四川省成都市锦江区嘉祥重点中学校2023-2024学年高二上学期12月月月考卷英语试题（音频暂未更新）

The International Olympic Committee(IOC)Young Leaders programme empowers talents to make a positive difference in their communities through sport. Twenty-five Young Leaders are being selected every two years for a four-year period. They promote the Olympic values, spreading the message of sport for good. 

To be an IOC Young Leader, you need to first complete the 4-Week Learning Sprint (冲刺). 

4-Week Learning Sprint

The 4-Week Learning Sprint, which will take place during November 2023, is a virtual learning programme. The sessions can be attended live or watched back after they are made available on the IOC channel. Each week, participants will be asked to complete a topic﹣specific reflection task. 

The 4-Week Learning Sprint is open to anyone, with the target audience aged between 20 and 28. 

After successfully completing the 4-Week Learning Sprint, you will need to submit a plan for a sport﹣based project, which you will work on if selected as an IOC Young Leader. 

Requirements for the Applicants

•You have successfully completed the 4-Week Learning Sprint. 

•You have completed your high school studies. 

•You have at least one year of work experience. 

•You have strong public speaking skills. 

•You are self-motivated and committed. 

•You are passionate about creating positive change in your community. 

•You are open to being coached and advised by experts and peers (同伴). 

•You are able to work with people from different backgrounds. 

My name is Alice. Early last year, I was troubled by an anxiety that crippled ( 削弱 ) my ability to do anything. I felt like a storm cloud hung over me. For almost a year I struggled on, constantly staring at this wall that faced me. My perfectionist tendencies were the main root of this: I wanted to be perfect at whatever I did, which obviously in life is not possible, but it consumed me. 

One day, I attended a presentation by wildlife conservationist Grant Brown at my high school. His presentation not only awed and inspired me, but also helped emerge an inner desire to make a difference in the world. I joined a pre-presentation dinner with him and that smaller setting allowed me to slowly build up my courage to speak one-on-one with him—an idea that had seemed completely impossible. This first contact was where my story began. 

A month later, Brown invited me to attend the World Youth Wildlife Conference. Looking back, I now see that this would be the first in a series of timely opportunities that my old self would have let pass, but that this new and more confident Alice enthusiastically seized. Shortly after I received his invitation, applications to join the Youth for Nature and the Youth for Planet groups were sent around through my high school. I decided to commit to completing the applications, and soon I was a part of a growing global team of young people working to protect nature. Each of these new steps continued to grow my confidence. 

I am writing this just six months since my journey began and I've realized that my biggest obstacle ( 障碍 ) this whole time was myself. It was that voice in the back of my head telling me that one phrase that has stopped so many people from reaching their potential: I can't. They say good things come to those who wait; I say: grab every opportunity with everything you have and be impatient. After all, nature does not require our patience, but our action.

Feel exhausted after a party? Rather see one close friend than a group of acquaintances? Enjoy your own company? In our world, that makes you an introvert (内向的人). However, there's another possible explanation — vertical attachment. If you are closer to your parents and family members than to your peers, you are vertically attached, which means you rely more on family for comfort.

If you are closer to your peers, then you are peer attached. We live in a peer-oriented world. We believe that having lots of friends means that we are well-adjusted. We put our kids in playgroups and daycare for peer interaction. We expect teenagers to want to hang out with their friends, thinking it is the natural way of things. 

Result? Generations often feel worlds apart. We use different language, dress, and technology apps. Even if multiple generations are invited to the same party, the kids go to the basement playroom while the parents stay upstairs. 

Vertically-attached individuals can feel out of place in this context, demonstrating the traces of introversion. Will they be exhausted after a party with same-aged acquaintances? Absolutely. Would they rather spend time with one close friend? Sure. Do they enjoy alone time? Yes, more than they enjoy time fitting in with peers. 

It's normal that many people need alone time to recharge. However, vertically-attached people often label themselves as introverted. They feel insecure that others have more friends and live richer lives. They claim that their family attachments arise from their loved ones being stuck with them.

