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Every year more people recognize that it is wrong to kill wildlife for “sport”. Progress in this direction is slow because shooting is not a sport for watching, and only those few who take part realize the cruelty and destruction.
The number of gunners, however, grows rapidly. Children too young to develop proper judgments through independent thought are led a long way away by their gunning parents. They are subjected to advertisements of gun producers who describe shooting as good for their health and gun carrying as a way of putting redder blood in the veins(血管). They are persuaded by gunner magazines with stories honoring the chase and the kill. In school they view motion pictures which are supposedly meant to teach them how to deal with arms safely but which are actually designed to stimulate(刺激) a desire to own a gun.
Wildlife is disappearing because of shooting and because of the loss of wildland habitat(栖息地). Habitat loss will continue with our increasing population, but can we slow the loss of wildlife caused by shooting? There doesn't seem to be any chance if the serious condition of our birds is not improved.
Wildlife belongs to everyone and not to the gunners alone. Although most people do not shoot, they seem to forgive shooting for sport because they know little or nothing about it. The only answer, then, is to bring the truth about sport shooting to the great majority of people.
Now, it is time to realize that animals have the same right to life as we do and that there is nothing fair or right about a person with a gun shooting the harmless and beautiful creatures. The gunners like to describe what they do as character－building, but we know that to wound an animal and watch it go through the agony of dying can make nobody happy. If, as they would have you believe, gun－carrying and killing improve human character, then perhaps we should encourage war.
1．According to the text, most people do not seem to be against hunting because
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A．they have little knowledge of it
B．it helps to build human character
C．it is too costly to stop killing wildlife
D．they want to keep wildlife under control
2．The underlined word “agony” in the last paragraph probably means ________.
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3．According to the text, the films children watch at school actually ________.
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A．teach them how to deal with guns safely
B．praise hunting as character－building
C．describe hunting as an exercise
D．encourage them to have guns of their own
4．It can be inferred from the text that the author seems to ________.
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A．blame the majority of people
B．worry about the existence of wildlife
C．be in favour of war
D．be in support of character－building
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Halloween is a festival celebrated on October 31st. The name of the holiday means “hallowed” or “holy evening” because it happens the day before All Saints Day(万圣节) .
It is said that Halloween is the children's New Year's Eve. they dress up with special costumes(服装) , they eat too much, and stay up too late celebrating.
Children go around the neighbourhood wearing make-up, and dressed masks and colorful costumes. The most common costumes are witches, ghosts, skeletons, and popular TV, movie and storybook characters. Sane costumes are homemade, others are bought in stores. The children go door to door saying “trick or treat” . People give them candy, cookies, fruit or money. Sometimes money is to help UNICEF ( United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) .
Homes, stores and classrooms are decorated in the traditional Halloween colors, orange and black. Usual decorations are witches, black cats, ghosts, skeletons, and jack-o-lanterns (灯笼) . Jack-o-lanterns are pumpkins that are carved to look like faces. They ace placed on doorway entrances and in windows. Horror movies and ghost stories are shown on TV on this day.
Adults and older children also celebrate Halloween with parades, festivals and costume parties. Some people create their costumes, other people rent them. Contests are held where the beat costume receives a prize. One of the party events popular with children is dunking(浸泡) for apples. Apples are put in tubs filled with water. People try to get the apples using only their , hands cannot be used.
1．Why is it said that Halloween is the children's New Year's Eve?
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A．Because Halloween comes the day before All Saints Day.
B．Because only on that day can children go around the neighbourhood.
C．Because children can get money from their parents on Halloween.
D．Because children dress up with special costumes, eat a lot, and stay up late celebrating.
2．Which of the following is NOT true about the common costumes according to the passage?
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A．They are colorful.
B．Some of the costumes are homemade.
C．They are witches, skeletons, ghosts and popular TV characters, and so on.
D．All of the costumes are homemade.
3．What are the traditional Halloween colors?
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A．Red and green.
B．Orange and black.
C．Black and white.
D．Orange and brown.
4．Which of the following about Halloween is WRONG?
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A．Jack-o-lanterns are pumpkins that are carved to look like faces.
B．Adults also celebrate Halloween together with children.
C．Horror movies are shown on 1'V on 31st October.
D．Apples are the favourite fruit people eat on Halloween.
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A UFO cult said on Saturday the world's second cloned(克隆)baby had been born to a Dutch woman but cloning experts swiftly dismissed the claim as a baseless stunt. (花招)
“A baby girl was born yesterday evening. The baby is healthy and the mother, too. ”Bart Overvliet, head of the Raelian movement's Dutch branch, told Reuters by telephone.
The woman was now in the Netherlands with her partner, he said, although he did not know where the birth had actually taken place, or even if it had been in the Netherlands itself.
The birth resulted from a procedure by Clonaid, the cloning firm that said it had organized the birth of the first human clone, named Eve, to a 31-year-old American on Tuesday, December 26.
But Harry Griffin, head of Britain's Roslin Institute which cloned the fist adult mammal, Dolly the sheep, in 1996, said the group had provided no proof that two cloned babies existed.
