Researchers from France and Italy discovered that Canadian parents are less strict with their children than mothers and fathers in France and Italy.
“Our most important finding was the difference between Canadians and the others,” said Professor Michel Claes, the lead author of the study.“Canadians focus on independence and negotiation. On the other hand, Italians, for example, exercise more control. We found Canadians seem to focus on negotiation in case of a conflict.”
Claes said Canada, France and Italy were selected for the study because they share important cultural and social factors.“We chose French?Canadians because they share the same language as France, and originally came from France and share certain values．Italy was included because it was considered to have similar，strong and important family values，” he explained.
The researchers examined the emotional ties between parents and their children by questioning 1,256 students aged 11 to 19 years old.
Canadian students reported less control and more free actions, according to the study. Italian parents were stricter and French parents were somewhere in the middle.
Claes explains that the differences lie in education in Canada, France and Italy.
“North America has its own educational values, which promote individualization. Tolerance and comprehension are encouraged. Italy, on the other hand, promotes respect of authority, control, and the need for permission.” he said.
Children from all three countries described their mothers as warm and communicative. Italian and Canadian children had similar feelings about their fathers, and reported high levels of emotional ties. But French fathers were generally thought by their children to be more distant and cold.
“We were surprised by this,” Claes admitted.“It seems as though the relationships between French mothers and their children were becoming closer over time, while fathers maintain a form of distance and coldness, which is more of a source of conflict in France than in the other countries.”
1.Professor Michel Claes believes that Canada, France and Italy ________.
A．have the same family spirit
B．have some similar cultural traditions
C．have experienced some similar social changes
D．have experienced similar cultural developments
2.How did the researchers carry out the study?
A．By collecting answers of parents from Canada, France and Italy.
B．By collecting answers of children from Canada, France and Italy.
C．By questioning parents and their children from Italian Canadian families.
D．By questioning children from French?Canadian families.
3.According to Michel Claes, what mainly leads to the differences in parent?children relationships among Canada, France and Italy?
A．Educational opportunities.
B．Traditional ideas.
C．Educational values.
D．Historical events.
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年吉林实验中学高一下期末考试英语卷（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。
It was early in the morning, on a lonely road. It's _________heavily. A 9-year-old boy was in the car with his mother, who was _________ him to school. Suddenly, the car went off the road, _________ several times, and came to rest upside down in a ditch (沟渠) filled with water.
Luckily, both the mother and son were _________ seatbelts. The mother suffered a blow to her head and was unable to move. The boy was frightened but _________. As water came through broken windows in the car, he _________unbuckled (解开) himself, climbed out of the _________window, made his way around to the driver's side, and reached inside the _________ to free his trapped mother. With great effort, he managed to _________her, pull her through the window and up to the road, where they were soon _________ .
His mother later recalled her experience of the _________ . Being unable to move or even _________ to offer instructions or encouragement to her son, she was _________ by her little son's action. She recalled _________ her boy saying out loud as he pulled her through the water, “I think I can, I think I can!”
It seemed _________ that this little boy's act of courage was from one of his favorite books: The Little Engine that Could. In that _________ , when everyone else had _________ hope, the Little Engine carried the heavy load of toys and good things to eat over the hill to the children waiting on the other side. He had _________ and took action. Obviously this book had left a _________impression before the accident that rainy _________ and motivated (激励) the son to take action if the terrifying moments.
1.A. snowing B. smoking C. blowing D. raining
2.A. ordering B. driving C. pushing D. flying
3.A. rolled B. fell C. moved D. stopped
4.A. making B. watching C. wearing D. missing
5.A. afraid B. dead C. tired D. unhurt
6.A. quickly B. carefully C. nearly D. happily
7.A. student B. passenger C. family D. worker
8.A. box B. room C. car D. ditch
9.A. respect B. introduce C. recognize D. free
10.A. accepted B. rescued C. welcome D. fed
11.A. accident B. experiment C. travel D. fire
12.A. listen B. sleep C. speak D. look
13.A. excited B. frightened C. wounded D. amazed
14.A. seeing B. hearing C. smelling D. feeling
15.A. clear B. sorry C. useful D. necessary
16.A. poem B. notice C. story D. dream
17.A. realized B. waken C. kept up D. given up
18.A. courage B. food C. space D. time
19.A. bad B. deep C. false D. general
20.A. afternoon B. night C. morning D. evening
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I’ll give the prize to ________ finishes the work first.
