科目: 來(lái)源:2010-2011學(xué)年度安徽亳州市第一學(xué)期期末高二英語(yǔ)教學(xué)檢測(cè)卷 題型:閱讀理解
任務(wù)型閱讀(滿(mǎn)分10分)
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“Happy New Year!” Everyone will greet each other with these words as they meet each other on New Year’s Day. But it wasn’t always January 1 that marked the New Year.
At least 4,000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians marked the changing of the year. In Egypt, the year started when the Nile River flooded, enriching farmers’ fields. This happened at the end of September.
The Babylonians held a festival in the spring, on March 23, to kick off the next farming cycle. The Babylonian celebration lasted for 11 days.
The date January 1 was picked by the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar as the change of the year when he established his own calendar in 46 BC. The month of January originates from the Roman god, Janus. He is pictured with two heads. One head looks forward and the other back. They represent a break between the old and new. The new calendar was in time with the sun and it has been used until the present day.
In Vietnam, the New Year holiday happens in February. They buy fresh flowers and a peach blossom to put in their house, following the Vietnamese custom.
Thailand has its specific New Year’s date; it’s different from the normal calendar. The Thai New Year is celebrated on April 13. On this day, Thai people play with water, throwing it on each other. It is intended to bring good luck during the New Year ahead.
In China, the more favorable New Year is usually celebrated in February according to lunar calendar (陰歷). On New Year’s Eve, all family members sit together at table, enjoying lots of auspicious foods such as dumplings, chicken to bring good luck.
Title: New Year traditions all around the world
| Countries | 【小題1】___________ | Origins(起源)or activities | Meanings or reasons |
| Egypt | the end of September | the Nile River flood | make fields 【小題2】 _____________ |
| Babylon | March 23 | holding a 【小題3】___________ | kick off the next farming cycle |
| Rome | January 1 | Roman god, Janus | 【小題4】_________ a break |
| 【小題5】 __________ | April 13 | 【小題6】____________ water onto each other’s body | bring good luck |
| Vietnam | 【小題7】 ___________ | buying fresh flowers and a peach blossom | 【小題8】____________the custom |
| China | February | 【小題9】____________ auspicious foods | bring good luck and 【小題10】___________ to everyone |
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科目: 來(lái)源:2010--2011學(xué)年度江西省蓮塘一中高二第一學(xué)期期末英語(yǔ)試卷 題型:閱讀理解
對(duì)話(huà)填空(共10題,共10分)
P:Peter J:Jimmy
Peter is talking with Jimmy about the just finished match between L.A Lakers and Miami Heats on Christmas Eve, in 2010
P: Hey, Jimmy, watched the game between Lakers and Heats?
J: Certainly. It was really an 【小題1】a_____ fantastic game. My Heats beat L.A.
P: Your Heats? I remembered you were a fan of the Cavaliers.
J: To be exact, a fan of Lebron James. Since James joined the Heats, I also changed my range, which is undoubtedly logical. By the way, which team do you 【小題2】p_____ will win the title of 【小題3】c_____ this season?
P: I think the Lakers will do
J:I don’t 【小題4】a_____ of you. I strongly believe the title must go to the Heats. As you can see, the present Heats possesses the super “BIG THREE”, James is good at scoring. Wade is an expert in penetration(帶球突破) and Chris Bosh can 【小題5】d______ backboard(籃板)
P:Maybe you are right. But I am afraid you 【小題6】l_____ out the 【小題7】e______ element(因素) in winning a basketball game---- team work. After all, basketball is not an 【小題8】i_____ game.
J:Apart from the “BIG Three”, there are quantities of excellent bench players available such as Dampier, Arios Arroyo, Eddie House and so on. I see no reason why the Heats can’t 【小題9】p_____ the NBA
P: I still have a preference for the Lakes. Compared to the Heats, the Lakers has a more mature(成熟的) play. And as long as there is Kobe, there is victory. On the other hand, we should not forget that other teams are making rapid progress like the Thunder led by Kelvin Durant,the Celtics and the Magics. They all have the 【小題10】p____ to challenge our teams.
