In the southern part of America, when somebody has a birthday, often family or friends, or both, will arrange a party. The party could be elaborate(精心准备的)and include a meal or may be simple with a birthday cake and drinks. One does not plan, nor give, one’s own birthday as is the custom in some cultures. At a party there is usually a decorated cake, often with the words “Happy Birthday” and with the name of the person written on the top of the cake. Sometimes there is also one candle for each year of the person celebrating the birthday before the cake is cut. While blowing out the candles, the person makes a wish for something pleasant.
Usually those invited to a birthday party will bring a gift for the person honored. Gifts given by friends do not have to be expensive, but the family of the birthday person will spend whatever they can afford on a gift.
Christmas parties also are very popular in the South. Often this is the only time during the year that some people see acquaintances(熟人). These parties can be elaborate or simple, ranging from a buffet(自助餐)to a reception called “open house (家庭招待会)”. If you are invited to one of these, you don’t need to take a Christmas gift, as it is not customary to take the hostess a gift every time you are invited to a party or a meal. However, if you wish to take a gift, it should only be something useful and inexpensive and should be given to the hostess at the door as you enter the party. Usually gifts of Christmas food treats are the most appreciated.
51. On one’s birthday, before blowing out the candles, he or she will______.
A. wear beautiful clothes B. eat birthday cake
C. invite friends D. make a wish
52. This passage mainly tells us about __________.
A. two kinds of parties in the southern United States
B. how to arrange a birthday party
C. how to arrange a Christmas party
D. who will arrange a party
53. In southern America , birthday parties are often arranged by _________.
A. friends B. oneself C. family D. Both A and C
54. Which of the following is true?
A.For a birthday party, the cake is often cut before candles are blown out.
B.For a birthday party, neither friends nor the family will buy expensive presents.
C. It’s customary to take the hostess a gift when you are invited to a party.
D.If you take a gift to a Christmas party, you’d better take something useful and inexpensive.
55. What kind of gift is the best if someone is invited to a Christmas party?
A. Expensive things B. Candles C. Food D. Money
优化作业上海科技文献出版社系列答案科目：高中英语 来源：2014届广西柳铁一中高二下学期第一次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
The koala(考拉) is possibly one of the best known Australian animals, and is found in four states: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The word “koala” comes from an Australian aboriginal word meaning “no drink”.
Sometimes people call them “koala bears” but koala is not a bear. It belongs to a special group of Australian mammals, called marsupial(有袋类). Female marsupials have a pouch where the baby animals live after they are born.
Koalas have soft, thick, grey or brown fur on their backs. The fur on the stomach is white. Koala that live in the south have thicker fur than those in the north because of the cold winters, whereas the koalas in the northern part of the country live in warm to hot weather most of the year so have thinner fur. A koala has a large hairless nose and round ears. Koalas don’t have tails. Adult koalas measure between 7 and 14 kilograms.
Koalas spend nearly all their time in the trees using their sharp, curved claws and long toes to climb about and to hold on to the tree branches. They sleep most of the day, and feed and move from tree to tree mainly at night.
The reason koala sleep for much of the day is because their food eucalyptus(桉树) leaves are very tough so they use a lot of energy to digest. Sleeping saves energy. Eucalyptus leaves are poisonous to almost every other animal. Koalas rarely drink water; they get water from the leaves they eat.
Each koala has a home range made up of several trees that they visit regularly. They normally do not visit another koala’s home trees except that a male is looking for a female to mate with.
1.Which of the following statements is NOT true about the name “koala bear”?
A．The name was given by the native in Australia
B．The word “koala” is an original English word
C．The name describes one of its living habits
D．The name is partly false
2. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “punch”？
A．House B．Cave C．Pocket D．Nest
3.Why do the koalas live in the south have thicker fur than those in the north?
A．The thicker fur can protect them from the colder weather
B．It’s always hot in summer in the north
C．It’s always cold in the winter in the south
D．They have to move to the north in the winter
4. Why do koalas sleep much in the day?
A．Their foods are poisonous
B．They want to save energy for the activities at night
C．They can’t get enough energy from their tough foods
D．They can’t get enough water from their leaves
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014届河南灵宝第三高级中学高二上第二次质量检测英语试卷（解析版） 题型：短文改错
文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处下加一个漏子符号（/\），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：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误仅限1词；2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I had an interested experience last year. After I had left a small village in the south of French, I drove on to the next town. On the way, a young man waved me. I stopped and he asks me for a lift.. As soon as he had got into the car, I said good morning to him with French and he answered in the same language. Apart from a little words, I don’t know any French at all. None of us spoke during the journey. I had nearly reached to the town, when the young man suddenly said , very slow, “ Do you speak English?” As I soon learned, he was English him!
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014届河北省高二第二次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：信息匹配
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。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Is the customer always right? 1 Shopping is very much a part of a country’s culture, and attitudes to shopping and consumers vary from country to country just as much as climate or taste in food.
