题目列表(包括答案和解析)
阅读下面的短文,然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
We spend hours, days and years of our lives in education. But how perfect do you think your school is? Imagine you could decide your ideal school. What would it be like? What would you be doing? We wanted to find out what teenagers around the world thought. Here is what they said.
Sonia from Italy: I’d like a room where we can go and relax and play computer games and chat with friends. Some older pupils in the school have this but I think there should be a place for everyone to go when they want to switch off from the lessons.
Richard form USA: I think it would be great to have a day off every week, as well as the weekend. If that day was a Friday or a Monday, we would have a long weekend every week. I’m sure we could learn just as much in fewer hours.
David from UK: The school dinners are absolutely disgusting. There is a little shop called a “tuck shop” which we can go to in our breaks but it just sells rubbish. I’d like to be able to buy fruit and healthy snacks.
Hannah from Australia: My school environment is great – especially the sports facilities. We’ve got a swimming pool and tennis court. It’s teachers I’d change. I think they should give us more freedom and choice about how we study and what we study. I also think it’s ridiculous that we have to wear a school uniform.
Sam form Mexico: I’d like clean toilets and showers, a big library, big lockers and a restaurant. Not much to ask for.
【写作内容】
1. 以约30词概括短文要点;
2. 然后以约120字以“我的理想学校”为主题,描述你心目中的理想的学校应具备哪些条件,此部分应包括以下内容:
(1)你现在所在的学校有哪些方面你觉得很满意,哪些方面你觉得需要改进;
(2)如果让你设计你理想中的学校,你心目中的学校是怎样的?
【写作要求】
1.可使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的观点,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不得直接引用原文中的句子;
2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称.
【评分标准】概括准确,语言规范,内容合适,篇章连贯.
Going green seems to be a fad(时尚)for a lot of people these days.Whether that is good or bad,we can’t really say,but for the two of us,going green is not a fad but a lifestyle.
On April 22,2011,we decided to go green every single day for an entire year.This meant doing 365 different green things,and it also meant challenging ourselves to go green beyond the easy things.Rather than recycle and reduce our energy,we had to think of 365 different green things to do and this was no easy task.
With the idea of going green every single day for a year,Our Green Year started.My wife and I decided to educate? people about how they could go green in their lives and hoped we could show people all the green things that could be done to help the environment.We wanted to push the message that every little bit helps.
Over the course of Our Green Year,we completely changed our lifestyles.We now shop at organic(有机的) stores.We consume? less meat,choosing green food.We have greatly reduced our buying we don’t need.We have given away half of what we owned through websites.Our home is kept clean by vinegar and lemon juice,with no chemical cleaners.We make our own butter,enjoying the smell of home?made fresh bread.In our home office anyone caught doing something ungreen might be punished.
Our minds have been changed by Our Green Year.We are grateful for the chance to have been able to go green and educate others.We believe that we do have the power to change things and help our planet.????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ? (2013·辽宁,B)
1. What might be the best title for the passage?
A.Going Green
B.Protecting the Planet
C.Keeping Open?Minded
D.Celebrating Our Green Year
2.It was difficult for the couple to live a green life for the whole year because________.
A.they were expected to follow the green fad
B.they didn’t know how to educate other people
C.they were unwilling to reduce their energy
D.they needed to perform unusual green tasks
3. What did the couple do over the course of Our Green Year?
A.They tried to get out of their ungreen habits.
B.They ignored others’ ungreen behavior.
C.They chose better chemical cleaners.
D.They sold their home?made food.
4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A.The government will give support to the green project.
B.The couple may continue their project in the future.
C.Some people disagree with the couple’s green ideas.
D.Our Green Year is becoming a national campaign.
Spending as little as $5 a day on someone else could significantly boost happiness, the team at the University of British Columbia found.
Their experiments on more than 630 Americans showed they were measurably happier when they spent money on others even if they thought spending the money on themselves would make them happier.
“We wanted to test our theory that how people spend their money is at least as important as how much money they earn,” said Elizabeth Dunn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia. They asked their 600 volunteers first to rate their general happiness, report their annual income and detail their monthly spending including bills, gifts for themselves, gifts for others and donations to charity.
“No matter how much income each person made, those who spent money on others reported greater happiness, while those who spent more on themselves did not,” Dunn said in a statement.
Dunn’s team also surveyed 16 employees at a company in Boston before and after they received an annual profit-sharing bonus of between $3,000 and $8,000. “Employees who devoted more of their bonus to prosocial spending experienced greater happiness after receiving the bonus, and the manner in which they spent that bonus was a more important predictor of their happiness than the size of the bonus itself,” they wrote in their report, published in the journal Science.
They gave their volunteers $5 or $20 and half got clear instructions on how to spend it. Those who spent the money on someone or something else reported feeling happier about it.
“These findings suggest that very minor changes in spending allocations-as little as $5 may be enough to produce real gains in happiness on a given day,” Dunn said.
1.What is the general idea of the passage?
A.The more you earn, the greater happiness you will get.
B.Spending more money on yourself will make you happier.
C.Money can buy happiness, but only if you spend it on someone else.
D.You can spend only $5 a day on someone else to get happiness.
2.The underlined work “boost” in the first paragraph probably means .
A.help to find B.help to increase C.help to bring D.help to get
3.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A.Those who spend more money on others can get much more bonus.
