Dramatic performing is an excellent method of...

Dramatic performing is an excellent method of building confidence in children and adults alike. Learning drama allows students to 　　 　　 their creativity and have fun while leaving their _____　　 and worries behind. Drama also works by supporting the growth of imagination and other skills.

Entertainment has become rather passive with 　　 　　 , television and computer games becoming more popular. These screen-based methods have had a 　　 　　 effect on communication. They prevent children communicating with others.　　 　　 , drama puts the children enthusiastic about communication back into entertainment. Children have the opportunity to 　　 　　 with others in a more meaningful way　　 　　 drama encourages speech development , awareness of body language and allows children to become more 　　 　　 aware.

Play and drama are closely linked. When children play a game, they are using their　　 　　 and moving away from reality to 　　 　　 their own story. Drama is a vehicle 　　 　　 which children can express themselves more freely to make education fun.

Children gain 　　 　　 by understanding that there is no final answer in drama and that their opinion and contribution are valued. They are able to 　 　　　　　　 to many issues and situations such as poverty, recycling and global warming. Drama and 　　 　　 　　　 have a strong link as drama can 　　 　　 children to take an active interest in other subjects such as geography, history and English and so they can 　　 　　 a more rounded education.

As a drama teacher, I have witnessed a child at his first class holding onto his parent’s arm----　　 　　 　　 to let go. Then to see the same child running into my class with a smile is an 　　 　　 sight. Drama installs confidence in children by allowing them to improvise(即兴创作) and excitement. Everyone is given the opportunity to shine 　　 　　 drama. Besides learning the history of the theatre, drama 　　 　　 dance ,music, and directing, etc. These classes are especially designed to be of great fun.

1.A. explore    B. express    C. expose    D. experience

2.A. sadness    B. excitement    C. happinessD. shyness

3.A. drama    B. movies    C. radio    D. media

4.A. subjective    B. positive    C. negative    D. sensitive

5.A. Meanwhile    B. However    C. Besides    D. Therefore

6.A. compete　 B. compare     C. discuss D. connect

7.A. before    B. though    C. as    D. if

8.A. sociallyB. mentally    C. physicallyD. emotionally

9.A. imagination B. determinationC. considerationD. communication

10.A. believing B. creating    C. telling    D. reading

11.A. forB. through    C. beyond    D. across

12.A. confidence B. success    C. hope    D. admiration

13.A. reply    B. stickC. turn    D. respond

14.A. entertainmen tB. language    C. education    D. play

15.A. train    B. persuade    C. require    D. encourage

16.A. give    B. have    C. continue    D. provide

17.A. pleased    B. tired    C. unwilling    D. sorry

18.A. imaginaryB. ordinary    C. excellent    D. odd

19.A. within    B. over    C. above    D. after

20.A. links    B. possesses    C. applies　     D. covers

高三英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

The Slade Summer School Foundation course is an excellent introduction to the study of contemporary art. It sustains and develops students’ abilities and interests over a ten-week period and offers an opportunity for contemporary Fine Art practice. Entry is open to students of all levels and experience.

Course Structure

The course begins with a structured introduction to Fine Art. We begin by exploring the nature of drawing and its fundamental use for the artist and follow this with an in-depth investigation into processes of making and the application of ideas. Initially as a group, then individually, students will generate work from supplied and found materials.

Each student will have a space in the Woburn studios for individual studio-based enquiry.

Workshops

Alongside individual research and practice there will be a number of optional specialist workshops taught by invited artists as the course develops. These include subjects such as: order in space, color and light, technical research, etc.

Materials

For the introductory period and for the later workshops, most of the basic materials are provided, however, as independent working progresses students will be expected to provide their own materials.

Please note:

This year’s Foundation course will be taking place at Slade School of Fine Art, Woburn Studios in Bloomsbury, close to the British Museum and the galleries of Soho and the West End. The studios host the postgraduate Painting programme and was previously home to the Courtauld Gallery until 1989.

Duration: 06 July-11 September 2020 /10 weeks

Fee: ￡3, 750 (Early bird discount: 10% off until 31 May, 2020)

Summer School Foundation fees can be paid in full at the time of booking or in two installments (分期付款).

The first installment is ￡1,875 and must be paid at the time of booking; the second installment of ￡1,875 is due one month before the course starts.

Discount applied on both installments.

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1.What do we know about the Summer School Foundation course?

A.It covers both classical and modern arts. B.It is a professional course for future artists.

