2021-2022学年湖北省荆、荆、襄、宜四地七校高一下学期期中联考英语试卷含答案

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2022 年春荆、荆、襄、宜四地七校
高一期中联考
英 语 试 题
7. Which is the cheapest?
A. The hat. B. The trousers. C. The T-shirt.
听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。
8. What is the conversation mainly about?
A. Course design. B. Course registration. C. Course training.
9. What course did the woman choose?
A. IT. B. Modern History. C. Program Design.
听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。

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号条形码上的信息是否一致，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卷上的指定位置。
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3. 非选择题的作答：用黑色墨水的签字笔直接答在答题卷上的每题所对应的答题区域内。答在试题卷上
或答题卷指定区域外无效。
4. 考试结束，监考人员将答题卷收回，考生自己保管好试题卷。

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节 (共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分)
听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每 段对话后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
例：How much is the shirt?
A. £19.15. B. £9.18. C. £9.15.
答案是 C。
1. How many students competed in the race?
A. 15. B. 25. C. 40.
2. What sport does the man like best now?
A. Football. B. Basketball. C. Tennis.
3. What kind of person is Jim?
A. Changeable. B. Quiet. C. Sociable.
4. Where are the speakers?
A. In a garden. B. In a restaurant. C. In a music club.
5. What did the woman do the day before Christmas?
A. She donated to the homeless. B. She got the bike she wanted.
C. She organized a gift giving event.
第二节 (共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分)
听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳 选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题 5 秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出 5 秒钟的 作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。
6. What will the man do next?
A. Mark the prices. B. Make a list. C. Attend a meeting.
10. What problem does the man have?
A. He has put on much weight.
B. He has not been sleeping well.
C. He has trouble with his computer screen.
11. What is the worst about the woman’s job?
A. The long working hours. B. The changeable schedule. C. The great stress.
12. Where will the speakers go this weekend?
A. To a park. B. To a mountain. C. To a gym.
听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。
13. Where is the woman from?
A. England. B. America. C. India.
14. What does the woman have trouble with?
A. English. B. Maths. C. Law.
15. What made the woman decide to be an architect?
A. Her teachers’ suggestion. B. Her parents’ expectation. C. Her personal character.
16. What can we learn about the woman?
A. She will probably work in England.
B. English is quite important to her future. C. She began to learn in America last year.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。
17. How was Baylis’ radio powered?
A. By electricity. B. By shoes. C. By hand.
18. What do we know about the mobile phone invented by Baylis?
A. It is powered by walking.
B. It has a small battery in itself. C. It plays for about half an hour.
19. What is the educational background of Baylis?
A. He is a high school graduate.
B. He didn’t receive a higher education.
C. He majored in engineering at college.
20. How did Baylis get his ideas?
A. He worked hard for them.
B. They came to him by chance.
C. Other people inspired him a lot.

第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分 50 分）
第一节（共 15 小题; 每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
2022 Beijing Winter Olympics presented the world fantastic events and bunches of brilliant athletes, among whom certain young athletes stood out and went viral among audience.
Yuzuru Hanyu
Aged just 19, Hanyu became the first Asian man to win an Olympic gold medal in Sochi, becoming the youngest
men’s champion since 1948. Hanyu’s technique is outstanding, but he combines his ability with an astonishing creativity and artistry. Though the “ice prince” tumbled (摔倒) in his performance and thus failed the gold medal in
Beijing 2022, he still makes a deserving figure skating icon.
Alexandra Trusova
Alexandra Trusova is a Russian figure skater who is the Beijing 2022 Olympic silver medalist (representing ROC). The 17-year-old is best known for her quadruple-jumping abilities. She was the first female to land each of the quad Lutz, flip and toe jumps in competition, and was also the first to land two- and then three-quads in a free skate. Eileen Gu
Nicknamed “Snow Princess”, Gu initially represented the United States of America in competition, but she
chose to compete for China, the birth land of her mother who is from Beijing. As a Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games gold medalist in big air, the 18-year-old girl is the first female Chinese freestyle skier to top the podium (领奖 台).
Yiming Su
Born in 2004 in Jilin, Su is the first Chinese snowboarder to ever land on World Cup podium in either big air or slopestyle. He is also the first rider ever to land 1800s two ways in a FIS competition. This year he won China’s sixth gold medal in the Olympics.
Click here for more information about the above athletes.
21. Who is the youngest among the four athletes?
A. Yuzuru Hanyu. B. Alexandra Trusova. C. Eileen Gu. D. Yiming Su.
22. What can we infer about the athletes mentioned in the text?
A. They are skilled at big air events. B. They have a big impact on skating.
C. They are pioneers in their own fields. D. They won gold medals in the 2022 Olympics.
23. Where is the passage probably taken from?
A. A sports website. B. A game brochure.
C. A fashion magazine. D. A sports star magazine.


