He was the baby with no name. Found and taken from the north Atlantic 6 days after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, his tiny body so moved the salvage (救援) workers that they called him “our baby.” In their home port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, people collected money for a headstone in front of the baby's grave (墓), carved with the words: “To the memory of an unknown child.” He has rested there ever since.
But history has a way of uncovering its secrets. On Nov. 5, this year, three members of a family from Finland arrived at Halifax and laid fresh flowers at the grave. “This is our baby,” says Magda Schleifer, 68, a banker. She grew up hearing stories about a great-aunt named Maria Panula,42, who had sailed on the Titanic for America to be reunited with her husband. According to the information Mrs. Schleifer had gathered, Panula gave up her seat on a lifeboat to search for her five children -- including a 13-month-old boy named Eino from whom she had become separated during the final minutes of the crossing. "We thought they were all lost in the sea," says Schleifer.
Now, using teeth and bone pieces taken from the baby's grave, scientists have compared the DNA from the Unknown Child with those collected from members of five families who lost relatives on the Titanic and never recovered the bodies. The result of the test points only to one possible person: young Eino. Now, the family sees no need for a new grave. "He belongs to the people of Halifax," says Schleifer, "They've taken care of him for 90 years."
Adapted from People, November 25, 2002
1.The baby traveled on the Titanic with his __________.
A. aunt B. parents
C. mother D. relatives
2.What is probably the boy's last name?
A. Schleiferi. B. Panula
C. Magda. D. Eino..
3.This text is mainly about how _________.
A. the unknown baby’s body was taken from the north Atlantic
B. people found out who the unknown baby was
C. the unknown baby was buried in Halifax, Nova Sotia
D. people took care of the unknown baby for 90 years
阅读快车系列答案科目：高中英语 来源：湖北省黄冈市2016-2017学年高二下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型：书面表达
假定你是李华，当假期来临的时候，越来越多的人们选择去名校参观，但有的人反对将校园变为旅游区。请你就此现象给英语笔友Peter写封信阐述你的看法。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.信的开头和结尾己给出，不计入总词数；
3.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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The Science of Risk-Seeking
Sometimes we decide that a little unnecessary danger is worth it because when we weight the risk and the reward, the risk seems worth taking. 1. Some of us enjoy activities that would surprise and scare the rest of us. Why? Experts say it may have to do with how our brain work.
The reason why any of us take any risks at all might have to do with early humans. Risk-taking were better at hunting, fighting, or exploring. 2. As the quality of risk-taking was passed from on ration to the next, humans ended up with a sense of adventure and a tolerance for risk.
So why aren’t we all jumping out of airplanes then? Well, even 200,000 years ago, too much risk-taking could get one killed. A few daring survived, though, along with a few stay-in-the-cave types. As a result, humans developed a range of character types that still exists today. So maybe you love car racing, or maybe you hate it.3.
No matter where you are on the risk-seeking range, scientist say that willingness to take risk increases during your teenage years.4. To help you do that, your brain increases your hunger for new experience. New experiences often mean taking some risks, so your brain raises your tolerance for risk as well.
5., for the risk-seeker a part of the brain related to pleasure becomes active, while for the rest of us, a part of the brain related to fear becomes active.
As experts continue to study the science of risk-seeking, we’ll continue to hit mountains, the waves or the shallow end of the pool.
A. It all depends on your character.
B. Those are the risks you should jump to take.
C. Being better at those things meant a greater chance of survival.
D. Thus, these well-equipped people survived because they were the fittest.
E. This is when you start to move away from your family and into the bigger world.
F. However, we are not all using the same reference standard to weight risks and rewards.
G. New brain research suggests our brains work differently when we face a nervous situation.
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As we slowly drove down the street on that cold December evening we spotted the porch（门廊）light."This ____be the house."I told our "Positive Teens In Action" group with certainty.We____in front of an older home with the porch light shining.We gathered up our____books,walked up the steps,and___ _on the door.We heard a____ voice from inside say,"Come in.The door is open."We opened the door.
