In an ideal world,people would not test medicines on animals. Such experiments are stressful and sometimes painful for animals,and expensive and time?consuming for people. Yet animal experimentation is still needed to help bridge vast gaps in medical knowledge. That is why there are some 50 to 100 million animals used in research around the world each year.
Europe,on the whole,has the world’s most restrictive(严格的) laws on animal experiments. Even so,its scientists use some 12 million animals a year,most of them mice and rats,for medical research. Official statistics show that just 1.1 million animals are used in research in America each year. But that is misleading. The American authorities do not think mice and rats are worth counting and,as these are the most common laboratory animals,the true figure is much higher. Japan and China have even less comprehensive(全面的) data than America.
Now Europe is reforming the rules governing animal experiments by restricting the number of animals used in labs. Alternatives to animal testing,such as using human tissue or computer models,are now strongly recommended. In addition,sharing all research results freely should help to reduce the number of animals for scientific use. At present,scientists often share only the results of successful experiments. If their findings do not fit the hypothesis(假设) being tested,the work never sees the light of day. This practice means wasting time,money,and animals’ lives in endlessly repeating the failed experiments.
Animal experimentation has taught humanity a great deal and saved countless lives. It needs to continue,even if that means animals sometimes suffer. Europe’s new measures should eventually both reduce the number of animals used in experiments and improve the way in which scientific research is conducted.
1.What is the main idea of this passage?
A. The success of animal experiments should be ensured.
B. A ban on the use of animals in the lab should be enforced.
C. Greater efforts need to be taken to reduce the number of lab animals.
D. Scientists should be required to share their research results with each other.
2.Which of the following statements is true about animals used in the lab?
A. America uses only about 1.1 million lab animals per year.
B. Europe does not use mice and rats as lab animals at all.
C. Britain does not use as many lab animals as China does.
D. Japan has limited data on the number of lab animals used each year.
3.Which of the following is mentioned as an alternative to replace animal experiments?
A. Statistical studies. B. Computer models.
C. DNA planted in animals. D. Tissue from dead animals.
4.What usually happens to unsuccessful animal experiments?
A. They are not made known to the public.
B. They are made into teaching materials.
C. They are collected for future publication.
D. They are not removed from the research topic list.
科目:高中英语 来源:2015-2016学年广东汕头金山中学高一上学期期末英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Ammie Reddick from East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, was only 18 months old when she had the accident that had scarred(留下创伤) her for life. The curious child reached up to grab the wire of a hot kettle in the family kitchen and poured boiling water over her tiny infant frame.
Her mother Ruby turned round and, seeing Ammie horribly burnt, called an ambulance which rushed her daughter to a nearby hospital. Twenty percent of Ammie’s body had been burned and all of her burns were third-degree. There, using tissue(组织) taken from unburned areas of Ammie’s body, doctors performed complex skin transplants(移植) to close her wounds and control her injuries, an operation that took about six hours. Over the next 16 years, Ammie underwent 12 more operations to repair her body.
When she started school at Maxwelton Primary at age 4, other pupils made cruel comments or simply wouldn’t play with her. “I was the only burned child in the street, the class and the school,” she recalled, “some children refused to become friends because of that.”
Today, aged 17, Ammie can only ever remember being a burned person with scars; pain is a permanent part of her body. She still has to have two further skin transplants. Yet she is a confident, outgoing teenager who offers inspiration and hope to other young burns victims.
She is a member of the Scottish Burned Children’s Club, a charity set up last year. This month, Ammie will be joining the younger children at the Graffham Water Center in Cambridge shire for the charity’s first summer camp. “I’ll show them how to get rid of unkind stares from others,” she says. Ammie loves wearing fashionable sleeveless tops, and she plans to show the youngsters at the summer camp that they can too. “I do not go to great lengths to hide my burns scars,” she says, “I gave up wondering how other people would react years ago.”
1.What did other children do when Ammie first went to school?
A.They were friendly to her.
B.They showed sympathy to her.
C.They were afraid of her.
D.They looked down upon her.
2.Ammie will teach the younger children at the Graffham Water Center to___________.
A.face others’ unkindness bravely
B.hide their scars by proper dressing
C.live a normal life
D.recover quickly
3.What does the underlined word “permanent” in the 4th paragraph mean?
A. necessary B. life-long
C. difficult D. important
4.What can be the best title of the passage?
A.A Seriously Burned Girl Survives
B.Ways to Get Rid of Unkind Stares
C.Permanent Scars And Pain For a Girl
D.A seriously burned angel of Hope
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科目:高中英语 来源:2016届江西省九校高三下学期联考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Greg Evans started to study film at Ryerson University, but had a change of heart and switched to social work at George Brown College in second year.Yet the college recognized only one of Evans' general-interest credits(学分) from Ryerson , and also made him take English all over again although he had passed it at university.
