广东省广州市2022-2023学年高三上学期11月调研测试英...

Paris is a city unlike any other. It is overflowing with culture, history and beauty.

While people travel to Paris to see the Louvre, climb the Eiffel Tower or see Notre-Dame, the real magic is found in the streets. To make sure you don't miss a thing, take a moment to read through our Paris Travel Guide, where we share our favorite local restaurants.

Le Train Bleu

It's near impossible to top the atmosphere of Le Train Bleu, a French restaurant located within the Gare de Lyon railway station. The restaurant itself is a historic monument. As you might imagine, you'll need a reservation to dine under the hand-painted ceilings.

Chez Nanchang

It's impossible to go wrong at Nanchang's — everything is fresh, salty, and shareable, and the atmosphere is both fashionable and casual. Grab a few orders of skewered meat and vegetables for the table and an order of soup and enjoy the Chinese street BBQ experience — in Paris. Seating is indoors and they don't accept reservations.

L'Avant Comptoir de la Terre

Set within Hotel Relays Saint Germain, next to the renowned Le Comptoir du Relais, is the tiny L'Avant Comptoir de la Terre, a tiny, casual, and oh-so-delicious wine bar that will keep you coming back for more. This tiny restaurant doesn't accept reservations, so be prepared to wait.

Chez Justine

This spot delivers the authentic Parisian brasserie (啤酒店) feel - groups laughing over post work wine, couples waiting at a street-side table, and a busy bar full of the who's who of the neighborhood. They have fantastic wood-fired pizzas, homemade lasagna, and a great happy hour.

Last summer, Katie Steller pulled off the freeway on her way to work. She stopped at a traffic light, where a man was sitting with a sign asking for help. She rolled down her window and shouted, "I'm driving around giving free haircuts. Do you want one right now?" The man looked to be in his 60s. He was heavyset, balding, and missing a few teeth. He laughed, then paused. "Actually," he said, "I have a funeral to go. I was really hoping to get a haircut."

Few minutes later, the man, named Edward, took a seat on a red chair moved down from Steller's car, and she trimmed his curly graying hair. He told her about growing up in Mississippi, about moving to Minnesota to be closer to his children, and how he still often phoned his mom. After Steller was done, Edward looked in a mirror. "Wow, I look good!" he grinned.

To date, Steller has given 30 or so such haircuts to people around the city. She is keenly aware of the power of her cleanup job. "It's more than a haircut," she says.

Steller knows that a haircut can change a life. One changed hers. As a teen, she suffered from a severe bowel disease and her hair thinned drastically. Seeing this, her mother arranged for Steller's first professional haircut.

"To sit down and have somebody look at me and talk to me like a person and not just an illness, it helped me feel cared about and less alone," she says. After that, Steller knew she wanted to have her own salon. Soon after finishing cosmetology（美容）school in 2009, she began what she now calls her Red Chair Project, reaching out to people on the streets.

"Part of what broke my heart was just how lonely people looked," she says. "I thought maybe I can't fix their problems, but I can help them feel less alone sometimes."

When we dig to obtain a precious metal, a fuel, or an ancient mine, we remove a chapter of another time. Such materials take millions of years to settle, then only moments to remove with machine and explosive.

Ever since humans first realized that the ground beneath them held hidden riches, we have dug down to discover what lies beneath. Mining makes almost every aspect of our modern lives possible, and often the effects on the natural world are far, far away from home. Unlike many of the changes humanity has brought on the planet's surface, which will disappear in time, some of our underground doings have left permanent horrible scars (伤疤)．

"The underground world for most of us is out of sight, out of mind," observes geologist Jan Zalasiewicz in England. "Yet it is seeing significant change that in some ways is as striking as any that humans have made to the Earth's geology, and that is permanent." At present, while certain tree roots can reach as much as 68 meters deep somewhere in South Africa, miners in that country have dug five kilometers below Earth's surface in pursuit of gold. The world's deepest borehole (钻孔) plunges (陡降) more than 12 kilometers into the ground.

"Things like mines and boreholes, even pressed by pressure and chemically changed by underground liquids, are big and obvious holes in the rock. They're not subtle," Zalasiewicz says. Zalasiewicz and his co-authors propose a new term for such underground disturbances: "anthroturbation". The name originates from the word "bioturbation", which refers to the kind of trace left behind in the Earth by animals such as ants when they dig their homes. Humans take this kind of disturbance to a much deeper level.

"The only way these marks can go away is by coming to the surface and being destroyed, or getting caught up in a continental crash, or some other activities," Zalasiewicz told me. "Any of these ways for erasing them will take tens to hundreds of millions of years."

Israeli company Watergen has produced a device that generates clean, drinkable water out of air. The device called GENNY is small enough to be used in a home or office but can generate up to 30 liters of water a day. The water that GENNY produces is not only clean enough to drink, it's also often cleaner than tap water.

GENNY takes air in and passes it through a filter (过滤器) to remove dust and dirt. The filter is powerful enough to work even in areas with high air pollution. The air then passes through a chamber where heating and cooling cause water vapor in the air to condense (凝结). This water is then passed through several more filters and minerals are added to make it healthier and taste better. Finally, the water is stored in a tank where it is continually circulated to keep it fresh.

A larger model, called the GEN-350, can produce up to 900 liters of water per day. The GEN-350 is now being used in hospitals that previously did not have a reliable source of fresh, clean water. Watergen has also developed an emergency response vehicle (ERV) that can carry a GEN-350 unit wherever it is needed. In addition to the GEN-350, the ERV carries a portable generator that supplies electricity for the GEN-350.