B
In 2017, Titli Trust began working with Tehri Forest Division to arm the local community — with knowledge —
through a program named Living with Leopards (豹). The forest officials made a study trip to Mumbai to learn from their experiences there.
“Our Mumbai trip has taught us that we need to change the focus from leopards to people,” says Dr Koko Rose
from the Tehri Forest Division. This meant reaching out to villagers to share measures they could take to minimize
(最小化) the chances of meeting a leopard or being attacked. They include clearing bushes around homes to minimize hiding spaces for leopards, leaving a light on at night, and ensuring people, especially children, did not go
out alone at night. The strategies are carefully aimed at a leopard’s known habits: they are shy, tend to avoid human
beings, and are more active at night.
Forest officials also went to schools and launched a children’s ambassador program, where children dressed up as leopards and performed for their parents in order to create more understanding of why leopards come near their homes, and how to stay safe.
These efforts seemed effective. In the four years before the program started, there were 45 cases of human-leopard conflict in the Tehri area, among them 10 human deaths. Now, the number went down to 14 and four human deaths.
“Our ancestors tell us how they have lived in the forests, grazed (放牧) the animals in the forests, but the leopard has
never attacked them,” says Meena, a local villager, “So we too can live with leopards, if we remain watchful and follow the rules.”
24. What did the forest officials learn from the study trip?
A. The community could be armed. B. People were more attractive than leopards.
C. What people could do to help mattered more. D. They could reach out to the villagers for help.
25. What is basis of the strategies?
A. The leopard’s shy nature. B. The forest officials’ opinion.
C. The villagers’ measures. D. The geographic features.
26. What did the school children do to help?
A. They didn’t go out at night. B. They learnt how to stay safe.
C. They dressed up to drive leopards away. D. They performed to teach their parents.
27. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?
A. Leopards — Shy Animals B. Learning to Live with Leopards Again
C. Cooperating in Protection of Wildlife D. Measures to Reduce Leopard Movements


C
Using a raised eyebrow (眉毛) or smile, people with speech or physical disabilities can now operate their
Android-powered smartphones without using their hands, Google said on Thursday.
Two new tools put machine learning and front-facing cameras on smartphones to work, identifying face and eye movements. Users can look at their phone screens and select a task by smiling, raising eyebrows, opening their mouths, or looking to the left, right or up.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that 61 million adults in the United States live with disabilities, which has pushed Google, Apple and Microsoft to make products and services more accessible to them. “Every day, people use voice instructions, like ‘Hey Google’, or their hands to operate their phones,” the tech giant Google said in a blog post. “However, that’s not always possible for people with serious physical or speech disabilities.”
The changes are the result of two new features: One is called “Camera Switches”, which lets people use their
faces instead of taps to interact with smartphones. The other is Project Activate, a new Android application which allows people to use those gestures (姿势) to start an action, like having a phone play a recorded phrase, send text, or
make a call. The free Activate app is available in Australia, Britain, Canada and the United States at the Google Play
Store.
Apple, Google and Microsoft have kept rolling out inventions that make Internet technology more accessible to people with disabilities or who find that age has made some tasks, such as reading, more difficult. Voice-instructed digital assistants built into speakers and smartphones can enable people with sight or movement challenges to tell

