There’s a whole lot of things that people fill their stomachs with. Some of them keep people alive. Some of them taste good to people. Some of them help people win pie-eating contests. Alcohol does none of these things. Why do people keep drinking it? And what does it do once it gets to their stomachs?
There are all kinds of alcohol molecules (分子), but the one that people most often pour down their throat is ethanol (乙醇). Ethanol is very tiny and it dissolves in water, so it gets into all sorts of places that it’s not supposed to. Alcohol heads for the digestive system. Because it dissolves in water, it can get into the water in the bloodstream. Because ethanol, to a certain extent, can pass through cell membranes(膜). It can go almost anywhere. It spreads through the muscles, and is sweated(出汗) — unmetabolized(未经新陈代谢的) and whole — through the skin. It gets into the heart. It even takes a walk through the brain, and this is the secret of its powers.
Alcohol depresses the nerves, and the nerves affect almost every area of the body. Enough alcohol makes people sleep, so people who become unconscious choke on their own vomit (呕吐物). Most worryingly, enough alcohol can shut down those parts of the brain just like any other parts. People become unconscious and their brains simply forget to breathe.
Alcohol is broken down in the liver. Alcohol doesn’t destroy the liver, but products that the liver breaks the alcohol into do cause damage. A glass of wine per day can not do any harm. Instead, it can prevent heart attacks or can make someone functionally young. And it is kind of nice to know that sometimes, relaxation and cheer can be bottled. All that’s needed is to take care how much alcohol is let into a person’s brain.
1.How does the author introduce the topic of the text?
A. By statement.B. By question.
C. By arguing.D. By explaining.
2.Why can alcohol reach the brain?
A. Because it can move through water molecules in the blood.
B. Because it is small enough to get through any narrow space.
C. Because it is so light that the bloodstream can transport.
D. Because it is absorbed only by the cells in the stomach.
3.What’s the main idea of Paragraph 3?
A. Alcohol affects the work of the nerves.
B. Alcohol has an effect on people’s breath.
C. People are drunk when their brains get drunk.
D. Drinking too much is quite dangerous.
4.From the passage, we can know ________.
A. many people like a drink when they feel relaxed
B. enough alcohol can control the brain activities
C. alcohol damages the liver indirectly
D. proper alcohol may lead to better sleep
科目:高中英语 来源:2016-2017学年重庆万州第二高级中学高一上期中考试英语卷(解析版) 题型:书面表达
假如你叫李华,新学期开学两个月了,你的英语老师要求你在英语课堂上用英语和同学们交流一下你到新学校后的感受。交流内容要求包括以下要点:
1、校园环境和教学设施;
2、师生给你的印象;
3、给学校的两点建议。
注意:1、词数 100 词左右;
2、信的开头和结尾已为你写好,不计入词数;
3、内容可适当发挥,要注意行文连贯。
Hello, everyone,
I’m honored to stand here to tell you something about my school life in the past two months………….
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When we were very small, we realized that having friends was important. Some of us even had imaginary(想象中的)friends. The need for friends continued as we grew into our teens. Friends played a big part in forming our personalities(性格). As adults, it is still important for us to have friends.
True friends are people who like us though we made mistakes and who listen to us and tell us the truth. Friends support our decisions and tell us when we’re foolish. They laugh with us and share our sadness. They are our partners and share interests with us. They stimulate us when we are feeling down. They are people we aren’t afraid of telling our secret wishes to or what is really on our minds.
Friends are our supporters. When you can depend on friends, you feel safe and warm. Friends offer acceptance and emotional(情感的) support. At times, they also help with our everyday lives, cooking a meal, doing chores, or giving us a lift when we need one. Friends also are there to offer advice, an ear to listen, or a shoulder to cry on.
Friends also help us reduce stress. Not only do they listen to us when we feel stressed, but they also discuss what is stressing us. Sharing interests and doing activities with friends help us forget about problems at work or at home. For a short time, we can lose ourselves in a pleasant activity and perhaps laugh and breathe more easily.
1.What is the best title for the passage?
A.How to Reduce Stress
B.How to Make New Friends
C.The Importance of Friends
D.The Qualities of Good Friends
2.The underlined word “stimulate” in paragraph 2 probably means .
A. educate B.encourage
C.surprise D.dislike
3.We can learn from the third paragraph that friends always .
A.laugh at us when we’re foolish
B.tell us other people’s secrets
C.share our sadness and interests
D.support us when we need help
4.We can learn from the passage that .
A.people should make friends any time
B.friends are people who allow you to cry
C.a friend helps you in many ways
D.good friends are always difficult to meet
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阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
In the past, it took a long time for people to find someone. Nowadays, however, 1. the help of online communities, people can get their search 2. (do) within a short period of time. All they need to do 3. (be) get online and upload a picture of the person they are looking for, or share some basic information about this person. Because of the “footprints” people 4. (leave)
online, other Internet users are usually able to find anyone 5. they are interested in.