B.People usually think spending money on themselves will make them happier.
C.Very small changes in spending your money may be enough to gain happiness.
D.Researchers think that how people spend their money is at least as important as how much money they earn.
4.Dunn is .
A.a reporter in a journal B.a volunteer in the experiment
C.an employee in a company D.a psychologist at a university
5.It can be inferred from the 6th paragraph that .
A.the volunteers not given $5 or $20 spent their own money on themselves
B.those who spent the money on someone or something else felt happier about it
C.the volunteers were given $5 or $20 as a reward for the experiment
D.half of the volunteers could spend the money as they liked
Brrriiinnng. The alarm clock announces the start of another busy weekday in the morning. You jump out of bed, rush into the shower, into your clothes and out the door with hardly a moment to think. A stressful journey to work gets your blood pressure climbing. Once at the office, you glance through the newspaper with depressing stories or reports of disasters. In that sort of mood, who can get down to work, particularly some creative, original problem-solving work?
The way most of us spend our mornings is exactly opposite to the conditions that promote flexible, open-minded thinking. Imaginative ideas are most likely to come to us when we’re unfocused. If you are one of those energetic morning people, your most inventive time comes in the early evening when you are relaxed. Sleepy people’s lack of focus leads to an increase in creative problem solving. By not giving yourself time to tune into your wandering mind, you’re missing out on the surprising solutions it may offer.
The trip you take to work doesn’t help, either. The stress slows down the speed with which signals travel between neurons (神经细胞), making inspirations less likely to occur. And while we all should read a lot about what’s going on in the world, it would not make you feel good for sure, so put that news website or newspaper aside until after the day’s work is done.
So what would our mornings look like if we wanted to start them with a full ability for creative problem solving? We’d set the alarm a few minutes early and lie awake in bed, following our thoughts where they lead. We’d stand a little longer under the warm water of the shower, stopping thinking about tasks in favor of a few more minutes of relaxation. We’d take some deep breaths on our way to work, instead of complaining about heavy traffic. And once in the office—after we get a cup of coffee—we’d click on links not to the news of the day but to the funniest videos the web has to offer.
1.According to the author, we are more creative when we are _______.
A.focused |
B.awake |
C.Relaxed |
D.busy |
2.What does the author imply about newspapers?
A.They are solution providers. |
B.They are normally full of bad news. |
C.They are a source of inspiration. |
D.They are more educational than websites. |
3.By “tune into your wandering mind” (in Para. 2), the author means “_______”.
A.wander into the wild |
B.listen to a beautiful tune |
C.stop concentrating on anything |
D.switch to the traffic channel |
4.The author writes the last paragraph in order to _______.
A.summarize past experiences |
B.offer practical suggestions |
C.advocate diverse ways of life |
D.establish a routine for the future |
Scientists at Harvard University and Bates College find female chimpanzees (黑猩猩) appear to treat sticks as dolls, carrying them around until they have children of their own. Young males engage in such behavior much less frequently.
The new work by Sonya M. Kahlenberg and Richard W. Wrangham, described this week in the journal Current Biology, provides the first evidence of a wild nonhuman species playing with dolls, as well as the first known sex difference in a wild animal’s choice of playthings.
The two researchers say their work adds to a growing body of evidence that human children are probably born with their own ideas of how they want to behave, rather than simply mirroring other girls who play with dolls and boys who play with trucks. Doll play among humans could have its origins in object—carrying by earlier apes (猿类), they say, suggesting that toy selection is probably not due entirely to socialization.
“In humans, there are obvious sex differences in children’s toy play, and these are remarkably similar across cultures,” says Kahlenberg. “While socialization by elders and peers has been the primary explanation, our work suggests that biology may also have an important role to play in activity preferences.”
In 14 years of data on chimpanzee behavior at the Kibale National Park in Uganda, Kahlenberg and Wrangham counted more than 100 examples of stickcarrying. Some young chimpanzees carried sticks into the nest to sleep with them and on one occasion built a separate nest for the stick. “We have seen juveniles occasionally carrying sticks for many years, and because they sometimes treated them rather like dolls, we wanted to know if in general this behavior tended to represent something like playing with dolls,” says Wrangham, a Professor at Harvard. “If the doll hypothesis (假设) was right, we thought that females should carry sticks more than males do, and that the chimpanzees should stop carrying sticks when they had their first child. We have now watched enough young chimpanzees to prove both points.”
1.What does a female chimpanzee do with sticks?
A.She gives them to her child to play with. |
B.She treats them as dolls. |
C.She makes useful tools from them. |
D.She treats them as weapons. |
2. What causes the different toy selection of chimpanzees, according to the passage?
A.Sex difference. |
B.Socialization. |
C.Environment. |
D.Cultural difference. |
3.We can infer from the fourth paragraph that ________.
A.socialization has nothing to do with human’s choice of playthings |
B.sex difference is the only factor in human’s choice of playthings |
C.the biology factor may also influence toy choice |
D.people choose different toys in different cultures |
4.It can be concluded from the passage that ________.
A.both humans and chimpanzees choose their playthings due to sex difference |
B.different factors cause humans and chimpanzees to choose different playthings |
C.only female chimpanzees have playthings |
D.chimpanzees usually choose playthings for their children |
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