Tayka Hotel de Sal
Where: Tahua, Bolivia
How much: About $ 95 a night
Why it’s cool: You’ve stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That’s something few can claim. Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt---including the beds (though you’ll sleep on regular mattresses and blankets). The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake which is the world’s biggest salt flat. Builders use the salt from the 4,633-square-mile flat to make the bricks, and glue them together with a paste (糊) of wet salt that hardens when it dries. When rain starts to dissolve (溶解) the hotel, the owners just mix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.
Green Magic Nature Resort
Where: Vythiri, India
How much: About $ 240 a night
Why it’s cool: Taking a pulley(滑轮)---operated lift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure. As you look out of your open window, there is no glass! You watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy(罩篷). Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel, or just sit on your bamboo bed and read. You don’t even have to come down for breakfast---the hotel will send it up on the pulley-drawn “elevator”.
Dog Bark Park Inn B&B
Where: Cottonwood, Idaho
How much: $ 92 a night
Why it’s cool: This doghouse isn’t just for the family pet. Sweet Willy is a 30-foot-tall dog with guest rooms in his belly. Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his side. You can relax in the main bedroom, go up a few steps of the loft(阁楼) in Willy’s head, or hang out inside his nose. Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant(消防栓) outside.
Gamirasu Cave Hotel
Where: Ayvali, Turkey
How much: Between $ 130 and $ 450 a night
Why it’s cool: Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash. But your stay will be much more modern. Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic ash, called tufa, keeps the rooms cool in summer. (Don’t worry--- there is heat in winter.)
1.What do we know about Tayka Hotel de Sal?
A. It is located on a prehistoric lake.
B. It should be protected against the rain.
C. Everything in the hotel is made of salt.
D. You have to cross a rope bridge to the hotel.
2.How are the hotels similar?
A. Expensive. B. Comfortable.
C. Natural. D. Unique.
3.What do the underlined words “Sweet Willy” refer to?
A. The loft of the hotel.
B. The name of the hotel owner.
C. The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.
D. The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner.
4.Which of the hotels gives you a feeling of living in the far past?
A. Tayka Hotel de Sal.
B. Gamirasu Cave Hotel.
C. Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.
D. Green Magic Nature Resort.
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年江西高安市高二下期第一次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
You may not pay much attention to your daily elevator ride. Many of us use a lift several times during the day without really thinking about it. But Lee Gray, PhD, of the University of North Carolina, US, has made it his business to examine this overlooked form of public transport. He is known as the “Elevator Guy”.
“The lift becomes this interesting social space where etiquette (礼仪) is sort of odd (奇怪的),” Gray told the BBC. “They are socially very interesting but often very awkward places.”
We walk in and usually turn around to face the door. If someone else comes in, we may have to move. And here, according to Gray, lift users unthinkingly go through a set pattern of movements. He told the BBC what he had observed.
He explained that when you are the only one inside a lift, you can do whatever you want – it’s your own little box.
If there are two of you, you go into different corners, standing diagonally (对角线地) across from each other to create distance.
When a third person enters, you will unconsciously form a triangle. And when there is a fourth person it becomes a square, with someone in every corner. A fifth person is probably going to have to stand in the middle.
New entrants to the lift will need to size up the situation when the doors slide open and then act decisively. Once in, for most people the rule is simple – look down, or look at your phone.
Why are we so awkward in lifts?
“You don’t have enough space,” Professor Babette Renneberg, a clinical psychologist at the Free University of Berlin, told the BBC. “Usually when we meet other people we have about an arm’s length of distance between us. And that’s not possible in most elevators.”
In such a small, enclosed space it becomes very important to act in a way that cannot be construed (理解) as threatening or odd. “The easiest way to do this is to avoid eye contact,” she said.
1.The main purpose of the article is to _____.
A. remind us to enjoy ourselves in the elevator
B. tell us some unwritten rules of elevator etiquette
C. share an interesting but awkward elevator ride
D. analyze what makes people feel awkward in an elevator
2.According to Gray, when people enter an elevator, they usually ___
A. turn around and greet one another
B. look around or examine their phone
C. make eye contact with those in the elevator
D. try to keep a distance from other people
3.Which of the following describes how people usually stand when there are at least two people in an elevator?
4.The underlined phrase “size up” in Paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to _____.
