Books have tremendous power. Between their pages, readers can be transported to anywhere imaginable and become just about anyone or anything. Unfortunately, many children all over the world don’t have access to books. For several years now, Maria Keller, a 14-year-old girl from Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been changing that fact.
When she was 8 years old, Maria already loved reading. She also noticed that some of her classmates didn’t read as much as she did. When she asked her mother why that could be, her mother said that they might not be able to afford books. Maria had never thought of this. She could not believe that some children might not have bedtime stories read to them. She became determined to change this.
With her mother’s help, Maria created Read Indeed. Read Indeed is a non-profit organization aiming to collect and distribute(分发) books to children in need. During the early stages of Read Indeed, Maria set the goal to collect and distribute 1 million books by the time she was 18. It didn’t take long to reach that goal.
Today, at age 14, she has collected over 1.8 million books and has shipped them to many states and countries around the world. She says, “I cannot live without books. As I continue my mission, I have learned that the number of kids who have no books are in the hundreds of millions. So I just can’t give up, even after reaching my original goal of 1 million books distributed.”
She recently set a new goal: to distribute donations to kids in need in every state in the United States, and every country in the world. She keeps track of her progress on a large map at the warehouse(仓库) where they store and sort books. Maria believes that she can get support from even more people and help kids around the world to become better readers!
1.We can know from Paragraph 2 that ________.
A. some of Maria’s classmates had no textbooks
B. some of Maria’s classmates didn’t have money to buy books
C. some of Maria’s classmates didn’t like reading at all
D. some of Maria’s classmates couldn’t afford to go to school
2.According to the passage, which statement about Read Indeed is true?
A. It collects and gives out books to poor children.
B. It is an organization which sells books to children around the world.
C. It raises money to buy books for children.
D. It is a campaign which encourages children to read.
3.What can we infer from what Maria says in Paragraph 4?
A. She lives on selling books.
B. Her original dream has been achieved.
C. She will give up her mission of distributing books.
D. The number of children who have no books has greatly dropped.
4.Which word can best describe Maria?
A. Optimistic. B. Smart. C. Brave. D. Strong-willed.
科目：高中英语 来源：2017届河北衡水中学高三上期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
LONDON(AP)---A suburban house that starred onscreen as Harry Potter’s childhood home is on the market---complete with a cupboard under the stairs.
Fans of the boy wizard will recognize 12 Picket Post Close as 4 Privet Drive, home of Harry’s cruel aunt and uncle, the Dursleys.
The couple unwillingly took Harry in after his parents were murdered and made him sleep in a cupboard under the stairs.
The house in Bracknell, 30 miles(50 kilometers)west of London, was a location featured in the 2001 film “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.” A studio set of the house was built for later films of the eight series.
Real estate agency Chancellors(房地产公司总代理)says the three-bedroom house has recently been made over to an extremely high standard.” It’s listed at a price of 475,000 pounds$616,000.)” Real estate agent Paul Bosanko said, “the original plan was to take this property to market without using any reference to Harry Potter. But since news of the connection got out, interest has shot up, and that may or may not influence the final price that we achieve at this property,” Bosanko said.
Neighbor Karen Field said that the house still attracts Potter fans a decade-and-a-half after the film crews left. When the movie first came out, “there were tour buses, literally tour buses coming down the road,” Field said. “It’s a lot quieter now,” she said. “School holidays, you still get people coming along.”
1. What is the news mainly about?
A. 12 Picket Post Close in Bracknell for sale
B. Harry Potter’s s childhood home
C. Visits to Harry Potter’s home
D. Films of Harry Potter at 4 Privet Drive
2.What happened to the suburban house west of London?
A. Harry Potter lived in it in his childhood
B. Harry Potter series were all filmed here
C. It was modeled on as a studio set later
D. It was sold at a price of 475,000 pounds
3.What is not true with the house?
A. It is now on the market
B. It belongs to the Dursleys
C. It was related to Harry Potter
D. Potter fans keep coming to it
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科目：高中英语 来源：2017届河南天一大联考高三上期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
AC/DC have postponed their US tour after singer Brian Johnson was warned by doctors that he was at risk of “total hearing loss”. This is unsurprising, given the decades that the Australian band has been pumping out the hard rock decibels(分贝). But deafness isn’t only a concern for rock musicians. In recent years it has become clear that anyone around music a lot has reason to be equally worried.
