Many expels say that Billy Wilder changed the history of American movies．He is often called the best movie maker Hollywood has ever had．
He was known for making movies that offered sharp social comment and adult sexual situations．Wilder was one of the first directors to do this．
Between the middle 1930s and the 1980s，Billy Wilder made almost fifty movies．During that time he received more than twenty nominations(提名)from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences．He won six of the Oscar awards．Wilder made famous movies like“Sunset Boulevard”．and“Double Indemnity．”He also directed“The Lost Weekend”，and“The Seven Year Itch．”
Wilder was born in 1906 in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire．He started law school in Vienna，Austria at the beginning．Then he decided to abandon the major．By the 1920s，he was writing movies in Germany．However，the Nazis had risen to power in the nation．Wilder was Jewish，and he recognized that he had no future in Nazi Germany．Then he left Europe for America．
Billy Wilder had only eleven dollars when he arrived to settle in the United States in 1934．He formed a writing team with Charles Brackett．The two writers created many films together．
Wilder and Brackett wrote several successful movies．Wilder always praised this man as a friend and teacher whose humor and expert direction greatly influenced his work．
In his love stories．Billy Wilder did not follow the Hollywood tradition of sweet boy-meets-girl situations．He had an unusual way of showing relations between men and women．For example，one of his most successful films was“Hold Back the Dawn．”In 1944，Billy Wilder made a film called“Double Indemnity．”Some critics(评论家)said this movie established him as one of the greatest Hollywood directors．Billy Wilder died in Los Angeles in 2002 after battling health problems．
1.What does the text mainly talk about?
A．The history of American movies．
B．The famous director—Billy Wilder．
C．The famous movies by Billy Wilder．
D．Billy Wilder and his friends．
2.What’s the proper order of Wilder’s life events?
a．He formed a writing team．
b．He won six of the Oscar awards．
c．He started law school in Vienna．
d．He settled in the United States．
A．c，d，a，b B．a，b，d，e
C．b，c，d，a D．d，a，b，c
3.Why did Wilder leave Europe?
A．He wanted to make a fortune in America．
B．Nobody helped him make films．
C．The Nazis came into power．
D．He was in great need of Charles’s help．
4.For what purpose does the author use the example“Hold Back the Dawn”?
A．To explain it’s a most successful film．
B．To show Wilder’s different directing style．
C．To argue the traditional influence on Wilder’s film．
D．To indicate Wilder’s unusual character．
备战中考寒假系列答案科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年浙江温州第二外国语学校高二上学期期末英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Some of the world’s most significant problems never hit headlines. One example comes from agriculture. Food riots （暴动）and hunger make news. But the trend lying behind these matters is rarely talked about. This is the decrease in the growth in production of some of the world’s major crops. A new study by the University of Minnesota and McGill University in Montreal looks at where, and how far, this decline is occurring.
The authors take a vast number of data points for the four most important crops: rice, wheat, corn and soyabeans. They find that on between 24% and 39% of all harvested areas, the improvement in production that took place before the 1980s slowed down in the 1990s and 2000s.
There are two worrying features of the slowdown. One is that it has been particularly sharp in the world’s most populous countries, India and China. Their ability to feed themselves has been an important source of relative stability both within the countries and on world food markets. That self-sufficiency (自给自足) cannot be taken for granted if productions continue to slow down.
Second, production growth has been lower in wheat and rice than in corn and soyabeans. This is problematic because wheat and rice are more important as foods, accounting for around half of all calories consumed. Corn and soyabeans are more important as feed grains. The authors note that “we have preferentially focused our crop improvement efforts on feeding animals and cars rather than on crops that feed people and are the basis of food security in much of the world.”
The report also states the more optimistic findings of another new paper which suggests that the world will not have to dig up a lot more land for farming in order to feed 9 billion people in 2050, as the Food and Agriculture Organisation has argued.
Instead, it says, thanks to slowing population growth, land currently ploughed（犁）up for crops might be able to revert (回返) to forest or wilderness. This could happen. The trouble is that the prediction assumes continued improvements in productions, which may not actually happen.
1.What significant problem does the writer think we should pay more attention to?
A. The decline of the grain production growth
B. News headlines in the leading media.
C. Food riots and hunger.
D. The food supply in populous countries.
2.Why does the author mention India and China in particular?
