Fewer people desire to live in the north of the country．
科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
Michael, a typical (典型的) American, stays home on workdays. He plugs into his personal computer terminal (接线端) in order to connect with the office. After work, he puts on his headphones, watches a movie on his home video recorder, or plays baseball on the computer. On many days, Michael doesn’t talk to any other human beings, and he doesn’t see any people except the ones on television. Michael is imaginary, but his lifestyle is very possible. The inventions of modern technology seem to be cutting us off from contact with our fellow human beings.
The world of business is one area in which technology is isolating (使隔离) us. Experts say, for example, that many people will soon be able to work at home. With access to a large central computer, employees such as office clerks, insurance agents, and accountants could do their jobs at display terminals in their own homes. They would never have to actually see the people they’re dealing with. In addition, the way employees are paid will change. Workers’ salaries will be automatically paid into their bank accounts(账户), making paper checks(支票)unnecessary. No workers will stand in line to receive their pay or cash their checks. Personal banking will change, too. Customers will deal with machines to put in or take out money from their accounts.
Another area that technology is changing is entertainment. Music, for instance, was once a group experience. People listened to music at concert halls or in small social gatherings. For many people now, however, music is an individual experience. Walking along the street or sitting in their living rooms, they wear headphones to build a wall of music around them. Movie entertainment is changing, too. Movies used to be social events. Now, fewer people are going out to see a movie. Many more are choosing to wait for a film to appear on television or are borrowing videotapes to watch at home. Instead of laughing with others, viewers watch movies in their own living rooms.
13. The sentence “Michael is imaginary, but his lifestyle is very possible” means ____ .
A .Michael is a person full of imagination and he can make his dreams come true
B. Michael is not a real person but probably the lifestyle does exist
C. Michael has ambitions but he can?t make his dreams come true
D. Michael is a person full of imagination and his lifestyle is common nowadays
14. What will the author most probably discuss after the last paragraph?
A. Games and sports.
B. Personal banking.
C. Music and films.
D. International business.
15. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. We may no longer need to communicate with other human beings.
B. Modern technology seems to be separating human beings.
C. We may no longer need to work in the office.
D. Modern technology makes it possible for us to work and entertain ourselves at home.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
Americans have never before exercised and dieted as eagerly as they are doing today．As a result, they do not only look younger and slimmer, but feel better．Because of increased physical fitness, life expectance in the nation has risen to seventy-three years, with fewer people suffering from heart disease, the nation's number one killer．
Jogging （ 慢跑 ）, the easiest and cheapest way of improving the body, keeps over 30million people of all ages on the run．For the price of a good pair of running shoes, anyone anywhere can join the race．
Dieting, too, has become a national pastime．Promoters of diets that eliminate eating one thing or another, such as fats or carbohydrates （ 碳水化合物 ）, promise as much as 20- pound weight losses within two weeks．Books describing such amazing diets always head up （ 居……之首 ）the best-seller lists because people who are overweight want to lose weight quickly and easily．
Nevertheless, jogging and dieting, carried to extremes, can be harmful．Many confused joggers overdo and finally suffer from ankle and foot damage．Dieting, fortunately, becomes only a temporary means for shedding a few pounds while the body lose the balanced nutrition （ 营养 ）it requires, so most dieters cannot keep on diets．Above all, common sense should be the keystone for any dieting and exercise plan．
1．The main idea of this passage is that___________ ．
A．both jogging and dieting can improve your health
B．exercise and improved diet has raised the American's life expectance
C．people, who jog and diet wisely, will be healthier than those who do not
D．diet and exercise harm rather than benefit health
2．According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A．Jogging can damage the body because it is too tough an exercise．
B．Diets are so popular because they are on the best-seller lists．
C．Americans now live to be 73 years old．
D．Exercise and diet are more widespread in America than ever before．
3．It is implied but not stated that ___________ ．
A．heart disease is the number one killer among Americans
B．exercise and dieting bring about spiritual as well as physical well-being
C．people don't stay on a diet because it doesn't work
D．a 20-pound weight loss within two weeks is too much for the body
4．The best title for this passage is ___________ ．
A．Jogging and Diet B．Exercise and Health
C．Physical Fitness D．Life Expectancy and Diet
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
Policymakers need to step up efforts to cut smoking rates in Asia to prevent an “epidemic(流行病)” of tobacco - related lung disease, medical experts said at a conference in Mumbai.
