Many gardeners believe that “talking” to their plants helps them grow---it turns out that they may not be crazy after all. According to the scientists from the University of Exeter, plants may keep communicating with each other through a secret “unseen” language.
For their experiment, the scientists picked a cabbage plant that is known to send out a gas when its surface is cut. In order to get video evidence of the communication, they changed the cabbage gene by adding the protein---luciderase(虫荧光素酶), which is what makes fireflies(萤火虫) glow in the dark.
When the changed cabbage plant was in full bloom, they cut a leaf off with a pair of scissors, and almost immediately, thanks to the luciderase, they could see the plant sending out “methyl jasmonate(茉莉酸甲酯)”.
While this was a known fact, what was surprising was the fact that the minute this gas began to give out, the nearby cabbage plants seemed to sense some kind of danger and started to send out a gas that they normally have to keep predators(捕食者) like caterpillars(毛虫) away.
What the scientists are not sure is whether the plants are trying to warn the other leaves or the near plants about the danger---something that will require further research However, the team, which is led by Professor Nick Smirnoff, is quite excited about the findings because this is the first time it has been proved that plants do not live a passive life, but actually move, sense and even communicate with each other.
However, before you get all concerned, they are quite sure that plants do not feel the pain when they are cut, since they do not have nerves---so go ahead and bite into that juicy carrot!
1.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Plants Can Send Some Gas
B. Plants Can Communicate with Each Other
C. The “Unseen” Language of Plants
D. Plants Can’t Feel Pain
2.What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A. Gardeners B. Plants
C. Scientists D. Fireflies
3.When the plant sent out methyl jasmonate, which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
A. The nearby cabbage plants seemed to sense some kind of danger.
B. The nearby cabbage plants started to send out a gas.
C. The nearby cabbage plants tried to warn the near plants.
D. The nearby cabbage plants communicated through a secret language.
4.According to the experiment, plants ________________.
A. don’t live a passive life
B. can feel pain when they are cut
C. can warn the other leaves about danger
D. can talk with each other
科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年陕西西安临潼区华清中学高三一模考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
What a bargain！The price of this dress is_______ that of the skirt．
A．half not as much as
B．much not as half as
C．not half as much as
D．as much as not half
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年辽宁实验中学分校高一上10月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：其他题
阅读下面材料, 在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
A: Would you mind 1. (answer) my questions?
B: No, go ahead, please.
A: Are you interested 2. you lessons?
B: Yes, I am．I like attending class, especially the group activities.
A: How many groups is your class divided 3.?
B: Five groups．The members of my group are friendly 4.me．They make me feel good about being with them．And they often give me5. (encourage), which helps me change my attitude to 6. (study) my subjects.
A: How often do you take part in the after-class activities?
B: Twice 7. week．They are lively and 8. (excite).
A: Are there equal number of boys and girls in your class?
B: No．There are twice 9. many girls as boys.
A: Oh, it’s 10. (real) amazing.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年江西樟树中学、高安第二中学高二上期中英语试卷（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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Our family raises sled dogs(雪橇狗). In ________Mom and Dad take people driving in a dog sled, and it’s super fun!
When the dogs were born, I was so ________ .That’s when I saw my favorite—little Jip. Every ________ I had, I put little Jip in my arms. I carried him around and played with him, not just because it’s fun to ________ dogs. Getting them used to human touch makes a ________ sled dog, Dad says.
When Jip was eight weeks old, he got his first ________ .All he had to do was________ wearing a light leash to get used to the ________ of pulling something behind him.
When he was ten weeks old, I started ________ Jip to come when he was called. It was ________ time to try out a harness（挽具）around his body. The harness can be a little heavy, ________ we left it on for just a short time each day.
________ , I put Jip ’s harness on him at mealtime. I ________ him to a heavy chair. And I placed his ________ just far enough away so that when he ate, he had to pull on the line.
The dogs________ fast! When they were four months old, we tied old shoes to their harnesses. ________ wolves, sled dogs like to run after anything that’s moving such as a rabbit. We started teaching the ________ “On by!” That means leave the rabbit alone! A sled dog must stay on the trail(路线).
Jip won’t be fully grown and ready to pull a heavy sled ________ he’s almost two years old. But now that he’s nine months old, he’s ________ enough to go on short runs with the big dogs. Dad says that maybe next winter I can ________ in the sled when Jip goes on practice runs. I can’t wait!
