The world’s first “Sky Pool” has been uncoated-and it’ll give anyone a touch of dizzi-ness, unless he or she is not bothered by heights.
Situated in the capital’s new riverside district beside Battersea Power Station, the glass pool, hanging 10 storeys, or 110 feet up as a bridge between two apartment buildings, is 25m long, 5m wide and 3m deep with a water depth of 1. 2m. Swimmers will be able to look down 35 metres to the street below as they take a dip, with only 20cm of glass between them and the outside world It’s even got a bar, folding chairs and an orange garden.
The pool will be part of Embassy Gardens at Nine Elms, a huge billion building pro-ject beside the new American Embassy in south-west London. The project is creating thou-sands of apartments, the smallest of which are expected to cost nearly $ 1 million, and the pool will only be open to the apartments’ owners.
Embassy Gardens takes design inspiration from the Meatpacking District of New York with floor to ceiling windows and brick frontages. The designer, Sean Mulryan, desired to push the boundaries in the capability of construction and engineering and do something that had never been done before. The Sky Pool’s transparent structure is the result of significant advancements in technologies over the last decade.
The experience of the pool will be truly unique and it will feel like floating through the air in central London.
Those people lucky enough to swim there will have a faultless view of the Palace of West-minster and the London Eye. It will be a selling point for developers when the second stage of the development is released to market.
1.Who can swim in the Sky Pool?
A. Anyone at Nine Elms. B. Visitors to London.
C. People living in Embassy Gardens. D. Those who are not terrified of heights.
2.People lucky enough to swim in the Sky Pool can do the following except .
A. drinking with friends B. sitting in the orange garden
C. appreciating the London Eye D. experiencing diving and surfing
3.What do we know from the text?
A. The pool is 25 metres above the ground.
B. The pool was similar to New York’s modern constructions.
C. The pool lies in the centre of London.
D. The pool is helpful for selling apartments in Embassy Gardens.
4.We can infer from the text that .
A. The apartments of Embassy Garden are fairly expensive
B. the new American Embassy has been moved away
C. Nine Elms is a street in Embassy Gardens
D. building the pool is not a complex job
科目：高中英语 来源：山东省淄博市2016-2017学年高一下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
Companion(同伴)robots are playing an ever-increasing role in helping busy people look after the elderly and children. With an aging population and an increasing labor shortage, the demand for companion robots for elder care and children’s companions is on the rise.
Xiaoyuzaijia is an intelligent companion robot produced by Zaijia.com, a Beijing-based startup engaged in internet hardware and intelligent home appliances businesses.
If the elderly people are ill at home, the robot can bring medicine and water. The robot will open the door when the guest comes. It can even tell a story, sing a song and play chess.
The number of elderly people aged 60 and above reached more than 222 million in 2015, accounting for 16.2 percent of the total population, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. It is estimated that the number will reach 243 million in 2020.
Song Chenfeng, founder and CEO of Zaijia, said: "The robot is equipped with a monitoring camera and other hardware for facial and voice recognition.” Family members could also connect their smart phones with the robot. “When the elderly fall or the children cry at home, the robot will send messages to inform other family members," he said. “The companion robot should be an important 'blue sea' in the intelligent household robot market. Xiaoyuzaijia aims at white-collar people who are busy with their work and spend less time accompanying their family members. It builds a bridge among family members and satisfies the emotional communications needs of modern people,” said Song.
Yuan Wenhui, chairman of Zaijia, said the company will offer personalized service in the family healthcare and children's education sectors, based on big data algorithms, aiming to be an indispensable intelligent family housekeeper in the future.
Statistics from the International Federation of Robotics show that the market demand for service robots will boom in the next three years, with the market scale reaching $46 billion.
1.Why will the companion robots be warmly welcomed?
A. They are equipped with a camera and other hardware
B. They are helpful in the care of the elder and children
C. They can be connect with their family members
D. They can bring medicine and even tell stories
2.Which can replace the underlined phrase “accounting for” in Paragraph 4?
A. taking on B. taking off
C. making out D. making up
3.Who is the companion robot of Zaijia mainly designed for?
A. The doctors B. The injured
C. The white-collar D. The students
4.Which could be the best title for the text?
A. Companion robots will be our best friends
B. Companion robots will be our family pets
C. Companion robots will help you do anything
D. Companion robots will replace housekeepers
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科目：高中英语 来源：广东省佛山市2016-2017学年高一上学期第一次大考英语试卷 题型：单句改错
每句中只有一处错误，每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，并在改词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改仅限一词； 2. 每句只允许修改1处，多者不计分。
1.He told me that how important it was to learn English.
2.Now people get a lot of informations from TV.
3.If it won’t rain, we will go to visit the zoo.
4.The computer is an useful machine.
5.They only have a little room to live.
