广东省梅县2022届高三上学期中段考试英语试卷

A POETRY CHALLENGE

Write a poem about how courage, determination, and strength have helped you face challenges in your life.

Prizes

3 Grand Prizes: Trip to Washington, D. C. for each of three winners, a parent and one other person of the winner's choice. Trip includes round-trip air tickets, hotel stay for two nights, and tours of the National Air and Space Museum and the office of National Geographic World.

6 First Prizes: The book Sky Pioneer: A Photo biography of Amelia Earhart signed by author Corinne Szabo and pilot Linda Finch.

50 Honorable Mentions: Judges will choose up to 50 honorable mention winners, who will each receive a T-shirt in memory of Earhart's final flight.

Rules

Follow all rules carefully to prevent disqualification.

■Write a poem using 100 words or fewer. Your poem can be any format, any number of lines.

■Write by hand or type on a single sheet of paper. You may use both the front and back of the paper.

■On the same sheet of paper, write or type your name, address, telephone number, and birth date.

■Mail your entry to us by October 31 this year.

Many years ago, my mother read from the book Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey to me. I remember as if it were yesterday, hearing her voice at my side on a cold wintry night. My mother's voice changed my world.

Long before I could read on my own, she shared with me the strength and beauty of McCloskey's language — a story of a little girl and her mother out in nature, co-existing with a mother bear and her own baby. The power of the story, of language and of my mother, all came together. And it happened many times after that, over and over. The read aloud made me a reader.

Years later, I was reading aloud a picture book to a small child in a classroom. His life, so far, had not been easy. His childhood was troubled by poverty and loneliness. In that moment, in the joy of the read aloud, he had an idea that started something big.

What he said was this: "Mrs. Allyn, let's make sure everyone knows how good this feels. Let's have a holiday for the read aloud. " Therefore, my organization, LitWorld, created a grassroots movement World Read Aloud Day in 2010 to honor this young boy's wish for everyone to be able to have a read aloud every day.

Since the day he shared that good idea with us, World Read Aloud Day has become a worldwide event reaching over one million people in more than 65 countries around the world. This year we are over 600 cities strong, a number that is growing every day.

Children who grow up as readers become engaged citizens of the global world, and every child deserves the right to read. When I say that reading aloud will change the world, I know it sounds simple. But one of the many great things about giving kids access to the power of stories and sharing them together is that it is simple. It is also cheap and easily done. And the impact is huge.

TerraCycle is a company that has recycled and upcycled (升级改造) just about any garbage it can get its hands on. It upcycles things like pens and markers into dust bins and picnic tables and cigarette ends into railroad ties.

Now, TerraCycle wants to help families waste even less with a new book Make Garbage Great: The TerraCycle Family Guide to a Zero-Waste Lifestyle. The book is part wake-up call, part history lesson, part how-to, and part DIY arts and crafts instruction.

In an effort to help people do what they can to curb their contribution to the tons of waste created every day, Make Garbage Great gives the history of various materials, discusses why those various materials are a problem, and gives tips and DIY projects to recycle or upcycle each material.

There is a chapter each on plastics, metals, paper, glass, wood, rubber and organics. Each chapter is filled with tons of tips and ideas for reducing the amount of waste you create and for responsibly handling the waste you end up creating in your home. If you're a conscious consumer, you may already know some of the information, but there are also tips in this book that will help you recycle more than you thought you were able to. It has information on where you can take old sneakers, pillows, and all that electronic waste that seems to pile up quicker and quicker each year.

Whether the book inspires you to get a little clever at dealing with your waste or simply inspires you to think before you buy or before you throw, anyone who is concerned about the amount of waste our culture creates will find some ideas here. Even the physical book itself is a bit of an inspiration. It's printed on tree free paper and is a reminder that there is usually a sustainable (可持续的) alternative to many of the products that we waste.

Children grow taller in rural households where their mothers are supported to grow their own food, according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA). The research, which looked at households in some developing countries, showed growing their own food helped mothers to prevent their children from being stunted (发育不足的 ), wasting away and underweight. Their children's food was more varied, meaning these children had access to different classes of food nutrients (营养素).

The team from UEA analyzed studies that introduced women to home farming in some African and Asian countries. The home farming included growing brightly colored vitamin A-rich fruit and vegetables, and sometimes also included chicken farming. The health of these women's children was assessed over the next year or more, and they did better than children of other women. No studies, however, reported on children's eye health. The researchers concluded that high-quality trials are needed to assess the impact of home food production on nutritional blindness in children, which is caused by an insufficient intake of vitamin A.

