CCTV says that a storm will hit our city. In order to avoid________, we must take our raincoat with us.
A. to catch B. catching C. to be caught D. being caught
科目:高中英语 来源:2015届山东省济宁市高二上学期期末模拟考试英语卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Like many languages spoken by people, Ayapaneco is dying. Only two people in the world still speak it, and they won't talk to each other.
Spoken in Mexico for centuries, Ayapaneco is one of 68 surviving languages in the mainly Spanish-speaking nation. The two speakers are Manuel Segovia and Isidro Velazquez. Though they live only 500 meters from each other in the village, the two men seldom talk to each other. Daniel, an American expert, who is working to make a dictionary of Ayapaneco, says the two men “don’t have a lot in common,” and that Segovia can be “active” while Velasquez tends to mind his own business and stay at home.
While Segovia still speaks to his wife and son in Ayapaneco, neither of them can manage more than a few words. Velasquez hardly speaks his native tongue any more. Daniel is working to preserve the language in dictionary form before its last surviving speakers pass away. According to Daniel, Ayapaneco and the other languages began dying out with the introduction of public Spanish education in the mid-20th century. For decades, local children weren’t allowed to speak anything else. Many people to cities, starting in the 1970s, also helped the dying out of native languages.
Ayapaneco is the name given to the language; Segovia and Velazquez call it “Nuumte Oote”, which means “true voice”. Neither man, however, speaks the same language. The dictionary will contain two versions(版本) of the language when it comes out later this year. Those behind the dictionary aren’t the only ones trying to save Ayapaneco. The National Language Institute plans to hold classes so that Segovia and Velasquez can pass on what they know to children.
It is thought that there are about 6,000 languages spoken on earth and that about half will disappear over the next 100 years. Let’s hope the “true voice” isn’t one of them.
1.Which are the main reasons why the language Ayapaneco started dying out?
a. No teacher liked to teach it.
b. Local children had to speak Spanish.
c. many villagers went to live in cities.
d. The surviving speakers didn’t like to use it.
A.a, b B.a, c C.b, d D.b, c
2.How does the National Language Institute try to save Ayapaneco?
A.Write a dictionary of Ayapaneco.
B.Let Ayapaneco be taught at school.
C.Introduce a public Ayapaneco education.
D.Ask villagers to speak Ayapaneco.
3.From the text we learn that the author____________________.
A.agrees that it is natural that Ayapaneco should die out
B.thinks Daniel’s effort to preserve Ayapaneco won’t work
C.thinks highly of Ayapaneco and wants people to learn it
D.hopes that Ayapaneco will not die out in the future
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Fahad Azad, an engineer in India, invented a robot named DuctBot.The toy-car sized DuctBot measured 23 centimeters in length, 19 centimeters in width and 9 centimeters in height and weighs just two kilograms.
The robot is designed to snake through dark, narrow air conditioning ducts (管道) and clean them.A pair of LEDs fitted on the robot light up the dirty scenery, so it can be captured (抓拍) by a camera.
In order to control it more easily, Mr. Azad chooses to fix DuctBot on wheels.The robot can clean off lots of dirt, as well as dead pigeons and insects.Keeping indoor air in good quality and monitoring carbon-dioxide levels in buildings with central air conditioning is a challenge.It is important in some places where clean air can mean a difference between life and death, such as hospitals.Dirty air has a bad influence on people's health.
EPSCO, a Dubai-based company which specializes in improving indoor air quality, read about Mr. Azad's invention in a national newspaper after he had won an international robotics competition.EPSCO had cleaning equipment, but it needed someone to get into those ducts to do the dirty, dangerous work.Across India, for example, the task still falls to children.They are small enough to go through those ducts.
In 2005, Mr. Azad who was still at university decided to do something about it.Six years later his own company, Robosoft Systems, has Bluestar, EPSCO and the Indian Navy, some leading air condition makers, as partners.
