上外版（2020）高中英语必修一Week 17 综合测试卷练习

July 20, 2021 marks the 52th anniversary of the first moon landing. The National Space Center will provide you with super-size space experiences: a giant Earth model, a domed planetarium （穹顶天文台） and a 42-meter rocket tower. It's all under cover so it's a good place to visit on a rainy day.

Ticket

It's not cheap-adult $15, 5-to-16-year-olds $12-but once you've paid you can revisitas many times as you want in a year, and admission is free for kids under five.

Opening hours

10 am-4 pm Monday to Friday, 10 am-5 pm weekends and school holidays.

What about lunch?

The Boosters Cafe serves reasonably priced hot and cold snacks and drinks at the foot of the center's two rockets. The cafe offers vegetarian (素食的)option too.

Exit through the gift shop?

It's stocked with souvenirs including books, games and telescopes. Some are quite pricey. The gift shop is the first thing you pass on entry and also the last thing you see as you leave.

Two years ago, Wendy Hasnip, 47, experienced a brain injury that left her speechless for two weeks. When she finally recovered, she found herself talking with what seemed to be a French accent. "I phoned a friend the other day, and she spent the first ten minutes laughing," Hasnip said at the time. "While I have nothing against the French, this is not me."

Hasnip suffered from foreign accent syndrome, a rare condition in which people find themselves speaking their own language like someone from a foreign country. The condition usually occurs in people who have experienced a head injury or a stroke—a sudden loss of consciousness, or movement caused by a blocked or broken blood vessel in the brain.

The condition was first identified during the Second World War in a Norwegian woman whose head was hit by shrapnel during an attack by the German military. The woman recovered but was left with a German-sounding accent, to the horror of fellow villagers who shunned her after that.

Researchers at Oxford University have now discovered that victims of foreign accent syndrome suffer from damage to several parts of the brain. The combined effect of that damage makes victims lengthen certain syllables, mispronounce sounds, and alter their normal voice. Those changes in speech add up to what sounds like a foreign accent, says one of the researchers, Jennifer Gurd, an expert in the scientific study of nerves and relevant diseases.

Another researcher, John Coleman, an expert in language, says victims of the syndrome don't acquire a true foreign accent. Their strangely altered speech only resembles the foreign accent with which it has a few sounds in common.

Informal conversation is an important part of any business relationship. Before you start a discussion, however, make sure you understand: Which topics are suitable and which are considered taboo in a particular culture. Latin Americans enjoy sharing information about their local history, art, and customs. Expect questions about your family, and be sure to show pictures of your children. You may feel free to ask similar questions of your Latin American friends. The French think of conversation as an art form, and they enjoy the value of lively discussion as well as disagreements. For them, arguments can be interesting and they can cover pretty much or any topic—as long as they occur in a respectful and intelligent manner.

In the United Sates, business people like to discuss a wide range of topics, including opinions about work, family, hobbies, and politics. In Japan, China, and Korea, however, people are much more private. They do not share much about their thoughts, feelings, or emotions because they feel that doing so might take away from the harmonious business relationship they're trying to build. Middle Easterners are also private about their personal lives and family matters. It is considered rude, for example, to ask a businessman from Saudi Arabia about his wife or children.

As a general rule, it's best not to talk about politics or religion with your business friends. This can get you into trouble, even in the United States, where people hold different views. In addition, discussing one's salary is usually considered unsuitable. Sports is typically a friendly subject in most parts of the world, and also be careful not to criticize a national sport. Instead, be friendly and praise your host's team.

A wildfire is a fire that bums strongly and out of control on an area of grass or bushes. They often happens in rural areas and without purpose. The fires start from natural causes, like lightning. Humans can start fires with cigarettes or campfires, accidentally.

Sometimes, people can set fires on purpose. This is to help an ecosystem and those that live there. These are controlled burns. The fires help encourage healthy ecosystems and prevent larger, more damaging wildfires. Modem fire experts now know how to set controlled burns that are well planned and safe.

Why is fire necessary? As dead or decaying plants begin to build up on the ground, they may prevent organisms in the soil from getting nutrients. They may keep animals on the land from getting to the soil. This coating of dead matter can also choke the growth of smaller or new plants.

