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Here I'd like to talk about how to develop your curiosity and make use of it to make discoveries. Asking questions is the first step to make discoveries and find interesting answers when you are curious about something and want to know more about it.
Firstly, write down the subject that you are interested in on a note card or piece of paper. Just put the main idea down, such as “Discover more about dinosaurs.”
Next, think for a moment about what you already know about your subject and list information like the sentences below:
1. Dinosaurs lived long before human beings appeared.
2. Dinosaurs lived on the earth for more than 150 million years.
3. Some dinosaurs fed on plants, some on meat.
Thirdly, ask yourself “What can I do with what I want to learn?” On your paper, start writing down questions about the dinosaurs as you think of them:
1. What's the best weather for dinosaurs to live in?
2. How many kinds of dinosaurs are there?
3. Have dinosaurs really disappeared?
Fourthly, armed_with_your_list_of_questions,_you can now visit the nearest library or turn to computer to begin your research. As you learn more about your subject, you'll probably discover some new questions.
For example, you might discover that dinosaurs disappeared about 65 million years ago. Why? What happened? Asking new questions can help you research your subject more deeply.
The next time you find something interesting to research, take time to organize your thinking by asking good questions. And remember—learning more always bring more questions.
1.While doing some research, you should take the following steps________.
①list what you want to know
②choose a research subject
③list what you already know
④discover new problems
A.①④③② B.①②④③
C.②③①④ D.②①④③
2.What does the underlined sentence “armed with your list of questions” mean?
A.Taking your list of questions with you to do more research.
B.Writing down your list of questions before turning to the computer.
C.Discussing your questions with your classmates for solution.
D.Putting your questions aside before going to the library.
3.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A.You can find all the answers online.
B.Learn more, and you'll have no questions.
C.Asking questions is the only way for research.
D.During the research, more questions may arise.
4.The best title for this passage is________.
A.Discovering Dinosaurs
B.Asking Good Questions
C.Finding Suitable Subjects
D.Having Interesting Answers
科目:高中英语 来源:2015-2016学年山西太原高一上学期期末考试英语试卷(解析版) 题型:单句改错
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下列各句中都有一处错误,错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改,请按要求修改下列各句。
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。
1.Jack always waters his plants before he head for work.
2.The apartment is belonged to my grandfather in the 1980s.
3.Speak in public is a lot more difficult than talking to your friends.
4.Mary didn' t come to school today because she had temperature yesterday.
5.I am watching TV last night when my sister came in with a friend of hers.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2017届湖北省松滋市高一下学期6月月考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Elizabeth Freeman was born about 1742 to African American parents who were slaves. At the age of six months she was acquired, along with her sister, by John Ashley, a wealthy Massachusetts slaveholders. She became known as “Mumbet” or “Mum Bett.”
For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family. One day, Ashley’s wife tried to strike Mumbet’s sister with a spade. Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead. Furious, she left the house and refused to come back. When the Ashleys tried to make her return, Mumbet consulted a lawyer, Theodore Sedgewick. With his help, Mumbet sued(起诉) for her freedom.
While serving the Ashleys, Mumbet had listened to many discussions of the new Massachusetts constitution. If the constitution said that all people were free and equal, then she thought it should apply to her. Eventually, Mumbet won her freedom---- the first slave in Massachusetts to do so under the new constitution.
Strangely enough, after the trial, the Ashleys asked Mumbet to come back and work for them as a paid employee. She declined and instead went to work for Segdewick. Mumbet died in 1829, but her legacy lived on in her many descendants(后裔). One of her great-grandchildren was W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founder of the NAACP, and an important writer and spokesperson for African American civil rights.
Mumbet’s tombstone still stands in the Massachusetts cemetery where she was buried. It reads, in part: “She was born a slave and remained a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior or equal.”
1.What do we know about Mumbet according to Paragraph 1?
A. She was born a slave
B. She was a slaveholder
C. She had a famous sister
D. She was born into a rich family
2.Why did Mumbet run away from the Ashleys?
A. She found an employer
B. She wanted to be a lawyer
C. She was hit and got angry
D. She had to take care of her sister
3.What did Mumbet learn from discussions about the new consititution?
A. She should always obey her owners’ orders
B. She should be as free and equal as whites
C. How to be a good servant
D. How to apply for a job
4.What did Mumbet do after the trial?
A. She chose to work for a lawyer
B. She found the NAACP
C. She continued to serve the Ashleys
D. She went to live with her grandchildren
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科目:高中英语 来源:2016届湖北省襄阳市高二下学期期末英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Tickets for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil have gone on sale, with fans able to apply on FIFA’s website. FIFA is expecting a similar demand to that in Germany 2006, when there were about seven applicants for every ticket of the 64 matches. And now around 3.3 million tickets will be available for the matches in 2014.
Tickets will range in price from£58 for first-round matches to£632 for the final at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian citizens over 60, local students and members of some social programs can purchase tickets for £15.
