Consider yourself warned. Sunday is April Fools' Day, a day when you are encouraged to play tricks on loved ones and even the people you meet at the bus stop. It's a strange tradition, but how did it get started?
Nobody is completely sure about the origin of this, the silliest of holidays. However, the urban legend experts at Snopes. com say that most experts owe it to Pope Gregory XⅢ, who, in the 1500s, gave the world the Gregorian calendar.
In 1562, the Gregorian calendar moved the first day of the year from April l to January l. Word did eventually get around, but some people were a bit slow to hear the news. These folks continued celebrating the new year on April l , unaware that they were now three months behind the times. These "April fools" were tricked by those who knew it. The tradition eventually made its way to the US.
And it's still going strong. Over the past week, Web searches on " April Fools' Day jokes" and " April Fools' Day tricks" have more than doubled, and related lookups for "easy April Fools' Day tricks" and "April Fools' Day jokes for work" have also increased greatly. Bottom line: Keep your guard up, especially if somebody offers you a word search puzzle. Lookups for "impossible April Fools' Day word searches" are up by 200%.
But really, there is no way to be certain you'll escape trickery because even companies are out to trick you on April l. In 1957, the BBC reported Swiss farmers were harvesting spaghetti(意大利面) from trees. And in 1996, Taco Bell took out ads in major newspapers announcing that the company had purchased the Liberty Bell and renamed it the Taco Liberty Bell.
1.What is the author's purpose of writing the text?
A. To teach us how to avoid being tricked.
B. To point out the best way to trick others.
C. To introduce the history of April Fools' Day.
D. To stress the importance of April Fools' Day.
2.What can we know from Paragraph 3?
A. April lst was once the first day of the year.
B. April Fools' Day was set by Pope Gregory XⅢ.
C. April Fools' Day has been celebrated for thousands of years.
D. Started in the US, April Fools' Day is popular around the world.
3.From the 4th paragraph, we can learn that .
A. people enjoy being April Fools
B. April Fools' Day is still very popular
C. those tricks used on April 1 are much the same
D. people like to celebrate April Fools' Day online
4.The examples listed in the last paragraph are used to show .
A. a modern farming technology
B. what newspapers without ads are like
C. how the Taco Liberty Bell got its name
D. how some companies trick the public
科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年青海西宁市高一12月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：七选五
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Q & A
Question: I have recently got a senior position within my company．One of my new tasks is to make monthly progress reports on my department in front of other senior officials. During my first meeting, I presented and then opened the floor to questions. 1. _ My first reaction was to answer defensively(防卫地;戒备地). Later, I realized that I shouldn’t have felt that way. But how can I keep cool and effectively answer questions in this type of settings?
Answer: Congratulations on your new position! Presenting in front of your peers (同事) is a hard task in itself and it becomes much more difficult when a question-and-answer period is required! Question-and-answer periods are a great way to clarify (使……清楚) the message and strengthen key points． 2.__
● 3.
When a person is asking a question, show interest and a desire to understand the question by listening and asking for clarification.
● Buy time
When facing a hard question, most people can’t give an answer immediately. Buy time by repeating the question in your own words. 4. These techniques allow you to quickly organize your thoughts as well as to make sure you will be correctly answering the question．
● Suggest a private meeting.
A one-to-one meeting is a calmer setting than speaking in front of your peers． 5.
A．Show your true interest.
B．Restate the question with respect.
C．Some ideas can be quite concrete.
D．There were many difficult questions.
E．It can also be more effective in exchanging ideas.
F．You may also ask for clarification on the question.
G．Here are some ideas that can help prepare for your next meeting.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年吉林省吉林市校高一5月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Robert Owen was born in Wales in 1771. At the age of ten he went to work. His employer had a large private library so Owen was able to educate himself. He read a lot in his spare time and at nineteen he was given the job of superintendent(监工) at a Manchester cotton mill. He was so successful there that he persuaded his employer to buy the New Lanark mill in Scotland.
When he arrived at New Lanark it was a dirty little town with a population of 2,000 people. Nobody paid any attention to the workers' houses or their children's education. The conditions in the factories were very bad. There was a lot of crime and the men spent most of their wages on alcoholic drinks.
Owen improved the houses. He encouraged people to be clean and save money. He opened a shop and sold the workers cheap, well-made goods to help them. He limited the sale of alcoholic drinks. Above all, he fixed his mind on the children's education. In 1816 he opened the first free primary school in Britain.
People came from all over the country to visit Owen's factory. They saw that the workers were healthier and more efficient than in other towns. Their children were better fed and better educated. Owen tried the same experiment in the United States. He bought some land there in 1825, but the community was too far away. He could not keep it under control and lost most of his money.
Owen never stopped fighting for his idea. Above all he believed that people are not born good or bad. He was a practical man and his ideas were practical. "If you give people good working conditions," he thought, "they will work well and, the most important thing of all, if you give them the chance to learn, they will be better people."
1.For Owen, his greatest achievement in New Lanark was _____.
