— Real Madrid is sure to win the match!
— It's hard to say. You know, anything _____ happen even in the last minute.
A. can B. must C. should D. need
科目：高中英语 来源：2013届广东省六校高三第一次联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.
A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.
There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two - headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl -friend.
No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.
1.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is ____ .
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A．repeated without any change |
B．treated as a joke |
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C．made some changes by the parent |
D．set in the present |
2.According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is ____ .
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A．in a realistic setting |
B．heard for the first time |
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C．repeated too often |
D．told in a different way |
3.The advantage claimed (提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it ____.
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A．makes them less fearful |
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B．develops their power of memory |
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C．makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of |
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D．encourages them not to have strange beliefs |
4.The author's mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that ______.
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A．fairy stories are still being made up |
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B．there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales |
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C．people try to modernize old fairy stories |
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D．there is more concern for children's fears nowadays |
5.One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.
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A．they are full of imagination |
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B．they just make up the stories which are far from the truth |
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C．they are not interesting |
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D．they make teachers of history difficult to teach |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2013届浙江临海白云高级中学高二下学期期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
We all remember seeing hitchhikers（搭便车的人）, standing by the side of the road, thumb sticking out, waiting for a lift. But it is getting rare nowadays. What killed hitchhiking? Safety is often mentioned as a reason. Movies about murderous hitchhikers and real-life crime have put many drivers off picking up hitchhikers. That no single women picked me up on my journey to Manchester no doubt reflects the safety fear: a large, strangely dressed man is seen as dangerous.
But the reason may be more complex: hitchhiking happens where people don’t have cars and transport services are poor. Plenty of people still hitchhike in Poland and Romania. Perhaps the rising level of car ownership in the UK means the few people lift hitchhiking are usually considered strange. Why can’t they afford cars? Why can’t they take the coach or the train?
Three-quarters of the UK population have access to a car; many of the remainder will be quite old. The potential hitchhiking population is therefore small. Yet my trip proves it’s still possible to hitchhike. The people who picked me up were very interesting-lawyer, retired surgeon, tank commander, carpenter, man who live in an isolated farmhouse and a couple living up in the mountains. My conclusion is that only really interesting people are mad enough to pick up fat blokes in red,
spotted scarves. Most just wanted to do someone a good turn; a few said they were so surprised to see a hitchhiker that they couldn’t help stopping.
The future of hitchhiking most likely lies with car-sharing organized over the Internet, via sites such as hitchhikers. org. But for now, you can still stick your thumb out(actually, I didn’t do much of that, preferring just to hold up my destination sign) and people-wonderful, caring, sharing, unafraid people-will stop.
In the UK, with its cheap coaches and reasonable rail service, I don’t think I’ll make a habit of it. But having enjoyed it so much, I’m ready now to do a big trip across Europe and beyond. In the 1970s a female friend of my wife’s hitchhiked to India. How wonderful it would be to have another go, though Afghanistan might be a challenge. I wish I’d got that tank commander’s mobile number.
1.The author tried to hitchhike but was rejected by single women drivers because_____________ .
A. they were not heading towards Manchester
B. they thought most hitchhikers were dangerous
C. hitchhiking had been forbidden and they didn’t want to break the law
D. he was a strong man in strange clothes who seemed dangerousZxxk
2.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. That some people refuse hitchhikers may reflect the safety fear.
B. Car ownership levels are lower in Romania than in the UK.
C. 40% of UK people don’t have access to cars.
D. Increased car ownership has reduced the need for hitchhiking.
3.The “fat blokes in red, spotted scarves” in Paragraph 3 most likely means .
A. murderous hitchhikers
B．friendly and talkative hitchhikers
C. typical hitchhikers
D．strange hitchhikers like the author
4.According to the author, future hitchhikers are more likely to .
A. visit websites and find people to share cars with
B. stand by roads with their thumbs sticking out
C. stick out signs with their destinations written on
D. wait for some kind people to pick them up
5.From the last paragraph, we know that the author .
A. frequently hitchhikes in Britain
B. plans to hitchhike across Europe
C. thinks public transport is safer for travel
D. is going to contact the tank commander
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科目：高中英语 来源：安徽省2009-2010学年度高一下学期期中考试试卷（英语） 题型：完形填空
第三部分：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each 16 to help drain the fluid(排出流质) from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s only window. The other man had to spend all his time 17 on his back.
The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their families, their homes, their jobs and a whole lot of things. Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by 18 to his roommate what he could see 19 the window.
The man in the other bed began to 20 for those one-hour periods when his 21 would be broadened and brightened by all the activity and color of the world outside.
The window overlooked a 22 with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children 23 their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm among 24 of every color and a fine 25 of the city skyline could be seen in the 26 . As the man described all this, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and 27 the beautiful scene.
Days and weeks passed. One morning, the day nurse arrived to find the man by the window, had died 28 in his sleep. Later, the other man asked 29 he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch.
Slowly, painfully, he managed to 30 and take his first look at the 31 world outside. Surprisingly, it 32 a blank wall.
The next day he learned from the nurse that the man was 33 and could not 34 see the wall. She said, “Perhaps he just wanted to 35 you.”
16. A. morning B. afternoon C. evening D. night
17. A. flat B. quiet C. still D. calm
18. A. listening B. talking C. describing D. explaining
19. A. beyond B. outside C. behind D. near
20. A. look B. live C. prepare D. work
21. A. health B. dream C. world D. career
22. A. garden B. farm C. mountain D. park
23. A. made B. rowed C. took D. sailed
24. A. trees B. flowers C. houses D. birds
25. A. photo B. map C. view D. appearance
26. A. distance B. hospital C. future D. sky
27. A. enjoy B. experience C. sense D. imagine
28. A. peacefully B. painfully C. sadly D. bravely
29. A. when B. if C. how D. why
30. A. climb up B. stand up C. sit up D. turn up
31. A. real B. noisy C. ordinary D. new
32. A. contained B. covered C. connected D. faced
33. A. mad B. blind C. ill D. dead
34. A. yet B. just C. even D. clearly
35. A. support B. fool C. cure D. encourage
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A little old lady went into a pet shop and saw a lovely looking parrot. “I would like to buy that handsome bird, please,” she said to the owner.
“Oh you don’t want__1__，” the man replied. “He uses some pretty terrible__2__. Why don’t you get a puppy or a cat？”
“I want that parrot！”the woman insisted, and proceeded to put her money__3__the counter. The owner shrugged his shoulders and made the sale.
When the woman returned home, she started playing with her new friend. She was petting him and poking at his feathers when all of a sudden he__4__ (start) swearing a blue streak. The woman was so shocked__5__she grabbed the parrot and stuck him in the refrigerator. When she took the shivering bird out__6__ (late), she warned him that every time he used bad language he’d be put back__7__it was cold.
The parrot’s behavior was pretty good for__8__couple of days, but then one morning while the cat was putting her paw through his cage, he got__9__ (real) mad and started cursing again. This time the woman grabbed the__10__and stuck him in the freezer. As he sat there shivering and looking around, he saw a frozen turkey right next to him.
“gad！” squawked (尖声高叫) the parrot. “What did you say？”
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