The Price of Football - World Cup 2014
Items | Prices | Items | Prices |
Ticket | £58-£112 | Final ticket | £281-£632 |
Sun cream | £9.50 | T-shirt | £13 |
McDonald’s meal | £11 | Water | £1.28 |
Imported beer | £3.83 | Domestic beer | £1.91 |
Coffee | £2.55 | Average dinner | £29 |
“It’s always difficult to predict,” said FIFA marketing director Thierry Weil. “But I truly believe that it will be more similar to what happened in Germany than in South Africa in 2010.” According to FIFA, the 2006 World Cup was attended by more than 3.3 million fans. Almost two million tickets were sold to the general public in South Africa, although the number of applications during the first ticketing phase was significantly lower.
All applications made before 10th October 2013 will enter a random selection draw if there are not enough tickets available to fulfill all requests. The sales of the leftover tickets will begin on 5th November on a first-come, first-served basis. Another phase will begin on 8th December after the draw is made. The tournament begins on 12th June, with Brazil playing the opener in Sao Paulo.
A study on the price of World Cup 2014 looked at the ticket prices and the cost of travelling to Brazil and found that our English fans face hotel costs of between£46 and£797 a night, while packages range from£2,999 to£14,999.
1.How much should a Brazilian student pay for the opening match?
A.£15 B.£58 C.£112 D.£632
2.From the passage we know that Thierry Weil_______.
A.feels proud of what they achieved in South Africa 2010
B.feels worried about the sales of the tickets for Brazil 2014
C.holds the belief that Brazil 2014 will be the greatest world cup
D.believes that more fans will attend Brazil 2014 than South Africa 2010
3.What will FIFA do if there are not enough tickets available for requests before Oct.10, 2013?
A.They will sell the spare tickets to the applicants.
B.They will sell on a first-come, first-served basis.
C.They will choose the applicants based on a random selection draw.
D.They will sell them the tickets to be sold on Dec.8.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2016届湖北省松滋市高二下学期6月月考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:完形填空
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The cultures of the East and the West really disting?uish from each other a lot.This is because the culture systems are two separate systems ____.
The origin of the eastern cultures is mainly from two countries:China and India.Both of the two cultures are gestated(孕育) by ___.In China,the mother river is the Yellow River ___ the Indian one is the Hindu River.These two cultures were ____ for several thousand years and formed their own styles.Then in the Tang Dynasty of China,the Chinese culture ____ went overseas to Japan,____ into the Japanese society and ___ the Japanese culture nowadays.Though a bit different from the Chinese one,it ____ to the same system.
When the two mother rivers gave birth to the eastern culture,another famous culture was ____ on the Mesopotamian Plain(美索不达米亚平原)—the Mesopotamian Civilization.This civilization later on developed into the cultures of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.And these two are well?known as the ____ of the European culture.____ the Chinese culture,the European one also ____ waters.When the colonists of England ____ in America,their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean.So the American culture doesn’t ___ from the European one a lot.
At the same time,the ____ of the language systems adds to the cultural differences.In the East,most languages belong to the pictographic(象形文字的) languages while the Western languages are ____ based on the Latin system,for example,the one I’m using to write this paper.
Other factors like human race difference ____ as well.However,___ the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West,the two cultures seldom ___ until recent centuries.____ they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference(干扰) from the other.
1.A.above all B.on the whole C.in all D.in no case
2.A.mountains B.plains C.lakes D.rivers
3.A.or B.for C.while D.when
4.A.developed B.improved C.created D.protected
5.A.suddenly B.quietly C.gradually D.naturally
6.A.mixed B.changed C.decided D.forced
7.A.expanded B.interrupted C.influenced D.shaped
8.A.comes B.belongs C.amounts D.adds
9.A.brought up B.carried out C.given out D.picked up
10.A.result B.sign C.base D.content
11.A.Via B.Except C.With D.Like
12.A.affected B.spread C.crossed D.formed
13.A.joined up B.went up C.broke down D.settled down
14.A.come B.suffer C.result D.differ
15.A.difference B.developmen C.appearance D.feature
16.A.properly B.partl C.simply D.mostly
17.A.last B.count C.reduce D.change
18.A.in terms of B.due to C.as to D.in case of
19.A.transform B.display C.communicate D.distinguish
20.A.Furthermore B.Meanwhile C.Therefore D.However
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014-2015学年福建省福州市高三5月适应性考试英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Mrs Bennet, Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen described Mrs Bennet as “a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper(脾气)”: she topped your list of the least favorite female family heads. With her single-minded devotion to marrying off her daughters, she is one of literature’s parents involving themselves in their sons’ or daughters’ private lives. And at least she pays attention to her daughters. Whatever one might lay at her daughters’ door, she defends them.
Helen Graham, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The second and final novel by Anne Bront was so shocking that after Anne’s death, her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication. Published for the first time in 1848, it told the story of a woman who escapes her alcoholic husband to protect her young son. In fleeing her husband, Helen was not just challenging social structures, she was breaking the law: at the time, a married woman had no independent legal existence, and by taking her child with her she was likely to be punished for kidnapping(诱拐). Helen’s actions didn’t just establish her as a good mother; they helped to cause a movement.
