This new model of car is so expensive that it is _____the reach of those with average
incomes.
A. over B. within
C. beyond D. below
科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年福建福州第八中学高二上期中英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
---How often do you call your parents?
--- ,but usually once a week.
A. Forget it B. Once in a while
C. It depends D. I’ve no idea
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年湖北武穴市高三11月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
On Sept 18, they arrived before polling stations even opened, dressed in school uniforms, with book bags over their shoulders—and, for the first time in British history, ballot (选票) cards in hands.
More than 109,000 Scottish teenagers aged 16 to 17 took part in the Scottish independence referendum (公民投票), in which Scotland eventually decided not to become independent.
The age group only made up a small part of the 4.29 million total voters, but they have “demonstrated how the youngest voters can be some of the most enthusiastic in a mature democracy”, commented The Associated Press. Casting their ballots, they were “proud and passionate” to help their nation decide whether to break away from the UK after 307 years in union.
“You feel like you’ve got a say, because it is going to be you. You are going to decide what it is like when you’re older,” 16-year-old Erin Cheshire in Glasgow, who voted “yes”, told The Wall Street Journal.
At age 16, Scottish residents are allowed to join the military, get married, and work. Eighteen is the legal drinking age, as well as the UK’s voting age. But in 2013, Scottish law was changed to allow 16- and 17-year-olds in Scotland to vote in the referendum. The government pushed for the change because “younger voters are more likely to vote with their hearts, not their heads—and embrace fundamental change by voting for the pro-independence Yes Scotland campaign”, NBC News said.
But when the decision was handed down, some worried that high school students might not be as informed as adult voters. However, many experts said that assumption was wrong.
Professor Jan Eichhorn of the University of Edinburgh insisted that Scottish teenagers were as likely to read newspaper articles and campaign materials as their parents. They would simply get these resources through social media.
“There’s no evidence to suggest that they’re less capable than adults of voting, from a research point of view,” Eichhorn told NPR.
Scotland’s move to let younger teenagers vote in the referendum has led to a discussion about whether the voting age ought to be lowered to 16, both in the UK and the US.
“By 16, most people have about as stable an ideology (思想意识) as they are going to get,” Professor Jason Brennan of Georgetown University wrote for CNN, arguing that the US should also think about allowing younger US citizens to vote.
1. The Scottish independence referendum was held on Sept. 18 ______.
A. to encourage youngsters to be concerned with politics
B. to lower the minimum voting age to 16 for the referendum
C. to elect who would be the new leader of Scotland
D. to decide whether Scotland would become independent from the UK
2. According to the passage, we can learn ______.
A.It is possible for the USA to lower the voting age to 16 in the future.
B.Scotland gained its independence from the UK eventually.
C.All the people in Scotland thought highly of the government’s decision to lower the voting age to 16.
D.Scottish teenagers aged 16 are allowed to join the military, get married, work and drink alcohol now.
3.What doe the underlined word “embrace” (in para.5) probably mean?
A. Approve of B. Object to
C. Know about D. Admit to
4.What is Jan Eichhorn’s opinion of the Scottish teenagers aged 16 to 17?
A.They are too enthusiastic to make informed decisions.
B.They make no difference to the voting result.
C.They are as informed and capable as adults of voting.
D.They are unwilling to be involved in the decision of the country’s future.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年福建漳州市八校高三12月联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：其他题
短文填词(共10题;每题1分,满分10分)
阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词,所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
One day while walking through the woods, an old man found a cocoon(茧) of a butterfly. Heb 1. it home. A few days later, a small opening appeared, he watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop 2. (取得)any progress .It appeared as if it could hardly go further .Then the man decided to h 3. the butterfly, so he took a p4. of scissors to cut the cocoon. The butterfly then came out easily.
But it can never 5. (飞).The man didn’t understand the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening was just the nature's way of forcing fluid (液体) from the body of the butterfly 6. its wings, which would be ready for flight once it achieved its 7. (自由)from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly 8. we need in our life. If we were allowed to go through our life 9. any struggling, it would weaken us seriously .We would not be as 10. (强壮) as what we could have been.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年福建漳州市八校高三12月联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
the instructions on the packet when you take the drug and the drug, I think, will work soon.
A. Follow B. To follow
C. Following D. Followed
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年福建漳州市八校高三12月联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
–Guess what! We’ll have a chance to visit our sister school in Denmark this summer!
--How nice! You ______ a different culture then.
