Frederick William I, the King of Prussia, 1.____________ that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have 2.______________. This gift was the Amber room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. The amber 3.___________ had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The design of the room was 4.___________ popular in those days. It was also a treasure5.________, which took the country’s artists about ten years to make.
科目:高中英语 来源:2016-2017学年浙江绍兴一中高二上期中考试英语试卷(解析版) 题型:书面表达
请从下列人物中选择你最喜欢的一位,用英语写一篇80词的短文
Thomas Edison | Helen Keller | William Shakespeare |
inventor creative; diligent; full of wisdom | ordinary but great woman disabled; optimistic; eager to learn | writer talented; imaginative; man of all ages |
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration” | “If I had the power of sight for three days, ....” | “Life is a stage and we are all actually actors and actresses.” |
要求根据所给信息做适当发挥,且需包括以下三部分内容:
1. 对该人物的简单介绍;
2. 喜欢该人物的理由;
3. 从该人物身上得到的启示。
Among the three great persons, I like __________ most. ________________________
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科目:高中英语 来源:2016-2017学年西藏林芝地区一中高二上期末考试英语卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books — especially paperbacks(平装本), which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy “proper” books, too, printed on good paper and bound(装订)between hard covers.
There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being “the biggest bookshop in the world” to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens’ time. Some of these shops stock(贮存), or will obtain, any kind of book, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the myriad(无数的)subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes only in books about ballet!
Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charring Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volumes, the collector must venture(敢于去) off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so impressive as bookshops. Instead, the booksellers come along each morning and pour out their sacks of books onto small barrows(流动集售货车) which line the gutters(贫民窟). And the collectors, some professionals and some amateurs(业余爱好者), have been waiting for them. In places like this one can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old volume that may be worth many pounds.
1.“Londoners are great readers” means that ________.
A. Londoners are great because they read a lot
B. There are a great number of readers in London
C. Londoners are readers who read only great books
D. Londoners read a lot
2.Charring Cross Road ________.
A. is in the suburbs of London
B. is famous for its bookshops
C. contains various kinds of shops
D. is the busiest street in London
3.If you want to buy really cheap second-hand books, you must ________.
A. venture in a most busy street
B. venture away from a busy street
C. take the risk of going to the beaten track
D. take the risk of wasting time to hunt them in less noticeable streets
4.The book sellers on Farringdon Road ________.
A. keep fine bookshops
B. keep only small bookshops
C. sell books on hand-carts
D. sell the same books as the bookshops on Charring Cross Road
5.The best topic for this passage is “________”.
A. Bookshops in London
B. The biggest bookshop in the world
C. Charring Cross Road
D. Buying books in London
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科目:高中英语 来源:2016-2017学年山东枣庄八中东校区高二12月考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Argentina in the late nineteenth century was an exciting place. Around 1870, it was experiencing an economic boom(繁荣), and the capital, Buenos Aires, attracted many people. Farmers, as well as a flood of foreigners from Spain and Italy, came to Buenos Aires seeking jobs. These jobs didn’t pay well, and the people felt lonely and disappointed with their new life in the city. As the unhappy newcomers mixed together in the poor parts of the city, the dance known as the tango(探戈舞) came into being.
At the beginning the tango was a dance of the lower classes. It was danced in the bars and streets. At that time there were many fewer women than men, so if a man didn’t want to be left out, his only choice was to dance with another man so that he could attract the attention of the few available women. Gradually, the dance spread into the upper classes of Argentinean society and became more respectable.
In Europe at this time, strong interest in dance from around the world was beginning. This interest in international dance was especially evident in Paris. Every kind of dance from ballet(芭蕾舞) to belly dancing could be found on the stages of the Paris theaters. After tango dancers from Argentina arrived in Europe, they began to draw the interest of the public as they performed their exciting dance in cafes. Though not everyone approved of the new dance, saying it was a little too shocking, the dance did find enough supporters to make it popular.
The popularity of the tango continued to grow in many other parts of the world. Soldiers who returned to the United States from World War I brought the tango to North America. It reached Japan in 1926, and in 2003 the Argentinean embassy(大使馆) in Seoul hired a local tango dancer to act as a kind of dance ambassador, and promote tango dancing throughout South Korea.
1.The origin of the tango is associated with ________.
A. the capital of Argentina
B. a Spanish city
C. American soldiers
D. belly dancers
2.Which of the following is true about the tango?
A. A dancer in Seoul became the Argentinean ambassador.
B. People of the upper classes loved the tango most.
C. It was often danced by two males in the beginning.
D. It was created by foreigners from Spain and Italy.
3.Before World War I, the tango spread to ________.
