湖北省七市州教科研协作体2024届高三下学期二模英语试题

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Whether you are a lifelong bookworm or are trying to develop a love for reading in your kids, the 2024 Miami Book Fair is for you. 

• When and Where Is the Fair?

This much-loved South Florida event will be held from May 12 to 18, 2024 at the MDC Wolfson Campus Plaza in Downtown Miami. 

• What to Expect at the Fair?

This year, the fair will feature more than 400 celebrated authors from around the world. There will be a rich collection of writers and their works of almost every type under the sun. Readers can not only explore arts and crafts, but also experience face painting and book giveaways. For green writers, it's a place to connect with their favorite editors. For book lovers, it's an opportunity to get autographs (亲笔签名) from many popular authors and ask them some questions. During this week-long book feast, you will find a group of events running from morning to night.

• How Much Does the Fair Cost?

On Friday. the fair is free. On Saturday or Sunday, it is 10 for an adult for one day, or you can get a two-day pass for $ 15. Kids under age 12 can attend for free and the kid aged 13-18 is $5 per day. 

So mark your calendars, head to Downtown Miami, and enjoy yourself in the heart of the city's literary scene.

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Every morning on the island of Oahu, students at Pu' öhala Elementary gather on a field as towering mountains watch them from the mist. Their day starts with songs in ‘ölelo Hawai'i, the islands' native language, restating values of respect and justice that their teachers hope will guide them through their education, and throughout their lives.

Like most kids their age, they're not concerned about the significance of the language they're learning. Still, they have a weighty responsibility: to receive the torch (火炬) and ensure the security of ‘ölelo Hawai' i for future generations.

It was only 50 years ago that the language was on the edge of extinction. Though the situation is much improved, in many ways ‘ölelo Hawai' i is still on life support. Teachers say there's a huge enthusiasm for school kids to learn the language, but as they grow up, they're encouraged to focus on "more useful" subjects and use English, which are believed to assist them in achieving success in their work. In 2016, there were 18, 610 Hawaiian speakers on the islands.

"One hundred thousand is the approximate number of speakers needed to consider the language safe, " says Solomon, professor of Hawaiian language at University of Hawai'i at Manoa. "The idea is that there are enough people passing it on to the next generation, socializing their children to use the language in all domains of life, to express all thoughts and needs and desires. "

Fortunately, the kids of Pu' öhala Elementary will take the responsibility to continue the work of the current young adults defending the language, expanding access to ‘ölelo Hawai'i in part through TikTok and Instagram, and making the language a practical skill in adulthood. These youth, along with those committed to recovering the language from previous generations, share their hopes for the better.

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A new study involving nearly 50,000 people from four continents offers new insights into identifying the quantity of daily walking steps that will best improve adults' health and longevity(长寿), and whether the ideal number of steps differs across people of different ages. The study represents an effort to develop an evidence-based public health message about the benefits of physical activity. The often-repeated 10,000-step-a-day saying grew out of a decades-old marketing activity for a Japanese pedometer(计步器), with no science to back it up.

Led by physical activity professor Amanda Paluch, an international group of scientists conducted an experiment among adults aged 18 and older. They grouped the nearly 50,000 participants into four comparative groups according to average steps per day. The lowest step group averaged 3,500 steps; the second, 5,800; the third, 7,800; and the fourth, 10,900 steps per day. Among the three higher active groups, there was a 40—53% lower risk of death, compared to the lowest step group. 

More specifically, for adults 60 and older, the risk of early death leveled off at about 6,000—8,000 steps per day, meaning that more steps than that provided no additional benefit for longevity, while for adults younger than 60, about 8, 000—10,000 steps per day. 

"So, what we saw was this continuing reduction in risk as the number of steps increases, until it levels off. Interestingly, the study found no definitive association with walking speed." Paluch says.

The new study supports and expands findings from another study led by Paluch before, which found that walking at least 7,000 steps a day reduced middle-aged people's risk of early death. "There's a lot of evidence suggesting that moving even a little more is beneficial, particularly for those who are doing very little activity." Paluch says. "More steps per day are better for your health."

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Despite its benefits, drinking milk into adulthood, let alone other animals' milk, is a strange behavior in the animal kingdom. What makes it even stranger is that an estimated 68 percent of the global human population is actually lactose (乳糖) intolerant. Scientists are still getting to the bottom of why the practice began and continued. This research could unlock new understandings of our food cultures and even our DNA．

The earliest evidence of animal milk drinking dates back almost 

9. 000 years to modern-day Turkey near the sea of Marmara. where milk fats have been found on ancient pottery. According to Jessica Hendy. a scientist at the University of York. then milk would have been part of a diverse diet for it was mixed with other food. From its origins, the technology of making use of milk spread into the Caucasus and then across Europe. By the Bronze Age, people may have been using cow's milk to feed their babies.

For a long time, researchers believed that milk drinking changed as a cultural practice hand in hand with the spread of genetic mutations (变异) that allowed people to tolerate milk into adulthood. But one recent finding suggests milk drinking occurred before these mutations and might not even require them. In Europe. people appear to have been drinking milk for thousands of years before any genetic ability to drink milk became common. The ancient cheese making equipment might offer part of the solution: Fermenting (发酵) milk into yogurt. cheese, or other products reduces the amount of lactose. In Mongolia. researchers have not yet found a genetic mutation that allows people to digest lactose, despite the major role of milk in that culture. So some scientists held that there might be other potential factors helping. 