A. will have experienced B. have been experiencing
C. will be experiencing D. will have to experience
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年福建泉州第一中学高三上期中英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Which boy hasn’t dreamed of being a cool secret agent(特工)? The wonderful fighting and the world-saving adventures are much more colourful than most people’s everyday lives. Well, Cody Banks is just like any other boy, except that he is not just dreaming. He has a big secret his friends never know about. He was trained to be a spy(间谍) by a special CIA programme, which was made to look like a summer camp. He learned high-speed driving, hand-to-hand fighting and the use of high-tech tools.
After proving he could become a young hero by saving a baby from a runaway car, Banks gets his first real task. He must make friends with a popular girl at school, Natalie Connors. Then, he must spy on her father, a scientist who has developed a dangerous technology(技术). Banks must stop a group of bad people from forcing Natalie’s father into using the technology to endanger the world.
The CIA may have taught him first-class self-defence moves, but they didn’t show him how to talk to girls. Banks has zero ability when it comes to dealing with girls. How can he get around his problem and get an invitation to the girl’s upcoming birthday party? Will he finally become Natalie’s boyfriend and find out whatever he can do about her father’s work?
Agent Cody Banks has everything that young people are interested in: big explosions, breath-taking performances and funny girl-dating experiences. It was listed in No.2 in the American box office last week.
“This story is interesting and fun for the whole family to enjoy, and especially cool for young boys.” said Paul Perkins, a film reviewer in the US.
1.What is Banks’s first real task?
A. To test a high-tech tool
B. To watch a scientist secretly
C. To study a new technology
D. To save a baby from a car
2.Banks wanted to go to Natalie’s birthday party to ______.
A. meet her father
B. know more people
C. make friends with her
D. steal some information
3.What is considered as a great danger in the text?
A. The technology developed by Natalie’s father
B. An explosion set off by some bad people
C. The CIA’s training of boys for its task
D. Secret agents spying on scientists
4.What is the purpose of the text?
A. Making known the work of the CIA.
B. Introducing a new film.
C. Showing the dark side of science.
D. Telling the story about a cool boy.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年福建泉州第一中学高三上期中英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
Old-fashioned phones matter when wireless networks __________ in disasters.
A. break out B. break up
C. break in D. break down
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年山东潍坊四县市高一上期中模块监测英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Born with easy-broken bone disease, Zhang Yonghong is only half a meter tall and must use a wheelchair. His thin arms and legs can hardly support any weight, and he is unable to take care of himself. However, his hands are able to produce fine paper-cuts, which will free his daughter from the same disease.
To support himself, he learned how to make paper-cut art from his mother. He sold his artwork and taught his techniques in Xi’an for eight years before discovering his young daughter inherited the disease from him, leading Zhang to move his family to Beijing for his daughter’s better treatment five years ago.
The daughter’s treatment costs about 30,000 yuan a year. The family’s savings was used up in two years, and Zhang was forced to start to sell his work in underground passages with his healthy wife, who soon left him because of the hard life.
With a little help from government, he was lucky to meet some kindhearted people in Beijing. A Hong Kong businessman gave 60,000 yuan to him last year to treat the girl and start a small shop on Qiangulouyuan, which is known as a famous hutong that attracts lots of tourists over holidays. Zhang Rui, a university graduate, spends most of her time helping Zhang sell the paper-cuts, translating the stories of the paper-cuts into English and selling the works on the roadside of Nanluoguxiang.
However, the artist still lives beyond his income (收入) and struggles to continue his small business. “Selling paper-cuts is his only source of income. Without this, he can’t support the family and treat his daughter,” says Zhang Rui, who hopes more people will help Zhang.
1.Why did Zhang grow only half a meter tall?
A. His easy-broken bone disease affected him.
B. His parents also had the same disease.
C. His poor family couldn’t provide him with rich food.
D. An unexpected accident caused him to grow slowly.
2.What does the underlined word “inherited” probably mean in Paragraph 2?
A. get around B. take away
C. pass on D. go over
3.Why did his wife leave him?
A. Because she was afraid of losing the daughter.
B. Because she was tired of him and her children.
C. Because she lost hope for her daughter.
D. Because the life was too hard for them.
4.With the help of a Hong Kong businessman, Zhang Yonghong _________.
A. could support the daily life of his family
B. ran a shop of his own in Beijing
C. hired a girl to sell his artworks
D. could start a translation room
5.What can we conclude from the last paragraph?
A. Zhang still needs more people to help him.
B. Zhang manages his business very well.
C. Zhang’s business needs to be developed.
D. Zhang needs to look for a wife to help him.
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