1.A. spring B. summer C. autumn D. winter
2.A. proud B. excited C. nervous D. shy
3.A. chance B. choice C. promise D. suggestion
4.A. look after B. play with C. deal with D. bring up
5.A. pet B. strong C. guide D. good
6.A. job B. trip C. house D. prize
7.A. get up B. fight back C. move around D. stop by
8.A. thought B. feel C. fear D. Use
9.A. advising B. allowing C. teaching D. helping
10.A. never B. just C. even D. also
11.A. for B. so C. or D. once
12.A. Later B. Finally C. Luckily D. First
13.A. showed B. took C. tied D. sent
14.A. toy B. food C. leash D. harness
15.A. changed B. grew C. ran D. worked
16.A. Against B. Except C. Before D. Like
17.A. order B. method C. story D. talk
18.A. and B. but C. until D. Unless
19.A. quiet B. clever C. careful D. big
20.A. wait B. ride C. sing D. continue
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届湖北襄阳枣阳市高三上学期期中英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
While working in Southeast Asia in the mid 1990’s, I became a branch manager in a factory. At the beginning, I used human relations principles, such as putting myself into the others place to help gain trust. After a few months, I was told that the factory team members liked and trusted me.
Then the owner, seeing how everyone thought well of me, believed that I could become an instrument of change to carry out his several unpopular programs. The factory members resisted and eventually saw me as a puppet controlled by the owner. The more I insisted that they ‘follow orders’ the more they found ways to weaken the new changes.
Finally, I was replaced by a manager who knew enough to please both masters. Even though the owner did not like the fact that his new changes were not immediately applied, the new manager gained his power by the support received from his team together with an intention to find a way. What I learned was that your team must always see you as supportive of their needs, even to the extent that the owner may not be pleased that you are unable to follow their wishes. At the end of the day, if your people do not follow you then you are no longer in charge and will be replaced.
At first I blamed my boss for putting me in such a position. Then in honest reflection, I began to realize that he had probably hoped that I would have found some middle ground. What I could have done was to first obtain their advice about why they did not wish to follow the new policy changes, and then I should have used my influence with both the owner and team members to find a better way.
Though, in fact it is a painful lesson for me, it has served me well along my career path!
1.What can we learn from the passage?
A. Obeying is the best quality.
B. Giving is always a pleasure.
C. Appreciating others will benefit a lot.
D. Dealing with relationship is important.
2.The underlined word “puppet” has the similar meaning to .
A. instrument B. assistant
C. wretch D. winner
3.Which is the right order according to the passage?
a. He was removed from his position.
b. He got on poorly with the coworkers.
c. He carried out the orders of the owner.
d. He became a branch manager.
f. He was believed in not only by coworkers but leaders.
A. a, b, d, c, f B. f, d, c, b, a
C. d, f, c, b, a D. d, c, f, b, a
4.From the third paragraph we can infer that .
A. the new manager carried out the programs at once
B. the new manager got on badly with workers
C. workers need to be recognized and supported
D. you should make full use of your power
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届浙江宁波效实中学高三上期中英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
完形填空
It was Christmas Eve 1881. I was 15 years old and feeling like the world was ________ for me because there hadn't been enough money to buy me the rifle that I’d wanted that year.
Pa came back in and there was ice in his beard. “Come on, Matt,” Pa said. “Dress warmly. It’s cold outside. We’re going to Widow Jensen’s. They are ________ wood.” Widow Jensen lived about two miles down the road. Her husband had died a year or so before and ________ her with three children, the oldest being eight.
I ________ went out with Pa and we ________ the sled high with wood. ________ we went to the store and Pa took down a big ham, some bacon, a sack of flour and some shoes, which were put into a smaller sack. We rode the two miles to Widow Jensen’s in ________ . I tried to think through what Pa was doing. I knew we didn’t have much money and Widow Jensen had ________ neighbors than us. It shouldn’t have been our ________ .
Widow Jensen opened the door and let us in. She had a blanket wrapped around her ________ . The children were wrapped in ________ and were sitting in front of the fireplace by a very small fire that ________ gave off any heat at all. “We brought you a few things , Ma’am，” Pa said and set down the sack of flour. I put the meat on the table. Then Pa handed her the sack that had the shoes in it.
