-- How about seeing a film this evening?
-- ________ I haven’t seen any for half a year.
A.No chance. B. That’s right.
C. Why not? D. My pleasure.
科目:高中英语 来源:2014-2015学年山东聊城莘县第一中学高一上第一次月考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Joker found one of the biggest diamonds in the world in his own back yard. He sold the stone to a diamond dealer for over three hundred thousand dollars. In New York, the diamond was resold. This time for almost eight hundred thousand dollars. The true value of a diamond is never known until it has been cut. Once cut successfully, its value can increase a thousand times. It’s easy to understand why the owner of the Joker diamond went to the best diamond cutter he knew, Kaplan. The cutter studied the diamond for twelve whole months.
When he felt he was ready to start work, he discovered a flaw (瑕疵). He had to begin with his calculations (计算) all over again, or he might have made the stone useless. Six more months passed, and Kaplan finally said to the owner, “I am ready to start my work. There will be one excellent diamond that will be comparable to any in the world, plus eleven small diamonds of first-class quality.” Kaplan waited a few more days until he felt he was in the best physical and mental (精神的) condition possible. He picked up his tools and held his breath as he made the first
blow. The diamond split (切开) exactly as he promised.
1.Joker found one of the biggest diamonds in the world _______.
A. in a minute B. at the foot of a big mountain
C. in his own backyard D. in a garage
2. A diamond dealer is a person _______,
A. in the diamond business B. who stores diamonds
C. who cuts diamonds D. who sells diamonds
3.When the diamond was resold, _______.
A. the dealer lost a lot of money
B. Joker made some more money
C. the dealer got 800,000 dollars
D. Kaplan got 800,000 dollars
4.The owner of the diamond thought that if the diamond was cut successfully it might be worth _______.
A. $300,000 B. $500, 000
C. $300, 000,000 D. $800, 000, 000
5.Kaplan studied the diamond for _______.
A. one and a half years B. more than half a year
C. over eighteen months D. more than nineteen months
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014-2015学年浙江杭州地区七校高三上期末英语试卷(解析版) 题型:单项填空
– You look so young. Haven’t you graduated from your university ?
- Yes, I _______ in the English Department of Zhejiang Normal University for four years.
A. was studying B. study
C. had studied D. studied
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014-2015学年新疆师范大学附属中学高三12月月考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Next time you hear a funny joke you’d better not laugh too hard. According to a paper published by the British Medical Journal, laughter isn’t always the best medicine. Sometimes it can even be harmful. Professor Robin Ferner from the University of Birmingham, one of the authors of the study, found that bad things could happen to people who laughed too much. He says: “We found people with heartbeat problems which had stopped their heart, we found people who had fainted(昏倒), and we found people who’d dislocated their jaws or burst their lungs.”
It seems that laughing can be no laughing matter. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Professor Ferner says there are benefits to laughing when you want to lose weight, for example. Yes, that’s right: laugh and be slimmer! Professor Ferner explains that: “You use energy when you laugh, you move your diaphragm(横膈膜), you expand your lungs, and both those things can be helpful.”
According to the research, laughing for a quarter of an hour can burn up to 40 calories, and if you laughed all day you’d use up about 2,000 calories, which is what most people consume in a day. But don’t do that or you might end up with a painful jaw. Ouch! Or you might find people looking at you in a funny way.
But I don’t want to finish this article leaving you feeling desperate. Laughter comes naturally for most of us. Babies begin to laugh at around 3-6 months. So give in to your sense of humor and keep smiling. Life is short anyway.
1.Laughing too much may cause the following harmful results EXCEPT_________.
A. diaphragm movement
B. heart stop
C. lung burst
D. jaw dislocation
2.The underlined phrase “doom and gloom” in Paragraph 2 probably means_______.
A. nervous B. funny
C. painful D. hopeless
3. How many calories can you use if you laugh for half a day?
A. About 40. B. About 2,000.
C. About 1,000. D. About 2,040.
4. What is the author’s attitude towards laughing in the last paragraph?
A. Uninterested. B. Favorable.
C. Worried. D. Disapproving.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014-2015学年陕西宝鸡中学高三上第二次(12月)月考B卷英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
For Canadians, backpacking Europe is a special ceremony signifying a new life stage. Unlike package tours, backpacking is a struggle, full of discovery and chance connections. It is about focusing on something different from our own lives and losing ourselves in a new world, if only for a moment.
