江苏省海安重点中学2023-2024学年高三下学期开学考试英语试题（音频暂未更新）

What does the woman suggest the man do?

What will the speakers do this weekend?

When did the man see the film?

What kind of coffee will the woman have?

Why does the man decide to leave his job?

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From: Bridget Pecolini <bpecolini@mathcontest.com>

To: Anson Wong <mransonwong@email.com>

Re: Questions about online math contest

Date: February 18, 2024.

Dear Mr. Wong,

Thank you for your email. We're so glad your child is signed up to participate in our math contest. I hope it will be a rewarding and enriching experience for him.

You can access the training session and practice tests by logging into our website at www.mathcontest.com. Once you're signed in, you will see several tabs on the left-hand side.

One of them will say "Enrolled." If you click on the drop-down menu there, you'll find the name of the child you registered. If you click on the name, you'll be given the option of joining a training session or doing practice tests. Of course, you can choose neither.

I hope that answers your question!

Please let me know if you need any further help.

Sincerely,

Bridget Pecolini

www.mathcontest.com/studentinformation MATH CONTEST 2024 We're glad you've decided to participate in this year's math contest. This is our 38th year running this contest, and our 3rd with an online option. We hope to be able to offer in-person contests next year! Gary Wong 3rd Grade Access to the contest （available April 14 at 11 am） Sample test 2024&Practice tests （2019-2023） （available April 7-12）

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Working at a bank in New York City in the mid-2010s, Anna Sacks was not living the life she wanted. Sure, she was happy. But she wanted to do something that felt important.

Some people seeking meaning might read a self-help book or perhaps volunteer a few hours a week. Sacks packed up her life and moved to Connecticut to participate in Adamah, a farming program that focuses on sustainable living and growing sustainable food. When she return ed to New York, her life was with a new purpose and many new skills to make her dreams a reality.

"One of the things that really stuck with me from Adamah was how little waste they produced and how they handled the waste they did have, primarily through composting（堆肥）," she says. The Adamah program opened Sacks' eyes to the damage consumer culture is doing on a local, national, and global level, and the need to find solutions. So in 2017, she began what she calls "trash walking".

During. tours around her community, Sacks picks through garbage to look for reusable items. Soon, her "trash walking" expanded to include corporate trash along with residential trash. Surprisingly, she discovered a wide range of really great stuff—like clothing, decorations, and food —all of which she documents on TikTok.

Under the name The Trash Walker, Sacks quickly gained popularity for her videos that highlight the problems with consumerism. "The root issue is overproduction, which leads to overconsumption, which leads to a large amount of waste," she says.

The fact is, companies often choose to trash items rather than give them away to people who might need them. A big reason for this waste is the way our current tax laws are structured, Sacks says. Sellers who destroy goods can claim the cost as a loss on their taxes and be refunded. If they give away goods, they can claim only a small amount as a charitable reduction on their taxes.

Sacks' main focus is simply getting people to pay attention to how many unnecessary things they buy and then throw away. "Once you become aware of the way you consume, you can see ways you improve," she says.

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In parts of Africa, people communicate with a wild bird—the greater honeyguide—to locate bee habitats and harvest honey. It's a rare example of cooperation between humans and wild animals, and a potential instance of cultural co-evolution. Brian Wood and Claire Spottiswoode were lead authors on a study showing how this valuable partnership is maintained and varies across cultures.

"Our study demonstrates the bird's ability to learn distinct voiced signals, expanding possibilities for mutually beneficial cooperation with people," Wood said. "Honeyguides seemingly know the landscape well, gathering knowledge about the location of bee nests and sharing with people who are eager for the bird's help," Spottiswood e said. The honeyguides also benefit from locating the colonies: They eat the leftover honeycomb.

Their study was done in cooperation with the Hadza in Tanzania and the Yao community of Mozambique. The prior work in both communities documented differences in how each culture attracts honeyguides. Among the Hadza, a honey-hunter announces a desire to partner with the bird by whistling. In Mozambique, Yao honey-hunters do so with a "Brr!"followed by a "hmm!"

Using mathematical models and audio playback experiments, the team studied these signals, their usefulness to people and their impacts on birds. They experimentally exposed honeyguides to the same prerecorded sounds, hoping to test whether honeyguides had learned to recognize and prefer the specialized signals local honey-hunters used or were naturally attracted to all such signals.

