Finally he succeeded ________ the field.
A. enterB. enteringC. to enterD. having entered
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年云南石林县一中高二下期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Have you ever wondered why birds sing? Maybe you thought that they were just happy. After all, you probably sing or whistle when you are happy.
Some scientists believe that birds do sing some of the time just because they are happy. However, they sing most of the time for a very different reason. Their singing is actually a warning to other birds to stay out of their territory.
Do you know what a “territory” is? A territory is an area that an animal, usually the male, claims（声称）as its own. Only he and his family are welcome there. No other families of the same species (物种) are welcome. Your yard and house are your territory where only your family and friends are welcome. If a stranger should enter your territory and threaten you, you might shout. Probably this would be enough to frighten him away.
If so, you have actually scared the stranger away without having to fight him. A bird does the same thing. But he expects an outsider almost any time, especially at nesting（筑巢）season. So he is screaming all the time, whether he can see an outsider or not. This screaming is what we call a bird’s song, and it is usually enough to keep an outsider away.
Birds sing loudest in the spring when they are trying to attract a mate and warn others not to enter the territory of theirs.
You can see that birds have a language all their own. Most of it has to do with attracting mates and setting up territories.
1.Some scientists believe that most of the time birds’ singing is actually __________.
A. an expression of happiness B. a way of greeting
C. an expression of anger D. a way of warning
2.What is a bird’s “territory”?
A. A place where families of other species are not accepted.
B. A place where a bird may shout at the top of its voice.
C. An area which a bird considers to be its own.
D. An area for which birds fight against each other.
3.Why do birds keep on singing at nesting season?
A. Because they want to invite more friends.
B. Because their singing helps frighten outsiders away.
C. Because they want to find outsiders around.
D. Because their singing helps get rid of their fears.
4.How does the writer explain birds’ singing?
A. By comparing birds with human beings.
B. By reporting experiment results.
C. By describing birds’ daily life.
D. By telling a bird’s story.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年广东湛江一中高二上第一次大考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
You may have seen a talking parrot on a TV show, in a movie, or even in someone’s home. The parrot has learned to copy sounds that people make. Birds are not the only animals that can copy the noises they hear. Dolphins, bats, and some apes also copy sounds. Now we can add elephants to this list of copycats.
Dr. Joyce Poole is a zoologist. She studies the sounds of elephants. While she was in Kenya, she would hear strange noises made by Mlaika after sunset. Mlaika was a 10-year-old African elephant.
Mlaika lived near a highway. Dr. Poole says, “I could not tell the difference between Mlaika’s call and the distant truck noise.” She and other scientists studied Mlaika’s sounds. It turned out that Mlaika was copying the sounds of the trucks driving by. Why would Mlaika copy trucks that she heard going by on the highway? Animals that are able to copy sounds may enjoy practicing new sounds. When they are kept outside of their natural environment, they may copy unusual sounds. That may be why an elephant would copy the sound of a truck.
“Mlaika was not the only copycat elephant,” Dr. Poole says. Calimero is a 23-year-old male African elephant. He spent 18 years with two female Asian elephants. Asian elephants make chirping sounds (sounds made by birds) to talk with one another. African elephants usually do not make chirping sounds. But Calimero now does. He is copying his Asian elephant friends. Dr. Poole says that elephants need to form bonds with their family and friends. She says, “They make sounds to communicate with each other. When they are separated, they use sounds to keep in contact.”
Parrots, dolphins, humans, and elephants show that being a copycat is one way that animals and people make new friends and keep old ones.
1.According to Dr. Poole, what does Mlaika copy?
A. The sound of people.
B. The sound of trucks.
C. The sound of Calimero.
D. The sound of birds.
2. From paragraph 4, we can know ________.
A. Calimero is a 23-year-old male Asian elephant
B. African elephants never make chirping sounds
C. Asian elephants make chirping sounds to talk with birds
D. Elephants make sounds to keep in touch with each other
3. According to the passage, animals like to be copycats because they need_______.
A. To keep in touch with nature.
B. To please people and other animals.
C. To make new friends and keep old ones.
D. To avoid danger from the outside world.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年内蒙古高二上第一次月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
It was an autumn morning shortly after my husband and I moved into our first house. Our children were upstairs unpacking, and I was looking out of the window at my father moving around mysteriously on the front lawn. “What are you doing out there?” I called to him.
He looked up, smiling. “I'm making you a surprise.” I thought it could be just about anything. When we were kids, he always created something surprising for us. Today, however, Dad would say no more, and caught up in the busyness of our new life, I eventually forgot about his surprise.
Until one gloomy day the next March when I glanced out of the window, I saw a dot of blue across the yard. I headed outside for a closer look. They were crocuses (番红花）throughout the front lawn — blue, yellow and my favorite pink, with little faces moving up and down in the cold wind. I remembered the things Dad secretly planted last autumn. He knew how the darkness and dullness of winter always got me down. What could have been more perfectly timely to my needs?
My father's crocuses bloomed (开花） each spring for the next five seasons, always bringing the same assurance： Hard times are almost over. Hold on, keep going, and light is coming soon.
Then a spring came with only half the usual blooms and the next spring there were none. I missed the crocuses, so I would ask Dad to come over and plant new bulbs. But I never did. He died suddenly one October day. My family were in deep sorrow, leaning on our faith.
On a spring afternoon four years later, I was driving back when I felt depressed. It was Dad's birthday, and I found myself thinking about him. This was not unusual — my family often talked about him, remembering how he lived up to his faith. Suddenly I slowed as I turned into our driveway. I stopped and stared at the lawn. There on the muddy grass with small piles of melting snow, bravely waving in the wind, was one pink crocus.
