One thousand dollars a month is not a fortune but would help cover my living ________.
A. bills B. expenses C. prices D. charges
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One thousand dollars a month is not a fortune but would help cover my living _____ .
A. bills B. expenses C. prices D. charges
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科目:高中英语 来源:2012-2013学年浙江省乐清市第二中学高一第二次月考英语试卷(带解析) 题型:单选题
Soon after the quakes,one thousand soldiers were sent out to the miners from the local coal mine.
A.shelter | B.rescue |
C.bury | D.injure |
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科目:高中英语 来源:2011-2012学年山东省汶上一中高一下学期期中考试英语试卷(带解析) 题型:阅读理解
What’s your idea of a good time? What about dancing in a rainy field with one hundred and fifty thousand other people while a famous rock band plays on a stage so far away that the performers look like ants?
It may sound strange but that is what many hundreds of thousands of young people in the UK do every summer.Why? Because summer is the time for outdoor music festivals.
Held on a farm, the Glastonbury Festival is the most well-known and popular festival in the UK.It began in 1970 and the first festival was attended by one thousand five hundred people each paying an admission price of £1 — the ticket included free milk from the farm.
Since then the Glastonbury Festival has gone from strength to strength — in 2004 one hundred and fifty thousand fans attended, paying £112 each for a ticket to the three-day event.Tickets for the event sold out within three hours.Performers included superstars, such as Paul McCartney and James Brown, as well as new talent, like Franz Ferdinand and Joss Stone.
Although many summer festivals are run on a profit-making basis, Glastonbury is a charity event, donating millions of pounds to local and international charities.
Glastonbury is not unique(独特的) in using live music to raise money to fight global poverty.In July of this year, the Live 8 concerts were held simultaneously (同时) in London, Paris, Rome and Berlin.Superstars such as Madonna, Sir Elton John and Stevie Wonder performed in order to highlight international poverty and debt.
【小题1】 What does the author mean by saying “the Glastonbury Festival has gone from strength to strength”?
A.The festival has achieved growing success. |
B.Great efforts have been made to hold the festival. |
C.The festival has brought in a large amount of money. |
D.There have been thousands of fans attending the festival. |
A.The Glastonbury Festival is run on a profit-making basis. |
B.Tickets for the 2004 Glastonbury Festival were in great demand despite the high price. |
C.Both James Brown and Joss Stone were born in poor families. |
D.In the 1970 Glastonbury Festival, one could have lunch on the farm for free. |
A.the Glastonbury Festival is not so popular as the Live 8 concerts |
B.the Live 8 concerts are held every year in London |
C.London, Paris, Rome and Berlin are famous for outdoor music festivals |
D.some superstars are concerned about global poverty |
A.How to have a good time |
B.Charity events around the world |
C.The Glastonbury Festival |
D.Superstars’ performances in charity events |
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科目:高中英语 来源:云南省昆明市2010届高三下学期教学质量检测 题型:阅读理解
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Could we "terraform" Mars —that is, change its frozen, thin-aired surface into something more friendly and Earthlike? Should we? The first question has a clear answer: Yes, we probably could.Spacecraft, including the ones now exploring Mars, have found evidence that it was warm in its youth, with rivers flowing into vast seas.And right here on Earth, we've learned how to warm a planet: just add greenhouse gases to its atmosphere.Much of the CO2 that once warmed Mars is probably still there, in frozen dirt and polar ice caps, and so is the water.
Most of the work in terraforming, says NASA scientist Chris Mackay, would be done by life itself. "You don't build Mars," Mackay says."You just warm it up and throw some seeds." Powerful greenhouse gases could be produced from elements in dirt and air on Mars and blown into the atmosphere; by warming the planet, they would release the frozen CO2, which would quicken the warming and increase atmospheric pressure to the point where liquid water could flow.Meanwhile, says botanist James Graham of the University of Wisconsin, human settlers could seed the red rock with a succession (系列) of ecosystems ?first bacteria and lichens (地衣), which survive in Antarctica, later mosses (苔藓), and after one thousand years or so, redwoods.Getting breathable oxygen levels out of those forests, though, could take thousands of years.
However, Mars is in no immediate danger.Some space scientists recently recommended going to the moon or an asteroid (小行星) first, and pointed out the space agency lacks the funds to go anywhere.It didn't estimate the cost of gardening a dead planet.
72.What is the most essential to make Mars fit for living?
A.Turn ice into flowing water. B.Clean the dirty atmosphere.
C.Make the atmosphere more suitable. D.Go to the moon or an asteroid first.
73.What does the author think of the idea ofterraforming Mars?
A.We could do it. B.We couldn't do it.
C.We should do it. D.We shouldn't do it.
74.In the botanist's opinion, man needs to __________.
A.enable Mars to clean its atmosphere
B.build a greenhouse on Mars
C.send some people to settle on Mars
D.cultivate ecosystems from lower to higher life form
75.What is the best title for the passage?
A.Making Mars the New Earth. B.A Good Way to Change the Universe
C.Humans' Great Power. D.Terrible Science and Technology.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2011-2012学年江西省修水县第一中学高一第一次段考英语试卷 题型:阅读理解
Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea.People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like, mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to use it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and salt. They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches.
Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.
At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea.Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it, but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added.She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. Because she was such a great lady her friends thought they must copy everything she did, so they also drank their tea with milk in it. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk.
At first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess (公爵夫人) found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o’clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it. She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so, tea-time was born.
【小题1】Which of the following is true of the introduction of tea into Britain?
A.The Britons got expensive tea from India. |
B.Tea reached Britain from Holland. |
C.The Britons were the first people in Europe who drank tea. |
D.It was not until the 17th century that the Britons had tea. |
A.the history of tea drinking in Britain |
B.how tea became a popular drink in Britain |
C.how the Britons got the habit of drinking tea |
D.how tea-time was born |
A.in eighteenth century | B.in sixteenth century |
C.in seventeenth century | D.in the late seventeenth century |
A.it tasted like milk |
B.it tasted more pleasant |
C.it became a popular drink |
D.Madame de Sevigne was such a lady with great social influence that people tried to copy the way she drank tea |
A.a famous French lady | B.the ancient Chinese |
C.the upper social class | D.people in Holland |
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