山东省济宁市曲阜市第一中学2019-2020学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题

    The Best Ice Rinks (溜冰场) in Europe

    Zero Degrees, London, the UK

    The Maritime Museum in Greenwich has opened an ice rink this year for the first time. It's outside the Queen's House (where Elizabeth II was born) and has a great view of the River Thames, creating a wonderful skating experience. It's a little cheaper than competing museum ice rinks, and less busy, too. There is no need to book tickets online. You can simply turn up and buy tickets there. Next to the outdoor ice rink there is an indoor bar for those who simply wish to watch, and it's open until late.

    Ticket prices: adult from ￡13.50, child from ￡6.75

    Skating Heroes, Hungary

    Budapest's City Park ice rink opens daily from November to February: it's one of the largest and oldest open-air rinks in Europe and it is beautiful. It is easily reached by train or subway. A cafe serve hot chocolate, wine and traditional chimney cakes. If you are fortunate, you may see some of Budapest's older residents ballroom dancing on the ice.

    Ticket prices: adult from ￡3.50, child free

    Bite-Size, Poland

    Among the old townhouses and shops of Warsaw's Old Market Place is a unique Polish rink — shaped like a bagel (面包圈). Skaters glide around a statue of the mermaid（美人鱼） who stands for the city. Once you've burned all those calories on the ice, you'll be pleased to see the square is packed with Warsaw's best cooks, serving street food until late.

    Ticket prices: from ￡2

    Spikersuppa, Norway

    It is a great skating rink in downtown Oslo. For the best skating, you should go there late in the evening, as the kids all head home — it's lit until 9 pm, the music will play and the hot chocolate will flow. It's free if you bring your own skates, or you can spend ￡13 renting a pair.

    This is a story of a penguin that swims 5,000 miles to a beach in Brazil every year in order to visit the man who saved his life. It sounds like something out of a fairytale (童话故事), but it's true!

    Joao Pereira de Souza is a 71-year-old retired worker and part-time fisherman. He lives in an island village just outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He found the small penguin lying on rocks at his local beach in 2015.

    The penguin was starving and covered in oil. Joao rescued the penguin, naming him Din Din, cleaned the oil off his feathers and fed him a daily diet of fish to rebuild his strength.

    When Din Din recovered, Mr. de Souza set him free into the sea, never expecting to see his new friend again.

    The little guy wasn't gone long though, and just a few months later, he was back at the same beach. He spotted Joao fishing and followed him home, staying with him for the rest of the year.

    Amazingly, this cycle has continued over the past five years. Each year Din Din spends about eight months with Joao and is believed to spend the rest of the time breeding on the Patagonia coasts of Argentina and Chile.

    "I love the penguin like he's my own child and I believe the penguin loves me," Joao told Globo TV. "No one else is allowed to touch him. He attacks them if they do. He lies on my lap, lets me give him showers, allows me to feed him fish and to pick him up."

    Professor Krajewski, a biologist who interviewed the fisherman for Globo TV, said: "I have never seen anything like this before. I think the penguin believes Joao is part of his family and probably a penguin as well."

    The world's oldest sweet shop has been put up for sale in North Yorkshire after its owner wanted to be elected the county's next police commissioner (局长).

    The Patley Bridge store was founded in 1827 and simply called The Oldest Sweet Shop in the World. It has been run by one-time police officer Keith Tordoff for more than 20 years. But now the former officer is set to leave behind his old-fashioned sweet jars. And, if police are quite different from sweets, the 63-year-old officer is convinced that he can be equally effective leading the emergency services.

    "I've a proven track record (可靠的工作业绩) in succeeding and completing at the things I set out to do," he told The Independent." I know first-hand about policing and first-hand about managing successful organisations, which are the exact qualities needed."

    "It's not been an easy decision to make," said Mr. Tordoff. "Running this shop has been a joy. My parents brought me here for sweets when I was a boy, so getting the chance to buy it and then run it with my wife and our son was a dream that had come true."

    "People are fascinated by it. And why wouldn't they be? We all love sweets, don't we? I give talks about sweets in my spare time. I'm always asked what our most popular kind is. And the answer? Rhubarb and custard," he says. "You see, you think they're old-fashioned, but what happens is that grandparents come in, buy their grandchildren what they used to have themselves, and then the kids fall in love with them, too." It's the same with chocolate mice and pear drops, too, apparently.

