安徽省蚌埠市2022届高三上学期第一次教学质量检查英语试题

Maldives is a small archipelagic(群岛的)state in South Asia, situated in the Arabian Sea of the Indian Ocean. It is made up of 1192 islands and each island has different scenic views, marine(海洋的)life and much more. Here are some fun things you can do on the islands.

Visit The Glowing Beach

The Maldives Glowing Beach, situated at the Mudhdhoo Island, is mostly known for its glowing waves. This natural phenomenon occurs due to the presence of millions of phytoplankton(浮游植物)in the water. The best time to visit Glowing Beach is between June and October when the sea remains comparatively warmer due to the summer season.

Enjoy a dinner on the beach

Maldives offers various locations for a private, romantic candlelight dinner. You can enjoy an elegant private barbecue with your partner on a quiet, calm beach. Have some wine while admiring the stars with your partner and spend some quality time together.

Taste the Gulha

Gulha is the national dish of the Maldives, a speciality with smoked fish such as Maldive fish. The snacks are usually sold at small cafés known as hotels, or in shops throughout the island.

Experience water activities

A trip to the Maldives is incomplete without a thrilling ride on the jet ski to skim over the Indian Ocean. Step up on a surfboard and explore the surroundings while managing the balance and rowing through the waves. Flyboarding will take you 15m high in the air while you look over the blue ocean. Scuba Diving is one of the most popular activities to do in the Maldives as it lets you explore a wonderful undersea world.

What is the longest word in the English language? It would be truly shocking if you were trying to type the longest word, as it isn't really a word anyone uses at all. The word is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. According to Merriam-Webster, the 45-letter word is created to mean a disease occurring especially in miners.

But here's the thing: That is not a term anyone—even doctors—use to describe an actual condition. The word was likely made up by Everett K. Smith in the 1930s, when he was president of the National Puzzler's League, a group that loved crosswords and, by extension, words themselves. Smith intended to create the longest word by mimicking (模仿) medical terms, even if there wasn't actually a disease to attach the word to. He just kind of made up the entire thing for fun.

Here are some other examples. Some record-setting English words are the longest in a particular aspect. "Uncopyrightable," which refers to any work that cannot be copyrighted, is the longest word in English without any repeating letters. Words like this are called "isograms." Then there's the longest word made of only vowels (元音) "euouae", a term that comes from music of the Middle Ages. On the other hand, you have the longest word without any vowels, "tsktsk". It's an onomatopoeia (拟声) for the sound you make when someone disappoints you.

Finally, you know there's got to be a word to describe someone who makes a habit of using long words. Surprisingly, it's only kind of long itself: "sesquipedalian".

Over the years, electronic commerce or e-commerce has grown rapidly. The rise of e-commerce large enterprises such as Amazon and Alibaba in the mid-90s changed the face of the retail (零售) industry. E-commerce may be thought of as an open, global marketplace or a digital version of mail-order catalogue (目录). Nearly every imaginable product and service is available through e-commerce dealings these days.

Many young entrepreneurs have dived into the e-commerce world, ambitious and hoping to succeed. Some, like Mitchell Zvagelskiy. Zvagelskiy is the co-founder of Scale Online, a fast-growing startup in California and runs several e-commerce stores. Zvagelskiy and his business partner began opening online stores and building a team to grow them, allowing the stores to earn as much as $100.000＋ in monthly revenue. Zvagelskiy owes his success to teamwork and his willingness to seize opportunity.

"Being able to do this all by the age of 20 is something I didn't expect and would not be able to do if I constantly listened to other people and just went the typical college then job route," he said. "Life can change fast if you change fast."

Thanks to the rapid success of his YouTube channel, Mitchell has been able to not only make great profit from his companies, but help others in starting and growing their own e-commerce stores too. "My meaning of success arises from my relationships with other people," he said. "By focusing on building strong relationships with others, I'm able to partner up and work with like-minded individuals in finding market opportunities and solving whatever problems people are facing."

He had two armed guards protecting him until his death aged 55. He also had two massive tusks (象牙)and, just as important, he had a name. Ahmed the elephant received the special treatment until his death in 1974, under an order from Kenya's then-president Jomo Kenyatta. The name helped give Ahmed and, by extension, the cause of elephant conservation greater recognition.

With Ahmed the elephant in mind, Kenya last week launched the Elephant Naming Festival in which people get the chance to adopt an elephant after contributing money toward their chosen animal's conservation.

The initiative gives the adoptive parent priority when it comes to choosing the first name of the elephant. The second name will be a Maasai (马赛族) one based on the animal's profile, history, role in the family and physical attributes like the state of its tusks.