“So I spent time and money taking a course I had already taken before”, complained Evans."The system really needs to change." Evans was part of a chorus of Ontario students on Monday cheering a new $ 73.7 million five-year plan to help students switch from college to university, and from university to college.
After years' of urging from students, the Ontario government set up a new Credit Transfer Innovation loud to help students move back and forth between the more hands-on courses of community college to the often broader academic focus of a university degree." We hear horror stories about students who can't get recognition from one institution for a very similar course at another, and in one case I believe the same professor was teaching them both," noted Malloy after announcing the new fund.
Individual colleges and universities have decided on nearly 500 joint deals to honor each other's credits in certain courses.Each school is required to set targets for more credit-transfer agreements, and link these increases to provincial funding.
More than 4,000 college graduates transfer (转换) to university in Ontario every year twice as many as eight years ago, noted Justin Fox, president of the College Student Alliance.Yet Ontario universities and colleges have been cautious about transferring credits, in part to avoid copying each other's courses, noted Bonnie Patterson, president of the Council of Ontario Universities ,who welcomed the increased flexibility.
1.What happened when Greg Evans switched to social work at George Brown College?
A. He was considered to be unqualified for social work.
B. His previous credits were not all recognized.
C. He wasn't able to get enough credits.
D. His English didn't reach the required standard.
2.According to Paragraph 3, Malloy believes _____________
A. it is time that the system was changed
B. the same professor can't teach in different schools
C. students should focus on their chosen courses
D. the students' stories are horrible
3.Ontario universities and colleges have been cautious about transferring credits partly to _____________.
A. avoid accepting unqualified students
B. keep their similar courses
C. prevent courses becoming similar
D. attract famous professors
4.What attitude does Bonnie Patterson have towards the transferring system?
A. He is strongly against it
B.He is very doubtful about it
C. He thinks it is too flexible
D.He supports it for its flexibility
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科目:高中英语 来源:2016届海南海口湖南师大附中海口中学高三模拟一英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
What will power your house in the future?Nuclear,wind,or solar power?According to scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT)in the US,it might be leaves—but artificial(人造的)ones.
Natural leaves are able to change sunlight and water into energy. It is known as photosynthesis(光合作用).Now researchers have found a way to imitate this seemingly simple process.
The artificial leaf developed by Daniel Nocera and his colleagues at MIT can be seen as a special silicon chip with catalysts(催化剂).Similar to natural leaves,it can split water into hydrogen and oxygen when put into a bucket of water. The hydrogen and oxygen gases are then stored in a fuel cell,which uses those two materials to produce electricity,located either on top of a house or beside the house.
Though the leaf is only about the shape of a poker card,scientists claimed that it is promising to be an inexpensive source of electricity in developing countries.“ One can imagine villages in India and Africa not long from now purchasing an affordable basic power system based on this technology,”said Nocera at a conference of the American Chemical Society.
The artificial leaf is not a new idea. The first artificial leaf was invented in 1997 but was too expensive and unstable for practical use. The new leaf,by contrast,is made of cheap materials,easy to use and highly stable. In laboratory studies,Nocera showed that an artificial leaf prototype(原型)could operate continuously for at least 45 hours without a drop in activity.
The wonderful improvements come from Nocera's recent discovery of several powerful,new and inexpensive catalysts. These catalysts make the energy transformation inside the leaf more efficient with water and sunlight. Right now,the new leaf is about 10 times more efficient at carrying out photosynthesis than a natural one. Besides,the device can run in whatever water is available;that is,it doesn't need pure water. This is important for some countries that don't have access to pure water.
With the goal to “make each home its own power station” and “give energy to the poor”,scientists believe that the new technology could be widely used in developing countries,especially in India and rural China.
1.Which of the following orders correctly shows how the artificial leaf is used to produce electricity?
a.artificial leaves split water into hydrogen and oxygen
b.the hydrogen and oxygen gases are stored in a fuel cell
c.the artificial leaves are put in water
d.the fuel cell uses hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity
A.c,b,a,d B.c,a,b,d
C.b,c,a,d D.c,a,d,b
2.The purpose of the scientists at MIT in developing the new artificial leaf is to________.
A.build up more power stations in the world
B.provide cheaper energy for developing countries
C.offer people in developing countries access to pure water
D.gain a deeper understanding of the photosynthesis process
3.The main idea of this passage is ________.
A.an introduction to the history of artificial leaves
B.an invention copying photosynthesis
C.giving energy to the poor
D.a mixture of water power and solar energy
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科目:高中英语 来源:2015-2016学年湖南衡阳八中高二下学期第一次月考英语卷(解析版) 题型:完形填空
完形填空
For most of the eight years they have been married, Ryan has never received a hug from his wife, Tracy. He has not even received a ________ “hello” or a smile. Tracy has been ________ since 2008. But this is not a story about the ________outcome of a young lady. Rather, it is about a man who has stayed ________to his wife, nursing her night and day, making sure she is as ________ as possible.
