“Only two centimeters higher, _______break the world record,” encouraged the coach.
A. you will B. and you will C. or you will D. will you
科目：高中英语 来源：2015届江苏省高二下第二次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
－Do you have any plan for the coming holiday?
－I thought I might stay with my parents, but something unexpected ______.
A. has occurred B. had occurred
C. was occurring D. would occur
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届江苏省高一下学期期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
The new road is __________ of the old one.
A. more than three times the length B. three times more than the length
C. more than the length D. more three times than the length
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届江苏江阴祝塘中学五校联考高二下期中考试英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
How do you design a pay plan that motivates people to do their best work? A new study by three Harvard researchers suggests a novel answer: Shortly after you hire new workers, give them a raise.
"Previous research has shown that paying people more than they expect may elicit reciprocity(相互作用) in the form of greater productivity," notes Deepak Malhotra, a Harvard business-administration professor who worked on the study. What he and his colleagues found, however, was that the connection between more pay and extra effort depends on presenting the increase "as a gift—that is, as something you've chosen to do purely as a nice gesture, with no strings attached."
Malhotra and his team studied 267 people hired by oDesk, a global online network of freelancers, to do a one-time data-entry project for four hours. All of the new hires were people in developing countries, for whom hourly wages of $3 and $4 were higher than what they had been making in previous jobs.
The researchers split the group up into three equal parts. One group was told they would earn $3 an hour. A second group was initially hired at $3 an hour but, before they started working, they got a surprise: The budget for the project had expanded unexpectedly, they were told, and they would now be paid $4 an hour. The third group was offered $4 an hour from the start and given no increase.
Even though the second and third groups were eventually paid the same amount, the second group worked harder and produced more—about 20% more—than either of the other two. People in the second group also showed the most stamina, maintaining their focus all the way through the assigned task and performing especially well toward the end of the four hours. Interestingly, the more experienced employees in the high-performing group were the most productive of all, apparently because their previous work experience led them to appreciate the rarity of an unexpected raise.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Malhotra points out that higher pay, in and of itself, didn't promote productivity: People who made $4 an hour from the beginning worked no harder than those who were hired at $3 and were then paid $3.
To get the most impact from their pay plans, he adds, companies might consider not only what to pay new hires, but when to pay it.
"The key thing is how you present [the reason for an increase]," he says. Doling out extra money could promote productivity most "if you make it clear that the pay raise is something you're choosing to do just because you can. Our theory is that people will reciprocate. If you do something nice, they'll do something nice back."
1.What does the underlined word “stamina” most probably mean?
A. The quality of being intelligent or clever.
B. The quality of doing something difficult or dangerous.
C. The physical or mental energy needed to do a tiring activity for a long time.
D. A particular method of doing an activity, usually involving practical skills.
2.Why did the second group produce more than the other two groups?
A. Because they thought they were better paid than the other groups.
B. Because they were experienced employees from developing countries.
C. Because an unexpected raise reminded them of their previous work.
D. Because they felt they were nicely treated and tried best to repay it.
3.What can we infer from this passage?
A. No pains, no gains.
B. It matters not what we give but how.
C. Honesty is the best policy.
D. Actions speak louder than words.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届江苏江阴祝塘中学五校联考高二下期中考试英语卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
________is it ________has made Peter ________he is today?
A. What; that; that B. That; that; what C. What; what; that D. What; that; what
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届江苏江阴祝塘中学五校联考高二下期中考试英语卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
She had wanted to go to the west part of China in search of better view. But she turned voluntary teacher there.
A. a; / B. the; / C. the; a D. a; the
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届新疆昌吉州一中高二下期中英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
Where : Becket,Massachusetts
When: June 15---- Aug.24
Each summer,this influential dance center presents a number of classes and performances by more than 50 companies from around the world. Highlights(最精彩的部分)this season include the Dance Theater of Harlem’s production of Alvin Ailey’s “The Lark Ascending”, which opens the festival.
Many events are free.Ticketed performances start at $22. jacobspillow.org.
Moab Music Festival
Where:Moab,Utah
When: Aug.29--Sept.9
This area is better known for mountain biking than for music . But since 1992, it has hosted a private festival that brings classical ,Jazz,Latin and other types of music to the land . This year there will be 16 concerts,including three “Grotto Concerts”, where guests take a 45-minutes boat ride down the Colorado River to performances.
Events start at $25. noabmusicfest.org.
Cheyenne Frontier Days
Where: Cheyenne, Wyoming
When: July19-28
There is something for everyone at this 117-year-old festival ,from an “Indian village”and Old West museum to country concerts.But the competition is still the main attraction, with cowboys (牛仔)and cowgirls competing for major money in the world’s largest outdoor stage.
Competition tickets start at $18, and concert tickets at $23 cfdrodeo.com
The Glimmerglass Festival
Where: Cooperstown,New York
When: July6--Aug.24
Each summer,opera lovers from around the country (and the world)travel to upstate New York to watch productions that include stars like Nathan Gunn and Ginger Costa-Jackson. This year’s performances include Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman”and Verdi’s “King for a Day”, in honor of the 200th birthdays of both composers(作曲家)。
Tickets start at $26. Glimmerglass.org.
