安徽省桐城市2019-2020学年高二下学期英语期中教学检测试卷

    Hillcrest Museum

    Enjoy an experience of digging up the past. Handle pieces of ancient tools and other objects from many countries. Learn to date them and see what they tell us about how people lived then. School groups should book in advance.

    Open daily July 1 until Labour Day weekend.

    Admission fees are ﹩5.00 per adult. ﹩3.00 per student; children under 5 are free.

    Red House

    Travel back to the time of the novelist Charlotte Bronte and find out about her friends and local connections. Discover the comforts and discomforts of the 1830s country home where Charlotte sometimes stayed as a guest of Joshua Taylor's family and got ideas for her novel Shirley.

    Admission by guided tour only at 11 am. Last admission 45 minutes before closing.

    Admission fees are ﹩8.00 per adult. ﹩4.00 per child.

    Castle Museum

    The castle was built looking down on the valley of the River Dean. It is now a museum. where you can learn how the valley has changed over millions of years. There is a collection of interesting rocks found in the area. and pictures showing how the valley probably looked in prehistoric times.

    Hours & Admission

    Tuesday-Saturday: 10 am-4:30 pm

    Adults: ﹩1

    Children: 50 cents

    The text from my friend Lorraine said simply: Fancy a family picnic this weekend? My hands began to sweat; my heart beat hard. I wanted to yell, "No! Why would you suggest that? I thought we were friends!"

    I hated picnics. My hatred of them began as a child. I always got car-sick and it was hot all the way. Air conditioning in vehicles was pretty much unheard of in 1980s Birmingham, and my mother insisted on having all the windows closed because of the unpleasant smell of gas. We would arrive at some faraway destination, usually a car park with a field attached next to a plant, and unpack tasteless sandwiches, nearly cold sausage rolls and disgusting salads. There were never any toilets, so we had to "go" behind a bush; the memory of being discovered by a random dog-walker still embarrasses me from time to time. My mother sat in a relaxed way on a rug (小毯子) while we girls were playing nearby or maybe lying next to her. But for me this was a time when I suffered a lot. It was frightening to be attacked by ants or spot a dead rabbit in the grass.

    As an adult I'd avoided all picnics, but this time I couldn't. I just said yes, without letting Lorraine sense my true feeling about them. She is my best friend and sometimes you must make sacrifices for people you like a lot. "I'll bring the food, and you bring the drink," she said.

    My ridiculously enthusiastic family and I arrived at the picnic site. My expectations were low. Lorraine and her husband Dave unloaded folding tables, chairs, a table cloth and …a cool box of delicious food mostly purchased from a local deli (熟食店), which does all manner of pre-prepared salads and cold cuts. There was fresh bread, olives, even candles to keep away insects, music, and wine. It was completely delightful. There may have been children playing around too, even if one of them did find a dead bird (told you!).

    I am now a picnic enthusiast and we're planning another. I'm even reading up on picnic recipes for it!

    Does it make sense for countries to invest billions of dollars in space programs when millions of people in their country are living below the poverty line? Many people ask this question and I almost tire of answering it.

    Let's talk about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) first. This is a terrible disease in which the victims progressively lose the ability to control their body. It affects almost only boys and shows itself when the boys are around age 5. They're wheelchair-bound by age 12 and will be dead before their 30th birthday. There is no cure. However there are treatments. They're based on crystalline (晶体) protein structures. whose formation is adversely (不利地)affected by the presence of Earth's constant unidirectional (单一方向的) gravitational field. However according to a study conducted by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on the International Space Station (ISS). crystalline protein structures form regularly in microgravity conditions. which allows for targeted drugs designed to "double these boys' life spans (寿命)".

    And you want to talk about feeding the hungry? We have space lettuce (生菜).And it's structurally and nutritionally equivalent to Earth lettuce. Space is pretty much everything there is which means you can make a lot of lettuce in space. In fact. one of the potential growth markets in lunar colonization(月球殖民)is food trade. Food can be mass produced and sent to Earth to feed the hungry. By the way as far as I am concerned as for feeding the hungry food distribution is the issue rather than food supply.

    Space exploration is one of the best things that humanity has ever done.

    Nola (August 21, 1974 -November 22, 2015) was a northern white rhino who lived at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park near Escondido, California. At her death, she was one of only four remaining northern white rhinos in the world. The other three lived in Kenya. World Rhino Day, held on September 22, is to raise awareness of the less than 30,000 other rhinos left on Earth.

    "Rhinos need our help today, not tomorrow, Nola's lead keeper Jane Kennedy said. "Last year we lost over 1,200 rhinos just in South Africa. If we continue to lose more than 1,000 rhinos a year, in 10 to 20 years all the rhinos on the planet will be gone."

    Unfortunately, most animals are in danger of dying out because of humans, Kennedy says. "Humans have either poached (偷猎) animals, or because there are over seven billion of us, we've taken up too much of the world's resources." Poachers illegally hunt rhinos for their horns (角) .They sell the horns for thousands of dollars per pound, to be used for art, jewelry, and decorations. Experts believe that one rhino is poached every eight hours.

    In 1975, the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research started the Frozen Zoo, a pro- gram through which researchers have collected cell samples from more than 8,000 different types of animals, including the northern white rhino. Scientists hope that by studying the rhino cells, they will get greater understanding of it, and will find ways to increase its numbers.

    Jane Kennedy describes World Rhino Day as "a celebration of rhinos along with an awareness campaign for everybody across the world to know that rhinos need our help." At the San Diego Zoo, children and adults are welcome to visit and speak with zookeepers to learn about rhinos. But you don't have to live in San Diego to celebrate World Rhino Day. It is observed around the world, with zoos and wildlife parks holding special events and programs to teach people about rhinos, and enable them to see the animals up close. For more information, go to www.worldrhinoday.org.

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