Ryan and Tracy ________ in a friend’s home in 2003. “She was beautiful and interesting to talk to,” Ryan says of his first ________ of Tracy. In 2005, they got married and were very happy. However, a call put the couple’s life in________ a month after their daughter was born. Ryan was at work when a neighbor called to inform him that Tracy had been ________ to the hospital.
________ , he ran to the hospital. When he got there, he knew his ________ had been treated for fever. However, the fever did not ________after Tracy received that medical treatment.
Tracy’s breathing became labored and was________ to speak. The medical examination ________ she developed an infection damaging her nerve system. Tracy went into a coma(昏迷) and a few days later, though she regained consciousness, she________ could not move her lower legs. “She was admitted to hospital for four months and ________doctors did all they could, her ________ got worse,” Ryan says. She could no longer ________ her legs, and lost the ability to give voices.
“Those four months are the most ________time I have ever had. I have never stopped hoping and praying she will regain her________ ,” Ryan says with a smile, “I miss her laughter, and wonder what kind of a mother she would be to our daughter.”
1.A. happy B. simple C. different D. basic
2.A. weak B. alone C. ill D. cruel
3.A. magic B. exciting C. unexpected D. sad
4.A. true B. strange C. rude D. useful
5.A. comfortable B. special C. safe D. conscious
6.A. married B. stayed C. met D. worked
7.A. impression B. expression C. discussion D. attention
8.A. danger B. trouble C. surprise D. silence
9.A. dashed B. rushed C. pushed D. carried
10.A. Angry B. Confident C. Anxious D. Proud
11.A. daughter B. friend C. neighbor D. wife
12.A. slow down B. go down C. look down D. burn down
13.A. ready B. eager C. unwilling D. unable
14.A. revealed B. repeated C. agreed D. admitted
15.A. even B. instead C. still D. again
16.A. though B. after C. since D. when
17.A. attitude B. examination C. condition D. pain
18.A. clean B. remove C. touch D. move
19.A. wonderful B. difficult C. ridiculous D. important
20.A. position B. power C. confidence D. health
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科目:高中英语 来源:2015-2016学年山东枣庄八中南校区高一3月单元测英语卷(解析版) 题型:完形填空
完形填空
It happened on a Saturday afternoon about 12 years ago. I volunteered to take my daughter to the local ________ while my wife did the housework. As soon as we got there, my daughter rushed to the ________ and asked for a push. As I was helping my daughter to go higher and higher, I noticed ________ trying to get her own swing going, but ________. Her grandmother was sitting quietly on a nearby bench and took no notice of it at all.
After giving my daughter a big ________, I walked over to the little girl and asked if she needed a push too. She ________ and said “Yes!” I soon had her feet flying towards ________ while she laughed happily. For the next two hours I ________myself pushing swings and playing games with my daughter and the little girl on the playground. By the time we ________home, I was physically exhausted, but my spirits were still ________ higher than those swings.
One day 2 years later, as usual, I needed to ________my daughter from school before going home. I stood tiredly in the parents’ ________ area watching for my kid. ________ , I felt two tiny arms going around my stomach. I ________ and there was the very little girl on the playground smiling up at me. She gave me one more big ________ before running off to catch her school bus. As I watched her ________ , I didn’t feel so ________ any more and my ________ were once again up in the heavens.
In this life every single bit of ________ we share finds its way back to us again. It may travel from heart to heart or it may blossom in the soul ________ it was planted.
1.A. stadium B. playground C. park D. square
2.A. tracks B. stand C. swings D. bars
3.A. a mother B. another little girl C. my daughter D. an old woman
4.A. succeeded B. fell C. failed D. slid
5.A. prize B. blow C. smile D. push
6.A. nodded B. wondered C. defended D. argued
7.A. the earth B. my daughter C. the clouds D. her grandmother
8.A. found B. suggested C. imagined D. watched
9.A. left B. headed C. moved D. struggled
10.A. running B. speeding C. floating D. flying
11.A. pick up B. dress up C. bring up D. cheer up
12.A. sleeping B. smoking C. reading D. waiting
13.A. Gradually B. Suddenly C. Fortunately D. Eventually
14.A. gave in B. moved off C. looked down D. watched out
15.A. kiss B. surprise C. reward D. hug
16.A. cheeks B. stomach C. back D. shoulders
17.A. tired B. amused C. amazed D. bored
18.A. senses B. memories C. minds D. spirits
19.A. love B. praise C. comfort D. glory
20.A. when B. where C. which D. that
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科目:高中英语 来源:2015-2016学年湖南衡阳八中高一下学期一次月考英语试卷(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:在错的词下面划一横线,并在该词下面写出改正后的词。
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。
Everyone has a dream.We are on the way to achieve it whether the way is smooth or toughly.As Senior 3 student, I have the same dream as my classmates that I can be admitted to an ideal university.In the past three years, I have done everything I can to equip myself with that I have learnt from my teachers.Not only have I enjoyed the pleasure of study but also I have got closer to my dream.Anxious and pressure did discourage from me at times.Besides, with the encouragement of my teachers and classmates, I think I’ll make it.
