What does it mean to say that we live in a world of persuasion? It means that we live among competing interests. Your roommate’s need to study for an exam may take priority(优先)over pizza. Your instructor may have good reasons not to change your grade. And the object of your romantic interest may have other choices.
In such a world, persuasion is the art of getting others to give fair and favorable consideration to our point of view. When we persuade, we want to influence how others believe and behave. We may not always prevail — other points of view may be more persuasive, depending on the listener, the situation, and the merits of the case. But when we practice the art of persuasion, we try to ensure that our position receives the attention it deserves.
Some people, however, object to the very idea of persuasion. They may regard it as an unwelcome interruption into their lives. Just the opposite, we believe that persuasion is unavoidable — to live is to persuade. Persuasion may be ethical(合乎道义的) or unethical, selfless or selfish, inspiring or degrading. Persuaders may enlighten our minds or catch our vulnerability(弱点). Ethical persuasion, however, calls on sound reasoning and is sensitive to the feelings and needs of listeners. Such persuasion can help us apply the wisdom of the past to the decisions we now must make. Therefore, the most basic part of education is learning to resist the one kind of persuasion and to encourage and practice the other.
Beyond its personal importance to us, persuasion is necessary to society. The right to persuade and be persuaded is the bedrock of the American political system, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution(美国宪法).
1.According to the passage, persuasion means ________.
A. changing others’ point of view
B. exercising power over other people
C. getting other people to consider your point of view
D. getting people to agree with you and do what you want
2.The underlined word in the second paragraph “prevail” means“________”.
A. win B. fail C. speak D. listen
3.The passage states that some people object to persuasion because they think it is ________.
A. a danger to society B. difficult to do well
C. unwelcome behavior D. never successful
4.The passage mainly discusses ________.
A. people’s different opinions towards persuasion
B. the reasons why people persuade
C. that persuasion is both good and bad
D. that persuasion is important and it is all around us
怎样学好牛津英语系列答案科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年外研版必修3高一模块测评英语试卷3（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
阅读理解。
Scientists are trying to make the deserts into good land again.They want to bring water to the deserts so that people can live and grow food there.They are learning a lot about the deserts,but more and more of the earth is becoming deserts all the time.Scientists may not be able to change the desert in time.
Why is more and more land becoming deserts?Scientists think that people make deserts.People are doing bad things to the earth.For example,scientists tell the people how important plants are for stopping land becoming desert,but people don’t pay enough attention to the green plants.
Some places on the earth don’t get much rain.But they still don’t become deserts.This is because some green plants are growing there.Small green plants and grass are very important to dry places.Plants don’t let the sun make the earth even drier.Plants don’t let the wind blow the soil away.When a bit of rain falls,the plants hold the water.Without plants,the land can become desert more easily.The present fact is that green plants on the earth are fewer and fewer.If there were no green plants on the earth,the whole earth would become desert.
1.Deserts .
A.never have any plants or animals in them before
B.can all be turned into good land soon
C.have little water or plants
D.make the earth drier
2.Small green plants are very important to dry places because .
A.they don’t let the sun make the earth into good land
B.they don’t let the wind blow soil away
C.they are green
D.they have leaves
3.After reading this,we learn that .
A.plants can keep dry land from becoming deserts
B.it is good to get rid of the grass in the deserts
C.all places without much rain will become deserts
D.it is better for the dry land to grow grass than to grow trees
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书面表达
假如你是高中生李华，你的朋友李明在学校住宿，他写信告诉你他因不善于交友而苦恼。请你给他写一封回信并提出一些建议。
要点如下：
1. 要善于乐于助人；
2. 多与他人交流；
3. 多参加学校活动。
注意：
1. 词数：100左右；
2. 要点齐全，书写工整。
3. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Li Ming,
Yours,
Li Hua
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年宁夏高二下期末英语卷（解析版） 题型：七选五
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
1. One of the best things you can possibly do is to start your own club. It's great fun especially if you're the sort of person who feels there's never anything to do during the school holidays.
The first thing you need to come up with is an idea for your club. 2. Pets, clothes, pop music or dancing groups, sports, making things? The list is endless.
Next you need some friends to be in your club with you. 3. All you need is three or four other people who are interested in the same things as you.
4. You should all sit down somewhere together with lots of pieces of paper and write down every name you can think up. That will keep you busy for ages.
At your first meeting you should make up a rule book. And the very first rule should be no grown-ups or little/big brothers/sisters! The best clubs are always secret!
Now you have just about everything you need, except membership cards. These are very important and again you can spend a lot of time making them, 5.__________Why not leave some space [or a photo of yourself? That will make the membership card really look like it.
So there you are, get clubbing! Once you get started you'll think of loads of more interesting things to do!
A. That's easy.
B. Enjoy your own club
C. Invite a designer to join you.
D. What are you interested in?
E. Summer vacation is just around the corner.
F. Then you need to pick a name for your club.
G. Use bright thick pens to make a special design.
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短语填空
1.If he carries on driving like that, he will ___________(结束)in hospital.
2.I can always find someone I ________________(与......有相似之处) with.
3.Can you ______________ (理解)what she’s trying to say?
4.All I am, or can be, I ____________ (归功于)my angel mother.
