When Charles Stratton was five, he stopped growing．His mother took him to see the famous showman, P．T．Barnum．Mr.．Barnum thought a small person would be the perfect addition to his show．He hired Charles' parents along with him, and they traveled the world together.
He gave the two-foot-tall Charles a name, General Tom Thumb． He taught Tom how to sing, dance, act and tell jokes．When he felt Tom was ready to perform on stage, he made up ads．To stir up great interest, he said that Tom was eleven years old and had come from England.
During the show, Tom fought battles pretendedly with tall people．He also danced upon a wooden plate held by a person who was eight feet tall．Tom's act was very popular and brought in a lot of money．By the time Tom was an adult, he had grown very rich．He had become a billionaire at the age of twenty five.
Fortunately for Tom, Mr.．Barnum added more little people to his show, and Tom became lucky in love as well．One of the little people was Lavinia Warren, a schoolteacher．Tom was able to win her love, and they married.
The ceremony and reception were the talk of the town．They were attended by many rich and famous people and by about 2000 guests．Crowds filled the streets of New York to have a look at their tiny wedding marriage．The couple even met with President Abraham Lincoln on their honeymoon just before going to live in Tom's house in Connecticut.
Their wedding, which took place during the Civil War, provided a welcome escape from the sad problems of war．Not willing to let this bit of sunshine fade, communities throughout the country sponsored "Tom Thumb" weddings．In these weddings, small boys and girls, all dressed up, went through marriage ceremony for fun.
1.The underlined words "talk of the town" means________.
A． it was in the newspaper
B． it was the most popular topic
C． people spread bad rumors about it
D． it was discussed in a city meeting
2.Which one of the following statements is true according to the text?
A． Charles mother took him to see the famous showman because he stopped growing.
B． Tom had to fight with others during the show.
C． Tom’s wedding ceremony helped people cheer up in a dark time.
D． Tom and his mother came from England.
3.What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A． Weddings always make people feel full of sunshine.
B． People are always disappointed during war time.
C． Entertainment can serve an important purpose.
D． People should be married when they are small children.
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年浙江三市高二下第十一次联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：书面表达
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阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
With global warming and melting ice, it isn’t easy being a polar bear anymore. Some studies have predicted that polar bears could die out by the end of the century. The good news is not all researchers think the bears are absolutely disappearing. Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History(AMNH) have published a new paper indicating that things might not be as bad for polar bears as some scientists expect.
To understand the reason for the researchers’ cautious optimism, we must first understand the factors that are threatening the polar bear’s existence. Polar bears consume a diet of mainly young seals. In order to hunt these seals, polar bears need to rest at the top of sea ice---the same ice that is increasingly melting for most of the year thanks to climate change. In another 50 years, experts expect that the Arctic will be too warm for sea ice to form for half of the year, leaving polar bears without a reliable food source and in serious danger of starvation.
As it turns out, alternative food sources for the polar bears aren’t completely out of the question. For as long as biologists have tailed after the animals, they’ve seen polar bears eating animals found on land like caribou(驯鹿) and snow geese---as well as the snow geese’s eggs.
Can polar bears actually survive off these alternative food sources for long periods of time? To figure this out, researchers calculated the nutrients that a caribou and snow geese diet would provide. They found that even adult male polar bears would be able to obtain more calories than they would burn in hunting these meals. Moreover, the food would provide the food necessary to avoid starvation during the summer months.
Unfortunately, not all polar bears have tended to seek food on land. That said, the researchers expect that necessity would push more polar bears to hunt on land to avoid starvation. They also expect that the bears could learn from their fellow bears how to hunt on land until the practice becomes second nature.
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October 15th is the Global Handwashing Day. Activities are planned in more than 20 countries to get millions of people in the developing world to wash their hands with soap. For example, donators will give 150,000 bars of soap to schools in Ethiopia.
Experts say people around the world wash their hands every day, but very few use soap at so-called important moments. These include after using the toilet, after cleaning a baby and before touching food.
Global Handwashing Day is the idea of the Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap. Partners include the United Nations Children’s Fund, American government agencies, the World Bank and soap makers Unlever and procter and Gamble. The organizers say all soaps are equally effective at removing disease-causing germ. They say the correct way to wash is to wet your hands with a small amount of water and cover them with soap. Rub it into all areas, including under the fingernails. Rub for at least twenty seconds. Then rinse well under running water. Finally, dry your hands with a clean cloth or wave them in the air.