If you feel these insecurities, know that there is nothing wrong with you, and you are not missing out on anything. Your attachment style is just different from the culture where you live. Have confidence in the strength of the relationships you have, whether it is with a mom who feels more like a best friend, or a grandmother with whom you can share anything. They are meaningful, enriching relationships, even if they look different from the cultural norm. 

Schoolbooks typically present explorers as intrepid individuals who, for example, sail wooden ships to new lands or climb Mt. Qomolangma alone. But today most explorers who are making fundamental discoveries are scientists. And whether the frontiers are tiny, like the human genome, or massive, like our deepest oceans, we still have much left to learn about planet Earth. 

Exploration is science in its most basic form — asking questions of the natural world and, we hope, using the answers for the betterment of everything on Earth. 

Exploration has great value. It inspires us, widens our knowledge and gives us hope for a better future. And the practical payoffs can even be lifesaving. Scientists who spent decades exploring what was in the atmosphere found that over time the concentration of carbon dioxide was rising. Without that discovery, we humans would now be living like the proverbial frog in a pot of gradually heating water, unsure why the environment around us is changing, and slowly boiling to death. 

The human drive to overcome challenges is an essential aspect of the human drive to explore, which, in most cases, spurs innovation. Early human submersibles that reached the bottom of the deepest ocean trenches(海沟) made the trip just once, stressed by the enormous pressures there. But eventually a more stress-resistant deep–submergence vehicle, the Limiting Factor, allowed investor and undersea explorer Victor Vescovo to reach trench bottoms numerous times. Now there are roughly 4,000 autonomous Argo floats across the world's oceans that dive down to 2,000 feet and resurface every 10 days. The Argo group will also deploy(部署) dozens of sensors every year that will gather biological and chemical data, leading to new observations about marine life.

Ocean research groups also have made it a priority to openly share their discoveries and data with the public and to inspire the next generation of young scientists. Anyone can go along for the ride — we can all be explorers. Maybe one day you'll explore the Great Barrier Reef, the desert, or a rain-forest canopy(树冠).

Captain James T. Kirk began each episode of the original Star Trek television series by saying, "Space, the final frontier(前沿). " Not necessarily. We still have plenty to discover right here on Earth, and we eagerly await surprises from the newest worlds we find.

Any time of the day you can commit to exercising is a good time for getting active. However, the best time for exercise is different for each person. 

Determine when you have the most energy. Do you struggle to get out of the bed in the morning or do you wake up energized and ready to go? Are you a night owl and never get to bed before midnight? Once you establish what your sleep tendencies are, you will have a better idea of when your body is most ready to exercise. You are more likely to hit the snooze (打盹) button instead of getting a workout in. 

Consider your daily schedule. When are you the busiest?Try to fit in exercise before or at least around these events. Some people would prefer to get it out of the way first thing, while others prefer to put it off until the end of the day when they are all caught up. 

Determine your exercise goals. If you are trying to develop a routine, you may want to exercise in the morning. People who exercise in the morning are more consistent. But if you are trying to improve your performance, evening exercise may be best. You may experience less tiredness, quicker reaction times, and more strength and flexibility in the evening. If you are trying to lose weight, you may want to exercise in the morning before you have eaten when your body is more likely to use fat instead of carbohydrates for energy. 

This way, you'll see how you feel and find the time that works best with your schedule. Keep an exercise log to help you evaluate each time.

A. This will give your body time to relax. 

B. Do you perform better in the morning or at night?

C. You may not feel like exercising after a long day of work. 

D. When do you tend to schedule your most important tasks?

E. Consider your lifestyle and exercise goals to find the right time. 

F. If you're not a morning person, do not schedule an early morning workout.

G. Anyway, you'd better experiment with both morning and evening workouts.

At the age of nineteen, Amy Purdy, who was an eager snowboarder, were later diagnosed as a deadly blood disease. 

