Next time you hear a funny joke you’d better not laugh too hard. According to a paper published by the British Medical Journal, laughter isn’t always the best medicine. Sometimes it can even be harmful. Professor Robin Ferner from the University of Birmingham, one of the authors of the study, found that bad things could happen to people who laughed too much. He says: “We found people with heartbeat problems which had stopped their heart, we found people who had fainted(昏倒), and we found people who’d dislocated their jaws or burst their lungs.”
It seems that laughing can be no laughing matter. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Professor Ferner says there are benefits to laughing when you want to lose weight, for example. Yes, that’s right: laugh and be slimmer! Professor Ferner explains that: “You use energy when you laugh, you move your diaphragm(横膈膜), you expand your lungs, and both those things can be helpful.”
According to the research, laughing for a quarter of an hour can burn up to 40 calories, and if you laughed all day you’d use up about 2,000 calories, which is what most people consume in a day. But don’t do that or you might end up with a painful jaw. Ouch! Or you might find people looking at you in a funny way.
But I don’t want to finish this article leaving you feeling desperate. Laughter comes naturally for most of us. Babies begin to laugh at around 3-6 months. So give in to your sense of humour and keep smiling. Life is short anyway.
1. Laughing too much may cause the following harmful results EXCEPT_________.
A. heart stop B. diaphragm movement
C. lung burst D. jaw dislocation
2.The underlined phrase “doom and gloom” in Paragraph 2 probably means_______.
A. hopeless B. funny C. painful D. nervous
3.How many calories can you use if you laugh for half a day?
A. About 40. B. About 1,000.
C. About 2,000. D. About 2,040.
4.What is the author’s attitude towards laughing in the last paragraph?
A. Uninterested. B. Disapproving.
C. Worried. D. Favorable.
科目：高中英语 来源：2015届河北唐山一中高二下学期期末英语试卷（解析版） 题型：书面表达
书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是李华，中国青年志愿者网（China Youth Volunteers/CYV）计划在6月30日前向全国各大院校及社会各界招募1000名志愿者，进行急救知识普及活动。你想申请成为其中一员。请用英语写一封自我推荐信。要点如下：
1. 个人情况：年龄：18； 性别：男； 出身医学世家。
2. 个人优势：掌握基本急救知识，有救援经验，身体素质好。
3. 目的：帮助有需要的人；回报社会。
注意：可以适当增加细节使文章连贯。词数：100左右。
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年湖北黄冈中学等八校高三第二次模拟考试英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
A阅读理解
One of those big social networking sites, Facebook, has attracted over 58 million members. Commentator Melody Cramer is no longer one of them. Here is what she shares with us about her story.
I deleted all 1,281 of my co?workers, second?grade classmates and people who I don’t know at all. I shut down my account, completely. I’m 30, and I’ve been on Facebook since March of 2004, which makes me one of the website’s earliest users.
At first, I used it obsessively. If I had a free moment, I’d log on to see whether my friends had updated their profiles. I’d sit alone scrolling through these updates and then run into someone at a coffee shop and have nothing to say because I already knew everything about them, and they knew everything about me.
In November, I went to my ten?year high school reunion and was not pleasantly surprised. Lauren became a model, Josh went to law school, Dina was a teacher. I hadn’t talked to any of them since graduation, but I knew exactly what they were doing, both now and last week. But lately, I’m overwhelmed(应接不暇). Facebook opened up to everyone, not just college students, and my co?workers started to join, which meant they now knew what I was doing when I wasn’t at work.
And as a rule: you can NOT make friends with your coworkers because then they’ll ask you the next day. But I thought we were friends. And you are friends but not the kind of friends who tell each other what they do outside of work. So now the people you work with can see what you did last night, and you’re constantly worrying what people might say about what you did last night instead of actually doing anything tonight.So Iquit. I became a 30?year?old Luddite, a person who is strongly against technology development. I’ve retuned to how the world worked when I was 20, before I knew when my friends and co?workers were counting down the seconds to vacation or entering a complicated relationship. I’m hoping life will be a lot simpler now. Peoplewill be more mysterious now that I actually have to talk to them to find out their favorite books or hobbies orneurosis(神经症). I don’t know when my college roommate goes to the supermarket, and I think I’m a better person for not knowing. In fact, you could say getting off a social network was the best thing I’ve done thisweek.
1.Melody Cramer decided to quit Facebook mainly because ______.
A. she thought it wasted too much time
B. she was afraid of the strangers on her account
C. she was tired of exposing her life to co?workers
D. she thought it made real?world life less interesting
2.We can learn from the passage that Melody Cramer ______.
A. had a 10?year membership of Facebook
B. used to be very objected to Facebook
C. was unpleasant to attend high school reunion
D. was one of the co-founders of Facebook
3.Which of the following about Melody Cramer is TRUE?