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科目：高中英语 来源：广东省佛山市2016-2017学年高一上学期第一次大考英语试卷 题型：完形填空
At midnight, Peter was awakened by heavy knocks on the door. He rolled over and looked at his _____, and it was half past one. “I’m not getting ___ at this time,” he ____ to himself, and rolled over.
Then, a ______ knock followed. “Aren’t you going to ____ it?” said his wife.
So he dragged himself out of bed and went downstairs. He opened the door and there was a man
______ at the door. It didn’t take long to ______ the man was drunk.
“Hi, there, ” slurred (嘟囔) the stranger, “Can you give me a push?”
“No, _____. It’s half past one. I was _____,” Peter said and slammed（猛关） the door. He went back ______ to bed and told his wife what had happened.
She said, “That wasn’t very ______ of you. Remember that night we had a _____ in the pouring rain on the way to ____ the kids and you had to knock on a man’s door to get our car
____ again? What would have happened if he’d told _____ to go away? ”
“But the guy was _______,” said Peter.
“It doesn’t matter,” said the wife. “He needs help ______ it would be the Christian thing to help him.”
So Peter went out of bed again, got dressed, and went downstairs. He opened the door, and not being able to see the stranger anywhere, he shouted, “Hey, do you still want a ___ ?”
And he heard a _____, “Yeah, please.”
So still being unable to see the stranger, he shouted, “_____ are you?”
The drunk replied, “Over here, on the swing(秋千).”
1.A. door B. wife C. clock D. window
2.A. into trouble B. out of the house C. down to work D. out of bed
3.A. complained B. explained C. thought D. replied
4.A. louder B. weaker C. longer D. angrier
5.A. stand B. stop C. refuse D. answer
6.A. knocking B. lying C. standing D. looking
7.A. remember B. realize C. show D. doubt
8.A. go out B. go away C. go ahead D. go up
9.A. in bed B. in surprise C. at home D. at work
10.A. down B. in C. inside D. up
11.A. foolish B. nice C. typical D. generous
12.A. look B. quarrel C. fight D. breakdown
13.A. put up B. pick down C. pick up D. put down
14.A. united B. refreshed C. started D. delighted
15.A. us B. them C. the man D. others
16.A. mad B. drunk C. different D. dangerous
17.A. but B. though C. and D. because
18.A. push B. rest C. room D. lift
19.A. lady B. gentleman C. sound D. voice
20.A. where B. how C. who D. what
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科目：高中英语 来源：陕西省榆林市2017届高三高考模拟第二次测试英语试卷 题型：短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，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。每处错误仅涉及一个单间的增加、删除或修改。
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：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
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。
It’s not easy for us to accept the fact which we are going to leave our beloved school. However, we are looked forward to our future life. Last night, my friends and I walk around our school talking about the funny things that had been happened in the past three years. Suddenly, I got an idea. I said to him we should make a deal that we could get together here four years late. My friends were so exciting about it, and they agreed with me. I started to think about what I would become in the future. I may becoming a teacher, or a doctor. I think deal will help us keep in touch to each other.
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科目：高中英语 来源：辽宁省沈阳市2016-2017学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷 题型：短文填空
African-American doctor Charles Richard Drew 1. (call) “the father of the blood bank” for 2. (he) outstanding role in directing America’s first large-scale blood banking program during 3. early years of World War II. He was born in 1904. After graduating from university, Drew went to Montreal General Hospital, at 4. he worked with Doctor Beattie to research into blood transfusions (输血) then and Drew became very interested in the work. He realized that it was very important to find a way 5. (store) blood so that it could be used 6. (immediate) when needed. Later, Drew 7. (develop) the technique for the long-term preservation of blood plasma (血浆).
This significant 8. (discover) of Drew’s saved countless lives during World War II. And his insistence 9. ignoring the racial background of donators and transfusion receivers meant that non-white soldiers no longer bled to death while 10. (wait) for a same-race donor to contribute blood. He died in 1950 after a car accident.
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科目：高中英语 来源：江苏省如皋市2016-2017学年高二英语：选修六 Unit 4 Helping people around the world课时练习 题型：任务型阅读
任务型阅读,请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。
注意：每空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。
Everybody loves self-improvement. That’s why we’re such enthusiastic consumers of “top 10” lists of things to do to be a more productive, promotable, mindful— you name it—leader. But these lists seldom work. What if we didn’t think of self-improvement as work? What if we thought of it as play—specifically, as playing with our sense of self?
Traditionally, people work on themselves, committed to doing everything in their power to change their leadership style. You set your goals and objectives, you are mindful of your time, and seek efficient solutions. You’re not going to deviate(偏离) from the straight and narrow. You focus on what you should do, especially as others see it, as opposed to what you want to do. It’s all very serious and not whole of fun. There is one right answer. Success or failure is the outcome. We judge ourselves.
In contrast, no matter what you’re up to, when you’re in “play” mode, your primary drivers are enjoyment and discovery instead of goals and objectives. You’re curious. You lose track of time. Like in all forms if play, the journey becomes more important than a pre-set destination.