Marilla Cuthbert, Anne of Green Gables
The adoptive mother of orphan Anne makes herself known as a softy through the course of the 1908 novel: so much so that Margaret Attwood has claimed that Marilla is the true central character: “Her growing love for Anne, and her growing ability to express that love – not Anne’s duckling-to-swan act – is the real magic transformation. Anne is the catalyst(催化剂) who allows the strict Marilla to finally express her long-buried softer human emotions.”
Mrs Waterbury, The Railway Children
The Railway Children’s female family head is “a very real mother, strong but also easily hurt.” Presenting an idealized(理想化) vision of childhood, yet the novel contains a tension between appearance and reality – which some have said reflects its author E Nesbit’s personal life. Her husband had an ongoing affair with her best friend, who bore him two children that Nesbit raised as her own. Jenny Agutter has said: “Nesbit’s life was always unstable. What saved her was her belief that things would work out in the end … Against the background of her own tense and complex family life, she wrote stories about families that were joined perfectly together.”
1.The passage mainly discusses _____________ in literature.
A. families
B. mothers
C. emotional life
D. parent-child communication
2.Which of the following is TRUE about the four characters in the novels mentioned in the passage?
A. Mrs Bennet is a most controlling person.
B. Helen Graham is a person to give up easily.
C. Marilla Cuthbert is hard to get along with .
D. Mrs Waterbury is poor at holding together a family
3.According to the writers mentioned in the passage, we can infer that ____________________.
A. Jane Austen was good at writing detective stories
B. Anne Bront wrote three novels altogether all her life
C. E Nesbit was looking forward to having one harmonious family
D. Margaret Attwood was very popular with readers of the early 20th century
4.Which of the following can we recommend if anyone wants to read a novel about the sweetest expression of family love.
A. Pride and Prejudice.
B. The Railway Children.
C. Anne of Green Gables.
D. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014-2015学年福建省福州市高三5月适应性考试英语试卷(解析版) 题型:单项填空
According to the regulation of Education Ministry, a full-time middle school or primary school _______ hold a flag-raising ceremony once a week, except during vacations.
A. shall B. should
C. need D. can
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科目:高中英语 来源:2016届重庆育才中学高三下学期第一次月考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Time for Kids (TFK) gets the great news on the coolest toys for 2014 at the 111th American International Toy Fair.
What’s four days long, bigger than seven football fields, and filled with thousands of toys? It’s Toy Fair 2014!
Each year, hundreds of toy companies from across the country come together in New York City. All kinds of products are shown as a way to know what’s to come in the new year. This year’s trends (款式) include oversize toys. “In 2014, everything is really big and really out there,” says Adrienne Appell, a toy-trends expert.
Toy Fair is the largest toy trade show in the Western Hemisphere (西半球). Toy-store buyers go to the event to decide which toys they may want to sell during the holiday season. Members of the media, like TFK, go to the fair to report back on all the cool trends. Unfortunately, Toy Fair is not open to the public.
This year’s Toy Fair was the biggest in its 111-year history. More than 1,000 toy companies showed products from simple card games to high-tech robots. “Larger Than Life” was a Toy Fair favorite. This trend is all about big toys with a big play value.
Though it is all fun and games at Toy Fair, we saw lots of products making a push towards education, with STEAM. That stands for science, technology, engineering, art, and math. This trend includes word games. And of course, we saw some super cool, high-tech games. “Technology is always going to influence toys,” says Appell. “This year we saw lots of 3D games, and robots.”
To know more information about the event, click (点击) here to watch the video.
1. What can we infer from Toy Fair 2014?
A. Toys are becoming more educational than fun.
B. Robots are great favorites of buyers.
C. Big toys will be popular this year.
D. Simple card games will disappear on the market.
2. What’s special about Toy Fair 2014?
A. It is the largest. B. It is the longest.
C. It sells all of its toys. D. It’s held in New York City.
3.What’s the best title for the text?
A. Kids love toys
B. Toy-stores in New York City
C. Technology changes toys
D. Time for toys
4. The text is taken from a _____.
A. website B. newspaper C.magazine D. Textbook
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科目:高中英语 来源:2016届山东潍坊一中高三下学期起初考试英语试卷(解析版) 题型:语法填空
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I always have my own ways to learn English. First, I always read the text in advance so that I can know what I must pay much attention to in class. 1.______ my delight, when my teacher raises a question, I know how to answer more often. And whenever I answer a question 2._____ (correct), I have a strong sense of achievement.
Besides, I always try to take notes in class. Important language points, grammar rules, useful 3.___ (express) and key words are4.____ we want to take down. After class, I organize the notes so that I can have a better5._______ (understand) of them. Of course, I will certainly read aloud the notes in the morning.
To develop my interest in English, after class I 6._____ (wide) read English materials. By this means I can also develop my ability of reading.
7.____ (chat) with my teachers and classmates is also one of my ways to learn English. We often talk8.____ English about different topics concerning friendship, sports, etc. Free expression in English always 9.____ (give) me a sense of pride, 10._____ in turn inspires me to learn English better.
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