C.It features exploring the nature of drawing. D.It is intended for all students who love art.

2.Where will the students learn art during the course?

A.In the Courtauld Gallery. B.In the British Museum.

C.In the West End. D.In the Woburn Studios

3.If you are interested in the course, you should ________ to save money.

A.pay in installment before June B.sign up on a certain website

C.gain membership to get discount D.make full payment before the course starts

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Promoting the ______of energy and carbon footprint reduction is an essential part of building an ecological civilization.

A.consumption B.conservation C.constitution D.construction

高三英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

The result of the survey shows________successful people have in common is________they all have confidence.

A．whether; that  B．what; that     C．what; why      D．which; that

高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Early excitement about the next generation of the iPhone is building months ahead of an expected autumn debut(问世). Analysts expect Apple to release three iPhones this year, but the one getting the most attention is a rumored super-premium model to celebrate the iPhone's tenth anniversary. And, for that phone, Apple is expected to change the type of screen the iPhone uses.

Here's a quick look at what you need to know about what it means if Apple switches from its current liquid crystal display (LCD) screens to a type of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screen called AMOLED.

The essential difference between an LCD screen and an AMOLED one is the presence of a backlight. Thanks to that difference, AMOLED screens can be very thin, which means you can make thinner products. They also provide more vivid colors, which is a reason that television makers have been pushing OLED in its various forms for their big screens. AMOLED screens, in particular, boast(夸口) even greater control over each individual pixel （像素）— which means better contrast for the viewer. These screens can also improve battery life. Because there's no backlight, AMOLED screens can be more energy-efficient when the user is viewing darker subjects, allowing the phone to shut off pixels and stop drawing power.

So why hasn't Apple switched to AMOLED yet? After all, Apple competitors such as Samsung and LG already have these screens on their smartphones.

AMOLED screens are not cheap to produce. It's also not that easy to make the complex AMOLED screens, which could explain why most Apple fans expect that only the highest-end phone will have the new screen.

And then there's the cost. The switch to AMOLED has also been cited as a reason that the price of the high-end iPhone may jump above the $1,000 mark. Beauty, even in a mass-produced world, does not come cheap.

Still, the expense may be worth it, especially as people shoot more photos and videos.

1.According to the passage, when will the iPhone’s tenth anniversary most probably be held?

A. In June.

B. In March.

C. In November.

D. In January.

2.According to most Apple fans, AMOLED screens will only be used on ________ this year.

A. the cheapest iPhones

B. the most massive iPhones

C. the highest iPhones

D. the most expensive iPhones

3.What does the underlined sentence indicate?

A. It is very expensive to become beautiful.

B. Everything has a price.

C. The more you pay, the more beautiful you will become.

D. Practice more, and you will become better.

4.What’s the author’s attitude towards the expected iPhone?

A. Negative.

B. Critical.

C. Positive.

D. Uninterested.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

The team of researchers from the University of Lincoln, UK, is designing and building an app to help farmers in hot climates identify and record the spread of locusts(蝗虫) on their land.

By recognizing locusts through the smartphone’s camera, the app will be able to identify the stage of the insect's growth and record its location. This information can then be utilized so that the farmers can use pesticides(杀虫剂) more accurately in the early stages of their life time, greatly reducing the amount of crop damage.

This approach could also reduce remaining pesticide levels, leading to increased food safety while maintaining food security and protecting nearby water systems.

“Each year, approximately 18 million hectares of land are damaged by locusts, influencing hugely farmers and their productivity, explains Dr. Bashir Al-Diri from the School of Computer Science at the University of Lincoln.” Their monitoring techniques currently rely on field surveys by people through digging insect eggs, but this information only helps farmers to make mid and long-term forecasting decisions and can delay effective management measures. By digitally recording the exact number, age and location of locusts, we hope this new app will put more knowledge and more power into the hands of the farmers.

Dr. Al-Diri and his team of computer scientists work with the Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology at the University of Lincoln, aiming to support and improve productivity, efficiency and farming through research, education and new technology.

With advanced technology, the developers hope that the app will also be used for a wide range in the future to capture and document information about the natural world. For example, it could easily be adapted to help individuals identify plant diseases or to digitally capture the number and type of birds and wildlife in specific locations as part of national and international surveys.

1.What do we know about the app mentioned in the passage?

A.It has helped farmers record the spread of locusts.

B.It will be of great use for farmers in hot climates.

C.It may cost the farmers more than they expect.

D.It will remind farmers of what the locusts look like.