Much research shows how play develops creativity and innovation. Play with your own idea of yourself is similar to playing with future possibilities. So, we stop evaluating today’s self against unachievable ideal of leadership that doesn’t really exist. We also stop trying to will ourselves to “commit” to becoming something we are not even sure we want to be—what we call the “feared self”, which is composed of images negative role models. And, we shift direction from submitting to what other people want us to be to becoming more self-authoring. As a result, when you play, you’re more creative and more open to what you might learn about yourself.
Unfortunately, we don’t often get —or give ourselves—permission to play with our sense of self. In life, we equate playfulness with the person who dips into a great variety of possibilities, never committing to any. We find inconsistency distasteful, so we exclude options that seem too far off from today’s “authentic self”, without ever giving them a try. This kills the discontinuous growth that only comes when we surprise ourselves.
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips once said, “people tend to play only with serious things—madness, disaster, other people.” Playing with your self is a serious effort because who we might become is not knowable or predictable at the start. That’s why it’s as dangerous as it is necessary for growth.
Lead-in |
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2.between the two mode | In work mode |
In play method | |
The8.with application of play mode | We usually regard playfulness as equal to non-professional. |
9. | 10.danger, playfulness is a must for our self-growth. |
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科目：高中英语 来源：黑龙江省伊春市2016-2017学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷 题型：完形填空
A friend of mine met with an accident driving in the darkness. His legs were so hurt that he couldn’t ______.What was worse was that he found himself unable to ask for help—his mobile phone didn’t ______ . Nothing could be done but ______ in cold wilderness. It was 8 hours later that day broke, and then the ______ of the rescue.
It is almost ______ that he could stand the horror in the darkness for so long. Even more surprising was his ______: “First of all, I checked up my physical ______ and found myself not in mortal danger. As there was no ______ to call for help, I leaned back in my seat trying my best to keep the wound from ______. In this way I dozed(打盹儿) off.”
This ______ me of another story: A group of young men ______ to explore a mountain cave and got lost. ______ to find a way out in the dark cave they were ______ and ran anxiously without a sense of ______. Finally they fell dead in fear and exhaustion. According to the ______ people that found them, the place where they got lost was only about 10 meters away from the ______ of the cave. If they stayed where they got lost and tried to ______ themselves, they would probably ______ a small light glimmering(闪烁) not far away.
We can compare it with our______ itself. Sometimes when we meet with difficulties in life, we feel lost in the darkness. If it is unclear, you needn’t put up a struggle ______. Remember: CALM DOWN!
1.A. recover B. move C. escape D. shout
2.A. control B. operate C. ring D. work
3.A. cry B. lie C. wait D. sleep
4.A. failure B. success C. team D. arrival
5.A. untrue B. unimaginable C. true D. useless
6.A. plan B. decision C. explanation D. excuse
7.A. conditions B. situations C. signs D. cases
8.A. method B. way C. tool D. strength
9.A. rotting B. spreading C. hurting D. bleeding
10.A. reminds B. informs C. demands D. tells
11.A. had B. managed C. tried D. planned
12.A. Unwilling B. Unable C. Determined D. Deciding
13.A. frightened B. surprised C. Excited D. disappointed
14.A. hearing B. sight C. feeling D. direction
15.A. rescue B. village C. local D. brave
16.A. end B. top C. opening D. door
17.A. save B. help C. check D. calm
18.A. look B. sense C. catch D. realize
19.A. adventure B. accident C. life D. experience
20.A. really B. immediately C. carefully D. certainly
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科目：高中英语 来源：黑龙江省伊春市2016-2017学年高一下学期期中考试英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
An earthquake is dangerous. But this doesn’t mean you can’t do something about it. Your choices could help save your life.
(1) Keep a cool head. Do not follow others blindly. Think carefully about what you should do.
(2) If you are inside a room, hide under a table or a desk. Protect your head. Keep away from windows and anything that could fall on you.
(3) If you smell gas, open a window and get out of the building as quickly as you can. A broken gas line is very dangerous.
(4) If you are outside, move away from buildings and street lights.
(5) If you are in a store and far away from the door, do not rush to the exit. Instead, try to hide under a desk or a table. Do not use an 
elevator.
1.An earthquake is dangerous, people should __________ when it happens.
A. do nothing B. follow others and run everywhere
C. cry loudly D. keep calm and try to help themselves
2.What can you do if you smell gas in an earthquake?
A. calls 119
B. run away from the house as quickly as you can
C. try to find out the broken gas line and mend it
D. close the windows and stay in the building
3.Peter is in a big supermarket when the earthquake comes. He should __________.
A. find the exit firstly B. run to the exit
C. take an elevator D. hide himself under a table
4.If you’re having class on the fifth floor, when the earthquake happens, you can __________ .
A. hide under your desk and protect your head
B. jump off from the open windows
C. try to find the headmaster and ask for help
D. phone your parents to tell them everything
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