She ________ and took the shoes out one pair at a time. I watched her carefully. She bit her lower lip to keep it from ________ and then tears filled her eyes and started running down her cheeks. She looked up at Pa like she wanted to say something, ________ it wouldn’t come out. “We brought a load of wood too, Ma’am,” Pa said. Then he turned to me and said，“Matt，go bring some in. ”
I wasn’t the ________ person when I went back out to bring in the wood. I choked and as much as I hate to ________ it, there were tears in my eyes too. In my mind I kept ________ those three kids huddled (蜷缩)around the fireplace and their mother standing there with tears running down her cheeks with so much ________ in her heart that she couldn’t speak. Just then the rifle seemed very ________ . Pa had given me the best Christmas of my life.
1.A. over B. complete C. lost D. boring
2.A. in between B. away from C. out of D. far behind
3.A. offered B. brought C. delighted D. left
4.A. excitedly B. hurriedly C. gratefully D. unwillingly
5.A. equipped B. placed C. loaded D. armed
6.A. Now B. Then C. Meanwhile D. Sometime
7.A. silence B. regret C. devotion D. condition
8.A. smarter B. tougher C. prettier D. closer
9. A. topic B. concern C. idea D. case
10.A. shoulders B. head C. arms D. feet
11.A. one B. the rest C. another D. the other
12.A. nearly B. hardly C. actually D. slowly
13.A. jumped B. laughed C. joked D. hesitated
14.A. trembling B. moving C. bending D. crying
15.A. and B. so C. or D. but
16.A. honest B. kind C. same D. disappointing
17.A. allow B. admit C. clarify D. confirm
18.A. seeing B. imagining C. cheering D. comforting
19.A. motivation B. gratefulness C. sympathy D. courage
20.A. typical B. valuable C. unimportant D. hopeless
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届浙江嘉兴市高三上能力测试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
The following are selected contributors’ notes for an essay collection.
KATY BUTLER, a 2004 finalist for a National Magazine Award, has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, Mother Jones, Salon, Tricycle, and other magazines. She was born in South Africa and raised in England, and came to the United States with her family at the age of eight. “Everything Is Holy,” her essay about nature worship, Buddhism (佛学), and ecology, was selected for Best Buddhist Writing 2006. In 2009 she won a literary award from the Elizabeth George Foundation. “What Broke My Father’s Heart” was named a “notable narrative” by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, won a first-place award from the Association of Health Care Journalists, and was named one of the 100 Best Magazine Articles of All Time. Butler has taught narrative nonfiction at Nieman Foundation conferences and memoir writing at Esalen Institute. Her current book project is Knocking on Heaven’s Door: A Journey Through Old Age and New Medicine to be published in 2013.
VICTOR LAVALLE is the author of a collection of stories, Slapboxing with Jesus, and two novels, The Ecstatic and Big Machine, for which he won the Shirley Jackson Award, the American Book Award, and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. He is a 2010 Guggenheim Award winner and an assistant professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. About “Long Distance” he says: “This essay actually came about when I was asked to write about my life after having lost a great deal of weight. And yet, when I sat down to work, all I could do was return to that time when I was much heavier and deeply unhappy. Why? I sure didn’t miss those days. And yet, I felt I couldn’t write about my present without touching on that past. But, of course, I never reach the true present in the essay. Maybe I still don’t know how to talk about a life with greater happiness. ”
BRIDGET POTTER was born in Brompton-on-Swale, Yorkshire, and came to the United States as a teenager in 1958. She spent the first forty years of her career in television, beginning as a secretary, then as a producer and an executive, including fifteen years as senior vice president of original programming at HBO. In 2007 she earned a BA in cultural anthropology from Columbia University. This year she will complete an MFA in nonfiction, also from Columbia, where she has been an instructor in the University Writing Program. She is currently working on her first book, a memoir / social history of the 1960s, from which her essay “Lucky Girl” is adapted.
PATRICIA SMITH is the author of five books of poetry, including Blood Dazzler, chronicling the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and Teahouse of the Almighty, a National Poetry Series selection. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, and The Best American Poetry 2011. She is a Pushcart Prize winner and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition’s history.