2.Which can replace the underlined word "utilized” in the passage?

A.Accessed. B.Controlled.

C.Arranged. D.Progressed.

3.What can we know according to Dr. Bashir Al-Diri?

A.Farmers don't know how to deal with locusts.

B.Their techniques can be used to dig insect eggs.

C.Farmers suffer greatly because of locusts.

D.Some steps must be taken before using the app.

4.What is the purpose of Al-Diri and his team?

A.To check if the app is useful in killing locusts.

B.To educate farmers on how to protect themselves.

C.To assist in raising agricultural production level.

D.To direct farmers to change their farming methods.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

The government of Norway is planning to build an unusual storage center on an island in the Arctic Ocean. The place would be large enough to hold about two million seeds. The goal is to present all crops known to scientists. The British magazine New Scientist published details of the plan last month. The structure will be designed to protect the world’s food supply against nuclear war, climate change and other possible threats. It will be built in a mountain on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. The mountain is less than one thousand kilometers from the North Pole, the northernmost position on earth.

An international group called the Global Crop Diversity Trust is working on the project. The director of the group, Cary Fowler, spoke to New Scientist. He said the project would let the world rebuild agriculture if, in his word, “the worst came to the worst”. Norway is expected to start work next year. The project is expected to cost three million dollars. Workers will drill（钻孔） deep in the side of a sandstone mountain. Temperatures in the area never rise above 0ºC. The seeds will be protected behind walls a meter thick and high-security door.

The magazine report says the collection will represent the products of ten thousand years of farming. Most of the seeds at first will e from collections at seed banks in Africa, Asia and Latin America. To last a long time, seeds need to be kept in very low temperatures. Workers will not be present all the time. But they plan to replace the air inside the storage space each winter. Winter temperatures on the island are about eighteen degrees below 0ºC. The cold weather would protect the seeds even if the air could not be replaced.

Mr. Fowler says the proposed structure will be the world’s safest gene bank. He says the plant seeds would only be used when all other seeds are gone for some reason. Norway first put forward the idea in the 1980s. But safety concerns delayed the plan. At that time, the Soviet Union was meeting in Rome of the Food and Agriculture Organization.

1.The project is meant to ______.

A．increase the world’s food output in the future

B．carry out some scientific experiments on plant genes

C．build an exhibition centre of the world’s plant seeds

D．protect crop seeds from dying out in case of possible disasters

2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the above passage?

A．The government of Norway will perform the project alone.

B．Seeds to be collected there were produced ten thousands years ago.

C．Spitsbergen is chosen because it is free of the nuclear war forever.

D．Temperature is a major consideration when choosing the storage place.

3.We can infer from the text that _______.

A．Norway had meant to build the storage centre about 20 years before.

B．The storage center will greatly promote world agriculture

C．People will get newly-developed seeds from the center every year.

D．There haven’t been any seed storage centres in the world before.

4.What is probably the best title of the passage?

A．The Best Place to Store Seeds

B．Noah’s Ark（诺亚方舟）of Plant Seeds in Plan

C．Concerns of World Food Supply

D．A New Way to Feed the World

高三英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

The government of Norway is planning to build an unusual storage centre on an island in the Arctic Ocean. The place would be large enough to hold about two million seeds. The goal is to present all crops known to scientists. The British magazine New Scientist published details of the plan last month. The structure will be designed to protect the world's food supply against nuclear war, climate change and other possible threats. It will be built in a mountain on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. The mountain is less than one thousand kilometres from the North Pole, the northernmost position on earth.

An international group called the Global Crop Diversity Trust is working on the project. The director of the group, Cary Fowler, spoke to New Scientist. He said the project would let the world rebuild agriculture if, in his word, ＂the worst came to the worst＂. Norway is expected to start work next year. The project is expected to cost three million dollars. Workers will drill (钻孔) deep in the side of a sandstone mountain. Temperatures in the area never rise above 0℃.The seeds will be protected behind walls a metre thick and highsecurity door.

The magazine report says the collection will represent the products of ten thousand years of farming. Most of the seeds at first will come from collections at seed banks in Africa, Asia and Latin America. To last a long time, seeds need to be kept in very low temperatures. Workers will not be present all the time. But they plan to replace the air inside the storage space each winter. Winter temperatures on the island are about eighteen degrees below 0℃.The cold weather would protect the seeds even if the air could not be replaced.

