科目：高中英语 来源：2010--2011学年度江西省莲塘一中高二第一学期期末英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
People who traveled in the past had to put up with many discomforts which we do not have nowadays, and of course they traveled far more slowly. Roads were bad indeed and you often found you could not get along at all because of the mud. In dry weather many places were thick in dust and when it was stormy, trees might fall across the road and it was nobody’s business to clear them away.
Ordinary people traveled on foot or on horseback, but everyone who could afford it kept a private coach. There were public coaches too. called “stage coaches” because long journeys took several days and were done in stages, with stops over night at inns. Some stage, coaches ran only in the summer months. Others all the year around. They were very slow and crowded and passengers often became in on the way because of the swaying (摇晃).
Break downs were frequent, since many roads were not smooth. So a coach might very easily turn right over. Early in the century coach and wagon builders were encouraged to put very wide wheels on their vehicles. So that these might level the roads a little. But many people complained of this since it slowed travel down a good deal.
Most travelers during the 18th century wrote bitterly about the state of the roads. One visitor to Sussex took six hours to travel nine miles in his coach; another wrote to a friend that on time of his journeys “almost every mile was marked by the overturn of a carriage”.
【小题1】Which of the following mainly prevented people from travelling fast in the past?
| A．Falling trees | B．Thick dust |
| C．Muddy road | D．Many discomforts |
| A．the discomforts | B．the blocked roads |
| C．the dusty places | D．the fallen trees |
| A．the long journey was broken into several parts |
| B．they were slow and crowded |
| C．they stopped for meals at inns |
| D．they served public people only |
| A．the coaches were of poor quality |
| B．the writers liked to describe the road bitterly |
| C．the road condition was really poor |
| D．travelling about in the past was extremely slow |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2013-2014学年江西省新余市高三上学期期末质量检测英语试卷（解析版） 题型：其他题
阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上（请注意问题后的字数要求）。
[1] Have you ever had the wish to live another 100 years or more? Experts say that scientific advances will some day enable us to live tens of years longer than what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.
[2] “I guess we are knocking at the door of living longer,” said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. "I think by 2075 we will _________________ and that’s a conservative estimate (保守的估计)."
[3]At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louris, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology (纳米技术) make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. "There is a great push so that people can live from 120 to 180 years," he said.
[4]However, many scientists who specialize in ageing are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to live past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.
[5]Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live. "It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have a good quality of life?" said Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Centre. "At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all."
1. What is the main idea of the passage? (no more than 10 words)
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2. Please fill in the blanks in the second paragraph with proper words. (no more than 5 words)
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3. According to Donald Louris, what will enable humans to live longer? (no more than 8 words)
_____________________________________________________________________
4. What does the word “it” (Line1,Paragraph4)probably refer to? (no more than 10 words)
_____________________________________________________________________
5. What did Leonard Poon worry about? (no more than 15 words)
______________________________________________________________________
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014届河北邯郸高三摸底考试英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
A research found that people shown silent videos of piano competitions could pick out the winners more often than those who could also hear the music. It underlines the importance of our sense of vision, say scientists. Their study concludes that the best predictor of a winner’s musical performance was the visible passion they displayed, followed closely by their uniqueness and creativity.
Chia-Jung Tsay, from University College London, UK, is the study’s author and herself a concert pianist. She was interested in how music was judged and found that even professional musicians were unaware of how much they were using visual information over sound. “For the last two decades, I’ve taken part in various competitions. Through this experience, I found that depending on what type of evaluations were used, the results might vary widely. This led me to wonder about how much visual information really affects these important decisions,” she explained.
More than 1,000 participants in the study were given samples of either audio, silent video or video with sound, and asked to rate the top three finalists from 10 international classical music competitions. The actual competition winners were only correctly identified by those who were randomly assigned(分配) the silent videos.