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科目: 來(lái)源:2010~2011學(xué)年江蘇省揚(yáng)州中學(xué)高一上學(xué)期期末考試英語(yǔ)試卷 題型:閱讀理解
請(qǐng)認(rèn)真閱讀下列短文,并根據(jù)所讀內(nèi)容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一個(gè)最恰當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~。注意:請(qǐng)將答案寫(xiě)在答題卡上相應(yīng)題號(hào)的橫線(xiàn)上。每個(gè)空格只填1個(gè)單詞。
You probably know what fast food is. It is cooked food that is ready almost as soon as you enter a public eating place. It does not cost much.
Most fast food restaurants are chain (連鎖) restaurants. That means each one is part of a huge company. Each restaurant in the chain has the same large, colorful sign that can be easy to recognize from far away. Each offers its own carefully limited choice of foods. Each kind of hamburger or piece of chicken tastes the same at every restaurant in the chain.
The fast food industry began with two brothers in the nineteen forties. Mac and Dick McDonald owned a small, but very successful restaurant. They sold only a few kinds of simple food, especially hamburgers. People stood outside the restaurant at a window. They told the workers inside what they wanted to eat. They received and paid for their food very quickly. The food came in containers that could be thrown away. The system was so successful that the McDonald brothers discovered they could sell a lot of food and lower their prices.
Ray Kroc sold restaurant supplies. He recognized the importance of the McDonald brothers' idea. Kroc paid the McDonald brothers for permission to open several restaurants similar to theirs. He opened the first McDonald's restaurant near Chicago in nineteen fifty-five. Soon, more McDonald's were opening all across the United States. Other people copied the idea and more fast food restaurants followed.
Fast food restaurants spread quickly in the United States because of franchising. Franchising means selling the legal right to operate a store in a company's chain to an independent business person. If the company approves, the business person may buy the store for a period of years. Each restaurant also gives the company about ten percent of the money it earns in sales. Today, over seventy percent of McDonald's restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent businessmen and women.
| McDonald's and fast food industry | |
| Explanation of fast food | It is cooked food which is more convenient and much (【小題1】) than other food. |
| Characters of the chain restaurants | There are: ▲(【小題2】) recognized signs ▲carefully (【小題3】) choice of foods ▲the (【小題4】) tastes of food at every restaurant in the chain. |
| (【小題5】) of McDonald's | It developed from Mac and Dick McDonald’s (【小題6】) but successful restaurant which (【小題7】) some kinds of simple food with different service from others’. |
| Great changes brought by Kroc to McDonald's | ▲The McDonald brothers (【小題8】) Kroc to open several same restaurants with theirs. ▲Franchising made Fast food restaurants spread (79) in the United States. |
| Current situation | At most (【小題9】) percent of McDonald's restaurants worldwide are not run by independent businessmen and women. |
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科目: 來(lái)源:2011屆江西省師大附中、臨川一中高三上學(xué)期兩校聯(lián)考英語(yǔ)卷 題型:閱讀理解
閱讀下面短文,根據(jù)所讀內(nèi)容在文后第76至第85小題的空格里填上適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~并將答案轉(zhuǎn)寫(xiě)到答題卡上。
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The ancient religions of the Greeks and Romans were based on myths. Originally the word meant “spoken words” or stories. Nowadays myths refer to tales without a kernel of truth, or fantasies.
In nearly every civilization people tried to control their surroundings and the things happening around them to make them less threatening. In prehistoric cultures myths were used to explain natural phenomena. Ancient civilizations saw the earth as the goddess because of its fertility. Other phenomena like wind, lightning and thunder also were brought into connection with supernatural forces. The people felt themselves surrounded by gods and completely dependent.
The Greek myths also originated in that manner, but had more functions. They also explained the beginning of the world and the origin of man. Furthermore, the myths kept alive the memories of the foundation of important cities as well as the heroic deeds of civilizations and individuals. The tales of heroes, human beings with often supernatural capacities, gave men examples of perfection. During the whole Classical Period people believed the myths, but over time they came to be taken less and less seriously.
During the Greek Period myths were spread by word of mouth. The singing of mythical events was an important aspect of religious ritual. Many singers traveled around and sang the tales they heard on their way.
The first collection of myths was the work of Homer. He was blind, and to survive he collected traditional stories and let them been written down by others. The books of his that we know are the Iliad and the Odyssey. The first author to write about the beginning of the world and its deities was Hesiod in the 18the century.