Whether through natural causes or not, fire removes that layer of decay. The soil gets nutrients from the burned material faster than if it had slowly decayed over time. This allows healthy parts of the ecosystem to thrive.

Some plants actually need fire to continue their life cycles. Seeds from some pine trees grow in pine cones covered in a thick sap（树液）.The seeds release from the pine cones when fire melts the sap. Fires allow more seeds to get to the soil and grow.

In an ecosystem, native animals and plants have adapted to survive wildfires. For example, deaths from wildfires are low. They survive by burrowing into the ground or fleeing to safer areas.

Humans are responsible for preventing most uncontrolled wildfires. Nearly 85 percent  of wildfires start because of human activity. We have to prevent these damaging fires. Understanding the benefits of fire is the only way to truly keep our ecosystem safe from its dangers.

In moving to another country it is not uncommon to experience culture shock. As a Chinese person in Britain, I am no different.

Basically, there are five stages of culture shock.

Stage one can be called the Tourist stage". If you travel a lot, you'll agree with me. Everything in a new place is very exciting to a tourist.After all, tourists don't usually stay too long in one place.

The second stage is the "shock stage". I am new in the country. Will someone cheat or rob me? I don't know anybody here and I miss home. Luckily, my "shock period" was quite short. I had so many things to do every day, so I didn't have time to get depressed.

You learn to deal with the difficulties and stop complaining. This period can be slow and if you fail, you have to go back to the shock stage. I am very lucky. I have a roommate who has lived here for several years. Every time I talk to her, I feel better.

We feel more comfortable and can adapt to the new culture. I think this will take a long time because I don't see any trace of it in me.

The last stage is called the re-entry shock stage". This is the shock you feel when returning home. Everybody is happy to see you again, but you've changed..

It was a Sunday morning on a subway in New York. People were sitting1— some reading newspapers, some lost in thought, some resting with their eyes closed. It was a calm, peaceful scene. Then2, a man and his children entered the subway car. The children were so3and active that the whole4of the car instantly changed.

The man sat down next to me and closed his eyes, apparently （显然）5of the situation. The children were yelling and6things, and yet, the man sitting next to me did nothing.

It was difficult not to feel7. I couldn't believe that he was8his children to run wild like that, and was taking no9at all. It was easy to see that10else on the subway felt annoyed.

So finally, I turned to him and said, "Sir, your children are really11a lot of people. Could you12them a little more?"

The man lifted his gaze and said softly, ' Oh, you're13; I guess I should do something about it. We just came from the hospital where their mother14about an hour ago. I don't know what to think, and I guess they don't know how to15it either.

Can you16what I felt at that moment? Suddenly, I saw things differently; my anger was17. I didn't have to worry about controlling my attitude or my behavior; my heart was filled with the man's18. Now, instead of frustration （沮丧）, feelings of19filled my heart. "Your wife just died? Oh, I'm so sorry. Can you tell me about it? What can I do to help?"

Everything20in an instant.

Marie Curie was one of the(much) famous and greatest people of her time. Together with her husband Pierre, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1903, and she tried her best(win) another in 1911.Marie(be) the daughter of a teacher. In 1891, she went to Paris to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne inshe met Pierre Curie, professor of the School of Physics. They got married in 1895. The Curies worked together researching radioactivity(放射性). At the end of 1898, they announceddiscovery of radium. The Curies, were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

Pierre's life was cut short in 1906 when he was(kill) by a carriage. Marie took over his teaching work,(become) the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne. And she devoted herself to continuing the work that they had begun together. She received a second Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911.

Despite her(succeed), Marie continued to face great objection from men(scientist) in France, and she never received much money from her work. In the late 1920s, her health was beginning to become worse, and she died  July 4th, 1934 from high-energy radiation from her research.

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Thank you for invite me to the summer English course in your school. As for your choice between the two courses, I prefer a four-week course because it will give me more time to do some traveling and make a few new friends. Of all the subject I'm learning at school, I like English best. I had learned English for 6 years but my spoken English remains poorly. So I hope to take this chance improve it. If possible, I'd like to stay with a family for a few days in order that I can learn about any customs in England, what I'm particularly interested in. I believe I will have a wonderful time in this summer.

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