Mosquitoes have an extraordinary ability to target humans far away and fly straight to their unprotected skin. Regrettably, mosquitoes can do more than cause an itchy(发痒的）wound. Some mosquitoes spread several serious diseases，including Dengue，yellow fever and malaria.
Over one million people worldwide die from these diseases each year. New research now shows how mosquitoes choose who to bite.
Mosquitoes need blood to survive. They are attracted to human skin and breath. They smell the carbon dioxide gas, which all mammals breathe out. This gas is the main way for mosquitoes to know that a warm-blooded creature is nearby.
But mosquitoes also use their eyes and sense of touch. Michael Dickinson is a professor at the California Institute of Technology. His research shows how these small insects, with even smaller brains，use three senses to find a blood meal.
Michael Dickinson’s team used plumes—a material that rises into the air of carbon dioxide gas into a wind tunnel. They then used cameras to record the mosquitoes. The insects followed the plume.
Then, the scientists placed dark objects on the lighter colored floor and walls of the tunnel. Mr. Dickinson said, at first, the mosquitoes showed no interest in the objects at all. “What was quite striking and quite surprising is that the mosquitoes fly back and forth for hours. These are hungry females and they completely ignore the objects on the floor and wall of the tunnel. But the moment they get a hit of CO2, they change their behavior quite obviously and now would become attracted to these little visual blobs (斑点）.”
This suggested to the researchers that a mosquito’s sense of smell is more important in the search for food. Once mosquitoes catch a smell of a human or animal，they also follow visual signals.
1.What do mosquitoes mainly use to find their targets?
A. Sense of smell B. Sense of touch
C. Sense of sight D. Smart brains
2.The first response of the mosquitoes to the objects in the experiment is _______.
A. to fly to the dark ones
B. to catch and stick to them
C. to take no notice of them
D. to attach themselves to them
3.How can we avoid being attacked by mosquitoes according to the text?
A. Don’t let them see us.
B. Use dark objects to stop them.
C. Make them fly back and forth for hours.
D. Attract them to objects full of carbon dioxide gas.
4.What can be the best title for the text?
A. How Do Mosquitoes Survive?
B. Why Do Mosquitoes Need Blood?
C. How Do Mosquitoes Choose to Bite You?
D. Why Do Mosquitoes Attack the Human Being?
100分闯关期末冲刺系列答案科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年河北景县中学高二下学期升级考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Researchers at the University of Kansas say that people can accurately judge 90 percent of a stranger’s personality simply by looking at the person’s shoes.
“Shoes convey a thin but useful slice of information about their wearers,” the authors wrote in the new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality. “Shoes serve a practical purpose, and also serve as nonverbal indications with symbolic messages. People tend to pay attention to the shoes they and others wear.”
Medical Daily notes that the number of detailed personality traits detected in the study include a person’s general age, their gender, income, political affiliation(派别), and other personality characteristics, including someone’s emotional stability.
Lead researcher Omri Gillath said the judgments were based on the style, cost, color and condition of someone’s shoes. In the study, 63 University of Kansas students looked at pictures showing 208 different pairs of shoes worn by the study’s participants. Volunteers in the study were photographed in their most commonly worn shoes, and then filled out a personality questionnaire.
So, what do your shoes say about your personality?
Some of the results were expected: People with higher incomes most commonly wore expensive shoes, and flashier footwear was typically worn by extroverts(外向者).
However, some of the more specific results are interesting. For example, “practical and functional” shoes were generally worn by more “agreeable” people, while ankle boots were more closely aligned with “aggressive” personalities.
The strangest of all may be that those who wore “uncomfortable looking” shoes tend to have “calm” personalities.
And if you have several pairs of new shoes or take exceptional care of them, you may suffer from “attachment anxiety”, spending a large amount of time worrying about what other people think of your appearance. There was even a political calculation in the mix with more liberal types wearing “shabbier and less expensive” shoes.
The researchers noted that some people will choose shoe styles to mask their actual personality traits, but researchers noted that volunteers were also likely to be unaware that their footwear choices were revealing deep insights into their personalities.
1.We can infer from Paragraph 2 that___________.
A. shoes are vital to their wearers
B. a practical purpose is to wear shoes
C. people want to buy new shoes they pay attention to
D. shoes may give away their wearers’ information
2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the text?
A. People with high incomes probably wear expensive shoes.
B. Ankle boots are closely aligned with “aggressive” personalities．
C. People wearing “uncomfortable looking” shoes tend to be calm
D. People who wear practical and functional shoes may be hard to deal with
3.The underlined word “attachment anxiety”, probably means ___________.
A. Attached happiness to one’s personality.
B. Feeling always worried about everything.
C. Often feeling worried about his or her appearance.
D. Wasting an inordinate amount of time.
4.Which might be the best title for the passage?
