First published in 2001, the book Life of Pi written by Canadian author Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize and an Asian American Prize for Literature. It is the story of a young boy named Pi who spends 227 days at sea with a small group of animals after disaster strikes their ship and is an account of his journey of survival and hardship.
Piscine “Pi” Molitor Patel, on whom Life of Pi is based, is a young boy living in Pondicherry, India, where his father owns a zoo. The story starts when Patel’s family decide to move to Canada, along with their zoo animals for their new home.
However, because of the bad weather, the ship sinks. Pi along with an orangutan (猩猩), an injured zebra, a hyena (鬣狗) and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker are the only survivors who take shelter in a small lifeboat. Both the injured zebra and the orangutan are soon killed and eaten by the hyena. The tiger in turn kills and eats the hyena, leaving just the two of them alone on the boat now.
In an effort to avoid being eaten by Richard Parker, Pi acts himself as the head of the group and remains safe from harm. Since he does not want the tiger to die for fear of going mad by being alone on the boat, he fishes and feeds the two of them in order to stay alive.
The life of Pi then enters its third stage when their lifeboat washes up on the shores of Mexico and the tiger escapes into a nearby forest leaving Pi alone. After the Mexicans refuse to believe Pi’s story, he changes his tale by replacing the animals with his mother, a cook and a sailor and asks the Mexicans which one they prefer. They prefer hearing the first story though they do not believe a word of it.
In my view, Life of Pi is a must read book for all those who love reading.
1.We can learn that the book Life of Pi _____.
A. was written in 2001
B. was awarded two prizes
C. tells a story about friendship
D. is based on the author’s personal experience
2. In the book Life of Pi the hyena is killed by _____.
A. Pi
B. the zebra
C. the orangutan
D. Richard Parker
3. How does Pi escape being eaten by the tiger?
A. By catching fishes for the tiger.
B. By locking the tiger in a cage.
C. By being the leader of the two of them.
D. By fighting with the tiger.
4. What happens after Pi arrives in Mexico?
A. The tiger dies.
B. He tries to escape.
C. The Mexicans feel sorry for him.
D. The Mexicans doubt his experience.
科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年湖南郴州湘南中学高一上期中英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Found An IC card with some keys was found. Come to Room 203 between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Friday Or call 8660-6982. | Summer Job Do you like to talk with people? Do you like to write stories? And do you want to work for a students’ magazine? Come and work for us as a reporter for two months. Tel: 8667-6981 |
Cooking Tour Join Cooking Tour. You can visit Guangzhou, Changsha, Chongqing and three other cities. You can enjoy the most delicious food and learn Chinese cooking. Duration 12 days Cost ￥3,600 Tel: 8665-7762 | Painting Competition For all the students from Senior 1 and Senior 2 Paint a picture of an animal Send it to the Painting Club Before 30th June For more information Call 8664-4451 |
1. You can call ____ if you have lost your IC card.
A. 8664-4451 B. 8667-6981
C. 8665-7762 D. 8660-6982
2.You should ____ if you want to find a job as a reporter.
A. go to the Painting Club B. go to Room 203
C. join in Cooking Tour D. try Summer Job
3.How many Chinese cities can you visit if you join Cooking Tour?
A. 3. B. 6. C. 9. D. 12
4.If you join in Cooking Tour, you can do the following things except .
A. taste some food B. learn how to cook
C.visit some cities D. draw some pictures
5.Chen Wei may paint a picture of ____ if he wants to take part in the competition.
A. an elephant B. a river
C. a tree D. a flower
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年浙江富阳富阳第二中学高二上第三次质检英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Family traditions were important in our house, and one was more appreciated than our annual trip to the woods for the perfect Christmas tree.
“Dad, can we watch when you trim(修剪) it?” my eldest son ,John ,asked on the way home.
“I won’t be cutting this year,” my husband said.” You and your brother Dan are old enough to measure things, fit the tree to the stand and do it by yourselves. Think you boys can handle it?”
They seemed to grow six inches in their chairs at the thought of such an amazing responsibility. “We can handle it,” Dan promised. We won’t let you down.”
