安徽省滁州市定远县民族中学2021-2022学年高一下学期3月月考英语试题

Six weeks before his birthday, Giuseppe Paternò achieved the dream of a lifetime: He got a university degree.

Mr. Paternò's graduation has inspired news coverage around the world, partly because of his age. But he has mainly drawn attention because his life story speaks of commitment, a theme that has encouraged as millions of schoolchildren in Italy and elsewhere faces extraordinary uncertainty during the coronavirus pandemic.

Born in Palermo in 1923, the first of seven children in a "very poor family," Mr. Paternò began working soon after finishing elementary school. "The family was large, there was only one paycheck, we were under fascism, and times were tough," he said.

Eventually, he ended up at a publishing house where an enlightened boss persuaded his father to send him back to school for a three-year vocational degree. Mr. Paternò then worked for an insurance agency while he took private classes to become a telegraph operator. He used skills from the operator job when he was drafted into the navy in World War II. The job also opened doors to the State Railways Company, where he worked for more than four decades.

It was only after he retired, in the mid-1980s, that he returned to his books, taking theology courses through the Archdiocese of Palermo after a chance meeting with a philosophy professor who urged him to follow his love.

Mr. Paterno's son, Ninni Paternò, said that the family had not expected all the attention. "It's unbelievable!" the vounger Paternò said of his father. "He achieved his goal, but he didn't mean to be famous in newspapers around the world."

University officials are hoping that Mr. Paternò will continue his studies on waster's course. But he isn't so sure. "I have to admit that in this moment, I don't know whether I would do it with the same spirit," he said on Wednesday. Still, Mr. Paternò said he would probably continue anyway.

Digital Photographer

Perfect if you like: taking pictures with your camera or phone.

What you'll find inside: This magazine is full of colorful photos and very pleasing to look at. There are many tips and guides on how to take great pictures, and they are written in simple and easy-to-understand English though there are some technical camera terms. You feel like the writers are talking to you! You can impress your friends with your improved English and your new photography skills!

Fast Company

Perfect if you like: business and learning how successful companies work.

What you'll find inside: Fast Company is one of the most approachable   magazines about business and companies. It has many interviews of successful people, as well as general news about interesting new companies. It does use a higher level of writing than what is usual for magazines, so give it a try first to see if you can understand the articles and get inspired.

Cricket and Cicada

Perfect if you like: excellent literature and short stories.

What you'll find inside: Cricket and Cicada are literary magazines aimed at teenagers. Each issue is full of wonderful short stories and poems, and beautiful illustrations. Even though these are technically children's magazines, they are perfect for learning English because they have high quality writing.

Mental Floss

Perfect if you like: interesting trivia (小知识) and facts.

What you'll find inside: What does outer space smell like? Why isn't cat food mouse-flavored?

If you're the kind of person who asks yourself these questions, you'll love Mental Floss. Each issue is full of bite-sized trivia and mostly short articles with really interesting facts and English expressions that you'll want to share with others.

While the print edition of the magazine stopped publishing in 2016, you can still read Mental Floss online. Click here to get more information.

In the Beijing Winter Olympics, we were treated to incredible displays of athleticism as competitors took to the snow and ice. As a popular sport at the Winter Olympics, ski jumping is one of the best examples to showcase the＂superhuman" power of athletes.

Ski jumpers soar into the air and appear to be almost flying in the sky. How do they achieve this? Physics can offer us an explanation of how they achieve this feat. It involves the manipulation(运用) of the laws of aerodynamics(空气动力学) to fight against gravity and increase lift while reducing drag.

To understand how ski jumping works, we need to consider three elements: gravity, lift and drag. Gravity is the force that pulls us towards an object, such as the Earth. Lift occurs when an object is moving through the air, as its surface comes into contact with air particles( 微粒), the particles are pushed down and away from the object, allowing it to move up. At the same time, this interaction creates drag, or resistance, and slows down an object's movement.

