辽宁省辽阳市2019-2020学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题

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Home Laundry Automatic Dryer Product

Full Two Year Warranty (保修)

Limited Five Year Warranty on Cabinet (机箱)

Warranty Provides for：

FIRST TWO YEARS Amana will repair or replace any faulty part free of charge.

THIRD THRU FIFTH YEARS Amana will provide a free replacement part for any cabinet which proves faulty due to rust (生锈) .

Warranty Limitations：

• Warranty begins at date of original purchase.

• Applies only to product used within the United States or in Canada if product is approved by Canadian Standards Association when shipped from factory.

• Products used on a commercial or rental basis not covered by this warranty.

• Service must be performed by an Amana servicer.

• Adjustments covered during first year only.

Warranty Does Not Cover It If：

• Product has damage due to product change，connection to an improper electrical supply> shipping and handling, accident, fire, floods, lightning or other conditions beyond the control of Amana.

• Product is improperly installed (安装) or applied.

Owner's Responsibilities：

• Provide sales receipt.

• Normal care and repair.

• Having the product reasonably accessible for service.

• Pay for service calls related to product installation or usage instructions.

• Pay for extra service costs, over normal service charges, if servicer is requested to perform service outside servicer^ normal business hours.

* In no event shall Amana be responsible for consequential damages (间接损坏) .

* This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may have others which vary from state to state For example, some states do not allow the exclusion (排除) or limitation of consequential damages, so this exclusion may not apply to you.

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    Retired judge Davison hated all the quiet. Evy, his wife of 66 ears, had passed away, and he was lonely and sad in the months after her death. But he knew how to beat those feelings; he decided to build a pool.

    Davison contacted a family-run company in Hopkins, Minnesota, that had built a pool for his previous house 40 years ago. “They did such a great job before and were still in business, so they came out and planned it,” Davison said.

    Kevin, who works on new pools for the company, helped Davison with everything, from initial planning and completing contracts back in March to teaching him how to filter the water once the pool was finish in July.

    “If You build it,theywill come,” he thought. He invited all the neighborhood kids over to swim. Now it's not so quiet anymore.

    He hears the sounds of laughter and splashing as he sits on a chair in the shade, watching happy children play in his backyard.

    “I knew they'd come.” 94-yvear-old Davison told KARE-TV.

    Neighbor Jessica thought the judge was joking when he talked about putting in a pool until she saw the work starting. Now she and her four kids have been regulars since the pool was finished in July.

    “It's him spreading joy throughout our neighborhood for these kids.” Jessica said.

    Davison's pool includes a diving board and reaches nine feet in the deep end under the board. It's especially welcome in a town that doesn't have a public outdoor pool.

    Although Davison has three adult children, he doesn't have any grandchildren.

Jessica says she's told him, “You kind of adopted our whole neighborhood of kids. These are your grandkids.”

    The judge's rules require that a parent or grandparent stay while the children are swimming. Once the kids leave, he likes to swim, too.

    Davison tells KARE-TV that he realizes that putting in the pool didn't make a lot of financial (经济的) sense for an old man. But that didn't matter to him.

    “I'm not sitting by myself looking at the walls.” he says. “What else would you think of doing where you could have a whole bunch of kids over every afternoon?” The 94-year-old judge now hears laughter all day as he watches children splash in his backyard pool.

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Health advice on hand sanitizers

Antibacterial hand sanitizers (免洗洗手液) are marketed as a good alternative (替代品) when soap and water are not available. Manufacturers say that their sanitizers kill 99. 9 percent of germs (细菌) , but research suggests that this not the case.

How do hand sanitizers work?

Most sanitizers are alcohol-based; they work by removing the outer layer of oil on our skin, then the alcohol kills the bacteria.

However, Barbara Almanza, associate professor at Purdue University, notes that hand sanitizers do not significantly reduce the amount of bacteria, and in some cases, can increase it.

So the question arises, how can manufacturers say sanitizers kill 99. 9 percent of bacteria?

How can manufacturers make the 99. 9 percent claim (声称) ?

Manufacturers test their products on bacteria-tainted surfaces. In this controlled environment, hand sanitizers do kill 99. 9 percent of bacteria. However, the human hand is a lot more complex and goes through a lot of different changes in a day compared to a controlled surface.