    He hopes to sell the shop — which was recognized in 2014 by Guinness World Records — for ￡399,000.

    Nine years ago, when the closest and largest full moon fell on March 19, 2011, many people used the term, "supermoon", which we had never heard before. In 2012, we heard this term again to describe the year's closest full moon on May 6, 2012. Supermoons also appeared in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2019.

    What does "supermoon" mean exactly? And how special was the March 19, 2011 supermoon?

    The word "supermoon" didn't come from astronomy. Instead, it came from astrology (占星学). In 1979, astrologer Richard Nolle defined it as a new or full moon which occurs at or near its closest point to the earth in its orbit. In short, the earth, moon and sun are all in a line, with the moon at its nearest point to the earth.

And the full moon of March 19, 2011 was the largest moon of that year. This "supermoon" was at perigee (近地点) — its closest point to the earth in its orbit. It was bigger and brighter than other full moons of 2011. Astronomers call this sort of close full moon a perigee full moon.

    That doesn't sound very special, does it? In fact, the March 2011 full moon lined up much more closely with perigee than Nolle's original definition. But were you able to notice with your eyes alone that this full moon was bigger or brighter than usual? Astronomers said no. But it was fun to stand outside under this full moon and know that the moon was closer than ever.

    In 2019, there were three supermoons. The first supermoon of 2019 was the Super Blood Wolf Moon on January 21, which occurred with a total lunar eclipse (月全食) at the same time, also known as a "blood moon". The second supermoon of 2019 was on February 19, also called the Snow Moon, which was the closest full moon of the year. The third and final supermoon of 2019, known by Native Americans as the Worm Moon, occurred on March 21. It fell on the day of the vernal equinox (春分), which signals the end of winter and the beginning of spring.

    Father Christmas might be used to making miracles each and every year, but he may fail to make dreams come true for some of Britain's children in recent years.

    According to a survey of children's wish lists, the tenth most asked for present was for a dad, while the first was for a baby brother or sister.

    The survey showed that children aged 3 to 12 were hoping for expensive presents including a car, at number four, and a house, at number seven.  The gifts included chocolates at number six and a stick of rock candy at number nine. A total of 17 out of the top 50 requests were for unusual pets, including elephants and donkeys.  iPhones and iPads both appeared in the top 50 most desired Christmas gifts.

     That is because "Dad" came in at number 10, while "Mum" only made it in as the 23rd most requested present on their little ones' lists.

 One child asked for the actress, Eva Longoria. And another child wished Taylor Swift would come knocking on the door on Christmas morning.

A. The latest electronics also made a strong appearance on the wish lists.

B. But there were some gifts in the top ten that were more easily provided.

C. The UK's mums might be a little upset.

D. That's because children's Christmas wish lists contain many gifts not always readily available.

E. "Mum" is the more desired Christmas gift compared to "Dad".

F. Unbelievably, some famous people were also a popular choice as Christmas gifts.

G. Britain's children are not satisfied with Christmas gifts from Father Christmas.

    A new cafe culture is forming in and around San Francisco, California. A growing number of coffeehouses there are banning paper cups.

    1 , they are using glass containers or creating "bring your own" cup policies. The movement started among neighborhood cafes in an effort to

2 waste. Now it is gaining 3 from large businesses in the city — and around the country.

    The Blue Bottle coffeehouse company is starting small with plans to 4 using paper cups at two of its stores in 2020. The move is part of a promise to produce "zero 5" by the end of the year. 6 will have to bring their own cups or pay a(n) 7 US$3 to US$5 for a reusable cup. They can keep the cup or 8 it to get their money back.

    The company's CEO, Bryan Meehan, said that the new program will help 9 the company on how to expand (扩展) its policy nationwide. He said, "We may 10 some business, because some of our guests won't like it, but we're prepared for that."

    Larger coffee and fast-food businesses around the U.S. are feeling a sense of urgency to be more environmentally 11. Today's paper cups for hot drinks are not only made from paper, but they also have plastic to 12 leaking (渗漏). This makes them difficult to recycle. It is unlikely that large national food and drink companies will stop using paper cups 13 or ask all customers to bring their own. So they are 14 other solutions. Starbucks and McDonald's have 15 US$10 million to develop the "recyclable cup of the future". The result is expected to be recyclable and to break down naturally.