While there is nothing that the skiers can do about gravity, they can contort(扭曲) their bodies into positions that allow them to achieve greater lift and avoid as much drag as possible.

According to the Smithsonian Magazine," to do this, athletes align(调整) their skis and body nearly parallel to the ground and place their skis in a V-shape just outside the form of the body. This position increases the surface area that generates lift and puts them in the ideal angle of attack(迎角) that will also maximize lift."

Because of how the sport works, athletes' equipment is strictly controlled according to weight and height in order to avoid any unfair advantages. This means suits must be tight in order to ensure athletes cannot use them as a way to gain more lift. For athletes, minor day-to-day water weight changes as little as 300 grams. It can mean that suits will not be tight enough according to their body mass indexes.

A favorite dish for purple sea urchins(海胆) living off the coast of California is kelp(巨藻). The problem is, those kelp forests are shrinking rapidly and that's hurting the oceanic ecosystem. So a group of scientists carried out an experiment to see if these sea urchins can themselves become a dish.

Just off the coast, three divers get ready to jump in. They're students from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. The task: Count purple sea urchins. Their professor, Luke Gardner expects they'll find plenty of urchins. And that's not a good thing. "What they do is they just eat everything in sight," Gardner says. These purple creatures are eating up California's kelp forests, which provide food and shelter for numerous sea animals.

The problem began around 2014. That's when Gardner says warmer ocean temperatures began affecting the reproduction of kelp. It's also when a disease killed off sunflower sea stars, a killer of purple sea urchins. Therefore, the purple sea urchin population grows very fast.

The divers bring Gardner quite a lot of purple sea urchins. What's inside is the part we eat, the uni (海胆黄) —a type of delicious food in Japanese cuisine. "The problem with these purple sea urchins is that when you open them up, sometimes there's nothing in there. And they might be a little smaller compared to market-sized urchins," says Gardner.

Then, it is time for the taste test. The class crowds into the kitchen of the restaurant Aubergine. Here, chef Justin Cogley serves uni from around the world. He opens up the purple sea urchins, taking the orange uni out and prepares it on a fried potato. "Honestly, it's rich and buttery," Cogley says. His conclusion? He'll serve it.

It's a tasty end to the project. But this could be just the beginning. A company called Urchinomics has been selling its human-raised urchins in Japan. Now, it is working to secure a site in California. It's all in an effort to save the state's kelp forests and help the thousands of animals that depend on them.

Where do you think the world's happiest people live? Somewhere hot with sandy beaches? A country with a tradition of the fine food and culture? Not according to a recent study by the university of Leicester. Who are the happiest people on Earth? Surprised? Well you'll be more surprised when you hear that the Danes pay some of the highest taxes in the world. So what is the secret of their success?

Let's start with all that tax they pay. The Danish government provides its people with one of the finest education and health systems in the world. It spends more on children and elderly people per capital than other country.

And there's another advantage to those high taxes. Because a shop assistant's final salary is not that much less than someone who works in a bank, for example, Danes don't choose their careers based on money or status as people in other countries do. They choose the job they want to do. There's a philosophy in Denmark known as "Jante-lov", which translates as "you're no better than anybody else" But workers in other countries are not used to looking at life in this way.

Money doesn't seem as important in Denmark. It has been called a "post consumerist" society. What is more important is the sense of society and it's no surprise that Danes are very used to socializing. 92% of Danes belong to some kind of social club and these clubs are even paid for by the government.

They also show an amazing amount of trust in each other and their government. You can see signs of this all over the country. You take what you want and leave the money in a basket.

Perhaps the bike is a good symbol for Denmark. The Danes can afford cars but they choose bikes-simple, economical, non-polluting machines that show no status and help keep people fit.

A. In a list ranking countries by the happiness of their citizens, it put tropical Fiji 50 places below freezing Iceland.

