The @ symbol was used to show the cost or weight of something it became the standard symbol for e-mail.
A.though B.since C.when D.before
科目:高中英语 来源:2015届贵州省高二上学期期末考试英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Everybody knows that colors are connected with certain feelings. For example, why do some people paint the walls of their rooms yellow and others pink? The same is true in stores. They want us to feel something when we look at their products.
Green, for example, tries to show the quality of a product: how good it is for us or for our environment. It also suggests that the product is healthier, has less fat and maybe fewer calories. Red, on the other hand is an aggressive color that is often used for packaging food. Red wants us to become hungry or thirsty. Purple is a kind of color that is often seen as royal. It indicates that it is something special. Producers use purple to show that something is of good quality. Blue is not very often found in food packaging because there are not very many foods that have a blue color.
Colors can also have different meaning in different cultures and countries. For example, while the color white is used in many Western countries to represent purity and innocence, it is seen as a symbol of mourning in many Eastern countries. The Egyptian pharaohs(法老) wore white crowns. A white sale is a sale of sheets, towels, and other bed and bath items. A white flag is the universal symbol for truce(休战). A white elephant is a rare, pale elephant sacred(神圣的) to the people of India, Thailand, Burma, and Sri Lanka. In these countries, something that is a white elephant is either a possession that costs more than it is worth to keep or an item that the owner doesn’t want but can’t get rid of.
Consumers are aware that certain foods must have certain colors. When Pepsi brought out a crystal clear cola in 1992, it thought that consumers would buy it because clear meant pure and healthy. After a few months Pepsi found out that a cola had to be dark-colored. Crystal Pepsi failed and the company pulled it off the market.
Advertising professionals often need to look at a product through the consumers’ eyes when choosing a color. The right packaging colors can truly improve the sales of a product but choosing a wrong color could end in failure.
1.According to the passage, blue is rarely used in food packaging because ____.
A. most consumers dislike it
B. it matches very few foods
C. it brings people low spirits
D. it doesn’t catch people’s eyes
2.According to the passage, in India if something is expensive but useless, it can be called ____.
A. a white flag B. a white elephant
C. a white sale D. a white crown
3.Pepsi’s example is used to show ____.
A. Pepsi’s success comes from failures
B. health is the main concern in drink making
C. crystal clear drinks can’t attract consumers
D. people have fixed ideas about products and colors
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Colors in advertising
B. Colors in food packaging
C. Our everyday life and colors
D. Foods in different colors
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科目:高中英语 来源:2015届广东省肇庆市高二上学期期末质量检测英语试卷(解析版) 题型:信息匹配
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A. Shaolin Kungfu
Shaolin Kungfu is one of the most influential genres of Chinese martial arts, and it’s named after where it originated—the Shaolin Temple, founded on the Songshan Mountain in Dengfeng County, Henan Province in Central China. The monks in the Shaolin Temple began to study martial arts during the Northern and Southern dynasties and this tradition prevailed during the Sui and Tang dynasties.
B. Kunqu Opera
Kunqu Opera is one of the oldest forms of opera still existing in China, with its origins dating
back to the end of the Yuan dynasty. It has distinguished itself by the virtuosity of its rhythmic patterns and has exerted a dominant influence on all the more recent forms of opera in China, including the Sichuan and Beijing operas. In 2001, UNESCO proclaimed Kunqu Opera as a masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
C. Puppet Shows
Chinese puppetry has a long history. It is noted for its many types of puppets and superb manipulative skills. It’s a truly unique art combining opera, music, fine art and craftsmanship. It creates magic with a beam of light. Puppet shows from various places have their own unique characteristics with strong local color in terms of figure modeling.
D. T’ai Chi Ch’uan
T’ai Chi Ch’uan is a major division of Chinese martial arts. Literally, T’ai Chi Ch’uan means “supreme ultimate fist”; T’ai means “supreme”, Chi means “ultimate”, and Ch’uan means “fist”. T’ai Chi Ch’uan has its philosophical roots in Taoism and is considered an internal martial art, utilizing internal energy, or Qi, and following the simple principle of “subduing the vigorous by the soft.”