Recent economic hardship has given the consumers increased power in Europe because shopkeepers fight to win their share of reduced disposable(可支配的)income. This has meant falling prices, plenty of special offers and a re-examination of what customer service really means.
2 In restaurants in the south of the USA, for example, waiters compliment(恭维)you on your clothes, ask about your day, compliment you on your wisdom of your order and then return every ten minutes to refill your glass and make sure that everything is to your satisfaction.
Anyone who has waited 30 minutes to be served in a restaurant may possible dream of such customer service. 3 In fact, different nationalities expect different types of service. As a friend of mine once told me “By the end of evening I had spent as much time talking to the waiter as to my wife.”
A Chinese-American friend loves telling people about how her Chinese mother shops for clothes. First of all she waits until they are on sale. 4 And later she finds some small fault with the product and demands a further reduction. She never buys anything at the regular price. Could you imagine trying such ways in department stores in other countries?0
Attitudes to service are, of course, affected by employer’s attitudes to their workers. As American waiters heavily depend on tips, they have to provide more service. But is this fair? 5 It might not be a case of “Is the customer always right?” but a case of “How much service is it fair to expect?”
A．People often point to America as an example of good customer service.
B．It is a question of expectations.
C．Do we think it is fair to ask shop assistants to work late evenings or on Sundays?
D．Then she asks for a discount until she gets an even better price.
E. The answer, it seems, depends on which country you are in.
F. The way we shop shows the way we get along with other people.
G. However, do Europeans really want US style service?
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科目：高中英语 来源：2012-2013学年甘肃省高三上学期期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
The black and white bird came ashore on a beach in the south of the North Island nearly 4,000 miles away from its usual habitat. The creature’s astonishing journey was witnessed by a woman walking her dog as the two-foot bird waddled out of the water in front of her. She said, “It was out of this world to see it. It was this glistening white thing standing up on the sand and I thought I was seeing things.” The tale of the lost penguin is similar to the 2006 children’s film Happy Feet, in which a young penguin finds himself far from home during a voyage of discovery.
Conservationists believe it has completed an incredible journey for such a young bird — it is estimated to be around 10 months old. The most likely explanation for its appearance in New Zealand is the hunt for food. Experts said it may also have rested on an ice floe (浮冰) during its travels and was carried north for a great distance before it made a swim for dry land. Colin Miskelly, a curator of New Zealand Museum, said, “They can spend months at a time in the ocean and come ashore only to moult (脱毛,换毛)or rest.” Mr. Miskelly said the brave bird would have to find its way back south soon if it was going to survive. He said, “It is probably hot and thirsty and has been eating wet sand.” “It doesn’t realize that the sand isn’t going to melt inside it because they typically eat snow — their only liquid.”
New Zealand residents have been warned to give the bird a wide berth — it can inflict (予以) painful bites if threatened.
1.Which of the following is True of Paragraph 1?
A．A young penguin found himself far from home during a voyage of moulting.
B．A creature’s astonishing journey was incredible in the north of the North Island.
C．A woman witnessed a 2 feet bird waddled in the children’s film while walking her dog.
D．A penguin came ashore on a beach thousands of miles away from its habitate.
2.Conservationists tend to explain that____________.
A．the young bird has completed a pleasant journey of 4,000 thousand miles
B．the young bird’s appearance in New Zealand is due to its hunt for food and delay of returning
C．the young bird comes ashore in New Zealand only to moult or rest during its voyage
D．the young bird is certain to be over 10 months old when it appears on a beach
3.What do we know about the penguin according to Mr. Miskelly?
A．The penguin could spend months at a time in the ocean and came ashore only to have young ones.
B．The young bird might have slept on an ice floe and could not swim for dry land.
C．The young penguin didn’t realize the sand wasn’t going to melt inside it like snow it eats.
D．The brave bird would have to find its way back north soon if it was going to survive.
4.What does the underlined part mean in the last sentence?
A．The residents should keep well away from it when they want to watch the young penguin.
B．Some people do not realize the danger of the young bird and they are expected to touch it.
C．New Zealand residents want to keep the young bird but it wants to leave the shore.
D．If the local people threatened the young bird, it would do harm to other birds nearby. .
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科目：高中英语 来源：全国通用2010年北大清华冲刺王高考押题卷英语（二） 题型：短文改错
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Between Virginia and Maryland on the Potomac River lie 76. _______
Washington D.C. It is about 220 miles in the south 77. ______
of New York City. The pleasantest and easiest ways to 78 ______
get there is by long-distance bus, or by the fast
(125-mile-an-hour) train which spends a little more money than 79. ______
the bus journey and a little less money than flying. I could travel far
more than 220 miles to see Washington. It’s not city that has 80. ______
been grown up accidently as most big cities have done. 81. ______
It was carefully planned for the nation’s capital by a 82. ______
Frenchman, Perril Enfant. The city was named 83. ______
George Washington, the much-loved, much-admired,
much-respected first president of the United States. 84. ______
In 1791 he himself arranged to buy the land which it stands. 85. ______
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