B. The street sweeper can hold his head up high as he proudly does his job.

C. Danish people aren't as suspicious as many other nations.

D. Most Danes are used to seeing between 50-70% of their salary going to the goverment！

E. Those 5.5 million people who call Denmark their home.

F. People have nice things in their houses, but they're not mad about shopping and spending.

G. You'll find vegetable stalls with no assistant.

Once a highly successful businessman, 1 a health insurance company, was getting ready to go to his office. When he 2 the car door and tried to reach into his car, a dog sleeping under his car suddenly came out and 3 on bis leg! The businessman got very angry and quickly 4a few rocks and threw at the dog but none hit the dog. The dog ran away.

Upon reaching his office, the businessman 5 a meeting of his managers and during the meeting he put the anger of dog on them. The managers also got upset by the anger of their 6 and they put their anger to the employees working under them. The chain of this reaction kept going 7 the lower level of employees and 8, the anger reached to the office peon (苦力；苦工).

After the of office time was 9 the peon reached his home, and his wife opened the door. She asked him, "Why are you so late today?" The peon 10 and upset, gave one slap (用手掌打，拍，捆) to his wife! And he said, "I didn't go to the office to play football. I went to work so don't irritate me with your stupid questions!"

So now the wife got upset, for she got a slap for no 11. She put her anger on his son who was watching TV and gave him a slap, "This is all you do, and you have no interest in studying! 12 the TV now!"

The son got upset now! He walked out of his house and saw a dog passing by looking at him. He picked up a rock and hit the dog in anger and frustration. The dog, getting hit by a rock, ran away barking, 13.

This was the same dog that bit the businessman early morning.

What we can learn from this story is that we should be mindful of our 14, because good actions will bring you good things and black deeds will lead to 15 results.

Every year, people around the world buy about 526 billion bottles, and that number is the increase. More than 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our oceans every day. Much of other plastic (throw) in landfills or rivers also has bad effects on wildlife. Many people are now trying (cut) down on plastic use, while also turning these single-use plastics into something (benefit)—like auto parts.

The Ford Motor Company has used recycled plastic since the 1990s. Today, it (transform) recycled plastic into vehicle parts in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint, specifically under-body shields(车底护板) on all cars.

"The under-body shield is a large part. is likely for such a big part to weigh three times much if we use solid plastic, "says Thomas Sweder, design engineer of the Company. "We're looking for the most durable and (green) materials to make our parts."

Finding new and (innovate) ways to recycle single-use plastics is essential for our planet. With one of the largest (company) committed to working with recycled plastics, there's hope that others will follow suit.

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It was a freezing cold night, all quiet in the street. Tom was walking home after a tiring day from work, depressed and exhausted. Having worked overtime for nearly a month, his program was still rejected by his manager. Unfortunately his mom was diagnosed with lung cancer the other day. He felt his life couldn't be worse. As he walked, he thought seriously about giving up his present job and returning to his hometown. He thought in regret if he had not left his hometown to seek his fortune in the big city, his life wouldn't have been in such a hopeless situation.

City life had become too much for him. As he walked down empty streets under tall buildings, he felt very cold and frightened. He began running, both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robbers. Very few people were still out except a few sad-looking homeless people under blankets. About a block from his apartment, he heard a sound behind him. He felt frightened and turned back quickly, half expecting to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was empty, with no one in sight. All he saw was a shining streetlight. Still, the noise had made him nervous, so he started to run faster towards his apartment.

When he finally arrived at his apartment, he was out of breath but relieved. Not until he reached his apartment building and unlocked the door did he realize what the noise had been. It had been his wallet falling to the sidewalk. Suddenly he was not cold or tired anymore. Without hesitation, he ran out of the door and back to the sidewalk where he had heard the noise. He having searched the sidewalk anxiously for about fifteen minutes, his wallet was still nowhere to be found.

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Tom was about to give up the search when he saw a tall man walking towards him.

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After getting his wallet back, Tom went back to his apartment.