computers what to do. There is software that identifies text on web pages or in images and then reads it aloud, as well as automatic generation of captions (字幕) that display what is said in videos. Apple built “AssistiveTouch” into the
software powering its smartwatches. It lets touchscreen displays be controlled by sensing movements such as finger pinches (捏) or hand clenches.
28. What is the main role of the two new tools?
A. Taking sharper photographs with a phone. B. Using smartphones with face gestures.
C. Curing people’s speech or physical disabilities. D. Increasing the fun of playing with smartphones.
29. What do we know about the Project Activate app?
A. It’s sold at a high price. B. It’s mainly used to send texts.
C. It’s instructed by voice. D. It’s being used in a few countries.
30. What does the underlined part “rolling out” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?
A. Picking out. B. Referring to. C. Bringing out. D. Reacting to.
31. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the last paragraph?
A. To promote Android-powered smartphones.
B. To encourage more movements suitable for the disabled. C. To explain the problems disabled smartphone users have.
D. To introduce some other inventions benefiting the disabled.


D
What happens when we think that others expect us to fail? My research shows that these “underdog expectations” can actually motivate (激励) people to try to prove others wrong, especially those they find less
trustworthy, — leading them to perform better.
I conducted an experiment asking volunteers to do a computer task that included clicking on rapidly moving circles. They were told that someone was observing their performance on the task. They would receive one of three
messages — stating underdog expectations, high expectations, or neutral (中立的) expectations — from the observer.
Volunteers then performed the task. I found that those who experienced underdog expectations performed the best.
There are countless stories about underdogs being successful. For example, Aly Raisman, a three-time Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics, specially mentioned this motivation after reporters suggested she was too old to succeed at the last Olympics, “It’s obviously not something that people expected or that’s easy to do after you’re taking a year off or being the ‘Grandma’ or whatever they like to say. So, I’m happy I proved everyone wrong.”
Of course, there are also many more examples of people failing to overcome the low expectations others set for them. So when does being an underdog lead to success rather than failure?
I ran a second study. Before volunteers received any expectations, they were casually given information about the observer’s trust. Results show that the desire to prove others wrong only turned into better performance in the face of less trustworthy observers, while it backfired when it came from more trustworthy observers. Trying to prove highly trustworthy people wrong appears to have caused a sense of anxiety, which weakened the following performance. In contrast, people experiencing underdog expectations from less trustworthy observers were able to use the desire to prove others wrong and perform successfully.
My work suggests that more people can achieve success when they think that others view them as underdogs —
if they view others as less trustworthy and direct their motivation to prove them wrong toward performing better.
32. In Paragraph 3, the author uses Aly’s story to show _.
A. an old player did better than her competitors
B. it was hard for an old player to achieve success
C. the reporters thought little of Aly’s performance
D. underdog expectations can actually lead to success
33. What does the underlined word “backfired” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?
A. Developed interest. B. Raised motivation.
C. Had opposite effects. D. Helped avoid failure.
34. Which of the following situation can motivate a person best?
A. A stranger online said you would rank first in the coming exam. B. A friend who once lied to you said you would fail the interview.
C. A teacher you respect predicted your low scores in the coming exam. D. A coach of the school team said you couldn’t get a prize in the match.
35. Which might be the best title for the passage?
A. Upside of Being Underdogs B. Ways to Better Performance
C. Attempts to Prove Others Wrong D. Causes of Underdog Expectations


