Over years of study, Paco has discovered that people act in predictable ways when they are shopping. Successful shops adapt themselves to these habits. For example, people tend to 1 to the right when they enter a building. That is why many people have their entrance on the 2 . Also, people speed up when they enter shops and need space to 3 down. That is why there is often a(n) 4 space just inside a shop door giving people a 5 to make themselves at home.
Men and women shop in different ways. Men like to decide what they want 6 they shop. Then they go straight out and get in without buying anything else. Seventy-five percent of men who try clothes on buy them 7 away. Only 35 percent of women do the 8 . Men also 9 not to talk to shop assistants.
Women enjoy the shopping 10 more. They will shop first and decide what they want later, trying different things out 11 the way. Women also like to 12 their time. A shopping trip that takes a man and a woman one hour will take two women three hours. Paco suggests that shops provide “nurseries” for 13 with video games and a TV turned to a sports channel. The women can then shop in 14 while the men play.
According to Paco, these differences can 15 back to the “hunter-gatherer”period of human history. Men were hunters. They focused on stalking 16 and then killing them. Women 17 wild vegetables and fruits. They needed to be 18 , to talk to each other and to cover as much ground as possible.
Every modern city has its shopping area. And the shops are 19 of modern, high-tech goods. But the people shopping are 20 in the same way that their ancestors did forty thousand years ago.
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1．C 提示：下文的have their entrances提示我们，此处应该是朝右转，选turn，其他的选项都与上下文无关。 2．B 提示：正因为人们习惯朝右转，入口就应该设在左边，这样有利于人们进门后可以看到全部商品，选left。 3．A提示：同第4题。 4．A 提示：上文谈到人们进门后放慢速度，给他们一个空间，不但可以使他们放慢速度，还会使他们有回家的感觉，选empty space。 5．D 提示：同第4题。 6．B 提示：由下文可知。 7．C 提示：straight away立即。 8．A 提示：只有35％的女人会如此做。 9．C 提示：男人也通常选择不和售货员交谈。 10．D 提示：下文谈到女人喜欢购物，她们没有目标，也不急于购物，那么她们的兴趣只是在于一种体验，选experience。 11．A 提示：此空前的out与动词trying搭配构成词组“试穿”，选along与后面的the way搭配，意思是“沿路”，符合女人购买习惯；此处并不是out of词组，如果它们与后面的the way搭配，意思就正好相反了。 12．D 提示：take time是个固定搭配，表示“不急不忙”，所以选D。 13．B 提示：由下句可知。 14．B 提示：让男人去看球赛，当然没有人催女人了，这样女人就可以安心采购了，选peace与前面in构成词组，意思是：和平、安定。 15．A 提示：date back意为“回顾、追溯到”。 16．C 提示：由上文的hunters可知。 17．C 提示：由上文的hunter-gatherer可知。 18．A 提示：此段回忆历史，过去妇女的工作是采集野生植物，她们一边说话，一边干活，一点也不着急，当然她们需要耐心，选patient。tender，skilled与上下文无关。 19．D 提示：商店里放满了现代化的高科技商品。 20．D 提示：behave in the same way“表现一样”。 |
科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
Fear can be fun. Many young people queue up to ride very fast and scary roller coasters, screaming but enjoying themselves. Other people like to read “goose bumps (鸡皮疙瘩)” books or watch horror movies at night, scared to death but feeling excited. Why do people like being scared?
Fear is an ancient way of surviving. Being scared makes animals, including humans escape from danger and save themselves. It is because of fear that we have lived through millions of years of evolution. Those who lacked a strong fear response were more likely to be killed, leaving the more fearful and careful to pass their genes onto the next generation.
How do scientists explain why shaking over such scary things is fun? “Some kids will go to a scary movie and love it and laugh over it, others will feel anxious and hide their faces and some won’t even set foot in the cinema,” said Ned Kalin, a US scientist. “Which kind of person you are depends partly on experiences you’ve had and partly on your genes.”
