末考试英语试题
一、阅读理解
Mirthy hosts over 80 online events every month. You can enjoy them from the comfort of your home. All you need to do is visit our dedicated page on the Mirthy website.
Learning to rug hooking on a budget
Friday 4th and Friday 18th November at 2:30 pm
Participants will learn a brief history of rug hooking. Participants will also be encouraged to try their hand at this multi-generational art form, have two weeks to complete the small project and then come back to the second session to learn how to finish it off and prepare it for display.
The disappearance of Heneage Bloxham
Wednesday 9th November at 7:30 pm
In 2001, Sam Eedle was approached by an elderly woman in Tewkesbury. Her uncle, Heneage Bloxham, had disappeared on the Western Front and nobody in her family was able to tell her what actually happened to him. By accessing the available records, maps and war diaries, and by taking a diversion to the battlefield while on a trip to France, Sam was able to find out what happened to the woman’s uncle.
African dance
Monday 2lst November at 5:15 pm
African dance allows us to express ourselves individually while also being part of a collective. Creative expression is encouraged and our uniqueness is celebrated. Kenzi will be reminding you that movements can be adapted and explored to find a way that works for your body and movement style. Making a wild foraged wreath Monday 28th November at 2:30 pm
In this workshop, you will be learning how to make a wreath! Through winding twigs and vines to find forest textures into a festive sampling of nature, this will be an artistic nature-based experience. The wreath is free-form and adds a naturalistic winter atmosphere to your door with a minimal, organic style.
1. Where do the activities take place?
A．On the Internet. B．In public places.
C．At school. D．In a lecture hall.
2. Who was missing?
A．Sam Eedle. B．An elderly woman.
C．Heneage Bloxham. D．Kenzi.
3. When is Making a wild foraged wreath shown?
A．18th November at 2:30 pm. B．9th November at 7:30 pm.
C．21st November at 5:15 pm. D．28th November at 2:30 pm.
No party? No problem. These people found a way to celebrate their special day that was just as fun and even more meaningful than a traditional birthday party.
On the e-vite (电子邀请函) for Mikayla Gounard’s birthday party, she told her friends that she didn’t want presents. “I didn’t really need anything,” she said. “Everything they would have given me was plastic and stuff I really didn’t need.”
石家庄学校Instead, she asked for donations to help the homeless man, David Sean Currey, who found and returned Gounard’s grandmother’s lost wallet. She was super inspired by that story. She wanted to pay forward the kindness the stranger showed her grandmother.
On Dec. 22, her 12th birthday, Gounard raised $479. A GoFundMe raised an additional $55,000,which Gounard gave to David Sean Currey, along with a note saying, “In a dark tunnel, there is always light.” The homeless man started crying. He was able to check into a hotel, and open a bank account.
Across the country, kids and adults are having pay-it-forward parties, skipping traditional birthday celebrations, foregoing gifts, and choosing to spread kindness and help others.
After the devastating Texas snow and ice storm, Texas State Senator Dawn Buckingham spent her birthday on Feb. 2l in Harper. Texas handed out water and food and supplies to people who had no power for 10 days. Buckingham also invited strangers into her home to use her gas stove to cook meals. It was the end of hunting season — and she had a freezer full of venison she shared with stran
gers. “There’s nothing better than helping those who need help on your birthday,” Buckingham said on her birthday morning.
4. What did Gounard receive on her birthday in the past?
A．Inspiring blessings. B．Unnecessary presents.
C．Her desired presents. D．Donations from friends.
5. What motivated Gounard to hold the special birthday party?
A．Buckingham’s story.B．Her friends’ requirement.
C．A homeless man’s honesty.D．Her grandma’s influence.
6. How did David feel when receiving the donation?
A．Moved. B．Annoyed. C．Anxious. D．Frightened.
7. What does Buckingham consider best about birthday?
A．Receiving endless wishes. B．Inviting strangers to her home. C．Holding an amazing party. D．Giving hands to those in need.
A study published has modeled the wide-ranging impacts of climate change and extreme weather events on Australia’s food systems and supply chains, identifying potential chain re-actions including job and income loss as well as a loss in nutrient availability and diet quality. Led by Dr Arunima Malik from the Integrated Sustainability Analysis(ISA)group, the paper analyzed the climate change impacts across different sectors and regions in Australia. The researchers found that climate change and extreme weather events have impacts across communities, with rural regions the most negatively impacted.
The study also found that climatic events,such as floods, bush fires and heatwaves could affect surrounding areas by way of limiting food availability and employment. The effects of these events could be felt in distant regions due to the complex inter-connectivity of modern supply chains.
