北京市延庆区2019-2020学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题

    Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.

    During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.

    He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.

    Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband's name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can(垃圾桶) that had been left out on the footpath.

    My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

    That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.

Wang Shu, a responsible and  (confidence) girl, has just graduated from university and she works as a volunteer teacher in a small country town in Inner Mongolia. She feels it challenging  (work) there because life  (differ) from that in Beijing. But she loves helping her students and  (chat) with them after class. All her students love her and  (inspire) by her.

Nowadays, we can do(variety) things on the Internet. We can read news, play games, and make friends.  addition, we can even do shopping on the Internet. , most teenagers spend too much time on it,  makes their parents concerned about their studies. In my opinion, we should do something  (reward) online.

The situation seemed hopeless.

From the day he started at my junior-high, Willard P. Franklin lived in his own world. He shut out his classmates and 1, his teacher. I tried to set up a friendly relationship with him, but almost failed. Even a "Good Morning, Willard" 2 only a very low grunt (咕哝). I could see that his classmates got on no better. Willard was completely a lonely boy who seemed to have no 3 to break his barrier (障碍) of silence.

Shortly after the Thanksgiving holiday, we received word of the Christmas collection of money for the poor people in our school area.

"Christmas is a season of 4," I told my students. "There are a few students in the school who might not have a happy holiday season. By contributing(捐) to our Christmas collection, you will 5 to buy food, clothes and toys for these needy people. We start the collection tomorrow. "

When I called for the contribution the next day, I discovered that almost everyone had 6 except Willard P. Franklin. The boy 7 deep into his trousers pockets as he walked up to my desk. Carefully, he dropped two coins into the small box.

"I don't need any milk for lunch," he said very quietly. For a moment, 8 a moment, he smiled. Then he 9 and walked back to his desk.

That night, after school, I took our small collections to the school master. I couldn't help telling him what had happened during the day.

"I may be wrong, 10 I believe Willard might be getting ready to become a part of the world around him," I told the master.

"Yes, I believe it sounds 11," he nodded. "And I think we might do well to have him12 a bit of his world with us. I just received a list of the poor families in our school who most need help through the Christmas collection. Here, take a look at it. "

As I looked at it, I discovered Willard P. Franklin and his family were the top names on the list.

Because of his family's Jewish background, they are sent to live in the concentration camps (集中营). Scared and alone, Joshua one day makes friends with a little mouse he calls Bethlehem who becomes his closest friend.

in faith and to be a cure for chromic depression(长期抑郁) … cure to strengthen identity and purpose.

presents the highlights of his 83 years of life, including his trips to India and the study of the writings of several great spiritual leaders.

More things in Heaven will appeal to anyone who insists on finding the deepest meaning for their existence based on their own experience.

How old is the Earth? The debate between science and religion continues to be heated. In Creation or Evolution, Michael Ebifegha examines these two opposed world views within the structure of empirical(实证的) science.

success whether in your current job, finding a new job, in education, family, or even hobbies.

Turning the lights out or wearing a blindfold while eating could be a quick way to lose weight, according to scientists. The simple trick works because it stops diners eating for pleasure rather than for calories. It also triggers(引发)a part of the brain that is worried that unseen food may go bad.

An experiment by the University of Konstanz, in Germany, found that people who were blindfolded consumed nine percent fewer calories before they felt full, compared to those who could see. They also vastly overestimated how much they had eaten because they could not see how much was left on the plate. Blindfolded volunteers estimated they had eaten 88 percent more than they actually had.

Scientists believe that not seeing food on the table also allows the body to know when it is full in real time rather than remembering past experiences where it might have taken a full plate to feel full.

In the experiment, 50 people were blindfolded and 40 were allowed to see their food. All were told not to eat within two hours of the experiment. They were then given three 95g bowls of chocolate ice-cream and invited to eat for 15 minutes. Their bowls were taken away and the remaining ice-cream weighed, while the participants were quizzed on how much they thought they had eaten.

On average the group who could see ate 116g while the blindfolded groups ate 105g. However, the blindfolded group believed they had eaten 197g while compared with 159g for the non-blind volunteers. They were also asked how pleasant the ice-cream tasted and the blindfolded group rated lower than those who could see.

"The experienced pleasure of eating was significantly lower in the blindfolded group. Not seeing the food might have decreased the appetite. Sight plays an important role in the eating experience and in the overall dining experience. "

Previous studies have shown that the visual influence of food plays a large part in the taste. While restaurants that allow diners to eat in the dark state that it triggers other senses, in fact eating in darkness is likely to taste far milder than usual.