RESHMA MEMON YAQUB wouldn’t even be fit to write a grocery list were it not for her guardian editors. Her stories owe many glorious plot twists to Zain, eleven, and Zach, seven. Ditto their dad (Amer) and grandparents (Ali, Razia, Muhammad, Nasreen). Costars: Sophie, Sana, Yousef, and Maryam. Miss Yaqub lives in Bethesda, Maryland. Her next project is an investigation into the whereabouts (行踪) of two missing people: Mr. Right and Ms. Memoir Literary Agent.
1. Which of the following won the Shirley Jackson Award?
A. Best Buddhist Writing 2006.
B. Teahouse of the Almighty.
C. Mother Jones.
D. Big Machine.
2. What is “Long Distance” mainly about?
A. The true happiness in the writer’s present life.
B. Nature worship, Buddhism and ecology.
C. The whereabouts of two missing people.
D. The author’s past life experience.
3. When did the author of “Lucky Girl” come to the United States?
A. In 1958. B. In 2007.
C. In 2010. D. In 2013.
4.Who is the most successful poet in the competition’s history?
A. BRIDGET POTTER. B. KATY BUTLER.
C. PATRICIA SMITH. D. VICTOR LAVALLE.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届黑龙江齐齐哈尔实验中学高三上期中英语试卷（解析版） 题型：短文改错
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.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第十一处起）不计分。
You may have returned the book late to the library before. It is normal to pay a small fine, but how many would you have to pay if the book was returned 65 years late ?
This is a problem what John R. Rogers High School in Washington, US had to deal with recently. A copy of Gone With the Wind that was 65 years overdue was finally returned back to its library. However, the school said on December 2nd that it would not charge late fees of the book, which would have added up about $475 (2941 yuan).
The long-overdue book is checked out of the library of the high school in 1949, and seemed to disappearing until it was found in Maine, US, by Wayne Hachey. He found the book in his father’s basement and then offered to send it back to the school. “We are delightful to have the book back, but we wonder how it has been,” Lori Wyborney, principal of the school, said.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年辽宁省朝阳市三校协作体高三一模考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
I am a mom of two young children whom we home-school．This that they are with me almost constantly．Whenever possible I will random acts of kindness; things like paying for the order behind me in the drive-thru lane, holding doors, etc．So, they are very with the concept and are, of course, to also do "nice" things for others．
Just a few days ago we stopped our local grocery store to pick up a few things which quickly turned into an entire cart load of stuff．We got into one of the two open checkout lanes and waited our ．While waiting a young man came up behind us with only a few in his basket．I told him to go ahead of us as we were in no ．
He seemed very pleasantly surprised and graciously ．As he began putting his items on the belt the clerk began to her till tape so we had a fairly long wait in line．My kids were very behaved but they were still children; they asked questions, they talked , they moved around and they were generally very entertaining．(To me, anyway．)
I could see the young man watching and listening with a smile on his face．
We were putting our groceries on the when the clerk finished with order．What I didn't know was that he had heard my kids bubble gum．I had agreed they could have some． he picked up a pack of bubble-gum and asked the clerk to ring it through twice before putting it back．He then told my kids that he bought their gum their mom was enough to let him go ahead in the queue．
The experience really drove home the that good begets(产生，引起) good for my lovely little kiddos（亲呢的称呼：小伙子）．
1.A．tells B．leaves C．means D．ensures
2.A．entertain B．serve C．function D．perform
3.A．important B．impressive C．suitable D．simple
4.A．satisfied B．occupied C．familiar D．pleased
5.A．supported B．taught C．encouraged D．supposed
6.A．near B．by C．with D．against
7.A．opportunity B．return C．turn D．time
8.A．fruit B．vegetables C．items D．sales
9.A．time B．hurry C．case D．sense
10.A．accepted B．collected C．carried D．agreed
11.A．change B．remove C．continue D．stop
12.A．badly B．poorly C．well D．ill
13.A．constantly B．immediately C．usually D．rudely
14.A．belt B．bench C．basket D．cart
15.A．her B．his C．their D．our
16.A．complain about B．allow for C．ask for D．concern about
17.A．So B．But C．Or D．For
18.A．when B．unless C．because D．until
19.A．happy B．helpful C．serious D．nice
20.A．idea B．reward C．chance D．instruction
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