The honey guides in Tanzania were over three times more likely to cooperate when hearing the calls of local Hadza people than the calls of "foreign" Yao. Those in Mozambique were almost twice more likely to cooperate when hearing the local Yao call than the "foreign" Hadza whistles.

The study proposes that differences in honeyguide-attracting signals are not random, but make practical sense. While honey-hunting, both the Hadza and Yao come across mammals, but only the Hadza hunt them, using bows and arrows. The Hadza's hunting might explain the less notable whistles they use. Filmed interview s show Hadza hunters explaining they can escape being detected by their prey because their whistles "sound like birds." Contrarily, the signal the Yao use to communicate with the honeyguide can help scare off animals they find dangerous.

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The Age of Information is bulging: if you tried to download all the data available today, you'd need more than 180 million years to do so. But you are wrong to assume that all information would stimulate a boost of innovation to match the output of data. Indeed, the last time we found ourselves in a period of significant innovation was over 120 years ago, called the Age of Insight.

Innovations, big or small, start with a new idea. Often, these ideas occur as a moment of insight —the result of a novel connect ion in our brains made between existing and new information. Studies show insights involve quiet signals deep in the brain. Anything that helps us notice quiet signals can increase the chance of insights. However, it's becoming more challenging to find those signals today, every moment filled with an endless supply of content.

Besides, we also want to increase the quality of them to sort through big new ideas and find the really valuable ones that can be hard to measure. Launched in 2015, the Eureka Scale （尤里卡量表）allows us to assess the strength of our insight experiences on a five-point scale, namely, intense emotions, motivation, memory advantage, aftershocks, and following ideas. The Scale combines these five variables into a single value to define the importance of a new idea and has broad applications for measuring and improving individual and organizational performance. Even it can be used to measure the impact of different kinds of work environments and learning approaches on participants' growth. The level-5 insight, involving the richest emotion, motivation, and lasting impact, holds the greatest significance.

In order for organizations to benefit from another age of insight, it's not enough to try to access more data or increase the number of insights we generate. Instead, it's about making space for the biggest ideas to emerge from all the information. Using the Scale as a way to measure how important ideas are will enable better decision-making toward practical and competitive outcomes. If we're to enter a new age of insight, we must make timely and necessary changes to design our environments for the best insight possible to surface.

 阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

There are many reasons why some cats are bad-tempered. It's commonly believed that their temperament can be influenced by the way they are born or raised. According to veterinarian Dr Katrin a Warren, the problem can generally be solved, but you'll need to look for underlying issues.

Changes in a cat's behaviour can often be explained by a health problem. Pain can cause cats to behave differently. It's easy to mistake a problem as behavioural, which in fact is medical. Should you observe a significant change in your cat's behaviour, then a visit to the vet is the best place to start. Also hiding and avoiding being touched. Be sure to report all changes to your vet. There are many health problems that can be readily treated to ease symptoms and pain for your cat.

It pays to remember that cats don't like to share or queue. Sharing of ‘resources' such as litter trays and foodbowls can cause stress and anxiety for many cats. It's always a good idea to provide each cat with their own litter box, food, water bowls and bed. A lack of space to hide from or avoid other cats, competition for territory and lack of individual attention can also add to household friction.

Moving to a new house, the arrival of a new baby, new pets and other types of change can seriously impact cat behaviour. Cats are creatures of habit and tend to be territorial. Try to keep your cat's environment as calm as possible and ensure there are places where they feel safe.

 These are often cats that received limited socialisation with humans when they were kittens. These cats do best in a quiet household without children and need understanding and patience to help build their confidence.

A．Some cats simply do not like being touched and handled.

B．Watch out for changes in eating, drinking or litter-box habits.

C．When your cat seems lonely, you can hold it gently in your arms.

D．If so, offering the cat a high place to sit, such as a climbing tree, can be helpful.

E．So a change in routine may cause them to react, including withdrawal or aggression.

F．Don't forget their incredible sense of smell, which is a useful tool of communication.

G．In fact, even the sweetest cats can suddenly become bad-tempered and behave out of character.

