One day an American called Simon went to London to visit his friend, Rick. Rick told him that his flat was on the first floor. When he arrived, Simon went straight to the first floor of the building. But he was told that there was no Rick on that floor. Do you know why?
In fact, the British call the first floor of a building the ground floor. The floor above the ground floor is the first floor, which Americans would call the second floor.
The story shows that there are a few culture differences between Britain and America, though the British and Americans both speak English.
The British usually hide their feelings. They seldom start a conversation with strangers. For example, on the train the British often spend their time reading newspapers or books. But Americans are quite different. They're more active and easier to talk with.
The British and Americans may use different terms for many things. The British usually use football, rubber and post while Americans prefer to use soccer, eraser and mail.
1.Simon went to London to ________.
A. visit his friendB. spend his holiday
C. study EnglishD. have a meeting
2.According to the passage, the British usually spend their time ________ on the train.
A. playing cardsB. talking loudly
C. doing some readingD. singing and dancing
3.What's the best title for the passage?
A. Differences in cultureB. Simon's funny story
C. Information abroadD. Hiding the feelings
科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年广东湛江一中高二上第一次大考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
When introducing American universities, some of the first institutions（机构）to mention are the Ivy League schools. Originally, the Ivy League was an athletic conference made up of 8 private institutes of higher learning in northeastern United States. However, as time went on, these schools also became known for their excellence in academics besides athletics. Included in the Ivy League schools are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and Harvard University. These 8 schools have been recognized as some of the best colleges and universities in the United States.
Harvard University is a private institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The university includes a number of graduate and professional schools, as well as a college for undergraduates. In 2012, Harvard ranked number one in US News’ ranking of national universities again. Founded in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institute of higher education in the United States. It can be said that first there was Harvard, then the United States of America. Also, Harvard’s library contains the oldest collection of books in the United States as well as the largest private collection in the world. Harvard has also been described by Forbes Magazine as one of the “billionaire universities” as of their recent list of 469 billionaires, 50 received a degree from Harvard.
Harvard College (the institute for undergraduate students) is one of the most famous schools in the United States. It offers over 40 undergraduate fields of study, including astrophysics（天体物理学）, mathematics, neurobiology(神经生物学), etc. And the financial aid program there is amazing. Even though the tuition is about 37,576, and there are other expenses throughout the year, about 70% of undergraduate students received financial aid. Out of those students, over 90% of them had their full need met. And the policies for international students are the same for U.S. citizens.
Harvard College is very selective, as it only admits about 6% of their applicants. For admission into Harvard College, it is required that students take the SAT or the ACT, as well as 2 SAT Subject Tests. Harvard will also look at other factors during admission such as your application essay, high school transcript, work experience, GPA (Grade Point Average), your interview, recommendations, and most importantly, your character and personal qualities.
1.What are the Ivy League schools famous for?
A. Athletics and location.
B. Academics and history.
C. Financial aid and training.
D. Athletics and academics.
2. Harvard University includes .
A. a number of colleges for undergraduates
B. a kindergarten, middle school and college
C. many graduate and professional schools
D. only one college for graduates
3. Why is Harvard called one of the “billionaire universities”?
A. Because nearly one ninth billionaires once studied there.
B. Because people can earn a lot of money from Harvard.
C. Because there are 50 billionaires in Harvard University.
D. Because 469 billionaires contribute to Harvard University.
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A. 90% students in Harvard have their full need met.
B. Harvard College is the institute for graduate students.
C. A minority of undergraduates couldn’t receive financial aid.
D. The policies for international students differs from U.S. citizens.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年内蒙古高二上第一次月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
We'll do whatever we can ________ you this term.
A. to helpB. helpC. helpingD. to be helped
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科目：高中英语 来源：2017届宁夏高三上学期第三次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
According to sociologists（社会学家）, every modern industrial society has some form of social stratification（阶层）. Class, power and status are important in deciding people’s rank in society.
Class means a person’s economic position in society. A commonly used classification is lower class, middle class and upper class. While sociologists disagree on how these terms should be exactly defined, they do describe societies like the United States quite well. One study shows that 53% of Americans belong to the lower class, 46% the middle class, and 1% the upper class. Interestingly, a surgeon earning ＄500,000 a year and a bus driver earning ＄50,000 a year both regard themselves as the middle class!
Power refers to the amount of control a person has over other people. Obviously, people in positions of great power (such as governors) exercise（行使）big power, but people who take orders from others have less power. Power and class do not always go hand in hand, however. For example, the governor of a state has great power, but he or she may not belong to a corresponding （相应的） economic class. Generally, however, there is a relationship between power and class. To our knowledge, there aren’t too many people who aren’t millionaires in the U.S. Senate!
