浙江省宁波市赫威斯肯特学校2021-2022学年高二上学期第一次阶段性测试英语试题

 My name is Sara. When I was little, I played the drum. I also had a guitar. In fourth grade, I started playing the trombone(长号). I practised about four hours a week. All of this might not seem like a big deal for a lot of kids, but there's something about me that makes me a bit different from others. I was born without hands. Since I was about one year old, I've worn prosthetics(假肢).  

This year, I got an invitation to join the high school marching band(行进乐队). I told my mum I wanted to do it. But I had an instructor who thought I would not be able to march in the band—not because it was a high school band and I was only in seventh grade, but probably because my body was different. All I wanted was to show that I could do it, so I joined the band. And it paid off!

Music gives me energy. That happens sometimes. One time I was so down. I didn't even want to get out of bed. Then I hit my MP3 player by accident. A song came on, and I got up and started dancing. It helped me say to myself, "OK, I can get through today. "

Around my musician friends, we all share the same problems, like working out how many beats there are in a measure(小节). I have a hard time counting the beats, but so do a lot of the other kids. It's a normal problem that we musicians share. When I'm with the band, I don't feel as different as I do in other situations. It's just another way that music makes me want to go on, and not to just sit down by myself and not care about life.

It was about five in the morning in Ontario, Canada, when Donna Strickland's phone rang. The Nobel Prize committee was on the line in Stockholm, calling to tell her she had won the prize in physics.

"I wondered if it was a joke, " Strickland said in an interview with a Nobel official after the call. She had been asleep when the call arrived. "Something was wrong because it came so early in the morning. But then I knew it was the right day, and it would have been a cruel joke. "

Strickland, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo, shares the honor with two other scientists for their work in the 1980s in transforming lasers(激光)into tiny tools that today have countless application. The prize money $1. 4 million will he shared among the three. Half the prize went to Strickland and her cooperator Gerard Mourou, a professor at the Ecole Poly technique in France. The other half was awarded to Arthur Ashkin, a retired physicist who worked at the famous Bell Labs in the United States.

Strickland's win is historic in more than one way. It's been over 55 years since a woman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1903, Marie Curie became the first-ever woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics. For the next 60 years, no women physicists were awarded. Maria Goeppert Mayer became the second woman physicist to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963.

Strickland herself was surprised to learn she was the third woman to receive the honor in physics. "Is that all, really? I thought there might have been more. " she said at a press conference Tuesday. "We need to celebrate women physicists, because we're out there. Hopefully, in time, it will start to move forward at a faster rate. "

 Step into Moving to Mars, an exhibition of Mars mission and colony design at London's Design Museum, and immediately you have good reasons not to move there.  

Frightening glowing wall-texts announce that Mars wasn't made for you; that there is no life and precious little water; that, dressed in a spacesuit, you will never touch, taste or smell the planet you now call "home". As Lisa Grossman wrote for New Scientist a couple of years ago, "What's different about Mars is that there is nothing to do there except try not to die."

 It is an odd beginning for such a celebratory exhibition, but it provides a valuable, dark background against which the rest of the show can sparkle (闪耀)—a show that is, as its chief manager Justin remarks, not about Mars; this is an exhibition about people.  

Moving along, there is a quick yet clear flash through what the science-fiction writer Robinson calls "the history of Mars in the human mind". A Babylonian clay tablet and a Greek vase speak to early ideas about the planet. A poster for the original Total Recall film reminds us of Mars' psychological threat.

The main part of the show is our current plans for the Red Planet. There are real spacesuits and models of 3D-printed Martian settlements and suitable clothing and furniture. Mission architectures and engineering sketches line the walls. Real hammers meant for the International Space Station are wall-mounted beside a low-gravity table that has yet to leave, and may indeed never leave, Earth.

This, of course, is the great strength of approaching science through design: reality and assumption can be given equal visual weight, drawing us into an informed conversation about what it is that we actually want from a future on Mars.

 How do you enter a room full of strangers? Do you walk right in full of confidence? Or do you try to slip in without being noticed? .  

 In life, we admire those who do their tasks confidently. We prefer people who appear to know what they are doing. But where does that confidence begin? 

 Developing self-confidence starts very early. If parents' role to get kids on the right track toward becoming confident people. . That can be done by focusing on the child's strengths. Parents should encourage their children to try new things and take risks. When children make mistakes, their parents should still let them know that they are loved. Children whose parents do these things will likely develop into confident adults.  So what's the solution? 

 With most things in life, practice makes perfect, and that is true of confidence skills. .  

 Always hold your head high and look people in the eye. Answer questions clearly and confidently.  

 Focus on the things that you do well, and look for opportunities to use those abilities.  

 Prepare thoroughly for every project. You'll approach the task more confidently knowing that you are ready.  

  It could be a good test score or a prize from a contest. Remind yourself that one success often leads to the next.  

 However, all humans fail at times, and you will too. Even with efforts to try all the above, you will never be perfect. But you can learn to love and accept yourself and live your life with confidence.  

 A. Keep in mind an item that reminds you of a recent success.  

 B. The more you practice them, the easier they will become.  

 C. The way you go into new situations show your level of self-confidence.  

 D. Our goal is to prepare students to go into the world with confidence.  

E. To help that process, parents should always offer more praise than criticism.

 F. Learning from mistakes helps you face the same situation later without fear.  

 G. But self-confidence still doesn't come easily.  

An 18-year-old student at Stanford University was struggling to pay his fees. Not knowing where to turn for money, he1 a bright idea. He and a friend decided to 2 a musical concert on campus to raise money for their education. They need to find musicians to perform.

 They turned to the great pianist Ignacy Paderewski. And his manager(经纪人) 3 a guaranteed fee(保证金) of $2, 000 for the piano concert. A deal was 4 and the boys began to work to make the concert a success.  

 The big day arrived. But 5 they had not managed to sell enough tickets. The total 6 was only $1, 600. 7 they went to Paderewski and explained their problem. They gave him the entire $1, 600, plus a check for the balance(余额)of $400. They promised to cash the 8 at the soonest possible. Paderewski tore up the check, 9 the $1, 600 and told the two boys to keep the money they needed for the fees. The boys were 10 , and thanked him heartedly.  

 It was a small act of 11 . But it clearly marked out Paderewski a 12  human being.  

 Why should he help the two boys he did not even know? We all 13 situations like these in our lives. And most of us only think, "If I help them, what will happen to me?" The truly great people think, "If I don't help them, what will happen to them?" They don't do it expecting something 14 . They do it because they feel it's the 15  thing to do.  

 Last week, in support of the battle  the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, my classmates and I started a campaign  (name) "Lucky Money Plan", which turned out to be worthwhile and  (benefit). Learning from TV that the epidemic situation in Wuhan went bad to worse and that the protective equipment was badly needed, I really felt uneasy and depressed, determined  (do) my bit to deal with this  (worry) situation. After careful consideration, a good idea hit me that I could raise some money to buy medical  (supply) for Wuhan.  

 Without delay, I posted my advocation (支持) letter on the school website,  (call) on all my fellows to take an active part in it. Much to my amazement, all of them showed great interest and donated all their lucky money. I ordered a wide range of medical necessities on the Internet. Through express, these items were directly delivered to a hospital in Wuhan.  

A few days later, I (unexpected) received a telephone call from the hospital. The doctor spoke highly of we had done, saying our kindness and our support strengthened their (determine) to wipe out the virus. Hearing these words, I felt extremely excited and proud. I was convinced that we Chinese people were sure to win this battle.