You watch them until ten o’clock then I’ll ______.
A. take up B. take place
C. take over D. take off
科目:高中英语 来源:2016届陕西西安市高三上第六次诊断考英语卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Scientists have devised a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand (缕) of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims.
The method relies on measuring how chemical variations in drinking water show up in people’s hair.
“You’re what you eat and drink, and that’s recorded in your hair,” said Thure Cerling, a geologist at the University of Utah.
While U.S diet is relatively identical, water supplies vary. The differences result from weather patterns. The chemical composition of rainfall changes slightly as rain clouds move.
Most hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water are stable, but traces of both elements are also present as heavier isotopes (同位素). The heaviest rain falls first. As a result, storms that form over the Pacific deliver heavier water to California than to Utah.
Similar patterns exist throughout the U.S. By measuring the proportion of heavier hydrogen and oxygen isotopes along a strand of hair, scientists can construct a geographic timeline. Each inch of hair corresponds to about two months.
Cerling’s team collected tap water samples from 600 cities and constructed a map of the regional differences. They checked the accuracy of the map by testing 200 hair samples collected from 65 barber shops. They were able to accurately place the hair samples in broad regions roughly corresponding to the movement of rain systems.
“It’s not good for pinpointing(精确定位),” Cerling said. “It’s good for eliminating many possibilities.”
Todd Park, a local detective, said the method has helped him learn more about an unidentified woman whose skeleton was found near Great Salt Lake.
The woman was 5 feet tall. Police recovered 26 bones, a T-shirt and several strands of hair.
When Park heard about the research, he gave the hair samples to the researchers.
Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.
She stayed in the Northwest, although the test could not be more specific than somewhere between eastern Oregon and western Wyoming.
“It’s still a substantial area,” Park said “But it narrows it way down for me.”
1.What is the scientists’ new discovery?
A. One’s hair growth has to do with the amount of water they drink.
B. A person’s hair may reveal where they have lived.
C. Hair analysis accurately identifies criminal suspects.
D. The chemical composition of hair varies from person to person.
2.What does the author mean by “You’re what you eat and drink” (Line 1, Para.3)?
A. Food and drink affect one’s personality development.
B. Food and drink preferences vary with individuals.
C. Food and drink leave traces in one’s body tissues.
D. Food and drink are essential to one’s existence.
3.What did Cerling’s team produce in their research?
A. A map showing the regional differences of tap water.
B. A collection of hair samples from various barber shops.
C. A method to measure the amount of water in human hair.
D. A chart illustrating the movement of the rain system.
4.What is the practical value of Cerling’s research?
A. It helps analyze the quality of water in different regions.
B. It helps the police determine where a crime is committed.
C. It helps the police narrow down possibilities in detective work.
D. It helps identify the drinking habits of the person under investigation.
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By law,no party _____ give away the contents of the contract to the third party.
A.may B.can
C.need D.shall
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科目:高中英语 来源:2015-2016学年宁夏高一下期末考试英语卷(解析版) 题型:短文填空
It is the Thanksgiving Day . I have the strong desire to write about something to express my thanks to the people around me.
I 1. ( bring up ) by my grandparents 2.are as kind and hardworking as thousands of Chinese peasants in a distant village. They worked in the field all day long and took good care of me as well .
3. ( Honest) speaking, my parents are ordinary people.4. I must say that they are great educators, for they educated me to be an 5. ( dependent ) and useful man to society.
My teachers, selfless,generous, devote themselves to 6. ( help) each individual student achieve his/her ambition.
Meanwhile , I can share my happiness and 7. (sad) with my peer students .I am happy to be with them because we have much 8. common.
I am 9. luckiest and happiest person with all these loved 10. (one) around.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2015-2016学年宁夏高一下期末考试英语卷(解析版) 题型:完形填空
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Every day, I drive home along Colorado Blvd, a wide street with four lanes on each side of the median (中央分隔带护栏).I always notice a homeless man standing on the corner of Colorado Blvd, ______ for spare change with a sign in his hand.
Last Monday, when I was ______ him, he suddenly threw down his sign and rushed into the middle of the street. At this time I ______ a car moving across the 3 lanes of traffic and heading for the median.The ______ man ran to the side of the car and attempted to push the car back in the right ______. He also knocked on the window of the vehicle, but all ______ Immediately, he ran across the small median into four lanes of oncoming traffic, ______ madly for the cars to stop. Thankfully, all speeding cars ______ to stop just in time to ______ hitting him. The car which was out of ______ came Moving across the median and the four lanes of traffic, where just seconds ago cars had been traveling with ______ speeds.