A. whomever B. whoever C. who D. Anyone
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Scientists have devised a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand (缕) of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims.
The method relies on measuring how chemical variations in drinking water show up in people’s hair.
“You’re what you eat and drink, and that’s recorded in your hair,” said Thure Cerling, a geologist at the University of Utah.
While U.S diet is relatively identical, water supplies vary. The differences result from weather patterns. The chemical composition of rainfall changes slightly as rain clouds move.
Most hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water are stable, but traces of both elements are also present as heavier isotopes (同位素). The heaviest rain falls first. As a result, storms that form over the Pacific deliver heavier water to California than to Utah.
Similar patterns exist throughout the U.S. By measuring the proportion of heavier hydrogen and oxygen isotopes along a strand of hair, scientists can construct a geographic timeline. Each inch of hair corresponds to about two months.
Cerling’s team collected tap water samples from 600 cities and constructed a map of the regional differences. They checked the accuracy of the map by testing 200 hair samples collected from 65 barber shops. They were able to accurately place the hair samples in broad regions roughly corresponding to the movement of rain systems.
“It’s not good for pinpointing(精确定位),” Cerling said. “It’s good for eliminating many possibilities.”
Todd Park, a local detective, said the method has helped him learn more about an unidentified woman whose skeleton was found near Great Salt Lake.
The woman was 5 feet tall. Police recovered 26 bones, a T-shirt and several strands of hair.
When Park heard about the research, he gave the hair samples to the researchers.
Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.
She stayed in the Northwest, although the test could not be more specific than somewhere between eastern Oregon and western Wyoming.
“It’s still a substantial area,” Park said “But it narrows it way down for me.”
1.What is the scientists’ new discovery?
A. One’s hair growth has to do with the amount of water they drink.
B. A person’s hair may reveal where they have lived.
C. Hair analysis accurately identifies criminal suspects.
D. The chemical composition of hair varies from person to person.
2.What does the author mean by “You’re what you eat and drink” (Line 1, Para.3)?
A. Food and drink affect one’s personality development.
B. Food and drink preferences vary with individuals.
C. Food and drink leave traces in one’s body tissues.
D. Food and drink are essential to one’s existence.
3.What did Cerling’s team produce in their research?
A. A map showing the regional differences of tap water.
B. A collection of hair samples from various barber shops.
C. A method to measure the amount of water in human hair.
D. A chart illustrating the movement of the rain system.
4.What is the practical value of Cerling’s research?
A. It helps analyze the quality of water in different regions.
B. It helps the police determine where a crime is committed.
C. It helps the police narrow down possibilities in detective work.
D. It helps identify the drinking habits of the person under investigation.
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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。
Stealing? I guess we were stealing. But in our 13-year-old brains the matter of ownership _________ occurred to us. We just wanted to _________ some strawberries in Mr Jordan’s backyard. So we went _________ into his backyard.
When we started _________ his strawberries, all of a sudden Mr Jordan came outside.
“What are you boys doing out here?” he _________ and tried to grab one or two as my friends rushed past him, but they were too _________ for the older gentleman to seize, and all the boys except me disappeared within seconds.
Speed was never my _________. So I could just stand there and _________ whatever punishment would surely come my way from Mr Jordan.
He marched me to my house and my mother criticized me. My friends gathered to celebrate their _________and observe my capture. They _________ me about it for days afterwards, while all I could do was complain to my father about how _________ it was.
“I don’t think so,” Dad said. “You got the punishment you _________.”
“But what about other guys?” I asked.
Dad said, “You can’t _________what happens to other people. You can only _________ what happens to you. You picked Mr Jordan’s strawberries that night, and you were punished for it. To me, that is completely fair.”
Then I couldn’t _________my father’s words. _________through the years I knew what he talked about. We didn’t come to earth with a _________ that life would treat us fairly.
Like Dad said, the _________ thing we can actually _________ is what happens to us. How we choose to respond to what happens to us is truly the _________ by which the quality of our lives will be measured whether or not we think it happens fairly.