What happens in the brain when something frightens you? Nerves that begin at the eyes and ears lead to a part of the brain called the amygdale. When you suddenly see a snake, for example, the amygdale makes you freeze, sweat, have a quickened heartbeat, or run very fast. However, seeing the snake also uses another part of the brain, the cortex. It analyzes the situation, and if it finds that the snake is only made of rubber it tells your heart and the rest of your body to calm down. Think of the amygdale as the engine and the cortex as the brake.
Back to the first question: Why do some people like to make themselves scared? “One reason is that we can play games with fear, find ways to reduce the scariness by looking away or thinking of something else,” Kalin said. “To believe we have control over a situation gives us a feeling of power.” “Scary movies or novels are good practice to prepare young people for the real thing. Thrills such as roller coaster rides also go to the brain’s pleasure centre.”
And there might be some evolutionary advantage to being able to adjust this system that is there to protect people.
72. How many questions are answered in the passage?
A. 2. B. 3. C. 4. D. 5.
73. Some people like to be scared because______.
A. they are afraid that the fear genes will be passed onto their children
B. it’s a good practice to get prepared for the real frightening situation
C. it can help them show their own personalities
D. they will feel powerful after getting rid of fear
74. Which of the following is true about the people who are not easily scared?
A. Their cortex is better at analyzing the situations.
B. They are more likely to suffer from potential danger.
C. They are born unaffected by anything horrible.
D. They lack a strong response towards threat.
75. What is the best title of the passage?
A. Ready to scream? B. How to be scared?
C. Willing to shake? D. Why to be scared?
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A mobile phone is in fact a small radio.A radio sends a person’s voice over a long way to another radio.A voice that is sent by radio is called a signal.A radio signal travels very quickly.
Only a few years ago，mobile phones were very large.They needed large batteries.They had to be powerful to send their signal to faraway places.This was because most cities had only one antenna tower for mobile phones.
Today’s mobile phones are small and easy to use.Now most cities have a lot of antenna towers，not just one.This means that each mobile phone doesn’t have to send its signal far away，so they don’t need to be so powerful.Mobile phones today use small batteries.A large city，where lots of mobile phones are used，can have hundreds of towers.
Do you know what use a mobile phone has? Yes，you can use it to do a lot of things.
Call your friends and family from almost anywhere.
Call the police immediately if there is an accident in the street.
Send or receive messages.
Sending short written messages is a popular way to use your mobile phone.Many people use short forms of words，so the messages are quick to write and read.Can you guess what these messages mean? Try reading them out.What do you hear?
RUOK?
CUL8r!
That’s EZ!
Will I C U B4 2moro?
That’s Gr8!
1.The writer talks about uses of a mobile phone.
A.three B.five C.seven D.nine
2.Why did the mobile phones need large powerful batteries some years ago?
A.Because most cities had only one antenna tower.
B.Because the mobile phones were too large.
C.Because the mobile phones could be used for a long time.
D.Because the mobile phones had to send their signal to faraway places.
3.What does the writer think of today’s mobile phones?
A.They are small but very powerful.
B.They are very popular and cheap.
C.They are very easy for us to use.
D.They are big enough to send a signal.
4.What does “Will I C U B4 2moro？” probably mean?
A.Will I see you before two past four in the morning?
B.Will I see you by 4∶02 in the morning?
C.Will I see you before tomorrow?
D.Will I see you by four tomorrow?
5.What does the writer write the article (文章) for?
A.To give us some common knowledge of the mobile phone.
B.To introduce how the mobile phone works and what use it has.
C.To tell us what short forms of words mean in written messages.
D.To show us in what way the mobile phone is expected to develop.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2009年全国各省市高考命题动态信息卷（辽宁专用）英语（二） 题型：阅读理解
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What comes as a shock to many Westerners may be the unfriendly way that some Chinese treat waiters and waitresses in restaurants and bars. Over the last few years,as many in Beijing have made fortunes,I and many of my foreign friends have noticed a downturn in the treatment of those who work all hours and often live in terrible conditions to bring us our food,guard our homes and sell us clothes.It's not the common citizens,but the young nouveau riches(暴发户) Chinese in Beijing who are mostly guilty of this both social and human misbehavior.
