山东省聊城市2021年普通高中学业水平等级考试英语模拟卷（三模）

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Community Volunteer Project, Nepal

Carried out in locations throughout Nepal, this project is aimed at promoting social well- being through cultural exchange and supporting health care and environmental issues.

Location

Farming placements (实习工作) are available in the Terai of Chitwan in southern Nepal, and the foothills of the Himalayas near Gerkhu. Medical placements are available in the cities of Kathmandu or Pokhara.

Free Time

You can explore the local area and spend time with your host family experiencing Nepalese culture. All placements also include a guided sightseeing tour of Kathmandu.

Testimonial (推荐信)

It was very-rewarding. I hope more volunteers can get out there and make a difference, helping to give Nepalis a standard of living that matches the great quality of family values they have and the amazing landscapes there.

* Cape Fear River Watch Conservation Project, the USA

An environmental volunteering opportunity for students to work towards protecting and improving the water quality of the Lower Cape Fear River Basin in Wilmington, North Carolina, the USA, through environmental education, advocacy and action.

Location

This charming city is located in the southeastern corner of North Carolina between the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic Ocean.

Free Time

Wilmington offers the perfect environment for many outdoor activities such as surfing, sailing and biking. In addition, the nearby Wrightsville, Carolina and Kure Beaches are tourist attractions for boaters, surfers, sunbathers and seafood lovers.

Testimonial

Leading the Eco Camp at the end of my stay was one of the most exciting experiences during my stay. I was able to share my enthusiasm for the environment with not only the children at the camp but their parents.

Fraser Dane, the UK

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Jack Frost has paid another visit to the Midwest. For the second time this week, a major winter storm has left people from Oklahoma to the Great Lakes struggling to stay safe and warm. Heavy, wet snow has shut down major highways, put off flights and left hundreds of thousands of Midwesterner without power. "It's just snow. That's all we can see," said Shannon Wick ware of Woodward.

The storm began in Texas on Sunday and rapidly traveled north. A gust of wind pushed the storm up towards Oklahoma, bringing fifteen inches of snow to parts of Oklahoma. It then moved east and hovered over Chicago, dropping four inches of wet snow on top of the city and its suburbs. Airlines canceled nearly 500 flights at Chicago's O' Hare and Midway airports. Later, the storm swept Ohio, causing a lot of problems for the local people. Taking into account the safety of their students in the storm, many schools in the affected areas either put off opening or did not open at all.

In Kansas City, Missouri, up to ten inches of snow had fallen before midday on Tuesday. The city's mayor, Sty James, declared a state of emergency. Most government and office buildings were shut down. Some hospitals were forced to close urgent-care clinics.

While heavy snowfall is not usual for this part of the country at this time of year, it is the amount of moisture in the snow that makes conditions extra "treacherous". When snow is especially wet, it weighs down trees and brings down power lines. Roofs can cave in under the pressure and roads can become very icy. The power lines have cut off electricity to more than 100, 000 homes and businesses in the Midwest.

As snow falls and the temperature continues to drop, people are preparing the best they can to stay dry and safe. The bad weather is making travel difficult for even snowplows (扫雪机) and repair vehicles.

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A sense of belonging to a group of co-workers is a better motivator for some employees than money，according to a study by University of lowa researchers. "We find that some self-managed teams show increased performance, when their members work together well," says Greg Stewart, the lead professor in the study.

At the beginning，Stewart's group studied how managers of self-managed teams decided payment. They studied 587 workers in 45 self-managed teams in Iowa. The members were allowed to give suggestions on how much their teammates should be paid for their work. The managers collected their ideas and then made decisions. The members were asked about how much their team spirit attracted them，and managers were asked about the productivity of both individuals and teams.

"In high functioning teams the group members work actively with each other, and they encourage and support each other, " says Stephen Courtright，member of the research group. The reason is that peer pressure acts as an important social force. Members don't want to disappoint their teammates，so team spirit is more effective even than money as a motivating tool. People have a social need to be accepted，to be regarded as a part of a group and want to perform well.

However, this works only when team members get along. When they don't, then self- managed teams perform badly. When team members don't care much for each other, Courtright says team spirit as a motivating factor won't work. So money becomes the main motivating factor to improve productivity.

The carrot and stick method is that managers offer team members things in order to persuade them to work and punish them if they refuse. "Teams perform better when there is pressure from peers to perform well than when managers wave a carrot and stick," Courtright says. "However, the carrot and stick method works well when team members just can't get along. "

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Facial recognition technology was used to permit passengers to get on flights at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International airport last week, making it the first in the nation to use the system. The technology can be used by international passengers traveling through a special terminal, which is operated by Delta Airlines. Delta said it is the first fully biometric (生物特征识别) airport terminal to operate in the U.S.

The goal of the system is to simplify and speed up the process of presenting documents to get on a flight. Passengers can begin using the facial recognition system when they first arrive at the airport. After the first check-in, passengers can also use face recognition to pass through security and to get on the plane. The system prevents the need for travelers to present their passport up to four times during the usual check in process. Travelers look into a camera that scans their face. This image is then compared against a collection of pictures kept by the CBP (U. S. Customs and Border Protection). The agency collects face scans from passports and visas.

The system, however, has raised concerns about privacy. Jeramie Scott, a lawyer with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, has called the use of facial recognition at U. S. airports a "massive threat". He said that the government has created "a digital ID of millions of Americans" through facial recognition, and the government's facial recognition database of citizens could he used for other purposes without an individual's permission. "The government now has the power to identify you whenever it wants. And they did this without a public discussion or consent taking photos collected for one purpose and using it for another," he said.

