__71__ But today, airlines have quitted those requirements because they can't find enough qualified pilots.
__72__ But qualified pilots are few in the United States. Every year there are more planes being flown. At the same time, 12 to 15 foreign countries are recruiting (招募) American pilots.
As a result, pilots are earning spectacular salaries. The going rate for skilled pilots is well over $180,000 a year. Some pilots can earn about $320,000 plus free housing working for foreign airlines.
__73__ They fear the number of crashes will increase. Each year, more and more pilots with less than 2,000 hours of experience are being hired. Airlines are also bringing on board many more pilots who are older than 50, although law requires pilots to retire at the age of 60.
Being an airline pilot is a difficult job that requires people to make life and death decisions under pressure. Some pilots crack under the pressure.
__74__ Air Force pilots have to spend at least six years in the Air Force. The Air Force invests millions of dollars to train each.
__75__ Congress may organize a research group to study the country's pilot needs.
A．A few years ago, a pilot had to have perfect eyesight and a college degree if he or she wanted to land a job with an American airline.
B．Twenty years passed and he returned to his hometown.
C．The military is also having a hard time keeping pilots.
D．Experts say this problem is going to get a lot worse.
E．Airlines must hire up to 62,000 new pilots in the next decades.
F．There are only a few large cities which have put such high?tech cards into use.
G．Because of the shortage, some people say unqualified pilots are being allowed to fly planes.
科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
When one person gains weight, their close friends often follow. Researchers have just offered
evidence in a study that says obesity（肥胖）appears to spread through society. But the findings
might also offer hope.
If friends help make obesity acceptable, then they might also be influential in losing the fat.
The researchers note that support groups are already an effective tool in dealing with other socially influenced problems, like alcoholism(酗酒).
The findings appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers used information collected from 12,000 people. It was collected between 1972 and 2003 as part of the Framingham Heart Study.
The information was highly detailed. There was even contact information for close friends of the people in the study.
The researchers examined more than 40,000 social ties. They found a person’s chances of becoming severely overweight increased by 50% if a friend had become obese. The risk for a wife or husband was a little less than that.
Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School was a lead researcher in the study. He says there is a direct causal relationship between a person getting fat and being followed in weight gain by a friend.
The study found that the sex of the friends was also an influence. In same-sex friendship, a person had a 71% increased risk of becoming obese. Men had a 44% increased risk of becoming obese after weight gain in a brother. In sisters, it was 67%.
The researchers also considered the effect of where people lived in relation to each other. James Fowler of the University of California was the other lead expert. He says a friend who lives a few hundred kilometers away has as much influence as one in the same neighborhood. He says the study demonstrates the need to consider that a major part of people’s health is tied to their social connections.
Both researchers say their research shows that obesity is not just a private medical issue, but also a public health problem.
1．What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph Two mean?
A．Obesity has negative influence on close friends.
B．Friends might also play a part in losing weight.
C．One might have positive influence on one’s friend.
D．Friendship may have little to do with one’s health.
2．Which of the following statements would Nicholas Christakis agree to?
A．If one gains weight, one’s friends are likely to get fat.
B．Social problems like alcoholism are easy to deal with.
C．Friends usually don’t follow each other to lose weight.
D．One might influence others on their social behavior.
3．James Fowler seems to believe that__________ .
A．a friend who lives nearby affects us most
B．one’s health has nothing to do with friends
C．social connections have effects on one’s life
D．a friend living faraway has the same influence as one’s neighbor
4．The author makes his point clear in the text that__________ .
A．a major part of people’s health is based on their genes
B．friends living closer have greater influence on one’s health
C．social relationship is closely connected with people’s health
D．people’s physical condition is subject （受支配的） to social connections
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table, I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked, “So, how have you been?” And the boy — who could not have been more than seven or eight years old — replied. “Frankly, I’ve been feeling a little depressed lately.”
This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed (确认) my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were “depressed”, that is, in low spirits, until we were in high school.
Undoubtedly a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to.
Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists. Why?
Human development is depended not only on born biological states, but also on patterns of gaining social knowledge. Movement from one social role to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new social positions. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages; traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.
In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation (揭示) machine has been equipped in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television. Television passes information to all viewers alike, whether they are children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation (诱惑) , many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more attractive moving pictures.
Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information which children will gain. Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials.
67. According to the author, feeling depressed is ________.
A. a sure sign of a mental problem in a child
B. a mental state present in all humans, including children
C.something that cannot be avoided in children’s mental development
D. something hardly to be expected in a young child
68. Traditionally, a child is supposed to learn about the adult world _________.
A.through connection with society B. gradually and under guidance
C. naturally without being taught D. through watching television
69. According to the author, that today’s children seem adultlike results from ______.
A. the widespread influence of television
B. the poor arrangement of teaching content
C. the fast pace of human scientific development
D. the rising standard of living
70. What does the author think of communication through print for children?
A. It enables children to gain more social information.
B. It develops children’s interest in reading and writing.
C. It helps children to read and write well.
D. It can control what children are to learn.
71. What does the author think of the change in today’s children?
A. He feels their adultlike behavior is so funny.
B. He thinks the change worthy of note.
C. He considers it a rapid development
D. He seems to be upset about it.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
Today almost everyone knows computers and the Internet. ff I ask you "What is the most important in your life?", maybe you will say "Computers and the Internet.?
The first computer Was made in 1946. It was very big but it worked slowly. Today computers are getting smaller and smaller. But they work faster and faster. What can computers do? A writer has said, "People can't live without computers today."