Around 250 million pre-school children are deficient in vitamin A, according to the World Health Organization. Vitamin A deficiency is the main global cause of childhood blindness, which also increases the risk of dying from other childhood diseases and vitamin A plays a significant role in normal immune function (免疫功能). It remains one of the most widespread micronutrient deficiencies globally. Mrs Chizoba Bassey led the team conducting the systematic review. She said, "Well-evidenced interventions such as vitamin A supplementation programs should be adopted and expanded to children at greatest risk to prevent nutritional blindness. "

Currently there is not enough evidence of the effects of home gardening on xerophthalmia (干眼症), night blindness or the death rate in children, but the evidence from the research shows that if women take up home gardening, the risk of being stunted, wasting away and underweight in their children will be reduced. Home farming may help to achieve sustainability in controlling vitamin A deficiency and can assist vitamin A supplementation programs where they are available.

Choosing a major is an important decision and one that could pave the way for a successful, lifelong career. Some students know what they want to major in right away, while others take their sweet time to choose. Here are a few tips on how to choose a major.

Know your strengths. It can help you narrow down your options and find an area of study that suits you well. If you're not certain what your strengths are, talk to your adviser and a career counselor(顾问) to assess your strengths and apply them to a major. Just because that your are good at science doesn't necessarily mean you're prepared for advanced biology and chemistry classes, or weekly three-hour labs spent observing animals.

Talk to upperclassmen. Upperclassmen have been in your shoes and know how hard it can be to choose a major. They can give you first-hand accounts of taking advanced courses and how to avoid switching majors halfway through college. Talking to upperclassmen about their majors will give you a better understanding of what each program undertakes and what to expect. They can also give you advice on which classes you should take, the best professors in the college and guaranteed ways to get an A.

Regardless of what your parents, friends or advisers tell you, choosing a major is your decision and you should do what you love. Students may feel pressured to choose a major based on career salaries and job outlook(前景). If you're stuck studying something you hate, chances are that you won't do very well in your classes and you may end up never using your degree.

A. Follow your heart.

B. Talk to people in the area.

C. Either way, don't worry.

D. They won't sugarcoat things, either.

E. It's also important to know your limits.

F. Before you settle on a particular major, find out more.

G. However, it's far more important that you follow your passion.

Many Western cultures measure their days with the solar calendar. Therefore, they 1the coming of the New Year on January 1. Cultures in Asia use other calendars and celebrate the New Year at other times. Events and rituals2from country to country. But in each place, New Year celebrations are a big 3.

Most world cultures have been celebrating the New Year for centuries. The earliest New Year celebrations took place during spring or4time. With 5weather ahead, or plenty of food to eat, people 6felt like having a party! As the days became longer and as nature renewed itself, people also felt like they could have a new start. The New Year could bring better fortune, more opportunities and new challenges. Such 7ideas remain the same today.

Some cultures have 8 New Year traditions. Italians throw old things out of their windows at midnight, symbolizing the 9of the old. People of the Philippines fire guns into the air to ward off 10Danes jump off chairs exactly as the clock 11midnight, so they can jump into the New Year. Greek children leave their shoes by the fireplace on New Year's Day. They hope someone will come and fill the shoes with12. In Vancouver, Canada, some people celebrate the New Year by jumping into the ocean. The weather is freezing cold! As you might expect, most people come to watch the swimmers 13swim themselves.

London hosts an annual New Year's Day parade that 14nearly a million spectators. It features bands, floats and enormous balloons. These balloons are so huge that they15over nearby buildings!

A second crew of three astronauts are heading for China's Tianhe space station module after the (succeed) launch of the Shenzhou-13 mission Friday. Astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu will be busy during their six months in orbit. They'll spend a lot of time (test) technologies that will allow China to finish construction of the new space station, is called Tiangong ("Heavenly Palace"). That station will consist of three modules; the other two (expect) to launch toward the 54-foot-long (16. 6 meters) Tianhe next year. For example, the Shenzhou-13 crew will move the robotic Tianzhou 2 cargo(货物 ) spacecraft from one Tianhe docking(对接) port to using the module's robotic arm, Chinese officials said. Tianzhou-2 (arrive) at Tianhe in May, delivering supplies for the Shenzhou-12 crew. Zhai, Wang and Ye will also conduct a variety of (experiment) onboard Tianhe, including tasks (design) to advance space medicine and scientists' understanding of micro-gravity physics. And researchers on the ground will monitor the three astronauts' health, to learn more how longduration spaceflight affects people (mental) and physically. The crew will also conduct two or three spacewalks during the Shenzhou-13 mission.