I’m sure that there has still a long way to go to achieve my dream.No matter how challenged it is, I’ll make it come true.As the proverb said,” Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
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科目:高中英语 来源:2015-2016学年黑龙江牡丹江第一中学高一3月月考英语卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
A famous teacher was speaking to the students at our school. He began his lesson by holding up a £100 bill. Then he said to the three hundred students, "Who would like to have this £100 bill?" The students began to put up their hands at once.
Then he said, "I am going to give this bill to one of you, but first, let me do this." He then made this bill into a ball. Then he said, "Who wants it?" Hands went into the air.
"Well," he said, "What if I do this?" and he dropped it on the floor and stepped on it. He picked up the dirty, crumpled bill and said, "Who still wants it?" Hands went back into the air.
"My friends," he said, "You've learned a valuable lesson today. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it didn't go down in value. It was still worth £100.”
“Many times in our lives, we're dropped, crumpled, and stepped on by the chances we take and the things that happen to us. We feel as if we are worth nothing. But remember, no matter what has happened to you, you will never lose your value: you are always valuable to those who love you. Your value doesn't come from what you drop or whom you know, but WHO YOU ARE.”
You are special and valuable. Don't ever forget it!
1.Even though the money was dirty, it _______.
A. went up in value B. was worth much
C. didn't reduce in value D. was still ours
2.The underlined sentence in the third paragraph means_______.
A. the students put up their hands again.
B. the students put down their hands.
C. the students agreed to what the teacher said
D. the students put their hands in front of them
3.Why did the famous teacher use a £100 at his lesson?
A. Because he wanted to give a lecture about money.
B. Because he was used to dropping a bill on the floor and stepping on it.
C. Because he was going to give the bill to one of the students.
D. Because he wanted to make the students know what the value was.
4.What lesson can you learn from the passage?
A.£100 bill is worth the same no matter what you do with it .
B. All people love money most.
C. Your value doesn't change no matter what happens to you.
D. The value of money changes when it is made dirty.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2016届福建福安市高三3月月考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
I recently got pulled over for speeding not far from my new home in Virginia. I hadn’t been paying attention, and I had driven a few miles an hour over the speed limit.
“Can I see your license and registration?” the police officer asked me. I pulled both out for him, and he saw my Pittsburgh address on my Pennsylvania driver’s license.
“What are you doing here?” he asked. “Are you with the army?”
“No, I’m not.” I answered. I explained that I had just moved to Virginia, and I hadn’t had time to re-register yet.
“So what brings you here?” He had asked a direct question. Without thinking very hard, I gave him a direct answer. “Well, officer,” I said, “since you’ve asked, I have cancer. I have just months to live. We’ve moved down here to be close to my wife’s family.”
“So you’ve got cancer,” he said flatly. He was trying to figure me out. Was I really dying? Was I lying? He took a long look at me. “You know, for a guy who has only a few months to live, you sure look good.”
He was obviously thinking: “Either this guy is pulling one big fat line on me, or he’s telling the truth.” He was trying to question my honesty without directly calling me a liar. And so he had forced me to prove that I was being honest.
“Well, officer, I know that I look pretty healthy. I look great on the outside, but the tumors(肿瘤)are on the inside.” And then, I don’t know what possessed me, but I just did it. I pulled up my shirt, showing the operational scars.
He looked at my scars. He looked in my eyes. He now knew he was talking to a dying man. Well, he wasn’t taking this any further. He handed me back my license. “Do me a favor.” he said, “Slow down from now on.”
The awful truth had set me free. As he went back to his police car, I had a realization. I had been one of those gorgeous blondes (金发美女) who could bat her eyelashes and get out of tickets. I drove home under the speed limit, and I was smiling like a beauty queen.
1.The author was stopped by the police officer because ______.
A. he drove too fast B. he forgot to re-register
C. he was seriously ill D. he didn’t have a license
2.The author moved to Virginia probably because ______.
A. he was homesick
B. Virginia had better hospitals
C. he could spend more time with families
D. he served in the army there
3.On hearing about the author’s cancer, the police officer ______.
A. said it was an excuse
B. doubted his honesty
C. showed sympathy for him
D. asked him to show his scars
4.It can be inferred from the passage that the author was ______.
A. romantic B. adventurous
C. dishonest D. optimistic
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