A. judge B. ignore
C. put up with D. make the best of
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年广东东莞南开实验学校高二下期初考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
We can’t deny that trees are useful to man in three very important ways: they provide him with wood and other products, they give him shade, and they help to prevent drought and floods.
Unfortunately, in many parts of the world man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important. In his eagerness to draw quick profit from the trees, he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had.
Two thousand years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It gained the empire but, without its trees, its soil became hard and poor. When the empire fell to pieces, the country found itself faced by floods and starvation.
Even though a government realizes the importance of a plentiful supply of trees, it is difficult for it to persuade the villager to see this. The villager wants wood to cook his food, and he can earn money by making charcoal or selling wood to the townsman. He is usually too lazy or too careless to plant and look after trees. So unless the government has a good system of control, or can educate the people, the forests will slowly disappear.
This does not only mean that the villagers’ sons and grandsons have fewer trees. The results are even more serious. For where there are trees ,their roots break the soil up, allowing the rain to sink in and also bind the soil, thus preventing it being washed away easily, but where there are no trees, the soil becomes hard and poor. The rain falls on hard ground and flows away on the surface, causing floods and carrying away the rich topsoil, in which crops grow so well. When all the topsoil is gone, nothing remains but worthless desert.
1.It’s a great pity that ________.
A. man is only interested in building empires
B. man is eager to profit from trees
C. man hasn’t realized the importance of trees to him
D. man hasn’t found out that he has lost all trees
2.Sooner or later the forests will disappear______
A. unless people are taught the importance of planting trees
B. unless people stop cutting down their trees
C. unless a county has a plenty supply of trees
D. unless the government punishes those who cut trees instead of planting trees
3.The word “bind” in Paragraph 5 means”_________”
A. to make stay together B. to make wet
C. to wash away D. to improve
4.When there is a heavy rain ,trees can help to prevent floods, as they can ___________
A. keep rain from falling down to soft ground
B. cause the soil to allow rainwater to sink in
C. prevent the soil from being washed away
D. make the topsoil stick together
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年河北永年县一中高二下期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
City Varieties
The Headrow, Leeds. Tel. 430808
Oct. 10 - 11 only A Night at the Varieties. All the fun of an old music hall with Barry Cryer, Duggle Brown, 6 dancers, Mystina, Jon Barker, Anne Duval and the Tony Harrison Trio. Laugh again at the old jokes and listen to your favourite songs.
Performances: 8 pm nightly.
Admission ? 5; under 16 or over 60: ? 4
York Theatre Royal
St. Leonard’s Place, York. Tel. 223568
Sept. 23-Oct. 17 Groping for Words-a comedy by Sue Townsend. Best known for her Adrian Mole Diaries, Townsend now writes about an evening class which two men and a woman attend. A gentle comedy.
Performances: 8pm
Admission: First night, Mon.: ? 2; Tues-Fri: ? 3.25-5.50; Sat.: ? 3.35 -5.75.
Halifax Playhouse
King’s Cross Street, Halifax. Tel. 365998
Oct. 10 - 17 On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson. This is a magical comedy about real people. A beautifully produced, well-acted play for everyone. Don’t miss it.
Performances: 7:30 p. m.
Admission: ? 2. Mon.: 2 seats for the price of one.
Grand Theatre
Oxford Street, Leeds. Tel. 502116
Oct. 1 - 17 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13. Sue Townsend’s musical play, based on the best-selling book.
Performances: Evenings 7:45pm. Oct. 10 - 17, at 2:30 pm. No Monday performances.
Admission: Tues-Thurs: ? 2 - 5; Fri. & Sat. : ? 2 - 6
1.Where can you see the play On Golden Pond?
A．Halifax Playhouse B．York Theatre Royal
C．Grand Theatre D．City Varieties
2.Which play will be shown for the longest period?
A．The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13
B．A Night at the Varieties.
C．Groping for Words.
D．On Golden Pond.
3.From the text we know that Sue Townsend is .
A．a comedian B．an actress C．a writer D．a director
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届辽宁沈阳市高三第一次模拟考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
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、D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A gentle breeze blew through Jennifer’s hair. The golden red sun was ___________ . She was on the beach, looking up at the fiery（火红的）ball. She was ___________ by its color, deep red in the middle, softly fading into yellow. She could hear nothing but the waves and the seagulls ___________ up above in the sky.
