2024年4月6日发(作者：)

2023-2024

学年山东省枣庄市薛城区高一上学期期末考试英语试题

Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area

The "World Wonder" and "Fairy Land on Earth" are names enjoyed by the Huanglong Scenic and

Historic Interest Area, which is famous for its colorful lakes, snow-capped mountains and valleys. It

was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1992.

Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area includes the Huanglong Valley, Mounigou Valley and

so on. The major scenery is concentrated in the 3.6-kilometer long Huanglong Valley that includes

snow-clad mountains and the easternmost glaciers in China. The Mounigou Valley includes Erdao

Lake and Zhaga Waterfall which is the biggest calcified waterfall in China.

Attention

The average temperature is around 7°C all the year round. It is misty in the morning and evening and

rainy from May to August.

How to get there

Chengdu to Huanglong

Take a bus from Chengdu Chadianzi Bus Station to Songpan county, and the buses depart at 7:30,

9:30, 11:30 and 13:00. The bus fare is 109 yuan. After arrival. take a bus to Huanglong at 6:00, 7:00

or 14:00, and the bus fare is 25-29 yuan.

Jiuzhaigou to Huanglong

Visitors can hire a private car and the fare is around 400 yuan for a round trip.

Other information

Entrance Fee: 80—190 yuan

Huanglong Cable Car Ticket: 40—80 yuan

Opening Hours: 8:00—18:00

Recommended Time for a Visit: 1 day

1. What should visitors bring to have fun in Huanglong?

A

．

Enough water. B

．

Delicious food. C

．

Warm clothes. D

．

Big shoes.

2. How should visitors go to Huanglong from Jiuzhaigou?

A

．

By plane. B

．

By car. C

．

By train. D

．

On foot.

3. What's the author's purpose in writing the text?

A

．

To compare different areas.

C

．

To show a kind of local culture.

B

．

To make suggestions about trips.

D

．

To introduce a tourist attraction.

“Where I grew up, there were not a lot of plants outside,” said Yolanda Palmer. “Some people had

them; some people didn’t.”

Palmer, who is from Southwest Philadelphia, discovered her love for plants at the age of 10.

Growing up, she developed great skills in growing plants and learned more about nature each and

every day.

“As I got a little older, one block in my neighborhood would be filled with flowers and things in the

yard,” she said. “But in another block there would be none.”

Since then, Palmer had wanted to share her love of plants with the community. But the dream

remained just a seed (

种子

) while she worked an ordinary day job. Sitting in the company she often

thought she had to do something else. Palmer then planted the seed. She started small, selling at a

local outdoor market in Southwest Philadelphia and then coming to shows and festivals in Chestnut

Hill.

By December 2021, she had her store on German town Avenue, “Foliage”. There, she sells common

plants, rare (

罕见的

) plants, small plants, and large plants. “The goal is to sell them to homeowners

to beautify their home and also to clean the air,” she said.

Palmer’s home is in Chestnut Hill, a central gardening center in the city. She hopes her message will

be able to reach other communities in the Philadelphia area. “Everyone should buy houseplants.

Everyone should want cleaner air,” she said. “And that way, in the future when our children grow

up, we can make it better.”

Palmer plans on continuing to work hard to support not only her store, but her boys, four dogs, one

cat and 128 plants at home.

4. What did Palmer find when she was young?

A

．

Her neighbors disliked plants.

B

．

People knew little about plants.

C

．

There were few kinds of plants.

D

．

Plants were not seen everywhere.

5. What is Palmer doing now?

A

．

Managing a gardening center.

C

．

Beautifying her block with plants.

6. What does Palmer hope?

A

．

Everyone can protect the plants.

B

．

More locals will have houseplants.

C

．

Children can learn more about plants.

D

．

She will have an outdoor market for plants.

7. What is the best title for the text?

B

．

Running her own plant store.

D

．

Teaching communities about plants.

A

．

From hobby to job: Palmer has made it

B

．

From class to work: Palmer’s happy habit

C

．

From village to city: Palmer is on the road

D

．

From seed to flower: Palmer’s future dream

In an ideal world, we would be able to devote as much time to sports as we feel we need. But in

reality, with growing demands in both work and family, we can only jump at the chance for our

physical exercise when we can. Making the most of that time to practice Yin Yang yoga, which

mixes the dynamic and slow-paced elements of yoga, helps keep you active and relaxed.

Yin and Yang are the Taoist concepts representing a balance of opposite forces which are also

interconnected. Yin is inactive, cooling, and negative, associated with the female force. Yang is

active, warming, and positive, associated with action and movement. They are complementary to

one another, as one cannot exist without the other.

Yin Yang yoga is a combination (

结合体

) of high-energy movement which builds energy, increases

strength and promotes stamina (

耐力

), followed by the more restful practice of Yin to give us a

deeper stretch (

拉伸

) and calm the nervous system.

If you have a busy and active life you may feel more in Yang, so taking some cooler, slower Yin

yoga practice into your routine may help you feel calmer and more balanced.

