阅读理解
What are you feeling right now as you start to read this? Are you curious? Hoping that you’ll learn something about yourself? Bored because this is something you have to do for school and you’re not really into it — or happy because it’s a school project you enjoy? Perhaps you’re attracted by something else, like feeling excited about your weekend plans or sad because you just went through a breakup.
Emotions like these are part of human nature. They give us information about what we’re experiencing and help us know how to react. We sense our emotions from the time we’re babies. Young children react to their emotions with facial expressions or with actions like laughing or crying. They feel and show emotions, but they don’t yet have the ability to name the emotion or say why they feel that way.
As we grow up, we become more skilled in understanding emotions. Instead of just reacting like little kids do, we can identify（定义） what we feel and put it into words. With time and practice, we get better at knowing what we are feeling and why. This skill is called emotional awareness.
Emotional awareness helps us know what we need and want, or don’t want! It helps us build better relationships. That’s because being aware of our emotions can help us talk about feelings more clearly, avoid or settle conflicts（冲突） better, and move past difficult feelings more easily.
Some people are naturally more in touch with their emotions than others. The good news is that everyone can be more aware of their emotions. It just takes practice. But it’s worth the effort.
Emotional awareness is the first step toward building emotional intelligence, a skill that can help people succeed in life.
1. How do young children react to emotions?
A. With laughter and shouts.
B. With signs and expressions.
C. With facial expressions and actions.
D. With gestures of different kinds.
2. From the passage we know that emotional awareness actually _________.
A. enables us to live in society more easily
B. lets people understand others better
C. brings about conflicts between people
D. smooths away difficulties in our life
3.Where is the passage probably taken from?
A. A science fiction. B. An advertisement.
C. A science magazine. D. A television show.
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年黑龙江牡丹江一中高二下期中考试英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy – five, he gave $ 60,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s ground.
As a result of his kindness, he became famous. Many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy-five. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening,” he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
1.Johnson became a rich man through _______.
A. doing business B. making whisky
C. cheating D. buying and selling land
2.The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson _______.
A. had many children in the school
B. was a strange old man
C. wanted people to know how rich he was
D. was kind and fond of children
3.Many people wrote to Johnson to find out _______.
A. what kind of whisky he had
B. how to live alone
C. how to become wealthy
D. in which part of the neck to have an injection
4.When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening, he really meant that ____.
A. he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening
B. he needn’t an injection in the neck
C. a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well
D. there was something wrong with his neck
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年重庆育才中学高一下第一次月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从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。
I met Ryan，a young man with cerebral palsy (脑瘫)，in my biology class. My simple “Hello！” and his cheerful reply were the to our friendship from the first day of school. There was a time when Ryan was not able to come to school. He was in a great deal of after having a surgery on his legs，but he his sufferings from everyone.
In our junior year，we found that we didn’t a single class. This was not a problem，though. We just talked a little more in the hallway the break. That year seemed to fly by. One day，Ryan asked me to hold the torch (火炬) runner’s flag that would the spot where Ryan would his Olympic torch run. He gently explained that he would be honored I would accept this position for him. The Olympic committee sent a letter saying that the person that holds the flag for him must be someone to him. He said I was the only true friend he had made that talked to him and not to his wheel chair. How could I such a request?
On the morning of June 5th，as I walked down the sidewalk，my he and my mind became a factory of questions. I kept wondering how everything was going to happen and how Ryan would the huge crowd of thousands of people.
After the van arrived，the other runners got out and lined up outside the van，chanting his name，“Ryan！Byan！” Then all of the people in，“Ryan！Ryan！” The lift then lowered Ryan to the ground. There he was，in all his .
It all became slow motion at the sight of the arriving torch. The runner lit Ryan’s torch and then Ryan began his .As he took off down the street，the chanting became louder and louder.The filled the air and I felt I was on cloud nine. I could not have been any prouder of Ryan！He this moment—a historic moment —a moment that he was a part of and me to be a part of，too.
Mr Weinheimer，the next torch runner，bent over and gave Ryan a hug. That moment will last in time forever. It symbolized the whole of the flame：love，excitement，enthusiasm，brotherhood，and life of any man. The flame united us all and showed that love is really what makes this small world go around after all.
