河南省洛阳市2020-2021学年高二上学期期中英语试题

Casablanca：Time Did Go By

If the Hollywood image of Casablanca is important to you, prepare for a shock from Casablanca. The city is further away from eastern romanticism (浪漫主义) than any other in Morocco, and Casablanca is a modem city — and beautiful in its own aspect.

Colony(殖民地) White

A walk around Casablanca will decide clearly that Casablanca was the place that the French colonial government gave most attention and money. The buildings are of a French version (版本) of Arabo-Andalucian architecture, white with soft lines, and often plenty of details.

The area to explore is south of Avenue des Forces Arms Royales, but of special interest is the Place des Nations Unies, which has the largest structures.

Town Market

Right in from the long Boulevard Muhammad 5, you will find the Marche Central of Casablanca. The place is a small but high-quality version of the traditional suuqs of Morocco, and everything is aiming at the needs of the locals.

The Marche Central has vegetables, meat, all kinds of sea food, as well as handicrafts (手工艺品). Turtle soup should therefore be an option for those visiting Casablanca.

Old City

The old city of Casablanca is conveniently located — just off the main town square from where roads lead to all directions, and off the sea. But as you enter, you will see that it is not all that old after all, that the houses here often have a form and size which would have made them natural features in the new parts of many other Mococcan cities.

While a new school term is about to begin, perhaps we should reconsider the matter of examinations. In July, two writers (Letters to the Editor) praised the cancellation of exams because they believe "tests don't tell the whole story."

As a teacher who has worked for many years, I have had the experience that a student who earns good marks is generally a good student, and that a student's final mark in a subject is usually a grade average of the year's work. Of course there are exceptions, but they do not have the frequency that would give an unfair picture of a student's ability. The simple fact is that proper class work, hard-working exam studies and good marks are almost certain indicators of a students future performance. The opposite, almost certainly, unfitness.

There is no acceptable substitute for competition and examination of quality. How can teachers and future officials determine what a student has learned and remembered? Should we simply take the student word for it? Any organization that sets students free from fair and formal exams is misguided. And surely the "graduates" of such organisations will lack trustworthiness, not to mention being refused by foreign universities for graduate or other studies.

When all is said and done, I sense that a fear of failure and a fear of unpleasant comparison with others is the basic reason for most ban-exams talk. Excellence and quality fear nothing. On the contrary, they seek competition and desire the satisfaction of being the best.

To call someone bird-brained in English means you think that person is silly or stupid.

But will this description soon disappear from use in the recent research? It seems English may have been unfair in association bird's brains with stupidity.

In an attempt to find out how different creatures see the world，psychologists at Brown University in the USA have been comparing the behaviour of birds and humans. One experiment has involved teaching pigeons to recognize letters of the English alphabet. The birds study in "classrooms", which are boxes equipped with a computer. After about four days of studying a particular letter, the pigeon has to pick out that letter from several displayed on the computer screen. Three male pigeons have learned to distinguish all twenty-six letters of the alphabet in this way.

A computer record of the birds7 four-month study period has shown surprising similarities between the pigeons' and human performance. Pigeons and people find the same letters easy, or hard, to tell apart. For example, 92 percent of the time the pigeons could tell the letter D from the letter Z. But when faced with U and V (often confused by English children), the pigeons were right only 34 percent of the time.

The results of the experiments so far have led psychologists (心理学家) to conclude that pigeons and humans observe things in similar ways. This suggests that there is something basic about the recognition process. If scientists could only discover just what this recognition process is, it could be very useful for computer designers. The disadvantage of a present computer is that it can only do what a human being has programmed it to do and the programmer must give the computer precise, logical instructions. Maybe in the future, though, computers will be able to think like human beings.

Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people? Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different from another. Yet a very young child or even an animal, such as a dolphin can learn to recognize faces.

We also tell people apart by how they behave. When we talk about someone's personality, we mean the ways in which he or she acts, speaks, thinks and feels make that person different from others.

