—The Silk Road has been a bridge between East and West for more than 2,000 years.
—Yes, ________ began during the Western Han Dynasty.
A. he B. they C. it
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年广东实验中学高一下期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Are you an early riser or a night owl? Researchers from Aachen University in Germany believe that about 10 percent of people can be classified as “morning people”, who feel more active and function best in the morning．Around 20 percent are night owls—people who naturally tend to stay up late and are more tired during the day．And the rest of us fall somewhere in between, according to New Scientist.
Previous studies have suggested that early risers are more likely to be happy and healthy while night owls experience worse sleep as well as more depression and anxiety during the day.
For a long time, scientists have been trying to find out what causes the differences between the two．A new study suggests that it isn’t just people’s habits—early risers and night owls actually have different brain structures.
Led by Jessica Rosenberg at Aachen University, researchers scanned the brains of 16 early risers, 23 night owls and 20 people with intermediate sleeping hours．They found that the brains of night owls had less “white matter”—which speeds up the transmission(传输) of nerve signals — in brain areas associated with depression.
As you know, after people fly in an airplane from one time zone to another, they often suffer from a confused and tired feeling called “jet lag” because their body clocks are out of sync(不同步的) with the new time zone．It usually takes about a week for their bodies to adjust to the new time．But night owls always have difficulty syncing their bodies to the right time due to their brain structure．“It’s like they suffer from permanent jet lag,” said Rosenberg.
The good news is that it is possible for night owls to turn themselves into morning people．According to the researchers, night owls should try to spend as much time in the sunlight as possible and reduce their exposure to artificial light at night to force their body clocks to shift to a more normal rhythm.
1.What does the article mainly discuss?
A．How to turn early risers into night owls.
B．How our habits influence our sleep patterns.
C．What causes the differences between early risers and night owls.
D．Why early risers are happier and healthier than night owls.
2.We can learn from the article that night owls ________.
A．make up almost a third of the human population
B．have more white matter in their brains than other people
C．are more used to artificial night than sunlight
D．have body clocks that are not in agreement with the actual time
3.Jessica Rosenberg’s research suggests that ________.
A．previous studies about night owls are wrong
B．night owls are affected by jet lag more strongly than others
C．white matter helps our brains work more efficiently
D．brain structure might determine people’s chances of suffering from depression
4.According to the last paragraph, ________.
A．night owls have to give up their unhealthy life habits
B．night owls can learn to adjust their body clocks
C．there is little we can do to ease the trouble of night owls
D．scientists are planning research on how to change night owls’ brain structures
5.What would be the best title?
A．Night Owls Have “Jet leg”
B．Early Riser Have “Jet leg”
C．Who Are Night owls
D．Who Are Early Risers
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________ difficulties we may come across, we will help one another to overcome them.
A. However B. Whenever C. Whatever D. Wherever
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—Which one of these do you want?
—________. Either will do.
A. I don't mindB. That's for sureC. No problem
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—Mom, who won the first place in the TV show I' m a singer?
—It ________ be Han Hong, but I' m not sure. Last Friday I missed it.
A. mightB. mustC. should
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Characters in novels don’t always do what the writer wants them to do. Sometimes they cause trouble, take on lives of their own, or even work against the writer. It’s not just a problem for inexperienced authors: famed children’s novelist Roald Dahl said he got the main character in his book Matilda so “wrong”that when he’d finished his first version, he threw it away and started again.
Of course it’s not the characters’ fault. The problem lies with the author. Take Stephen King, who admitted that writing working-class characters is more difficult nowadays because his own circumstances have changed. “It is definitely harder,”King said.“When I wrote Carrie many years ago, I was one step away from physical labour.”
This is also true for characters’ ages, added King.“When you have small children, it is easy to write young characters because you observe them and you have them in your life all the time. But your kids grow up, it’s been harder for me to write about this little 12-year-old girl in my new book because my models are gone.”
For other authors, such as Karen Fowler, there’s one quality that can stop a character in its tracks: boredom.“I had particular problems with the main character in my historical novel Sister Noon,”she says.“She had attitudes about race and religion that seemed appropriate to me for her time and class, but they were not attitudes I liked. Eventually I grew quite bored with her. You can write a book about a character you dislike or a character you disagree with, but I don’t think you can write a book about a character who bores you.”
According to Neel Mukherjee, it was Adinath, a character in The Lives of Others, who made him work the hardest.“I think I struggled because it’s difficult to write a character whose most prominent personal feature is weakness, as Adinath’s is, without making that feature define him,”Mukherjee says. But a troublesome character is far from an unwelcome guest, he continues, arguing that “when characters work against the author they come alive and become unpredictable”.
“That is a fantastic thing to happen,”Mukherjee says.“I celebrate it. It is one of the great, lucky gifts given to a writer.”
1.What can we infer about Stephen King’s book Carrie?
A.It was his most difficult book to write.
B.It was the first successful novel King wrote.
C.There were few children featured in the story.
D.Some of its main characters were working class.
2.Why did Karen Fowler have trouble writing the main character in her novel Sister Noon?
A.She disagreed with the character’s attitudes.
B.The age difference between the two was too large.
C.She found the character very uninteresting.
