科目:高中英语 来源:2015届辽宁朝阳柳城高级中学高一上学期期末考试英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
I was with a group of businessmen, and we were dealing with a question—What is a good person?
At a certain point during the discussion, one of the students—a young man of about thirty—described an event that happened at Christmas. He and his five-year-old son were decorating the Christmas tree, and a little boy came to the front door begging. If you ever visit Mexico, you will see that the people there take begging as nothing to get upset about and nothing to get embarrassed by.
So, this little boy came to the door, a boy about the same age as my student’s son. The father and the son went to the front door, and the father went back with his five-year-old son and said to him, “Give him one of your toys.” At the words, the little boy quickly picked up some toy, and his father said to him, “No, no-give him your favorite toy.”
And the little boy, like a little tiger, said, “No way!” He cried; he refused. But the father, like a big tiger in a way, insisted gently, “No, you must give him one of your favorite toys.”
And finally the boy, with his head down, picked up a toy he had just gotten. The father waited in the living room, and the boy walked to the front door with the toy in his hand. The father waited and waited.
What do you think happened?
After a couple of minutes, his son came running back into the living room, his face radiant (喜气洋洋). “Daddy,” he said, “can I do that again?”
I think I have got the answer to the question.
1.From the passage, we can learn that in Mexico ________.
A.begging is looked down upon
B.begging is considered as a normal part of life
C.visitors all over the world treat beggars kindly
D.few people are living a poor life
2.The sentence “can I do that again?” showed that the boy ________.
A.got pleasure by helping the little beggar
B.wanted to please his father
C.began to like the little beggar
D.wanted to be the little beggar’s friend
3.According to the writer, being a good person means ________.
A.having the courage to correct his/her mistakes
B.being friendly to beggars
C.being ready to give
D.being able to teach children to tell right from wrong
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科目:高中英语 来源:2015届江西省高一上学期期末考试英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Everybody is happy as his pay rises. Yet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn that a fellow worker has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he is known as being lazy, you might even be quite cross. Such behavior is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying belief that other animals would not be able to have this finely developed sense of sadness. But a study by Sarah Brosnan of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.
The researchers studied the behaviors of some kind of female brown monkeys. They look smart. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food happily. Above all, like female human beings, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.
Such characteristics make them perfect subjects for Doctor Brosnan’s study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens (奖券) for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for pieces of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate and connected rooms, so that each other could observe what the other is getting in return for its rock, they became quite different.
In the world of monkeys,grapes are excellent goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was not willing to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either shook her own token at the researcher, or refused to accept the cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other room (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to bring about dissatisfaction in a female monkey.
The researches suggest that these monkeys, like humans, are guided by social senses. In the wild, they are co-operative and group-living. Such co-operation is likely to be firm only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of anger when unfairly treated, it seems, are not the nature of human beings alone. Refusing a smaller reward completely makes these feelings clear to other animals of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness developed independently in monkeys and humans, or whether it comes from the common roots that they had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.
1.According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A.Only monkeys and humans can have the sense of fairness in the world.
B.In the wild, monkeys are never unhappy to share their food with each other.
C.Women will show more dissatisfaction than men when unfairly treated.
D.Monkeys can exchange cucumbers for grapes, for grapes are more attractive.
2.The underlined statement “it is all too monkey” means that ________.
A.monkeys are also angry with lazy fellows
B.monkeys, like humans, tend to be envious of each other
C.no animals other than monkeys can develop such feelings
D.feeling angry at unfairness is also monkey’s nature
3.Female monkeys of this kind are chosen for the research most probably because they are _________.
A.more likely to pay attention to the value of what they get
B.attentive to researchers’ instructions
C.nice in both appearance and behaviors
D.more ready to help others than their male companions
4.We can learn ________according to the passage?
A.Human beings' feelings of anger are developed from the monkeys.
B.Cooperation between monkeys stays firm before the realization of being cheated.
C.In the research, male monkeys are less likely to exchange food with others.
D.Only monkeys and humans have the sense of fairness dating back to 35 million years ago.
5.What can we infer about the monkeys in Sarah’s study?
A.The monkeys can be trained to develop social senses.
B.The monkeys may show their satisfaction with equal treatment.
C.They usually show their feelings openly as humans do.
