科目:高中英语 来源:2014届湖南湘中名校高三第一次大联考英语卷(解析版) 题型:其他题
A vast dust storm that blew in from the deserts of Australia’s red centre has blanketed the country’s largest city and eastern coast in a red fog,causing widespread traffic chaos and severe flight delays.
Residents from Sydney in New South Wales to Canberra inland and towns in southern Queensland awoke to a red sky and greatly reduced visibility after the country’s worst dust storm in 70 years blew in overnight. The Sydney Harbor Bridge and Opera House were covered in the red fog and hundreds of people were reported to have breathing problems. Children,the elderly and those suffering from asthma (哮喘) or heart or lung diseases were advised to stay indoors ,as even healthy adults reported "itchy throats" and a metallic aftertaste in their mouths after walking through the thick fog.
Commuters used face masks,originally intended to protect them from the spread of swine flu, to hurry across the blocked streets on their way to work. Some schools were closed and sports activities were called off as the conditions pushed air pollution levels to 1500 times their normal levels – the highest on record.
Passengers at the busy Sydney Airport faced delays of up to six hours for international flights and three hours for domestic trips,and even some international flights were cancelled as visibility was reduced to just a few feet.
Locals,phoning radio stations to express their shock at the red dawn.” It’s like a nuclear winter morning," tourist Peter Wilson told Daily Telegraph, "It is so terrible." adding that when he awoke the sky was "bright red" and "all the cars were covered in dirt".
The dust hanging over Sydney had largely cleared by midafternoon, although national carrier Qantas said severe delays would last all day because of direction-changed and late-running flights.
The sand storm,which measured more than 310 miles wide and 620 miles long, was caused by dust clouds blowing east from Australia’s dry places,which has been attacked by the worst drought on record. It covered dozens of towns and cities in two states as strong winds swept away tons of topsoil threw it high into the sky and carried it hundreds of miles.
1.What was the face mask originally intended for? (No more than 10 words) (2 marks)[
2.When did most residents of Sydney discover the vast storm ? (No more than 3 words) (3 marks)
3.What do you think the underlined word Qantas is? (No more than 3 words)(2 marks)
4.What is the main idea of the last paragraph ? (No more than 10 words) (3 marks)
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014届山东省高三10月份阶段性检测英语试卷(解析版) 题型:其他题
阅读下面短文,根据以下要求:1)汉语提示;2)首字母提示;3)语境提示,在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词,所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确。将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上。
These days the severe weather in Beijing has aroused public concern.
In areas 1. the ground can be seen, the landscape is yellow or gray. The citizens surveyed complained
2. the loose soil and dust blanketed streets, removing the 3. (便利)of travelling around. When it came to outdoor activities, they had no choice 4. to wear face masks to protect 5. . The Weather Board sent an a1arm, w 6. that the conditions were most likely to last until 7. (星期三). Faced with this emergency, the government has taken i 8. measures like shutting down polluting factories.“That’s f 9. from enough.,”an officia1 said,“We must not any longer seek rapid growth 10. the expense of environment! If we don’t get started from now on, we will have to pay a heavier price!”
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014届四川省高三上学期期中考试英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Face masks are commonly used in ceremonies and performances. They not only hide the real face of the mask wearer but they often evoke powerful emotions in the audience—danger, fear, sadness, joy. You might think, because so many things vary cross-culturally, that the ways in which emotions are displayed and recognized in the face vary too. Apparently they do not. Recent research on masks from different cultures supports the conclusion that masks, like faces, tend to represent certain emotions in the same ways. We now have some evidence that the symbolism used in masks is often universal.
The research on masks builds on work done by anthropologists, who used photographs of individuals experiencing various emotions. These photographs were shown to members of different cultural groups who were asked to identify the emotions displayed in the photographs. Emotions were identified correctly by most viewers, whatever the viewer’s native culture.
Coding schemes were developed to enable researchers to compare the detailed facial positions of individual portions of die face (eyebrows, mouth, etc.) for different emotions. What exactly do we do when we scowl? We contract the eyebrows and lower the corners of the mouth; in geometric terms, we make angles and diagonals (斜线) on our faces. When we smile, we raise the corners of the mouth; we make it curved.