D.The historical setting made accuracy difficult.
3.What does Neel Mukherjee think of his difficult-to-write characters?
A.They are a sign that the story is not realistic.
B.They are often the most interesting.
C.They should be praised by all authors.
D.They need to be researched more thoroughly.
4.In which part of the newspaper would you expect to find the passage?
A. Careers. B. Culture.
C. Entertainment. D. Lifestyle.
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读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A special lady lived on a farm in Grace, Idaho. To overcome every ________ or struggle that came her way, she went far beyond the call of duty. She was a widow (寡妇) with 9 children. Instead of ________ of her hard life, she accepted her fate (命运) and ________ the ordinary into the extraordinary.
No matter how serious things seemed to be, she found a(n) ________ side and a ray of hope. She taught her family the ________ of hard work and the importance of education, ________ she only went as far as fourth grade.
Her children didn’t have material ________, but they certainly received the necessary and ________ things in life: love, spiritual guidance, concern for others, appreciation for a table filled with food, and ________ for the law. She was truly a(n) ________ of all that is good.
I remember as a young man sitting at her feet while she ________ me. “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” And she said, “I’ll ________ throw upon the floor a crust (面包皮) I cannot eat, for many a hungry one would think it quite a ________. Willful waste brings willful want, and I may live to say, ‘Oh, I wish I had that crust that once I ________.’”
This extremely courageous and ________ woman is my grandmother. My mother is a lot like her mother. Many times, my mother went ________ a new dress just so we could buy some great football shoes. Many times, my mother ________ that we should stay home instead of going on a summer vacation, just so we could ________ on a baseball all-star team. My mother is the greatest cook on Earth, a spiritual ________, a church and community servant, and the very best mom who ever lived. I’ve never ________ her complain about her difficulties, heartache, and pain. My dear, sweet mother truly is a perfect example. It’s the way it was and still should be.
1.A. successB. taskC. challengeD. job
2.A. thinkingB. complainingC. talkingD. dreaming
3.A. sentB. putC. cheatedD. changed
4.A. oppositeB. positiveC. wrongD. dark
5.A. valueB. ideaC. painD. result
6.A. ifB. althoughC. unlessD. since
7.A. needsB. comfortsC. wealthD. hope
8.A. importantB. interestingC. strangeD. natural
9.A. fearB. loveC. demandD. respect
10.A. userB. speakerC. exampleD. corrector
11.A. taughtB. chargedC. encouragedD. judged
12.A. usuallyB. neverC. evenD. also
13.A. pleasureB. beautyC. rewardD. treat
14.A. gave upB. picked upC. threw awayD. took away
15.A. strongB. curiousC. intelligentD. attractive
16.A. inB. beyondC. forD. without
17.A. insistedB. warnedC. remindedD. persuaded
18.A. goB. performC. exchangeD. play
19.A. engineerB. dancerC. guideD. worker
20.A. noticedB. heardC. discussedD. forgotten
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年黑龙江哈尔滨六中高二下期末英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
On February 11, 2007, Drew Gilpin Faust was ________ as the first female president of Harvard University in 371 years.
A. appointed B. appealed C. attached D. transferred
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年内蒙古高二下期末英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Experts recently suggested that teens should start adopting early bedtimes. Before you dismiss it as a habit suited only for young kids, consider that there are serious advantages in being well-rested. And now, even more research suggests that putting phones away before going to sleep is important to teens’ well-being.
A new study from Seton Hall University School of Health and Medicine Science found that 62 percent of kids used their smart phones before bed, and it’s causing less sleep and poor performance in school.
Those teens who text(发短信) before bedtime tend to go to sleep later, and get up later in the morning. Such behavior can be associated with mental health issues like depression or anxiety. Besides, once teens do receive a text, experts found, they tend to respond right away. Then the text conversation continues — resulting in an even later bedtime.
The study’s co-author Dr. Peter Polos says this leads to excessive stimulation(过度刺激) at night. Light from electronic devices can block the secretion(分泌) of melatonin — a hormone(荷尔蒙) that promotes sleep, which makes sleep difficult in the face of overuse of smart phones at night. It’s true! More screen time means less sleep time; other studies have suggested the same idea.
As for a final piece of advice, Dr. Sushanth Bhat says, since getting the proper amount of sleep is very important for brain development and learning in the teenage years, our study should encourage parents and guardians (监护人) to limit adolescent smart phone usage at night. Keep in mind that teens aren’t the only ones addicted to their phones! Adults can also benefit from setting a tech curfew(宵禁) for themselves. After all, kids learn by example!
1.What is the text mainly about?
A. How to promote sleep.
B. How kids learn from their parents.
C. The advantages of going to bed early.
D. The disadvantages of phone usage before bed.
2.Who are likely to go to sleep later according to the text?
A. Kids having text conversations before bed.
B. Kids putting their phones away at night.
C. Kids studying their lessons hard at school.
D. Kids exercising with friends after school.
3.Melatonin can ________.
A. make sleep difficult B. lead to later bedtimes
C. help people fall asleep D. wake people from a sleep
4.The author advises parents to ________.
A. learn from their kids
B. get rid of smart phones
C. set a good example to their kids
D. try to benefit from hi-tech development
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