As to every new employee, there is a 15-day-training, ________ an examination is given to test whether he is qualified for the position.
A. after that B. after it C. after which D. after this
科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
When I entered Berkeley, I hoped to earn a scholarship. Having been a Straight-A student, I believed I could __1__ tough subjects and really learn something. One such course was World Literature given by Professor Jayne. I was extremely interested in the ideas he 2 in class.
When I took the first exam, I was 3 to find a 77, C-plus, on my test paper, 4 English was my best subject. I went to Professor Jayne, who listened to my arguments but remained_ 5 .
I decided to try harder, although I didn’t know what that 6 because school had always been easy for me. I read the books more carefully, but got another 77. Again, I 7 with Professor Jayne. Again, he listened patiently but wouldn’t change his 8 .
One more test before the final exam. One more 8 to improve my grade. So I redoubled my efforts and, for the first time. 10 The meaning of the word “thorough”. But my 11_ did no good and everything 12 as before.
The last hurdle(障碍) was the final. No matter what 13 I got, it wouldn’t cancel three C-pluses. I might as well kiss the 14 goodbye.
I stopped working head. I felt I knew the course material as well as I ever would. The night before the final, I even 15 myself to a movie. The next day I decided for once I’d have 16__with a test.
A week later, I was surprised to find I got an A. I hurried into professor Jayne’s office. He 17__ to be expecting me. “If I gave you the As you 18 , you wouldn’t continue to work as hard.”
I stared at him. 19 That his analysis and strategy(策略) were correct. I had worked my head 20 , as I had never done before.
I was speechless when my course grade arrived: A-plus. It was the only A-plus given. The next year I received my scholarship. I’ve always remembered Professor Jayne’s lesson: you alone must set your own standard of excellence.
1. A. take B. discuss C. cover D. get
2. A. sought B. presented C. exchanged D. obtained
3. A. shocked B. worried C. scared D. anxious
4. A. but B. so C. for D. or
5. A. unchanged B. unpleasant C. unfriendly D. unmoved
6. A. reflected B. meant C. improved D. affected
7. A. quarreled B. reasoned C. bargained D. chatted
8. A. attitude B. mind C. plan D. view
9. A. choice B. step C. chance D. measure
10. A. memorized B. considered C. accepted D. learned
11. A. ambition B. confidence C. effort D. method
12. A. stayed B. went C. worked D. changed
13. A. grade B. answer C. lesson D. comment
14. A. scholarship B. course C. degree D. subject
15. A. helped B. favored C. treated D. relaxed
16. A. fun B. luck C. problems D. tricks.
17. A. happened B. proved C. pretended D. seemed
18. A. valued B. imagined C. expected D. welcomed
19. A. remembering B. guessing C. supposing D. realizing
20. A. out B. over C. on D. of
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科目：高中英语 来源：2013-2014学年广东省广州市高三1月调研测试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Ever wonder how this season’s celebrations affect the environment? Guest blogger Krista Fairles takes an amusing look at this very topic:
The holidays are a wonderful, cheerful time when most people wait for Santa to bring them presents. But I’m not like most people. I spend my time wondering just what the environmental impacts of Santa Claus and his reindeer are, and more importantly, how I can calculate those impacts.
Lately I’ve been particularly curious as to whether Santa’s old sled is a clean green flying machine, or if he should be replacing his 8 reindeer with an environmentally-friendly car.
I should mention that, surprisingly, I was unable to find statistics specific to Santa’s magical flying reindeer, so these calculations use numbers from various sources and may not represent actual pollution caused by Santa and his animals. In other words, don’t complain to the government about the damage Santa is causing the environment based on this article.
Santa’s yearly trip around the globe is 44,000km long, twice the average of a North American driver. If we assume that the magic provides the altitude for this trip, then reindeer power only needs to push Santa’s sled forward. To complete the trip in 12 hours, I estimate they must travel at a speed of about 3100km/h. To travel at this speed, for this length of time, the reindeer need to eat an incredible 980 million calories each!!
So the next question is: how much food is in 980 million calories? Well, if they’re eating corn, they’d need to eat 16,500 lbs each — or 1.6 acres of food. Growing 12.8 acres of corn has its own implications for the environment that we’ll leave for another calculation.
We now need to consider that during the global trip the reindeer are “letting out” some of that corn in the form of methane (甲烷，沼气). A resting cow produces 110 kg of methane per year, so flying reindeer would each let out about 4.8 tons. With methane causing 20 times the global warming damage of CO2, and the altitude increasing that damage by 1000% that another 20 times, we can put Santa’s round-trip emissions at 15,488 tons. This is much more than the 100 tons an environmentally-friendly car would release on the same trip!
Bad Santa.
1. Which aspect does the writer NOT include in her analyses about reindeer’s influence on environment?
A. Distance covered. B. Calories consumed.
C. Tons of waste let out. D. Money spent on food.
2. According to Paragraph 6, how many acres of corn would Santa need to feed 10 reindeer?
A. 1.6. B. 16. C. 12.8. D. 128.
3. Which of the following statements would the writer most probably agree with?
A. Christmas celebrations are really a waste of money.
B. Vegetarians are more likely to survive than meat-eaters.
C. Raising animals has a negative influence on environment.
D. The car industry does less harm to environment than farming.
4. Which of the following words best describes the language style of the passage?
A. Humourous and concerned. B. Cheerful and friendly.
C. Academic and formal. D. Serious and boring.
5. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
A. Is Santa driving clean and green?
B. Santa, watch where you’re going!
C. Santa Claus is coming to town!
D. Let’s reduce waste on Christmas celebrations!
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科目：高中英语 来源：2013-2014学年四川省高三11月月考试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Childhood was an illusion (错觉）and the illusion was this: everything was bigger. No, I mean everything, not just houses and shops and grown-ups, but colors and flowers and journeys, especially journeys which seemed endless. “Are we there yet, Daddy?”