A few days before Christmas, Dan and John rushed in after school. They gathered the tools they’d need and brought them out of yard, where the tree waited. I left the older boys to their work and brought David inside for his early supper. A moment later I heard the happy sounds as the boys carried the trees into the living room. Then I heard the sound become dead silence. I hurried out to them. The tree was too short. John crossed his arm tight across his chest. His eyes were filled with angry tears.
The tree was central to our holiday, but it was not what I worried about. I didn’t want the boys to feel ashamed every time they looked at it. We had a terrible problem on our hands. I couldn’t lower the ceiling, and I couldn’t raise the floor either. There was no way to repair the damage. If I couldn’t fix the problem, maybe I could get creative with it. A thought came to my mind, which turned to the solution.
I followed them back into the living room.. “We can’t make the tree taller,” I said. “But we can put it on a higher position.” Dan turned his head sideways, measuring the distance with his eyes . “We can put it on the coffee table and put the lights and decorations on before we lift it up . Thus, we won’t need a ladder. It just might work! Let’s try it!”
When my husband got home and looked at the big tree on top of the coffee table, Dan and John held their breath.
“What a good idea!” he declared, as if the boys had gone beyond all his expectations. “Why didn’t I ever think of such a thing ?”
John broke into a grin. Dan’s chest swelled with pride. David squealed.
1.Who trimmed the Christmas trees this year?
A. David B. The writer
C. The children D. The writer’s husband
2.By “ grow six inches” ( Paragraph4), the writer means that the children might feel _____.
A. excited B. nervous C. terrible D. worried
3.What was the writer worried about according to Paragraph 6?
A.The Christmas tree B. The husband’s health
C. The holiday D. The boys’ pride
4.How was the short tree turned into a perfect one?
A. By making it taller B. By lowering the ceiling
C. By placing it on a table D. By raising the floor
5.What the writer’s husband said in the end shows that ________.
A. he expected too much of the children
B. he was satisfied with what the children had done
C. it was stupid of the children to think of such an idea.
D.the children shouldn’t have given up the responsibility
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年浙江富阳富阳第二中学高二上第三次质检英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
---Why do you look so sad?
---There are so many problems_______.
A. remaining to settle B. remained settling
C. remaining to be settled D. remained to be settled
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年云南德宏州芒市高一上期末英语试卷（解析版） 题型：书面表达
假如你是李华，你最喜欢的歌手Justin Bieber（贾斯汀·比伯）下个月将到你市演出。近日你准备和几个朋友成立Justin Bieber的歌迷俱乐部。请你给你的加拿大笔友Freddy发一封100词左右的e-mail，表明你们喜欢Justin Bieber的理由，并希望Freddy就如何办好歌迷俱乐部提出一些建议。
注意：1. 可适当发挥，以使行文连贯。
2. 词数100词左右。
参考词汇：
市：city 演出：perform 歌迷俱乐部：fan club 希望：hope 建议：advice
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年山东聊城莘县第一中学高一上第一次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：其他题
按照所学课文内容,完成句子(每空1分，最后二空1分,满分10分)
1.Ms Shen’s method _____ teaching is nothing like ____ of the teachers of my Junior High school.
沈老师的教学方法和我初中老师的教学方法一点也不像。
2.There are a few students in our class who keep _____ to class late but they’re always ____ time for Ms Shen’s lessons!
我们班有几个上课经常迟到的同学，但是他们总是按时上沈老师的课！
3.I think I’ll ____ well in the exam with Mrs Chen________ me.
我认为有陈老师教我，我会在考试中取得好成绩。
4.We ______ great meals _________ by experts!
我们吃到了烹饪大师们做的美味佳肴。
5.We got on in Sydney and we got off in Alice Springs _______in the middle of Australia, _____ ______ four thousand kilometres away.
我们在悉尼上车，在4000多千米以外恰恰是澳大利亚中部的艾丽斯斯普林斯下车。
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年山东聊城莘县第一中学高一上第一次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
Radio, telephone and television are widely used in the world. When you the radio, you can listen. But when you use the telephone, not only you can listen to others you can talk with them; however, you see anything at all. Television is much better than of them. People can watch TV and listen to it. But they can't take part in they see.
