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云南省昆明市盘龙区2024年中考二模英语试题
What do we look forward to in winter? Snow and ice festivals! Many of them hold fun ice sculpture contests (冰雕比赛). Check out these four famous winter sculpture contests!
Kiruna Snow Festival, Sweden This festival started in 1986. A snow sculpture contest is held during the festival every year. Artists from all over the world show their skills in the contest. Tourists can also have a lot of fun there. They can skate and take part in snow blowing games. This year's festival was held from January 24 to 28. |
Geilo Ice Music Festival, Norway This festival began ninetheen years ago. Artists come to Geilo to make working musical instruments out of ice. People can enjoy musical shows in an igloo (冰屋). The 2024 festival took place from February 19 to 24. |
International Snow Sculpture Championships, U. S. A. This contest has been held for more than thirty years. Teams of artists compete to turn ice into art works by hand. No power tools are allowed! Their works will be displayed in an outdoor art gallery in Colorado. This year, the contest was held from January 22 to 26. And the art gallery was open from January 26 to 31. |
Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, China It started on January 5th, 1985, and has become the world's biggest winter festival. As China's economy (经济) grows, the size of the snow and ice sculpture shows keeps growing. Besides that, the beautiful lighting also make the festival stand out. The festival is officially held from the end of December through February. Opening dates keep changing, and ending dates partly depends on the weather. |
① Its longest history. ②The size of the snow and ice sculpture shows.
③ The beautiful lighting. ④ The changeable opening time.
Teachers in the sky On Dec. 9, three Chinese astronauts (宇航员) give a science lesson 400 kilometers above the earth! They show students their life there. During the lesson, Zhai shows their clothes—"penguin suit". Sometimes they wear them to keep strong. Wang also shows another way to keep healthy-they exercise with bikes every day! ____
When you see: it for the first time, you may think it's the famous painting Girl With a Pearl Earring《带珍珠耳环的少女》. But it's not, it's just a picture made by designer Julian using artificial intelligence (AI). The AI-made artwork shows up at a museum (博物馆) in March. ChatGPT causes storm A survey shows that over 89%students in US use ChatGPT OpenAI (a smart AD) to help with homework, so some American schools stop the use of ChatGPT. However, not all the schools say "no" to ChatGPT. Some Canadian universities are making rules on its use, for students and teachers. |
I have always admired students who hand their homework in on time and never forget anything important to do. Me, on the other hand… I'm terrible at getting myself organized! The following tips are from my friends.
Lou | Hi, Amy. My tip is to have a big noticeboard in your bedroom, divide it into different parts. I've got a whiteboard. I write a to-do list for each subject on it to make sure I'll finish everything in time. |
Gloria | Lately I've started keeping a small study diary, I write down everything I need to do in it. I also write a reminder before some important dates. It's helping. |
Hana | I always spend about five minutes at the end of the day tidying up the desktop on the computer and make a copy of important documents. According to must-do things, I write them on the sticky paper and put it on the front door to keep in mind. |
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