河南省许昌市魏都区2023-2024学年高三上学期开学考试英语试题

Breathtaking Places and Experiences for 2023

Looking for your next adventure? You'll find it on our annual list of the world's best destinations framed by three categories (Adventure, Family, and Culture) for travelers, and these destinations for 2023 are under the radar, ahead of the curve, and ready for you to start exploring.

Adventure: Adrenaline-pumping outdoor excursions 

Trek to Choquequirao, Peru, an isolated Inca site that's under the radar—but soon to be more accessible. In New Zealand, the country that invented bungee jumping, rekindle your sense of adventure post-pandemic. In Austria, hike the cross-country Bergsteigerdorfer network of mountaineering villages to sample local culture. Finally, add Revillagigedo National Park, Mexico, to your itinerary. Its protected waters hold one of the largest aggregations of sharks and manta rays in the world.

Family: Inspiring journeys for all ages 

In Switzerland, ride the rails to quaint Alpine towns for chocolate, hiking, and skiing. Help save the turtles in Trinidad and Tobago, one of the most important leatherback turtle rookeries in the world. In California, U.S.，gather around a campfire with Golden Gate views at Presidio Tunnel Tops and hike the urban Crosstown Trail. Go birdwatching in the avian paradise that is Colombia, the enchanted land of Disney's Encanto.

Culture: Places where history and heritage rule 

Visit King Tut's new home in Egypt at Cairo's Grand Egyptian Museum and see Luxor's Avenue of the Sphinxes. Make a pilgrimage through history along Italy's Appian Way, Europe's ancient "superhighway". Explore culture and history-with a side of Low Country cuisine-at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. See one of the world's largest assemblages of stone statues at Longmen Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Henan Province, China.

One day, a young man went to Dr. Conwell and told him he wanted a college education but couldn't afford it. Dr. Conwell decided, at that moment, what his aim in life was, besides being a man of the cloth. He decided to build a university for unfortunate, but deserving, students. He did have a challenge, however. He would need a few million dollars to build the university. For Dr. Conwell, and anyone with real purpose in life, nothing could stand in the way of his goal.

Several years before this incident, Dr. Conwell was attracted by a true story with its ageless moral. The story was about a farmer who lived in Africa and through a visitor became excited about looking for diamonds. Diamonds were already discovered in abundance on the African continent and this farmer got so excited about the idea of millions of dollars' worth of diamonds that he sold his farm to head for the diamond line. He wandered all over the continent, constantly searching for diamonds, wealth, which he never found. Eventually he went completely broke and threw himself into a river and died.

Meanwhile, the new owner of his farm picked up an unusual-looking rock about the size of an egg and put it on his mantle（斗篷） as a sort of curiosity. A visitor stopped by. He told the new owner that the funny-looking rock was about the biggest diamond that had ever been found. The new owner shouted, "God, the whole farm is covered with them."

The farm turned out to be the Kimberly Diamond Mine, the richest the world has ever known. The original farmer was literally standing on "Acres of Diamonds" until he sold his farm.

Dr. Conwell learned from the story of the farmer and continued to teach it moral. Opportunity does not just come along; it is there all the time-we just have to see it. Dr. Conwell told the story over and over again on many occasions for raising money to start the college for poor students. In fact, he raised nearly six million dollars and the university he founded, Temple University in Philadelphia, has at least ten degree-granting colleges and six other schools.

Self-regulation, i.e., the ability to manage attention, emotions and impulses, as well as to pursue individual goals with perseverance, is not a skill that we usually associate with young children. However, studies show that people who demonstrated self-regulation as children go on to have on average higher income, better health and greater life satisfaction.

An international team used a randomized controlled study in elementary schools involving more than 500 first graders. The research team was able to show that even a short training unit led to a significant and sustainable improvement in self-regulation. The training did not just affect self-regulation abilities; the children had significantly improved reading ability and an improved focus on careless mistakes one year after the training, and were also considerably more likely to be admitted to a selective academic secondary school three years after the training.

The training units were based on the MCII （Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions）Strategy, which has already been the subject of excellent research studies in adults and older students. The teachers presented the abstract strategy in a playful manner using a picture book and the role model of a hurdle jumper. In the first step, the children imagined the positive effects of reaching a goal. They contrasted them with the obstacles that they might face on the way （Mental Contrasting）. The children then identified specific behaviors to face the obstacles and develop "when-then" plans（Implementation Intentions）.

"The special feature of the study is the long-term ripple effects that this short training unit can have. These effects benefit the child, and they are transferred in many ways to society as a whole over the course of the child's life," says Daniel Schunk, a professor of public and behavioral economics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. "The fact that early investments in such fundamental skills not only benefit the child alone, but also society, should be given more attention to in education policy."

Your child is unique, but what all children have in common is natural curiosity and an ability to learn they are born with. Our brains are active all the time, and a baby's brain is the busiest of all. Research has shown that babies begin to understand language about twice as fast as they actually speak it. By showing children other languages at an early age, you are giving them the opportunity to make use of their natural ability to hear and recognize between the sounds of other languages, and their ability to make sense of what they are hearing.

Communication is something that children do to help them achieve something else, and they are unaware of the large amount of learning taking place. They take everything in through their senses, making connections between what they hear, see, smell, taste and touch. As long as we provide the right conditions, their learning and development will take place in a natural way.

