广东省深圳市光明区2022届高三下学期英语5月模拟测试（一）

As I work in the garden, I take my time and the garden is teaching me about working with the earth. I recognize that there will be both successes and failures and there are many variables that affect them both.

The quality of the seeds planted has a bearing on how well the plants will grow. But the weather affects that most. It can be too hot, too cold, or exactly right, and usually fluctuates (起伏) between all three. Weeds seem to grow well in the garden and need to be taken care of and pulled to ensure they do not destroy the fruits, vegetables, and flowers we have so lovingly planted.

I take time to stand back and rest, and to observe the plants and how they are growing. Each plant is unique and develops in the way that is best for them. Some have large broad leaves to protect their fruit from the harsh rays of the sun, while other plants are more open, their fruit needing the light to grow and ripen.

Getting my hands dirty, feeling the sweat on my brow, and the strength and flexibility of my body as I dig, bend and work under the warm summer sun, reminds me I am alive in ways I would not have remembered sitting on the couch.

It is very inspiring to move things around, to transplant, and to disturb the natural order of how plants grow. The garden teaches me that it is important to know when to disturb things and when to let them be. The garden's life cycle follows a pattern that is repeated according to laws of nature, birth, and growth, and then dies and it teaches us to accept this fact.

Perhaps life is like the garden, successes and failures, time to be active and time to rest, to let go of what is no longer needed, to cultivate (培养) what helps us to grow into our light and power, and to embrace life from beginning to end. 

Scientists say the plant enset, an Ethiopian staple (主食), could be a new superfood and a lifesaver in the face of climate change. The banana-like crop has the potential to feed more than 100 million people in a warming world, according to a new study.

Enset or “false banana”, almost unknown outside of Ethiopia, is a close relative of the banana but is consumed only in one part of this country. The banana-like fruit of the plant is inedible, but the starchy stems and roots can be fermented and used to make porridge and bread. Research suggests the crop can be grown over a much larger range in Africa. “This is a crop that can play a really important role in addressing food security and sustainable development,” said a university professor in Awasa, Ethiopia.

Using agricultural surveys and modelling work, scientists predicted the potential range of enset over the next four decades. They found the crop could potentially feed more than 100 million people and boost food security in Ethiopia and other African countries, including Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda.

Study researcher Dr James Borrell, of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, said planting enset as a buffer crop for lean times could help boost food security. “It's got some really unusual traits that make it absolutely unique as a crop,” he said. “You plant it at any time, you harvest it at any time. That's why they call it the tree against hunger.”

There is growing interest in seeking new plants to feed the world, given our reliance on a few staple crops. Nearly half of all the calories we eat come from three species - rice, wheat, and maize. “We need to diversify the plants we use globally as a species because all our eggs are in a very small basket at the moment,” said Dr Borrell.

When Mexican scientist of the evolution of animal behavior, Laura Cuaya, moved to Hungary(匈牙利) for her postdoctoral studies in Budapest, she brought her pet dog, Kun-kun, along for the ride. Cuaya couldn't help noticing how locals warmed to dogs. This prompted her naturally curious scientific mind to start asking questions. “Here people are talking all the time to Kun-kun, but I always wonder if Kun-kun can recognize that people in Budapest speak Hungarian, not Spanish?” So she set out to find an answer through a scientific study.

Cuaya and her colleagues decided to use brain images from MRI scanning to shed light on her hunch. They worked with dogs of various ages that had, until the experiment, only heard their owners speak just one of the two languages, Spanish or Hungarian. Not surprisingly, getting the dogs to happily take part in the experiment took some creative coaxing and animal training! The researchers first needed to teach Kun-kun and her 17 fellow participating dogs including a labradoodle, a golden retriever and Australian shepherds, to lie still in a brain scanner. Their pet parents were always present, and they could leave the scanner at any point.

The research team played children's book classic The Little Prince in both Spanish and Hungarian while scanning the dogs' brains with an MRI machine. They were looking for evidence that their brains reacted differently to a familiar and unfamiliar language. The researchers also played scrambled versions of the story to find out if dogs could distinguish between speech and non-speech.

The images reveal that dogs' brains show different patterns of activity for an unfamiliar language than for a familiar one - the first time anyone has proved, researchers say, that a non-human brain can distinguish between two languages. This means that the sounds and rhythms of a familiar language are accessible to non-humans.

Interestingly, the team also found that the brains of older dogs were more skilled at detecting speech “suggesting a role for the amount of language exposure”. They suggest that dogs have refined their ability to distinguish between human languages over the long process of domestication.

In 2013, digital media consultant Baratunde Thurston launched an experiment. He decided to disconnect from his online life for twenty-five days: no Facebook, no Twitter, not even e-mail. He needed the break.    

