Across Britain，burnt toast will be served to mothers in bed this morning as older sons and daughters rush to deliver their supermarket bunches of flowers．But，according to a new study，we should be placing a higher value on motherhood all year．
Mothers have long known that their home workload was just as heavy as paid work．Now，the new study has shown that if they were paid for their parental labours，they would earn as much as￡172，000 a year．
The study looked at the range of jobs mothers do，as well as the hours they are working，to determine the figure．This would make their yearly income￡30，000 more than the Prime Minister earns．
By analysing the numbers，it found the average mother works 119 hours a week，40 of which would usually be paid at a standard rate and 79 hours as overtime．After questioning 1，000 mothers with children under 18，it found that，on most days，mums started their routine work at 7 am and finished at around 11 pm．
To calculate just how much mothers would earn from that labour，it suggested some of the roles that mums could take on，including housekeeper，part-time lawyer，personal trainer and entertainer．Being a part-time lawyer，at￡48．98 an hour，would prove to be the most profitable of the“mum jobs”，with psychologist(心理学家)a close second．
It also asked mothers about the challenges they face，with 80 percent making emotional(情感的)demand as the hardest thing about motherhood．
Over a third of mums felt they needed more training and around half said they missed going out with friends．
The study shows mothers matter all year long and not just on Mother’s Day．The emotional，physical and mental energy mothers devote to their children can be never-ending，but children are also sources of great joy and happiness．Investing(投入)in time for parenting and raising relationships is money well spent．
1.How much does a Prime Minister earn，according to the passage?
A．￡30，000． B．￡142，000．
C．￡172，000． D．￡202，000．
2.The biggest challenge for most mothers is from_____．
A．emotional demand B．1ow pay for work
C．heavy workload D．1ack of training
3.What is stressed in the last paragraph?
A．Mothers’importance shows in family all year long．
B．The sacrifices mothers make are huge but worthwhile．
C．Mothers’devotion to children can hardly be calculated．
D．Investing time in parenting would bring a financial return．
4.What can we conclude from the study?
A．Mothers’working hours should be largely reduced．
B．Mothers should balance their time for work and rest．
C．Mothers’labour is of a higher value than it is realized．
D．Mothers should be freed from housework for social life．
名师点睛字词句段篇系列答案科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年河北省等五校高三上学期第二次联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：书面表达
第二节：书面表达：（满分25分）
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内容包括：
1. 广场舞的现状；
2. 表明你的观点；
3. 给出理由。
注意：词数100左右。
Should square dancing be forbidden ?
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年广东省高三3月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：信息匹配
第二节 信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。首先请阅读下列外国影片的广告图及简介
A. Does your love change with the character of the city you are in? London, Paris, New York, is a story of a couple who spend three nights, in three beautiful cities. This sparks a light-hearted romance over crackling conversational chemistry and long walks through the picturesque metros.
B. It’s finally time for Guy Ritchie’s good old English detective novel, Sherlock Holmes to hit the screen with mega-stars Robert DowneyJr. , Jude Law, and Rachel McAdams. From deconstructing sight scenes to watching Watson and Holmes bicker like an old married couple, this is definitely the entertaining adventure that you’re all hoping it will be.
C. Hotel Transylvania is a haven for monsters hated and oppressed by the humans that fear them. It’s opened by Dracula who has a fiery“teenage”daughter(she’s actually 118 years old). There are a few brilliant sequences of physical comedies that are masterfully animated, and the visuals are truly beautifully executed from the first frame to the last. For kids and their parents who need a temporary babysitter.
D. Streetkids United follows a group of Durban street children as they compete for places in the South African Child World Cup. It’s the start of a great adventure that offers them a chance to get away from the abusive and violent life they live on the streets and propel them to better things. For them, football might be a way to a brighter future.
E. The Call of the Wild tells the story of a dog named Buck. He is stolen from his home in the Santa Clara Valley of California, and taken to the Alaskan gold fields to be a sled dog. The writer Jack London tells a story about the life of Buck as he is passed from owner to owner. He eventually finds a kind master, John Thornton.
F. Batman Wayne is an orphan, a charity billionaire. When he puts on the bat clothing, he became conquerors, the embodiment of justice-batman. His superb skills to his feet can fly through the dark city and maintain good citizens. The city and people hate dark criminals“clown”. The results, of course, are the triumph of good over evil, batman beat“clown”.
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1. Robin is a boy full of imagination who often dreams of having superb skills to fight against monsters and becoming a hero. His favorite films are Superman and Spiderman. Having getting permission from his mother, he’s now looking for something he likes for this weekend.
2. Sunny is a 4-year-old girl. Like most kids, she likes cartoons very much. And she has a pet dog in her company. Her parents will be busy this Sunday, so they are looking for a comedy for her to enjoy.
