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广东省深圳市红岭中学2023-2024学年高一上学期第一学段
考（期中）试英语试题
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一、阅读理解
Women’s Poetry Competition 2022
Welcome to Mslexia, the only magazine where every reader is a potential contributor too.
Almost every part of the magazine is open to submission by any woman writer. Our
competition is open to unpublished poems of any length. Your £10 entry fee allows you to
submit up to three poems. The judge this year is the outstanding and award-winning writer
Pascale Petit.
Prizes
1st: £2,000; 2nd: £500; 3rd: £250 (Each prize goes for one person.)
Unpublished Poetry Prize for the best poem by a previously unknown poet: £250.
The four winners, plus sixteen additional finalists will have their poems published in the
May issue of Mslexia.
Results
The deadline for all entries is 23:59 GMT, 6 April, 2022
The winners and finalists will be announced on 1 May, 2022
How to enter
Add the entry fee to your basket and go to the checkout. Once the order is completed,
you’ll be taken to a Submit page where the entry form is located. Click the “Enter Now”
button. You can submit at a later date by typing into your Mslexia online account and going to
the “competitions” bill.
Visit our Entry Instructions for a more comprehensive guide on how to enter, and be sure
to read our Rules before submitting your entries.
Frequently -asked questions
Have a question about formatting, eligibility (资格), or anything else?
Ready to enter? Please see our Entry Instructions. For any further information, call us at
0191 204 8860 or email ***********************.uk.
1．How many winners will get prize money?
A ．Three. B ．Four. C ．Sixteen. D ．Twenty.
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2．Which of the following will result in disqualification?
A ．Submitting two poems. B ．Visiting Entry Instructions.
C ．Writing a poem of 120 words. D ．Mailing your entry on June 1.
3．Where can the text be found?
A ．In a textbook. B ．In an art magazine. C ．On a website. D ．In a local
newspaper.
Sam is autistic. Thus, dining out can be tricky. Though he loves to eat, he dislikes the
loud noise during restaurant dining. So he has a solution: overpower all noise with a much
louder noise of his own. Faced with a possibility of dining alone all the time, I decided to
work on dining skills at a trendy new spot early one Tuesday night.
To my delight, we arrived at an empty restaurant. So far, so good. Everything went well
until two older and elegantly-dressed women entered. They were seated two tables away from
us. I felt a sense of impending doom.
The women began to chat, paying little notice to us. Sam happily took this as his cue(暗
示) to start talking and drown them out. I leaned into Sam and asked for a quiet voice, but
unfortunately Sam had left that voice at home.
I glanced at the neighboring table, knowing we wouldn’t go unnoticed much longer. I
quickly used Plan B: eat quickly and leave. Sam, who normally inhales food, suddenly
embraced the concept of leisurely dining and refused to rush — all while chattering away
endlessly.
“SHUSH!” I said, a little annoyed. Sam responded by giggling loudly. “Be quiet!”
Now the two women were watching us. The older of the two women leaned over. “Here
it comes!” I thought. She completely surprised me when she said, “Honey, stop shushing that
boy. He has something important to say. I have friends that talk way more than he does, and
they aren’t nearly as interesting.”
Then she asked Sam, “Now, boy, Don’t you listen to your mom. You talk as much as you
want. I want to hear everything you have to say.” Turning to me, she added, “You have a
delightful boy. Relax and enjoy your dinner—and don’t let him skip the chocolate cake. It’s
unmissable.”
I will always remember those two lovely ladies. Their kindness meant the world to a
stressed-out mom. Wherever they are, we’re sending them lots of love and hopes for
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chocolate cake.
4．What can we learn about the author and Sam from paragraph 1?
A ．Few like to have dinner with them. B ．Sam suffers physically and mentally.
C ．The author has no idea how to dine out. D ．Sam enjoys talking loudly when dining
out.
5．How did the author feel about their being noticed by the two women?
A ．Thrilled. B ．Annoyed. C ．Regretful. D ．Embarrased.
6．What did one of the women suggest Sam do?
A ．Express himself freely. B ．Follow his mom’s order.
C ．Listen to everything she said. D ．Relax and enjoy the dinner.
7．What could be the most suitable title for the passage?
A ．My Autistic Son. B ．Chocolate Cake.
C ．Two Helping hands. D ．The Pleasure of Eating.
Heat waves are becoming more common in parts of the United States — and that means
more people running their air conditioners for longer. But those air conditioners can make the
problem worse, giving off greenhouse gases as they work that contribute heavily to climate
change.
SkyCool Systems is trying to break that cycle, using technology that promises to offer
buildings an alternative means to cool down in a similar way to how the planet cools itself.
“Our planet naturally cools itself by sending heat out in the form of infrared light (红外线) or
radiation,” said Eli Goldstein, SkyCool’s cofounder and CEO. “We do this through rooftop
panels, which look like solar panels but actually do the opposite, reflecting 97% of the
sunlight that hits them and cooling the surface below,” said Goldstein.
SkyCool’s model involves fixing a network of pipes below those panels. These pipes are
filled with water, which is kept cool by the panels and then flows into an air conditioning
system. This process is designed to take pressure off the system’s cooling mechanism. And
because the panels cool naturally and don’t need external power to function, it helps the entire
system use less electricity.
A Grocery Outlet store in California, which has been using SkyCool’s system since last
year, says it saw a marked drop in its electrical bills. Jesus Valenzuela, the store manager,
estimates that the panels have saved his store roughly $3,000 a month.
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But perhaps the biggest barrier to making the technology ubiquitous (无处不在的 ) is its
relatively high cost. Increasing production could help bring the cost down, Goldstein said,
particularly for developing countries in Asia and Africa where SkyCool hopes to eventually
expand. For now, the company is focused on commercial applications of the technology,
though it hopes to start setting up panels on the roofs of individual homes. “We’re just excited
to be able to use this n