Watergen's ERV is designed to bring water to people suffering from the effects of a serious earthquake, fire, flood or other situations. Once such an incident occurred in California in 2018. A fire started at a camp site and spread quickly over a wide area, destroying many thousands of acres of trees and many homes. One of Watergen's ERVs was driven there and it provided water for its citizens and rescue workers. Besides, they also provided clean safe water for the residents of Texas and Florida in the aftermath of the devastation caused by hurricane's Harvey and Irma.

The post-vacation syndrome (综合症) affects the majority of students.     

Symptoms can last a few days, a week, or up to 15 days. Here are some tips that will help you manage it.

Ease into your schedule

After a long vacation, it is necessary to plan the schedule. The ideal is to fulfill your schedule 100%, but you must be realistic: be flexible during the first weeks and do not arrange your schedule too tight.

Start with small goals

Starting with small tasks will allow you to achieve small objectives and gain satisfaction with what has been completed. Always, now more than ever, it's important to break down big goals into small daily or weekly goals to motivate you to keep going.

Make your space free from distractions

 Rearrange your study area, put it in order, and avoid wasting hours on mobile phones. Remember that, after a distraction, it takes us an average of 25 minutes to refocus on what we were doing.      

Maintain leisure activities

Experts recommend not to return suddenly to studies but to do it a few days before to adapt schedules, routines and even diet. During the first days, it will also help you to maintain some leisure activities.

Rest to be more productive

It is likely that, during your vacations, you have slept in a disorderly way: some days little and other days more than 12 hours. To get back into the routine, you need to get back to sleep in an orderly and sufficient way.  Sleeping 8 hours a day will help you improve your attention and concentration and consolidate (巩固) the knowledge acquired during the day.

A. Stop yourself from being distracted by any noise.

B. Your mind and body need time to adjust back to the routine.

C. It's time for you to avoid being distracted during your study time.

D. Sport, for example, will help reduce stress, and release muscle and mental tension.

E. We must accept that the holidays are over and face the new semester with optimism.

F. One way to adapt is to go to bed earlier and progressively advance the wake-up time.

G. Its most common symptoms are psychological discomfort and difficulty concentrating.

I was heading towards my favorite CD store when a display in a shop window caught my eye. Upon closer 1, I realized the painting was a jigsaw puzzle, and the shop was full of such puzzles. When I stepped inside, I found myself suddenly         2 back to my childhood years.

Long ago on long summer days in my hometown, my sisters and I, well before the 3 of cellphones and video games, would spend the afternoons 4       jigsaw puzzles of colorful waterfalls and other natural 5.

Many decades later, as I 6 shelf after shelf of puzzles, I wondered: Could fitting them together today be as 7 as in bygone years?

Indeed, the two puzzles I purchased were just as fun as those of the past. But I found that I had 8 skills over the decades that prepared me to better complete the puzzles now and 9 the deep value of this pastime.

I knew I would need an eagle's eye for different color matches and distinguishing details in the 10 for just the right piece. And when the puzzles seemed extremely 11, I simply took a break, returned refreshed, and 12 found the piece that had long escaped me.

Among the valuable lessons and rewards that these puzzles offer is that 13and willpower are enhanced (提高). But what is most beneficial is how we look for answers or clues, working tirelessly to find the 14 fit. It's an approach that pays off when meeting any 15 that life presents.

Over the past few days, a number of forest fires  (break) out in Chongqing and its surrounding areas due to the extreme dry and hot weather. Many rescue personnel and volunteers participated in the rescue overnight,  moved a lot of people across the country. The mountain fires in several regions in Chongqing have been  (eventual) put out on Friday morning. No casualties have been reported.

Chongqing motorcyclists are being praised as  (hero) for volunteering to transport much-needed supplies to the fire and fighting the wildfires  (cause) by prolonged heat and drought across multiple districts in the municipality.

 (face) the tough situation, the city government called for volunteers  related skills and experience to join the firefighting, and a large number of motorcyclists have played an important role and won widespread praise. The team members, with  average age of 29, took turns to use five dirt bikes and four

scooters (小轮摩托车) to carry materials and equipment to firefighters       to transport people and necessities.

The example of a foreign teacher who volunteered to help fight the raging wildfires in Chongqing's Beibei district with other 1ocal residents has touched many. After two hours of work,  (they) group of five people had checked out some 50 chain saws, which were delivered to fire and rescue workers.

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I was turning ten in the summer of 1995. On a warm evening while at dinner table, my mom announced we were taking a trip to Niagara Falls when summer vacation started so that we could celebrate my birthday there.

It all sounded incredibly good until mom said we would be driving to Canada. As was often the case, my dad would do all the driving when my mom managed the directions. But dad often took wrong turns along the way and mom would not stop complaining.

It wasn't all that I didn't like the car rides. I looked over at my 6-year-old sister, Marlene. She giggled at me and rolled her eyes. Driving in the car meant I'd share the back seat with my sister, who would never stop making noise unless she was asleep.

 "Hey, can we take a plane there instead?" I asked between mouthfuls of hamburger and French fries. Sometimes, when dad had a day off from work, we would drive out to Idlewild Airport to watch the planes take off and land. I always hoped that one day I could get to sit in my own seat on one of those planes. It would be so cool to get high up the beautiful sky.

"Sorry honey, maybe next time." my mother replied as she and my father exchanged glances. I turned to my sister, hoping she would say she wanted to get on a plane too, but she simply stuck her tongue out at me and giggled again.

Don't they get it? I was in desperate need of a plane ride, and I needed something cool to talk about with my friends when we got home. "Sitting in the back seat of the car sucks." I blurted (脱口而出) out.

"Jay!" My mom shouted. "Watch your mouth!"

"OK, sorry, but I really want to go by plane."

"This conversation is over." My dad growled. "Finish your eating and go to your room."

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