广西梧州市岑溪市2022-2023学年高一下学期期中英语试题

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Best Places to Visit in England

As the largest part of the United Kingdom, England is home to many great places to visit. The following destinations are some of the best.

London

Of course, most visitors to England will arrive in London. It's home to a long list of famous sights as well as beautiful green spaces. It also houses some of the best museums on the planet, many of which are free. See the city from above by riding the London Eye or run into famous people at Madame Tussauds（杜莎夫人蜡像馆）.

Liverpool

Liverpool is well known as the place that started The Beatles, though you'll find a lot more to do there than visit The Beatles Museum. Spend time in the pubs chatting with the locals, go shopping at Liverpool One and enjoy the beaches. Art lovers will enjoy Liverpool's excellent art sight.

Bath

Some people say Bath is England's most beautiful small city, named for its natural hot springs that served as ancient Roman baths（浴缸） 2, 000 years ago. And, today, it 's the only place in the United Kingdom where you can bathe in naturally hot, mineral-rich waters just like the Romans did long ago. Enjoy rooftop baths with wonderful views over this Georgian city, dine in award-winning restaurants and stay in romantic hotels.

Dover

Dover, located in White Cliffs Country, offers a rich history as well as peaceful countryside and a breathtaking coastline. This area has a unique place in history. You could easily spend weeks experiencing this area 's castles, like Dover Castle as well as the Secret War Time Tunnels, once used as an underground hospital.

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Yesterday I had this feeling of wanting to fish by the St. Louis river. As I got to the river bank, I saw two pairs of married couples fishing. And a father was in his sailboat while his son was swimming right beside his sailboat. As I put my boat into the water to fish, everything seemed to be OK at least at the moment. The wind was becoming a little stronger and so were the waves （波浪） at a quicker rate. I watched the father pulling his anchor （锚）. His son continued swimming.

Ten minutes later, as I was in what I believed at the time was a big fish. I heard a scream that no parent ever wants to hear. The sound was a child screaming for his life as he was being washed away by the water.

I looked around. There was neither his dad nor the two pairs of married couples in sight. I then dropped my fishing line and rowed as quickly as I could to the kid. I quickly got the kid to calm down and pulled him onto the shore.

I was worried about how cold he was so I called first-aid medical services. At this time, his father appeared. I stayed long enough to watch the father reunite with his son.

Officers interviewed the child's father and learned they were sailing on the river when the boy wanted to swim next to the boat, holding an attached （依附的） rope. The boy lost hold of the rope, and the wind pushed the sailboat away from the boy.

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In 2021, new research suggested that nearly half of American teenagers said they used the Internet almost without stopping. The study also found that teens who said they were online almost all the time rose from 24 percent in 2015 to 46 percent. The results were based on a public opinion study carried out from April 14 to May 4. The study included 1, 316 teens aged 13 to 17 years old.

The research found that about 95 percent of American teens had smartphones. The study also asked teens about their social media （媒体） behavior. It found that the number of teens using Facebook had dropped to 32 percent, down from 71 percent in 2015. The research showed that teens had moved away from Facebook to spend time on the video-sharing services YouTube and TikTok. About 95 percent of teens said they used Google-owned YouTube, while 67 percent said they used TikTok.

About 62 percent of the teens said they used Instagram, a popular photo-sharing app, which is owned by Facebook's parent company Meta. About 59 percent said they used Snapchat, which is a free messaging and social networking app for smartphones. Less than one fourth of teens said they used Twitter. A quarter of teens who used Snapchat or TikTok said they used these apps almost without stopping, and a fifth of teen YouTube users said the same, the study said. The research found that teen boys were more likely than teen girls to use YouTube. Teen girls were more interested in using TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat.

The services of some apps including Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok had introduced new functions （功能） that were designed to make safer and more suitable for young users.

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Most people think that regular （有规律的） exercise does health wonders for people, but what exactly are its health benefits （益处）?

To start with, research suggests regular exercise can help make people's body strong. It helps cut down on the number of different diseases people face each year. Regular exercise throughout the year helps the working quality of people's heart become better and lower blood pressure. During exercise, people's heart must work harder so that it can make blood go throughout the body. This extra effort makes it grow stronger over the long term. At the same time, as little as 30 minutes per day can help to lower blood pressure. It helps move away things that are all linked to having high blood pressure.

Exercise has a good effect on people's mind and spirit too. If you are suffering from stress and sadness, regular gentle exercise is one way to improve your full sense of happiness. The way that exercise improves people's mental state is by moving away the bad effect of stress that swims into their bodies, helping them find deep calm.

Some studies even show that exercise keeps people's skin fit. Exercise helps keep skin cells alive and healthy by increasing blood flow. Blood carries oxygen and nutrients to working cells throughout the body, including the skin. In addition to providing oxygen, blood flow also helps carry away waste products. You can think of it just like cleaning your skin from the inside.