第二节 (共 5 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
What’s the use of language? Why does the human race learn to speak, write, and sign? 36 Certainly the primary purpose of language is for communication. We use language to communicate our ideas and opinions to each other. We use it to tell others our thoughts. Sometimes we tell the truth. Sometimes we tell lies. But in all these cases, the basic aim is clear: to get the ideas in our head into someone else’s head. 37 But there are several other uses of language where the basic aim has nothing to do with communicating ideas.
38 Earlier in the book, I talked about accents and dialects. These tell people who we are and where we come from. In both ways we express our identities.
Here’s another use of language: to express our emotions. Imagine you’re hammering a nail into a piece of wood, but something goes wrong and you hit your finger instead. What will come out of your mouth? 39 But quite a few would shout, “Stupid hammer!” as if it was the hammer’s fault. What sort of language is this? The hammer doesn’t have a brain, so it can’t possibly understand us. So what are we doing? Actually, we just want to get rid of our nervous energy. By shouting at the hammer, we feel a bit better.
We also use language to avoid embarrassment and get on with other people. Imagine people sometimes say such things as ‘Looks like rain’ or ‘Lovely day’ when they meet each other. They don’t want to start a proper conversation, but they feel it would be rude to pass by in silence. 40
A. Therefore, they make a comment on the weather.
B. One of these uses of language is to express identity.
C. Of course, if you’re very brave you might not say anything.
D. It shows that we’re getting on well with the people we’re talking to.
E. And for that to happen, we must speak them, write them, or sign them.
F. We might think the answer is very simple: to communicate with each other. G. Rather a large number of people, I suspect, would shout out something bad.



第三部分：语言运用（共两节，满分 30 分）
第一节 （共 15 小题，每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I was suddenly awakened at about 4 a.m. by a strange experience which I did not understand at first. I was 41
for a few seconds, as though I was in a cradle (摇篮). I heard 42 sounds in which I could identify the tinkling
of pots, the rattling of windows, and certain deep rumbling noise 43 from the earth. After a few moments I
realized, to my 44 , that it was the earthquake.
Others too in my house and neighborhood must have 45 it at the same time or a little earlier, because we all jumped up from our beds in a second and 46 out of our houses. The quake of the earth had stopped; yet we
stood in the open for an hour, extremely 47 about another quake. There was nip (寒冷) in the air that early
morning, and the electric lights had 48 . People stood in darkness, talking about the earthquake and praying (祈 祷) to God that it might not be 49 .
The quakes of the earth caused no damage in Mumbai. For several hours next morning we thought, with 50
 first in the world for several years in a row.
In spring, local hillsides are often filled with tea pickers as well as farmers 62 (plant) on their land. The
beautiful scenery of tea farms in the countryside has also contributed 63 an increase in tourism in these places. Many families take their children to experience the fun of picking tea leaves during spring outings with 64
(laugh) ringing in the mountains. Picking tea leaves reflects hard work of Chinese people, 65 is one of the
traditional virtues (美德).
第三部分 写作（共两节，满分 40 分） 第一节（满分 15 分）
假定你是李华，你班准备参加学校组织的英语音乐剧 (musical) 演出。请给外教 Steven 写封邮件求助， 内容包括：1. 说明演出要求；2. 请他推荐音乐剧；3. 请教表演技巧。
注意：1. 写作词数应为 80 左右；2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Steven,

to Nature, that the disaster had been 51 on the whole. But at about noon, bad news came that all the houses in

parts of Latur had been 52 to the ground and hundreds of human lives 53 .
The destruction caused by the earthquake at Latur proved the 54 of man in the face of an unexpected
natural disaster. He still has much to achieve in dealing with Nature. Isn’t it a(n) 55 that he is wasting away the



