---The current international financial crisis is affecting most countries in the world.
---Would it be at least several years ____ everything returns to normal?
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科目：高中英语 来源：活题巧解巧练·高二英语·下 题型：050
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Is jazz a kind of folk music? Is it a performing style? How is it different from other kinds of music? There is cur simple answer to the questions, because the most important quality of jazz comes from its unique combination of different musical sources over a period of almost 400 years.
The quality that unites the many different jazz forms is, in some degree, separate from its musical sources. The quality is the expression of freedom. The idea of freedom is central .
The ancestors of jazz were black people from West Africa who were bought to America as slaves, or forced laborers, from the early 1600s to the mid-1800s. Most of them remained slaves until President Lincoln set them free on January 1,1863, during the American Civil War.
With the loss of their personal freedom and the breaking up of their families, the slaves also lost the social traditions of their music from Africa. The complex rhythms of this music involved a number of people performing together. The breaking apart of the social groups forced slaves to create new songs, that is, to develop a completely new musical tradition .
Using some of the remembered African rhythms, the slaves gradually began to add some features of the European classical music that was played by the slave owners. The slaves were also influenced by American folk songs. But the result of adding these borrowed elements to the complex, African rhythms was the beginning of a completely new kind of music. Still, this music only existed privately among groups of slaves.
The slaves' work had another effect on their music. It introduced new kinds of musical rhythms. Some of these rhythms became work songs to accompany(伴随) their planting and picking of cotton. Other rhythms were developed by teams of workers who needed to lift heavy loads of cotton onto carts that passed through the fields. Later, during the building of the railroads, individual workers created new songs to match the sharp rhythms of steel as they put the rails into place.
1．The main musical sources used by the slaves to develop a new kind of music were ________.
[ ]
A．folk music, jazz music and modern music
B．classical music. American rhythms and African folk songs
C．African music, European classical music and American folk songs
D．slaves' songs, rhythms of lifting heavy loads and sounds of striking steel
2．In some degree, the quality that many different jazz forms share is ________.
[ ]
A．the liberation of the American slaves
B．the expression of freedom
C．the respect for President Lincoln
D．the independence of the United States
3．“It introduces new kinds of musical rhythms.”Here “it” refers to ________.
[ ]
A．the slaves' music
B．a new musical rhythm
C．the slaves' work
D．another effect
4．Which of the following statements is NOT true?
[ ]
A．The ancestors of jazz music were people from east Africa.
B．Jazz music has mixed different kinds of musical sources.
C．Some of the rhythms of jazz music later became work songs.
D．It took quite a long time to develop jazz music .
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科目：高中英语 来源：活题巧解巧练·高一英语（下） 题型：050
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It is ten o'clock at night and you are outside. You can see many stars in the sky. Each star is another sun. The sky is big, and it hag many suns.
Our sun is near to us. It warms us and gives us light in daytime. The stars are not near. We can see their light only at night, and they do not warm us.
The stars are not all the same. Many stars are quite like our sun. They are the same size, and they have the same colour, yellow. Other stars are bigger or smaller. A “giant(巨人)” star is very, very big. A “dwarf(侏儒)”is a small star—smaller than the sun.
Stars have different colours, too. They can be blue, orange, yellow, white or red. There are giants and dwarfs in all these colours. All stars are, of course, very hot. The hottest stars are the blue ones. White stars come next, they are less hot. Then yellow and orange stars are less hot again. Red stars are the least hot, and they are also the oldest stars.
Light moves very quickly across the sky, eighteen million (18,000,000)kilometers in a minute. Our nearest star is a red dwarf. Its name is Proxima Centauri ( proxima ＝ nearest), and it gives a weak, red light. We can just see this light. It left Proxima Centauri 4.25 years ago, and now tonight, it is reaching cur eyes. Think about it! In one minute, 18,000,000 kilometres. So, in 4.25 years—well, how many kilometers? You can find the answer yourself.
I will just say this: Proxima Centauri is a long way from us.
1．According to the temperatures on stars, the right order from the lowest temperature to the highest is ________.