When exposed to music, risk to hearing arises from a combination of how loud the sound is and how long you’re exposed to it. If you visit a nightclub that is thumping out (响亮地奏出) music on the dance floor at 100 dB, then after only 10-15 minutes the exposure is potentially damaging. In a quieter part of the club, but where the music is still loud enough that you have to shout at your friends, then you could be there for a couple of hours before having to worry about your hearing. Of course music frequently exceeds（超过） 80-85 dB, but what counts most in assessing the risk to hearing is the average exposure.
Exposure to high noise levels often causes temporary deafness — something many people have experienced after going to a nightclub. While hearing usually recovers after a few hours or days, repeated loud exposure leads to permanent hearing damage. Initially, this damage is subtle and unlikely to be noticed by the listener. Problems only becomes significant in middle age when the noise-induced hearing loss combines with the natural loss of hearing due to ageing.
Improved technology means that the number of musicians having to give up performing could decrease, but student musicians need to be educated about the dangers of noise-caused hearing loss. The increasing use of headphones will also work against this — for musicians and everyone else. Unless people are careful with the volume（音量） level on their portable music players, hearing loss caused by music will increase.
（http://theconversation.com/highway-to-hearing-hell-musicians-and-the-danger-of-deafness-55983）
1.What does Paragraph 1 mainly aim to tell us?
A. Musicians tend to be victims of music.
B. It is helpful to check hearing regularly.
C. Being with music isn’t necessarily beneficial.
D. Deafness has become musicians’ major concern.
2.What’s the most important factor considered in the assessment of risk music has to hearing?
A. Its decibel.
B. The average exposure.
C. Its playing environment.
D. The listener’s sensitivity to sound.
3.People who go to nightclubs frequently tend to ________.
A. suffer from temporary headache
B. have their hearing damaged forever
C. experience natural hearing loss earlier
D. have a clear sense of their hearing damage
4.Which of the following best reflects the author’s opinion?
A. Improving technology can prevent hearing damage.
B. Students musicians are main sufferers of hearing loss.
C. Using headphones helps reduce hearing loss to a degree.
D. We can never be too careful with the volume level of music.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年甘肃省天水市高一上学期期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
I want to share a true story with you. I am____that it can inspire (激励) everyone. Let’s be likelamps(灯) or candles to light people’s____
Some of my____work in Australia. Among the natives, there was an elderly man. I am sure that you have____been in a situation as difficult as that____old man’s. He was completely ignored by everyone. His____was disordered and dirty.
I told him, “Please let me____your house, wash your clothes, and make your bed.” He answered, “I’m____with this. Let it be.”
I said again, “It will be still better if you____me to do it.”
He finally____So I was able to clean his house and wash his clothes. I____a beautiful lamp, which was covered with____Only God knows how many____had passed since he last lit it.
I said to him, “Don’t you light your lamp? Don’t you ever____it?”
He answered, “No. No one comes to see me. I have no____to light it. Who would I light it for?”
I asked, “Would you light it every____my sisters came?”
He replied, “Of course.”
From that day on, my sisterscommitted (投入) themselves to____him every evening. We cleaned the lamp and he would____it every evening.
Two years passed. I had completely____that man. He sent this message: “Tell my friends that the light they lit in my life continues to____still.”
1.A. surprised B. satisfied C. afraid D. sure
2.A. houses B. plans C. life D. clothes
3.A. sisters B. neighbors C. brothers D. children
4.A. always B. never C. recently D. already
5.A. clever B. strong C. healthy D. poor
6.A. bag B. station C. home D. office
7.A. build B. clean C. remove D. paint
8.A. okay B. sick C. rich D. tidy
9.A. advise B. beg C. allow D. remind
10.A. escaped B. arrived C. shook D. agreed
11.A. made B. discovered C. sold D. passed
12.A. snow B. water C. dust D. sand
13.A. years B. hours C. seconds D. centuries
14.A. enjoy B. see C. keep D. use
15.A. time B. need C. energy D. courage
16.A. night B. morning C. afternoon D. midnight
17.A. feeding B. leading C. visiting D. teaching
18.A. cover B. wash C. watch D. light
19.A. changed B. forgotten C. understood D. believed
20.A. shine B. move C. fly D. rise
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年四川省乐山市高二上学期期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：短文填空
Do you find it hard to memorize words? You must not be the only one. It could be 1.(help) if you say the words aloud. But this often isn’t good in a quiet classroom.
Now, researchers from the University of Waterloo, Canada, have come up 2.a new idea. They suggest 3.(draw) a picture of what you are trying to memorize!
