安徽省黄山市屯溪第一重点中学2021-2022学年高一上学期英语期中考试

CWA Photo Competition 2021

Calling all photographers!

We've all been spending more time indoors lately. Whether you've been killing time looking back at photos from holidays past, risking taking walks to local sites, or busy working at home, we want to see your best photos on an archaeological theme. Send them to us for your chance to win the first prize in our yearly CWA Photo Competition and have your work showed in the magazine.

The winning image and three runners-up will be featured in CWA. The overall winner will get a free 2-year subscription (订阅) to the magazine.

Closing date: 1 October 2021

The judges' decision is final, and the results of prize-winners will be announced by 15 October 2021.

Rules:

☆All photos entered must be done under an individual's name. By submitting (提交) images you confirm that you are the copyright holder and creator of the images.

☆Entrants (参赛者) must be 8 or over. The competition is open to all amateur (业余的) and professional photographers. Amateur and professional entries will not be judged separately.

☆Entrants can submit up to 5 images — please include details of the site or artefact photographed, when each image was taken, and your contact information, including a postal address.

Entrants can send your entries by email to cwa@world-archaeology.com with the subject line: CWA PHOTO COMPETITION 2021 or on a disc to CWA PHOTO COMPETITION, Current Publishing, Thames Works Church Street, London W4 2PD

When Simon Cane was in the second grade, he began learning about all the ways humans have an impact on the environment and really took those classroom lessons to heart in a way that set him apart from his schoolmates at his elementary school, P. S. 81, in the Bronx. "He told me we drove too much and made too much pollution," his dad, Jonathan Cane, told Runner's World. So Simon convinced his parents to start hanging their clothes to dry, taking the stairs instead of elevators, and other "green" measures.

"For much of kindergarten and first grade I rode my bike to Simon's school with him on the back," Jonathan said. "We had a lot of fun being outdoors. We'd stop to give our dog treats and generally enjoyed it." As Simon got bigger, though, it wasn't practical for him to ride on his father's back, but it also didn't make sense to ride together — both because of safety concerns and because there was no place to put away Simon's bike. So, most of the time they drove the 1. 5 miles to school.

But in 2019, when Simon was going into third grade, the 8-year-old came up with a new way to help the planet: running the 1. 5 miles to P. S. 81. And Jonathan promised his son he'd join him for as long as he wanted.

"We did a test run one day in August, and decided to give it a go. To be honest, I thought he'd blink (眨眼)after it got really cold or rainy, but he never did," Jonathan said. He recalled one day when the weather was particularly bad. "It's really raining out there today," he told Simon. "And Simon said, 'Well then we're going to get wet!' He took pride in toughing it out, and it became a really fun family routine."

Since the start, Simon has run with his dad and their black dog, Lola, and has even inspired his mom, Nicole Sin Quee, to join in. They soon became known as "the family that runs to school".

In Song of the Whale, an installation at the Yukon Arts Centre, Joyce Majiski shared the story of a one-year old humpback whale(座头鯨) who died after she was caught in a fishery rope.

In the centre of the show is an eight-metre-long model of the baby whale's skeleton(骨架),  each bone carved(雕刻) from Styrofoam(聚苯乙烯泡塑料) collected from the ocean and beaches.

"Water is the one thing that connects us all --–we're a planet of water—and we have a lot of disrespect for it."

"There are a lot of things that we have done to contribute to the death of these creatures. Again, we need to pay attention to what we're doing. If we thought about how connected we are as creatures on this planet, maybe we'd do things a little differently," Majiski said.

Speaking of starting to set up the project, she describes it as "despairing." Eventually, the search for an intact(完无缺的) whale skeleton that would allow the study of individual bones led her to Salt Spring Island. There, Majiski studied each bone of the young humpback whale, first in sketch (素描) form and then by carving models from collected Styrofoam.

The majority of the Styrofoam came from the Ocean Legacy Foundation, a non-profit that does ocean cleanups. The organisation says over 6.5 million tons of rubbish enter the world's ocean each year. When degrading (降解) in the ocean, Styrofoam breaks down into small particles that can be eaten by ocean animals.

It is also messy material to work with as an artist.

"The Styrofoam looks really awful. It's all big pieces that are black and crumbly(易碎的). They've been floating around in the ocean and degrading and washed up on shore.

"It's really dirty and crumbly and I didn't want to breathe any in as I carved. I mean, I wore a mask all the time and coveralls and gloves. I was cleaning myself and everything every hour or so depending on how much I was carving," said Maiiski.