5.You must _____________ (适应)the customs of the society you live in.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年吉林毓文中学高一下期中考试英语卷（解析版） 题型：单句改错
单句改错
下面句子中各有一个语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。请直接在答题卡上作答。
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：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：每句仅有一处错误；修改仅限一词；格式不正确不给分。
1.It is good manner to speak in a low voice in public places.
2.I know that he was brought up by his grandparents and he was taught to be an honest man.
3.Large amounts of money is spent on the building of the pavement by the governor.
4.Even the extreme climate can’t prevent polar bears wander on the beach.
5.As for my experience last night, I was in a nightclub then and a fight between two young men broke in.
6.That I want to tell you is that the cat gave birth to 3 babies just now.
7.Another problem is if he can come at dawn.
8.I’ve got the message from Mr. Wang that what he has settled down in Canada.
9.Rather than took the aeroplane all the way, they flew to Vancouver and then went across Canada from west to east by train.
10.We were chatting about the beautiful scenery in the harbour while I caught sight of a large whale jumping out of water in the distance.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年吉林毓文中学高一下期中考试英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Hello. I'm Jan from Mrs. Lake's class. My class wants to work together to help the public. We think we have found a great way to do this. Last month we did a class project on the highways near our town. We learned about the Adopt-a-Highway Program. This program brings people together to pick up litter along the roads. We think it would be a great idea for all students in our school to join the program and adopt（收养） a highway.
Adopting a highway is not like adopting a pet. When a highway is adopted, only part of the highway is cared for by a group of people. The group agrees to work every week to keep its part of the highway clean. Each group gets its own sign that has the name of the group printed on it. The sign is put up at the side of the road. This sign lets drivers know who is keeping that area of the road clean.
The Adopt-a-Highway Program is a great way for people to help their environment look nicer. Also, the government does not have to send out as many road workers. This saves money. Finally, people may try harder to keep roads clean if they see people, especially teenagers like us, cleaning them up.
We will need helpers to care for our adopted highway. If you want to feel great and keep our roads clean，please come with your parents to the meeting next week. We will meet in Mrs. Lake's room on Wednesday at 6:00 P.M. At the meeting, we will talk about which roads are the dirtiest as a result of people's unkind acts. Then we'll try to pick an area to adopt and clean.
I look forward to seeing you at the meeting. Remember to keep our roads clean!
1.What is the Adopt-a-Highway Program about?
A. Giving names to the highways.
B. Drawing pictures of highways.
C. Picking up litter along the roads.
D. Putting up signs near the roads.
2. What is the purpose of this speech?
A. To encourage students to join the program.
B. To introduce the traffic system.
C. To show drivers how to drive safely.
D. To tell a story about adopting a highway.
3.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A. Don’t miss the meeting
B. Volunteers on Roads
C. Ways to Protect the Environment
D. Adopt-a-Highway
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年河北冀州市高一下期末（A）英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Watching some children trying to catch butterflies one hot August afternoon, I was reminded of an incident in my own childhood．When I was a boy of 12 in South Carolina, something happened to me that cured me forever of wanting to put any wild creature in a cage.
We lived on the edge of a wood, and every evening at dusk the mockingbirds would come and rest in the trees and sing. There isn’t a musical instrument made by man that can produce a more beautiful sound than the song of the mockingbird.
I decided that I would catch a young bird and keep it in a cage and in that way would have my own private musician.
I finally succeeded in catching one and put it in a cage. At first, in its fright at being captured, the bird fluttered about the cage, but eventually it settled down in its new home. I felt very pleased with myself and looked forward to some beautiful singing from my tiny musician.
I had left the cage out on our back porch, and on the second day of the bird’s captivity my new pet’s mother flew to the cage with food in her mouth. The baby bird ate everything she brought to it. I was pleased to see this. Certainly the mother knew better than I how to feed her baby.
The following morning when I went to see how my captive（被俘虏的） was doing, I discovered it on the floor of the cage, dead. I was shocked! What had happened! I had taken excellent care of my little bird, or so I thought.
Arthur Wayne, the famous ornithologist, happened to be visiting my father at the time, hearing me crying over the death of my bird, explained what had occurred. “A mother mockingbird, finding her young in a cage, will sometimes bring it poison berries. She thinks it better for her young to die than to live in captivity.”
Never since then have I caught any living creature and put it in a cage. All living creatures have a right to live free.
1.Why did the writer catch a mockingbird when he was a boy of 12?
A．He had just got a new cage.
B．He liked its beautiful feather.
C．He wanted it to sing for him.
D．He wanted a pet for a companion.
2.The mockingbird died because it ______.
A．was frightened to death
B．ate the poisonous food its mother gave it
C．refused to eat anything
D．drank the poisonous water by mistake
3.An ornithologist probably means ______.
A．a religious person B．a kind person
C．a schoolmaster D．an expert in birds
4.What is the most important lesson the writer learned from the incident?
A．Freedom is very valuable to all creatures.
B．All birds put in a cage won’t live long.
C．You should keep the birds from their mother.
D．Be careful about food you give to baby birds.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016年全国普通高等学校招生统一考试英语（北京卷精编版） 题型：单项填空
________ it easier to get in touch with us, you’d better keep this card at hand.
A. Made B. Make
C. Making D. To make
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