第二节（满分 25 分）
Yours,
Li Hua

natural resources and energies?
41. A. attacked B. comforted C. rocked D. sheltered
42. A. pleasant B. strange C. fascinating D. fluent
43. A. coming B. flashing C. reflecting D. tracking
44. A. annoyance B. joy C. relief D. horror
45. A. warned B. recognized C. impacted D. prevented
47. A. anxious B. excited C. curious D. hopeful
48. A. blown up B. come out C. died down D. gone off
50. A. admiration B. gratitude C. regret D.satisfaction
51. A. generous B. impressive C. harmless D. tough
52. A. burned B. frozen C. thrown D. ruined
53. A. lost B. cured C. discovered D. rescued
54. A. power B. creativity C. helplessness D. limit
55. A. fact B. pity C. honor D. wonder
第二节（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Picking tea leaves is 56 important spring activity in South China. Ancient Chinese 57 (agriculture) production has long been guided by solar terms, and so has tea production. Tea leaves are ready to pick before Qingming; tea 58 (pick) at that time is called Mingqian tea. Because of the small output and good quality, Mingqian tea 59 (consider) quite valuable.
China has been a big tea producing country since ancient times. According to official data, China’s tea planting area 60 (grow) in recent years, with an increase of more than 1.81 million hectares in 16 years since 2000 and 61 (it) yearly tea production has ranked
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
My heart beat wildly as I stared at my phone screen. I re-read the message from my friend, Jane. Someone had upset her by sharing her personal news: she had been refused by her dream school. Jane had shared the sad news with only a few people. She didn’t know who let the word out, but she was really hurt and disappointed.
I felt so bad. I knew how the news had gotten out because I had been the one to tell someone beyond her closest
friends. Honestly, I hadn’t realized she meant to keep it so close to only a few in the first place, but at the same time
46. A. jumped B. walked C. rushed D. struggled I’d known it wasn’t a good idea when I started to tell it to someone else.
Did she really not know it was me? It would have been easy to admit what I had done and apologize if her
message put the blame, specifically, on me. But it read as though it had been copied and sent to several people. Once
49. A. expected B. forgiven C. repeated D. stopped again ignoring the right choice, I chose the coward’s (懦夫) way out instead.
“I’m so sorry for what happened to you,” I typed. “How awful that your confidence was broken!”
I hoped that would work. Her reply came back within seconds: “Thank you.”
“It would be okay for me to remain anonymous (匿名), wouldn’t it?” I thought to myself.
But, deep down, I knew I’d been the one to break faith and hurt her. I was ashamed, not only of my original
action, but also because I’d taken a further step in the wrong direction by covering it up.
I felt painful at church on Sunday, sitting in silence all the time. Later, the speaker asked us to examine ourselves
and see if anything stood in the way of holding on to our faith, and if so, not to let anything stop us until we cleared it
away. Chancing it all — whatever we feared, whatever held us back — would be worth it to make it right.
注意：1. 续写词数应为 150 左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
I knew what stood between me and the right thing: my image.
The next day, I went straight to Jane.


高一期中联考
英语试题答案
听力理解：1-5 CBCBA 6-10 CABAA 11-15 CBCAC 16-20 BCABB
阅读理解：21-23 BCA 24-27 CADB 28-31 BDCD 32-35 DCBA 36-40 FEBCA
完形填空：41-45 CBADB 46-50 CADCB 51-55 CDACB
语法填空：56. an 57. agricultural 58. picked 59. is considered 60. has grown / has been growing 61. its 62. planting 63. to 64. laughter 65. which
应用文：
Dear Steven,
How is everything going? An English Musical Show is scheduled to be held in our Student Center next weekend. I, together with my classmates, am busy with the preparations for it and I’m writing to ask you for your professional help.
The performance is required to be within eight minutes with a positive theme. Since you are expert at it, would you be so kind as to give me some recommendations on suitable musicals? What’s more, ant tips on performance skills to polish our show would be highly appreciated.
It wouldn’t be better if you could reply soon, and here I extend my sincere gratitude. (105词)

读后续写：
I knew what stood between me and the right thing: my image. That was exactly what I feared if I told Jane the truth. I could picture the disappointed look on her face, but what I feared more was the possibility that she would tell others I was that gossiper (搬弄是非者). Holding the phone in sweating hands, I kept tossing and turning (翻来覆去) in bed, at a loss about which on earth matters more: preserving my image or telling the truth? After a sleepless night, I pulled up my courage to speak out the truth, since my so-called image would be just a lie if I remained silent.
The next day, I went straight to Jane. I first admitted that I had been the one to break faith and hurt her, and then how I had chosen not to come forward when I had the chance. Feeling ashamed and regretful, I said sorry and didn’t dare to look Jane into the eye, ready for any harsh words from her, which I totally deserved. To my great surprise, she gave me a hug as a token of forgiveness, saying my confession (坦白) meant a lot to her. What a relief it was to clear the shame and restore the faith. We parted that day on good terms and are still friends. Never before in my life had I so firmly believed honesty is the best policy. (249词)

