广东省广州市荔湾区2022-2023学年高二下学期英语期中考...

Saint Paul has four ice rink (溜冰场) locations. All hockey (冰球) rinks have boards and nets. See below for locations, hours, and updates.

Cold Weather Policy: Rinks will close if temperatures reach -25F.

Warm Weather Policy: In order to prevent extended closures due to damaged ice, rinks will close if melt water is visible on the surface.

Rink Hours & Locations:

Rink hours and conditions are subject to change without notice. Rinks will close periodically for maintenance. Appointed hockey rinks may be unavailable for open skating doring hockey practices or scheduled open hockey times. Please call the numbers listed below to confirm details.

Our maintenance crew and dedicated volunteers work hard to keep the rinks clean, but Saint Paul snow piles up fast and freezes easily, which can quickly reduce the skateable surface area of the rink. Even if you feel you can't commit to volunteering, you are still desired to help by clearing snow while visiting the rinks. Thank you for doing your part to make Saint Paul rinks great.

When he was 7, Diebedo Francis Kere left his native village Gando at the insistence of his father so that he might learn to read and write. Gando had neither a school nor electricity nor running water. Kere returned home on holidays, and at the end of every visit, the women villagers would reveal a penny tucked in their waistbands — often their last penny — that they'd give him as a parting gift. The pennies were their way of contributing to the boy's education.

It was a worthwhile investment: Kere is now an architect, and in 2001, he did return to Gando to build his first education building, Gando Primary School. Kere settled on a method of fortifying (加固) locally made clay bricks with concrete and created a floating, double-roof system that allows hot air to rise out of the building and cool air to come in. Colorful shutters (百叶窗) allow teachers to direct sunlight into the room depending on the hour of the day. Most significantly, the school was built by village members — who helped produce the bricks, build the walls and polish the mud floors. This not only allowed the village to build a new school in a timely and economical fashion but it also taught marketable construction techniques to untrained laborers.

For this work and other high-profile projects, Kere became the first African architect to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize. "Francis Kere's work shows us the power of materiality rooted in place. It is sustainable to the earth and its residents — in lands of extreme scarcity (缺乏)," announced Tom Pritzker, chairman of the award.

Of his work, Kere said in a statement, "It is not because you are rich that you should waste material. It is not because you are poor that you should not try to create quality."

In Iceland, these green houses melt into the natural landscape, a technique that first appeared with the arrival of British settlers during the 9th through 11th centuries. Unlike their previous warm and wet climate, wood was rare and slow to regenerate. Turf (草皮) became their first pick to make shelters.

Across Europe, turf bricks — widely available — were cut from local bogs (沼泽) and transported for use at higher lands. The turf was then laid over a wooden structure to form walls and a thick roof — to keep cold out from tough northern climates. Turf walls were replaced as frequently as every 20 years, and even up to 70 years.

It is difficult to find out its precise origins in the archaeological record. However, evidence of similar constructions can be found in many countries throughout the ages. Historic records suggest that up to 50 percent of Icelandic houses were partly comprised of turf until the late 19th century. As populations began to gather in cities like Reykjavik, wood buildings replaced stones and earth architecture. After fires burned up the city in 1915, concrete became the material of choice. In 1918 Iceland gained independence from Denmark, setting in motion a wave of nationalism that threatened the survival of turf houses. Advocates of modernization argued that Reykjavik paled in comparison to the grand architecture that graced the skylines of Paris, Berlin, and London. Traditional techniques were criticized as "rotten Danish wood" from a troubled era, and there was a campaign to clear them in favor of modern buildings — a move later criticized by many as destruction of cultural heritage.

A tourism boom in the latter half of the 20th century encouraged Iceland to reexamine the value of traditional architecture. Do Icelanders still live in turf houses? The quickest way to answer this question would be no. You might still see an occasional grass roof but that has everything to do with architecture and Icelanders wanting to hold on to their beloved heritage rather than any need for turf as insulation (隔热) material.

What would you think is the most plentiful man-made material on earth? Steel, plastic, glass? The answer is concrete.

And while it's an incredibly useful material existing everywhere, the energy intensive process of making concrete releases massive amounts of CO₂ into the atmosphere, and its main component, which is a mixture of rocks, sand, water and most importantly, cement (水泥) to glue it altogether, is responsible for 7 percent of global CO₂ emissions, leaving a huge carbon footprint. But without cement, concrete doesn't hold up skyscrapers.

What if there was a way that instead of releasing carbon dioxide, concrete could trap it forever? Carbon Cure is kind of the brains of the technology. This innovation puts carbon dioxide into the concrete as it's being mixed. When the concrete hardens, those otherwise harmful emissions are trapped forever, before they even reach our atmosphere. Christie Gamble, part of the team behind Carbon Cure's technology, explained ," We actually transform the CO₂ into a mineral, and the real selling point is that the mineral itself improves the compressive (压缩的) strength for the concrete, which means producers like Thomas Concrete can use less cement in their mixtures and still achieve the same strength with fewer emissions.

Compression tests prove that the concrete made with Carbon Cure is just as hardy as the traditional stuff. If we can reduce 5 percent of the carbon footprint of the concrete industry, that's a significant change from where we're right now. Ultimately, if this technology was employed across the globe, we could reduce about 700 megatons of CO₂ every year, which is the same as taking 150 million cars off the road every year.