A. South KoreaB. JapanC. FranceD. America
4.What can be the best title for the text?
A. The Modern Tango BoomB. The History of the Tango
C. How to Promote the TangoD. How to Dance the Tango
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科目:高中英语 来源:2016-2017学年湖北宜昌一中高二12月考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Finding the Real You
Psychometric testing—personality testing—has been very popular nowadays as studies show their results to be three times more accurate in predicting your job performance. These tests are now included in almost all graduate recruitment (招聘) and are widely used in the selection of managers.
The most popular of these personality tests is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). It is based on the theory that we are born with a tendency to one personality type which stays more or less fixed throughout life. You answer 88 questions and are then given your “type”, such as Outgoing or Quiet, Feeling or Thinking.
Critics of personality testing raise doubts about “social engineering”. Psychologist Dr. Colin Gill warns that the “popular” personality traits (特性) have their disadvantages. “People who are extremely open to new experiences can be butterflies, going from one idea to the next without mastering any of them.” However, the psychometric test is here to stay, which may be why a whole sub-industry on cheating personality tests has sprung up. “It’s possible to cheat,” admits Gill, “but having to pretend to be the person you are at work will be tiring and unhappy and probably short-lived.”
So can we change our personality? “Your basic personalities fixed by the time you’re 21,”says Gill, “but it can be affected by motivation and intelligence. If you didn’t have the personality type to be a doctor but desperately wanted to be one and were intelligent enough to master the skills, you could still go ahead. But trying to go too much against type for too long requires much energy and is actually to be suffered for long. I think it’s why we’re seeing this trend for downshifting—too many people trying to fit into a type that they aren’t really suited for.”
Our interest in personality now exists in every part of our lives. If you ask an expert for advice on anything, you’ll probably be quizzed about your personality. But if personality tests have any value to us, perhaps it is to free us from the idea that all of us are full of potential, and remind us of what we are. As they say in one test when they ask for your age: pick the one you are, not the one you wish you were.
1.The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is based on the belief that ________.
A. certain personality traits are common
B. personality is largely decided from birth
C. some personality types are better than others
D. personality traits are various from time to time
2.According to Dr. Gill, what is the problem with personality tests?
A. Employers often find the results unclear.
B. They may have a negative effect on takers.
C. People can easily lie about their true abilities.
D. The results could be opposite to what employers want.
3.What’s Dr. Gill’s view about changing our personality?
A. It’s worthwhile trying in your adult life.
B. It’s easy if you have great motivation.
C. It’s difficult before the age of 21.
D. It’s unlikely because it requires much energy.
4.What final conclusion does the author reach about the value of personality tests?
A. They are not really worth doing.
B. They may encourage greater realism.
C. They are of doubtful value to employers.
D. They can strengthen the idea we have of our abilities.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2016-2017学年广东汕头金山中学高一12月考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
NEW YORK—Australian mining enterpriser Clive Palmer on Tuesday unveiled(公布) blueprints (蓝本) for Titanic Ⅱ, a modern copy of the doomed ocean liner, although he didn’t call the ship unsinkable any more.
The ship will largely recreate the design and decoration of the fabled original, with some modifications to keep it in line with current safety rules and shipbuilding practices, and the addition of some modern comforts such as air conditioning, Palmer said at a press conference in New York.
The three passenger classes, however, will be prevented from mingling(混杂), as in 1912, Palmer said. “I’m not too superstitious(迷信的). ”Palmer said when asked whether recreating a ship best-known for sinking was tempting fate.
White Star Line, the operator of the original ship, had said the Titanic was designed to be unsinkable. About 1, 500 people died on Titanic’s maiden voyage in 1912 from Southampton to New York after the ship collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic.
Palmer, who created the company Blue Star Line last year, refused to make a similar boast.
“Anything will sink if you put a hole in it,”Palmer said. “I think it would be very cavalier(漫不经心的) to say it.”
Unlike the original, TitanicⅡ will have more than enough space in its lifeboats for every person on board and will have additional escape staircases. Markku Kanerva, sales director at Deltamarin, the Finnish company designing the ship, said it would be “the safest cruise ship in the world”.
Palmer refused to answer questions about the project’s cost. Although the Titanic was the world’s largest ship in her time, she would be smaller than many of today’s modern cruise ships.
“It’s not about the money, ”Palmer said. “I’ve got enough money for it. I think that’s all that matters.”
Forbes estimated Palmer’s net worth to be $795 million in 2012. He describes himself as a billionaire.