The Internet came a little later than computers. It is about twenty-five years later than computers.But now it can be found almost everywhere. We can use it to read books, write letters, do shopping,play games or make friends.
Many students like the Internet very much. They often go into the Internet as soon as they are free. They make friends on the Internet and maybe they have never seen these friends. They don't know their real names, ages, and even sex (性别). They are so interested in making the "unreal friends" that they can't put their heart into study. Many of them can't catch up with others on many subjects because of that.We can use computers and the Internet to learn more about the world. But at the same time, we should remember that not all the things can be done by computers and the Internet.
68. The Internet cannot be used for ______
A. studying B. shopping C. thinking D. playing
69. The Internet was born in about______
A. 1960 B. 1970 C. 1980 D. 1985
70. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Few students like going into the Internet.
B. Students use the Internet to make "unreal friends".
C. These "unreal friends" often meet each other.
D. Students know the friends On the Internet very well.
71. What does the writer think of the Internet?
A. It is wonderful. B. It can make students study harder.
C. It is not good for students. D. It is helpful, but we can't do everything on it.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
Attitude isn’t quite everything when it comes to being successful, but attitude plays a part in every stage of your life. A poor attitude gets more people fired than any other single factor, and a good attitude gets people jobs and helps them keep those jobs more than any other factor.
Your attitude affects many people, from your family to the stranger on the street corner. Your attitude is particularly important when you face seemingly hopeless situations. Losing a job or a friend because of a poor attitude is unfortunate—especially because a bad attitude can be fixed.
You can find at least two ways to look at everything. A pessimist looks for difficulty in the opportunity, while an optimist looks for opportunity in the difficulty. A poet of long ago put the difference between optimism and pessimism this way: two men looked out of the prison bars—one saw mud while the other saw stars.
Unfortunately, many people look only at the problem and not at the opportunity that lies within the problem. Many employees complain about the difficulty of their jobs, for example, not ralizing that if the job was simple, the employer would hire someone with less ability at a lower wage. A small coin can hide even the sun if you hold the coin close enough to your eye. So when you get too close to your problems, to think objectively(客观地) about them, try to keep in mind how your vision（视觉）can be obstructed. Take a step back, and look at the situation from a new angle.
You can’t do anything to change the fact that a problem exists, but you can do a great deal to find the opportunity within that problem. You’re guaranteed a better tomorrow by doing your best today and developing a plan of action for the tomorrows that lie ahead. Just remember to maintain a positive mental attitude.
71. What does the author mean by saying the first sentence in Paragraph 1?
A. If you have a good attitude, you will be successful.
B. Your attitude has a great influence on your life.
C. Your attitude has nothing to do with your success.
D. Your success is very important to your life.
72. In Paragraph 3, the writer shows us _____.
A. two ways to look at everything B. the ways to look for opportunity
C. the explanation of pessimist and optimist D. the ways to look out from prison bars
73. The writer mentions the example of many employees in Paragraph 4 to tell people to _____.
A. ignore the problem B. make their jobs easy to do
C. wait for the problem to be solved D. look for opportunity in the problem
74. The underlinde word “obstructed” in Paragraph 4 probably means_____.
A. dropped B. blocked C. improved D. shared
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
Ever tried taking smart drugs to perform better in exams? They 
certainly work．Before last summer's exam, a few of my mates, merely
out of curiosity, took a considerable amount of Modafinil, a drug nor-
mally used for narcolepsy（嗜眠发作症）.Guess what? While I was
feeling sleepy, bored by revision, my mates were more focused．
Modafinil is a smart drug that gives a user a feeling of staying awake for hours．It also sharpens the mind, improves memory and helps problem-solving．
But it does more than just keeping you awake．It disturbs your mental system, making you desperate to do what you are doing．You just don't want to do anything else but revise all the time non-stop．
A recent study discovers that healthy people use smart drugs, like Modafinil, to get down to and complete tasks they have been putting off, because these tasks seem more enjoyable when taking these drugs. This might sound like what a stressed student desires. However, the pills have a range of side-effects.
"At present no evidence shows that these drugs are safe in healthy people," as a medical expert puts it, "Ordering online, though easy, is a dangerous way to obtain drugs. You never know what you're actually purchasing. "
In my experience, Modafinil changes people's behaviour too. Over those weeks my friends became different people-in turn aggressive, cold. Even eating became "a waste of time" and sodid conversation.
A BBC survey found that of those who had tried smart drugs before, 92% would do so again. My friends say they'd happily do so without considering the practice a form of cheating.
I admit I was curious-but not enough to try it. Seeing the strange behaviour of other users, I feel a little bit upset and scary. Modafinil may promise to change your grades, but it might also change the way you act. Don't say you haven't been warned!
71. According to the author, his mates took Modafinil for the purpose of______.
A. escaping from reality B. getting better exam results
C. curing their narcolepsy D. leading an active life
72. Taking the smart drug can lead to ______.
A. cheating in the exam B. dropping out of school
C. youth crime D. drug addiction
73. How does the author find his males' taking the smart drugs?
A. Worrying. B. Inspiring.
C. Acceptable. D. Reasonable.
74. Which statement about Modafinil is wrong?
A. Modafinil sharpens the mind and helps problem-solving.
B. Modafinil more than just keeps you awake.
C. Modafinil has a range of side effects.
D. Modafinil is safe in healthy people.
75. Who are the target readers of this passage?
A. Teachers. B. Doctors.
C. Scientists. D. Students.
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