The homeless man jumped back in front of the ______ to attempt slowing it down again. By this time, we were able to ______ and help the man stop the car ______ it ran into a supermarket on the other side of the road. As it ______ out, the woman driver had a heart attack while driving and became ______ in the front seat.
The homeless man is indeed a hero. He spends every day getting ______ by people who are trying not to make ______ contact with him so that they don't feel bad not giving him money. Yet he didn't even hesitate to risk his life to save this lady and other drivers who would have ______ into her. He didn't think of his safety, nor did he expect anything in return. Heroes do exist in the most ______ places.
1.A. waiting B. begging C. standing D. answering
2.A. greeting B. leaving C. attacking D. approaching
3.A. heard B. saw C. sensed D. smelled
4.A. wealthy B. poor C. handsome D. cruel
5.A. direction B. condition C. communication D. situation
6.A. in place B. in particular C. in vain D. in common
7.A. smiling B. dancing C. acting D. signing
8.A. managed B. pretended C. intended D. decided
9.A. delay B. admit C. avoid D. risk
10.A. sight B. danger C. date D. control
11. A. slow B. top C. strange D. normal
12.A. driver B. beggar C. car D. bike
13.A. pull over B. pull out C. pull down D. pull through
14.A. since B. until C. unless D. before
15.A. takes B. picks C. turns D. points
16.A. uneasy B. unconscious C. unnecessary D. unfortunate
17.A. unnoticed B. admired C. changed D. punished
18.A. body B. face C. eye D. hand
19.A. looked B. broken C. checked D. crashed
20.A. unsafe B. unlikely C. unfair D. unwilling
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科目:高中英语 来源:2015-2016学年宁夏高一下期末考试英语卷(解析版) 题型:单项填空
She is ____ honest girl, and she never tells lies.
A. a B. an
C. / D. the
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科目:高中英语 来源:2015-2016学年湖南省高二下学期期末考试英语试卷(解析版) 题型:短文改错
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。
Dear Sir,
I’m writing to apply to be one of the volunteer for the Winter Olympic Games to be held in 2022.
I’m Li Hua, a 18-year-old boy who loves doing sports regular in my spare time. I love sports so much that I can devote all my energy to serve the game. Besides, I can speak English fluently, which make me more qualified to help foreigners. Meanwhile, not only do I have the ability to organize activities, and I am outgoing and energetic, which benefits to me in communication with strangers.
I believe I suitable for the position. I would appreciate that if you consider my application and offered me the opportunity.
Looking forward to your reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
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科目:高中英语 来源:2015-2016学年甘肃省通渭县高二下学期期末统考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
A city child’s summer is spent in the street in front of his home, and all through the long summer vacations I sat on the edge of the street and watched enviously the other boys on the block play baseball. I was never asked to take part even when one team had a member missing—not out of special cruelty, but because they took it for granted I would be no good at it. They were right, of course.
I would never forget the wonderful evening when something changed. The baseball ended about eight or eight thirty when it grew dark. Then it was the custom of the boys to retire to a little stoop(门廊) that stuck out from the candy store on the corner and that somehow had become theirs. No grownup ever sat there or attempted to. There the boys would sit, mostly talking about the games played during the day and of the game to be played tomorrow. Then long silences would fall and the boys would wander off one by one. It was just after one of those long silences that my life as an outsider changed. I can no longer remember which boy it was that summer evening who broke the silence with a question: but whoever he was, I nod to him gratefully now. “What’s in those books you’re always reading?” he asked casually. “Stories,” I answered. “What kind?” asked somebody else without much interest.
Nor do I know what drove me to behave as I did, for usually I just sat there in silence, glad enough to be allowed to remain among them; but instead of answering his question, I told them for two hours the story I was reading at the moment. The book was Sister Carrie. They listened bug-eyed and breathless. I must have told it well, but I think there was another and deeper reason that made them to keep an audience. Listening to a tale being told in the dark is one of the most ancient of man’s entertainments, but I was offering them as well, without being aware of doing it, a new and exciting experience.
The books they themselves read were the Rover Boys or Tom Swift or G.A.Henty. I had read them too, but at thirteen I had long since left them behind. Since I was much alone I had become an enthusiastic reader and I had gone through the books-for-boys series. In those days there was no reading material between children’s and grownups’ books or I could find none. I had gone right from Tome Swift and His Flying Machine to Theodore Dreiser and Sister Carrie. Dreiser had hit my young mind, and they listened to me tell the story with some of the wonder that I had had in reading it.