A. improving worker's houses
B. providing the children with a good education
C. helping people to save money
D. preventing men from getting drunk
2.From the passage we may infer that Owen was born _____.
A. into a rich family B. into a noble family
C. into a poor family D. into a middle class family
3.Owen's experiment in the United States failed because _____.
A. he lost all his money
B. people who visited it were not impressed
C. he did not buy enough land
D. it was too far away for him to organize it properly
4.We may infer from the passage that no children in Britain could enjoy free education until _____.
A. 1771 B. 1816 C. 1825 D. 1860
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年湖南永州四中高一下期末综合水平检测英语卷（解析版） 题型：七选五
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How to express your anger
The best way to manage anger is by dealing with it directly—you must learn to express your anger in a healthy and helpful way.
Expressing yourself when you are very angry can be difficult. But it can also be very helpful. 1. They feel better about themselves. And most importantly, they are taking control of their own emotions. They are reacting to their anger in a good way.
2. First, stay calm when you are expressing yourself. It is also important to be clear and direct when you express yourself. You should also show respect to the other person.
It is also important not to blame other people. Blaming other people can lead to arguing and fighting. Instead, people should express their anger by saying what they are feeling. For example, if a person is angry, she should use “I statements”. These are simple sentences that state how a person feels. For example, you should not say “You never help me clean the home”! 3. When people are expressing their anger, they should remember to think about the other people who are involved in the situation. 4. Often, when people look at a situation in this way, they can admit that they are not always being fair. People can admit that their anger is not being helpful. People cannot always control what other people do or what happens around them. But people can control the way they react!
Do not let your anger build up inside of you! As a person once said:“It is not good for me to hold on to anger. 5. ”
A. You can talk to a doctor.
B. I am the only one that it is really hurting.
C. Words can be extremely damaging to a relationship.
D. Try to look at the situation from the other person’s point of view.
E. When people can express their needs, they feel like they are solving the problem.
F. Instead, you could say “I am angry that you did not offer to help me clean the home”.
G. But there are things people should remember when they express their needs when angry.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年四川省高二12月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填人适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。
On a 1. （freeze）cold day, Mrs Smith’s dog was hungry, but there was not any meat 2.(leave) in the house.
3. (consider) there was no better way, Mrs Smith took a piece of paper, and wrote the 4. (follow) words:“Give my dog half a pound of meat.” Then she asked her dog to take it to the butcher’s. When the butcher recognized that it was really the lady’s handwriting, he did as he 5. (ask) to. The dog was very happy, and ate the meat up immediately.
The next day, the dog came again exactly at midday. And as 6. (usually), it brought a piece of paper in the mouth. This time the butcher did not take a look at the paper, and just gave the dog its meat, for he had regarded the dog7. one of his customers.
One day later, to the butcher’s more surprise, it came at six o’clock and brought 8. third piece of paper. Though 9. (surprise), the butcher gave him 10. he wanted. But what he didn’t know was that there were not any words on the paper!
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科目：高中英语 来源：2017届江西上高县二中高三上第四次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When my son Gene was about 12 years old, I started helping him learn to . I bought twenty chickens and asked him to them. I told him that they would be his own chickens and we would the eggs from him. However, he would have to buy chicken with the money he made from the eggs. Whatever money was would be his to keep. Gene was , thinking he would make his first .
After several weeks’ successful work, I began to that egg production was going down. I nothing about it. Then one night, Gene told me he didn’t have money to buy the feed. He said the chickens had never a meal and he could not figure out why some of them had stopped eggs.
Then I asked him if he had the amount of feed he had given the chickens, he was . It was like he did not think anyone would ever what he had done. After a long , he said yes. He thought he would make more money if he gave them food. I asked him, “Did you fool the chickens?”
I was just astonished at the question in my own . I was dumbfounded (惊呆) at the of it. Yes, you can fool everyone else, but you cannot “fool the chickens,” because , you will find out, as the saying goes, “What goes around comes around.”
1.A. work B. shareC. countD. cook
2.A. play B. observeC. trainD. raise
3.A. saveB. borrowC. buyD. keep
4.A. nestB. soupC. meatD. feed
5.A. given backB. left over C. picked upD. brought in
6.A. satisfiedB. worriedC. excited D. cautious
7.A. fortune B. contributionC. deal D. choice
8.A. hearB. noticeC. predictD. spot
9.A. saidB. criticizedC. thoughtD. reminded
10.A. privateB. muchC. pocketD. enough
11.A. missedB. wastedC. enjoyedD. finished
12.A. hatchingB. layingC. gatheringD. bearing
13.A. balancedB. increasedC. reducedD. measured
14.A. delightedB. disappointedC. confusedD. shocked
15.A. forgiveB. knowC. researchD. accept
16.A. silenceB. absenceC. negotiationD. discussion
17.A. fewerB. fresherC. moreD. less
18.A. lifeB. jobC. mind D. case
19.A. explanationB. trickC. significance D. example
20.A. actuallyB. finallyC. ratherD. instead
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年山西太原五中高二12月段测英语试卷（解析版） 题型：短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，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。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（/\），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：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
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。
There are a lot public holidays for Chinese people, such as National Day, May Day, and Children’s Day. But I think we should have other holiday——Farmers’ Day. Firstly, China is a agricultural country. Farmers really play a very importantly role in China. They provide food for us, without which we cannot to live. Secondly, farmers offered a lot to the development of industry. Lastly of all, most farmers work hard, with little time to enjoy themselves. Some people look down upon farmers so they think farmers do not have many knowledge. I suggest that there should be a Farmers’ Day to show respect for these 900 millions farmers in China.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2017届四川省高三12月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
A Hong Kong Disneyland park admission ticket is your passport to a full day of magical adventures. Learn the ways to buy your tickets now.