A. Bad Shoes, Bad Personality.
B. People Are What They Wear.
C. How To Choose Suitable Shoes
D. Shoes Reflect A Person’s Personalities.
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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。有两项为多余选项。
1. From 18－25, according to I.Q. scores；but you are wiser and more experienced with increasing age. You are smartest in your 20's; around 30, your memory begins to go down, particularly your ability to perform mathematical computations(数学计算). 2. Your vocabulary at the age of 45, for example, is three times as great as when you graduated from college. At 60, your brain has almost four times as much information as it did at the age of 21.
3. You have the best physical sense of yourself from 15 to 24; the best professional sense from 40 to 49. Before the age of 24, we believe that our happiest years are yet to come；over 30，we believe that they are behind us. A National Health survey agrees: after the age of 30, we become more realistic and do not view happiness as a goal in itself. If we keep our health, achieve professional and emotional goals, happiness, we feel, will follow.
4. Generally between 30 and 39, but the peak (顶峰)varies with different professions(职业). Mozart wrote a symphony and four sonatas by the age of 8, and Mendelssohn composed his best?known work A Midsummer Night's Dream at 17, but most of the great music was written by men between 33 and 39.
Though the peak in most fields comes early, most Nobel Prize winners did their top research in their late 20's and 30's—creative people continue to produce work with high quality(质量) throughout their lives. 5.
A. When are you most creative ?
B. When are you happiest?
C. When are you smartest?
D. Do you know what I.Q. refers to?
E. But your I.Q. for other tasks goes up.
F. Creative people usually produce a lot of works.
G. For the “well?conditioned mind”, there is no upper limit.（限制）
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年辽宁大连第二十高级中学高二6月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
完形填空
Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my stepmother.
I was nine years old when she entered our home in rural Virginia. My father___________me to her with these words: “I would like you to meet the fellow who is___________ for being the worst boy in this county and will probably start throwing rocks at you no ___________ than tomorrow morning.”
My stepmother walked over to me, ___________my head slightly upward, and looked me right in the eye. Then she looked at my father and replied, “You are ____________ .This is not the worst boy at all, ___________ the smartest one who hasn’t yet found an outlet（释放的途径）for his enthusiasm.”
That statement began a(n) ____________ between us. No one had ever called me smart, my family and neighbors had built me up in my ___________ as a bad boy. My stepmother changed all that.
She changed many things. She ____________ my father to go to a dental school, from which he graduated with honors. She moved our family into the county seat, where my father’s career could be more ___________ and my brother and I could be better_________ .
When I turned fourteen, she bought me a secondhand____________ and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I knew her ernthusiasm,I_________ it had already improved our lives. I accepted her ___________and began to write for local newspapers. I was doing the same kind of___________ that great day I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and received the task which became my life’s work later. I wasn’t the __________ beneficiary (受益者).My father became the ___________ man in town. My brother and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college president.
What power ___________ has! When that power is released to support the certainty of one’s purpose and is ____________ strengthened by faith, it becomes an irresistible（不可抗拒的）force which poverty and temporary defeat can never _________ .
You can communicate that power to anyone who needs it. This is probably the greatest work you can do with your enthusiasm.
1.A. rushed B. sent C. carried D. introduced
2.A. distinguished B. favored C. mistaken D. rewarded
3.A. sooner B. later C. longer D. earlier
4.A. dragged B. shook C. raised D. bent
5.A. perfect B. right C. wrong D. impolite
6.A. but B. so C. and D. or
7.A. agreement B. friendship C. gap D. relationship
8.A. opinion B. image C. expectation D. mind
9.A. begged B. persuaded C. ordered D. invited
10.A. successful B. meaningful C. helpful D. useful
11.A. treated B. entertained C. educated D. respected
12.A. camera B. radio C. bicycle D. typewriter
13.A. considered B. suspected C. ignored D. appreciated
14.A. belief B. request C. criticism D. description
15.A. teaching B. writing C. studying D. reading
16.A. next B. same C. only D. real
17.A. cleverest B. wealthiest C. strongest D. healthiest
18.A. enthusiasm B. sympathy C. fortune D. confidence
19.A. deliberately B. happily C. traditionally D. constantly
20.A. win B. match C. reach D. doubt
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短文改错
该文中共有十处错误,每句中最多有两处,错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧), 并在此符号下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线（ ＼）划掉。修改：在错的词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2、只允许修改十处, 多者(从第11处起) 不计分。
Good morning, everyone. It’s great honor for me to speak here. My name is Li Xiang, born in a harmonious family. My father and mother are all high school teachers. Influenced by them，I read widely during my early age, but I’ve developed a great interest in arts and sports. I’m easy-going, getting along well with my classmates. It is this personality which helps me win over the friendship of all my classmates, and also help me overcome many difficulties both in academic and personal life. Being admitted in your university has always been a beautiful dream for me. I dream constantly that I, along with mine classmates, will study happy with the help of the respectable professors. I dream that I will swim freely in the sea，enjoy the waves of knowledge. I hope all my dream will come true in the near future. Thank you.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届高三复习跟踪检测英语试卷（36）（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
阅读理解。
China's famous scientist, the Cloth Shoes Academician Li Xiaowen passed away on January 10th, 2015 in Beijing at the age of 68. Hundreds of thousands of netizens sang high praise for him online, showing their respect to the leading authority in remote sensing field. Following Li Xiaowen's last wish, his family held a simple funeral for him, while many admirers from all over the country came to the funeral for remembrance. Some national leaders including Premier Li Keqiang also sent a wreath.