TitanicⅡ will be built by Chinese state-owned CSC Jinling Shipyard, which has already built four ore carriers for Palmer’s mining business, he said. The contract to build TitanicⅡ has not yet been signed, Palmer said.
1.What can be inferred about TitanicⅡ from the passage?
A. TitanicⅡ will have more space in its lifeboats than the Titanic.
B. TitanicⅡ will be the largest cruise ship in the world.
C. TitanicⅡ will allow different classes of passengers to mingle.
D. TitanicⅡ will be a real unsinkable cruise ship.
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. 1, 500 people died on Titanic’s maiden voyage in 1912.
B. The Titanic collided with an iceberg in the South Pacific.
C. The Titanic was equipped with air conditioning.
D. The Titanic was the world’s largest ship at that time.
3.What’s the author’s purpose of writing the passage?
A. To tell us the story of the Titanic.
B. To tell us TitanicⅡ will cost a lot of money.
C. To tell us about the future TitanicⅡ.
D. To tell us a Chinese Shipyard will build TitanicⅡ.
4.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. The old Titanic
B. The blueprints of TitanicⅡ
C. The unsinkable TitanicⅡ
D. Clive Palmer—a billionaire
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科目:高中英语 来源:2016-2017学年广东汕头金山中学高一12月考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:单项填空
He wanted to ________ the National Team to compete ________ the Summer Olympic Games ________ his country, but he failed at the qualifying stage.
A. take part in, for, forB. join, in, for
C. join in, in, forD. take part in, in, with
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科目:高中英语 来源:2016-2017学年广东汕头金山中学高二12月考试英语试卷(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:把缺词处加个漏字符号(∧),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 isn’t hard to grow up into a responsible members of society. I can well remember an incident that happens on a rainy Sunday afternoon. I was on my way to the bookstore and was waiting the green light at a crossing when a girl about ten was knocked on by a passing car, it drove off quickly. A man immediately rushed to a girl to give her first aid and I joined in without hesitation. Luckily she was not badly injured but we sent her to the nearest hospital. Comparing with the escaped driver, I am proud of what I did.
As a member of the society, I am convinced of that being responsible is that it takes to make a better society.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2017届内蒙古高三上第三次月考英语卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
If you look at the night sky, you’ll often see stars moving very quickly. In fact, they move much more quickly than they should according to their size and the laws of physics.
Scientists do not completely understand why the speed of these stars is so high. But many believe the reason is that much of the universe is made of something called “dark matter”. Groups of stars called galaxies, such as the Milky Way, might even be made up of 90 percent dark matter.
How much something weighs depends on where it is. The same object weighs only half as much on Mars as it does on Earth and almost three times as much on Jupiter. So scientists prefer to talk about the mass (质量) of something rather than how much it weighs, because mass does not change. They can work out the mass of galaxies by measuring the distance between them and the speed they move at.
Recently, Jorge Pe?arrubia, a senior academic at Edinburgh University, UK, and his team discovered something interesting: The mass of the Milky Way is only half as much as the mass of another nearby galaxy, Andromeda. This seems strange, and dark matter may explain why.
Finding out more about dark matter could help us understand how the universe began, but this is not easy. Lots of scientists with different types of expert knowledge are working on the problem.
We can’t see dark matter, it’s very difficult to measure and we can’t find out its mass. Unlike stars, dark matter doesn’t produce or reflect light. But we can make a good guess that it is there because of the way things move and the way light bends. Experts now think dark matter may be very different from the matter that we find on Earth. There may also be five times as much dark matter in the universe as ordinary matter.
1.Something that weighs 15kg on Earth weighs about ________ on Mars and ________ on Jupiter.
A. 7.5 kg, 45 kgB. 30 kg, 45 kgC. 45 kg, 7.5 kgD. 5 kg, 30 kg
2.The author mentions the masses of the Milky Way and Andromeda mainly to ________.
A. explain why the same object has a different weight on different stars
B. compare the distance between the Milky Way and Andromeda
C. show that studying dark matter could help to answer some scientific questions
D. support the idea that scientists prefer to talk about mass instead of weight
3.Dark matter is difficult to investigate because ________.
A. it travels at a very fast speed
B. we can’t see where it is or measure its mass
C. it’s hard to measure the light it produces and reflects
D. it is much bigger than ordinary matter in size
4.According to the text, dark matter ________.
A. could accelerate the speed of stars
B. could lessen the mass of objects in galaxies
C. makes up the entire universe and its stars
D. may help us identify the origins of the universe
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