The researchers did a study 4.(base) on the idea. They first gave a group of students some words such as “apple” or “balloon”. Then they gave the students 40 seconds, during 5.the students could either write the words again and again, or draw a picture.
When the time 6.(be) over, the researchers asked the students to do something else, like sing a song. After that, they gave the students 60 seconds to write down as many words 7.they could remember. The results showed that those who drew the words did a much 8.(good) job than those who wrote them.
So the next time you are having a hard time memorizing a word, 9.(draw) it! No worries if you’re not good at drawing. The 10.(research) say the quality of the drawing doesn’t matter at all.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2017届广西南宁第二中学高三2月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
As I drove my blue Buick into the garage, I saw that a yellow Oldsmobile was _______ too close to my space. I had to drive back and forth to get my car into the _______ space. That left _______ enough room to open the door. Then one day I arrived home _______, and just as I turned off the engine, the yellow Oldsmobile entered its space-too close to my car, _______. At last I had a chance to meet the driver. My patience had _______ and I shouted at her, "Can't you see you're not _______ me enough space? Park farther over." Banging (猛推) open door into _______, the driver shouted back: "Make me!" _______ this she stepped out of the garage. Still each time she got home first, she parked too close to my __________. Then one day, I thought, "What can I do?" I soon found __________. The next day the woman__________a note on her windshield:
Dear yellow Oldsmobile,
I'm sorry my mistress shouted at yours the other day. She's been sorry about it. I know it because she doesn't sing anymore while __________. It wasn't like her to scream __________. Fact is, she'd just got bad news and was taking it out on you two. I __________ you and your mistress will __________ her.
Your neighbor,
Blue Buick
When I went to the __________ the next morning, the Oldsmobile was gone, but there was a note on my windshield:
Dear Blue Buick,
My mistress is sorry, too. She parked so __________ because she just learned to drive. We will park much farther over after this. I'm glad we can be __________ now.
Your neighbor,
Yellow Oldsmobile
After that, whenever Blue Buick __________Yellow Oldsmobile on the road, their drivers waved cheerfully and smiled.
1.A. stopped B. driven C. parked D. stayed
2.A. complete B. fixed C. close D. narrow
3.A. nearly B. hardly C. seldom D. quite
4.A. hurriedly B. first C. finally D. timely
5.A. as usual B. as planned C. as well D. as yet
6.A. run into B. run off C. run about D. run out
7.A. saving B. leaving C. offering D. keeping
8.A. itself B. hers C. ours D. mine
9.A. From B. For C. With D. Upon
10.A. side B. room C. front D. area
11.A. an instruction B. an answer C. a chance D. a result
12.A. sent B. wrote C. discovered D. put
13.A. working B. returning C. cooking D. Driving
14.A. so long B. like that C. on end D. any more
15.A. hope B. know C. suppose D. suggest
16.A. please B. help C. comfort D. forgive
17.A. office B. place C. garage D. flat
18.A. crazily B. eagerly C. noisily D. early
19.A. neighbors B. friends C. drivers D. writers
20.A. followed B. greeted C. passed D. found
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科目：高中英语 来源：2017届山西重点中学协作体高三下高考模拟（一）英语卷（解析版） 题型：短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词作斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
As is known to us, some students cheat in exams at school. As students, we often take exams at school, sometimes we have many exams that is too difficult for us. In addition, some of us are lazy and don’t work hard on our lessons. So when taken exams, we sometimes cheat in order to get good results to make our parents and teachers pleased.
In my opinion, it was wrong to cheat in exams because it breaks the rules of the schools. Our students should be honesty and try to get good results by studying hard instead of cheating in exams. What’s more, we should improve our method of study and make well preparations for exams. With the saying goes, “Nothing is impossible for a willing heart.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年福建省漳州市高二上学期期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：书面表达
假如你是李华，你校国际部即将举行一次主题为“我爱中国古典诗词”的读书活动。你将代表全体学生，在启动仪式上发言。请你根据以下提示，用英文写一篇发言稿。内容包括：
1.说明活动的目的；
2.从中国古典诗词的特点的角度，陈述热爱它的理由；
3.对学习中国古典诗词的认识。
注意：
1.词数100词左右；
2.开头已写好，不计入总词数；
3.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：古典诗词 classical poetry; 押韵 rhyme
Good morning, everyone!
Welcome to our Reading Activity.
__________________________________________________________________________________
_____
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年甘肃省天水市高二下学期开学考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
Claire went into the city and bought curtains, , a carpet and bedding.
A. cushions B. carriages C. cupboards D. conflicts
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