It didn't take him long to adjust to a disconnected life. By the end of that first week, he was less stressed about not knowing new things.  He enjoyed food without Twittering the experience. But the end came too soon. After the twenty-five days, he had to restore his online presence.

His experiment summarizes two important points about our relationship with social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The first point is that we increasingly recognize that these tools fragment (碎裂) our time and reduce our ability to concentrate.  But the problem is especially serious if you're attempting to improve your ability to work deeply.

To fight back against these distractions, Thurston felt his only option was to quit the Internet altogether. But the problem is that no one is meant to actually follow Thurston's lead.  That is to accept our current distracted state as unavoidable. This brings me to the second point summarized by Thurston's story: it didn't take him long once the experiment ended to slide back into the fragmented state where he began.

This rule proposes a third option: accepting that these tools might be vital to your success and happiness, but meanwhile accepting that most people should be using fewer such tools. I won't ask you, in other words, to quit the Internet altogether like Thurston did. There is a middle ground, and if you're to develop a deep work habit, you must fight to get there.

A. He struck up conversations with strangers.

B. It is a real problem for many different people.

C. “I was burnt out, fried, and done,” he explained.

D. This reality accounts for the remaining alternative.

E. He had to return to the online world with books to market.

F. But I'll ask you to reject the state of highly distracted connectedness.

G. Fortunately, you will break the habit of surfing the Internet gradually.

This Father's Day seems different to me. My 1 as a father during the pandemic has taught me something new about fatherhood.

I'm a photographer and have to travel frequently. 2, living in isolation (隔离) brought me closer to my son Diego. We 3 every corner of the house together: reading on the sofa and watching movies in the bedroom. Now instead of always yelling, "Mommy! Mommy!" my son 4, "Daddy! Daddy!" That makes me5. I'm so thankful for this unexpected gift of a deeper 6 with my son.

On our first day of freedom after two months of isolation, I discovered Diego had lost familiarity with 7. While visiting a park, I noticed that he was even 8 of ants. So my wife and I 9 a trip to the mountains. My father joined us and, for a couple of days, three10—my father, my son and I—found ourselves walking in the woods.

The pandemic allowed me to 11 on what it means to be a father, with the honor and duty to 12 my parents' teachings to my son. Of course, I really13the time I spent working in the field. But I've 14 a lot of time with my family, especially with my son. I used to think that without photography, I was nothing. Now I see that, without 15, I am less than nothing.

Archaeologists have found more than 1,000 significant relics at the six new pits（坑）of the legendary Sanxingdui Ruins site in southwest China. The excavation of the No. 3 to No. 8 sacrificial pits,  began in the second half of last year, is progressing (smooth), said Tang Fei, chief of the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute.

So far, archaeologists (dig) up 534 pieces in the No. 4 pit. From the pit, remains of ancient silk were unearthed the first time at Sanxingdui. Archaeologists also found plants, such as bamboos. The No. 5 pit saw various tiny fragments and beads. There are many round perforated（穿孔的）gold pieces (bury) in this pit, which are probably clothes decorations. Altogether, 146 pieces of relics have been unearthed,  (include) gold masks and bird-shaped gold ornaments. Most surprisingly, a well-preserved wooden box with cinnabar（朱砂）coated on the inside (find) in the No. 6 pit, which was the first of (it) kind at Sanxingdui.

The Sanxingdui Ruins, which was accidentally discovered by a farmer  he was digging a ditch, are known as one of the greatest archaeological (discover) of mankind in the 20^th century.

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Two months ago, Ryder, a 15-year-old French boy was registered in a new school in Hawaii. He just moved there with his parents. Although he missed his old friends very much, he managed to adapt to his new school life and soon made a lot of friends.

However, waiting for the school bus every morning often meant a real suffering because Ryder was born with spina bifida（脊柱裂）and he has to live in a wheelchair. Hawaii is one of the rainiest places in the world. This is not an issue for other students, but for him this was a different story. He often got wet all over before the school bus arrived during the rainy days. In that case, he could only have classes with wet clothes on or called his parents to send dry clothes to school and finding a place to get changed was also a big challenge for this disabled boy.

To keep Ryder protected from the bad weather while waiting for the bus every morning, the students in Ryder's school decided to take action. They first uploaded a post online asking for a special bus shelter for Ryder but got no reply.

Not being able to find one, the students from the construction class decided to take on the challenge of building a suitable bus shelter for him and quickly put their hands to work.

As part of the high school's Career and Technical Education program, the construction class teaches its students basic building skills. Its main goal is to provide students with tools and skills that will have real applications in future jobs and a meaningful impact on their community. They had already performed several building projects for the community. Two years ago, they managed to build dozens of shelters for stray cats in the local park. Soon enough, they came up with an idea of building a two-window shelter for Ryder.

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