The Partnership for Handwashing says soap is important because it increases the time that people spend in washing hands. Soap also helps to break up the dirt that holds most of the germs. And it usually leaves a pleasant smell. The Partnership for Handwashing also says washing with soap before eating or after using the toilet could save more lives than any vaccine(疫苗)or medicine. Hand washing could also prevent the spread of other diseases. When people get germs on their hands, they can infect themselves by touching their eyes, noses or mouths. Then they can infect others.
1.What’s the best title for this passage?
A.Hand washing: so important--it gets a day of its own.
B. Find out why washing hands carefully is so important.
C.Say no to washing hands in the wrong way.
D. Want to live a longer life?--wash your hands.
2.The word “rinse” in Paragraph 3 probably means ______.
A. to dry your hands
B. to rub your hands carefully
C.to wash away the soap
D. to clean your fingers
3.The last paragraph mainly tells us ______.
A. how to wash your hands correctly
B.the dangers of washing hands without soap
C.why washing hand with soap is so important
D. when we should especially wash our hands with soap
4.In which part of newspaper would you most probably read this passage?
A. Health report B. Public service
C. Medical care D.advertisement
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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选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
●Does failure really exist?
If you believe you have failed, then you have．If you believe you don’t have the ability to succeed, then you don’t．__1._ The moment you decide to give up or stop working toward your goals, failure is born．
● __2.__
Most people give themselves an out without even realizing it．They are willing to work hard on reaching their goals, but only until the going gets too rough or their energy dies down． Don’t do that! __3.__Never quit, never admit failure, and never lose heart.
●Don’t believe in a clear finish line for goals．
It’s a good idea to set a general timeline, but remember that something will be beyond your control．__4.___If you lock yourself into a given timeline, you might make yourself feel like a failure! Instead, get a general idea of when you’d like your goal to be completed． Then take it one day at a time and focus on making progress instead of reaching the finish line in as little time as possible．
●Be sure that you don’t see difficulties as failures．
Difficulties mean only one thing: it’s not time for your goal to be completed yet．That’s it! It doesn’t mean you failed; it doesn’t mean you’re weak; it doesn’t mean you’ll never achieve your goals．__5.__ You’ve got to keep moving forward and find a way over, around, or through the difficulties．
A． Never give up on yourself．
B． Failure only exists in your own mind!
C． That’s exactly how failure makes us feel．
D． It simply means you have not done enough yet．
E． You can never say exactly when your goal will be reached．
F． Instead, make up your mind to make your goal happen, no matter what!
G． Work hard towards your goal, and you will be likely to get good results.
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Every country shares things _1.__common: we value family and laughter, cherish food and health, and celebrate large __2.____ (festival) and traditions. Yet within the similar things we share, there are unique parts of each country. One characteristic that is famous of British people_3.__(be) their sense of humor, particularly self-mockery (自嘲). This is a type of humor that criticizes and undervalues oneself. For example, a fat person may joke: “I am on a new sea food diet. If I see food, I eat it.” This is 4.__well-known self-mockery joke. It’s difficult why self-mockery_5.___ (tie) to the British people. But every nation’s sense of humor comes from its culture and history. It could come from another British characteristic, modesty, __6.___ (mean) not talking openly about your skills. This seems to be something that is similar with people in China, _7.___modesty plays a big part in daily life. It also acts as a defense of our self-respect by playing down our skills, this can _8._(less) the chance of people criticizing us. Another possible reason is_9.___the British people do not take themselves too_10.__ (serious).
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年浙江三市高一下期第十一次联考英语卷（解析版） 题型：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，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
My father often works very hard. And he has _________ to see a film. Here I’ll tell you _________ about him.
One afternoon, when he finished his work and _________go home, he found a film ticket under the _________ on his desk. He thought he _________ to have not much work to do that day and _________ was quite wonderful to pass the _________ at the cinema. So he came back home and _________ finished his supper. Then he said_________ to us and left.