Many Asian countries have seen a sharp increase in tobacco use in the last decade, particularly among the young and in urban areas as a result of economic growth. A rise in smoking by women has also been noted.
But ignorance of the health risks remains, especially among the rural poor, while overall tobacco use is adding an economic burden to countries in terms of health care and insurance costs plus lost productivity through illness.
Matthew Peters, head of thoracic(胸腔的)medicine at Sydney’s Concord Hospital, told the 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health that there were “real and material health care benefits” for countries to encourage people to quit.
“Stopping smoking is a very simple way” of cutting tuberculosis(肺结核) rates, he said, adding that quitting also meant the region’s poor, who are most affected by the disease, could use the money that previously went on tobacco for food and clothing.
“These benefits are real. They are seen quickly and have effects on the most important health risks in this region. . . and the especially complex issue of economic deprivation(贫困) and nutrition, ” he added.
Many at the conference expressed concern about the increases in smoking and tobacco use in Asia, as big tobacco companies look to the region for new markets with more people giving up smoking in developed countries. Health professionals want antismoking legislation(法规)，including bans on tobacco advertising.
Some 1. 25 billion people worldwide use tobacco in some form every day. China and India account for more than half of that total, according to the World Lung Foundation statistics presented at the conference.
56. We can learn from the second paragraph that _______.
A. more and more people in Asian countries smoke
B. the young smoke more than the old in Asia
C. fewer people smoke in urban areas in Asia
D. there are more women smokers than men smokers
57. What do “real and material health care benefits” refer to?
A. The benefits that countries can get by encouraging people to smoke.
B. Cutting down the cost of health care and getting better food and clothes.
C. Good economy from tobacco, better food and clothes.
D. Health risks and the economic burden.
58. Why do big tobacco companies look to Asia for new markets according to the passage?
A. Because the largest population is in Asia and its economy is growing fast.
B. Because Asians concern about the danger of increases in smoking.
C. More and more people are giving up smoking in developed countries.
D. Health professionals want to ban tobacco advertising.
59. How many people use tobacco in China and India every day according to the World Lung Foundation statistics?
A. About 1. 25 billion.
B. More than 2. 50 billion.
C. About 0. 51 billion.
D. More than 0. 625 billion.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2013届山西康杰中学高三第三次模拟英语卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Charlotte Hollins faces a battle. The 23-year-old British farmer and her 21-year-old brother Ben are fighting to save farm that their father worked on since he was 14. Although confident they will succeed, she is aware of farming’s many challenges.
“You don’t often get a day off. Supermarkets put a lot of pressure on farmers to keep prices low. With fewer people working on farms it can be isolating,” she said. “There is a high rate of suicide and farming will never make you rich!”
Like others around the world, Charlotte’s generation tend to leave the farm for cities.
Oliver Robinson, 25, grew up in Yorkshire. But he never considered staying on his father and grandfather’s land. “I’m sure Dad hoped I’d stay,” he said. “I guess it’s a nice, straightforward life, but it doesn’t appeal to me. For young, ambitious people, farm life is hard.”
For Robinson, farming doesn’t offer much “in terms of money or lifestyle”. Hollins agrees that economic factors stop people from enjoying the rewards of farming. He describes it as a career that provides “for a vital human need”, allowing people to work “outdoors with nature.”
Farming is a big political issue in the UK. The “Buy British” campaigns urge consumers not to purchase cheaper imported foods. The 2001 foot and mouth crisis closed thousands of farms, stopped meat exports, and raised public consciousness about the troubles on UK farms.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s 2005 campaign to get children eating healthily also highlighted the issue.