Mr. Azad and his ten employees are currently exploring robot designs to examine oil tanks or sewage (污水)pipes.Their biggest challenge is to make the robots user-friendly enough.Mr. Azad hopes that the robot could eventually be operated not by engineers but by workers.There will be lots of difficulties they need to overcome in the future.
1.What can we learn about Ductbot?
A.It is a toy car and popular with children.
B.It is designed to move like a snake in the ducts.
C.many LEDs are fitted on it to tell its location.
D.It is actually a camera to capture dirty scenery.
2.The underlined word "it" in Paragraph 2 refers to "____".
A.the camera B.the conditioning duct
C.the LED light D.the dirty scenery
3.What can the Ductbot do for us?
A.Clean off the dirt in the ducts.
B.Control the central conditioning.
C.Reduce carbon-dioxide in buildings.
D.Protect more animals in city.
4.According to the text, EPSCO____.
A.has won an international robotics competition
B.hired children to clean the dirty ducts in the past
C.is the only partner of Robosoft Systems
D.specializes in improving people's health
5.What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A.Only engineers can operate the Ductbot now.
B.New ways have been found to examine oil tanks.
C.Azad's difficulties are impossible to overcome.
D.Azad's team are working to improve their robot designs.
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My partner wants to keep the company small _____ I’d like to expand it.
A. andB. orC. howeverD. while
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On the night of November 14, 1978,a six-year-old Korean boy was flying to the United States. All he knew was that he was on a plane heading for somewhere. The plane landed at Kennedy International Airport, where he was greeted by a family. This young boy was me.
I have grown up in a town where there were few Asians, so I stuck out in the crowd. I made friends quickly and they treated me just like anyone else. You may ask if anyone made fun of my appearance. Well, of course, I met that' kind of person. I just shrugged it off.
As an adopted child, I have something that others don't have. I have had the benefit of two families. I'm lucky to have got a chance to start a new life. But we must try never to forget our past. Someday I will go back to Korea to find out what kind of culture I left behind.
There is only one thing that I regret about being adopted. When I argue with my parents and they realize they are losing the argument, they sometimes wonder what I would be doing if I were back in Korea. I don't understand this because I thought the purpose of adopting someone was to give them a better chance of growing up in a family. Some day when I am older, I want to adopt a girl and raise her the way my parents have raised me, but I would do it better, for I know what went well and what did not.
1.We learn that when the writer was on the way to his new family,______.
A. he was with his own parents
B. he was very happy and excited
C. he was about ten years old then
D. he didn't know he was going to be adopted
2.If someone sticks out in the crowd, it means that he/she_______.
A. is very good-looking
B. is very kind-hearted
C. is easily noticed by others
D. is disliked by others
3.When the writer was made fun of by others, he _______.
A. was deeply hurt
B. wanted to go back to Korea
C. didn’t care about it that much
D. tried to make friends with them
4.What can we learn from Paragraph 3?
A. The writer wants to forget his past.
B. The writer isn't sad about being adopted.
C. The writer isn't interested in Korean culture.
D. The writer aren't know anything about Korea.
5.What does the writer want to do when he is older?
A Go back to live with his parents in Korea.
B. Tell his parents what they have done wrong.
C. Find out how to raise children in a better way.
D. Adopt a girl and raise her in a good way.
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People built a monument_________those who died for the country.
A. in praise of B. in need of C. in hope of D. in honor of
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某中学生英文网站发起了以“杜绝校园浪费”(Put an end to waste on campus)为主题的英语征文活动,请你根据以下要点提示,写一篇应征短文。
1. 描述你身边的一些浪费现象;
2. 说明浪费的危害性及节约的重要性;
3. 反省你自身的浪费行为并提出改进措施。
注意:
1. 词数120左右,开头语已为你写好;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
3. 文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称。
Put an end to waste on campus
Nowadays wasting is common on campus. __________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
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I'll go to the library as soon as I finish what I .
A. was doing B. am doing C. have done D. had been doing
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(2013·黑龙江四校高三联考)The church ________ from the 18th century is under repair at present.
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