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| Meaning | 【小題2】________ | They meant “spoken words” or traditional stories. |
| Nowadays | They meant something that people believe but which doesn’t 【小題3】_____ or is false. | |
| 【小題4】____ and Status | Prehistoric cultures | They were used to explain aspects of the natural world and supernatural phenomena. |
| People felt completely dependent on 【小題5】_____. | ||
| Classical period | Besides explaini ①explained how the world began and how the man came into 【小題6】______; ②【小題7】________ the foundation of important cities and good deeds; ③dealt with supernatural beings and heroes. | |
| People believed in them but were not【小題8】___ about them gradually. | ||
| Forms | Oral myths | They were usually sung in religious rituals or by 【小題9】___ singers. |
| 【小題10】____ myths | The representative authors are Homer and Hesiod. | |
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科目: 來(lái)源:2010年福建省師大附中高二上學(xué)期期中考試英語(yǔ)卷 題型:閱讀理解
短文填詞(共10小題,每空1分,滿(mǎn)分10分)
I’m writing to tell you my imagination about life in the future.
No one can tell exactly what kind of life will be a__________ of
【小題1】 ___________
us. But I can ____________ (宣布) with certainty that life will
【小題2】 ___________
be m___________ easier. I’m sure there will be more educational
【小題3】___________
programs on the radio or TV. So children will get _____________
【小題4】___________
at home w_____________ going to school every day. Besides, most
【小題5】___________
of us will have videophones at home through __________ we can
【小題6】___________
have a medical exam or do some _________ (購(gòu)物) at home. Meanwhile,
【小題7】___________
we’ll have robots to _______ (幫助) us in doing housework, allowing
【小題8】 ___________
us more time to enjoy life. With the development of ___________ (科學(xué))
【小題9】 ___________
researches, ordinary people may soon be able to spend their holidays
in space and a great __________ of people may live in space or undersea.
【小題10】__________
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科目: 來(lái)源:2011屆湖南省瀏陽(yáng)一中高三第二次月考英語(yǔ)卷 題型:閱讀理解
As the US wakes up to China’s rising status (地位) as an economic and strategic competitor, US parents are urging their children to learn Chinese, reports Julian Borger.
The US is being swept by a rush to learn Mandarin (普通話(huà)) -- from wealthy New York mothers hiring Chinese nannies (保姆) for their small children to a defence department education project in Oregon.
The forces driving Mandarin’s momentum (勢(shì)頭) are parental ambition for children facing a future in which China is almost certain to be a major player, and the government is worried about that America may get left behind in that new world.
The bottleneck is the supply of teachers. Mandarin instructors are difficult to import and difficult to train. There are visa problems in bringing over teachers from China but the biggest barrier is cultural. Teaching in Asia is generally done by rote and the change to western, interactive styles of instruction can be a large leap(跳越).
On the other hand, it requires enormous firmness for westerners to learn a language like Chinese, with its thousands of written characters. According to the Asia Society in New York, all of America’s teacher-training institutions turn out only a couple of dozen homegrown Mandarin teachers.
One way to ease the shortage is to find native Mandarin speakers and use fast-track methods to train them. However, the majority of Chinese-Americans grew up speaking Cantonese, the dialect(方言)spoken in Hong Kong, where their parents came from. Many are themselves signing on as Mandarin students at the private language schools springing up on the west coast.
Title : 【小題1】 in the USA
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科目: 來(lái)源:2010年浙江省嘉興一中高二上學(xué)期10月月考英語(yǔ)卷 題型:閱讀理解
The following people are expressing their thoughts (1--5) to show their concern for food, environment and so on. After that are pieces of related information (A--F). Now decide which piece of information would be most suitable for the thought and idea mentioned in questions61---65 and mark your answer letter (A---F) on your answer sheet. There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use.
______ 【小題1】How I was struck by the clear water and fresh air in my childhood! But everything has changed, that is, the clear water and fresh air are nowhere to be found again as they were. Above all, a great deal of waste hardly rots away.
______ 【小題2】More and more people are beginning to have a good knowledge of the importance of a safer and cleaner environment, which in turn forces the business to be cleaned up.