Launching the program, Najib Balala, a top official at the Ministry for Tourism and Wildlife, said the elephant-naming initiative will bring greater awareness of the need for conservation and promote tourism. Balala said the event will be held each year on Aug 12, observed as World Elephant Day.

"We feel that this is a great opportunity for everyone to be part of the sustainability of tourism and wildlife in Kenya for future generation," Balala said.

"Wildlife is a big part of Kenya's heritage and ensuring that future generations enjoy this resource should always remain the most important. The launch of the Magical Kenya Elephant Naming Festival builds on the good work that the Kenya Wildlife Service and other partners have been doing over the years."

When words of appreciation are said to people, there is a satisfaction that comes with it, an urge to do more and be the best in what they have been appreciated about. You feel loved and there is no form of disrespect that can be directed at you that you will ever take. Below are some ways to appreciate yourself more.

Think deeply.

Meditation (沉思) is a beautiful way to center yourself. When life is stressful or your mind is racing, you can always turn to meditation. All you need to do is find a quiet, comfortable space, close your eyes, and simply breathe.

Read.

The more you read, the more you find new ways to love yourself more and more. You learn new ways, and you also discover things you probably have never paid attention to about yourself.

Surround yourself with positive messages, pictures of people you love, and anything that makes you feel better. It is an act of self-love when you are in a comfortable environment full of the things that bring you joy. When you can smile by just looking around, you're practicing self-love!

Be grateful.

All you need is a journal to start When you wake up every morning and each night before you sleep, write down three things for which you're grateful. It's a beautiful way to honor yourself and your life.

A. Avoid negativity.

B. Make positive friends.

C. It's a perfect time to say thank you to your body!

D. You may turn to a meditation teacher if you find it difficult

E. It's also accessible to everyone because you can do it anywhere.

F. This is the same feeling that comes when you appreciate yourself.

G. Finding a book or books that speak to you is extremely important for self-love.

Parents have special eyesight. We 1 our children get smarter and taller and stronger, and we dream they may someday 2 the world. But some part of our eyes and hearts will always see them as 3 we once held, children whose small hands once reached for ours.

My wife and I have recently 4 some things around in our apartment. This happens at the same time both our daughters have 5, one from eighth grade, the other from high school. I think we have taken some kind of 6 of them almost every day of their lives.

But when we are 7 some photographs, we find most of these photos are from the first years of their 8.They show our daughters as little girls 9 beloved pets, riding the shoulders of aunts and uncles, and dancing and laughing 10 at ball games.

We also have more 11 photos of our daughters, looking 12, and...so grown-up. And I am worried if keeping so many photos 13 when they were little might 14 them that way in our minds. Would the pictures somehow keep us from 15 how our daughters have grown, and will soon grow away from us?

I've discovered that as parents, we don't really have 16 in the back of our heads. But we do have a special and 17 view of our children. We see them as all ages at once. We look at them through a lens（镜头）of 18.Whatever they go on to be，we always see through to their 19, their fears and dreams and their goodness. We grow older. Our children grow up. We 20 together.

The China National Space Administration published on Thursday three pictures  (take)recently by its Zhurong Mars rover (探测器),  showed the parachute (降落伞)and bowl-shaped back shell used in the rover's landing.

The pictures (shoot) by Zhurong's camera on Monday as the rover was traveling southward for its scientific (explore).

As of Thursday afternoon, Zhurong, named the Chinese god of fire in ancient mythology, had operated 60 days on Mars and traveled 450 meters (survey)the barren planet. Meanwhile, the mission's orbiter has continued traveling around the Red Planet.

The 240-kilogram Zhurong is tasked with surveying Mars' landforms, geological structures, soil characteristics, potential locations of water and ice, and other physical (property).

 1.85-meter-high rover is the core component of the Tianwen 1 mission, the country's first interplanetary adventure. Tianwen 1 was  (success)launched by a Long March 5 heavy-lift carrier rocket on July 23,2020 from the Wenchang Space Launch Center,  (begin)the nation's first mission to another planet.

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（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，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。

I want to register attend a course about gardening so I have taken an interest in planting flowers since I was a little child. I especially like playing in the garden when I can enjoy the beauty of nature. First, I want to gain more knowledges of gardening so that they can help me to major in gardening at college. Second, I can actual realize the bitterness of the gardeners and treasured plants. After the graduation, I plan to devote my life to plant flowers. I'll turn my country into a more beautiful state, attracting most foreigners to come to visit it.

注意：

1）词数100左右；

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。