A. Their big populations are causing worldwide concerns.
B. Their food yields have begun to decrease sharply in recent years.
C. Their self-sufficiency is vital to the stability of world food markets.
D. Their food self-sufficiency has been taken for granted.
3.What does the new study by the two universities say about recent crop improvement efforts?
A. They fail to produce the same remarkable results as before the 1980s.
B. They contribute a lot to the improvement of human food production.
C. They play a major role in guaranteeing the food security of the world.
D. They focus more on the increase of animal feed than human food grains.
4.What does the Food and Agriculture Organisation say about world food production in the coming decades?
A. The growing population will greatly increase the pressure on world food supplies.
B. The optimistic prediction about food production should be viewed with caution.
C. The slowdown of the growth in yields of major food crops will be reversed.
D. The world will be able to feed its population without expanding the area of farmland.
5.How does the author view the argument of the Food and Agriculture Organisation?
A. It is built on the findings of a new study.
B. It is based on a doubtful assumption.
C. It is backed by strong evidence.
D. It is open to further discussion.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年湖北孝感高一上学期六校教学联盟期末联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
An old man lived in a certain part of London, and he would wake up every morning and go to the subway. He would get the train right to Central London, and then sit at the street corner and beg. He would do this every single day of his life. He sat at the same street corner and begged for almost 20 years.
His house was dirty, and the bad smell coming out of the house was horrible. The neighbors could not stand the smell any more, so they asked the police officers to clear the place. The officers knocked down the door and cleaned the house. There were small bags of money all over the house that he had collected over the years.
The police counted the money, and they soon realized that the old man was a millionaire (百万富翁). They waited outside his house expecting to share the good news with him. When the old man arrived home that evening, one of the officers told him that there was no need for him to beg any more as he was a rich man now, a millionaire.
But the old man said nothing at all; he went into his house and locked the door. The next morning he woke up as usual, went to the subway, got into the train and sat at the street corner and continued to beg.
Clearly, this old man had no great plans, dreams or anything significant for his life. We learn nothing from this story other than staying focused on the things we enjoy doing. What makes us happy is what matters in the end, not what we acquire.
1. Why did the police officers clear the old man’s house?
A. Because the old man had no time to clear it himself.
B. Because the neighbors of the old man asked them to do.
C. Because they couldn’t stand the terrible smell.
D. Because the police officers were kind-hearted.
2. The police officers stood outside the old man’s house in order to __________.
A. Tell the old man that they knocked down his door
B. Ask the old man to clean his dirty house
C. Make the old man count the money in small bags.
D. Tell the old man that he was a millionaire.
3. What did the old man do after the police officer told him the news?
A. He did what he usually did the next day.
B. He stayed at home doing nothing.
C. He locked the door and went to the subway at once.
D. He sat in front of his house and continued to beg.
4. From the story we can infer that__________.
A. the old man cared about nothing but money
B. the old man wanted to do what he enjoyed doing
C. the policemen would take away all the money.
D. the old man would not beg any more
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年河南省许昌市四校高二上学期期末联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
In much society, there is often greater acceptance of light skin than dark skin; Light skin may be seen as a mark of beauty, intelligence and success. These beliefs can lead to social pressures even within the same group, if some members are darker than others.
The result is that skin lightening has become very common across Africa, Asia and other areas of the world and more people with dark skin are using skin-lighting products, even if it means they may face health risks. They believe that having whiter skin will improve the quality of their lives. Many people think they will have a better family. Or they want to look like what their society generally considers beautiful.
Some beauty care（美容） products and soaps contain chemicals that make skin lighter. However, some of the chemicals are extremely dangerous. The chemicals in the products block and break down the natural barrier(障碍) to protect against sunlight. Then the skin can become thick and discolored. Usually the person will
use more of the product in an effort to correct the problem, which just makes things even worse. Doctor Ly says some chemicals are so dangerous that they may lead to blackened fingernails, infections(感染) and serious skin damage.
And these are not the only problems. Experts say some people who change their skin color suffer emotional damage. They feel regretful and sad. They feel that instead of risking their health, they should have learned to live and accept their skin color as it was.