______ 【小題3】 Organic products are getting more and more popular among people, but we should know the fact that organic products might also have something to do with pesticides (農(nóng)藥).
______ 【小題4】I’m very much fond of growing some vegetables of my own in my small garden, for many vegetables on sale in markets are actually becoming more and more dangerous as a result of widespread pesticides.
______ 【小題5】 Nowadays it is very convenient for consumers to find and buy green food in supermarkets as they are clearly marked.
| A.“Organic produce is always better,” Gold said. “The food is free of pesticides, and you are generally supporting family farms instead of large farms. And more often than not it is locally grown and seasonal, so it is more tasty.” Gold is one of a growing number of shoppers buying into the organic trend, and supermarkets across Britain are counting on more like him as they grow their organic food business. |
| B.Market research shows that Gold and others who buy organic food can generally give clear reasons for their preferences - but their knowledge of organic food is far from complete. For example, small amounts of pesticides can be used on organic products. And about three quarters of organic food in Britain is not local but imported to meet growing demand. “The demand for organic food is increasing by about one third every year, so it is a very fast-growing market,” said Sue Flock, a specialist in this line of business. |
| C.Many cities around the world today are heavily polluted. Careless methods of production and lack of consumer demand for environment-friendly products have contributed to the pollution problem. One result is that millions of tons of glass, paper, plastic, and metal containers are produced, and these are difficult to get rid of. |
| D.However, today, more and more consumers are choosing “green” and demanding that the products they buy should be safe for the environment. Before they buy a product, they ask questions like these: “Will this shampoo damage the environm |
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科目: 來(lái)源:2011屆湖南省長(zhǎng)沙市第一中學(xué)高三第三次月考英語(yǔ)卷 題型:閱讀理解
Aaron LeMieux loves to hike and often listens to the radio at the same time. While on a 1,500-mile hike 【小題1】 _______ the Appalachian Trail, Aaron started thinking about energy. Could the energy his body was creating be used to charge an electronic device? In 2006 Aaron quit his job 【小題2】 ________ turned the basement of his home into a laboratory. He then put all his time 【小題3】________ developing the nPower PEG.
PEG means personal energy generator(發(fā)電機(jī)). 【小題4】________ uses the energy you create while moving to charge a hand-held device. Just put your nPower PEG in your bag, 【小題5】________ fasten it to your leg or bicycle. Then plug your MP3 player, cell phone or digital camera into your nPower PEG’s USA port. LeMieux’s company, Tremont Electric, claims 【小題6】 ________ nPower PEG can charge most hand-held electronic devices to 80 percent in one hour.
Since it costs US$149, the nPower PEG won’t appeal to everyone with its price so 【小題7】 ________. But for those 【小題8】________ spend a lot of time with electronic devices powered by batteries, it might come in handy.
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科目: 來(lái)源:湖南省長(zhǎng)沙市四縣市2010屆高三下學(xué)期3月調(diào)研考試 題型:閱讀理解
SECTION C
Directions: Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.
Baby survives after train hits pram
The CCTV footage (片段)shows a baby’s pram (嬰兒車(chē))rolling off a train platform as the mother makes a mad rush to save her son, 48 she is too late and it falls 49 the rails in front of an incoming train. This heart-stopping scene happened yesterday at Ashburton station in Melbourne, Australia. But the story has a 50 ending: the six-month-old baby survived with just 51 cut on his forehead, although the pram was dragged about 35 meters by the braking train. The nurse Jon Wright said the boy just “needed a feed and a sleep”.
“Luckily, he was strapped (綁) into his pram at the time, which probably saved 52 life. I think the child is extremely 53 ,” Wright told the Herald Sun newspaper after the baby was taken to hospital with minor injuries. The footage shows the mother taking her hands off the three-wheeled pram, which begins to roll 54 the platform edge.
The driver put on the brakes 55 he saw the pram fall in front of him and fortunately the train was already slowing down to stop at the station. Rail firm Connex is to look into how the pram rolled off the platform. The accident came one day after Connex started a child safety awareness campaign warning parents to keep babies strapped into their prams at all times while on platforms.
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科目: 來(lái)源:福建省南安一中2011屆高三暑假補(bǔ)習(xí)第一次考試試題(英語(yǔ)) 題型:閱讀理解
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