2019-2020学年佛山市第一中学高三英语上学期期中考试试卷及答案解析

2019-2020学年佛山市第一中学高三英语上学期期中考试试卷及答案解析

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The Fall 2020 Cookbooks Worth Your Time (and Money)

Be My Guest

From Priya Basil, this book is a self-reflection on how food and the act of serving it are used to express love

and support. Basil reflects on some of her earliest memories of food and how it affected her upbringing and

relationship with her parents. Now a parent herself, she centers food in her book's exploration of that change of

identity.

East

From Guardian columnist Meera Sodha comes a cookbook centered on vegetables. The book features recipes

that cover a variety of Asian cuisines. Sodha showcases the diversity of vegetarian cooking with dishes like

eggplant larb mushroom bao, Singapore noodles and so much more.

I Cook in Color

A follow-up from her first cookbook My Two Souths, Asha Gomez focuses on the rainbow of vegetables to

create desserts and cross-cultural dishes that associate cooking traditions of her mother's Keralite kitchen and

Gomez's travel experiences.

Time to Eat

If you're a fan of The Great British Baking Show and Nadiya Hussain's Netflix series, you'll be just as excited

for the American release of this book of time-saving tips for home cooks on a budget. It's a book to go to for

inspiration that doesn't involve countless hours of sweating over a hot stove.

1.What can we learn about the author ofBe My Guest?

A.She had a bad relationship with her parents.

B.She began to cook food in her early childhood.

C.She considers food a means of expressing affection.

D.She explores in the book how to be a grandparent.

2.What do theEastandI Cook in Colorhave in common? A.They offer recipes about Asian cuisines.

B.They center on cooking vegetables.

C.They are the author's first cookbooks.

D.They are based on the author's travel experiences.

3.Which book can you refer toif you just have limited time for cooking?

A.Be My Guest.

B.East.

C.I Cook in Color.

D.Time to Eat.

B

Have you ever imagined that your simple T-shirt could cool you down by up to5℃on these hot summer days?

Thanks to a recent discovery, the possibility is getting closer. While there are many alternatives that manage to

keep the body warm, this amazing invention aims to offer real relief for those who are eager to feel comfortable

and fresh in the outdoors on extremely hot days.

Its inventors, engineers Ma Yaoguang of Zhejiang University and Tao Guangming of Huazhong University of

Science and Technology in China, look a completely innovative approach. They designed a special textile dial can

absorb body heat and re-emit its energy into space as mid-infrared radiation (MIR). This textile cools both the

objects and their surroundings through a technique that is known as radiative cooling, Science reveals. This means

that even when it looks like you are wearing a regular shirt, you are actually wearing a device that works like a

mirror.

Research conducted at Stanford University in 2017 had already managed to cool the wearer by 3℃, but this

previous trial was limited. So researchers still need to test the new approach to determine how effectively the new

fabric cools while the wearers are standing or walking, and not directly facing the sky, like in their trials. They also

need to examine and measure how well it works when T-shirts are not in close contact with the skin.

Inventors Yaoguang and Guangming are now looking out for textile manufacturers and clothing brands that

are interested in using their fabric. They estimate that the new material will increase clothing manufacturing costs

by just 10 percent. “We can make it with mass production which means everybody can get a T-shirt and the cost is

basically the same as theirs,” old Yaoguang said.

So if you are an athlete or simply someone that has to deal with the extremely high temperatures, be patient

because your days of feeling hot and bothered may be corning to an end! 4. What is the purpose of the new invention?

A. To warm up people's body. B. To cool people off in hot weather.

C. To detect the wearers' temperature. D. To protect clothes from becoming wet.

5. How does the special product work?

A. By turning sunlight into energy. B. By sending out absorbed heat.

C. By keeping heat out completely. D. By using light color1 s to reflect sunlight.

6. What is the main idea of paragraph 3?

A. The invention needs further testing. B. The previous studies lack evidence.

C. The new fabric has a good cooling effect. D. The new fabric applies to various situations.