Psychologist Joel Arnoff and his colleagues compared two types of wooden face masks from many different societies—masks described as threatening versus masks associated with nonthreatening functions. As suspected, the two sets of masks had significant differences in certain facial elements. The threatening masks had eyebrows and eyes facing inward and downward and a downward-facing mouth. In more abstract or geometrical terms, threatening features generally tend to be angular or diagonal and nonthreatening features tend to be curved or rounded, a face with a pointed beard is threatening; a baby's face is not. The theory is that humans express and recognize basic emotions in uniform (一致的) ways because all human faces are quite similar, skeletally and muscularly.
1.What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The techniques for comparing facial expressions across cultures.
B. The photography of faces.
C. Cultural variations in mask.
D. The uniformity of facial expressions in revealing emotions.
2.According to the passage, masks are used in performances to _______.
A. disguise the real emotions of the performers
B. cause members of the audience to have strong emotions
C. remind the audience that an illusion is being created
D. identify the cultural background of the performers
3.What does the author mean by stating, "the symbolism used in masks is often universal"?
A. Masks are sometimes used to hide emotions.
B. Performers often need help conveying emotions to an audience.
C. Not all societies use masks in their rituals.
D. People from different cultures generally express certain emotions in similar ways.
4.The passage mentions "baby’s face" in the last paragraph as an example of a _______.
A. typical human face
B. source of inspiration in the creation of masks
C. nonthreatening face
D. face that expresses few emotions
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科目:高中英语 来源:2012-2013学年福建厦门高三3月质量检查英语卷(解析版) 题型:单词拼写
These days the severe weather in Beijing has aroused public concern.
In areas _____the ground can be seen, the landscape is yellow or 1._____
gray. The citizens_______ (调查)complained that the loose soil and 2._____
dust blanketed streets, removing the _______ (便利)of travelling 3._____
around. When it came to outdoor activities, they had no choice_____ 4._____
to wear face masks to protect_________. The Weather Board sent an 5._____
alarm, w_________ that the conditions were most likely to last until6._____
__________(星期三).Faced with this emergency, the government has 7.____
taken i_______ measures like shutting down polluting factories. “That’s8._____
f_______ from enough.” an official said,“We must not any longer seek9._____
rapid growth __________the expense of environment! If we don’t get10._____
started from now on, we will have to pay a heavier price!”
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科目:高中英语 来源:2010级高一下期中教学质量检测 题型:阅读理解
In Vietnam(越南), Tet-trung-Thu, or Mid- autumn Festival, is one of the most popular holidays. It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month in lunar calendar
Vietnamese families plan their activities around their children on this special day. In a Vietnamese story, parents were working so hard to prepare for the harvest that they left the childen playing by themselves. To make up for the lost time, parents would use the Aid-Autumn Festival as a chance to show their love and thanks for their children.
As a result, the Mid- autumn Festival is also called the Children’s Festival. In the USA, this tradition continues in many Vietnamese- American families. Tet-trung-Thu, activities are often centered on Children and education. Parents buy lanterns for their children so that they can take part in a lantern parade at dawn. Lanterns mean brightness, while the parade means success in school. Vietnamese markets sell different kinds of lanterns, but the most popular children’s lantern is the star lantern. Other children’s activities includes arts and crafts(手工艺) in which children make face masks and lanterns. Children also perform traditional Vietnamese dances for grown-ups and take part in contests for prizes and scholarships. Unicorn(麒麟) dancers are also very popular at Tet-trung-Thu festivities.
Like the Chinese, Vietnamese parents tell their children folk stories and serve moon-cakes and other special treats under the bright moon. A favorite folk story is about a carp(鲤鱼) that wanted to become a dragon. The carp worked hard and finally changed itself into a dragon. Parents use this story to encourage their children to work hard so that they can become whatever they want to be.
63. The Tet-trung-Thu Festival is held _______
A. in China and other Asian countries. B. in Vietnamese-American families.
C. all over the world, except Vietnam. D. Across the United States.
64.In Both Vietnam and China, on Mid-autumn Festival people would ___________.
A. eat moon-cakes B. buy lanterns for children.
C. take part in contests. D. buy a carp
65.What is the center of the Mid-Autumn festival in Vietnam?
A. Family get-together. B. Children on education.
C. Relaxation and fun in the middle of the year.
D. parents having more time with their children.
66.According to the passage, parents tell their children folk stories, because __________.
A. children like listening to folk stories in the evening.
B. parents want to show their love for their children.
C. parents want to teach the children to work hard.
D. parents want to make up for the lost time.
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