Like the human face, human personality is very complex. But describing someone's personality in words is somewhat easier than describing his face. If you were asked to describe what a "nice face" looked like, you probably would have a difficult time doing so. But if you were asked to describe a "nice person", you might begin to think about someone who was kind, considerate, friendly, warm and so on.

There are many words to describe how a person thinks, feels and acts. Gordon Allport, an American psychologist, found nearly 18,000 English words characterizing differences in people's behavior. And many of us use this information as a basis for describing or typing his personality.

People have always tried to "type" each other. Actors in early Greek drama (戏剧）wore masks to show the audience whether they played the villain' (坏人) or the hero's role. In fact, the words "person" and "personality" come from the Latin, meaning "mask" .Today, most television and movie actors do not wear masks. But we can easily tell the " good guys" from the "bad guy" because the two types differ in appearance as well as behaviors.

In less than two years, you will go to different universities and lead a new life. In your new life, making new friends is a must..

In order to make friends, you must first be a friend. Consider joining groups and associations that are of interest to you.. Go out of your way to be friendly，and you'll make new friends quickly.

. If you need help, there are millions of books on the subject of good manners. Treat people with politeness, and you will see people start to gather around you because of your pleasant personality.

Become good at something. You can do well in a sport，an instrument，writing，languages or whichever else you enjoy. You don't have to be an expert, but at least good enough to help others with your skill.. It's not about doing this for attracting attention, but having a skill at something is another way to make new friends quickly.

Share contact information with people you meet who seem interesting.. It could be as simple as drinking coffee together. Showing interest in people by actually inviting them to do things will help you create friends quickly.

A. Always practice good manners.

B. Everybody knows friends come and go.

C. Then, how can you make new friends quickly?

D. Then invite them to do interesting things with you.

E. This makes you interesting and gets people to be attracted to you.

F. You are likely to find others who share things in common with you.

G. You have friends for every time and season of your life from youth to old age.

Delivery drivers in Wuhan and across China offer a lifeline to millions of people trapped in their homes during the coronavirus (冠状病毒)outbreak. However, the work puts them1.

The driver, Zhang Sai, 2outside an apartment building in Wuhan, the central Chinese city at the heart of the coronavirus 3. He had been ordered not to take food to 4 doors in order to minimize the risk of infection (感染). But the woman on the phone was 5, he recalled. The food was for her mother, who couldn't go down to6 him.

He softened. He would drop off the order and 7. As he placed the bag on the floor, the door opened. 8, he rushed away. Without 9, he pressed the elevator (电梯)10 with his finger, touching a surface that he feared could spread the virus. That was how Mr. Zhang found himself 11 back to his delivery station with one finger held up, 12not to touch the rest of his hand.

"I was 13scared," he recalled in a telephone interview." Because I ride a scooter (摩托车),I felt the 14was like a flag."

For many in China, delivery drivers like Mr. Zhang are the only 15 to the outside world. While they were once unattractive, they are now being16as heroes.

The dozens of 17he makes each day are born of not just Wuhan's necessity 18his own. His wife and 4-year-old twin boys, as well as his father, depend on him for financial (财政的)support. He never considered taking time off, even after the danger of the outbreak became 19. When his family asked him to stop, he 20them, too.

Taking up exercise could change our feelings about food in surprising and(benefit) ways, according  a new study of exercise and eating. The result (find) by the study is that new exercisers start to experience less desire for fattening foods，a changecould have long-term influences for weight control.

The researchers asked a group of sedentary (久坐的) volunteers about how they (feel) about food. Some of them then  (ask) to continue with their normal lives as a control group, while the others began exercising.

It turns out that the exercisers no  (long) found high-calorie, fatty foods quite so irresistible (不可抵抗的). Interestingly, their scores on measures of "liking", or howthey expected to enjoy those same foods, remained unchanged and strong.

"Besides (make) us healthier, exercise might improve the(connect) between food reward and eating behavior habits and overconsuming (过度饮食)," says Kristine Beaulieu, a dietitian who led the new study.

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