1.What’s the result of the wrong understanding of darker skin?
A. Many people with dark skin try to make their skin whiter.
B. Many people with whiter skin live a better life than others.
C. People with darker skin try to marry people with light skin.
D. People with darker skin try to protect themselves against social pressures.
2.The third paragraph is about.
A. some medical effects that skin-lightening products have brought about
B. the mental damage that skin-lightening products have caused
C. the physical damage that skin-lightening products have caused
D. the causes why skin-lightening products can make skin whiter
3. Why are chemicals in beauty care products dangerous?
A. They can damage the skin’s color producing progress.
B. They can control people’s emotions and feelings.
C. They can make the fingernails and skin black.
D. They make more people decide to change their skin colors.
4. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Different Colors of Skin
B. The Dark Side of Skin Lightening
C. What Is Beauty?
D. Light Skin or Dark Skin?
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I was driving home in a rainstorm on a cold．March morning in the mountains of my home．Part of me was ________ the rain thinking that it would clean the mud，salt，and dirt that covered my ________ from weeks of Winter driving and ________ me a trip to the car wash．Another ________ of me was keeping a watchful eye on the streams and rivers hoping that the ________ snow and freshly falling rain wouldn’t lead to any flooding．
A deeper part of me，however，was quietly dreaming of the ________ weather and strengthening sunshine to come in the weeks ________．I knew that they would stop with this nourishing (滋润的)rain to turn the yellow grass ________，to bring new buds and leaves to the trees，and to cause the million flowers ________ underground to push their heads 50 the soil and start the Spring．It would be that glorious time when the whole world comes back to ________ again and it was all starting with this steady，March ________．
The rains in our own lives can bring ________ blessings．Storms of problems and troubles can ________ US with stress and pain．They can make our days seem ________ and boring．They can make our hearts feel heavy and sad． ________，these same storms can also ________our spirits．
They can help our souls to ________．They can lead us to learning and ________．They can cause our hearts to________ to God and to each other．
1.A．challenging B．enjoying C．doubting D．describing
2.A．body B．house C．car D．1uggage
3.A．save B．cost C．offer D．bring
4.A．part B．role C．identity D．character
5.A．1asting B．melting C．coming D．freezing
6.A．warmer B．colder C．cooler D．hotter
7.A．back B．ahead C．early D．ago
8.A．1ight B．green C．dark D．grey
9.A．dying B．blooming C．travelling D．sleeping
10.A．into B．against C．through D．across
11.A．mind B．1ife C．peace D．power
12.A．shower B．plants C．snow D．temperature
13.A．simple B．terrible C．puzzled D．mixed
14.A．replace B．flood C．change D．expose
15.A．1ong B．exciting C．short D．bright
16.A．Otherwise B．Instead C．Therefore D．Yet
17.A．strengthen B．weaken C．spoil D．control
18.A．fade B．grow C．sink D．despair
19.A．freedom B．rudeness C．wisdom D．pride
20.A．reach out B．run away C．block out D．fall down
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I was so thrilled and a little frightened when I began to be a student in a kindergarten. The large classroom was full of books and toys, the two things I ________ . I had been always interested in them. But it was also full of kids all ________ than me. Because my birthday was in late September, I was bound to be the youngest kid in my class until 7th grade.
I think that my mom realized I was a little ________ . That was why she was always there to ________ me up right after school when I could have ________ taken the school bus like my classmates did. I would get on and take the front seat next to her and tell her all about my ________ . Sometimes we would even read a book and wait ________ all the cars and buses had left before we ________ home. I cherished those ________ times when I had my mom all to myself. I felt so________and peaceful when we sat in the car together. Beginning the new challenge of ________ didn’t seem so difficult when I knew that I could ________ my happiness and sadness with her. Being a tiny, little kid in a scary world wasn’t so________ either. I knew that my mom loved me and that was all I ________ to be loving, joyful and strong.
As I ________ those happy times, now I can see that they also ________ me for another special relationship I would find later in life. All those times I spent ________ to and being with my mother helped me ________ my heart to the world. Her beautiful love helped me ________ to love. Her comforting arms guided me to comfort others. Mom, I love you forever and will be always ________ to you for what you gave and taught me!
