So convenient _______ to pay by credit card that more and more people apply for their credit cards.
A. do people find B. people find it C. find people D. do people find it
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Modern inventions have speeded up people’s loves amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, aircraft cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts (吹嘘) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.
All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind on another time zone. Again, spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think about.
However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.
There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestor faced: they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.
The new products become more and more time-saving because .
A. our love of speed seems never-ending B. time is limited.
C. the prices are increasingly high. D. the manufactures boast a lot.
What does “the days” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Imaginary life B. Simple life in the past.
C. Times of inventions D. Time for constant activity.
What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The present and past times. B. Machinery and human beings.
C. Modern technology and its influence. D. Imaginations and inventions.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died “full of years”, as the Bible would say. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence(吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon.
At the first home, the son of the deceased（亡故的）woman said to me, “If only I sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died. ”At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, “If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take. It’s my fault that she’s dead.”
You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believe that the opposite course keeping Mother at home, putting off the operation would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?
There seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.
The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.
A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to his tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen.
The author had to conduct the two women’s funerals probably because____.
A. he was minister of the local church B. he wanted to comfort the two families
C. he was an official from the community D. he had great pity for the deceased
People feel guilty for the death of their loved ones because ____.
A. they couldn’t find a better way to express their sorrow.
B. they had neglected the natural course of events
C. they believed that they were responsible
D. they didn’t know things often turn in the opposite direction
According to the passage, the underlined part in paragraph 4 probably means that _____
A. everything in the world is predetermined
B. there’s an explanation for everything in the world
C. the world can be interpreted in different ways
D. we have to be sensible in order to understand the world
What’s the idea of the message?
A. Life and death is an unsolved mystery
B. Never feel guilty all the time because not every disaster is our fault
C. Every story should have a happy ending
D. In general, the survivors will feel guilty about the people who passed away
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The publication of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince pleases booksellers across China．The British and American editions were No.1 and No.3 separately on the sales chart of the Beijing Xidan Book Building last week. The book’s poster is highlighted and news about the book can often be heard on the radio．
Why is the book so attractive to children? With curiosity， I got a copy of “Harry Potter”．At first，I wanted to glance over it and made some criticisms(批评)．But，out of expectation，I have been deeply attracted by the magic world. On the other hand，one can’t help asking：Where is our own “Harry Potter”?
The Chinese nation has a history of 5，000 years．With a vast market of youngsters, China did publish many books popular among children. However, why are the present works not as good as those imported(进口的)?
There come two major reasons：Firstly，quite a number of children’s books are of strong sense of teaching, and lack interest and entertainment. Children often have a feeling of being “educated”．No wonder they don’t like them．Secondly, children’s reading materials involving “idiom stories” and “Chinese talents’ stories”，though always in different covers，are usually much the same．Some books are plagiarized．The authors take words，ideas from someone else’s work．One knows the ending as early as in the beginning．In final analysis，the authors of the books seldom take children’s requirements into consideration．
As a matter of fact，each child has his own wonderful imagination．They hope to understand the world and nature．Similarly they have their own choices．They dislike similar stories．even if the stories are excellent．First-class reading for children should be very interesting，which contains knowledge and the essence(精髓)of national culture，which are presented in children’s language．
Market is a touchstone for products．The theory also holds true for cultural products．It is hoped that the authors of children’s books can learn something from the good market of “Harry Potter” and write out more and better books loved by children．
Our books have the following disadvantages EXCEPT that_______．
A．they have little sense of interest and entertainment
B．many of our books are of the same
C．our authors know what our children need
D．the authors didn’t pay much attention to the children’s tastes
What does the underlined word “plagiarized” mean in Chinese?
A．改编 B．杜撰 C．印刷 D. 剽窃
The reason why Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is so popular is that____.
A．it opens a magic world for children
B．it has little sense of teaching
C．it is only written in children’s language
D．it is advertised more on TV or poster
What does the writer mean by writing “Where is our own Harry Potter”?
A．We Chinese produce more books than other countries．
B．We are short of books for children and adults．
C．Our authors are expected to make the market of children’s books take off．
D．Authors should write books named “Harry Potter”．
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He is a strict but kind teacher, , in my opinion, my son loves and respects.
A．one B．he C．the one who D．he who
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If it were not for the fact that she __________ sing, I would invite her to the party.
A. couldn’t B. shouldn’t C. can’t D. might not
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I have told you the truth. I keep repeating it?
A. Must B. Can C. May D. Will
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---Put these glasses away before they __________.
---OK. I’ll put them in the cupboard.
A. have broken B. are breaking C. will be broken D. get broken
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The new China was founded in 1949, ______ great changes have taken place.
A. since when B. after which C. in which D. when
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