However, we should know that when suffering from an illness, try not to finish all your plan for exercise. The body needs time to recover. Strong exercise can be harmful to the immune system （免疫系统） when it is already under pressure. Instead, take a gentle walk when falling ill to help recovery.

So, now you know the benefits of exercise and how to do it properly. What are you waiting for?

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As our human population and resource need grow, we are leaving less and less room for wildlife. But the good news is that each of us can play a role in helping wild animals by making the world a better place for them.

Go outside and connect with wildlife. Take a walk and enjoy the wildlife all around you-the birds, butterflies, elephants and the like. Spend more time outside appreciating, enjoying and learning about wildlife.

Speak up for wildlife. , Speak up and speak out against wildlife illegal poaching（偷猎）, wild animal exploration, sport hunting of wild animals, overfishing. the illegal pet trade, wild animals used for entertainment, and much more. , Then spread them on social media. encourage friends and others to watch them too, and share your ideas about how to protect and save wildlife.

. Collecting rubbish can save the life of an animal. Pick up any plastic bag. Plastic of any kind, fishing line, and anything that can be mistaken for food by animals. or can trap and even kill then.

Never buy products from threatened or endangered species. When traveling to a foreign country, shopping overseas, or shopping in your local area, never buy gifts or products that support the illegal wildlife trade, or are from animals in danger. .

A. Pick up rubbish around you

B. Contact the local government

C. Your choice could make a big difference

D. Become a voice for wildlife on social media

E. Take a free online class on wildlife protection

F. Learn about the lives and problems many animals are facing today

G. Let's become an active protector by putting the following ideas into practice

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Marcus is a handsome and athletic kid. He plays tennis and 1the state tournament every year. Marcusˈs neighbor, Conrad, is also 2to compete, but he has rheumatoid arthritis (类风湿性关节炎). Although it pains him just to walk, he 3painful days at school walking to the sports field. He loves watching his school compete so he doesnˈt 4a game.

Marcus has known Conrad since primary school. Theyˈve always been 5. He sees Conrad in pain and his 6at not being able to play sports. So, every day alter school, Marcus 7his classmates to go to Conradˈs for a moment of discussion about the game competition. The discussion is as 8as a real high school game, which makes Conrad forget the hurt.

Finally, the doctors found a new 9to reduce the pain. Conrad walks without much pain, and then begins running, but he still has to learn the 10of running. After a childhood of walking carefully and taking 11steps, Conrad has to train his walking like a kid again and stay in shape. He pushes himself every day, building his lungs and doing leg lifts repeatedly for his leg 12. He knows what pain feels like, but running for Conrad is no longer 13.

To Conradˈs delight, he gets a chance to join the cross country team. Conrad doesnˈt win, not once, but Marcus is there, 14for him who always finishes in the middle of the competitors, breathing in wind and waving his hands 15.

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Confucius was born into a middle class family in Lu State, an area with the modern city of Qufu, in Chinaˈs Shandong Province. Now, he (remember) for his teachings, which, along with the works of his students, formed the rule of Confucianism (儒学) many(year) after his passing away.

Confucius also lived active political life. From his job as Minister of Crime, he took part in a campaign (运动) to distance Lu from the rule of the state instead of(work) for the central government. However, the plan failed. After a short period of being sent to live in another country, Confucius could finally return to Lu state (spend) the rest of his life as a teacher of philosophy.

Even up to the time of Confuciusˈs (die), his teachings were not (wide) accepted in China, and most of (they) were lost when the emperor Qin ordered the burning of Confuciusˈs books.

Yet, his philosophical (哲学的) ideas survived during the later Han Dynasty. Emperor Han Wudi,was inspired by the social and political wisdom of Confucius, accepted Confucianism and applied his systems of morality everywhere from classrooms law courts. The teachings of Confucius still spread far across China and the Far East.

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2. 使用较为复杂的密码；
3. 勿使用公共电脑购物。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

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I had an independent and clever dog named Stickeen. He enjoyed the delicious food that my family prepared for him every day. He often ran out of my sight when walking with me.

Early one morning, I went to explore a nearby glacier（冰川）. Stickeen followed me, and together we went upon the glacier. Later. I discovered that we were trapped between two very deep cracks（裂缝） in the glacier. The only way across it was a very thin ice that connected the cracks. I made a path across the"bridge"and got to the other side. But my dog was afraid to have a try and began to cry. After taking another careful look at the large cracks, he ran away hopelessly to find some other crossings. By the time he got back, he was confused of course.

When I reached the other side, he screamed louder than ever, and after running back and forth without searching for a good way to escape, he would return to the edge（边缘） of the crack, crying as if in the sadness of death. I called again and again in a sure voice to come on and fear nothing, but he would think for a moment. look down again at the"bridge", and shout his unshakable thought that he could never, never come that way, and then lie back hopelessly, as if screaming, "O-o-oh!What a place!Noo-o, I can never go-o-o down there!"At last, I seriously shouted to him that now I must certainly leave him and I could wait no longer if he could not come.

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2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

He knew very well what I meant.

When we went back home, Stickeen was a changed dog.