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江西省萍乡市湘东中学2019-2020学年高二下学期英语线上期中能力测试卷

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    Perhaps there is no sport in the world more connected to sneakers than basketball. Many NBA players wear them to send important messages and showcase their personalities on court.

    And now, thanks to a new policy, the NBA will strengthen its status as the most stylish sports league in the world. When the 2018-2019 NBA season kicked off in October, the NBA lifted its color restrictions on players' sneakers. It is the first time in the league's 72-year history that it has allowed shoes to be of any color a player likes, as long as no reflective(反光的) material is included.

    In the past, the NBA required "uniformity(一致性) of uniform", meaning each players' shoes had to match those worn by the rest of the team. Their sneakers had to be at least 51 percent black or white, with an element of team color.

    This landmark rule change is part of the NBA's collective effort to support players "statements" on and off the court. "More and more people realize that limitation of the color of players' shoes actually constrains(限制) their personal expression and storytelling," CNN News noted.

    Sometimes a shoe was worn in a memorable game, or the design of a shoe has meaning for the player.

    Before Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant, nicknamed "the Black Mamba", retired, it was said that he wore a new pair of sneakers to each game and stored his used sneakers.

    Bryant brought the low-top style of sneaker with a Mamba print to the forefront in 2008 to symbolize the spirit of perseverance and bravery. In 2013, Bryant added nine red stitches(缝针) to the back of his shoe to represent the nine stitches from his Achilles tendon surgery. "It has become an attitude. That is my Mamba personality," Bryant told Sports Illustrated magazine.

    Kyrie Irving of the Boston, Celtics wears probably the most famous signature sneakers. Inspired by his mother, who died when he was four, he has a rose on one side of his shoe to represent her. All of his sneakers are also inscribed(刻) with the words, "JBY(Just Be You)". "Just Be You is the motto I live by every single day, because I'm happy to be an individual. It's a beautiful thing," Irving told UK media site GiveMeSport.

    There is no end to the stories about sneakers in basketball. It's certain that they will remain a platform for players who want to use them to express their ideas and personalities.

(1)、According to the new policy, the NBA players       .
A、may choose sneakers they like without restriction B、should wear sneakers in their own team color C、have to choose sneakers either in black or in white D、have more freedom in choosing personal sneakers
(2)、What can we infer from Paragraph 4?
A、Uniformity guarantees better results. B、The new rule leads to controversy. C、The NBA cares little about players' statements. D、Players' personal expression also counts.
(3)、Which of the following is used to express family value?
A、A rose. B、JBY. C、A Mamba print. D、Nine red stitches.
(4)、What's the best title of the passage?
A、The NBA lifts color restrictions. B、Our shoes have stories. C、Bryant has a unique dress style. D、The NBA players are particular about the colors of their sneakers.
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    Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758, in the West Division of Hartford. At that time, few people went to college, but Noah loved to learn so his parents let him go to Yale, Connecticut's only college. He left for New Haven in 1774. Noah's years at Yale were the years of the Revolutionary War.

    Sometimes 70 children of all ages were in one-room schoolhouses with no desks, poor books, and untrained teachers. Noah did not like that. Their books came from England. Noah thought that Americans should learn from American books, so in 1783, Noah wrote his own textbook: A Grammatical Institute of the English Language.

    For 100 years, Noah's book taught children how to read, spell, and pronounce words. It was the most popular American book of its time. Ben Franklin used Noah's book to teach his granddaughter to read.

    When Noah was 43, he started writing the first American dictionary. He did this because Americans in different parts of the country spelled, pronounced and used words differently. He thought that all Americans should speak the same way. He also thought that Americans should not speak and spell just like the English. Noah used American spellings like “color” instead of the English “colour”, “music” instead of “musick” and “center” instead of “centre”. He also added American words that weren't in English dictionaries like “skunk” and “squash”. It took him over 27 years to write his book. When finished in 1828, Noah's dictionary had 70,000 words in it.

    Noah did many things in his life. He worked for copyright laws, wrote textbooks, Americanized the English language, and edited (编辑) magazines. When Noah Webster died in 1843, he was regarded an American hero.

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    Devon Gallagher, a college graduate from Philadelphia, wants the world to know exactly where she's been while she's on her worldwide vacation in a special way. The traveler, who was born with a bone disease, had her right leg amputated (截肢) at the age of four. Although the amputation caused inconvenience for Gallagher early on, she now sees it as nothing short of inspiration for living her best life.

    To spread that message. Gallagher has gone to social media, where she shares photos of her travels across the world, but instead of simply using a geo-tag (地理位置标签), she writes her location on her artificial leg before taking a picture.

    Now she has been taking pictures across the Continent, which show her cycling over the canal in Amsterdam relaxing on a wall overlooking the city of Barcelona, posing with a waffle in Brussels, taking in the beautiful Parthenon temple in Athens and enjoying a river ride in Budapest, all with the well-known locations written on her artificial leg.

    "I get a new leg every two years and I can choose the design on it. One day I had a sudden thought to get a chalk-board," Gallagher said. "My mum and grandmother didn't like the idea, but my friends thought it was great and told me to go for it, so I did."

    Gallagher said people often stare when she's writing on her leg, but once she shares the photos, she receives only positive feedback (反馈), "My leg hasn't stopped me from doing anything I've wanted to do," she said. "I don't know if it's my determination to prove to myself that I can do it, anyway, I've been able to keep up with people at my age and lead a pretty great life."

    Gallagher shows us that you should never let anything stand in the way of your dreams. And if life gives you an artificial leg, make art.

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This document sets out the display standards for Glasgow Museums. This guide will help exhibition planners provide access to exhibitions in our museums. Glasgow Museums' aim is to improve access to collections by having as many items as possible on display and without physical barriers. We also try out best to protect these objects without limiting access to them.

Object Placement

·Don't place objects in such a way that they could present a danger to visitors.

·All object displays, cased or otherwise, must be viewable by all, including people who are small in figure or in wheelchairs.

Open Display

·All objects on open display must be secure from theft and damage.

·All objects identified for potential open display must be viewed and agreed on an object-to-object basis by the Security Manager of the museum.

Recommendations

Distance

Recommended distance to place objects out of “casual arm's length”(taken from the edge of the object to the edge of any proposed form of barrier)

700mm

*In some cases, 600mm may be acceptable, provided the plinth height is above 350mm.

Cased Objects

·All cased displays should fall within the general optimum(最优的)viewing band of 750-2000mm. Ensure everything is visually accessible from a wheelchair.

·Position small objects or those with fine detail in the front part of a case, with larger items behind.

·Position small items or those with fine detail no higher than 1015mm from floor level. Objects placed above this height are only seen from below by people in wheelchairs or people who are small in figure.

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