These tests allow manufactures to obtain consistent results. But, in reality, how effective are hand sanitizers in killing bacteria in everyday life?

Hand sanitizer VS hand soap and water

Almanza says that soap and water are the best way to clean your hands. Hand sanitizer cannot and should not be a direct replacement.

However, they are a useful alternative. To effectively kill bacteria, studies recommend that people use sanitizers that are at least 60 percent alcohol. Also, sanitizers won't work if you have dirty hands, so wipe them with a tissue or napkin before sanitizing.

What about antibacterial soaps?

Research has shown that regular soap is just as effective as antibacterial soap in reducing bacteria-related illnesses.

In fact, some consumer antibacterial soap may increase some bacteria's resistance to antibiotics (抗生素) , making them more dangerous.

Other studies show that overly clean environments will negatively affect children by preventing their immune (免疫的) system development. Children need to fight off common germs to develop their immune systems.

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What Is Social Media?

    Not many people ask the question “what is social media?” anymore. Social media has been around for years now, and most of us would probably describe it as any Internet medium that can be used to share information with others, including blogs, forums, applications, games, websites and other stuff.

    But let me ask you this: what exactly is so “social” about sitting before a computer setting up a blog and blogging for days without anybody reading it, or scrolling through your Facebook feed of information from 500 friends you barely know? If you ask me, it can be way more anti-social than anything.

    Social media is not a “thing”. It's not just Facebook, WeChat and Weibo It's more of a frame of mind and a state of being. It's about how you use it to improve your relationships with other people in real life. However, we tend to rely on technology and social media so much that it can actuallytear apartthose relationships.

    Social media isn't about numbers. When someone says “social media,” web giants like Facebook, Twitter, WeChat and Weibo instantly pop into our minds, often because they have more updates, more friends, more followers, more links, more photos, more everything. We tend to get distracted by the number game, thinking “volume, volume, volume”. It's led to a lot of meaningless noise and information overload. As the old saying goes, quality over quantity is usually the way to go. So, social media is not just about lots of people aimlessly pushing around lots of information.

    Social media needs to have an “IRL” factor-an Internet slang standing for “In Real Life”. It should affect how a person thinks or acts offline. After all, social media shouldn't be an end in itself. It was built to enhance your actual social life, in real life. Take for example an event that a person attends because they are invited by the host on Facebook through a Facebook event page. Something like that definitely has the IRL factor. Likewise, a WeChat photo that touches someone so much that they feel the need to bring it up and describe it to someone else during a dinner date also has the IRL factor.

    So, is it really considered to be social to spend an hour scrolling through photos on Weibo, with no thoughtful or emotional effect and no interaction with others? In fact, there is no wall between real life and Internet life where true social media exists. Social media is not a specific place on the Internet or just a thing you use to see what other people are doing. It's all about creating meaningful experiences and relationships wherever you may be.

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You know that eating healthy, staying active, and solving a few brain games can help keep your memory. But the following lesser-known habits work wonders too.

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When we sit with our shoulders bent forward, this defeated position actually causes us to feel anxious or depressed — which makes it harder to think clearly and remember things. Conversely (反过来), straight upright posture apparently improves memory because it boosts blood and oxygen flow to the brain.

⒉ Exercise — Once

Having trouble remembering faces? In a study, pictures of faces were shown to

older folks after they pedal a stationary (静止的) bike at an intense pace or simply sit on a self-pedaling bike. On average, people remembered the faces better after the intense exercise. What's more, the memory gains after a single workout were similar to the gains after 3 months of regular exercise.

⒊ Limit TV

Every parent and grandparent has heard that too much screen time can hurt a child's cognitive development. According to a study, people (aged 50 or older) who watched more than 3. 5 hours of TV a day for 6 years experienced a greater drop in verbal memory test scores than those who watched less.

⒋ Draw aimlessly

A research shows those who drew the words remembered the most when recalling words. That's because while some parts of the brain about getting memory back become worse as people grow older, the picture processing regions usually don't.      

⒌ Walk Backward

Walk back! Backward motion — whether real, imagined, or watched — helps people remember the information better than sitting still and, in most cases, better than forward motion. It may be that moving backward in space mentally helps us move back in time to the moment we learned something.