Amy was given less than a 2% chance of 1 . Losing both of her legs, hearing in her left ear, Amy was forced to rethink how she would 2  adventures and achieve her dreams. Amy had to 3  how she wanted her life to go and how she would 4  the next chapter of her life. 

While change is never 5 , Amy viewed it as an opportunity. She 6 herself two things: one, she would get back on her snowboard. "I was so 7 about snowboarding, which really is what got me through my8 days. I'm grateful that I was alive. " And two: something positive would be born out of this 9 . That's been her strong determination ever since.

Amy's 10 back into daily life was hard, and she learned the countless 11 that people with disabilities face every day. The hardest thing was the12 of resources for joining in active sports which brought her the most happiness.

Besides 13  snowboarding, Amy founded a nonprofit organization supporting children and adults with disabilities who want to 14  active sports. 

"She 15 not only these athletes that are in a similar situation she has gone through, but she helps everyone believe in themselves and believe anything they put their minds to. " says Morgan Whitehouse.

Charlie Chaplin is absolutely a(remark) comedy actor, filmmaker and composer. Nevertheless, his life was anything but easy. He was born inpoor family in 1889. His parents were both poor performers, andis astonishing that Charlie was taught to sing as soon as he could speakdance as soon as he could walk. Unfortunately his father died，leaving the family even worse off. By his teens, Charlie had become one of the most popular child actors in England. 

With time going by, he got down to (make) films. His charming character made the audience laugh at a time they felt depressed. He illuminated the lives of Americans and British through two world wars and the hard years in between. Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed and produced the films he starred. In 1940, Chaplin's first sound film, The Great Dictator, was released, where he showed the(cruel) of war. Because of his outstanding performance，in 1972 he was awarded a special Oscar and remembered(permanent). To this day, Charlie Chaplin, who takes the American silent film to its peak (巅峰) with his body and facial features, (deserve) the title of the Humor Master. 

你受学生会委托为校宣传栏"英语天地"写一则通知，请大家观看高二艺术节，内容包括：1. 举办艺术节的目的；2. 时间、地点和主要内容；3. 观看艺术节注意事项。

注意：1. 词数80左右;2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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The Students' Union

This particular day began at seven in the morning in Casablanca(卡萨布兰卡). My friend Mike and I were going to visit Abdel, a young man we'd worked with on a volunteer project in Kenitra, an industrial city on the Moroccan (摩洛哥)coast. He'd been expecting us to arrive in Casablanca for a few days now, and since he had no telephone, he'd written down his address and name and told us to just show up-his mother and sisters were always at home.

Apparently the address he had written down was hard for foreigners like us to understand. When we got into the neighborhood, our taxi driver started asking for directions. Eventually, with the help of a policeman, we were led to a house down a winding road. Our driver went to the door and inquired. He came back saying Abdel's sister was in this house visiting friends and would come along to show us where they lived.

Soon a girl of about sixteen emerged from the house. Surprisingly, she didn't look like Abdel at all. Still, I'd seen other families where children didn't look alike, so I didn't give it too much thought. She then brought us to a yard. We waited in the yard while the sister went in and returned accompanied by her mother, sisters and brother-in-law, all of whom greeted us with cautious warmth. We were shown into the living room. The mother told us in broken French that Abdel was out, but would be home soon. We sat on low, cushioned seats, drinking sweet mint tea and eating sugar cookies, while the family members sat with us and made shy, polite conversation that frequently fell into uncomfortable silence.

An hour passed, more family members emerged from inner rooms. I was again struck by the fact that none of them looked a thing like our friend. 

After another two hours had passed with no sign of Abdel, the family insisted on serving us a meal in their kitchen next door. "Soon," was the only response I got when I inquired as to what time Abdel might come back.

注意：1. 续写词数应为150个左右；2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Para. 1 Finally we heard the words we had been waiting for from the mother, "Please, Abdel is back in the living room. "

Para. 2 I took out the piece of paper Abdel had given me in Kenitra and show it to the new Abdel.