How could a flower bloom from a bulb more than 18 years ago, one that hadn't bloomed in over a decade? But there was the crocus. Tears filled my eyes as I realized its significance.
Hold on, keep going, and light is coming soon. The pink crocus bloomed for only a day, but it built my faith for a lifetime.
1.According to the first three paragraphs, we learn that ________.
A. it kept bothering the author not knowing what the surprise was
B. the author was unpacking when her father was making the surprise
C. it was not the first time that the author's father had made a surprise
D. the author knew what the surprise was because she knew her father
2.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. The author usually felt depressed in the season of winter.
B. The author's father planted the crocuses to lift her low spirits.
C. The author often thought about her father after he died.
D. The crocuses bloomed each spring before her father died.
3.The author's father should be best described as ______.
A. a part-time worker who loved flowers
B. a kind-hearted man who lived with faith
C. a full-time gardener with skillful hands
D. an ordinary man with doubts in his life
4.What can be the best title for the passage?
A. Crocuses — My Source of Faith
B. Crocuses— Father's Surprise
C. A Pink Crocus — My Memory
D. Crocuses in Blossom — My Favorite
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年内蒙古高二上第一次月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
My friend never mentioned ________ in the city before.
A. livingB. having been livedC. to liveD. lived
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年内蒙古高二上第一次月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
________ by the policeman, Ciara Judge gave some information.
A. AskingB. AskedC. To be askedD. Ask
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年吉林长春外国语校高二上第一次月考英语卷（解析版） 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。
Dear Jack,
I’m so exciting and happy to hear that you’re coming to China. Since your trip is scheduled for the middle of July, I will be available because I will be having your summer holiday at that month.
I’ve been very busy recently, for I’ve been prepared for the coming entrance exam, that is vital for me. Last week, I attend an English speech contest intended for high school student all over the province and my performance was not bad. To tell you truth, I’ve always dreamt of having an opportunity to travel to English-speaking countries as yours to practice and improve my English.
I am looking forward to see you.
Yours,
Zhang Heng
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科目：高中英语 来源：2017届宁夏高三上学期第三次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
China launched its second space laboratory, the Tiangong II, on Sept 15, which space officials say will become the country’s largest scientific platform in space to date.
The space lab was lifted off atop a Long March 2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province at 10:04 pm. Around 20 minutes later, the mission was declared a success.
The Tiangong II did preparations in space for about one month and then the Shenzhou XI manned spacecraft rocketed two astronauts to the lab on October 17th. The pair will make it their home for 30 days before being returned to Earth.
The lab’s predecessor, Tiangong I, was launched in September 2011 and was used mainly to test technology involved in space docking.
By comparison, the Tiangong II will be used to conduct more than 40 scientific and technological experiments together with the Shenzhou XI. That’s many times more than those carried out by the Tiangong I and the three previous Shenzhou spacecraft, according to Wu Ping, deputy director of the China Manned Space Agency. China’s manned space program has entered a “new phase of application and development,” he said.
1.The underlined expression“atop” can be probably replaced with ________.
A. according toB. by means of
C. on top ofD. in front of
2.What is the author’s attitude towards the Tiangong II’s prospect?
A. optimistic.B. negative.C. objective.D. subjective.
3.Which of the following statement about the passage is NOT true?
A． At present, the Tiangong II is our country’s largest scientific platform in space.
B. Two astronauts will live and work in the Tiangong II till mid November.
C. The Tiangong II will carry out far more scientific and technological experiments than its latter space lab.
D. Before two astronauts arrived, the Tiangong II had done preparations in space for about one month.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年浙江温州中学高一10月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
When I came to Cincinnati as an au pair (家庭打工留学生), a lot of things there were different from what I knew. My host family lived in a huge house I could only describe as a "castle"．In Germany I had lived in a small apartment together with my mom. Soon I found out that the "castle" was actually rather small in our neighborhood.
Everybody there was very friendly and polite. They greeted you when they were walking by at least 3 feet away from you. They must not have seen a German au pair before, for most people I met asked me all kinds of questions about Germany. I enjoyed answering their various strange questions. I made a lot of friends and I started to hang out with them.
Of course, there were a number of new things, and it took me the whole year to find them all out. I never got homesick. Perhaps it was because I did not have too many negative experiences and felt loved and welcomed there.
However, I had undergone some painful experience back in Germany. I was frustrated by the way people would run me over and not even say "Sorry." Taking up my studies at the TU-Dresden, I felt lonely. Everybody here seemed to be withdrawn(离群的) and I missed everything I had in Cincinnati. Germany was so "cold". I found it so much harder to make new friends. After six months I got a roommate and only two good friends. I also flew back to Cincinnati several times for long periods. I felt that without those visits I was not able to make it.
Now I am over this German culture shock. It almost took me an entire year. I am still going back and forward between Dresden and Cincinnati four times a year.
1.When the author lived in Cincinnati, ________.
A. she lived in a real castle
B. some people were not very kind to her
C. many people were curious about her motherland
D. she lived in the biggest house in the neighborhood
2.In the opinion of the author, life in Cincinnati was ________.
A. wonderfulB. hardC. painfulD. strange
3.The underlined word "undergone" in Paragraph 4 probably means ________.
A. welcomedB. acceptedC. expectedD. suffered
4.Which of the following statements is TRUE about the author?
A. She lived with her mother in a big house in Germany.
B. She never went back to Cincinnati after she came back to Germany.
C. She seldom hung out with her American friends as she was too busy.
D. She did miss her friends in Cincinnati when she was at the TU-Dresden.
5.What is the best title for this passage?
A. University life in Germany
B. My culture shock experience
C. Advantages of living in USA
D. How to be an au pair in USA
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