In your child's early years, the emotional environment is just as important as the physical environment. Children learn when they feel safe, happy, valued and listened to. This is central to any learning experience in a child's early years, including learning an additional language. Your child has a trial-and-error approach to its development, and making mistakes is a valuable part of the learning process. When children learn an additional language at an early age, they get the benefits of experimenting with that language as a natural part of their development. Their progress isn't prevented by a fear of getting it wrong, and very young children are simply working their way towards getting it right.

The long-term benefits of learning another language go beyond being able to communicate with others. Studies suggest that children learning an additional language tend to score better on standardized tests because learning languages develops listening, observation, problem-solving and critical(批判性的) thinking skills. These are skills that are of life-long benefit, both personally and professionally. Encouraging in children a love of language at an early age prepares them well for school and for life.

From the moment we wake up each day, we're faced with a continuous stream of choices. when there are too many options. This is called decision fatigue （疲劳）a state of mental overload that can impede（妨碍）our ability to make additional decisions..

When decision fatigue kicks in, you may feel like you just don't have the mental energy to deal with more decisions. .As a result, you avoid making certain choices entirely, go with the default option or make ones that aren't in line with your goals or values, experts say.

Here's how to minimize or manage this phenomenon: 

.Some easy ways to do this: When you go grocery shopping, use a master list that has the same staples, and buy the same brands each time..And if you're trying to exercise regularly, devote a consistent amount of time to it every day.

Tune in to how you're feeling. Be watchful of signs of decision fatigue and act accordingly: if you've had a demanding day that was filled with lots of decisions, put off making another one if you can. If things that wouldn't normally upset you start bothering you, consider it a sign that you may not be in the best state of mind to make a major decision. "People may not realize that they're experiencing decision fatigue," Baumeister, a professor of psychology at the University of Queensland in Australia, says.

A. It's something to watch out for
B. Make some choices automatically
C. They should turn to experts for advice
D. Put down what you have in hand and take a break from it
E. This can lead to decisional disfunction and decreased self-control
F. If you like having oatmeal for breakfast, stick with it on a daily basis
G. We tend to feel overwhelmed, anxious, stressed or otherwise out of sorts

As a kid, my life was like a kid adventure movie. My parents always played the parts of1 actors in the movie, leaving me as the shining star. 

My father could2 anything even if he was not a repairman, He always seemed to know exactly where he was going, and knew the most efficient3 to get there. I never heard him express any doubts. His air of4 made our home a safe place.

But since I became a father myself, I've come to5 that my dad must have had moments of confusion. It never showed, and we never talked about it. I also began to6 my father's efforts as he worked7 to provide for his family. Later I8 stories about his dreams—9 in the name of being a "father". Despite his talent in baseball, he gave up that10 career to become my dad. I began to understand the balancing act he faced: family vs. the dampened11 of his own soul. He12 his personal dream to go after what was considered a higher calling—that of giving his kid a(n)13 to follow his dreams.

Now I hope to give my kids the greatest gift my father gave me—warm, gentle14 of their childhood. No matter how difficult their lives may become later on, they'll always be able to take15 in those sweet memories.

Beijing is a city bridging the ancient and the modern. From Buddhist temples to museums, narrow hutong  royal palaces, it is home to more than 3,000 years of glorious history even down to its layout, with the city keeping its carefully  (build) system of ring roads.

But for all its ancient buildings, Beijing is also a place  welcomes the fast-paced development of modern life, with 21st-century architectural  (wonder) standing side by side with historical buildings of the past.

It is a distinct visual contrast (反差) that shouldn't work,  somehow these two very different worlds make a good combination.  (visit) several times over the last 10 years, I  (amaze) by the co-existence of old and new, and how a city was able to keep such a rich heritage (遗产) while constantly growing. As a photographer, I have spent the last two years  (record) everything I discovered.

The  (remark) development of this city, which is consciously designed to protect the past while stepping into the modern world,  (mean) there is always something new to discover here, and I could be photographing Beijing for the next 50 years.

1）活动时间和地点；

2）活动主题为"党在我心中"；

3）比赛主要议程。

4）期待参与。

参考词汇：中国共产党the Communist Party of China (or the CPC) 注意：词数：100左右

I have a 6-year-old boy, Sam. He is autistic(患自闭症的). Thus, dining out can be terrible. Though he loves to eat out, he dislikes the loud noise in a restaurant. He has a method to solve it: overpower(压倒) all noise with a much louder noise of his own.

This begins what I think of as fighting tables: neighboring parties raise their voice followed by Sam raising his until the loudest point of the noise is reached, making us quite unpopular with other dinners.

Faced with a possible long-time dining alone, I decided to teach my son table manners with his favourite chocolate cake at a new modern cake shop early one Tuesday night.

To my joy, we arrived at an empty cake shop. Everything went well until women entered. Neatly dressed in a simple way, they were two tables away from us. I felt a sense of bad luck coming.

The women began to chat, paying little attention to us. Sam happily took this as his start to talk loudly and overpower them. I asked Sam for a quiet voice, but unluckily Sam had left that voice at home. I looked at the neighboring table, knowing we wouldn't go noticed much longer. I planned to ask Sam to eat quickly and leave. Sam, who usually has food unhurriedly, refused to accept the sudden idea of fast dining, and he kept talking endlessly.

"SHUSH!" I said, a little angry. Sam laughed loudly as his reply. "Be quiet!" I could see that the two women were now watching us.

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

Paragraph 1： Finally, the older of the two women came over.

Paragraph 2：It turned out to be a perfect night.