The CBP told CBS News that any U. S. citizen who has privacy concerns can choose not to take part in the facial recognition system. This would prevent the airline from collecting a face scan to compare with SBP records. Its policy is to remove photos of U. S. citizens from its system once their identifies have been confirmed.

Delta Gay about two percent of passengers using the Atlanta airport terminal have chosen not to use the facial recognition system. Next year, the airline plans to expand its biometric system for international travelers at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Michigan.

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Have you ever observed the streets in the morning? You will see some people walking on the street or a few vehicles passing by. There might be some people in their gym clothes going to their gym and there might be some coming out for a normal morning walk.It is because many people choose to exercise in the morning. There are many advantages of a morning workout. A few of these advantages are discussed below.

One of the advantages of a morning workout is that your remain fresh all throughout the day. The workouts may be anything like a walk, gym, dance or yoga. You no longer feel tired or sleepy.

People who exercise regularly in the morning are observed to have healthy diet habits. Also, it is observed that the diet options of people who work out in the morning are healthy.Morning workouts are beneficial if you are suffering from indigestion.

Once you start exercising in the morning you put a schedule to your day.Everybody has a busy schedule and it becomes hard to spare time for exercising. Morning time is the only best option available for exercising to a lot of people.

Exercising with light stomach is very good and has more effects than exercising after lunch or breakfast. The morning air is very fresh and has more oxygen compared to the rest of the day.

A. Morning workouts hardly take you a lot of time.

B. The workouts make you have less time to rest than before.

C. The food digestion is proper and the body functions better.

D. This particular scene is quite evident in the mornings.

E. The advantage is that you are more regular than before.

F. The morning workouts are usually before breakfast.

G. The morning workouts keep your skin and face fresh as well.

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It had been only two weeks, but teaching at Ming Jheng turned out to be the most rewarding experience of my life. I not only 1 a deeper understanding about teaching, 2 experienced unimaginable cultural differences. I made some lifelong friends, and learned to be a more 3 individual.

Things were not all 4 at the beginning. Never having taught before, I still recall how 5 I was at the night before my first day of class. How would I keep the students 6 for six periods a day? How would they react to my teaching plans and activities? There were many other conditions and fears I had to 7. Having been forced into such a situation, I was taught by my fellow teachers a lot about being a more generous, considerate person.

Teaching at Ming Jheng turned out to be quite 8 from what I had expected. I was 9 by how respectful most of the students were. Some girls would 10 to me and offer me messages while 11 would share their precious candies with me. During the breaks, a group of second graders would gather around me and ask for hugs. Gradually, the third and fourth graders would 12 me by the hand and make me play with them in the playground. How nicely these kids treated me and appreciated me! All my 13 and exhaustion paid off in the end. Everything was worth it.

Now, as I 14 the past month, I can smile and say, that I've truly grown, mentally and socially. Thanks to the Overseas Compatriot Youth Volunteer Teaching English Program, it has taught me so many things I would 15 have learned in school.

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Ecotourism is the opposite of mass tourism. People travel to remote areas and visit faraway places without destroying the environment. Ecotourism is intended small groups of tourists who want to learn more about nature in a certain area and help people who live there. Eco-tourists travel to places plants and animals are the main attractions. They want to know more about how people live side by side in natural habitat.

Ecotourism makes people recognize how beautiful the land and the countryside are. Local tour guides show (visit) how important our environment is. They know how the region has developed over time. Tourists stay in small local houses, as opposed to big hotels in mass tourism regions.

Ecotourism started out in the 1980s as an alternative to mass tourism. Today it is one of the (fast) growing sectors of the tourism industry because more and more people are (gradual) realizing the importance of the environment. As a result, some countries are using ecotourism (gain) profits. In some areas, it (operate) by foreign investors who are only interested in (they) own profits. However, (bring) too many people to the remote place could damage local culture.

假定你是某英文报社的一位业余记者，为了弘扬中国传统文化，你所在的社区在五一劳动节期间举办了“首届社区文化节”，请用英语写一篇文章报道此事。内容包括：

1）活动目的;

2）活动内容：剪纸大赛、书法展览等;

3）你的感受。

注意：

1）词数80左在;

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

The First Community Culture Festival was a Success

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Forty-three years seems like a long time to remember the name of a mere friend. I have already forgotten the name of an old lady who was a customer on my paper route when I was a twelve-year-old boy in Marinette, Wisconsin back in 1954. Yet it seems like just yesterday that she taught me a lesson in forgiveness that I can only hope to pass on to someone else someday. On a Saturday afternoon, a friend and I were throwing rocks onto the roof of the old lady's house from a secret spot in her backyard. The object of our play was to observe how the rocks changed to missiles as they rolled to the roof's edge and shot out into the yard like comets (彗星) falling from the sky.

I found myself a perfectly smooth rock and sent it for a ride. The stone was too smooth, however, so it slipped from my hand as I let it go and headed straight for a small window on the old lady's back porch. At the sound of broken glass, we took off from the old lady's yard faster than any of our missiles flew off her roof.

I was so scared about getting caught that I was concerned about the old lady with the broken porch window all the time that night. However, a few days later, when I was sure that I hadn't been discovered, I started to feel guilty for her bad luck. She still greeted me with a smile each day when I gave her the paper, but I was no longer able to look into her eyes.

I made up my mind that I would save my paper delivery money, and in three weeks I had the seven dollars that I thought would cover the cost of her window. I put the money in an envelope with a note explaining that I was sorry for breaking her window and hoped that the seven dollars would cover the cost for repairing it.

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I waited until it was dark.

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The next day, I handed the old lady her paper.