1.A. liked B. bought C. brought D. chose
2.A. younger B. smarter C. older D. taller
3.A. allergic B. afraid C. confident D. shy
4.A. pick B. bring C. ring D. take
5.A. nervously B. easily C. hurriedly D. calmly
6.A. idea B. plan C. wish D. day
7.A. when B. until C. though D. because
8.A. drove B. rode C. walked D. ran
9.A. difficult B. endless C. special D. sad
10.A. upset B. safe C. quiet D. cool
11.A. adventure B. independence C. school D. work
12.A. share B. handle C. remove D. provide
13.A. nice B. attractive C. exciting D. frightening
14.A. tend B. used C. agreed D. gained
15.A. get close to B. make up for C. look back on D. keep up with
16.A. prepared B. rewarded C. helped D. forgave
17.A. replying B. referring C. attending D. talking
18.A. warm B. open C. hurt D. order
19.A. decide B. promise C. succeed D. learn
20.A. kind B. open C. grateful D. true
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七选五
How to Love Your Parents
Even if you think that your parents are mean-spirited at times, loving your parents is a normal and fulfilling part of life. You love them for the fact that they created you, raised you, and are in part a source of who you are. Here are some ways to love your parents.
1.A gentle “good morning” and “I love you” will warm a coldest heart. Remember that they brought you into this world. Without your parents, we might still wander at an unknown corner in an unknown world. Respect them more and cherish these moments. You can use these moments to learn from them when you’re off on your own. It’s OK to get angry but angry actions don’t help you or your parents. Act calmly, cool off, journal about your feelings, or talk to a friend. 2.Obey their requests. It will make your attitude better and earn you more respect from them. It may seem like you are going through hell when you don’t get what you want or you have to clean. However, you had better remember they keep a roof over your head when it’s cold, raining, snowing, or too hot. Understand that parents are human beings and make mistakes.3. Since you can forgive your friends, why not forgive your parents?
Keep company with them. Do things with your parents like watching TV, or go somewhere with them. 4.Listen to their old stories and learn from them. You will find they are your teachers in this way or another.
Some people simply may not be able to love their parents.5.Seek help if you are being abused(虐待) in any way. Parents do not have a right to harm you.
A. Forgiveness is the key.
B. Tell them you love them every morning.
C. Parents will in turn express their love to you.
D. After this, share your feelings with your parents.
E. Anyway, spend as much time with them as you can.
F. Please remember parents are as important as friends.
G. There can be realistic reasons for this, family violence for example.
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____ is known to us all is that the old worker, for _____ life was hard in the past, still works hard in his seventies.
A.As; whom B.What; whose C.It; whose D.What; whom
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年宁夏银川市高三4月教学质量检测三模英语试卷（解析版） 题型：七选五
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中的两项为多余选项。
HOW to Love Your Parents
Even if you think that your parents are mean—spirited at times，loving your parents is a normal and fulfilling part of life．You love them for the fact that they created you，raised you，and are in part a source of who you are．Here are some ways to love your parents．
1.A gentle “good morning” and “I love you” will warm a coldest heart．Remember that they brought you into this world．Without your parents，you might still wander at an unknown corner in an unknown world．
Respect them more and cherish these moments．You can use these moments to learn from them for when you’re off on your own．It’s OK to get angry but angry actions don’t help you or your parents．Act calmly，cool off, journal about your feelings，or talk to a friend．2.Obey their requests．It will make your attitude better and earn you more respect from them．It may seem like you are going through hell when you don’t get what you want or you have to clean．However，you had better remember they keep a roof over your head when it’s cold， raining，snowing，or too hot．Understand that parents are human beings and make mistakes．3.．Since you can forgive your friends，why not forgive your parents?
Keep company with them．Do things with your parents like watching TV，or go somewhere with them．4.to their old stories and learn from them．You will find they are your teachers in this way or another．
Some people simply may not be able to love their parents．5.Seek help if you are being abused in any way．Parents do not have a right to harm you．
A．Forgiveness is the key．
B．Tell them you love them every morning．
C．Parents will in turn express their love to you．
D．After this，share your feelings with your parents．
E．Anyway, spend as much time with them as you can．
F．Please remember parents are as important as friends．
G．There can be realistic reasons for this，family violence for example．
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