It is never too late to try to make your dreams come true. This could be Mary Moe’s motto—the expression that best presents her spirit. Mary Moe has done a lot during the past 91 years. For much of that time, she wanted to fly, but never had the chance—until now. She recently achieved her life-long dream.
Mary just learned how to fly an airplane, a dream she has had since she was a little girl. Growing up, she was inspired by two American pilots: Charles Lindburgh Amelia Earhart. They became her inspiration. Lindbugh made the solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. Five years later, Earhart became the first woman to make the flight. But Mary Moe could not find time to make her dream come true. At age 34, she was just too busy—busy fighting cancer. She was also busy with her job in advertising and busy raising her family.
There was simply no time to think about flying a plane. And it was difficult for her to drive to the airport. Lessons were costly. Everything seemed to be working against Mary.
“I had actually gone out to that airport in the 1980s to see about flying lessons and it was such a long drive out and expensive and I thought, ‘No, I have to put this back burner for a while.’” So her dream had to wait. She kept it on the back burner. Then, at age 91, her wish finally came true.
Ms Moe learned about Wish of a lifetime. Wish of a Lifetime is a non-profit organization whose goal is to change the way our society thinks about aging and older adults.
Sally Webster works for the group. Wish of Lifetime helps older people, senior citizens, enjoy a dream. It also sends the message that it is never too late for a dream. So they really try to look for those stories that are inspiring and can show people that older Americans can achieve things just like younger Americans can.
1. In her thirties, Mary Moe must have ___________
A. lived a smooth life B. been unemployed
C. spent a hard time D. learned how to fly
2.The underlined part is closest in meaning to “_____________”
A. set this down B. put this off
C. cut this off D. give this away
3.Wish of Lifetime is set up in order to_____________.
A. change people’s thought about the old
B. improve people’s life
C. raise money for the old
D. help the old live on themselves
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Home is ________ somebody notices when you are no longer there.
A． that B． when C． how D． where
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届宁夏育才中学高三上学期第二次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。温馨提示：请将答案写在答题卷上
The way we cook is important. In many countries, the two choices are 1. (nature) gas or electric-powered stoves.
The World Health Organization warns that millions of people 2. (suffer) from indoor air pollution at present time, which results from the use of 3. (danger) fuels and cook-stoves in the home.
WHO officials say nearly three billion people are 4. (able) to use clean fuels and technologies for cooking ，heating and lighting. As a result, more than seven million people die from exposure to indoor or outdoor air pollution each year. Most of the deaths are in 5. （develop） countries, such as lndia, China and Latin American countries.
WHO officials say opening a window or door 6. （let）out the harmful air will not correct the situation 7. will only pollute the outdoors.
Nigel Bruce, 8. is a professor of Public Health at the University of Liverpool, says researchers are developing good cook-stoves and other equipment to burn fuels 9. a more efficient way.
But, this is just a start. It is urging developing countries to use 10. (clean) fuels and increase access to cleaner and more modern cooking and heating appliances（用具）
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年四川绵阳南山中学高二上学期期中英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
This was Larry’s another underwater expeditions(探险). However, this time, it was quite different. He decided to take his daughter along with him. She was only ten years old. This would be her first trip with her father on what he had always been famous for.
Larry first began diving when he was his daughter’s age. Similarly, his father had taken him along on one of his expeditions. Since then, he had never looked back. Larry started out by renting diving suits from the small diving shop just along the shore. He had hated them. They were either too big or too small. Then, there was the instructor. He gave him a short lesson before allowing him into the water with his father. He had made an exception. Larry would never have been able to go down without at least five hours of theory and another similar number of hours on practical lessons with a guide. Children his age were not even allowed to dive.
After the first expedition, Larry’s later diving adventures only got better and better. There was never a dull moment. In his black and blue suit and with an oxygen tank fastened on his back, Larry dived from boats into the middle of the ocean. Dangerous areas did not prevent him from continuing his search. Sometimes, he was limited to a cage underwater but that did not bother him. At least, he was still able to take photographs of the underwater creatures.
Larry’s first expedition without his father was in the Cayman Islands. There were numerous diving spots in the area and Larry was determined to visit all of them. Fortunately for him, a man offered to take him around the different spots for free. Larry didn’t even know what the time was, how many spots he dived into or how many photographs he had taken. The diving spots afforded such a wide array of fish and sea creatures that Larry saw more than thirty varieties of creatures.
Larry looked at his daughter. She looked as excited as he had been when he was her age. He hoped she would be able to continue the family tradition. Already, she looked like she was much braver than Lorry had been then. This was the key to a successful underwater expedition.
1.In what way was this expedition different for Larry?
A. His daughter had grown up.
B. He had become a famous diver.
C. His daughter would dive with him.
D. His father would dive with him.
2.What can be inferred from Paragraph2?
A. Larry was lucky to have got such a chance to dive.
B. Larry liked the rented diving suits.
C. Ten-year-old children were permitted to dive.
D. Divers had to buy diving equipment.
3.Why did Larry have to stay in a cage underwater sometimes?