Three types of 1-day ticket are available:
Ticket Type | Price |
General Admission Ticket (aged 12—64) | HK $ 499 |
Child Ticket (aged 3—11) | HK $ 355 |
Senior Ticket (aged 65 or above) | HK $ 100 |
Free admission for Child aged under 3.
Book Online Now
Purchase tickets conveniently through our website, then pick up your tickets starting from 1 hour after you have purchased online.
Purchase Tickets Directly at Hong Kong Disneyland Ticket Express
You can purchase tickets at the Hong Kong Disneyland Ticket Express, conveniently located at the MTR Hong Kong Station. Open from 9:00 am — 8:00 pm on Mondays to Fridays and from 9:00 am — 5:00 pm on Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays.
Purchase 2 Park Tickets at one of the following locations and receive a FREE limited-edition Disney gift:
★ Avenue of Stars Kiosks
You can purchase tickets at Avenue of Stars Kiosks in Tsim Sha Tsui. Open daily from 9:00 am — 10:30 pm.
★ Asia World-Expo Box Office
You can purchase tickets at Asia World-Expo Box Office. Open Mondays to Fridays from 10:00 am — 6:00 pm.
Reserve Tickets for Hotel Guest
As a hotel Guest of Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel or Disney’s Hollywood Hotel, Park tickets are reserved for your purchase at front desk. Open daily from 9:00 am — 8:00 pm.
Buy at Hong Kong Disneyland Main Entrance
Guests can purchase tickets on the day of their visit at the Main Entrance Ticket Booths or Guest Relations Windows. Open daily from 30 minutes before Park opening until Park closes.
1.In which place can you get a free gift for buying two tickets?
A. Hong Kong Disneyland Ticket Express.
B. Disney’s Hollywood Hotel.
C. Hong Kong Disneyland main Entrance.
D. Asia World-Expo Box Office.
2.For a young couple with a 2-year-old kid spending a day in the park, they have to pay at least ________.
A. HK$499B. HK$854C. HK$998D. HK$1353
3.To buy tickets at Hong Kong Disneyland Ticket Express on Sundays, you have to get there before ________.
A. 10:30 pmB. 6:00 pmC. 5:00 pmD. 8:00 pm
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年山西阳高县一中高二上期第三次模块考试英语卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
As we know, it is important to be honest with children. But there are some things in this world that simply aren’t . Sometimes it makes sense for parents to to their children.
I still remember my three-year-old daughter’s face when we watched the that twenty children at Sandy Hook Elementary School had been killed. After a few minutes she and put her arms around my legs and said, “I love you, Momma.” I was still whether or not to turn the TV off when she, , asked, “Momma, why aren’t those kids OK?” I just that they were smart children, they did something wrong and got punished.
We’re not all of a little lie here and there. Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and Snow White are just a few examples of for parents to keep magic in the world. Magic, imagination and creativity are very essential in life, for children. These stories battle against the negative aspects of the world and create . In the end children will be able to what is true and what was made to their lives. Out of five brothers and a sister I can happily report that not one of the children I grew up with was when we discovered who all those people really were.
In life, a parent is the of knowledge, and it is up to the parent to decide what knowledge to teach and when. There’s no to tell children all about the truth. As they become , they will have a better understanding of the world.
1.A. user-friendly B. kid-friendly C. reader-friendly D. teacher-friendly
2.A. agree B. Talk C. lie D. react
3.A. news B. game C. discussionD. experiment
4.A. came outB. fell down C. called backD. reached up
5.A. long B. little C. thin D. strong
6.A. arguingB. researching C. considering D. questioning
7. A. in peace B. in dangerC. in doubt D. in puzzlement
8.A. explained B. announced C. suggested D. apologized
9. A. so B. but C. or D. until
10. A. afraid B. tiredC. guilty D. nervous
11.A. activities B. goals C. possibilities D. ways
12.A. especially B. probably C. gradually D. frequently
13.A. luck B. hope C. honor D. wealth
14. A. describe B. predict C. understand D. remember
15.A. save B. live C. start D. better
16. A. excited B. upsetC. special D. curious
17.A. imaginary B. homeless C. strangeD. generous
18.A. friendB. partner C. keeper D. advisor
19. A. time B. choice C. risk D. need
20.A. older B. cleverer C. braver D. busier
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