1.A. solutions B．keys C．routes D．responses
2.A. danger B．fear C．pain D．puzzle
3.A. hid B．prevented C．released D．relieved
4.A. change B．miss C．attend D．share
5.A. except B．for C．during D．before
6.A. mark B．test C．number D．decorate
7.A. cover B．begin C．continue D．lead
8.A. while B．although C．if D．unless
9.A. polite B．kind C．grateful D．important
10.A. ever B．never C．also D．even
11.A. admit B．refuse C．make D．repeat
12.A. ached B．raced C．stopped D．sank
13.A. explain to B．differ from C．respond to D．call on
14.A. joined B．stepped C．poured D．broke
15.A. potential B．preference C．glory D．surprise
16.A .training B．journey C．life D．struggle
17.A. anxiety B．satisfaction C．harmony D．excitement
18.A. deserved B．recalled C．treasured D．chose
19.A. promised B．encouraged C．allowed D．followed
20.A. mystery B．power C．information D．meaning
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年陕西西安长安区一中高二下期中考试英语卷（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，选项中有两项为多余选项。
What do you know about the standard of living of a country? It actually means how much of the goods and services the country produces for an average person to share. 1. Obviously, the first factor is its ability to produce wealth. “Wealth” in this sense doesn’t refer to money. It’s because we don’t live on money but on things that money can buy, “goods” such as food and clothing, and “services” such as transport and entertainment.
There are various factors that determine a country’s ability to produce wealth. They affect one another. Wealth depends greatly on a country’s natural resources. 2. . Some regions of the world are rich in natural resources with a fertile soil and a favorable climate; other regions possess perhaps only one of them; some, unfortunately, possess none. The USA has everything listed above. 3. The Sahara Desert, on the other hand, is one of the least wealthy.
Also, the ability to put natural resources to use counts, which goes without saying.
4. As we see, old countries that have trained so many skilled workers over centimes are better at producing wealth than those whose workers are mainly unskilled.
Besides, with their wealth increasing, people have more for saving and can put their savings into factories and machines, which, in turn, will help workers to produce more goods. 5.
A. That means wealth itself also produces wealth.
B. No wonder it is one of the wealthiest regions of the world.
C. Natural resources are equally distributed around the world.
D. And next comes the technical efficiency of a country’s people.
E. You may ask what factors contribute to a country’s standard of living
F. They include coal, oil, gas, gold, other minerals, water supply and so on.
G. But that doesn’t make it a most wealthy country because it’s often hit by disasters.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年山西大同市高一下期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：其他题
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
They lost their way in the forest and __1.____ made matters worse was ____2._______ night began to fall.
3. ____________we will go there tomorrow by train hasn't been decided yet.
4.____________ of you comes in first will be given a prize.
5.I don’t think it’s my ____________ that the TV blew up. I just turned it on. That’s all.
6.___________ days went by, he didn’t succeed in anything he had planned.
7. On my __________(arrive) at the airport, my friend gave me a big hug.
8. Using all their ___________(strong), the driver and the passers-by pushed the car out of the mud in the end.
9.The storm left, ____________ (cause) a lot of damage to this area.
10. How ____________ (believe) beautiful the scenery beyond the mountain is!
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年江苏扬州中学高二下期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
阅读理解
请认真阅读下列短文, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
FROM dogs and cats to pandas and penguins, lists of adorable animals can be very varied. However, when it comes to scary animals, the answers are often more or less the same – snakes and spiders are among the most dreadful ones for the majority of us.
However, most of us have never been bitten by a snake or a spider. So does this mean we are born with a fear of certain things?
Scientists have been actively looking into it for a long time. For example, studies have suggested that babies find live animals much more interesting than stuffed (毛绒填充的) ones. This interest continues even if those animals are snakes and spiders.
A study published in Psychological Science in 2008 seemed to show that snakes did have a different impact on babies. When scientists presented babies with animal videos along with random sounds of happy or frightened human voices, they found that babies looked at snakes for longer than any other animal however the voices sounded.
Now, a team from Rutgers University in New Jersey, US has tried to challenge the idea that babies are born with a fear of snakes and spiders. According to the BBC, the researchers measured babies’ physiological (生理的) responses as they watched videos of snakes and elephants paired with both fearful and happy voices.
Scientists then set out to surprise the babies to see how they would react. They presented them with an unexpected bright flash of light as they watched a video. As the BBC explained, a surprise like this would be more intense (强烈的) if the babies were already scared, just like when we watch scary films and jump more if we are already scared.
However, according to their findings, published recently in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, babies’ surprised responses were not bigger when watching a video of a snake, even when it was shown with a fearful voice. Their heart response was also lower, which also made it seem that babies were not scared.
