科目：高中英语 来源：学习·探究·诊断 高二英语(下) 题型：050
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Dog owners now have a little help understanding their furry friends. A new device called Bow-Lingual “translates” dog barks into English, Korea or Japanese.
Bow-Lingual's Japanese inventors spent much time and money-analyzing dog barks. They found that dog noises can be broken down into six different emotions: happiness, sadness, frustration, anger, assertion and desire.
Part of the Bow-Lingual device hangs on the dog's collar. The other part is a handle-held unit for the owner. When the dog barks, the unit displays translated phrases.
Some people have scoffed at Bow-Lingual. “Who would pay US $ 120 to read a dog's mind?” they ask.
But those who have purchased Bow-Lingual praise the device. Pet owner Keiko Egawa, of Japan, says it helps her empathize with her dog, Harry. “Before we go to the par, he always says he wants to play,” says Egawa, “and after a walk, he always says he is hungry.”
Bow-Lingual is riot yet available in Chinese. So you'd better keep studying Studio Classroom, or soon your dog may know more English than you do!
1．This passage is mainly talking about ________.
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A．Bow-Lingual's inventors
B．dog barks and their different emotions
C．talking dogs
D．a little help for dog owners
2．Which of the following sentences is TRUE according to the passage?
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A．Dog owners now can understand their dogs better.
B．Bow-Lingual is a new device that enables dogs to talk in English, Korean or Japanese.
C．More and more Chinese dog owners would keep studying Studio Classroom in order to know more English than their dogs.
D．People who have used the Bow-Lingual say it helps them better understand their dogs.
3．What does “scoffed at” mean in the 3rd paragraph?
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4．How do you understand the sentence “Bow-Lingual is not yet available in Chinese” in the last paragraph?
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A．Bow-Lingual has not yet appeared in Chinese market.
B．Bow-Lingual can not yet recognized Chinese dogs' barks.
C．Chinese dog owners do not know yet how to use Bow-Lingual.
D．Dog barks can not yet be translated into Chinese phrases with Bow-Lingual.
5．The writer of this passage is most likely to be ________.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
I had the meanest mother in the whole world. While other kids ate candy for breakfast, I had to have cereal, eggs or toast. When others had cokes and candy for lunch, I had to eat a sandwich. As you can guess, my supper was different from the other kids' also. But at least, I wasn't alone in my sufferings. My sister and two brothers had the same mean mother as I did.
My mother insisted upon knowing where we were at all times. You'd think we were on a chain gang. She had to know who our friends were and where we were going. She insisted if we said we'd be gone an hour, that we be gone one hour or less — not one hour and one minute.
We had to wear clean clothes and take a bath everyday. The other kids always wore their clothes for days. We reached the height of insults because she made our clothes herself, just to save money.
The worst is yet to come. We had to be in bed by nine each night and up at eight the next morning. We couldn't sleep till noon like our friends. So while they slept --- my mother actually had the nerve to break the Child Labor Law. She made us work. We had to wash dishes, make beds, learn to cook and all sorts of cruel things. I believe she laid awake at night thinking up mean things to do to us.
Through the years, things didn't improve a bit. We could not lie in bed, "sick" like our friends did, and miss school. Our marks in school had to be up to par. Our friends' report cards had beautiful colors on them, black for passing, red for failing. My mother, being as different as she was, would settle for nothing less than ugly black marks.
As the years rolled by, first one and then the other of us was put to shame. We were graduated from high school. With our mother behind us, talking, hitting and demanding respect, none of us was allowed the pleasure of being a drop-out.
My mother was a complete failure as a mother. Out of four children, a couple of us attained some higher education. None of us have ever been arrested or divorced. Each of my brothers served his time in the service of this country. She forced us to grow up into God-fearing, educated, honest adults. Using this as a background, I am now trying to raise my three children. I am filled with pride when my children call me mean. Why? Because now I thank God every day for giving me the meanest mother in the whole world.
What can we infer from the passage?
A. The author is not happy to have such a mean mother.
B. The author's mother broke the Child Labor Law to make money.
C. The author's mother failed to educate her children to be honest adults
D. The author is strict with her children.
Why couldn’t the author eat candy for breakfast?
A. Because she preferred cereal, eggs or toast to candy.
B. Because her mother couldn’t afford for candy.
C. Because her mother thought it not good to eat candy for breakfast.
D. Because her mother had to gave candy to the author’s sister and two brothers.
The author’s mother made her children work because _________ .
