The 1930s __________ the suffering of the Chinese from war.
A. wrote B. witnessed C. proved D. supplied
科目：高中英语 来源：2012-2013学年浙江临海白云高级中学高一下学期第二次段考英语卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
When Frida Kahlo's paintings were on show in London, a poet described her paintings as “ a ribbon （丝带）around a bomb”. Such comments seem to suggest Kahlo had a big influence on the art world of her time. Sadly, she is actually a much bigger name today than she was during her time.
Born in 1907 in a village near Mexico City , Kahlo suffered from polio（小儿麻痹症）at the age of seven. Her spine （脊柱）became bent as she grew older. Then, in 1925, her back was broken in several places in a school-bus accident. Throughout the rest of her life, the artist had many operations, but noting was able to cure the terrible pain in her back. However, the accident had an unexpected side effect. While lying in her bed recovering, Kahlo taught herself to paint.
In 1929, she got married to Diego Rivera, another famous Mexican artist. Rivera’s strong influences on Kahlo’s style can be seen in her early works, but her later works from the 1940s, known today as her best works, show less influence from her husband.
Unfortunately, her works did not attract much attention in the 1930s and1940s, even in her home country. Her first one-woman show in Mexico was not held until 1953. For more than a decade after her death in 1954, Kahlo’s works remained largely unnoticed by the world, but in the 1970s her works began to gain international fame at last.
【小题1】What does the phrase “a much bigger name” in paragraph 1 most nearly mean?
| A．a far better artist | B．a much more famous person |
| C．a much stronger person | D．a far more gifted artist |
| A．back injuries | B．her bent spine | C．polio | D．the operations she had |
| A．1930s | B．1970s | C．1950s | D．1940s |
| A．Devotion | B．Encouragement | C．Worry | D．Sympathy（同情） |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2012-2013学年黑龙江省哈尔滨师大附中高三第二次月考英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Book now to see Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss star in The Children’s Hour at the Comedy Theatre in London．
Dates: 22 January 2011 to 31 January 2011
Times: 22 Jan 2011 6:30 PM; 24—29 Jan 2011 7:30 PM; 29 Jan 2011 2:30 PM; 31 Jan 2011 7:30 PM．
Place: Comedy Theatre
The Children’s Hour
The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman is a striking play about the power of a lie． Karen Wright （Keira Knightley） and Martha Dobie （Elisabeth Moss） run a girls’ boarding school in the 1930s New England． When an angry student starts a rumour that the two headmistresses are having a lesbian （女同性恋者） affair, it gradually destroys the women’s careers, relationships and lives． The Children’s Hour is an upsetting story of cheat, shame and courage．
Banned in London and several cities across America, The Children’s Hour received its world opening on Broadway in 1934． Generations on, its exploration of a culture of fear remains remarkably relevant．
Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss Star
Keira Knightley, nominee （被提名者） for Best Actress 2010 Evening Standard Awards for The Misanthrope, returns to the London stage． Knightley starred in Love Actually, The Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy, Pride and Prejudice．
Elisabeth Moss, best-known for playing Peggy Olson in Mad Men, made her Broadway stage debut （首映） in David Mamet’s Speed the Plow in 2008． The Children’s Hour will be her West End debut．
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【小题1】If you visit London in January, at which time can you see the play?
| A．21 Jan 2011 6:30 PM． | B．23 Jan 2011 2:30 PM． |
| C．26 Jan 2011 2:30 PM． | D．31 Jan 2011 7:30 PM． |
| A．used to be forbidden | B．is about the power of love |
| C．was set in England in the 1930s | D．is not popular these days |
| A．Keira Knightley was awarded Best Actress 2010 Evening Standard Awards． |
| B．Elisabeth Moss ever performed on the Broadway stage． |
| C．Without the two big stars, people would not buy the play’s tickets． |
| D．You can only buy a ticket with Visit London’s secure ticket booking partner． |
| A．In a movie magazine． | B．In the newspaper． |
| C．On the website． | D．In an academic journal． |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2013-2014学年福建省泉州市高三上学期期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899—July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist. His writing style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image(形象) affected later generations. Hemingway produced most of his works between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
Hemingway was raised in Illinois. After high school he reported for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. In 1922, he married Hadley Richardson. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign journalist. Advised and encouraged by other American writers in Paris—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, he began to see his work appear in print there, and in 1925 his first important book, a collection of stories called In Our Time, was published. A year later, he published The Sun Also Rises, a novel with which he scored his first solid success. The writing of books occupied Hemingway for most of the postwar years. He remained based in Paris, but he traveled widely for bullfighting(斗牛), fishing, and hunting that by then had become part of his life and formed the background for much of his writing. Hemingway’s love of Spain and bullfighting resulted in Death in the Afternoon (1932). His position as a master of short fiction had been advanced by Men Without Women in 1927. The harvest of Hemingway’s considerable experience of Spain in war and peace was the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). In the public view, however, the novel A Farewell to Arms (1929) overshadowed such works.
Shortly after he published The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went to Africa, where he was almost killed in a plane crash that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway lived in Florida and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where ended his life in the summer of 1961.