This national concern gives hope to farmers competing with powerful supermarkets. While most people buy food from the big supermarkets, hundreds of independent Farmers’ Markets are becoming popular.
“I started going to Farmers’ Markets in direct defiance(违抗) of the big supermarkets. I seriously objected to the super-sizing of everything－what exactly do they put on our apples to make them so big and red? It’s terrible,” said Londoner Michaela Samson, 31.
【小题1】What are the challenges that British farmers face according to Charlotte Hollins?
a. loneliness b. thin profits
c. a lack of good equipment d. long working hours but slow results
| A．abc | B．abd | C．acd | D．bcd |
| A．He hoped for a simpler life |
| B．He was fed up with a hard farm life. |
| C．Farm life was too demanding though he liked it. |
| D．He hoped for something challenging and rewarding. |
| A．British people ate more British beef. |
| B．To be a beef farmer became profitable. |
| C．Diseaes dramatically reduced the amount of beef available. |
| D．Foreign farmers stopped selling beef to Britain. |
| A．Lower prices. | B．Flexible sizes. |
| C．Convenient location. | D．Healthier food. |
| A．Things are improving for independent farms in the UK. |
| B．Farming in the UK can now match the powerful supermarkets. |
| C．Most British people are doubtful of food in supermarkets. |
| D．Most British people have realized the problems facing farms and begun to help save them. |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2010-2011哈尔滨六中高一下学期期中英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
The disaster at the Chernobyl(former USSR前苏联) power station happened quickly and without warning. It was in the early hours of April 26, 1986 when the cooling system of the reactor(反应堆) failed. Minutes later, a violent (猛烈地) explosion blew the top off the reactor and blasted(爆炸生成) a huge cloud of radioactive gas high into atmosphere. Two people were killed imm
ediately. Hundreds received powerful radiation overdose (过量). And more than 25,000 had to b
e taken away from their homes.
Days later, the radioactive cloud had spread as far as Scotland. Its radiation was weak, but all over Europe radioactive rain was falling. In some areas people were advised not to eat fresh vegetables, or drink fresh milk, and the sale of meat was forbidden.
The accident at Chernobyl was the world’s worst nuclear accident. In Britain, it convinced (使……相信) many people that all nuclear power stations should be shut down for good. But the Central Electricity Generating Board didn’t agree. They claimed that ·similar disasters could not happen in Britain because of safer designs, fewer deaths are caused using nuclear fuel (燃料) than by mining for coal or drilling for oil and gas. Nuclear accidents are unusually fewer compared with other types of accidents-such as air crashes, fires or dam break-down more nuclear power stations are necessary because the world’s
supplies of oil, coal and natural gas are running out.
In 1957 in Cumbria (Britain) a nuclear reactor overheated and caught fire. No one was killed but fourteen workers received radiation overdose. Small amounts of gas and dust were let out over the local countryside.
An official report said the accident was nearly a full-scale disaster. The Nuclear Authority wanted the report published but the Prime Minister at the time refused. He thought that it would make people less confident in Britain’s nuclear industry. Thirty years later, the cabinet(内阁) records of 1957 were published. Only then did the public discover what had really happened in Cumbria.
【小题1】. One result of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was that ______.
| A．25,000 people were killed |
| B．fresh foods were polluted |
| C．people in Scotland were taken away from their homes |
| D．hundreds of houses in Chernobyl were destroyed |
| A．are most unlikely to cause death | B．are always kept secret from the public |
| C．can only happen in underdeveloped countries | D．may happen in any country that has nuclear power station. |
| A．still believed it could not happen in their country. |
| B．were not convinced that nuclear power stations could be safe |
| C．accepted that there would be fewer deaths than in drilling for oil |
| D．supported nuclear power stations because world fuel supplies were low |
| A．Britain’s supplies of oil, coal and gas were running out |
| B．it takes thirty years for the effects of radiation to appear |
| C．fewer people died in that accident than in other types of accidents |
D．it was conce rned that the British people would doubt their country’s nuclear expertise (核技术) |
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