[ ]
A．red→yellow→white→blue
B．orange→red→blue→white
C．blue→white→yellow→red
D．white→blue→orange→red
2．All the following am right except ________.
[ ]
A．a “dwarf” is smaller than the sun
B．there are dwarfs in different colours
C．a “dwarf” is a small star
D．dwarfs are the least hot
3．How far away is the star Proxima Centauri from us?
[ ]
A．40,208,400,000,000 kilometres.
B．9,460,800,000,000 kilometres.
C．679,140,000,000 kilometres .
D．279,225,000,000 kilometres .
4．When we say “The star Procyon is ‘ten light years’ away.”, we mean ________.
[ ]
A．we can reach the star in ten years
B．we first saw the star ten years ago
C．the light left Procyon ten years ago
D．Procyon has been that far away for ten years
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(06·湖南C篇)
The coyote(丛林狼).that elever animal of wide-open space .has come to the nation’s captial.In fact ,coyotes have spread to every comer of the United States,changing their behaviors to fit new envioronments and causing researchers to deal with a troublesome new kind of creature:the city coyote.
The coyote originally lived in the middle of the continent.One of its most obvious characters is its smartness, which has made the animal a notorious（臭名昭著的）pest.Hunters trapped,shot and poisoned more than a million coyotes in the 1900s.It’s still one of America’s mosthunted animals. Yet the coyote has survived.How has the coyote shown this extraordinary ability?”I guess if you wanted to use one word,it’d be ‘plasticity’.”says Erie Gese,an expert at Utah State University. Coyotes can live alon, in pairs, or in large packs like wolves,hunt at night or during the day , occupy a small region or an area up to 40 square miles,and live on all sorts of food,from lizards（蜥蜴）and shoes, to ants and melons.
Unbelicvadly people helpcd coyotes increase when they kiltcd most of the wolves in the United States. The sprcdding of coyotes into city areas,though.is rccent.They travel at night,crossing sidcwalks and bridges.running atong roads and ducking into cuinerts (钻入涵洞)and underpasscs .No one knows why coyotes are maving into cities.but expertsexplaih that clevcter,more human-tolerant(不怕人的)coyotes are teaching urban survivalskills to new generations.
Occasionally.coyotes mighe attack human beings.There have been about 160 attacks on peoplc in reccnt years Therefore,people have bccn consistently told not feed coyotes or leave pct food unseeurcd.That ,plus a large trapping program in the neighborhood.has cur down on the coyote population.
63.The underlinged word “plasticity”in Paragraph 2refers to____________.
A.the ability to fit the environment B.notonous smartness
C.hunting ability D.being human-tolerant
64.The aim of the passage is to_____________.
A.tell pcople how to fight against coyotes
B.tell us why the coyote is the most hunted animal
C.supply the reason why the coyote is a kind of motorious pest
D.explain how the coyote has spread to and survived in cities
65.According to the passage,coyote__________.
A.originally lived in the west of the continent
B.sleep dung the day but look for food at night
C.are teaching survival skills to therr younger generations
D.suffered a population deerease because pcople killed wolves
66.According to the passage,to cut dowa on the coyolc population.people are advised to_______.
A.leave pct food secured B.keep coyotes in small regions
C.foree coyotes to live alone D.avond using trapping programs
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These days , it seems that almost all of us are too serious . My older daughter often says to me . “Daddy , you’ve got that serious look again .” Even those of us who are committed to non-seriousness are probably too serious . People are frustrated” （沮丧的） and uptight （不安的）about virtually everything being five minutes late , seeing someone look at us wrong or say the wrong thing , paying bills waiting in line , overcooking a meal , making an honest mistake—you name it , we all lose perspective over it .
The root of being uptight is our unwillingness to accept life as being different, in any way , from cur expectations . Very simply, we want things to be a certain way but they’re not a certain way. Life is simply as it is. Perhaps Benjamin Franklin said it best : “Our limited perspective , our hopes and fears become our measure of life , and when circumstances （环境） don’t fit our ideas , they become our difficulties .” We spend our lives warning things , people , and events to be just as we want them to be-and when they’re not , we fight and we suffer.