In total, Majiski carved 177 pieces.

Many kids help out around the house with chores such as emptying the dishwasher, putting laundry away, and taking out the trash. In exchange, some kids get other rewards such as extra computer time.

But some people do not think that kids should get rewards for doing chores. Susie Walton, a parenting educator and family coach, believes that by rewarding kids, parents are sending a message that work isn't worth doing unless you get something in return. "Running any kind of household is a team effort," Susie said. "A home is a living space for everyone in the family. It's important for kids to see that we all have responsibilities in the house, and that families decide together how they want their home to look, and how they are going to keep it looking like everyone wants it to look."

Other people believe that getting a cash allowance or other rewards motivates(激励) kids to do chores, and it also teaches them real-world lessons about how we need to work to earn money. There are also new applications that give kids points and digital gifts that can be redeemed(兑取) either online or in the real world. With the ChoreMonster app, kids earn digital points by completing chores that they can turn in for real-life rewards such as extra Xbox time or a trip to the mall. "Our goal is to encourage kids to earn rewards," says Chris Bergman, founder of ChoreMonster. "Kids need positive reinforcement to help motivate them."

What do you think? Should kids be rewarded for doing chores? Or should kids help out around their homes without getting anything in return?

Write a 200-word response. Send it to tfkasks4you@timeforkids.com. Your response may be published in a future issue of Time For Kids. Please include your grade and contact information of your parent or teacher if you want your response to be published. The deadline for responding is February 18.

Learning to set goals plays an important role as your child starts to gain independence. However, setting goals doesn't come naturally to your child, so helping him to learn the process should probably be one of your goals.

Explain the word "goal". Your child may know what a goal is when it comes to soccer, but he may not understand what it means in everyday life.

Listen to your child. Ideally, you want your child to be able to decide for himself what his goals are. Let him talk about what he thinks he does well and what he thinks he needs to improve. If he's stuck, you can provide some examples of your own personal goals.

Help keep goals achievable. Don't throw cold water on your child. For example, if your child wants to be a champion swimmer, but can't swim an entire lap of the pool yet, you can suggest he start by making that his first goal.

Help your child write down his goals in an easy­to­follow form. Being able to see and check off the steps on the way to his goal is key in keeping him motivated. A really simple way is to have your child draw a ladder on a piece of paper, writing his goal at the top and each step to that goal on the rungs (梯级).

A. Change goals every so often.

B. Make a visual goal reminder.

C. Don't always tell him what you think.

D. He's climbing to the top as he gets closer to his goal.

E. You can take sports as an example to help explain it to him.

F. Once he has set up a goal, he may find it very difficult to achieve it.

G. When a goal is beyond his reach, help him break it down into smaller pieces.

As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped and1 that some large creatures were being held by only a small rope2 to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was3 that the elephants could, at anytime 4 their ropes. For some reason, 5 ， they did not .

He saw a trainer nearby, and asked why these animals just stood there and made no6 to get away. "Well," the trainer said, "when they are very young and much smaller, we use the same7 rope to tie them and, at that age, it's enough to8 them. As they grow up, they are9 to believing they cannot break away. They believe the rope and still hold them, so they never try to break free.

The man was10. These animals could at any time break free from their11 but because they believe they couldn't, they were12 right where they are.

Like the elephants, how many of us13 hanging onto a(n) 14 that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before?

Failure is part of learning; we should never give up the15 in life.

Chinese astronauts return after 90 days aboard space station

A trio (三人组) of Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after a 90-day stay aboard their nation's first space station in China's  (long) mission yet.

State broadcaster CCTV showed footage of the spacecraft parachuting(跳伞) to land in the Gobi Desert where it  (meet) by helicopters and off-road vehicles. Minutes later, a crew of technicians began opening the hatch of the capsule,appeared undamaged.

The three astronauts emerged about 30 minutes later and were seated in  (chair) just outside the capsule to allow them time to readjust to Earth's gravity after three months of  (live) in a weightless environment. The three were due to fly to Beijing on Friday.

"With China's growing  (strong) and the rising level of Chinese technology, I  (firm) believe there will be even more astronauts who will set new records," mission commander Nie told CCTV.

After launching on June 17, the three astronauts went on two spacewalks, deployed a 10-meter (33-foot) mechanical arm, and had video call with Communist Party leader Xi Jinping.

China  (send) 14 astronauts into space since 2003, when it became only the third country after the former Soviet Union and the United States to do so on (it) own.