There in a rocking chair____an elderly woman with a big____on her face."I've been____you,"she said weakly. Ruth was one of our "Meals On Wheels" stops I had____.I had phoned her and told her about it.Going along with me were the____church members who____singing carols（颁歌）.We____Ruth the basket of delicious food the teens had prepared earlier that evening.Then I asked Ruth what carols she would like to____.Ruth was smiling cheerfully when she____singing each song.
____we hugged Ruth good-bye she said to me with tears in her eyes,"The day you____I was still in bed.l had just finished____.I asked God if it would be possible to have some Christmas carolers come to my home and____ this year.Thank you for being the____to my Christmas prayer."
Wow,what an awesome____to have the opportunity to make Ruth quite content!
1.A. can B. must C. will D. may
2.A. pulled up B. sped up C. looked out D. set out
3.A. guide B. story C. song D. exercise
4.A. depended B. focused C. rested D. knocked
5.A. calm B. weak C. sweet D. loud
6.A. came B. sat C. saw D. found
7.A. worry B. embarrassment C. surprise D. smile
8.A. expecting B. watching C. admiring D. praising
9.A. presented B. ordered C. arranged D. accepted
10.A. possible B. usual C. typical D. normal
11.A. admitted B. allowed C. imagined D. enjoyed
12.A. handed B. returned C. awarded D. cooked
13.A. teach B. introduce C. hear D. write
14.A. joined in B. gave up C. insisted on D. put off
15.A. Until B. Though C. Since D. As
16.A. stayed B. called C. left D. agreed
17.A. praying B. reading C. crying D. washing
18.A. play B. eat C. sing D. chat
19.A. direction B. approach C. road D. answer
20.A. lesson B. quality C. experience D. dream
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I work in a big factory in a town 1. is quite far from my home. One day, after a whole day’s work, I 2. (go) back home by bus. That day was 3. long, hard one for me as the stress from work weighed heavily on my mind.
A girl, who I didn’t know, sat next to me. She asked me some questions 4. (casual) and we had a short conversation. I thought to myself that she was just a 5.(strange) to me and didn’t take much interest.
After a while, she suddenly handed me some chocolates and said that it was 6.(she) birthday. I immediately responded with a smile and my heart felt free 7.
the stress that I had been carrying. In a single moment I felt the heaviness of the day 8.(transform) into lightness of a feather. Her simple act gave me joy 9. I didn’t particularly enjoy the chocolates as much. The only thing I could do was to wish her a long life. I can’t remember her face now but 10.(recall) the incident makes me happy.
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In the 4th century, there was a man called Saint Nicholas in Myra. He was very rich and ______ to help others. He also cared for the ______ very much. He often ______ many kinds of gifts, money and other ______ things to the houses of the poor. He did this at night ______ so that no one knew, because he wanted no ______ . He just wanted to help others. At that time, there were three poor ______ in his town. Both of their parents died. They could hardly ______ enough money to make a living. Nicholas felt sorry for them and ______ to do something to ______ them. On Christmas Eve, when everyone was ______ , Nicholas walked through the streets to the house where the three sisters lived. Quietly, he ______ onto the roof and dropped three bags of ______ into the chimney. It so happened that the three sisters had ______ their stockings before they went to bed. The stockings had been ______ by the fire to dry. When Nicholas dropped the gold, each bag fell into a stocking. The three sisters were surprised and ______ to find the three bags of gold in their stockings the next morning. Now they didn’t have to worry about their ______ as they could use the gold to get food. Soon, the story began to get around. Other ______ began to hang up stockings on Christmas Eve ______ finding bags of gold when they woke up the next morning.
Over the years, Saint Nicholas became associated (有联系的)with Christmas. The ______ of hanging stockings up by the chimney on Christmas Eve is known all over the world. And Santa Claus, famous for the red cape (斗篷)and the white beard, became the most popular guest to children on Christmas.