The first step in recovering from over-seriousness is to admit that you have a problem. You have to want to change, to become more easygoing. You have to see that your own uptightness is largely of your own creation—it’s composed of the way you have set up your life and the way you react to it .
The next step is to understand the link between your expectations and your frustration level. Whenever you expect something to be a certain way and it isn’t, you’re upset and you suffer. On the other hand , when you let go of your expectations , when you accept life as it is , you’re free .
A good exercise is to try to approach a single day without expectations. Don’t expect people to be friendly. When they’re not, you won’t be surprise or bothered; if they are , you’ll be delighted . Don’t expect your day to be problem-free. Instead, as problems come up , say to yourself, “Ah. another hurdle （障碍） to overcome .” As you approach your day in this manner you’ll notice how graceful life can be . Rather than fighting against life, You’ll be dancing with it. Pretty soon, with practice, you’ll lighten up your entire life. And when you lighten up, life is a lot more fun .
1．The underlined word “perspective” （Paragraph 1） probably means .
A．best hope B．proper judgment C．wrong guess D．firm belief
2．According to Benjamin Franklin we should .
A．be uptight about life
B．leave life simply as it is
C．fight and struggle to make the surroundings fit our ideas
D．accept life as being different from our expectations
3．Which of the following belongs to “over-seriousness”?
A．To let go . B．To hold on .
C．To get used to life . D．To try to approach a single day without expectations
4．What might be the best title for the passage ?
A．Lighten Up B．Cheer Up
C．Let Go of Your Expectations D．Never Be Too Serious
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The coyote(丛林狼).that elever animal of wide-open space .has come to the nation’s captial.In fact ,coyotes have spread to every comer of the United States,changing their behaviors to fit new envioronments and causing researchers to deal with a troublesome new kind of creature:the city coyote.
The coyote originally lived in the middle of the continent.One of its most obvious characters is its smartness, which has made the animal a notorious（臭名昭著的） pest.Hunters trapped,shot and poisoned more than a million coyotes in the 1900s.It’s still one of America’s mosthunted animals. Yet the coyote has survived.How has the coyote shown this extraordinary ability?”I guess if you wanted to use one word,it’d be ‘plasticity’.”says Erie Gese,an expert at Utah State University. Coyotes can live alon, in pairs, or in large packs like wolves,hunt at night or during the day , occupy a small region or an area up to 40 square miles,and live on all sorts of food,from lizards（蜥蜴）and shoes, to ants and melons.
Unbelicvadly people helpcd coyotes increase when they kiltcd most of the wolves in the United States. The sprcdding of coyotes into city areas,though.is rccent.They travel at night,crossing sidcwalks and bridges.running atong roads and ducking into cuinerts (钻入 洞and underpasscs .No one knows why coyotes are maving into cities.but expertsexplaih that clevcter,more human-tolerant(不怕人的)coyotes are teaching urban survivalskills to new generations.
Occasionally.coyotes mighe attack human beings.There have been about 160 attacks on peoplc in reccnt years Therefore,people have bccn consistently told not feed coyotes or leave pct food unseeurcd.That ,plus a large trapping program in the neighborhood.has cur down on the coyote population.
1.The underlinged word “plasticity”in Paragraph 2refers to____________.
A.the ability to fit the environment B.notonous smartness
C.hunting ability D.being human-tolerant
2.The aim of the passage is to_____________.
A.tell pcople how to fight against coyotes
B.tell us why the coyote is the most hunted animal
C.supply the reason why the coyote is a kind of motorious pest
D.explain how the coyote has spread to and survived in cities
3.According to the passage,coyote__________.
A.originally lived in the west of the continent
B.sleep dung the day but look for food at night
C.are teaching survival skills to therr younger generations
D.suffered a population deerease because pcople killed wolves
4.According to the passage,to cut dowa on the coyolc population.people are advised to_______.
A.leave pct food secured B.keep coyotes in small regions
C.foree coyotes to live alone D.avond using trapping programs
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