“Children do not have an innate fear of snakes,” concluded the study. Even if previous studies had suggested that babies have different responses to snakes, it isn’t necessarily related to fear. “It’s possible that paying more attention to something might make fear learning easier later on. It leads to fear learning,” said research co-author Vanessa LoBue. She further explained that it was a good thing that humans didn’t have an inborn fear of snakes because it would make a young infant’s desire to explore new things less strong.
Instead, we have evolved to quickly learn to be afraid of something if it turns out to be dangerous.
1.What is the article mainly about?
A. How people’s fear of snakes and spiders has evolved.
B. Whether humans are born with a fear of snakes and spiders.
C. Why snakes and spiders are considered the most dreadful animals.
D. How babies react differently from adults to snakes and spiders.
2.What was the finding of the study published in Psychological Science in 2008?
A. The longer babies looked at snakes in the video, the less scared they were.
B. The fearful voices babies heard when watching snake videos doubled their fear of snakes.
C. Babies’ responses to the snake in the videos were greatly affected by the types of voices they heard.
D. Babies took more interest in snakes than the other animals in the videos regardless of which human voices they heard.
3. The underlined word “innate” in the second-to-last paragraph is the closest in meaning to ______.
A. from birth B. from learning
C. lasting D. immediate
4.How did babies react when the researchers from Rutgers University surprised them while they were watching a video of a snake?
A. They paid more attention to the snakes when they heard a fearful voice.
B. Babies’ heart responses changed slightly when they heard a fearful voice.
C. A fearful voice didn’t make their surprised response become more intense.
D. They became more scared when they experienced an unexpected bright flash of light.
5. According to Vanessa LoBue, since babies don’t have an inborn fear of snakes, ______
A. it would make it easier for them to learn fear
B. it would make them more willing to explore new things
C. it would lead them to stay away from dangerous things
D. it would encourage them not to be afraid of anything
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年江苏扬州中学高二下期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
Two explosions hit Zaventem airport at about 07:00 GMT, Mar 22nd, with 11 people _______killed.
A. reporting B. to report C. reported D. having reported
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年江苏盐城中学高一下期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
As the new semester begins, millions of college students across the country are trying hard to remember how best to write a paper or, more likely, how best to delay that paper.
Procrastination is the thief of time and a lot of students suffer form it. They can spend whole days in the library doing nothing but staring into space, eating snacks, surfing the Internet, watching videos and looking at other students sitting around them, who, most likely are doing nothing either.
Paralyzed (使失去活力) by their habit to procrastinate, they write micro blogs about their fears, asking their online friends if they sometimes have the same issue. But this does nothing to break the spell (魔咒).
According to a recent report, 95 percent of us procrastinate at some point and 20 percent of the world’s population are always procrastinating. The figures are disappointing. Procrastinators are less wealthy, less healthy and less happy than those who don’t delay. Procrastinators like to find excuses to justify their behavior, but BBC columnist Rowan Pelling says they are all wrong.
Many procrastinators tell themselves they are perfectionists who work best under pressure. Pelling says this is non sense, as work done at the last minute is more likely to have mistakes than work done on time. The behavior of procrastinators often makes them feel ashamed, inconveniences others and annoys loved ones.
Pelling also points out that procrastination feels particularly delinquent（过失的） in a society that thinks of speedy action as admirable, and, at times, even as a moral good.
Fortunately, social scientists have thrown their weight behind efforts to understand this behavioral mistake and offer strategies to control it. Piers Steel, a Canadian social scientist and author of The Procrastination Equation, believes human is “designed” to procrastinate. Nevertheless, he suggests a couple of good ways to get through the task at hand.
1.Which behavior belongs to procrastination?
A. Never dream away the time.
B. Always complete the tasks ahead of time.
C. Never put off till tomorrow what should be done today.
D. Always wait to work until the “good mood” or “good time”.
2.According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
A. Procrastination makes people waste their time.
B. Speedy action is considered as a moral standard in the society.
C. procrastinators usually complete their tasks perfectly.
D. Procrastination is common among people.
3.What is most likely to be discuss
ed in the paragraph that follows?
A. Ways to handle the study pressures.
B. Introduction to the book The Procrastination Equation.
C. More examples to illustrate procrastination
D. Measures to deal with procrastination.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年安徽铜陵一中高一下期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：书面表达
书面表达
假设你是红星中学高一(1)班的学生李华，你的英国笔友Chris刚刚转学，感到一切都很陌生。他在邮件中向你询问如何尽快融入新环境。请你根据以下信息回信。
1. 多跟同学交流沟通；
2. 积极参加学校活动；
3. 向老师寻求帮助。
注意：1.词数：100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计人总词数。
Dear Chris,
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