E. Traditional Chinese Medicine
In Chinese medicine, doctors use various diagnostic methods to get full and detailed information about the patients and to guide their treatment. The methods include observation, auscultation and olfaction, interrogation, and checking the pulse and heart rate. They are also known as the four major methods, each having a distinctive function.
F. Xianzi Dance
The Xianzi dance, also called Xie or Ye, is danced to the accompaniment of a Tibetan-style
two-string instrument. The most typical kind of Xianzi Dance is Batang Xianzi in Ganzi, Sichuan Province . Batang is a Tibetan inhabited area. The dancers dance in a circle or randomly, sometimes resembling a winding dragon. They sing to each other to express their feelings.
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1.Janet, who likes Chinese traditional art very much, is a dancing teacher in California University. She wants to know more about a truly unique art combining opera, music, fine art and craftsmanship.
2.Cathy is a medical college student in UK. Now she is preparing her thesis about other countries’ medicine, so she wants to find some information online.
3.Kate is a college student in America. She wants to get more information about Chinese traditional art, especially Chinese traditional music.
4. Jason, who has been living in America for about 30 years, wants to learn some Chinese Kungfu which is represented by the famous symbol of Yin and Yang.
5.Freda, a 23-year-old girl, is fond of playing Tibetan-style instrument. This time she decides to visit Sichuan and plans to know more about its typical dance.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014届四川省高三10月月考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:其他题
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[1]It’s difficult to find a piece of clothing as widely accepted, worn and loved as jeans in the world. The classic symbol of the American West is now a main item in closets around the world. But why?
[2]The reason for jeans’ success has as much as to do with their cultural meaning as their physical construction.
[3]Invented by Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis in 1873,jeans were first designed as work wear for laborers on the farms and mines of America’s Western states in the late 19th century. They proved extremely comfortable and durable(耐用的)and were soon in high demand.
[4]But the first explosion of jeans into world of casual-wear had more to do with what jeans had come to symbolize.
[5]When they did start to be worn as casual wear, jeans became a symbol of rebellion—the spirit captured by Marion Brando in his 1953 film The Wild One and by James two years later in Rebel Without a Cause.
[6]Many teenagers in 1953 wanted to be Marlon Brando, and Hollywood costume designers put all the bad boys in jeans. Jeans were soon banned in schools from coast to coast which only added to the passion with which teenagers loved them.
[7]But jeans’ popularity kept growing also because they put different classes on a level playing field. They were affordable and hard-wearing, looked good worn as well as new, and didn’t have to be washed often or ironed at all. They suited to the body in a way that matched even the most finely tailored clothes. This became especially important for women because then, and now, they paid more attention to fit. This versatility(多用途),the ability to become all things to all people ,is the secret to jeans’ survival as a closet item.
1.What is the possible title of this passage?(No more than 7 words)
2.By whom were jeans worn at first?(No more than 10 words)
3.What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 5 refer to?(One word only)
4.What cultural meaning do jeans have?(No more than 6 words)
5.What quality of jeans makes them a timeless closet item?(One word only)
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科目:高中英语 来源:2010-2011学年江西上高二中高三第六次月考英语卷 题型:阅读理解
As you dash outdoors in the middle of winter, you might make it halfway down the block before realizing that your ears are freezing because you forgot your hat.
Now, scientists have shown that even though you’ve had an apparent memory lapse(丧失), your brain never forgot what you should have done.
Memory works mainly by association. For example, as you try to remember where you left your keys, you might recall you last had them in the living room, which reminds you that there was an ad for soap on television, which reminds you that you need soap, and so on. And then, as you’re heading out of the door to buy soap, you remember that your keys are on the kitchen counter. Your brain knew where the keys were all along. It just took a round-about way to get there.
Now, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies are studying associative memory in monkeys to figure out just how this complicated process works.
