张掖二中2020—20学年度第二学期期中考试试卷 高一英语（特部） 第Ⅰ卷 选择题 第一部分：阅读理解(共两节,满分40分) 第一节(共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A The M3 Challenge is a contest that gives high schoolers the chance to experience working as a team to deal with a practical problem within limited time. The challenge is meant to give high schoolers a sense of the kinds of problems faced by professional mathematicians working in the real world. Students who are gifted at coding (编程) might consider this competition since extra credit awards are available for teams who include outstanding code as part of their solution. High school juniors and seniors from anywhere in the U. S. are welcome to participate in the M3 Challenge. Teams of students must consist of three to five people and at least one teacher-coach. Another cool thing? The M3 Challenge is. entirely online until the final round, and there are no participation fees !. At the end of the M3 Challenge, six teams are identified and invited to present their work in New York City. The finalist teams are also eligible to receive cash awards, which are as follows: ◆ M3 Challenge Champions (Summa Cum Laude Team Prize) $ 20,000 ◆ M3 Challenge Runner Up (Magna Cum Laude Team Prize) $ 15,000 ◆ M3 Challenge Third Place (Cum Laude Team Prize) $ 10,000 ◆ M3 Challenge Finalist (Meritorious Team Prize) $ 5,000 (3 teams) In addition to these top prizes there are also awards in the amount of $ 1,500 and $ 1,000 for semi-finalist and honorable mention teams respectively. Finally, Challenge finalists, semi-finalists, and honorable mention teams may be invited to submit applications for summer internships in STEM. 1. What's the purpose of the M3 Challenge? A. To promote coding. B. To select math professionals. C. To solve difficult math problems. D. To enrich high schoolers' knowledge. 2. Which of the following will lead to disqualification? A. Having only one coach in a team. B. Coming from a remote U. S. state. C. Including eight students in a team. D. Failing to pay the participation fees. 3. How much is the cash prize for honorable mention teams? A. $ 1,000. B. $ 1,500. C. $ 5,000. D. $ 10,000. B A 76-year-old grandmother, dressed in Hanfu, the traditional clothing of China, attracted hundreds of thousands of people's attention with her beauty and passion for life. The first short video was filmed by her grandson Liu Haochen in early October, and received 1.76 million likes on short video platform Douyin within a month. Now known as “Grandma of Chenchen” with 200,000 fans, she has tried on many different Chinese traditional clothing. Beautiful headwear and fans with traditional Chinese paintings are some of her favorite parts in dressing. Liu, also a lover of Hanfu, said he wanted to share happy memories with his grandma and to record her life at old age. And he found she was quite suitable for the clothing. The grandma learned Peking Opera ... ...
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