What we do know about the history of milk reveals how wrong-headed one-size-fits-all nutritional guidance can be. In modern America. milk drinking has been presented as a universal good. In reality, how milk is prepared can change the nutritional picture, and how much our bodies process depends, at least in part. on our own genes.

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My name is McKenzie Skiles and I'm a snow hydrologist (水文学家) at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Actually, the purpose is to track dust's impact on water resources.

I am most interested in the impact of warming temperatures on snow melting rates, and I have started studying snowmelt since 2009 in Utah and Colorado. When I skied to research sites in Utah to collect snow for my experiment, the mountainous landscapes were covered in dust. It's clear that 2009 was one of the biggest years for dust deposition (沉积) onto snow.

 I usually have to cover several kilometers, carrying a 27-kilogramme pack with a shovel (铲子) to dig a snow hole, tools to cut snow and measure its density, and containers to collect snow for analyses. One year, I hit a dusty area of snow, broke my ski and sliced my leg open. 

In areas with heavy dust deposition, such as the southern Rocky Mountains, dust speeds up melting by one or two months. Warming air temperatures affect snow gathering, but dust builds up over time and darkens the surface. 

I'm now exploring different ice and snow landscapes for further research. For example, how black-carbon buildup following forest fires affects melting. As we move into a future that is likely to be even dustier, we need them to predict snowmelt for many reasons, including working out how to use water in the western United States efficiently.

A．The dust caused a lot of trouble.

B．I went for miles in the wilderness.

C．Doing my research is no easy task.

D．One of the goals is to develop snowmelt models.

E．In Colorado, the red dust from desert soils had also blown in.

F．As a result, the snow will absorb more sunlight and quicken melting.

G．My job is to ski in the wilderness to measure dust on top of snow each spring.

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Community ovens are a centuries-old tradition worldwide. There are actually records going back to the 12th century when home ovens were not 1 . The community ovens were places where people chatted together while their food was 2 .

Fast forward to today, Brickyard Bakery has 3 the unique approach. It 4 to bake cakes for customers and provides them with a warm place to stay while their cakes, which 5 take four or more hours to bake, are in the oven. It's reported that due to the increasing cost of fuel, many individuals cannot 6 to leave their ovens on that long.

Owner Ed Hamilton-Trewhitt told the BBC, "We've 7 the idea of a community oven from ancient times. People can 8 their cake base (胚) at home. But 9 being baked in their own ovens, it can be 10 to our bakery for a large amount of baking."

"It struck me that if one was 11 about the energy costs of baking the Christmas cake, there would be lots more out there 12 the same situation," he added. "In the big picture, it costs me so little but makes a massive 13 . "

The response to this attempt has been so 14 that Hamilton-Trewhitt has provided the 15 until right before Christmas. After all, that's what being a good neighbor is all about.

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Walking along the Great Wall is a once-in-a-lifetime dream for many, but Jim Spear has taken it one step  (far), spending the last 18 years living in a village beneath the ancient wonder. 

 68-year-old, a self-taught architect from the US, made the most important decision of his life to move to China in 1986, a year before the Great Wall  (list) as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Today, Spear calls Mutianyu village home. In this quiet place, (locate) at the foot of the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall, he lives with his dog in a home with a courtyard garden he tended  (he). 

As an architect, not only did Spear renovate (翻新) his own dream house,  comes with multiple views of the Great Wall, but he also explored ways to boost the local business and support rural residents. Over the years, the architect  (help) renovate around 20 households in Mutianyu, most of which now operate  hotels or restaurants, while  (do) his best to preserve the original structures as much as possible. 

In  (recognize) of his contributions, Spear was given the Great Wall Friendship Award in 2014.

4月1日是"国际爱鸟日"，你校学生会本周将组织学生进行户外观鸟活动。请写一则英文通知，请你校外国交换生参与。内容包括：

1. 活动简介；

2. 注意事项。

注意：

1. 写作词数应为80左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。

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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。

I faced a tight budget when I was nine. On November Ist, I used up most of the money I saved. With a small amount of pocket money left before Christmas I didn't have enough to buy presents for the family.

I was seriously considering going to my dad and asking for an advance on the next year's pocket money, so I could at least buy gifts for my family members. But then, one evening, I was sitting in my room reading advertisements in the back of a magazine. Several greeting-card companies were telling us how people could make money by selling their cards and stationery (文具). Normally, I would have passed right over the ads, but this time my situation was so difficult that I felt I had nothing to lose.

The ad that attracted me most was one by a well-known greeting-card company in my nation, whose products were of high quality. With my parents' help, I contacted the company, although they preferred adults or older kids to advertise their products. After my sincere request, they agreed to give me, a nine-year-old boy, a chance.

My sales materials arrived within the week. I had expected something small and neat, but the package looked like a dinosaur's shoebox it was close to three feet long and nearly a foot wide, full of stuff. There was a thick binder (活页夹) containing a complete selection of the cards and some writing paper, which I would be selling for around $3 per box.

Although my parents supported my try to make money by myself, they had little confidence in my success; after all, instead of an outgoing kid, I was somewhat shy. However, I was determined to have a try to challenge myself. 

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。

Wasting no time, I set off and knocked on doors in my neighborhood. 

Eventually, I earned over $20, a large sum of money for a 9-year-old kid in 1954.