The atmosphere ___________ her. After all she had been through, this was what she needed. “It’s getting ___________ ,” she thought, “I must go home. My parents will be ___________ where I am.” She wondered how her parents would ___________ , when she got home after the three days she was ___________ . She kept on walking, ___________ herself to the bungalow(小房子) where she spent every summer holiday. The road was deserted. She walked slowly and___________ . Just in a few hundred meters she would be safe in her house.
It was really getting dark now. The sun had set a few minutes before and it was getting cold, too. She ___________ she had her favorite sweater on — it kept her really warm. She imagined having it ___________ her. This thought disappeared when she finally saw her front door. It seemed ___________ . The outside garden seemed ___________ . She was shocked: her father was usually so strict about keeping everything clean and tidy.
She entered the house. First, she went into the kitchen where she saw a ___________ written by her father. It said, “Ellen, there is some coffee ___________ . I went looking.” Ellen was her mother but — where was she? She entered her parent’s home. Then she saw her. Her mother, lying on the bed, ___________ . Jennifer would have wanted to wake her up but she looked too tired. So Jennifer just fell asleep beside her. When Jennifer ___________ , something was different. She was in her cozy bed in her pajamas.
It felt so good being back home. ___________ she heard a voice, “Are you feeling better now? You know you got us very, very ___________.”
1.A.disappearingB.setting C.rising D.shining
2.A.amazedB.excited C.disappointed D.frightened
3.A.moving B.flying C.stepping D.flowing
4.A.surprised B.confused C.relaxed D.exhausted
5.A.earlyB.cold C.warm D.late
6.A.wondering B.knowing C.ignoring D.finding
7.A.say B.take C.like D.react
8.A.working B.missing C.spending D.travelling
9.A.pointing B.enjoying C.directing D.teaching
10.A.easily B.silently C.happily D.willingly
11.A.believed B.wished C.gussed D.judged
12.A.with B.for C.at D.in
13.A.same B.familiar C.difficult D.different
14.A.crowded B.tidy C.deserted D.clean
15.A.text B.letter C.note D.sentence
16.A.ready B.gone C.present D.available
17.A.cried B.laughed C.coughed D.slept
18.A.woke up B.stayed up C.broke up D.held up
19.A.FortunatelyB.Similarly C.Suddenly D.Constantly
20.A.moved B.lost C.inspired D.scared
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届湖北沙市高三下期第二次半月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：七选五
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。选项中有两项为多余选项。
1. This was not because the woods and fields were always far away, but because they were too far from the city to permit people to make a day trip between morning and nightfall.
2. He decided to turn his little school into a dormitory for the summer holidays. Anyone who brought his sleeping bag and cooking equipment along could stay there for a very small quantity of money. The idea was a success. A few years later, the school house was much too small to hold the many young people who wanted to stay there. 3. This was the first hostel (招待所).
Today, young students and workers of every country can meet in the hostel and get to know each other. When young people arrive at the hostel, they have only to show their cards of membership in a hostel organization in their own country. 4.
Often, at the evening meal, a group of boys and girls from various parts of the country or world will happen to meet at the same hostel. They may put their food together and prepare a dinner with many kinds of dishes. Sometimes a program will be organized after the meal with dances, songs, or short talks followed by a question period. 5. For this reason, a few weeks spent “hostelling” can be just as useful a part of one’s education as classes in school.
A. As a result, a dormitory was set up in an old castle nearby.
B. People can stay in the hostel if they brought enough equipment with them.
C. For years, children in the industrial areas of Europe seldom left their cities to see the beauties of the countryside.
D. This card will permit them to stay in a hostel all over the world for very low prices.
E. In 1970, a young German school master had an idea which changed this situation.
F. One can learn a lot about other places, just by meeting people from those places
G. More and more young people went to the hostel for summer holidays.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届湖北龙泉中学、襄阳五中、宜昌一中高三9月联考英语卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I was in my third year of teaching creative writing at a high school in New York, when one of my students, 15-year-old Micky, gave me a note from his mother. It ___________ his absence from class the day before.
I had seen Micky himself writing the note at his desk. Most parental-excuse notes I received were penned by my ___________ . The forged(伪造的) excuse notes made a large pile, with writing that ranged from imaginative to crazy. The ___________ of those notes didn’t realize that honest excuse notes were usually ___________ : “Peter was late because the alarm clock didn’t go off.”