It is not unusual to see and hear these people,especially the young women among their ranks,speaking rudely to the waiters and waitresses,as they sit there in the misguided belief that the latest mobile phone,a new car and designer clothes give them the right to talk to people like dirt.In one recent incident(事件) in an expensive restaurant near where I live ,I overheard the table next to me,two guys and a girl,tell the waitress "You really are stupid ",because she had brought them two glasses instead of three.They all burst into loud laughter as the young girl ran away to fetch another.In anther incident I saw a waitress reduced to tears as four well-dressed girls criticized everything from her accent to her looks.
Lately I have noticed that this rather unpleasant aspect of the nouveau riches has been taken up by many of their foreign peers(同类人).So I ask Beijing's bright young things to set a good example,and treat all people with equal respect.And I urge foreigners to follow the good examples of their Chinese language teachers and textbooks while adding some of the pleasantries of their own cultures,so that cultural interpenetration(相互渗透) has a positive influence and not a negative one.
Here I'd like to leave you with the words from Confucius:"What you do not wish for yourself, do not "do to others."
64.The writer has noticed that less respect is shown to _______ in Beijing in recent years.
A.common citizens B.waiters and the like
C.young nouveau riches D.some foreigners
65.The two incidents mentioned in Paragraph 2 are used to show ______.
A.waiters and waitresses can make excusable mistakes
B.waitresses are usually too shy to be laughed at
C.some Beijingers are too particular about restaurant service
D.what's being talked about is not rare
66.The young Beijingers are asked to set a good example in order to ______
A.have good influence over foreigners
B.leave a good impression on foreigners
C.educate younger Chinese
D.develop traditional Chinese culture
67.The origial title of the article is most likely to be _______.
A.One Dark Side of the Bright Chinese Capital
B.Beijing's Young Nouveau Riches,Watch Out
C.Dno't Throw Away Good Manners,Please
D.People Like Waiters Live at Bottom of Society
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科目：高中英语 来源：2012-2013学年河北省唐山一中高二上学期调研考试（一）英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
A few days ago I got a call from my old college friend whom I haven’t seen for a very long time. The topic, which was about all the good old times that we had changed to a touching story when he started talking about his father.
His father’s declining health made him stay at the hospital. Because of his illness, his father suffered from insomnia (失眠) and often talked to himself. My friend, who had not been able to sleep for a few days as he had to keep watching his father’s condition, became irritated and told his father to keep silent and try to get some sleep. His father said that he really wanted to sleep well because he was very tired and told my friend to leave him alone in the hospital if he did not want to keep him company.
After his father finished talking, he fell unconscious (失去知觉). My friend was very sorry for speaking the ill words towards his father. My friend, whom I knew as a tough person, cried as a baby on the other end of the telephone. He said that from that moment on, he prayed every day, asking God to let his father wake up from his coma. He promised himself that whatever words came out from his father’s mouth after he regained his consciousness, he would gladly take them. His only hope for God was to give him a chance to rectify his past mistake.
Often, we complain when we have to accompany or watch over our parents for years, months, days, hours or even minutes. But do we realize that our parents keep us company and watch over us for as long as we (or they) live? From the day we were born to our adulthood, and even when deaths come to us, they are always at our side.
Imagine how sad our parents will be when they hear a seemingly innocent word of “no” come out from our mouths. We can make promises to ourselves that from now on there will be no more complaints that come out from our mouths when we have to watch over or accompany our parents. No more complaints come out from our mouths when we feel that our parents have treated us like little children. There are so many unlucky ones who have neither fathers nor mothers. They long to have the things that we most complain about, but never have them.
Actually, it takes only a second to think and light the lamp that will bring us to a place where peace is dwelling.
【小题1】Which of the following word can be used to describe the writer’s friend?
| A．Sad | B．Sorry | C．Regretful | D．Pitiful |
| A．put…right | B．recite…by heart | C．realize | D．recognize |
| A．Your parents will keep talking to themselves when they are old. |
| B．Be good to your parents when you still have the chance. |
| C．You will regret in your life if you don’t show your kindness to your parents. |
| D．It is not easy to take good care of sick old parents. |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2012-2013学年江苏省沭阳县高二下学期期中调研测试英语试卷（带解析） 题型：写作题
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