科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
What is time? Is it a thing to be saved or spent or wasted, like money? Or is it something we have no control over, like the weather? Is time the same all over the world?
That's an easy question, you say. Wherever you go, a minute is 60 seconds, an hour is 60 minutes, a day is 24 hours, and so forth. But in America, time is more than that. Americans see time as a valuable resource. Maybe that's why they are fond of the expression, "Time is money."
Because Americans believe time is a limited resource, they try to conserve and manage it. People in the U.S. often attend seminars or read books on time management. It seems they all want to organize their time better. Professionals carry around pocket planners -- some in electronic form -- to keep track of appointments and deadlines. People do all they can to squeeze more time out of their time. The early American hero Benjamin Franklin expressed this view best: "Do you love life? Then do not waste time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
To Americans, punctuality is a way of showing respect for other people's time. Being more than 10 minutes late to an appointment usually calls for an apology and an explanation. People who are running late often call ahead to let others know of the delay. Of course, the less formal the situation is, the less important it is to be exactly on time. At informal get-togethers, for example, people often arrive as much as 30 minutes past the appointed time.
To outsiders, Americans seem tied to the clock. People in other cultures value relationships more than schedules. In these societies, people don't try to control time, but to experience it. Even Americans would admit that no one can master time. Time -- like money -- slips all too easily through our fingers. And time -- like the weather-- is very hard to predict. Nevertheless, time is one of life's most precious gifts. And unwrapping it is half the fun.
What’s the main topic of this passage?
A. What is time?
B. How to control time?
C. Make good use of time.
D. Time among Americans.
What’s the meaning of the underlined word “conserve”?
A. protect B. develop C. produce D. assist
The sentence “Americans seem tied to the clock” probably means __________.
A. Americans often carry a clock with them.
B. Americans can not predict the time.
C. Americans can take control over time.
D. Americans often make full use of time.
We can safely draw a conclusion from this passage that _________________.
A. Americans have more time than others.
B. by using pocket planners, people can have more time.
C. for informal meeting, Americans often arrive 30 minutes earlier.
D. Americans often attend seminars, because they want to use time better.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2013届浙江省高三10月阶段测试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：短文改错
下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改l0处，多者（从第ll处起）不计分。
Ask your friend that he can use a glass of water as a musical instrument．Of course, he can’t．Then you take a glass of water．You put your finger in water and then move it slow round the rim of the glass, as shown in the picture．Your finger must not be much wet, but it must not be dry．So you must try many time．At last you will hear clear music which comes from the glass．When your finger moves round the rim, it makes the glass to vibrate and the glass makes a musical voice．The same principle makes the violin or its strings give music．
The America scientist Benjamin Franklin made a musical instrument out of glass bowls．He used the different principle．
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科目：高中英语 来源：青海西宁市中学09-10学年高一下学期第一次月考（英语） 题型：单项填空
Franklin didn’t______ the inspiring speech by the famous leader, but he______ it.
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A．know of; know |
B．know; knew of |
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C．know; knew to |
D．know of; knew with |
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科目：高中英语 来源：福建省2009-2010学年度高一下学期期中考试英语试卷 题型：其他题
V. 短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
Do you like friends who can teach you a lot every day?
Books are s______ friends because they bring knowledge to us 91.___________
and keep us company through our ______ (人生）. They are 92.___________
so valuable that ________ (图书馆) are built to keep them. 93.___________
A_____ all great men are lovers of books. Franklin said that it 94.___________
was books that led him to success and that he could have
a______(获得) nothing without books. Books are the holders of 95.___________
mankind’s _______(经验) and imagination. They enable us to see 96.___________
through the past and predict the ______. So when you open a 97.___________
book, you would get into a world ______ you have never been 98.___________
before. A good book is a good teacher that h______ you to get over 99.___________
difficulties. No matter what you are, _______or old, poor or rich, 100.___________
books are your devoted friends.
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科目：高中英语 来源：江苏省2009-2010学年度高一下学期期中考试试题（英语） 题型：单词拼写
第II卷（选做题，40分）
友情提醒：
本部分试卷分为A、B两类，同学们可以选做A、B两类中任何一类，但选择要统一，不可两类混做，多做或混做均不得分。
A类题
第四部分单词拼写（共20小题, 每小题1分，满分20分）
76. The castle was once owned by the king, but now it lies in r__________.
77. To my great d__________, my son has passed all his exams.
78. The next day, US President Franklin Roosevelt d________ war against Japan.
79. The United Kingdom c__________ of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
80. I got i__________in the quarrel between Tom and Jack.
81. Government promises to _______（创造）more jobs for laid-off workers.
82. Humans ________(不同于) from other mammals in their ability to speak.
83. She is so ____________（特别的；挑剔的）about food that no cook can please her.
84. We should keep the __________(平衡) of nature.
85. We all hope that there’s no war and the people all over the world can live p___________ (和平地) side by side.
86. Apparently s__________ to criticism, the bull forgot all about the matador and charged at the drunk.
87. When the bull got close to him, he c__________ stepped aside to let it pass.
88. It is not only of immense size, but is extremely a__________ as well.
89. Following in his father’s f__________ many years later, Sir Malcolm’s son, Donald, also set up a world record.
90. Children who play t__________ from school are unimaginative.
91. The next car the boy stopped did not take him into the centre of Paris as he hoped it would, but to Perpignan on the French-Spanish __________(边界).
92. Dressed in dark glasses and old clothes, they had taken special __________(预防措施) so that no one should recognize them.
93. “Oh, is it?” said the sheriff with a __________(冷笑).
94. She __________(跺，踩) out the letters “SOS” in the snow.
95. It was not long before a helicopter arrived on the scene to rescue the __________(幸存者) of the plane crash.
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