D.Cooperation among the monkeys remains effective in the wild.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2012-2013学年广东省高三8月月考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:完型填空
Many of the world’s pollution problems have been caused by the crowding of large groups of people into the cities. Supply for the needs of the people leads to further 1 by industry. If the rapid increase of world 2 continues at the present rate, there may be much greater 3 to human beings. Some scientists 4 of the increase in numbers of people as “population pollution(人口公害)”.
About 2, 000 years ago, the world population was about 250 million. It 5 a billion in 1850. By 1930 the population was two billion. It is now six billion. It is 6 to double by the year 2020. If the population 7 to grow at the same rate, there will be 25 billion people in the 8 a hundred years from now.
Man has been 9 the earth’s resources more and more 10 over the past years. Some of them are almost gone. Now many people believe that man’s 11 problem is how to control the 12 of the population. The material supplies in the world will be far from enough to 13 the human population if the present rate of increase continues. There is already over-crowding(过分拥挤)in many cities and 14 in some countries. Many people believe that human survival(生存) in the future 15 on the answer to the question.
1. A.progress B.pollution C.education D.production
2. A.agriculture B.industry C.environment D.population
3. A.danger B.harm C.benefit D.hardship
4. A.dream B.approve C.rid D.speak
5. A.got B.took C.brought D.reached
6. A.suggested B.hoped C.expected D.said
7. A.continues B.fails C.tries D.means
8. A.world B.country C.star D.end
9. A.discovering B.using C.digging D.destroying
10. A.seriously B.dangerously C.rapidly D.steadily
11. A.greatest B.easiest C.lightest D.simplest
12. A.existence B.start C.growth D.birth
13. A.increase B.decrease C.report D.support
14. A.discussion B.starvation C.construction D.argument
15. A.depends B.agrees C.saves D.passes
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Everybody is happy as his pay rises. Yet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn that a fellow worker has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he is known as being lazy, you might even be quite cross. Such behavior is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying belief that other animals would not be able to have this finely developed sense of sadness. But a study by Sarah Brosnan of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.
The researchers studied the behaviors of some kind of female brown monkeys.
They look smart. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food happily. Above all, like females human beings, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.
Such characteristics make them perfect subjects for Doctor Brosnan’s study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens(奖券)for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for pieces of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate and connected rooms, so that each other could observe what the other is getting in return for its rock, they became quite different.
In the world of monkeys, grapes are excellent goods(and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was not willing to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either shook her own token at the researcher, or refused to accept the cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other room(without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to bring about dissatisfaction in a female monkey.
The researches suggest that these monkeys, like humans, are guided by social senses. In the wild, they are co-operative and group-living. Such co-operation is likely to be firm only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of anger when unfairly treated, it seems, are not the nature of human beings alone. Refusing a smaller reward completely makes these feelings clear to other animals of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness developed independently in monkeys and humans, or whether it comes from the common roots that they had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.
1.According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
A.Only monkeys and humans can have the sense of fairness in the world.
B.Women will show more dissatisfaction than men when unfairly treated.
C.In the wild, monkeys are never unhappy to share their food with each other.
D.Monkeys can exchange cucumbers for grapes, for grapes are more attractive.
2.The underlined statement “it is all too monkey” means that .
A.monkeys are also angry with lazy fellows
B.feeling bitter at unfairness is also monkey’s nature
C.monkeys, like humans, tend to be envious of each other
D.no animals other than monkeys can develop such feelings
3.Female monkeys of this kind are chosen for the research most probably because they are .
A.more likely to weigh what they get
B.attentive to researchers’ instructions
C.nice in both appearance and behaviors
D.more ready to help others than their male companions
4.Which of the following conclusions is TRUE according to the passage?
A.Human beings’ feeling of anger is developed from the monkeys.
B.In the research, male monkeys are less likely to exchange food with others.
C.Co-operation between monkeys stays firm before the realization of being cheated.
D.Only monkeys and humans have the sense of fairness which dates back to 35 million years ago.
5.What can we infer about the monkeys in Sarah’s study?
A.The monkeys can be trained to develop social senses.
B.They usually show their feelings openly as humans do.
C.The monkeys may show their satisfaction with equal treatment.
D.Co-operation among the monkeys remains effective in the wild.
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