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Gardening changed how I see myself as a disabled woman. When I started gardening in 2018, I didn't know anything about plants, let alone how to grow things we can 1 . I thought gardening required a lot of 2 tasks. As I have a genetic condition that causes my bones to3 easily, I didn't believe I could complete them. The thought of taking care of plants in a wheelchair every day made me feel 4 . But just like how I gradually learnt everything else as a disabled person, I had to 5 how to garden my way.

That first season, I visited my garden as much as I could. Noticing my interest in gardening, my neighbors in the community 6  offered me advice and support. Under their careful 7 , I managed to pull up the weeds and watered my plants on my own. Finally, I was so 8  to eat the tomatoes I grew and even shared some more produces with neighbors.

Gardening has 9 how I see other parts of my life. As a disabled woman, I fear being seen as a 10 and struggle to ask for the things I need. Gardening helped me 11 the fact that I have needs. I don't think my plant is a heavy load because it needs more nutrition. I don't 12 it for getting insects and not being able to fight against them. Gardening also helped me 13 my social circle and grow closer to people in our community.

Over the years, gardening has made me feel more 14 in every aspect of my life. I'm planting what I want to grow, and I have gained a lot of 15 from that.

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Acupuncture, an ancient Chinese medical practice, has been the remedy for （count）patients for thousands of years. There is evidence that acupuncture （date） back to the Stone Age, when stone tools were used to press areas of the body （relieve） pain. Over time, this primitive practice gradually evolved into a comprehensive and profound medical system and shaped the root of acupuncture.

acupuncture actually functions is not clearly understood. But people have come to universal agreement that acupuncture is a treatment that aims to promote the body's self-regulating functions. Its therapeutic principles are in line with the philosophical concepts of traditional Chinese medicine, emphasize all-inclusive treatment, meridian（经络） adjustment, balance of bodily functions and overall physiological well-being.

 the uncertainty about its medical basis, acupuncture has become a global therapy. Over the years, acupuncture （see） many advancements in scientific research and modern medicine. It is now a mainstream alternative and complementary treatment for （vary） of weaknesses. According to a WHO report, acupuncture  （include） in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2010 is now used in 113 of its 120 member countries, illustrating its widespread recognition and application.

As an ancient Chinese medical practice with a rich history and deep cultural significance, acupuncture is an embodiment of profound cultural heritage and a holistic path to healing.

假如你是李华，你校英文报正在征稿。请你结合下面的名人名言（famous quote）："I don't know what ‘home' is, but unhappiness and worries melt away once there."（From Bing Xin），写一篇题为"My Understanding of Home"的征文。

内容包括：1．你对该名言的理解；2．举例说明你的观点。

要求：1．词数80左右；2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

My Understanding of Home Bing Xin once said, "I don't know what ‘home' is, but unhappiness and worries melt away once there."

 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

How far would you go to help a friend? Jeremy Savage, aged 17, and Ian Marshall, aged 16, both from Canada, had their friendship tested to the limit on a recent trip to the Rocky Mountains with their parents.

On Saturday morning, the two. boys decided to climb Cathedral Mountain by themselves while their parents relaxed at the campsite. After three hours, they reached the top and enjoyed the beautiful view from the mountaintop.

However, trouble began when they started the climb down. On one very dangerous part of the mountain, Ian fell three meters off the side of the path. Jeremy climbed down to where Ian was and found him badly injured and not able to move then. Jeremy had to decide what to do. He needed help but he did not want to leave his friend. He cleaned the dirt and blood from Ian's face and hands, and then tried to help Ian stand up, but Ian's right leg was hurting too much. With incredible calmness and his former experience in the mountain, Jeremy then gave Ian his food and water and let him lie on his jacket. They had to wait and hope that help would come. While they waited for help, Jeremy used his jacket and an extra shirt to keep Ian warm and they rested together. Sensing his friend's pain and anxiety, Jeremy gently comforted him and gave him constant encouragement in a determined tone.

Meanwhile, as darkness started to fall, their parents back at the campsite became very worried that the boys had not returned. Desperate tears welling up in the eyes, the mothers frantically prayed to God for their sons' safety. They got in touch with park workers and began searching for the boys. Soon more than 20 people were looking for them on Cathedral Mountain.

注意：1．续写词数应为150左右；2．请按如下格式作答。

As the evening grew darker and the temperature dropped, Ian told Jeremy to leave him and go back to their parents. …… Finally, after four long and tiring hours' climbing down, they came across their parents.