Mr Fowler says the proposed structure will be the world’s safest gene bank. He says the plant seeds would only be used when all other seeds are gone for some reason. Norway first put forward the idea in the 1980s. But safety concerns delayed the plan. At that time, the Soviet Union was meeting in Rome of the Food and Agriculture Organization.

1.The project is meant to _____________.

A. increase the world's food output in the future

B. carry out some scientific experiments on plant genes

C. build an exhibition centre of the world’s plant seeds

D. protect crop seeds from dying out in case of possible disasters

2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the above passage?

A. The government of Norway will perform the project alone.

B. Seeds to be collected there were produced ten thousand years ago.

C. Spitsbergen is chosen because it is free of the nuclear war forever.

D. Temperature is a major consideration when choosing the storage place.

3.We can infer from the text that _____________.

A. Norway had meant to build the storage centre about 30 years before

B. the storage centre will greatly promote world agriculture

C. people will get newlydeveloped seeds from the centre every year

D. there haven't been any seed storage centres in the world before

4.What is probably the best title of the passage?

A. The best place to store seeds

B. Noah’s Ark (诺亚方舟) of plant seeds in plan

C. Concerns of world food supply

D. A new way to feed the world

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

China has splendid culture with a long history. Chinese opera is one of the 1.(old) dramatic art forms in the world.During the Tang Dynasty,the Emperor Xuanzong established an opera school 2. the poetic name Liyuan (Pear Garden). Since the Yuan Dynasty, encouraged by court officials and emperors, it3.(become) a traditional art form. During the Qing Dynasty, 4.became fashionable among ordinary people. Performances 5.(watch) in tearooms, restaurants, and even on temporary stages.

It developed from folk songs, dance, talking, antimasque(滑稽戏) and especially distinctive dialectical music. Gradually it combined music, art and literature into one performance on the stage. 6.(accompany) by traditional musical instruments, actors present unique melodies which may sound strange to 7.(foreign) as well as beautifully written dialogues, which are of high literary 8.(valuable). These dialogues also promoted the development of distinct literary styles, such as Zaju in the Yuan Dynasty. For Chinese, especially older folks, 9.(listen) to this kind of opera occasionally is 10.real pleasure.

高三英语短文填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Reward methods are an everyday occurrence in our classrooms. More than ever, a great number of incentive(激励) programs have been created to help teachers manage behavior, and motivate learners. However, there is evidence that in the long run, reward systems don’t work.

Many people believe that rewards can help students develop a reason to do better. However, this approach fails to address why children are unable to be successful in the first place. When a student who dislikes math frequently behaves badly in class, a simple and easy way to deal with the behavior might be to offer him a reward for not misbehaving. Yet this would do nothing to solve his real problem—which is his attitude towards math.

On the other hand, rewards can’t last forever. So what happens when they stop? Many experiments suggest once the rewards stop, people go back to behaving as they did before.

Some people might counter that. It may be true that students won’t positively work once we stop rewarding them, but at least they will have worked more than they otherwise would have! Unfortunately, there is another more surprising consequence of rewards that we need to consider: Rather than create motivation, they can actually decrease motivation.

In a classic study, some kindergarteners who enjoyed drawing with markers were observed in a classroom with different activities available. They were broken into two groups. Everyone in the first group was told that he or she could win an attractive certificate by drawing a picture with markers. Each was eager to get the certificate and drew a picture. Children in the second group were also encouraged to draw but didn’t get a certificate. After a delay of about two weeks, when the markers again appeared in the classroom but no certificate was promised, the children in the first group used the markers about half as much as children in the second group. Apparently, rewards actually made them enjoy drawing less.

What we really want is for students to take responsibility for their own learning. When much of the focus is on performance outcome, it can stop the development of self-motivation. The ‘self-determination theory’ claims all human beings will succeed when our basic, inborn, and emotional needs are met. By providing appropriate support and opportunities, we can help to meet the needs of all students and therefore increase their motivation.

1.The author mainly argues that ________.

A. students should be responsible for their learning

B. incentive programs help to solve real problems

C. motivation plays an important role in learning

D. reward methods for students are ineffective

2.The underlined word “counter” in Paragraph 4 probably means ________.

A. suspect

B. oppose

C. detail

D. confirm

3.In Paragraph 5, the author uses the example to show that ________.

A. rewards keep interest

B. children enjoy awards

C. children are changeable

D. rewards reduce motivation

4.The author persuades readers to accept his argument mainly by ________.

A. questioning the results of classic studies

B. comparing strengths with weaknesses

C. pointing out the problems with reward systems

D. giving examples of badly-behaved students

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析