Well, that's what backpacking Europe is supposed to do. That’s what it used to do before modern communications, social media, and commercial hostelling (旅社). Older Canadians would not recognize the Europe that they backpacked in the 1960s, 1970s and even the 1980s. Far from a rough adventure into foreign cultures, the European experience has been shattered in part by today's technology.
A few years ago, I took my then 60-year-old father on a backpacking trip across part of Europe and Turkey. As he is an experienced traveler and someone who possesses a strong sense of adventure, I decided that we'd travel on a budget, staying in hostel dorms. For him, backpacking through Europe in 1969 was about independence and struggle. But two things surprised him at the end of our journey. First was how technology-based backpacking had become: Young people were so directly connected to home that they were hardly away in any meaningful sense. Second, the lack of connections we made with locals. Instead of making us feel closer to a place, he found commercial hostelling actually made us more alienated (疏远的).
But there was some room for hope. While technology takes our attention away from the beauty and history before us, there were also ways in which it helped us to connect with our surroundings. Websites like Airbnb have made it easier to stay with enthusiastic locals. Couch Surfing helps organize meet-ups between locals and travelers. The online marketplace Dopios offers a chance to meet locals through enjoyable experiences like a personalized city tour.
Backpacking can never be the way it was for our parents’ generation. But doing a little study of history and culture before leaving, and bravely getting rid of any electronic devices while traveling, will help give young travelers a taste of the glory days.
1.The underlined word “shattered” in Paragraph 2 most probably means ________.
A. broadened B. relived
C. ruined D. acquired
2.Which of the following can be used to describe the author’s father?
A. Sensitive. B. Adventurous.
C. Strict. D. Generous.
3.After the recent backpacking trip in Europe, the author’s father finds ________.
A. backpackers connect less with locals than before
B. young people dislike getting in touch with their family
C. a hostel is a nice place for travelers to meet each other
D. backpacking in Europe becomes more difficult than before
4.What’s the author’s attitude towards technology?
A. Negative.
B. Objective.
C. Uncertain.
D. Uninterested.
5.The text mainly discusses the relationship between ________.
A. technology and traveling
B. adventures and cultures
C. young people and their family
D. Canadian travelers and Europeans
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014-2015学年陕西宝鸡中学高三上第二次(12月)月考B卷英语试卷(解析版) 题型:单项填空
Judging from his______ expression, this problem must be quite ______.
A. puzzling; puzzling B. puzzled; puzzled
C. puzzling; puzzled D. puzzled; puzzling
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My grandfather is as ______ as a young man and hates sitting around doing nothing all day.
A. enthusiastic B. energetic
C. talkative D. sensitive
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014-2015学年江西南昌第三中学高三上第四次月考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
If you saw another kid ride her bike too fast around a corner and fall down, you might ride your bike more slowly on that turn. Yes, we humans are very sensitive to others' mistakes. And the same is true for other animals. Animals mess up all the time. They might eat poisonous leaves, fall off a tree or let their prey (猎物) slip away. By watching others fail, an animal can avoid making the same mistakes, thus improving its chance of survival.
Scientists suspected that one part of the brain helps animals process information about others' errors. Cells in that part appear to become more active when a person sees someone else making a mistake. But researchers didn't know whether individual cells in this part of the brain play different roles in detecting errors.
To investigate the brain's response to errors in more detail, the researchers taught a game to two macaques, a type of monkey. One monkey could press a yellow or green button while the other watched. If the first monkey pressed the right button, the team gave both animals a treat. Every couple of rounds, the two monkeys switched roles. Meanwhile, the scientists monitored individual cells in the animal's brains.
When the first monkey messed up the game by pressing the wrong button, a group of cells in the second monkey's brain fired. But if the second monkey also made the wrong choice during its turn, some of the cells in that group didn't respond. Those unresponsive cells reacted specifically to mistakes made by others, not to the monkey's own mistakes.
Scientists believe other parts of the brain also might help people process information about another's errors. "You start to think about this other person and see things from his angle. " Ellen de Bruijn, told Science News. She studies the brain at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.
1. According to Paragraph 1 , animals' ability to learn from others' mistakes ______.
A. used to be ignored by humans
B. ensures that they will never fail
C. is being lost because of humans
D. helps them to survive better
2.The underlined word "detecting" in Paragraph 2 probably means "______".
A. correcting B. making C. sensing D. drawing
3.In the experiment mentioned, those unresponsive cells are only sensitive to ______.
A. the same buttons B. others' mistakes
C. one's own mistakes D. the monkey's brain
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014-2015学年福建莆田市高三上第二次月考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:单项填空
Have you ever met with this case in your life you can't understand others even if they have said something several times?
A. where B. what C. that D. which
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