1.Which best arranges Hemingway’s works in the correct order of time?
a. A Farewell to Arms????????????? ????????????? b. Men Without Women
c. The Old Man and the Sea????????????? d. Death in the Afternoon
e. The Sun Also Rises????????????? ????????????? f. For Whom the Bell Tolls
A. e, a, b, f, d, c????????????? B. e, b, a, d, f, c?????????????
C. b, a, d, f, e, c? ????????????? D. b, d, a, e, c, f
2.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 probably means that A Farewell to Arms ??????? .
A. was thought to be better than other works of Hemingway’s
B. was considered to make a show in Hemingway’s life
C. was only as excellent as the other works of Hemingway’s
D. was believed to be among the worst works of Hemingway’s
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Hemingway must have spent his childhood in Italy.
B. Hemingway was an energetic writer with a wide interest.
C. Hemingway’s first book In Our Time was published before 1925.
D Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature just before his death.
4.It can be concluded from the passage that ????????? .
A. Hemingway produced most of his works in Africa
B. Hemingway led a very happy life in his last few years
C. most of Hemingway’s works were based on his life experience
D. Hemingway’s writing style affected the life of later generations
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In the late nineteenth century, ^5,000 pianos were sold in the United States each year and, with over half a million youths learning to play the instrument, there was a huge demand for sheet music （活页乐谱）．Indeed the demand was so huge that publishers rushed to enter the profitable market．During the last fifteen years of the century, many publishers began to set up shops in New York, the center for the production of the musical arts
By the turn of the nineteenth century many important publishers had their offices on 28th Street between Broadway and 5th Avenue, and this Is the area that became known as Tin Pan Alley．It was here that publishers adopted new, aggressive business practices and marketing techniques to achieve great sales．
How it became to be known by that name is unclear, but the general opinion is that it is down to a visiting journalist by the name of Monroe Rosenfeld．He described the area as being drowned in the noise coming from the producers' offices, sounding as though hundreds of people were hitting tin pans（锡锅）．He used it several times in his newspaper articles in the early twentieth century and the term stuck．With time this name was popularly embraced and many years later it came to describe the U．S．music publishing industry in general．
The start of Tin Pan Alley is usually dated to about 1885,．but the end of Tin Pan Alley is less clear-cut ．Some date it to the start of the Great．Depression in the 1930s when the phonograph（留声机） and radio replaced sheet music, as the driving force of American popular music, while others consider Tin Pan Alley to have continued into thel950s when earlier styles of American popular music were upstaged （抢风头） by the rise of rock & roll．
There's a plaque（纪念匾牌）on the sidewalk on 28th Street in honor of the influence of Tin Pan Alley on American popular culture, but the buildings that were home to the legendary Tin Pan Alley publishers and songwriters are up for sale and may be torn down to make room for modern high-rise buildings．
1.What．is the passage mainly about ?
A．American popular music．
B．Tin Pan Alley's future。
C．American music Industry．
D．The history of Tin Pan Alley．
2.In the early 20th century．Tin Pan Alley was used to refer to ____．
A．the American popular culture． B．the American printing media
C．the American rock-music center D．the American music publishing industry．
3.In the nineteenth century, the driving force of American popular music was:____．
A．rock & roll B．sheet music
C．country music D．phonographs and radios
4.When visiting Tin Pan Alley , Rosenfeld probably felt it was ____．
A．very noisy B．very quiet C．wide D．narrow
5.We can learn from the passage that ______．
A．the term " Tin Pan Alley" was perhaps first used by Rosenfeld．
B．the old shops of Tin Pan Alley will be well protected．
C．Tin Pan Alley got its name in the early nineteenth century．
D．there were once some factories in Tin Pan Alley
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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答案。选项中有两个为多余选项
Millions of people all over the world use the word OK. In fact, some people say the world. OK means all right or acceptable it expresses agreement or approval.
___1.___ .Some people say it came from the Native American Indian tribe known as the Choctaw. The Choctaw word “oken” means the same as the American word “okay”. Experts say early explorers in the American West spoke the Choctaw language in the 19th century.
But many people doubt this. Language expert Allen Walker Read wrote about the word OK in reports published in the 1960s. He said the word began being used in the 1830s. __2.___.Some foreign –born people wrote “all correct” as “o-l-l k-o-r-r-e-c-t”, and used the letters O.K. Other people say a railroad worker named Obadiah Kelly invented the word long ago. They said he put the first letters of his names--- O and K --- on each object people gave him to send on the train.
__3._ The organization supported Martin Van Buren for president in 1840. They called their group the OK Club. The letters were taken from the name of the town where Martin Van Buren was born--- Old Kinderhook, New York.
Then there is the expression A-OK. It is a space-age expression. It was used in 1961 during the flight of astronaut Alan Shepard. He was the first American to be launched into space. His flight ended when his spacecraft landed in the ocean, as planned. Shepard reported, “Everything is A-OK.”__4.__ One story says it was first used during the early days of the telephone to tell an operator that a message had been received.
There are also funny ways to say okay. __5.__ .These expressions were first used in the 1930s. Today, a character on the American television series, “The Simpsons”, says it another way. He says okely-dokely.
A. Some people say okey-dokey or okey-doke.
B. Still others say a political organization invented the word.
C. Therefore, it has become popular in that area from then on.
D. But many experts don’t agree on what the expression means.
E. Language experts do not agree about where the word came from.
F. It was a short way of writing a different spelling of the words “all correct”.
G. However, some exerts say the expression did not begin with the space age.
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