Dr Tasy said the findings were quite surprising, especially because both trained musicians and those without training had stated that sound was most important for their evaluation. “Regardless of levels of expertise, we still seem to be led primarily by visual information, even in this field of music,” she said. “Classical music training is often focused on improving the quality of the sound, but this research is about getting to the bottom of what is really being evaluated at the highest levels of competitive performance. She added, “We must be more mindful of our inclination(倾向) to depend on visual information at the expense of the content that we actually value as more relevant to our decisions.”
1.According to the study, who would most probably win a piano competition?
A. One who plays with great passion.
B. One who plays unique music.
C. One who plays creatively.
D. One who has a sense of vision.
2.The participates in the study were asked to__________.
A. watch classical music competitions
B. assign the silent videos
C. pick out the best three competitors
D. decide who the winner is
3.What probably led Dr Tsay to carry out the study?
A. Her love for music.
B. Her desire to explore.
C. Her experience as a competitor.
D. Her curiosity in musical education.
4.Where does this text probably come from?
A. A text book. B. A sports magazine.
C. A story book. D. A science website.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届福建省高一上学期期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：其他题
根据中文意思完成句子,每空一词。
1.因此，农民喜欢我们就不再猎杀我们了。
____ ____ ____, farmers like us and no longer hunt us.
2.我 正 在 保 护 自 己 免 受 蚊 虫 叮咬。
I'm ____ ______ _______mosquitoes
3.没有雨林就没有动物，也就没有药物
_____rainforest, no animals,_____ ________.
4.谁不能参加古代奥运会？
Who could not ____ _____ ______ the ancient Olympic Games？
5.奥运会会旗上的五环代表什么？
What do the five rings on the Olympic flag_____ ______？
6.运动会主要有两种——夏季奥运会和冬季奥运会。这两种运动会每四年都会定期举行一次。
There are two main sets of Games—the Winter and the Summer Olympics, and both _____ ______every four years on a regular basis
7.作为回赠，沙皇则送给他一队自己最好的士兵。
____ _____, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers
8.电视机正在修理。
The TV set is _____ _______.
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科目：高中英语 来源：广东省普宁市20092010学年高一上学期必修一水平测试试卷（英语） 题型：完型填空
第二部分语言知识及应用（共两节, 满分35分）
第一节：完形填空（共10小题，每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The Guardian newspaper once printed a story about a man who tripped over his shoelace in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Falling down some steps, he ___21____ three priceless Qing Dynasty vases, which fell to the ground and broke into more than 400 pieces. He was sitting there in ___ 22___ when the museum staff arrived. Everyone stood around in silence --- only the man kept pointing to the ___23___, saying, “There it is! That’s what made me fall.”
Man has been blaming others at least since Adam blamed Eve, and Eve blamed the serpent(蛇). Roman emperors liked to kill ____ 24___ who brought bad news; and in the Middle Ages a prince would often be given a “whipping boy” --- an unlucky servant who could be ___25____ whenever his master had misbehaved. Today, you’ll see how blaming others has turned into big __26_____ business. In one famous case, McDonald’s was ordered to pay $2.7 million to a woman who ____27____ burned herself with hot coffee. Although the amount was later ___28_____ to $480,000, this case ____29___ businesses so much that they began to create 30 for their products that even an idiot（傻子）would understand. For example, “Hot coffee can be dangerous” (take away coffee cups) and “Don’t pour liquids into your television set” (instruction booklet).
21. A. broke down B. knocked over C. crashed into D. slid down
22. A. terror B. amazement C. sadness D. shock
23. A. shoelace B. vase C. steps D. pieces
24. A. servants B. ministers C. messengers D. slaves
25. A. killed B. sentenced C. rewarded D. beaten
26. A. legal B. public C. lawless D. legendary
27. A. deliberately B. accidentally C. carelessly D. attentively
28. A. increased B. reduced C. raised D. dropped
29. A. surprised B. excited C. inspired D. terrified
30. A. advertisements B. posters C. warnings D. instructions
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