A. She owes her communication skills to Facebook.
B. She wishes she could be several years younger.
C. She prefers to face her friends and co-worders in reality.
D. She is no longer curious about anything around her.
4.The best title for this passage can be _____.
A. Addiction to Facebook
B. Farewell to Facebook
C. Friends Online
D. A Simpler Life
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年山西右玉一中高一上第一次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
There was a woman in Detroit, who has two sons. She was worried them, especially the younger one, Ben, he was not doing well in school, Boys in his class fun of him because he seemed so .
The mother that she would, herself, have to get her sons to do better in school. She them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a a week and do a report about it for her．
One day，in Ben’s , the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben up his hand and the teacher let him . “Why did Ben raise his hand？” they wondered. He said anything; what could he possibly want to say？
Well, Ben not only the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were . Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book ．
Ben later went on to the of his class.When he finished high school, he went to Yale University at last became one of the best doctors in the United States．
After Ben had grown up，he something about his mother that he did not know as a She，herself，had never learned how to ．
1.A．about B. on C. with D. over
2.A．because B. so C. but D. though
3.A．played B. got C. took D. made
4.A．clever B. hard C. slow D. quick
5.A．asked B. decided C. forgot D. heard
6.A．made B. let C. told D. considered
7.A．notice B. message C. book D. question
8.A．class B. room C. office D. lab
9.A．looked B. gave C. took D. put
10.A．think B. leave C. stand D. speak
11.A．always B. even C. quickly D. never
12.A．found B. played C. knew D. threw
13.A．whether B. when C. where D. why
14.A．afraid B. surprised C. worried D. unhappy
15.A．pictures B. exercises C. shops D. reports
16.A．top B. end C. back D. side
17.A．so B. and C. or D. however
18.A．learnt B. remembered C. understood D. guessed
19.A．doctor B. child C. student D. teacher
20.A．read B. work C. teach D. show
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年河北省高三小一调考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的ABCD四个选项，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In the 1450s Johannes Gutenberg, a Gennan printer, developed a new printing press(印刷机)。Then single letters could be ______ in lines to create a page of text. The letters were made of metal.Each one could be ______ to different parts of the press,depending on which words were_______ on a certain page. This was one of the most important _______ in the history of pringting.
_______, most books had been created by copying out text by hand. The____of a single book would take many hours or even days. With the Gutenberg press, ______ could be printted in several seconds, and many copies of books could be created in a few hours.
Gutenberg's printing press was not so much an i_______, however, as an improvement of developing technologies. The Chinese were the first to use wooden blocks(木刻版)，as early as the 8th century. Then great _____was made around 1040. The movable type was invented by Bi Sheng in China. European _______the printing methods centuries later. Another contribution to Cutenberg`s system also come from the East,______.The Chinese invented paper using ______materials,including old clothes. The kind of the inexpensive paper was introduced into Europe in 1000 or so. This kind of paper was ____for the new European printing presses,______it took in the only ink required for the metal type.
Printing soon became an important ____in a rapidly growing world. By 1500,nearly 35,000 books were in print worldwide. But the printing press did not ______a lot for a long time. In the 19th century , however, iron _______wood in the press`s framework. And paper became______in continuous rolls rather than more expensive single pieces. Steam engines _____the speed at which the press ran. In the late 1900s,the introduction of better presses greatly _____the time it took to turn ideas into books.
1.A.used B. put C. read D. written
2.A.shown B.turned C. moved D. added
3.A.needed B. lost C. collected D. found
4.A.challenged B. studies C. discoveries D. developments
5.A.Recently B. Immediately C. Previously D. Finally
6.A.discussion B. production C. instruction D. preparation
7.A.pages B. ideas C. models D. characters
8.A.attraction B. expressin C. competition D. invention
9.A.accident B. research C. progress D. situation
10.A.believed B. followed C.tested D. required
11.A.paper B. wood C. letters D. metal
12.A.fine B. thin C. heavy D. cheap
13.A.useless B. special C. good D. impossible
14.A.as B. although C. until D. unless
15.A.fashion B. industry C. trick D. belief
16.A.apply B. help C. work D. change
17.A.replaced B. controlled C. became D. protected
18.A.necesary B. available C. normal D. valuable
19.A.reached B. limited C. increased D. kept
20.A.made B. allowed C. wasted D. reduced
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届云南师大学附中高三适应性月考卷二英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
A study notes that Some children are natural-born bosses. They have a strong need to make decisions, manage their environment, and lead rather than follow. Stephen Jackson, a Year One student, "operates under the theory of what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine," says his mother."The other day I bought two new Star Wars light sabers (剑). Later, I saw Stephen with the two new ones while his brogher was using the beat-up ones."
