside  3. It will drive us crazy. The kids apparently know the 4 But our insisting it's  5 a window has kept them from6millions of requests to open the door.

I hate lying to the kids. One day they'll 7and discover that everything they've always known about windows is a8.

I wonder if 9 should always tell the truth no matter the 10 I have a very strong11 that the lie we're telling is doing 12 damage to our children. Windows and doors have13 metaphorical(比喻) meanings. I'm telling them they can't open what they absolutely know is a door. What if later in14 they come to a metaphorical door, like an opportunity(机会) of some sort, and 15opening the door and taking the opportunity, they just16it and wonder, "What if it isn't a door?" That is, "What if it isn't a17opportunity?"

Maybe it's an unreasonable fear. But the 18 is that I shouldn't lie to my kids. I should just19 repeatedly having to say, "No. We can't go outside now." Then when they come to other doors in life, be they real or metaphorical, they won't 20to open them and walk through.

We think that life in Chinese high school is an adventure in which we have to survive mountains of homework and exams. Yet would it be (surprise) if I tell you that high school life in the US is almost as stressful and demanding as it is in China?

In US high school, everything (record) and graded, including your grades on tests and final examinations. Failing (turn) in your homework on time will directly affect your grade for a certain course. Perhaps contrary to we used to think of the US high school students, they pay great attention their academic performance to try to get into key universities. Otherwise, they'll be disappointed after graduation from high school.

Like university students, US high school (student) have the freedom to choose the courses that attract (they). Even ninth-grade student can sit in the same classroom as 12th-graders. this also means he or she has to work very hard, because the teacher will not treat him or her (different) just because he or she is a few years younger.

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

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。

Built in 2015, our chemical factory is biggest one in our city. Nowadays over 2000 workers are working here. In the past, the waste from our factory cause serious pollution, that did great harm to the workers. However, little was done to stop them.

In recent years, the harm of pollution have caught people's attention. A special workshop has been built. The workshop is used to recycling the waste. Before several years of hard work, things have been great improved. We will quicken our factory's development. We have been decided to bring in advanced technology and equipments from abroad.

1）脱瘾活动的目的;

2）你的建议和措施;

3）你的感受。

注意：1）词数100左右;

2）可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;

3）文章开头已给出，不计入总词数。

Social Media Detox

January 22, 2021

By Li Hua

With the development of science and technology, there appear an increasing number of social media apps.