Previous research undertaken by the ISA has shown that a local disaster can impact every other Australian state, resulting in losses across primary, secondary and tertiary industries. What plays out globally seems to play out locally as well. Everyone is affected by climate change，even if they’re not in areas directly hit by extreme weather，and the vulnerable (脆弱的) are affected most.
Damages to food supply can negatively impact diet quality, through reducing the diversity that contributes to a balanced diet to unhealthy processed foods that have a longer shelf life. This disproportionately impacts vulnerable groups, who do not have the means to pay increasing prices for scarce fresh foods.
Co-author Dr Sinead Boylan, a public health nutrition researcher in the Sydney Environment Institute, said, “The research highlights that climate change may not o nly affect food supply in NSW, but access to healthy and equitable diets, particularly among the most vulnerable populations. These findings could help reform relief strategies to help these communities adapt.”
8. What can we learn about the study from paragraph 1?
A．The Australian government’s reaction to the study.
B．The influence of the study on the climate.
C．The principle of doing the study.
D．The result of the study.
9. What does the underlined word “tertiary” in paragraph 3 mean?
A．Local. B．Third. C．Global. D．Rural.
10. How is diet quality affected by damages to food supply?
A．By decreasing food variety.
B．By shortening shelter life of food.
C．By reducing the amount of food supply.
D．By reducing unhealthy processed foods.
11. What can be the best title for the text?
A．Everyone is affected by climate change
B．Climatic events could affect surrounding areas
C．Climate threat to food supply creates chain effect
D．The vulnerable are affected most by climate change
A breakthrough in electric vehicle(EV)battery design has enabled a 10-minute charge time for a typical EV battery. The record-breaking combination of a shorter charge time and more energy acquired for longer travel range was announced on Oct. 12 in the journal Nature.
“The need for smaller, faster-charging batteries is greater than ever,” said Wang, the William E. Diefenderfer Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State and lead author on the study.“Because the critical raw(未经加工的)materials are short,there are not enoug h batteries to meet expected demand.”
In August, California’s Air Resources Board passed an extensive plan to restrict and ultimately ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars within the state.“If new car sales are going to shift to battery powered electric ve hicles,” Wang explained,“they’ll need to overcome two major drawbacks: They are too slow to recharge and too large to be efficient and affordable. Instead of taking a few minutes at the gas pump, depending on the battery, some EVs can take all day to recha rge.”
“Our fast-charging technology works for most energy-dense batteries and will open a new possibility to downsize electric vehicle batteries from 150 to 50 kWh without causing drivers to feel range anxiety,” said Wang,whose lab partnered with a power
c ompany to develop the technology. “The smaller, faster-charging batteries will dramatically cut down battery cost an
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f critical raw materials, enablin
g mass adoption of affordable electric cars.”
“True fast-charging batteries would have immediate i mpact,” the researchers wrote. “Since there are not enough raw minerals for every internal combustion engine car to be
replaced by a 150 kWh-equipped EV, fast charging is necessary for EVs to go mainstream.”
“The study’s partner, the power company,is worki ng to manufacture and commercialize the fast-charging battery for an affordable and sustainable future of vehicle electrification,” Wang said.
12. What is the EV battery market lacking?
A．Vital substances. B．Critical technology.
C．High-end products. D．Scientific market survey.
13. Which is a disadvantage of the current EV battery?
A．It has an ugly design. B．It’s too small to offer power.
C．It has a very short service life. D．Recharging it is time-consuming.
14. What will Wang’s technology bring about?
A．Fierce market competition. B．Wide use of affordable electric cars. C．The disorder of the electric car market. D．The disappearance of gas-powered cars.
15. What is the power company doing now?
A．Researching and developing new EVs.
B．Looking for a new sustainable EVs market.
C．Making and marketing the fast-charging battery.
D．Identifying and producing critical raw materials.
二、七选五
If your books are piled up all over the place or you find yourself always digging through piles looking for that novel you’ve been meaning to read, it may be time to reorganize. 16 .
Organize your books by genre (体裁)
17 . By organizing your books on shelves by genre, you’ll build a mental map of where everything belongs. You also won’t need to worry about putting books back in the perfect place, since a book that belongs on a given shelf can go anywhere on that shelf. Sort them alphabetically
Organize your books by the author’s last name
Sorting by the author’s last name is a classic way to organize. If you have an especially large collection, sorting by author will make it a lot easier to locate a given
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