The manager had something more important to do; as a result, he couldn’t here this evening.
A.pick up B. take up
C. make up D. turn up
科目:高中英语 来源:2014-2015学年山东潍坊市高三上期中英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
A broad smile spreads across the faces of Martyn Sibley and Srin Madipalli when asked where they were when they decided to launch an online lifestyle magazine for disabled people.“On the beach.”they reply.“We’ve both travelled a lot but we wanted a real adventure,”Sibley says of the California road trip during which Disability Horizons was conceived(设想).
Sibley,whose professional background is in marketing,has been writing his own blog since 2009“about what I got up to,everyday stuff about living with disability”,he says.He describes how while“wandering on the beach together”Madipalli suggested branching out beyond a oneperson blog.
Why did they want to create a“lifestyle”magazine for the disabled people?The pair,both in their 20s,say they wanted to produce something“positive and inspiring”that would tell about the lives of disabled people as they actually were.They were especially eager to produce something that showed young disabled people“what it was possible to do with their lives”,says Sibley.
In less than a year,Disability Horizons has had more than 50 regular contributors and attracted a reader base of more than 20,000 people,more than a third of whom are in the US.
Sibley and Madipalli have a genetic disease that causes progressive muscle wasting and loss of movement.They are wheelchair users and have been good friends since growing up in London and Cambridge.Listening to them joke,it makes perfect sense that their shared optimistic outlook has spilled over into the magazine.The site covers topics ranging from books and travel to clubbing and photography.“It’s definitely a mix.”Madipalli says.
1.What has Sibley been writing about in his own blog?
A.His love for travelling.
B.His attitude toward life.
C.His suffering from a disease.
D.His everyday life with disability.
2.For what purpose was Disability Horizons created?
A.To collect money for the disabled.
B.To help the disabled to make friends.
C.To organize the disabled to travel around.
D.To let people know the real life of the disabled.
3.The fourth paragraph is written to tell us that Disability Horizons__________________.
A.became popular very soon
B.was complex in marketing
C.became a failure in the US
D.was not well received at first
4.Which of the following best describes Sibley and Madipalli?
A.Kind and generous.
B.Creative and humorous.
C.Disabled but optimistic.
D.Adventurous but rude.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014学年高二上11月份教学质量检测英语试卷(解析版) 题型:单项填空
The house rent is expensive. I’ve got about half the space I had at home but I have to pay _____ here.
A. as three times much B. as much three times
C. much as three times D. three times as much
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Though British and American English have some differences in spelling and pronunciation,
they have much .
A. in general B. in common
C. in place D. in words
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014-2015学年浙江衢州市五校高二上期中英语试卷(解析版) 题型:单项填空
Used to TV shows, where everything is quick and entertaining ,many people do not have the to read a book that requires thinking.
A. courage B. wisdom
C. patience D. freedom
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014-2015学年山东临沂重点学校四校联考高一上期中英语试卷(解析版) 题型:其他题
阅读下面短文,根据语境和以下提示:1)汉语提示,2)首字母提示,3)词语提示,在每个空格内填入适当的英语单词,所填单词要求意义准确,拼写正确,并将该词完整地写在答题卡中相应的横线上。
Several days before July 28, 1976, many strange things happened in Tangshan. They were signs for the e 1. . But people in the city of Tangshan didn’t think much of these. At 342 a.m. on July 28, 1976, the 2. (great)earthquake of the 20th century happened in Tangshan, Hebei Province, China. In fifteen terrible seconds, a large city lay in r 3. . The number of people who were killed or i 4. reached more than 400 000. Nearly everything was 5. (破坏), including hospitals, factories, buildings, dams, railway tracks, etc. Water, food and 6. (电)were hard to get. People wondered how long the disaster would last.
Not all hope was lost. The army sent 150 000 soldiers to Tangshan to help the 7. (援救) workers,and some of them and doctors were 8. (trap) under the ruins. Slowly the city began to 9. (breath)again. From then on, every year on July 28, we would honour those who died in the terrible disaster and those who helped the 10. (幸存者).?
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014-2015学年山东临沂重点学校四校联考高一上期中英语试卷(解析版) 题型:单项填空
Most students for Jim as they thought him active and honest.
A. voted B. turned
C. worked D. thought
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014-2015学年辽宁沈阳铁路实验中学高二上第二次月考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Most young people enjoy some forms of physical activities. It may be walking, cycling or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some kind, football, hockey, golf, or tennis, it may be mountaineering.
Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountaineering? This astonishment is caused probably by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure.
Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man?made rules, as there are for such game as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of a different kind, which would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man?made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.
If we compare mountaineering with other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a “game”. We would be mistaken in this assumption. There are, it is true, no “matches” between “teams” of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork.
The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of nature. His sport requires high mental and physical capacities.
A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his prime by the age of thirty, and most international tennis champions are in their early twenties. But it is not unusual for a man of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more time than younger men, but they probably climb with more skill and less wasted effort, and they certainly experience enjoyment.
1.Mountaineering is a sport which involves all the following things EXCEPT ______.
A.hardship B. comfort
C.physical risk D.cold
2.The main difference between a sport and a game lies in origin of the ________.
A.uniform B.activity
C.skills D. rules
3.Mountaineering is also a team sport because ________.
A.it involves rules as well
B.it involves matches between teams
C.mountaineers depend on each other while climbing
D.it requires mental and physical qualifications
4.Which of the following is TRUE?
A.Mountaineers compete against nature.
B.Mountaineers compete against teams.
C.Mountaineers compete against each other.
D.Mountaineers compete against international standard.
5.What is the best title for the text?
A.Mountain Climbers.
B.Mountaineering.
C.Mountaineering is gaining popularity.
D.Mountaineering is More Dangerous than Other Sports.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014-2015学年福建漳州芗城中学高二上期中英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Every living cell contains genes. They are too small to be seen in a microscope, but they are very important. Each set of genes in the body contains all the instructions needed to make a human being. Some genes determine hair color. Some determine the shape of a nose. Some genes help determine your height and even your weight.
Genes are made of a chemical called DNA-the letters stand for deoxyribonucleic acid(脱氧核糖核酸). In the early 1950's, two scientists, Francis Crick and James Watson, figured out how the parts of DNA fit together. Once scientists understood this structure, it became possible to take pieces of DNA apart and put them together in new ways. New kinds of genes could be made in this manner.
Scientists have studied the genes of many plants and animals. They have worked out which genes affect the color of a tomato and the thickness of its skin. Working out which genes determine which features is called genetic mapping, scientists have begun the Human Genome Project, an ambitious effort to map all the genes in the human body.
Some genes may be defective(有缺陷的). For example, something might be wrong with the gene that makes blood clot(凝聚). A baby born with this defective gene could suffer serious hemorrhages(出血) or even bleed to death because his or her blood fails to clot. If scientists ever learn how to map all the genes in our bodies, they can determine whether or not an unborn child has any defective genes. They might even discover how to treat these genes before the child is born.
1.What was the achievement of Francis Crick and James Watson?
A. They discovered why people have different hair colors.
B. They learned that some people bleed for long periods of time.
C. They looked at human cells under the microscope.
D. They worked out the structure of DNA.
2.What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Defective genes can never be repaired.
B. Genes are too small to be seen through a microscope.
C. Genes help scientists understand how living things develop their characteristics.
D. The Human Genome Project may explain the role of every gene in the body.
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