The students always said that it was hard putting 200 words together on any subject, but when they ___________ excuse notes, they were brilliant.
So one day I gave the excuse notes to my classes, saying, “They’re ___________ to be written by parents, but actually they are not. True, Micky ? ” The students looked at me ___________ .
“Now, this will be the first class to study the ___________ of the excuse notes --- the first class, ever, to practice writing them. You’re so ___________ to have a teacher like me who has taken your best writing and turned it into a ___________ worthy of study. ”
Everyone smiled as I went on, “You used your ___________. So try more now. Today I’d like you to write ‘An Excuse Note from Adam/Eve to God’.” ___________ went down. Pens raced ___________ paper. For the first time ever I saw students so ___________ in their writing that they had to be asked to go to lunch by their friends.
The next day everyone had excuse notes. ___________ discussions followed. The headmaster entered the classroom and walked ___________ , looking at papers, and then said, “I’d like you to see me in my office.” My heart ___________ .
When I stepped into his office, he came to ___________ my hand and said, “I just want to tell you that that lesson, that task, whatever the hell you were doing, was ___________ . Those kids were writing on the college ___________. Thank you. ”
1.A. explained B. described C. introduced D. announced
2.A. parents B. students C. teachers D. partners
3.A. editors B. readers C. writers D. speakers
4.A. true B. false C. easy D. dull
5.A. produced B. considered C. imagined D. delivered
6.A. designed B. collected C. supposed D. improved
7.A. eagerly B. nervously C. excitedly D. coldly
8.A. form B. difficulty C. meaning D. art
9.A. lucky B. helpful C. lovely D. active
10.A. talent B. habit C. product D. subject
11.A. devotion B. imagination C. concentration D. information
12.A. hands B. eyes C. heads D. ears
13.A. across B. with C. against D. behind
14.A. curious B. careful C. casual D. calm
15.A. Separated B. Surprising C. Heated D. Lasting
16.A. day and night B. in and out C. now and then D. up and down
17.A. sank B. rose C. flew D. hurt
18.A. watch B. touch C. shake D. catch
19.A. sure B. dim C. tough D. great
20.A. base B. level C. paper D. theme
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届北京市朝阳区高三第一次综合练习（一模）英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
—My computer doesn't work!
—Robert is a computer expert. How I wish he __________ with me.
A. came B. had come C. is coming D. has come
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年贵州遵义航天高级中学高二3月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
The phrase “live, love and laugh” was one my cousin Roger lived by every day of his life. Even in his sickness, he found the positive in what some would see as a negative situation. He enjoyed life. He loved to laugh and most importantly, he lived life to the absolute fullest. He loved to travel, learning new things about different people and their culture.
Roger was born and raised in Alabama, and he then moved to Buffalo, New York where he lived for many, many years until he relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, his final resting place.
Whether his travels were long visits or short visits, large cities or small towns, his favorite souvenir item was T-shirt. Everywhere he went he would buy a T-shirt to remind him of his travels. Every T-shirt he owned had a story behind it that he would share with others.
As long as he was laughing, living and traveling, he was happy. He loved everybody he came in contact with and everybody loved him. The old saying, “He never met a stranger”, definitely applied to Roger and his life.
His last few years of life were in and out of the hospital at least 10~15 days a month, sometimes more. Two weeks before he passed away, I spoke with him on the phone, and even then he managed to tell jokes about life.
I know he left this world happily; he refused to allow anything or anyone to hold him down, even his severe illnesses. He was definitely a model to look up when it comes to not allowing any situation to keep you from moving forward in life.
I will forever miss his smile and his love for life. My cousin Roger knew the true meaning of the phrase “live, love and laugh”.
1.The author believes that Roger .
A. was a foolish man
B. was rich in spirit
C. had a healthy body
D. pretended to be happy
2.We can learn from the text that Roger .
A. had few good friends
B. was afraid of his illnesses
C. seldom contacted the author
D. was loved by everyone who knew him
3.What the author’s purpose in writing this passage?
A. To feel pity for Roger.
B. To encourage readers to help others.
C. To encourage readers to be positive all the time.
D. To show that health is the most important thing.
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