But to our _________ , he came back about half an hour later, I _________ him what was the matter. He smiled and told us about _________ funny thing that had happened at the cinema.
When my father was sitting in his seat, a _________ came to my father’s and said that the seat was _________ . My father was surprised. He took out the ticket _________ looked at it carefully. It was Row17, _________ . And then he looked at the seat. It was the same. So he asked her _________ her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat shown in it was Row 17, Seat 3. _________ ? What’s the matter with all this? While they were wondering suddenly the woman said, “The _________ of the tickets are different.” So they looked at the ticket more carefully. After a while, my father said, “Oh, _________ , I made a mistake. My ticket is for the film a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words, he left the cinema.
1.A. little money B. much money C. little time D. much time
2.A. a funny story B. a good story C. an old story D. a strange story
3.A. was to B. was about to C. had to D. ought
4.A. box B. book C. glass D. paper
5.A. happened B. liked C. pretended D. wanted
6.A. it B. this C. that D. which
7.A. morning B. afternoon C. day D. evening
8.A. early B. quietly C. quickly D. suddenly
9.A. hello B. good-bye C. good evening D. good night
10.A. disappointment B. joy C. sorrow D. surprise
11.A. asked B. explained C. told D. wanted
12.A. a B. one C. some D. the
13.A. man B. woman C. doctor D. nurse
14.A. hers B. his C. taken D. wrong
15.A. and B. but C. or D. so
16.A. Seat1 B. Seat2 C. Seat3 D. Seat4
17.A. it bring B. to get C. to see D. to show
18.A. Why B. How C. When D. where
19.A. designs B. colors C. prices D. owners
20.A. I’m sad B. I’m sorry C. I’m wrong D. I’m worried
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
To many people, video gaming is their hobby. Have you ever been so___1.___(absorb) in a video game as to forget sleep and meals? Computer game __2.___ (design) often create interesting video games to tempt players to keep playing. These days, many employees play video games at work even__3.__their employers have set rules to stop them from doing so. In fact, video game addiction is regarded as harmful, just like addiction___4.___drugs, alcohol，or gambling, and should be treated with care.
In the place ___5.__people work，addicted players, often seen as lazy, not sick; their bosses are not sympathetic to their addiction. If they have been caught several times __6.___ (play) video games at work, their salary may be cut, and even ___7.__ (bad), they may lose their jobs. In some companies, the addicted players___8.__ (allow) to play video games only on stressful days, but their bosses will check their computers from time to time to make sure __9.__they are doing their work. However, while some companies continue to find some methods of preventing workday playing, addicted players still have___10.___ (they) own ways to enjoy playing video games during working hours.
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Every November 21 is World Hello Day, ___1.____ people say hello to each other to express friendliness and love. World Hello Day __2.____(found) in 1973 by Brian and Michael McCormack, in response (回应) to the conflict (冲突) between Egypt and Israel. They sent a large number of letters on ____3.__ importance of communication to world leaders and ____4.___(celebrity) to advocate(倡议) setting ____5.____ World Hello Day. The first World Hello Day was celebrated on Nov.21, 1973.
Originally, people around the world took World Hello Day as a ___6.___(value) opportunity to encourage world leaders to use communication rather than force(武力) to settle conflicts. ____7.___ (late), ordinary people started ___8.___(greet) each other on that day to express ___9.___ (they) love for other people and world peace.
Now, World Hello Day is observed by people in 180 countries. Why not greet your parents and friends ____10.___ a warm hello and a bright smile on this holiday?
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There's no reason why women return to school. Going back to school provides private and public benefits. College graduates, generally enjoy higher salaries, 1. (employ) more consistently, and work in nicer conditions. College?educated people vote more, give more to charity, and rely _2. (little) on government support.
Making the switch from3. (support) to supporting oneself can be a challenge, 4. often a necessary one. Financial 5. (dependent) for women is key, says Nancy Schlossberg, professor at University of Maryland. “I think 6._ important for women to do some direct achievement, because chances are that women will live alone in later life, either divorced 7. never married.”
To Schlossberg, education is critical in the long run. She says, “You are going to do much better than before 8. you have a good education; you are going to be happier than before on condition that you have 9. education that enables you to do what you have to do in life. The question is 10. you are ready at this time to go for it.”
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