Funfairs (游乐场） were huge things that spread for miles around you with noise and lights and exciting danger. Rainy days at home when you were ill seemed to last for ever. Being a grown-up yourself was an unthinkable distant possibility. Every sound was louder, every game was grander, every pain unbearable.
As I’ve grown old, life has become smaller. Tastes have dulled. Surprises have turned into shocks. Days go by unnoticed. How can I regain childhood when it was an illusion?
I have only one repeatable and wonderful way and even in this way I can regain only part of that larger world. I can play upon the stage like a child and make the crowd laugh and laugh with them, sometimes helplessly like a child, and then, even though I’m a sixty-one-year-old man, I can almost catch the colors and sounds and stillness of those bigger years when I was little.
1.How does the author feel about his childhood?
A. It was endless. B. It was unpleasant.
C. He is glad that it is over. D. He misses it as a grown-up
2.The author thinks that everything was bigger in childhood because ________
A. children could not make proper judgments.
B. children were curious and eager about life
C. things appeared really big in children’s eyes
D. to grow up seemed so long for children
3.The world seems to have become smaller to the author because _______.
A. life is disappointing B. time goes by too fast
C. he has had too many surprises D. foods no longer taste delicious
4.The author enjoys playing on the stage so as to _______.
A. act like a child B. live an unusual life
C. make the crowd laugh D. regain his childhood
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届福建省高一上学期期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what , in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.
A change made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises(出现) from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.
There also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar(奇怪的)that I don’t know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl-friend.
No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.
1.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is______.
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A．repeated without any change |
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B．treated as a joke |
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C．set in the present |
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D．given some changes by the parent |
2.According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is____.
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A．heard for the first time |
B．in a realistic setting |
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C．repeated too often |
D．told in a different way |
3.The author’s mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that______.
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A．fairy stories are still being made up |
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B．people try to modernize old fairy stories |
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C．there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales |
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D．There is more concern for children’s fears nowadays |
4.One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that_____.
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A．they are full of imagination |
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B．they are not interesting |
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C．they just make up the stories which are far from the truth |
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D．they make teachers of history difficult to teach |
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科目：高中英语 来源：辽宁省2009-2010学年度高一下学期期中考试英语试题 题型：完型填空
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完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
About two years ago while working downtown at our company’s headquarters I met a man. I’ll call him “Martin”. Martin was a short, middle-aged man with a glandular(内分泌) problem. He was fat, using a walking stick to help, and was painfully shy. Almost every morning I saw Martin on the elevator. We were usually the only people there, so I made __36 conversation as we __37_ to the 15th floor. I chatted with him about sometimes weather and sometimes about each other’s weekend.
About six months __38 our daily elevator chats, Martin came to my office and asked if I had a minute to chat. Though we worked on the same floor, I’m sure he had to __39 to find me. I invited him to sit down. He said, “I wanted to come and say __40 . The company has let me go. Today will be my last day.”
I didn’t know what to say. __41 I was too familiar with saying goodbye to co-workers, it was never __42 . Honestly, I usually avoid talking about the event because I felt __43 and at a loss for words. I told him I was __44 and asked if there was anything I could do. He said, “No, I’ll be fine, I just wanted to take the time to thank you.” I was now __45 . He explained that our daily talks had __46 a lot to him.
He thanked me not only for __47 with him in the mornings, but for speaking directly to him and others on the elevator, and for telling him a quick joke in the crowded cafeteria. It seemed that __48 had ever been his friend before—or if so they were __49 to him in public.
He said he didn’t want to __50 much of my time, as he knew I was busy and he needed to __51 his personal things. He had tears in his eyes as he shook my hand and left.
I’ve never seen him since, but I imagine he’s doing well. Meeting him __52 my life. Now when I’m in a hurry, or have a bad day, I try extra hard to speak __53 to those around me. I remind myself that it’s just as easy to say something nice as to say something __54 , and I’m awed (敬畏) at how __55 our daily actions are.
36. A. formal B. polite C. special D. usual
37. A. climbed B. ran C. rode D. moved
38. A. during B. before C. until D. after
39. A. search B. walk C. drive D. move
40. A. thanks B. goodbye C. hello D. words
41. A. But B. Because C. When D. Though
42. A. difficult B. easy C. convenient D. comfortable
43. A. astonished B. painful C. embarrassed D. amazed
44. A. calm B. nervous C. disappointed D. sorry
45. A. confused B. worried C. moved D. proud
46. A. meant B. done C. caused D. brought
47. A. working B. traveling C. chatting D. staying
48. A. someone B. everyone C. anyone D. no one
49. A. cold B. friendly C. warm D. cruel
50. A. use up B. take up C. break up D. pick up
51. A. sell B. decorate C. pack D. sort
52. A. changed B. colored C. satisfied D. controlled
53. A. directly B. loudly C. kindly D. softly
54. A. different B. rude C. serious D. interesting
55. A. surprising B. strange C. impressive D. powerful
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