One example of this is a man who beat a dog cruelly. His 6. (violent) was recorded and uploaded online. In a very short time, the man was reported to an animal rescue team. In the end, he was punished and made to apologize. 7. example involves a college student who refused 8. (clean) up after her dog on the subway. Netizens revealed her personal information in order to punish her. 9. (wide) blamed for her behavior, this girl left college eventually. Many people thus began to debate 10. a “witch-hunt” like this went to far or not.
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假如你正在参加学校举办的一个英语演讲比赛,就如何应对全球变暖这一话题发表自己的见解,号召同学们过低碳生活,为减少二氧化碳(CO2)排放做贡献。请就这一话题写一篇演讲稿,陈述你自己的观点。演讲稿应包括以下内容:
1.节能减排,低碳生活,人人可为;
2.改变以往的家庭生活习惯(用电,用水等);
3.出行使用公共交通或骑自行车;
4.……
注意:1.词数100左右;
2.可适当增加细节内容,以使行文连贯;
3.开头已经给出,但不计入总词数。
参考词汇:low carbon life低碳生活;carbon emission碳排放
Good morning,everyone,
My topic today is how to live a low carbon life. As we all know,the earth is becoming warmer and warmer due to the global climate change. __________________________
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Every year I usually subscribe ________ some magazines for my daughter to read.
A.toB.forC.atD.in
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You ________ all right now if you ________ to the doctor then.
A.would be;had listened
B.would have been;had listened
C.would be;listened
D.would have been;listened
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While residents of wealthy nations tend to have greater life satisfaction, new research shows that those living in poorer nations report having greater meaning in life.
These findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological science, suggest that meaning in life may be higher in poorer nations as a result of greater religiosity (笃信宗教). As countries become richer, religion becomes less central to people’s lives and they lose a sense of meaning in life.
“Thus far, the wealth of nations has been almost always associated with longevity, health, happiness or life satisfaction,” explains psychological scientist Shigehiro Oishi of the University of Virginia. “Given that meaning in life is an important aspect of overall well-being, we wanted to look more carefully at differential patterns, correlates (相关物), and predictors for meaning in life.”
Oishi and colleague Ed Diener of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign investigated life satisfaction, meaning, and well-being by examining data from the 2007 Gallup World Poll, a large-scale survey of over 140,000 participants from 132 countries. In addition to answering a basic life satisfaction question, participants were asked: “Do you feel your life has an important purpose or meaning?” and “Is religion an important part of your daily life?”
The data revealed some unexpected trends: “Among Americans, those who are high in life satisfaction are also high in meaning in life,” says Oishi. “But when we looked at the societal level of analysis, we found a completely different pattern of the association between meaning in life and life satisfaction.”
When looking across many countries, Oishi and Diener found that people in wealthier nations were more educated, had fewer children, and expressed more individualistic attitudes compared to those in poorer countries — all factors that were associated with higher life satisfaction but a significantly lower sense of meaning in life.”
The data suggest that religiosity may play an important role: Residents of wealthier nations, where religiosity is lower, reported less meaning in life and had higher suicide rates than poorer countries.
According to the researchers, religion may provide meaning to life to the extent that it helps people to overcome personal difficulty and cope with the struggles of working to survive in poor economic conditions:
“Religion gives a system that connects daily experiences with the coherent whole (连贯的整体) and a general structure to one’s life … and plays a critical role in constructing meaning out of extreme hardship,” the researchers write.
Oishi and Diener hope to reproduce these findings using more comprehensive measures of meaning and religiosity, and are interested in following countries over time to track whether economic prosperity gives rise to less religiosity and less meaning in life.
1.Which of the following questions couldn’t the participants have answered?
A. Does your life have a purpose or meaning?
B. Do you have relatives living abroad?
C. Are you satisfied with your everyday life?
D. Is religion involved in your daily life?
2.Which of the following statements is true?
A. Those who have higher life satisfaction usually have lower sense of meaning in life.
B. People in wealthier nations were more educated, have fewer children and express less individualistic attitudes compared to those in poorer countries.
C. Religion may provide meaning to life in that people can get strong support from it in face of hardship.
D. Wealthy people are more likely to commit suicide than poor people.
3.What can be inferred from the passage?
A. The poorer a country is, the more religious its people are.
B. Economic prosperity gives rise to less religiosity and less meaning in life.
C. If you want to find meaning in life, you must practice a religion.
D. Meaning in life doesn’t have much to do with the amount of wealth one possesses.
4.The main purpose of the passage is to explain the possible reason why __________.
A. greater life satisfaction leads to lower sense of meaning
B. residents of poorer nations enjoy greater meaning in life
C. residents of poorer nations are so religious
D. residents of wealthy nations have greater life satisfaction
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科目:高中英语 来源:2016-2017学年江苏扬州中学高二上开学考试英语卷(解析版) 题型:单项填空
—Where did you come across your old classmate Jane?
—It was in the supermarket ________ she worked ________ I came across her.
A. where; whenB. that; whenC. that; thatD. where; that
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