高一英语听力原文
(Text 1)
W: How was the race going last Sunday?
M: Great! The rain didn’t make much difference to the race.
W: How many students competed in it?
M: Well, let me see. I believe that we had 25 competitors from the Middle East and 15 from Africa.
(Text 2)
W: I enjoy all kinds of sports. What kind of sports do you like?
M: Football had attracted me very much before I learned to play tennis.
W: So your favorite sport is tennis.
M: Actually, I think nothing can compare with basketball now.
(Text 3)
M: After getting to know Jim better, I changed my impression of him. I used to think that he is shy and quiet.
W: Actually, he is an outgoing person.
(Text 4)
M: The flowers are charming, aren’t they? And I like the music, too.
W: Yeah, but it is still too expensive to pay 50 dollars for so little food in spite of the good food and atmosphere.

(Text 5)
W: Hey, Tom! You won’t believe what I did the day before Christmas.
M: What? Did you finally get that bike you wanted?
W: No. My family and I joined a gift giving organization for the homeless. We donated some money and Christmas gifts to them.
(Text 6)
M: Amy.
W: Yes, Mr. Smith.
M: We have a small problem. The new goods came in, but the prices have not been marked and I have a meeting to go to. Could you take care of this now? Here is the list of the goods and the prices I just wrote down.
W: OK. Let me see if I can make out all of them. These T-shirts don’t have a price. Let me check the list … $9.99. Trousers now are $17.95. Alright then, shoes are $25, and hats are $8.50. OK, I’ll get to the prices right now.
(Text 7)
M: Hey, Sarah. I forgot to register for the courses. I’m one day late. What do you think I should do?
W: Poor you, Jack! You can’t do anything about that.
M: Do you think going to the registration office will help now?
W: No, they will tell you the same thing.
M: Did you register yet?
W: Of course, and it wasn’t easy for me to register for IT. It’s so popular. And it is designed for beginners. I want to be a program designer in the future.
M: What classes do you think are still open?
W: Maybe Modern History, and Chemistry.
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M: You know what, I have noticed that I’m 40 pounds heavier. That’s terrible.
W: Our jobs require us to be in front of computer screens for long workdays.
M: It’s said the average office worker sits in the office for about 10 hours.
W: It’s so bad, but to me, the worst part is that I don’t know how to reduce the pressure from my work. I just can’t fall asleep all night.
M: It’s time to change. What about finding time to work out in the gym?
W: Well, I prefer outdoor exercise, such as running in a park, and climbing in a mountain area.
M: All right. Let’s go climbing this weekend.
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M: What are you going to do when you graduate?
W: I want to be an architect. I began my studies at the Bartlett School of Architecture in England last year. And maybe I’ll go to America to go on my study some day. There’s a great demand for architects in my country, India. I shall go back home and work there.
M: Will you need English in your job?
W: It’ll be useful in many ways because there’s a lot of architecture written in English and besides, many experts in my country use English as a second language. I have trouble with English now. So my teacher thinks it is necessary for me to improve my English.
M: What made you decide to be an architect?
W: Well, I was good at maths and art and I think I had a certain feeling for design. My parents expected me to be a lawyer. I suppose my personal character made me choose architecture and not law, however.
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W: How would you use a radio or a telephone if you had no electricity or batteries? These problems annoyed British inventor Trevor Baylis. So in 1996 he invented a wind-up radio. It doesn’t need electricity or batteries. You wind it up by hand. It plays for about an hour. Then, you wind it up again. Except for that, Baylis invented a mobile telephone that is powered by shoes. The shoes have a small battery that is powered when you walk. This battery is connected to a mobile phone. These two simple inventions can contribute a lot to the modern communications among all parts of the world. Baylis doesn’t have a university degree in engineering. In fact, he left high school before graduating. He just loves making things to help people. He never knows when the creative ideas will come to him. He got the idea for the radio while watching TV. The idea for the telephone came to him in a dream.