黑龙江省肇东市第一中学2019-2020学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题

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World’s top hotels for observing stars

3100 KulmhotelGornergrat, Switzerland

Sitting 3,100 meters above sea level, 3,100 KulmhotelGornergrat overlooks the snow-dusted, rocky peaks of

the Swiss Alps. Although skiing is the most popular activity there, the Kulmhotel is a favorite with

astronomers. At the top of the two stone towers, observatories are equipped with everything an astronomer

might need.

Rates: Rooms start at CHF 140(US $ 150) per person a day.

Stargazing packages: Starlight dinner, CHF 90(US $ 96) per person.

Sanctuary Baines’ Camp, Botswana

This camp has some quiet suites overlooking the Boro River on the edge of the Moremi Game Reserve. A

day of walking with elephants and watching lions on a game( 与狩猎有关的)drive can be followed by an

open-air bath.

Rates: Start at US $ 675 person a day (includes meals, drinks and safaris(游猎)

Ayers Rock Resort—Sails in the Desert Hotel, Australia

Located in the heart of the Australian Outback ，this hotel provides a stark(鲜明的)contrast to the copper-

red earth surroundings. The resort’s Astro Tour uses iPads, telescopes and binoculars to let guests wonder at

the Southern Cross and re-learn the basics of the universe, such as how a star is born.

Rates: Rooms start at US $400.

Stargazing packages: Voyages Out back Sky Journeys, US $ 38 per person a day; Sounds of Silence dinner,

US $ 169 per person.

Kasbah Hotel, Morocco

At the edge of Draa valley, the Kasbah has two round observatory domes and several telescopes peak out

from the fortress walls. Far from city lights, with the world-famous desert-the Sahara on the horizon, the

stage is set for a black, glittering sky. Each night after dinner, an expert helps guests find their way around

the viewing equipment.

Rates: MAD 540 (US $ 63) per person a day including breakfast and dinner.

Stargazing packages: Guided visit to the SaharaSky observatory, MAD 2 00( US $ 23)

My love for libraries blossomed when I joined the public library. From the age of 8 I was allowed to

walk from my home to the downtown library, housed above the police station. Once the librarian gave me

my first membership card, I could enjoy a range of books, which started with Little House in the Big Woods.

I was addicted instantly, and this love of libraries and reading would change my life, allowing me to one day

create a safe space for high-school kids, too.

By the time I was in high school, I could read the authors that we were studying in class, including

Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and Emily Bronte. During the summer months, I got caught up in Gone with

the Wind.

When I studied English literature at university, I thought it was time to build my own library. For the

next 40 years, I continued to collect books. Until one day, I realized that all my books had become a part of

the house, like wallpaper.

Toward the end of my teaching career, I became a teacher-librarian at my old high school, where I had

first learned English literature. This position enabled me to regain my love and appreciation for libraries. I

had a generous budget for my classes, so I searched for novels that would interest my teenage audience and

hopefully spark a love of books. Fantasy, science-fiction, graphic novels -I bought almost any type of books

that my students wanted to read. I bought sofas and comfortable chairs, turning the library into a safe public

space, for everyone.

In doing so, I realized that the library isn’t just a place to do research. They are, in fact, places that offer

an opportunity to connect with the past, present and future. All that is required is a tiny bit of curiosity.

Libraries are places that should be full of life. They help us adjust to the world, and their doors must be kept

open to everyone for free!

Most of the new diseases we humans have faced in the past several decades have come from animals.

The more we come into contact with wild animals, the more we risk a so-called disease “spillover” from

animals to humans.

“As people move and wildlife move in response to a changing environment, humans and wildlife and

animals will come in contact more regularly,” said Jeanne Fair from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in

New Mexico. Fair argues that by shifting animal habitats, climate change will also make the opportunities

for disease spillover more frequent. “Everything is sort of shifting and will shift into the future as the

environment changes through climate change,” Fair said.

Scientists, including climatologists and epidemiologists on Fair’s team at Los Alamos, are beginning to

model how changes to the climate will impact the spread of infectious diseases. It’s early days for this kind

of research, but previous studies suggest that extreme weather has already played a role in at least one

outbreak. Scientists say drought and deforestation have combined to force bats out of rainforests and into

orchards（果园）in Malaysia to find food. Those bats, a common disease reservoir, then passed the Nipah

virus through pigs to humans for the first time in the late 1990s.

“We’re going by the past data to really predict what’s going to happen in the future,” Fair said, “And so,

anytime you increase that wildlife-human interface, that’s sort of an emerging disease hot spot. And so,

that’s just increasing as we go forward.”

Jeffrey Shaman, head of the climate and health program at Columbia University’s public health school,

argues we don’t yet know whether climate change will cause a net increase in infectious disease rates

globally. For example, mosquitoes carry disease that affects millions of people across the world every year.

As their habitats expand in some parts of the world, they might contract diseases elsewhere. Shaman says

what we know for certain about climate change is that it will make it harder to predict where disease

outbreaks will pop up.

Research indicates that some orchestral( 管弦乐的) instruments are in danger of dying out. YouGov

research, asked by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) to find the most popular instruments among

schoolchildren, has revealed the increasing popularity of the ukulele ( 尤克里里琴 ), with one in eight

expressing a desire to learn, making it the highest ranked instrument behind the typical rock-band grouping

of the guitar, piano, keyboards, drums and bass guitar.

But younger generations’ interest in “more complex instruments” is decreasing, with the three least

popular being the French horn, the double bass and the trombone.

James Williams, managing director of the RPO, believed the changes reflect the increasing pressure

schools are under to provide music education, and went on to say that more needs to be done to interest

secondary school students in the wider range of instruments. His concern was for the composition of future

orchestras , should the trend towards instruments like rock-band grouping be allowed to continue. But there

may be yet another death, one that few would be quick to sorrow over: the recorder (竖笛).

Cheap, convenient, easy to learn, and suitable for individual and group performances, the recorder was

once the go-to instrument for children’ s early musical education. But in many schools it has been replaced

by the ukulele, which, for teachers, offers many of the same benefits with none of the lasting damage to

hearing. Plus, from a student’s viewpoint: you can play Metallica on one.

Not all hope is lost for the cream-colored, 10-pound Yamaha recorder with a long history, however.

About 13% of girls and 4% boys surveyed by YouGov said they wanted to learn the recorder.Surprisingly

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