Status is the honor or respect attached to a person’s position in society. It can also be affected by power and class, but not necessarily so. For example, a university professor may have a high status but not belong to a high social class or have a lot of power over others.
1.What can we learn about “the middle class” from Paragraph 2?
A. People earning ＄50,000 a year belong to the middle class.
B. People generally consider bus drivers as the middle class.
C. Nearly half Americans belong to the middle class.
D. Sociologists have a clear definition of the middle class.
2.According to the text, we know that ________.
A. class is less important in deciding a person’s social rank
B. status refers to a person’s economic position in society
C. people with high status have a lot of control over others
D. power and class do not always correspond with each other
3.Which of the following shows the structure of the whole text?
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年河北博野中学高一10月考英语试卷（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中选出可填入空白处的最佳选项。
You Did More Than Carry My Books
Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed a boy ahead of him had dropped all of the books he was carrying, along with a baseball bat and several other things. Mark ________ down and helped the boy pick up these articles. ________ they were going the same way, he helped to carry some of them for him. As they walked Mark ________ the boy's name was Bill, that he ________ computer games, baseball and history, that he was having a lot of ________ with his other subjects and that he had just broken ________ with his best friend.
They arrived at Bill's home first and Mark was ________ in for a Coke and to watch some television. The afternoon passed ________ with a few laughs and some shared small talk, and then Mark went home. They ________ to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice, and then both ended up from the same high school. Just three weeks before ________, Bill asked Mark if they ________ talk. Bill ________ him of the day years ago when they had first met. “Do you ________ wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day?” asked Bill. “You see, I ________ out my locker(橱柜) because I didn't want to leave a mess ________ anyone else. I had planned to run away and I was going home to ________ my things. But after we spent some time together ________ and laughing, I realized that ________ I had done that, I would have ________ a new friend and missed all the fun we would have together. So you see, Mark, when you picked up my books that day, you did a lot more. You ________ my life.”
1.A. fellB. satC. layD. knelt(跪)
2.A. AlthoughB. SinceC. AfterD. Until
3.A. discoveredB. realizedC. saidD. decided
4.A. playedB. lovedC. triedD. made
5.A. questionsB. ideasC. troubleD. doubt
6.A. upB. outC. offD. away
7.A. calledB. helpedC. invitedD. allowed
8.A. peacefullyB. willinglyC. freelyD. pleasantly
9.A. continuedB. agreedC. forcedD. offered
10.A. graduationB. movementC. separationD. vacation
11.A. wouldB. shouldC. couldD. must
12.A. demandedB. remindedC. removedD. asked
13.A. everB. usuallyC. evenD. never
14.A. checkedB. tookC. cleanedD. put
15.A. overB. intoC. withD. for
16.A. findB. pickC. packD. hold
17.A. talkingB. playingC. readingD. watching
18.A. beforeB. ifC. whileD. as
19.A. forgottenB. passedC. leftD. lost
20.A. helpedB. recoveredC. improvedD. changed
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年江西赣州厚德外国语学校高一10月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：七选五
根据内容，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。
Cheating is when a person misleads, deceives or acts dishonestly on purpose. 1. If a basketball team is for kids under 8, it's cheating for a 9-year-old play on the team. At school, in addition to cheating on a test, a kid might cheat by stealing someone else's idea for a science project. 2. This kind of cheating is called plagiarizing (抄袭).
3. . Jeff is doing it by sneaking（暗中的）answers to a test. And it's also cheating to break the rules of a game or contest or to pretend something is yours when it isn't. When people cheat, it's not fair to other people. It's tempting(诱惑人的) to cheat because it makes difficult things seem easy, like getting all the right answers on the rest. 4. , and it won't help on the next test unless the person cheats again.
5. . They want to get good grades but hate hard work. Other kids might feel like they can't pass the test without cheating. Even though there seems to be a "good reason" for cheating, cheating isn't a good idea.
A. For kids, cheating may happen at school, at home, or while playing a sport.
B. Some kids cheat once and feel so bad that they never do it again.
C. Some kids cheat because they're lazy.
D. Kids may also cheat by copying a book report off the Internet and handing it in as it's his or her original work.
E. Cheating can happen in a lot of different ways.
F. But it doesn't solve the problem of not knowing the material（材料）.
G. There are plenty of reasons why a kid shouldn't cheat, but some kids have already cheated.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2017届河南开封高三上期定位考试10月英语试卷（解析版） 题型：语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。将答案填写在答题卡的相应位置。
Qingdao lies in the east of Shandong Province. As we all know, it is an important port city and it is an economic and 1. (culture) center. It is also home to the Tsingtao Brewery and the 2. (large) international beer festival in China. Of course Qingdao is a very beautiful city, too. Many places around the city are well worth 3. (visit). Every year, the festival 4. (hold) on schedule. Millions of visitors 5. come from the world go to the city during the festival.