First, the researchers trained a group of monkeys to remember arbitrary(任意的) pairs of symbols. The researchers showed the monkeys one symbol(cold weather) and then gave them the choice of two other symbols, one of which (a hat) would be associated with the first. A correct choice would earn them a sip of their favorite juice.
Most of the monkeys performed the test perfectly, but one kept making mistakes.
“We wondered what happened in the brain when the monkey made the wrong choice, although it apparently learned the right pairing of symbols,” said study leader Thomas Albright.
Albright and his team observed signals from the nerve cells in the monkey’s inferior temporal cortex (ITC), an area of its brain used for visual pattern recognition and for storing this type of memory.
As the monkey was deciding which symbol to choose, about a quarter of the activity in the ITC was due to the choice behavior.
Meanwhile, more than half the activity was in a different group of nerve cells, which scientists believe represent the monkey’s memory of the correct symbol pairing, and surprisingly, these cells continued to work well even when the monkey chose the wrong symbol.
“In this sense, the cells ‘knew’ more than the monkeys let on in their behavior,” Albright said. “Thus, behavior may vary, but knowledge endures.”
1. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Your brain remembers what you forget.
B. Activity is a round-about way to memory.
C. Monkeys have better memory than us.
D. Your brain may forget something, but not always.
2. The example of the keys and soap is given to explain the relationship between _______.
A. memory and our daily life B. memory and television ads
C. memory and association D. memory lapse and human brain
3.The researchers believe the monkey that made the wrong choice ________.
A. had some trouble with its nerve system B. failed to see the objects well
C. had the worst memory D. also knew the correct answer
4. The underlined word “endures” may be best replaced by __________.
A. increases B. remains C. disappears D. improves
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科目:高中英语 来源:2010年福州八中高二下学期期末考试英语卷 题型:阅读理解
Starving polar bears are eating one another in the Arctic. Flowers are blooming too soon and die. The ice caps are melting so fast that rising water levels will threaten coastal towns along Florida within several decades. These are just a few examples of the terrible consequences of climate change supported by a new analysis in Nature.
In the past three decades, average global temperatures have risen about 0. 6°C and are projected to jump by about 1. 7°C by the end of the century, says Cynthia Rosenzweig, who leads the Climate Impacts Group at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University in New York. “We’ve already seen that a relatively low amount of warming,” she says, “can lead to a broad range of changes. ”
The unnatural warming caused by man-made greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide produced by cars and coal-powered plants, brings trouble for entire ecosystems. In North America alone, scientists have identified 89 species of plants, such as the American holly that have flowered earlier in the spring. In Spain, apple trees bloom 35 days ahead of schedule in response to the higher temperatures. Other wildlife, like the insects that use certain plants for food and the birds that feed on the insects, must then move forward their seasonal stirrings(萌动) and mating(交配) patterns to survive.
To try to follow this time shift, some birds such as robins, the classic symbol of winter’s thaw(解冻时期), are returning to Colorado from their migrations some two weeks earlier than in years past. All these changes can throw a food chain in disorder. Some bird species that arrive before the insects reappear may starve to death.
“Around the world, plants and animals are waking up to an earlier alarm clock than they used to,” says Terry Root, a biologist from Stanford University.
1.The underlined word “projected”(in Paragraph 2) probably means “____”.
A.forced |
B.presented |
C.indicated |
D.predicted |
2.According to the third paragraph, as a result of climate change ____ .
A.the warm weather wakes animals up earlier |
B.certain trees bloom a season ahead of time |
C.the birds need to change patterns of living |
D.the American holly will flower in late spring |
3.What can we know about robins according to the passage?
A.Farmers depend on them to tell the time. |
B.They used to come back when spring came. |
C.They used to predict the change of weather. |
D.They usually migrate when seasons change. |
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A.Man is to blame for global warming |
B.Great changes take place on Earth |
C.Bird migration and climate change |
D.Global warming changing nature’s clock |
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