3. Betty is an outgoing and emotional woman who likes traveling. She has been very busy lately. So with the weekend drawing near, she’s considering going to see a romance film to relax with her husband.
4.George and Adam have been good friends since middle school. They have a lot in common, both of whom like playing football and reading, especially detective stories. This weekend they’re planning to go to see a film that fits their taste.
5. After spending a year in South Africa doing some survey about poor children’s welfare, Mike has come back for a break. Knowing her husband is a fan of Jack London’s novel, she has some ideas how to kill their time this weekend.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届黑龙江大庆铁人中学高三第一阶段考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Anyone who has worn a cast (石膏) knows that rebuilding muscle strength once the cast is removed can be difficult. Now researchers at the Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute (OMNI) at Ohio University have found that the mind is critical in maintaining muscle strength following a long period of not moving and that mental imagination may be key in reducing the associated muscle loss.
Strength is controlled by a number of factors----the most studied by far is skeletal muscle. However, the nervous system is also an important, though not fully understood, determining factor of strength and weakness.
Brian C. Clark and colleagues set out to test how the system functions in strength development. They designed an experiment to measure changes in wrist (腕) muscle strength in three groups of healthy adults. Twenty-nine subjects wore a hard cast that extended from just below the elbow (肘) past the fingers, effectively preventing the hand and wrist from moving, for four weeks. Fifteen subjects who did not wear casts served as the control group.
Of the 29 people wearing a hard cast, half were asked to regularly perform an exercise, imagining they were strongly contracting their wrist for five seconds and then resting for five seconds. This was repeated four times in a row followed by a one-minute break for a total of 13 rounds per session and five sessions per week. The other half performed no imagination exercises.
At the end of the four-week experiment, both groups who wore casts had lost strength in their unmoving limbs (肢体) when compared to the control group. But the group that performed imagination exercises lost 50% less strength than the non-imagination group. The nervous system’s ability to fully make the muscle recover also returned more quickly in the imagination group compared to the non-imagination group.
1.What does the underlined word “critical” mean in the first paragraph?
A. Serious. B. Disapproving.
C. Significant. D. Criticizing.
2.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Scientists have partly understood the nervous system.
B. Whoever has worn a cast for long may have difficulty in muscle recovery.
C. Scientists have already spent a lot of time in studying skeletal muscle.
D. The number of the subjects in the experiment was 29 in all.
3.What can we learn from the experiment?
A. The control group lost 50% less strength than the non-imagination group.
B. The imagination group lost more strength than the non-imagination group.
C. The control group wore casts but didn’t perform the imagination exercise.
D. The speed of non-imagination group’s muscle recovery was slower.
4. Where can you most probably find the passage?
A. In a science magazine. B. In a storybook.
C. In a textbook . D. In a book review.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年湖北荆州中学高二上期中英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中, 选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I was faced with a decision. While delivering laundry (洗好的衣服) into her bedroom, I stepped upon my thirteen-year-old sister’s , a modern-day Pandora’s Box, full of attraction.
What was I to do? I had always been jealous (嫉妒) of my little sister. Her charming smile, lovely personality and many gifts threatened my place as lady. I competed with her secretly and grew to hate her natural abilities. As a result, we spoke. I sought opportunities to find with her and expected to her in every way. Her diary lay at my feet, and I not her privacy, nor her possible pain. I enjoyed the possibility of digging up enough dirt to my competitor’s spotless record. I my evil as sisterly duty. It was my responsibility to keep a check on her activities. It would be of me not to.
I the book from the floor and opened it, turning the pages, searching for my name, that I would discover dirty and ill speaking of me. However, as I read, the blood ran from my face. It was worse than I . There was a brief description of herself, her goals and her dreams followed by a short portrayal (肖像) of the person who has her most. I started to cry. I was her . She admired me for my personality, my achievements and red-facedly, my .
I stopped reading, struck with the I had done. I had wasted so much energy pushing her away I had missed out on her. Those sincere words she wrote seemed to break an icy around my heart and I longed to know her again.
On that fateful afternoon, as I put aside the laundry and rose to my feet, I decided to go to her—this time to experience to judge, to hug rather than fight. After all, she was my sister.
1.A. caseB. shoeC. clothD. diary
2.A. youngB. leadingC. toughD. greedy
3.A. alwaysB. deliberatelyC. mildlyD. seldom
4.A. interestB. answerC. faultD. link
5.A. thankB. treatC. defeatD. accept
6.A. consideredB. causedC. gainedD. rejected
7.A. roughlyB. constantlyC. nearlyD. simply
8.A. cleanB. soilC. warmD. protect
9.A. understoodB. killedC. reasonedD. lacked
10.A. wrongB. kindC. wiseD. considerate
11.A. picked upB. threw awayC. left outD. set down
12.A. informedB. remindedC. demandedD. convinced
13.A. readB. suspectedC. wroteD. did
14.A. inspiredB. lovedC. beatenD. assisted
15.A. sisterB. enemyC. heroD. friend
16.A. knowledgeB. braveryC. toleranceD. honesty
17.A. crimeB. murderC. robberyD. quarrel
18.A. whetherB. thatC. whenD. why
19.A. diseaseB. injuryC. barrierD. skin
20.A. but alsoB. instead ofC. as well asD. in order
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届辽宁大连第二十高级中学高三10月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
I am trying to muster (鼓起) the courage to toss_away my mobile phone to enjoy a more peaceful and ring-free life.