"Examine the extended family, and you'll probably find a bossy grandparent, aunt, uncle or cousin in every generation. It's a common inheritable trait," says Russell Barkley, a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. Other children who may not be particularly bossy can gradually gain control when they sense their parents are weak, hesitant, or in disagreement with each other.
Whether it's inborn nature or developed character at work, too much control in the hands at the young isn't healthy for children or the family, Fear is at the root of a lot of bossy behavior, says family psychologist John Taylor. Children, he says in his book From Defiance to Cooperation, "have secret feelings of weakness" and "a desire to feel safe." It's the parents' role to provide that protection.
When a "boss child" doesn't learn limits at home, the stage is set for a host of troubles outside the family. The overly willful and unbending child may have trouble obeying teachers or coaches, for example, or trouble keeping friends. It can be pretty lonely as the top dog if no one likes your bossy ways.
"I see more and more parents giving up their power," says Barkley, who has studied bossy behavior for more than 30 years."They bend too far because they don't want to be as strict as their own parents were. But they also feel less confident about their parenting skills. Their kids, in turn, feel more anxious."
1.Bossy children like Stephen Jackson _____.
A. make good decisions
B. show self-centeredness
C. lack care from others
D. have little sense of fear
2.The underlined phrase "inheritable trait" in Paragraph 2 means _____.
A. inborn nature B. accepted theory
C. developed character D. particular environment
3.The study on bossy behavior implies that parents _____.
A. should not set limits for their children
B. should give more power to their children
C. should be strict with their children properly
D. should let children find sense of safety by themselves
4.It can be inferred from the last two paragraphs that bossy children may become
A.relaxed and confident B. hesitant and weak
C.lonely and anxious D.willful and unbending
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届江西师大附中高三上第一次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文， 请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加: 在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，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. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Yesterday I showed to my friend Peter around Beijing city. We started off at 8:00 a.m. First we went to the Forbidden City, which was one of the most popular tourist spot in Beijing. Then we visited the History Museum. We observed a lot of valuable things in them and we learned a lot about Chinese history. After a quick meal, we went to Beihai Park. Upon arrival, we were all struck by its beautiful scenes. We spent a whole afternoon appreciated the wonder. It was until 18:00 p. m. that we went back.
We did have a wonderful time. Peter was very pleased with my arrangement that he invited me to a new-built western restaurant to have a big meal.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年福建福州第八中学高二下期末英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
—The plane is due to take off at 7:50 from the airport. ______ we fail to arrive there in time?
—Try to take another flight then.
A. As if B. Even if C. Only if D. What if
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年湖北沙中学高一下第一次半月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Foxes and farmers have never got on well. These small dog-like animals have long been accused (控告)of killing farm animals. They are officially considered as harmful and farmers try to keep their numbers down by shooting or poisoning them.
Farmers can do call on the services of their local hunt to control the fox population . Hunting consists of hunting a fox across the countryside, with a group of specially trained dogs, followed by men and women riding horses. When the dogs eventually catch the fox , they kill it or a hunter shoots it.
People who take part in hunting think of it as a sport ; they wear a special uniform of red coats and white trousers , and follow strict codes of behavior. But owning a horse and hunting regularly is expensive, so most hunters are wealthy.
It is estimated (估计) that up to 100,000 people watch or take part in fox hunting . But over the last couple of decades the number of people against fox hunting , because they think it is cruel, has risen sharply. Nowadays it is rare for a hunt to succeed without some kind of confrontation between hunters and hunt saboteurs（阻拦者）. Sometimes these incidents lead to violence, but mostly saboteurs fight with the hunt by misleading riders and disturbing the search of the fox’s smell, which the dogs follow.
Noisy confrontations between hunters and saboteurs have become so common that they are almost as much a part of hunting as the hunting of foxes itself. But this year supporters of fox hunting face a much bigger threat to their sport. A Labour Party Member of the Parliament, Mike Foster, is trying to get Parliament to pass a new law which will make the hunting of wild animals with dogs illegal. If the law is passed, wild animals like foxes will be protected under the ban in Britain.
1.What is special about fox hunting in Britain?
A. It involves the use of a deadly poison.
B. It is a costly event which rarely happens.
C. The hunters have set rules to follow.
D. The hunters have to go through strict training.
2.A new law may be passed by the British Parliament to ________
A. keep farmers from hunting foxes.
B. forbid hunting foxes with dogs.
C. stop hunting wild animals in the countryside
D. prevent fox hunting in large numbers
3.Which can replace the underlined word in paragraph 4?
A. reunion(联合) B. conversation(对话)
C. conflict(冲突) D. relationship
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