1.A. hated B. refused C. failed D. liked
2.A. old B. sick C. poor D. young
3.A. lent B. brought C. posted D. moved
4.A. expensive B. simple C. beautiful D. useful
5.A. slowly B. secretly C. freely D. fairly
6.A. praise B. money C. surprise D. pay
7.A. sisters B. brothers C. workers D. farmers
8.A. beg B. find C. make D. borrow
9.A. needed B. agreed C. decided D. promised
10.A. save B. help C. raise D. teach
11.A. quiet B. busy C. happy D. asleep
12.A. landed B. climbed C. jumped D. fell
13.A. gold B. food C. toys D. clothes
14.A. changed B. bought C. repaired D. washed
15.A. shown B. thrown C. hung D. stored
16.A. puzzled B. excited C. worried D. sad
17.A. meals B. study C. house D. stockings
18.A. students B. men C. women D. children
19.A. in the hope of B. in need of C. in case of D. in return for
20.A. rule B. habit C. custom D. manner
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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：在错的词下画一横线，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。
Hello, everyone. Welcome to our school. Now I’d like to introduce our school to you. Our school is located in the north part of the city. It’s famous as its beautiful scenery. There lie a lake in our school, that students can boat. Close to our school is a beautiful park with flower around. Every class is made up 50 lively students. They are warm, generous but ready to offer help. They feel honoured when ask for help. So they are very friendly and easy to get along with them. You will have the wonderful time and get used to the life soon.
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________ for his timely help, I wouldn’t have been able to make it through the economic squeeze.
A. Were it not B. Would it not be
C. Had it not been D. Should it not be
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科目：高中英语 来源：河南省漯河市2016-2017学年高二下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
One of America’s best-known artist colonies, the MacDowell Colony, will turn 110 next year. It is a place where artists of all types can sweep away distractions (令人分心的事物) and just create.
MacDowell’s operations are funded by foundations, corporations and individuals. Writers, composers, photographers, filmmakers and sculptors — both famous and unknown —compete for the 32 free studios at the place. Once accepted, an artist can stay for as little as a couple of weeks, or as long as a couple of months.
When they arrive, artists find a kind of isolation (隔绝) hard to find in our world. There’s no phone. No fax. No friends. No family. It’s just a cabin in the snowy woods.
Writer Emily Raboteau lives in New York City. She came to MacDowell to work on a novel. She received a desk, chairs, pencil and paper — and ice grippers. The walk from one isolated, one-room studio to another is icy, so colony residents (居住的人) fasten the ice grippers to the bottom of their shoes.
Another colony resident, Belfast composer Elaine Agnew, plays a piece called “To a Wild Rose,” written by Edward MacDowell. She says it’s so famous that every pianist in the world has played the tune. A hundred years ago, Macdowell owned the land where the colony now sits. He liked its isolation and his ability to get work done there. After his death, his wife, Marion, encouraged other artists to come.
And for the last century, artists have accepted the invitation, coming to step outside of their daily lives for a short time. Privacy is respected, but cooperation and discussion is common.
Screenwriter Kit Carson — who wrote Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and the film adaptation of Sam Shepherd’s play Paris, Texas — has visited MacDowell twice. He says that the interdisciplinary (学科间的) discussion there is valuable.
“You sit around at dinner, talking, and then somebody runs off and brings you back some stuff and shows it to you,” he says. “That, I didn’t realize, was part of the magic here, because people are really open to showing their opinions here.”
1.What do the colony residents have in common?
A. They find it hard to survive the loneliness.
B. They usually stay in the colony for months.
C. They are already famous in their own field.
D. They are nearly cut off from the outside world.
2.Why does the author mention Elaine Agnew?
A. To show the wide range of the residents.
B. To introduce the origin of the colony.
C. To admire her great musical talent.
D. To show respect for MacDowell.
3.Where does the magic of the MacDowell Colony lie according to Kit Carson?
A. It has a homely feel. B. It values work-play balance.
C. It encourages privacy greatly. D. It has an idea-sharing atmosphere.
4.What would be the best title for the text?
A. Wonderland for artists B. Creativity at work
C. Happy birthday! D. Power of silence
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