The next night and many nights thereafter, a kind of unspoken ritual (仪式) took place. As it grew dark, I would take my place in the center of the stoop and begin the evening’s tale. Some nights, in order to taste my victory more completely, I cheated. I would stop at the most exciting part of a story by Jack London or Bret Harte, and without warning tell them that that was as far as I had gone in the book and it would have to be continued the following evening. It was not true, of course; but I had to make certain of my new-found power and position. I enjoyed the long summer evenings until school began in the fall. Other words of mine have been listened to by larger and more fashionable audiences, but for that tough and athletic one that sat close on the stoop outside the candy store, I have an unreasoning love that will last forever.
1.Watching the boys playing baseball, the writer must have felt ________.
A. bitter and lonely
B. special and different
C. pleased and excited
D. disturbed and annoyed
2.The writer feels grateful even now to the boy who asked the question because the boy ________.
A. invited him to join in their game
B. liked the book that he was reading
C. broke the long silence of that summer evening
D. offered him an opportunity that changed his life
3.According to Paragraph 3, story-telling was popular among the boys basically because ________.
A. the story was from a children’s book
B. listening to tales was an age-old practice
C. the boys had few entertainments after dark
D. the boys didn’t read books by themselves
4.The boys were attracted to Sister Carrie because ________.
A. it was written by Theodore Dreiser
B. it was specifically targeted at boys
C. it gave them a deeper feeling of pleasure
D. it talked about the wonders of the world
5. Sometimes the writer stopped at the most exciting part of a story to _______.
A. play a mean trick on the boys
B. experience more joy of achievement
C. add his own imagination to the story
D. help the boys understand the story better
6.What is the message conveyed in the story?
A. One can find his position in life in his own way.
B. Friendship is built upon respect for each other.
C. Reading is more important than playing games.
D. Adult habits are developed from childhood.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2015-2016学年甘肃甘谷一中高二上第二次月考英语卷(解析版) 题型:七选五
七选五:下面文章中有5处需要添加小标题。阅读下列材料,请从所给的七个选项(A、B、C、D、E、F、G)中,选出符合各段意思的小标题。选项中有两项是多余选项。
A.Help the people around you smile.
B.Appreciate life's perfect moments.
C.Become addicted to constant self- improvement.
D.Celebrate your existence.
E.Live and breathe the truth.
F.Spend time with positive people.
G. Help the people around you cry
Some Habits of Super Positive People
Life is full of positive experiences.Notice them.Notice the sun warming your skin, the small child learning to walk, and the smiling faces around you.Smell the rain, and feel the wind.Live your life to the fullest potential by enjoying the beauty of these experiences, and letting them inspire you to be the most positive version﹙看法﹚ of YOU.
Living a positive life is all about creating positive habits to help you focus on what truly matters. This is the secret of super positive people.Here are some simple ideas to help you follow in their footsteps.
1._________
Life's too wonderful to waste time with people who don't treat you right.So surround yourself with people who make you happy and make you smile.People who help you up when you're down.People who would never take advantage of you.People who genuinely care.They are the ones worth keeping in your life.Everyone else is just passing through.
2._________
Your life isn't perfect, but it does have perfect moments.Don't let the little things get you down.You've got plenty of reasons to look up at the sky and say, "Thank you, I will do my best to make this a great day." So slow down and pause for a moment to stand in awe of(敬畏) the fact that you are alive, and that you have the ability to rediscover life as the miracle it has always been.
3._________
It doesn't have to be January 1st to give yourself a chance to make good use of your life.Every day is a new day to learn, grow, develop your strengths, heal yourself from past regrets, and move forward.Every day gives you a chance to reinvent yourself, to adjust who you are, and build on the lessons you have learned.It is never too late to change things that are not working in your life.Using today wisely will always help you create a more positive tomorrow.
4._________
It's the most positive, stress-free way to live, because the truth always reveals itself eventually anyway.So don't aim to be impressive, aim to be true.Those who are true are truly impressive.Being true means having integrity; and integrity is doing the right thing even when you know nobody is watching.
5._________
Today, give someone one of your smiles.It might be the only sunshine they see all day.Sometimes just a single genuine smile or praise can lift a person's spirits to new heights.At the right time, a kind word from a stranger, or unexpected encouragement from a friend, can make all the difference in the world.Kindness is free, but it's priceless.And as you know, what goes around comes around.
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