If you are practicing for an hour, divide the time in half. Warm up with sun salutations (

拜日式瑜

伽

), continue into a dynamic flow and then move on to some standing postures. After half an hour

your heart will be pumping, muscles tighten up and you are hopefully feeling energetic, but ready

for a rest. Then pick five Yin postures to hold for 3-5 minutes, or even longer if you are enjoying

them!

As ever with yoga, if you are a beginner or have health issues, always attend a class with a trained

instructor first to guide you safely through the yoga practice and avoid injury.

8. What can be inferred from paragraph 1?

A

．

Most of our sports time should be spent on Yin Yang yoga.

B

．

We’d better devote as much time to physical exercise as we can.

C

．

Busy schedule makes it impossible for us to do any form of sports.

D

．

Yin Yang yoga can be a choice of physical exercise when we are busy.

9. What does the underlined word “complementary” probably mean in the second paragraph?

A

．

Independent from one another.

B

．

Competitive against one another.

C

．

Similar to each other but unable to work together as a whole.

D

．

Different from each other but together making a good combination.

10. Which of the following might be the advantage of Yin postures?

A

．

Relaxing muscles.

C

．

Strengthening the body.

B

．

Building stamina.

D

．

Quickening the heartbeat.

11. What suggestion does the writer give in the last two paragraphs?

A

．

Hold each Yin posture for longer than 5 minutes.

B

．

Do not practice yoga when you are not in good health.

C

．

Start your yoga practice with an expert trainer.

D

．

Spare half an hour for five Yin postures in every yoga practice.

A small town in western France has gone viral for marking a busy crossroads with overlapping (

重

叠的

) white lines in order to confuse motorists and make them slow down.

The town of Bauné, near Angers, is home to only about 1,700 people, but it has to deal with heavy

traffic on a daily basis because of its location at the crossroads between two departmental roads —

D74 and D82. Some of the roughly 2,300 vehicles that pass through Bauné every day can have

speeds of over 100 km/h, even though the town’s crossroads is clearly marked with signs limiting

the speed at 30 km/h. In order to get drivers to slow down, local authorities came up with the idea of

using confusing road markings in the form of overlapping continuous lines. Interestingly enough, the

strategy worked like a charm!

Photos of the odd road markings on the busy crossroads of Bauné went viral on French social media

recently and left a lot of people scratching (

抓

) their heads. Many people have pointed out that a

continuous white line is impassable (

不可通行的

), so having the lines overlap and cover the entire

square doesn’t really make a lot of sense. Others simply wondered why the local authorities didn’t

use more traditional means of decreasing vehicle speed, like a roundabout (

环形交叉路口

) or traffic

lights.

According to Grégoire Jauneault, deputy mayor of Loire-Authion and the person in charge of local

development, the deliberately confusing road markings started working on the day they were

completed, with data showing a significant decrease in motorists’ speeds. However, a part of the

local community predicted that the result was only temporary and that as soon as motorists figured

out the game, they would go right back to their speeding ways.

12. What’s the purpose of marking a busy crossroads with overlapping white lines?

A

．

To make headlines on social media.

B

．

To reduce traffic jam at the crossroads

C

．

To make drivers slow down their speed.

D

．

To reduce the number of people crossing the crossroads.

13. What is true about the town?

A

．

Only 1,7000 people living there.

B

．

The speed limit is 100 km/h at the crossroads.

C

．

Traffic jam happens every day at the crossroads.

D

．

Roughly 2,300 vehicles pass through Bauné every week.

14. What’s the author’s attitude towards the strategy?

A

．

Doubtful B

．

Supportive C

．

Opposed D

．

Objective

15. Where can you probably find the passage?

A

．

In a textbook

C

．

In a research paper

The Spring Festival is the most important celebration in China. There are some interesting Spring

Festival traditions about Don’ts & Dos. Let’s take a look!

Don’t take out the rubbish

Taking out the rubbish, on that day, is said to stand for sweeping luck and wealth from the house.

16 .

Don’t give a watch or clock as a gift

A clock is an unpopular gift at any time of the year in China, as the phrase “giving a clock” sounds

exactly like the Chinese words for “song zhong”. 17 , so it is an especially bad gift for the elderly.

18

During the festive period, you’ll see amazing decorations all over China, and your house should be

no exception. 19 , you’ll be able to find red decorations everywhere during the Spring Festival.

Popular decorations include red lanterns driving away bad luck, door couplets showing wishes for

the coming year, and the character(fu) meaning good fortune.

Give hongbao or fruit

Hongbao, or a red envelope containing money, is a popular gift for adults to give children.

Fruit, especially tangerines or kumquats, are safe for friends. 20 because the word for tangerine(ju)

sounds similar to the Chinese word for luck(ji).

A

．

Wear red for luck

B

．

As red is a lucky color

C

．

Make your house attractive

B

．

In the newspaper

D

．

In a travel magazine