Li was a professor at Beijing Normal University and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research achievements have advanced the development of remote sensing science, and made China one of the leaders in this field. He also received several famous science prizes from China. He published 1,878 essays on his blog since 2007. All his students have thumbed up to Li for his contributions to the development of remote sensing. He was known to everyone in the remote sensing circle, but was impressive on netizens for a photo.
In recent years, Professor Li's quiet and self?effacing behavior was recognized through social media. In 2014, a photograph of Academician Li was taken by his student, in which he was attentively making a lecture with shabby clothes, grizzled hair and straggling beard, without socks, and wearing black cloth shoes. He looked like an old villager, rather than a famous scientist. The photo became popular on the Internet and earned him the title of the “Cloth Shoes Academician”. His simple plain image, kindness to all his students and dedication to his career are three important features on him. All these are precious to educational and academic community.
“The society is changeable but Academician Li is quiet. He faced all stuff with his characters of quietness and simplicity. It is clear that he has become the‘Teacher Immortal’．” said Ge Yuejing, a senior leader of Beijing Normal University.
1.Why was Li Xiaowen popular with netizens?
A．He had great achievements while he lived a simple life.
B．He had high social status while he wore shabby clothes.
C．He was famous in the world while he was kind to students.
D．He was poor while he dedicated much to his career.
2.The second paragraph mainly tells us ________.
A．why Li Xiaowen was called the “Cloth Shoes Academician”
B．how Li Xiaowen was loved by his students
C．how Li Xiaowen did his research
D．what achievements Li Xiaowen has made
3.Which statement is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Premier Li Keqiang came to Li Xiaowen's funeral.
B．A good teacher needs to publish essays on the Internet.
C．Social media made Professor Li Xiaowen world?famous.
D．Professor Li's attitude to life and his career earned himself high praise and respect.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届高三复习跟踪检测英语试卷（36）（解析版） 题型：七选五
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How to Improve Eyesight Naturally
Eyes are important for everybody. You must take care and try everything in hand to keep them in good condition. Here are some tips to improve your eyesight naturally.
1. Strain is known to be a factor in many health conditions and eye strain is no exception. Try meditation, yoga or other methods of stress relief to improve your vision and overall health.
Try palming.
Sit upright in a comfortable chair. 2. Cup your hands so that there is no pressure on your eyes. Let your fingers rest across your forehead. There should be no light entering your eyes. Palming should be done for a period of 5 to 10 minutes to start. Palming should be relaxing. It may help to do palming in a darkened room.
Avoid sugar as much as possible.
3. It will unpleasantly affect your eyesight, which affects the eyes by producing a larger amount of insulin (胰岛素) in the blood. Therefore you shouldn't be having much fruit juice or something that contains a lot of sugar.
Exercise your eyes.
The only exercise most eyes get is daily rubbing when we're tired or suffering from eye strain. But eye exercise is actually good for your eyes and can improve your vision. 4. Blink as fast as you can for a few seconds, then close your eyes tightly, open and repeat. Do this exercise 3 to 4 times daily.
Eat healthy foods.
You probably hear the statement all the time that eating the right foods is necessary for good health. 5.Foods that are high in fiber, vitamin C, D and beta?carotene as well as other vitamins and minerals can help improve your vision. Here are a few foods that can be beneficial to good vision: carrots, eggs, blueberries, spinach, kale, grapes, and fresh garlic.
A．Reduce eye strain.
B．Keep your eyes moist.
C．Sugar is your eyes' worst enemy.
D．Give your eyes a workout with the following exercise.
E．You may not be aware that your diet affects your vision, but it does.
F．Close your eyes and cover them with the palms of your hands.
G．Be sure to get plenty of sleep so that your eyes don't strain to stay open during the day.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届高三复习跟踪检测英语试卷（34）（解析版） 题型：书面表达
书面表达，生活中我们都需要朋友，我们该结交怎样的朋友，不同的人有不同的看法。请认真阅读下面的引语(quotation)，按要求用英语写一篇短文。
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
—Jonathan Lockwood Huie
内容要求：
1．谈谈你对该引语的理解；
2．你的相关经历；
3．恰当的结尾。
注意：1.短文开头已给出，不计入总词数；
2．文中不能出现考生的具体信息；
3．词数100左右。
This quotation from Jonathan Lockwood Huie tells us that_________________________
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年浙江湖州中学高一下学期期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
If you don’t know what their shortcoming are, your chances of overcoming them are very ______.
A.slim B. brief C. distant D. obvious
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