Today some people are using a kind of telephone called the picture phone or vision phone. it two people who are talking can see each other.
Picture phone can be very when you have something to show the person you are call?ing. They may have other uses in the future. Some day you may be able to a library and ask to read a book right over your picture phone. You may also be able to go shopping through it, too. When you something in the newspaper that you think you want to buy, you may go to your picture phone and call the shop. The shop assistant will show you the thing that you're in right over the phone. You'll be able to shop all over the town and never leave your home.
【小题1A. Turn to B. turn over C. turn off D. turn on
1.A. and B. not C. so D. but also
2.A. can B. can't C. need D. needn't
3.A. all B. none C. both D. every
4.A. what B. how C. why D. where
5.A. With B. In C. By D. Without
6.A. use B. uses C. used D. useful
7.A. go to B. sit in C. ring up D. make phone calls
8.A. will see B. see C. won't see D. doesn't see
9.A. interest B. interested C. interesting D. interests
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年河南周口中英文学校高二上第三次12月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
The wedding（婚礼） took place in a Birmingham hotel. The bride and her father arrived in a new black American sports car. Her father looked nervous and uncomfortable in front of the cameras. The bride wore a silk wedding dress. She smiled nervously at the waiting photographers and went to a room on the first floor where she met her future husband for the very first time.
Carla Germaine and Greg Cordell were the winners of a radio station’s competition. The aim of the competition was to find two strangers prepared to marry without having met each other. Miss Germaine, 23, is a model. Mr. Cordell, 27, is a TV salesman. They were among the two hundred people who entered for a particular “experiment” organized by BMRB radio in Birmingham, England. Greg and Carla were among eight finalists who were interviewed live on radio. They took a lie detector （测谎仪）test and the station also spoke to their friends and family about their personalities. The competition judges included an astrologer（占卜家）who declared that they were suited.
The couple celebrated their wedding with a wedding breakfast and a party for 100 guests in the evening, but not everyone shared their joy. Miss Germaine’s mother looked anxious through-out the wedding and Mr. Cordell’s parents are reported to be less than delighted.
Organizations, including the marriage guidance service Relate, have criticized the marriage. As one expert put it, “we have enough problems getting young people to take marriage seriously. Marriage should always be about love.”
The couples are now on a Caribbean honeymoon followed by journalists. Their other prizes include a year’s free use of a wonderful apartment in the centre of Birmingham, and a car. But will it last?
1.How did the couple’s parents react to the wedding?
A. The bride’s mother shared their joy.
B. The bridegroom’s parents were quite delighted
C. The bridegroom’s parents were not that joyful.
D. The bride’s father felt uncomfortable about the wedding.
2.Some experts believe that ________.
A. marriage without the couple’s meeting each other first ends up in divorce.
B. most young people take marriage seriously except this couple.
C. young people nowadays are too careless about marriage.
D. taking a lie detector test can not solve all the marriage problems.
3.One of the prizes for the couple is ________.
A. to spend their honeymoon wherever they like.
B. to use an apartment free for some time.
C. to have a wedding dress free.
D. to own an American sports car.
4.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. Two Strangers and a Wedding. B. A Wedding Based on love.
C. A Short--lived Marriage. D. A Well--Matched Couple.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年陕西宝鸡中学高三上第二次（12月）月考B卷英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
根据下列句子各句句意和空白之后的汉语提示词，在句子右边的横线上写出空缺处相应单词的正确形式，每空只写一词。
1.The harbor was full of soldiers with green ________ (行李).
2.________ (显然地), we cannot treat all the problems.
3.How does the sperm whale ________ (设法) to do this?
4.It is forbidden to reprint any article from this magazine without special ________ (许可).
5.The _______ (胡萝卜) is the second most popular vegetable in the world, after the potato.
6.Did you enjoy your visit in Sweden? What _______ (使印象深刻) you most there?
7.Her school report shows that she is weak at arithmetic and _______ (生物学).
8.She has shown extraordinary ________ (耐心) towards the boy.
9.Therefore, I wish to ________ (道歉) right now for what happened.
10.He is the only ________ (诗人) in this country that deserves the name.
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