1. If you want to enjoy a “Grotto Concert”,which date suits you best?
A. June 15 .B. July 19
C. August 24 D. September4
2.If you go to Cheyenne to watch a competition and enjoy a concert , how much will you pay at least?
A. $18 B.$22 C.$36 D.$41
3. If you are a big fan of Wagner, you’re advised to go to ____.
A. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival B. The Glimmerglass Festival
C. Cheyenne Frontier Days D. Moab Music Festival
4.Which part of a website is the text probably chosen from?
A. Education B. Art
C. Business D. Literature
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届广东省高二下期末英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Millions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage doesn’t always come home with them. Airline identification tags（标签） can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where. And passengers leave all kinds of things on planes.
The airlines collect the items and, for 90 days, attempt to find their owners. They don’t keep them, since they’re not in the warehouse business. And by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.
So once insurance companies have paid for lost bags and their contents, and they no longer belong to passengers, a unique store in the little town of Scottsboro, Alabama, buys them. The “Unclaimed Baggage Center,” is so popular that the building, which is set up like a department store, is the number-one tourist attraction in all of Alabama. More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the store’s shopping carts on a hunt for treasures.
Each day, clerks bring out 7,000 new items, and veteran（老练的）shoppers rush to paw over them. You can find everything from precious jewels to hockey sticks, best-selling novels, leather jackets, tape recorders, surfboards, even half -used tubes of toothpaste.
The store’s own laundry washes or cleans all the clothes found in luggage, then sells them. The Unclaimed Baggage Center has found guns, illegal drugs and even a live rattlesnake.
The store has a little museum where some of its most unusual acquisitions（获得物） have been preserved. They include highland bagpipes, a burial mask from an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, and a medieval suit of armor.
Statistics indicate that less than one-half of one percent of luggage checked on U.S. carriers is permanently lost and available to the store.
1. Paragraph1 shows that many passengers lose their luggage because______.
A. they are forgetful
B. they are in a hurry
C. there is no lost and found office in many airports
D. the owners of some luggage can’t be identified
2. The reason why the airlines cannot sell the bags is that ______.
A. they have to find the owners
B. they are likely to make a profit on the bags on purpose
C. some bags are expensive
D. they have to keep the bags as long as possible
3.The Unclaimed Baggage Center is very popular because______.
A. there's a large variety of goods.
B. all the things there are very cheap.
C. visitors may purchase something undervalued.
D. Visitors will enjoy some amusing activities there.
4.What can we infer from the passage?
A. A little museum will keep all the precious unclaimed baggage.
B. The percentage of passengers who lose their baggage for ever is small.
C. The things in the Unclaimed Baggage Center are articles for daily use.
D. People are not allowed to buy the illegal things in the store.
5.What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To introduce how the unclaimed baggage in the airports is handled in America.
B. To introduce an attractive place to tourists.
C. To remind passengers of taking care of their baggage.
D. To advise the airlines to find the owners of the unclaimed baggage.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届广东省汕头市高二下学期期中考试英语卷（解析版） 题型：书面表达
阅读下面的短文, 然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
In 1882 a baby girl caught a fever that was so fierce that she nearly died. She survived but the fever left its mark ― she could no longer see or hear. Because she could not hear, she also found it very difficult to speak. So how did this child, blinded and deafened at 19 months old, grow up to become a world-famous author and public speaker?
The fever cut her off from the outside world, depriving her of sight and sound. It was as if she had been thrown into a dark prison cell from which there could be no release. Luckily Helen was not someone who gave up easily. Soon she began to explore the world by usin
g her other senses.
Just before her seventh birthday, the family hired a private tutor ― Anne Sullivan. Anne was careful to teach Helen especially those subjects in which she was interested.
Helen proved to be a remarkable scholar, graduating with honours from Radcliffe College in 1904. She had phenomenal powers of concentration and memory, as well as a dogged determination to succeed. While she was still at college she wrote “The Story of My Life”. This was an immediate success and earned her enough money to buy her own house.
She toured the country, giving lecture after lecture. Many books were written about her and several plays and films were made about her life. Eventually she became so famous that she was invited abroad and received many honours from foreign universities and monarchs. In 1932 she became a vice-president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom.
【写作内容】
1. 概括短文的内容要点, 该部分的字数大约30词;
2. 就“残疾人需要我们的关心”这个主题发表你的看法, 至少包含以下的内容要点, 该部分的大约120词:
a) 以你认识或了解的残疾人为例, 简述残疾人面临的困难及其取得的成就;
b) 举例说明人们是怎样关心和帮助残疾人的, 还存在哪些不足之处;
c) 呼吁大家都来关心和帮助残疾人。
【写作要求】
可以使用实例或其它论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。
【评分标准】
概括准确、语言规范、内容合适，篇章连贯。
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