2023-2024学年高一英语国庆假英语每日练 Day2
Day 2
一、 阅读理解
（一）
A music festival, which is often presented with a main idea, is a community event mainly about live performances of singing and instrument playing. On the list are the music festivals for fans around the world. Find your favourite now!
Field Day
January 1, 2022, Sydney
Field Day means New Year’s Day for young people in Sydney. Seen as the city’s original outdoor party, it’s a gathering of friends coming together for a great fun-filled first day of the year. There’s an air of hope and active energy on a perfect summer’s day.
Envision Festival
February 21-26, 2022, Uvita
The Envision Festival is an annual event in Costa Rica that wants to provide a chance for different cultures to work with one another to create a better community. The festival encourages people to practise art, music and dance performances. At the same time, our connection with nature is expected to be strengthened.
McDowell Mountain Music Festival
March 2-4, 2022, Phoenix
The McDowell Mountain Music Festival is Phoenix’s musical celebration of community culture. Since its founding in 2004, it is the only 100% nonprofit(非营利的) music festival designed to support, entertain and educate the community. The festival attracts thousands of visitors each year from around the country, and it is an opportunity to experience true culture.
Old Settler’s Music Festival
April 19-22, 2022, Tilmon
The Old Settler’s Music Festival is a nationally known music festival for American music. The festival is held in Tilmon, Texas at the height of the wild flower season. The Old Settler’s Music Festival offers great music and activities for the whole family.
1．Which city should you go to if you intend to participate in a music festival in January?
A．Sydney. B．Uvita. C．Phoenix. D．Tilmon.
2．What is special about the McDowell Mountain Music Festival?
A．It encourages people to receive education.
B．It is not held to make money.
C．It provides a chance for friends to meet each other.
D．It focuses on culture spread.
3．Which festivals are connected with nature?
A．Field Day and Envision Festival.
B．Envision Festival and McDowell Mountain Music Festival
C．Old Settler’s Music Festival and McDowell Mountain Music Festival.
D．Envision Festival and Old Settler’s Music Festival.
（二）
The 46-year-old Chinese Zhang Hong has successfully climbed the highest mountain in the world from the Nepal side, becoming the first blind man in Asia and the third in the world to climb Mount Everest. Born in southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, Zhang lost his sight at the age of 21.
“Whether you’re disabled or normal, whether you have lost your eyesight or you have no legs or hands, it doesn’t matter. If you have a strong mind, you can always complete a thing that other people say you can’t,”Zhang told Alexander, a reporter from Reuters.
Zhang was inspired by Erik Weihenmayer, a blind American mountaineer(登山运动员)who climbed Mount Everest in 2001, and began training under the guidance of his friend Qiang Zi.With much hard work and great efforts, he completed the 8, 849 metre-high Himalayan feat(壮举)on May 24 along with three high altitude guides, and returned to the base camp on Thursday, May 27.
Nepal reopened Mount Everest in April for foreigners after it was shut last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I was still very scared and frightened, because I couldn’t see where I was walking and I couldn’t find my centre of gravity, so sometimes I was afraid that I would fall, ”said Zhang.” But I kept thinking even though it was hard, I had to face those difficulties and dangers and this is the meaning of climbing.
4．From the text, we can know that Zhang Hong lost his sight at the age of .
A．24 B．27 C．21 D．46
5．Who inspired Zhang to climb Mount Everest according to Para.3?
A．A mountaineer B．A guide
C．A reporter D．A student
6．What does Zhang think of the meaning of climbing according to the last paragraph?
A．It can make him rich
B．It can make him famous
C．It can help him find real friends
D．It can help him face difficulties and dangers
7．What is the text mainly about?
A．A blind Chinese man climbed Mount Everest
B．A blind American man climbed Mount Everest
C．Nepal shut Mount Everest in April for foreigners .
D．The COVID-19 pandemic broke out around the world
二、七选五
Create a Post-pandemic Life Full of Connection
This year, much of the advice dealt with how to strengthen social lives still in rebuilding mode after the pandemic. People are thinking about how to reconnect with loved ones and broaden shrunken social circles. They are also figuring out how to hold on to relationship lessons learned over the past few years: to slow down and pay attention to what really matters. 8
1.Invite people over
Many of us are eager to continue to reconnect with people we’ve missed. But parties can be exhausting and impersonal, and restaurants are often loud, rushed and expensive. 9 You may set the scene with candles and music and throw open the door to friends with a smile. Your gatherings can be smaller and more intimate with some activities. You will get to feel like you’re all family for one night.
2.Pick up the phone
This one hits on one of my favorites — how no one picks up the phone anymore, either to make a call or answer one. You can make an effort to call family members, friends and cherished colleagues on their birthdays, anniversaries and other significant days. 10
3.Try something new