Can you imagine not having your mobile phone? In our high-tech, in-a-hurry age, a cell-free life is a hard concept to swallow. Our mobile phones can now access the Internet, and many people feel the need to express their every thought on their blog pages. If I gave up my cell-phone, people would think I was mad.
I wish I had the strength to toss away my technology. I have an office phone, a home phone, an e-mail and if people want to contact me, they can. If I'm out, people can leave a message. Do they really need to find me 24/7? However, I'm a bit like Frodo in the movie Lord of the Rings. The power of the ring is too strong and I can't let it go.
Mobile phones have become necessary tools in our busy life. For most people, they hold all contacts and many of us don't write up address books any more. The latest phones carry our music, pictures, movies and everything else. We feel lost without this device and when we do misplace it, we feel cut off from our fellow.
"Where have you been?" said a friend, who saw me a week after I lost my cell-phone, "I tried calling you, but you disappeared. You disappeared off the face of the Earth." See, when you don't have a mobile phone, you don't exist.
I'm not really going to toss my mobile phone away, in fact. We humans are such social animals and mobile phones serve us well. So in 2009, I've decided not to serve my mobile phone. Like all machines, I can always turn it off.
1. What does the underlined phrase "toss away" mean?
A. give away B. get away
C. break away D. throw away
2.The writer mentions Frodo to________.
A. show it is difficult to get rid of the mobile phone
B. show how much he likes Frodo
C. suggest a cell-free life is what he wants
D. introduce a film character to us
3. What do we know about mobile phones in the 4th paragraph?
A. Mobile phones can do anything for us.
B. Mobile phones have become very important in our life.
C. We could not live without mobile phones.
D. We would be cut off by our fellow without mobile phones.
4. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. The writer is not really going to toss his mobile phone away.
B. When you don't have a mobile phone, you don't exist.
C. The writer decides not to serve his mobile phone.
D. We humans can control ourselves and machines.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年江苏盐城响水中学高二10月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：书面表达
Tomorrow's World Book Day has inspired a slew of literary events throughout the capital. Xing Yi and Liu Zhihua report.
As World Book Day, April 23, approaches, various reading events are being held by government agencies, libraries and bookstores throughout the capital.
At the launch of the 5th Beijing Reading Season in Great Canal Park in Tongzhou district on Saturday night, 81-year-old Yin Zhiguang, head of Beijing Elocution Troupe, led the audience in reciting a poem.
Activities focusing on different readerships will highlight World Book Day in bookstores throughout Beijing, such as picture book sharing for children in Xidan Book Building, conversations with musicians and authors for young people in Sanlian Bookstore, talks with diplomats for people interested in international affairs in Wangfujing Xinhua bookstore, and a 12-hour late-night reading marathon for night owls at One-Way Space bookstore.
Recently, we conducted a survey about how many extra-curricular books students read per year. On average, each student read 5.34 books, which is definitely not adequate compared with their counterparts from the Western countries. It is upsetting to see the outcome. When asked what students in our school do in their spare time, they claim that they tend to watch TV and surf the Internet, for they can have great fun. Some students even complain that they are forced to attend some extra make-up classes so that they have no time to play, not to mention reading books.
School authority is planning to launch a campaign to encourage students to read more extra-curricular books.
写作内容
1. 用30个左右词概括上文的主要内容。
2. 分析学生课外阅读量不足的原因(至少两点)。
3. 谈谈读书的好处(至少两点); 以及你对增加课外阅读量建议(至少两点)。
写作要求
1.作文中可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。
2.作文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称。
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届山东青岛市高三上单元检测英语试卷（解析版） 题型：短文改错
短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10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(Λ)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
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10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Dear Alice,
I have just got a good news to tell you. I win a national prize for painting last week. My father was so pleasing that he suggested I go to England for a holiday. I’d like to staying there for half a month, visiting place of interest and practicing my English as well. We’ve been written to each other for nearly a year now. I have often dreamed of talk face to face with you . I imagine you’ll be at vacation yourself by that time. Perhaps you will go out do some sightseeing together.
Best, Lily
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科目：高中英语 来源：2013-2014学年北京市西城区高三二模英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
Paris has some great museums ______ visitors can see fine works of impressionist painters.
A. where B. which C. that D. when
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