1.A.neverB.everC.oftenD.sometimes
2.A.seeB.plantC.pickD.water
3.A.carelesslyB.sadlyC.secretlyD.calmly
4.A.harvestingB.destroyingC.treatingD.facing
5.A.smiledB.shoutedC.doubtedD.added
6.A.stupidB.quickC.kindD.tall
7.A.characterB.luckC.choiceD.strength
8.A.denyB.judgeC.admitD.accept
9.A.escapeB.unitC.lifeD.holiday
10.A.helpedB.teasedC.blamedD.supported
11.A.illegalB.impracticalC.unfairD.unnecessary
12.A.deservedB.observedC.wantedD.imagined
13.A.ignoreB.expectC.concludeD.control
14.A.faceB.leadC.devoteD.refuse
15.A.markB.improveC.understandD.discuss
16.A.AndB.OrC.SoD.But
17.A.guaranteeB.directionC.questionD.form
18.A.commonB.obviousC.onlyD.easy
19.A.look atB.deal withC.dream ofD.take away
20.A.standardB.viewC.valueD.purpose
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年湖南衡阳八中高二第一次联考英语试卷（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。
House Sitting
In many countries of the world people do what is called house sitting. It means that if owners of the house are going away, they want someone to come into their home and look after the house and maybe pets while they are away.
In Australia, many people travel. After people retire, they might buy a van and travel all over the country. 1.
So if someone wants to travel or go away for some reason, they might want someone in their home to care for it and keep the gardens tidy. House sitters might have to care for pets. Also, quite a few people have swimming pools in their back yard and they need cleaning. 2. I feel it is a great way of seeing the country, because you go and stay in a new city, get to meet new people, and have time to go sightseeing in a new area.
3. There are websites where you find the advertisements by people who want to travel, and by replying to the advertisement, you can make arrangements to go and look after their home.
There are some requirements to be a house sitter. You must be a trusted person, so that the home owner knows you will not steal anything. You must be able to go when the house owner wants you to go, so you need lots of free time. 4. You need to be good with pets, able to care for cats and dogs, or other pets they may have.
Some house sitting jobs are just for a few days or a couple of weeks while the house owners have a short holiday. Sometimes it is for much longer. We have had one house sit for six months, while the home owner travelled to Europe.
5. Then you can travel to many different countries and stay there. One of the important things to get is references from the home owners where you have stayed. A reference is a written letter to say that you are trustworthy and have looked after their home well. You can show these letters to possible house sitting jobs and they know you will do a good job.
A. I have done house sitting many times.
B. Thousands of people do this all the time.
C. It is also possible to do house sitting in other countries.
D. Generally you have many opportunities to get a house sitting job.
E. You must take a little care over what your description says about you.
F. This is an international house sitting service for all city and country areas.
G. You must have a good car, so you can travel to different parts of the country.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年重庆南开中学高一下学期期末测试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单词拼写
单词填空。
1.There are many l_________ about the lake, one of which is that it was formed by the tears of a goddess.
2.Weather in England is u_________ —it can change in an instant.
3.The operation can p_________ his life at least by three or four years on condition that he is taken good care of.
4.D_________ with lung cancer, he never gave up on himself.
5.In Wales, the red dragon on the flag is a positive symbol, i_________ strength and a sense of national identity.
6.The wasteland used to be a pleasant, _________(肥沃的)spot, well wooded and rich in various fruits.
7.Having had a good night’s sleep, we were rowing _________(顺流而下) towards the sea.
8.In many ways, my _________(残疾) has helped me become more independent and grow stronger psychologically.
9.Easter is an important _________(宗教的) festival for Christians around the world.
10.At the current rate of decline, many rainforest animals could be _________ (灭绝) in less than 10 years．
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年重庆南开中学高一下学期期末测试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
By law，no party _____ give away the contents of the contract to the third party.
A．may B．can
C．need D．shall
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年湖南省高二下学期期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：短文改错
短文改错。
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处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅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：在错的词下画一横线，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 Sir,
I’m writing to apply to be one of the volunteer for the Winter Olympic Games to be held in 2022.
I’m Li Hua, a 18-year-old boy who loves doing sports regular in my spare time. I love sports so much that I can devote all my energy to serve the game. Besides, I can speak English fluently, which make me more qualified to help foreigners. Meanwhile, not only do I have the ability to organize activities, and I am outgoing and energetic, which benefits to me in communication with strangers.
I believe I suitable for the position. I would appreciate that if you consider my application and offered me the opportunity.
Looking forward to your reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
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