A. Sit Tall.

B. Stand Straight.

C. Start more workouts.

D. Sweat for physical training.

E. Thus sketching can help adults keep their memory sharp.

F. But what about those at the other end of their life span?

G. Next time you're trying to recall something, don't just think back.

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Inspiration can be a strange thing. You never know when it might hit. And sometimes, it can come from the most 1places.

I recently read about an author named Nnedi Okorafor. When she was in college, she had a serious spine disorder (脊椎病). Okorafor was told that a simple operation could2it. But when she woke up from her3, she found that she couldn't move her legs and was in great pain.

Okorafor got well later. But before she did, she saw strange things in her hospital room. She imagined her4as a beast that hunted her from the shadows. But she also5a woman-a woman who could fly. In fact, this   6woman inspired her and helped her forget her pain. "I felt myself become7. " she wrote in her book Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected.

We never know where we might find the inspiration to create. As a8, most of my inspiration comes from other people's music. But I also find9in other places. Books, movies and10just moments in everyday life can lead to new creations.

11, I recently rewatched the film Blade Runner. I've seen it plenty times before; it's one of my favorite movies. But this time, for some reason, I saw it12. I decided to make that could create the same feeling as the 13. It's not done yet, but the music I'm working on now is heavily influenced by the movie's setting and characters.

Anything can  14us. You just have to be15to catch inspiration when it hits.

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Did you grow up in one culture, your parents came from another, and you are now living in a  (total) different country? If so, then you are a third-culture kid.

The term "third-culture kid"  (use) in the 1960s for the first time by Dr. Ruth. She first came across this phenomenon while  (research) North American children living in India. In general, third-culture kids benefit from  (they) intercultural experience and they often reach excellent academic results.

Yet many  (difficulty) may arise from this phenomenon. Third-culture kids may not be able to adapt themselves completely  their new surroundings. Also, they often find it hard  (develop) new friendships. Additionally, for third-culture kids, it is often  (easy) to move to a new country than to return to their homeland. For example, after living in Australia for many years, Louis finally returned to Turkey as a teenager. But she felt out of place when she returned to the country  she was born. She didn't know anything about current TV shows  fashion trends. And she didn't share the same values as other teens of her age.

假定你是李华，你的外国笔友Jack在网上看到了中国学生在疫情期间做家务的照片，发来邮件想了解你的相关情况。请你回复邮件，内容包括：

1）你做的家务；

2）家人的态度；

3）你的感受。

注意：

1）词数80左右；

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3）开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Jack,

……

Yours,

Li Hua

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。续写的词数应为150左右。

I have seen amazing things.

My first visit was to a space station considered the most modern in space. Described as an enormous round plate, it spins slowly in space to imitate the pull of the earth's gravity. Inside was an exhibition of the most up-to-date inventions of the 31^st century. A guide showed us around along a moveable path.

Guide: Good morning to all our visitors from 2008. First we're going to examine one of the latest forms of communication among our space citizens! Messages can now be sent using a "thoughtpad". You place the metal band over your head, clear your mind, press the sending button, think your message and the next instant it's sent. It's stored on the "thoughtpad" of the receiver. It's quick, efficient and environmentally friendly. The only limitation is if the user does not think his or her message clearly, an unclear message may be sent. But we cannot blame the tools for the faults of the user, can we?

During the explanation I looked at the pair of small objects called "thoughtpad" on a table. They just looked like metal ribbon. So ordinary but so powerful! While I was observing them, the path moved us on.

Guide: And now ladies and gentlemen, we are in the "environment area". People used to collect waste in dustbins. Then the rubbish was sent to be buried or burned, am I right?（We nodded. ）Well, now there's a system where the waste is disposed of using the principles of ecology. A giant machine, always greedy for more, swallows all the waste available. The rubbish is turned into several grades of useful material, such as "fertilizer" for the fields and "soil" for deserts. Nothing is wasted, and everything, even plastic bags is recycled. A great idea, isn't it?

I stared at the moving of the waste machine, absorbed by its efficiency. But again we moved on.

Part 1

Our third stop shows the changes that have happened to work practices. Manufacturing no longer takes place on earth but on space stations like this one.

Part 2

My mind began to wander. What job would I do? My motivation increased as I thought of the wonderful world of the future.