It's going to change the way the concrete industry does things. Though companies pay to use Carbon Cure and buy CO₂ from a factory, they save money by using less of their most expensive cement.

Teenage years are one of the most exciting yet confusing stages in a person's life. You are no longer a child, yet not quite an adult. One of them is your pastime.

Some pastimes have no moral implications. For example, shall we play basketball or soccer? Some examples include attending a party where there will be alcohol and drugs freely given out, lying to your parents or even skipping school to watch a movie with some friends. How do you respond? Will you follow them?

Wanting to feel part of a group may force you to do things against your better judgement. However, it is okay to say no to anything that is illegal, or potentially causes harm or is hurtful to you or others. But you do not let that stop you from standing up to peer pressure and being true to yourself. If your friends are true friends, they will respect your decision and not force you to join them.

There are some steps you may take to keep away from negative peer pressure. Firstly, stay away from friends who force you to do things that you know are wrong. Instead, spend more time with friends who share the same value as you. And if a situation gets out of hand, do not hesitate to approach an adult you trust for help.

It may not always be easy to resist peer pressure, but do know that you will feel good about yourself later. And even without you realizing it, you may have been a catalyst in your group to bring about a positive change.

A. This is when you form a new habit of making friends.

B. Next, be true to yourself and stick to what you believe in.

C. You are at a time of exploration, trying to find out your preferences.

D. These peers no longer have the ability to develop their own personality.

E. You may be afraid to refuse for fear of losing friends or being laughed at.

F. However, there are other choices that need to be made based on your values in life.

G. Others in your group may just follow your lead and gain courage to do the right thing.

Today I met Connell, 91, almost fully blind and partly deaf. But he still had his humour. While I was getting a pedicure (修脚) in a shop, Connell was 1 to the chair next to me. Being his first time here, he was 2a little embarrassed. Then we started chatting and he told me his stories as a truck driver.

Connell noticed I got a leg massage (推拿) and he 3 he wanted one too, so I helped him explain it to the waitress. Connell asked me what I 4 for a living. I told him I was an independent disability support person. Hearing this, he 5 said, "Hey, I'm disabled! I'm blind! " Then he laughed and I laughed too,6     him that he was 91 already and couldn't quite have it all.

When I was7, I paid for his treatment also, and tried to 8     before he noticed. But the waitress who 9 me ran over and told him. Tears in eyes, he tried reaching for his 10. He told me I couldn't possibly pay for him, to which my 11 was "Yes I can…Umm… I already have… " As I was 12 on my response, a woman who was watching the scene said it was really 13.

All I asked from Connell was a hug. In fact, it was just someone showing a gentleman a little 14, and his impact was15on me than I'm sure mine was on him.

The carbon emission intensity of major agricultural products in China is on a downward trend, according to a report (release) by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) on Friday.

"China has achieved a low carbon emission intensity in agriculture, (make) a positive contribution to addressing global climate change," said Mei Xurong, vice president of the CAAS.

According to the report, China's gross agricultural product accounts 9.5percent of the total gross domestic product (GDP), while the total carbon emissions from agricultural production make only 6.7 percent of China's total carbon emissions.

China has ensured food (secure) and the effective supply of important agricultural products, achieving a low carbon emission intensity in agriculture, the report said.

It said that China invests around 100 billion yuan (about $14.6 billion) each year (support) the construction of high-standard farmland. (adopt) new technologies enables increase in food production while reducing carbon emissions.

In recent years, China (make) use of renewable energy technology to treat more than  million metric tons of organic waste from agriculture and rural areas each year, (effective) reducing environmental pollution and carbon emissions, the report added.

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If plastic and rubber are burnt, they will poisonous gases.

A couple of months before I started high school, my parents gave me the greatest gift any teenage boy would ask for: a cellphone. I lived on that phone all summer. I always texted (给……发短信) my friends, even at night. And I paid no attention to the people and things around myself. Being connected to the Internet was more important than being present.

So, you can imagine my displeasure when I learned what my dad had planned for our family vacation that year. It was not the Disneyland trip or beach vacation that I had been hoping for.

"This year," my dad said, "we'll be doing something special, something I used to do with my dad when I was a kid. We're going camping in the forest!"

His excitement was met with a disappointed sigh (失望的叹息), which was my communication style at that age. But he had made the decision and would not change his mind. I comforted myself by telling myself that it was still a vacation. I remained uninfluenced when they were busy preparing for the vacation.

My mind was on my phone, the texts flying back and forth. I focused on the screen in my hands so much that the first time I looked up was when we drove across a bridge on the trip to our campsite.

I looked out of the window and saw a fast-moving river. The air blowing into the car from the open windows was hot and smelt of trees. But that didn't matter to me. The reason why I had looked up was for something far more serious and annoying. My phone no longer had service. The signal was weak. During the last hour of the drive, there was no signal at all.

注意：所续写短文的词数应为l50左右；续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好

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My dad explained he chose a campsite that had no phone service.

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The next morning, without checking my phone as usual, I fixed my mind on nature around myself.