“There is no mason to believe this is anything other than a long drawn-out publicity stunt, ”he told Reuters.
Colnaid's claims have led to widespread doubt among mainstream scientific experts and the company has not yet to provide DNA samples or other evidence to support its claim.
Severino Antinori, an Italian fertility doctor involved in separate human cloning projects, said he thought the report of the record clone's birth was as fake as the first.
“This news makes me laugh. It's a mystery to me how anybody could believe these people who have no scientific track record. It is an absolute lie. ”He told Reuters.
1．According to the news, the second cloned baby was born ________.
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2．The two cloned baby were born ________.
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3．The underlined word“fake”means ________.
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4．What is the attitude of other scientists?
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A．They laugh at the news
B．They think cloning baby is impossible
C．They want some further evidence
D．They regard it as a joke
5．Which of the following is true?
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A．the cloned baby named Eve was healthy
B．The cloned sheep was born in Britain
C．The cloning firm promised to give proof
D．Bart Overvliet dismissed the claim
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Cross was what people call a mysterious (神秘的) man. We had known him for over five years, eve since he became a member of our club(俱乐部)，but he had a way of keeping all his life to himself. We knew where he lived, though he never invited us to his home, and his age too, but only unimportant matters of this kind. It appeared that he did not have to work for a living as we did . He had once talked about a lot of money on which he managed to live comfortably. He was not, however, ready to spend money freely, he was not especially well-dressed and he did not even own a car. At the age of forty-five he remained single though, since marriage(婚姻) was not a subject he ever discussed, we had no means of finding out whether he was sorry for that.
Cross disappeared suddenly from for circle and shortly after we came to learn the fact that our mysterious man was nothing but a thief. From reports that appeared in the newspapers, together with photos of a man who was exactly our Mr Cross, it was shown that he was a most experienced（熟练的）thief, operating mostly in London; and that he had practised this job for many years, until he was caught and sent to prison.
( )1. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Cross had remembered the club.
B. but he never had enough money to invite us
C. Cross led a very hard life.
D. His life was unimportant.
( )2. We knew his address ______ .
A. because he had invited us to his home
B. but he never had enough money to invite us
C. but we always refused to be in his home
D. though he did not ever ask us to drop in on him
( )3. He was never married ______ .
A. and he never talked about that
B. till he was forty-five years old
C. as he did not own a car
D. but he felt sorry not to have got married
( )4. We did not know that Cross was a thief until ______ .
A. he disappeared
B. he appeared in prison
C. he sent us his photos
D. his name appeared in the newspapers
( )5. From the story we learn that Cross _____ .
A. worked in London
B. was a man who made a living by stealing
C. was a man with little money
D. had a job for many years
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：053
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Happy birthday
The China National Opera(CNO)will give a concert to celebrate its 50th birthday.
Different generations of CNO vocalists, like Li Guangxi, Yao Hong and Ma Mei, will present the concert which will feature both songs from famous Chinese operas like“The White haired GM”and“The Hundredth Bride”, as well as, arias of such Western opera classics as“Madame Butter- fly”,“La Traviata”and“Rigoletto”
Time/date: 7 : 30 pm, September 7,8
Location :Tianqiao Theatre
Tel: 6551 - 4787,8315 - 6170
Tickets : 60 - 500 yuan (US $ 7.2 - 60.2)
Folk music
A concert will be held to feature some recently-com posed traditional Chinese music works.
The concert, given by the Folk Orchestra of the China Opera and Ballet Theatre, will include such pieces as“Memory of Child/hood”,“Memorial Ceremony for God”and“Wine Song”.
Time/date: 7:30 pm, September 13
Location: Concert hall at tile National Library of China
Tel: 6848 - 5462,6841 - - 9220
Tickets:30 - 200 yuan(US $3.6 - 24.1 )
Moon music
A concerts of traditional Chinese music will be given on tile eve of the Moon Festival which fails on September 21st this year.
The concert will feature a number of famous pieces centred on the theme of the moon, such as“Moonlight”,“Spring Night on a Moonlit River”and“Lofty Mountain and Flowing River.”
A number of established traditional Chinese music per- formers, like Zhou Yaokun and Fan Weiqing, will play solos as well as collaborate with the folk music orchestra.
Time/date : 7:30 pm, September 21st
Location: Grand Theatre of the Cultural Palace of Nationalities
Tel: 6606 - 8888,6606 - 9999
(1)If you want to buy tickets for listening to the music“Memory of Childhood”, you will dial ________.
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(2)Which statement is fight according to the passage?
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A．Li Guangxi, Yao Hang and Ma Mei stand for the same generation of CNO vocalists.
B．“Rigoletto”is a famous piece on the theme of the moon.
C．“Lofty Mountain and Flowing River”is a traditional Chinese music.
D．Zhou Yaokun will play solos and Fan Weiqing will collaborate with the folk music orchestra.
(3)“Madame Butterfly”is ________.
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(4)In which column of a newspaper will the article be published?
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科目：高中英语 来源：广东省培正中学2011-2012学年高二第一学期期中考考试英语试题 题型：050
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