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1、2021-2022学年上海市崇明区高三(上)期末英语试卷1. Artists Show Concern for Environment at Smithsonian Craft Show The United Nations says more than one million plant and animal species are likely to die out because of human activity.That threat (1) the environment and concerns about climate change influenced people att
2、ending the Smithsonian Craft Show last month.The show gave recognition to artists (2) ( create) environmentally sustainable works. The Smithsonian Committee is made up of volunteers from the Washington,D.C.area.Joann Symons is the groups president. In recent years,weve noticed that the artists in ou
3、r shows have been working with more renewable materials and methods (3) are environmentally safe.Thats (4) weve decided that we will reward those efforts by offering a Sustainability Award every year at our show, said Symons. At the show last month,120 artists from across the United States presented
4、 works of art in 12 different materials.Twenty-one artists met the requirements for sustainability.By doing so,they won the right (5) ( compete) for the Honoring the Future Sustainability Award.The winner received a prize of 1,000 dollars. Mary Jaeger creates her works of art in a nearly 100-year-ol
5、d factory building in Brooklyn,New York.She makes artworks that (6) be worn as clothing.It combines the time-honored qualities of Japanese textiles with modern Western designs.Jaeger won the Honoring the Future Sustainability Award for her silk creations.She makes them by hand,combining earlier proj
6、ects with materials (7) ( leave) over.The artist said, (8) I look at these beautiful silks that I have acquired over the years of designing,I wanted to repurpose them into something that was truly beautiful,but completely different than the original product. Fran Dubrowski (9) ( head) Honoring the F
7、uture,a nonprofit organization that provides the sustainability award.She said the group (10) ( set) up to take advantage of the power of art to educate and engage the public on climate change.(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)A.awarded B.contemporary C.demand D.emitted E.explore F.exposureG.inevitable
8、 H.protective I.tragic J.undertake K.unmatchedPraise for Pioneers in Science In memory of Marie Curie on her birthday on Saturday,the official website of the Nobel Prize posted a photograph of her notebook saying, Marie Curie died of aplastic anaemia (再生障碍性贫血) on 4 July 1934,a result of years of (1)
9、 to radiation through her work.Even today her laboratory notebook from 1899-1902,is radioactive and will be for 1,500 years. The tales of Marie and other scientists of her time are in some sense very (2) . Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen,a professor of physics at the Wuerzburg University in Germany,discover
10、ed X-ray in 1895.A year later,Antoine Henri Becquerel found that some natural substances (3) rays,too.Later,Marie and her physicist husband,Pierre Curie,gave it a name,radioactivity. However,the harmful effects of radioactivity were not discovered until decades later.Marie and her (4) scientists dea
11、lt with radioactive substances for decades using little or no protection. Maries death is a reminder about the risks pioneers in science (5) .It was only after people handling radioactive substances began to get similar diseases that medical experts asked people to use protection.Today,medical healt
12、h workers and patients wear heavy (6) covers during X-rays. It is almost (7) that those exploring new frontiers (前沿) for science are exposing themselves to unknown dangers.There is a(n) (8) for better protection for the pioneers,but that is not possible until the dangers are fully known. For example
13、,the space suits astronauts wear protect them against radiation.However,only time will tell if there are some other unknown dangers that they need to protect themselves against. The contributions and sacrifices by such pioneers to the field of science are (9) and deserving of our respect.Because the
14、 pioneers not only (10) new frontiers,but also help us better protect ourselves from unknown environments.(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)We all know the dangers of a diet thats high in fat.But a new study from researchers at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) in Japan has now found having a fat-he
15、avy diet can also (3)hair loss. In the average healthy adult,the hair follicle stem cells (HFSCs)(毛囊干细胞) (4)themselves regularly,which is why your hair grows back when you cut it and also why it becomes longer.As with most things in the human body,though,aging doesnt do the HSFCs any(5) .As you get
16、older,the stem cells lose their ability to reproduce as (6)as they once did,leaving the hair to thin and/or fall out. In the study carried out by TMDUs department of stem cell biology,mice that had been given a high-fat diet (HFD) were more subject to inflammatory (炎症的) responses in the body which, (7),blocked follicle regeneration,leading to hair loss.What was surprising was that the (8) in the hair folli