A. she had trouble falling into sleep
B. she could not keep such a big family without her children’s help
C. she was teaching her children to live by themselves.
D. she had no time to do housework.
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Last winter vacation, some of my classmates decide to 76.
travel with their friends, while I chose to take par-time job 77.
to gain experience and earn some money. I learned from my 78.
teacher that a nearby company was looking after students 79.
with good handwriting to write address on envelope. The 80.
pay were 10 cent per envelope. I headed for the company, 81.
feeling sure I would easy finish 300 envelops in five hours and 82.
to earn the money. Actually, I only finished 200. Now, I 83.
fully understand how hard is to earn money. Getting out 84.
of the classroom is indeed necessary for we all. 85.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2013-2014学年湖北省黄冈市高三年级3月测试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Many people believe that teaching children music makes them smarter, better able to learn new things. But the organizers of a new study say there's no scientific evidence that early musical training affects the intelligence of young people.
An estimated 80 percent of American adults think music lessons improve children's abilily to learn or their performance in school. They say that the satisfaction for learning to play a new song helps a child express creativity.
Researchers at Harvard University, however, have found that there's one thing musical training does not do. They say it does not make children more intelligent. Samuel Mehr is a graduate student at Harvard's School of Education. He said it is wrong to think that learning to play a musical instrument improves a child's intellectual development. He says the evidence comes from studies that measured the mental ability of two groups of 4-year-olds and their parents. One group attended music class, the other went to a class that places importance on the visual arts—arts that can be seen.
"The evidence there is 'no'. We found no evidence for any advantage on any of these tests for the kids participating in these music clases," said Mehr.Samuel Mehr says researchers have carried out many studies in an effort to learn whether musical training can make children smarter. He says the results have been mixed. He says only one study seems to show a small percentage increase in IQ, intellectual scores among students after one year of music lessons. He does not believe that IQ is a good measure of child's intelligence. He says researchers in his study compared how well children in the musical training group did on mental processing tasks or projects, then the results were compared to those of children who did not take lessons. There was no evidence that the musical training group did much better on the mental tasks than the other group.
The researchers comfirmed the results with a larger group of children and their parents.Mr Mehr says music lessons may not offer children a fast easy way to gain entry to the best schools later of their life. But he says the training is still important for cultural reasons. In his words, "We teach music because music is important for us."
1.According to the new study, musical training______.
A. makes children smarter????????????????????????
B. helps a child express creativity
C. does not make children more intelligent??????????
D. improve children's ability to learn in school
2.Samuel Mehr may agree that______.
A. the children who attended music class are smarter than those who attended arts class
B. IQ is a good measure of a child's intelligence
C. we needn't to teach children music
D. music training is still important for cultural reasons
3.In order to confirm his view, Samuel Mehr______.
A. conducted more than one research
B. interviewed many American adults
C. taught two groups of 4-yetr-olds music and arts
D. offered children a fast way to be admitted to the best schools
4.The artical may be taken from a report about _____.
A. health????????????? B. education????????????? C. ????????????? culture????????????? D.economy
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科目：高中英语 来源：四川省2009-2010学年高一下学期期中考试试题（英语） 题型：阅读理解
Parking has long been a major headache for drivers in Shanghai. The Transportation Department is mapping out a new plan for the city’s parking system. There are one million cars on the road in Shanghai but only enough public parking space to provide room for 15percent of them. It is no wonder that local drivers get so worried trying to find a place to park.
The city is seeing a rise in private car owners. In March, the city sent out 2,000 private car licenses, the highest number of licenses ever sent out in a month. And prices rose to 14,600 yuan, 500 more than in February. Industry experts say this suggests that local people have a strong, active interest in buying cars.
By the year 2020, the number of automobiles in Shanghai will probably reach two million. If one parking lot is for each car, then a lot of parking space should be built for these vehicles.
Downtown Shanghai is most short of parking space. However, experts point out that simply building more parking lots in downtown areas is not practical and doesn’t provide an ideal solution. The idea of “ Park & Ride” system has been suggested. This means that drivers can leave their vehicles in car par nearby subway or bus stations and ride public transport to go downtown. Based on this idea, the city will limit the number of parking lots in downtown areas and demand higher parking fees but build more parking areas near main subway and bus stops.
1.The underlined phrase “ mapping out ” in the first paragraph means __________.
A. making B. arguing C. controlling D. inspiring
2. About __________ drivers can find places to park their cars in Shanghai now.
A. 850,000 B. 1,000,000 C. 150,000 D. 2,000,000
3. What does the second paragraph mainly tell us ?
A. The city sent out more private licenses in February.
B. Less and less people bought cars in March.
C. The city sent out less private licenses in March.
D. More and more people are going to buy cars.
4. According to the idea of a “ Park & Ride ” system, the city will __________.
A. send out more private car licenses
B. build more parking lots near bus stops
C. encourage people to buy more cars
D. build more parking areas in downtown
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