It is very convenient to go to Qingdao. It is 6. (rough) 560 kilometers from Beijing with an average travel time of one hour and 10 minutes by air and five hours by high-speed train. It is 693 kilometers from Shanghai, and 7. (take) about one hour and 25 minutes by air. There are also frequent direct 8. (flight) from Qingdao to the Republic of Korea and Japan. The city’s airport is connected 9. 61 domestic cities and 16 overseas cities, with more than 3,000 planes arriving 10. taking off each week. Warmly welcome to Qingdao！
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年浙江温州中学高一10月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：短文填空
选词填空。
根据所给短文的意思，用方框中所给的单词或者短语的正确形式填空。
make up one’s mind; experience; detail; face to face; set down; make use of; conquer; fare; settle; put up; |
When I was 13, my journey in a great valley changed my attitude towards the recording of a travel. During the trip, I was busy recording every event, name and place I came across. I felt proud to ____1.__ my time, keeping a __2.__description of my travels. On my last night there, after I __3.____ the tent, I went out with diary in hand. The sky was clear with the bright moon, and the walls of the valley looked frightening behind their curtains of shadows（阴影）. The beauty of nature at dusk ___4.__ my heart entirely. I took out my pen right away... At that moment, I understood that the beautiful scenery I saw ___5.__ was more meaningful than the tiring words that I had __6.__ in my diary. Since then I have ___7._____ only to keep a special thought or feeling in my diary. The unforgettable moments I ____8.__ would be the sweet and lasting memories for my life.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2017届贵州铜仁市高三上第二次月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Stubbornness（固执，执着） can push a business to hold on but can also kill your business if it keeps stopping you.
Because I’m stubborn. I chased my dream of creating a pet-food company that sells what it claims to sell and not some unidentifiable substance in a dressed-up bag. Originally we packed our foods in transparent bags, which became our guiding philosophy.
To start the company in 2003, I visited every pet-food store in Manhattan and some outside the city. By 2006 Stella&Chewy’s was sold in 250 stores, mostly in New York City. In 2007 I moved the company to Wisconsin, with our earnings reaching almost $500,000 that year．But getting my product into stores was just the beginning. We were competing against much bigger pet-food companies whose monthly marketing budgets were more than our yearly sales. So we invested in advertisements and a website and even stood on sidewalks giving our samples.
With more customers came more feedback (反馈意见), much of which I ignored, I was also receiving complaints about ice crystals (冰晶) on the food, which form when the air temperature changes during transport. For this reason, most frozen foods are packaged in opaque (不透明的) bags or boxes. Studies have proved that ice crystals have little effect on either the quality or the taste of the food. So I ignored the complaints. After all, we were better than our competitors that wouldn’t even show their products. We didn’t hide anything.
In 2007 our sales kept growing, but not as fast as those of our competitors. We were told that new consumers were choosing products packaged in opaque bags. When I visited the stores and forced myself to consider my products objectively, I had to degree: The ice crystals reduced the look I wanted. The food looked as if a snowstorm had hit the inside of the bag.
We switched to opaque bags and tried to make ice crystals smaller. Customers responded: In 2009 Stella$Chewy’s was sold in 2,500 stores across the country.
1.At the beginning, the author’s company packaged their foods in transparent bags to ________.
A. make their foods seen clearly
B. make their foods look attractive
C. let customers know their guiding philosophy
D. show their foods are environmentally friendly
2.Why did the author have people stand on sidewalks giving out samples?
A. Because advertising and marketing on the website didn’t work.
B. Because no one knew his company’s products in Wisconsin.
C. Because he should use this way to save money due to the limited budget.
D. Because he attempted to use all means to compete with other companies.
3.According to the passage, ice crystals _________.
A. only appear on frozen food
B. may make pets feel uncomfortable
C. won’t form if the foods are transported well
D. almost don’t affect the quality of pet foods
4.The author’s experience mainly shows that ________.
A. stubborn people won’t simply give up
B. stubbornness can make people succeed or fail
C. the road leading to success is full of difficulties
D. meeting customers’ need is important to a company’s success
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