A. To take photos more conveniently.
B. To dive into the deep water.
C. To admire the underwater view.
D. To protect himself from danger.
4. What can be learned from the underlined sentence?
A. Larry didn’t wear a watch.
B. Larry enjoyed the adventure.
C. Larry had a poor memory.
D. Larry was not good at math.
5.What did Larry expect his daughter to do?
A. Make a good diving guide.
B. Have longer hours of training.
C. Take a lot of photo underwater.
D. Become a successful diver.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年甘肃天水第一中学高二上学期期末英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors, by going online to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店). Some avoid doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially if they lack health insurance. Or they may stay because they find it embarrassing to discuss their weight, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative experiences in the past. But playing doctor can also be a deadly game.
Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet for medical answers – most of them aren’t nearly skeptical enough of what they find. A 2012 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 72 percent of those surveyed believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn’t. Look up “headache”, and the chances of finding reliable and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain, are only one in ten, reports an April 2015 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as “high quality”. Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate and even dangerous information exists on the Internet.
The problem is that most people don’t know the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that’s risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative(权威的), so it’d hard to know if what you’re reading is reasonable or not,” says Dr. Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.
1.According to the text, an increasing number of American _____.
A. are suffering from mental disorders
B. like to play deadly games with doctors
C. turn to Internet pharmacies for help
D. are skeptical about surfing medical websites
2.Some Americans stay away from doctors because they _____.
A. are afraid to face the truth of their health
B. prefer to be diagnosed online by doctors
C. find medical devices easy to operate
D. are afraid to misuse their health insurance
3.According to the study of Brown Medical School, ______.
A. more than 6 million Americans distrust doctors
B. about 1/10 of the websites surveyed are of high quality
C. only 1/10 of medical websites aim to make a profit
D. 72% of health websites offer incomplete and faulty facts
4.Which of the following is the author’s main argument?
A. It’s cheap to self-treat your own illness.
B. It’s dangerous to be your own doctor.
C. It’s reasonable to put up a medical website.
D. It’s embarrassing to discuss your bad habits.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届山东实验中学高三上学期第三次诊断英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
THANK-you cards--heartfelt expressions of gratitude for gifts, services and general kindness--seem to be rare in an age when the Internet continues to reduce human interaction.
Although our society has changed greatly over the past century, the etiquette of thank-you notes has not.
While most people would agree that thank-you notes under these circumstances are a necessity, there are still those who forever postpone or are forgetful for unknown reasons.
And at no time of the year are thank-you notes more visible (or lacking) than June, the month of graduations, and the beginning of summer parties.
"It's a must-do thing. A real thank you does not come by e-mail. It comes in the mail in an envelope. And what comes out of an envelope is a beautiful thing to touch and to handle and to pass around for everyone to read," said etiquette expert Letitia Baldrige.
Don't think for a second that Baldrige is old-fashioned. Handwritten thank-you notes--any handwritten correspondence, for that matter- have taken on an air of extra importance and dignity (庄重) in this e-hyper (电子狂躁的) world.
Baldrige remains hopeful that the art may be enjoying a renaissance (复兴,再生).
More than simply obeying rules of etiquette, thank-you cards are a sign of caring.
"They're more important now than ever," expert Peter Post says. "You are building a relationship. And part of building that relationship is that you acknowledge when someone has done something nice for you. "
"The payoff," Post says, "can be huge. The more we do it, the more it comes back to us, and it's a benefit to us all. It makes our world a little bit nicer place to live in. "
1.Nowadays thank-you cards seem to be rare mainly because ______.
A. people think that they are out of fashion
B. it is quicker to say thanks by e-mail
C. the Internet has reduced people's contact
D. people are too busy to remember these things
2.From the context, the word "etiquette" in the second paragraph probably means ______.
A. old objects for sale
B. rules for people to obey
C. hand-made articles
D. customs for polite behavior
3.The author implies in this article that ______.
A. old-fashioned people take a negative attitude to e-mails
B. the changing society is making people impolite and lazy
C. modern technology is driving people apart
D. the e-hyper world is not a nice place to live in
4.What’s Baldrige’s attitude towards handwritten thank-you cards?
A. Regretful to disappear
B. Promising to come back
C. Old-fashioned to keep
D. Unnecessary between friends
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届广西武鸣县高级中学高三9月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：七选五
Changing the world does not only mean finding a medicine for cancer or finding the origin of human beings, but recycling a piece of paper as well. 1. . What follows are three simple ways we can go green and change the world.
Recycle
Every day about 63 million newspapers go out, and 44 million of them are thrown away. By recycling the newspaper alone we could save half a million trees a week. New phones, iPods, or computers are created every day. 2. . By taking them to the local stores that collect them, they can go to people who don’t have enough money to buy one.
Go vegetarian one day a week
According to the scientists at New York University, if the whole population skips one meal of chicken, the amount of carbon dioxide(二氧化碳) would be the same amount if more than half a million cars were taken off roads in the US. 3. .
Refuse bottled water
Most people drink bottled water because they think that bottled water is healthier than tap water. However, 25% of the bottled water actually comes from tap water. Not only are you drinking the same water as the water in your house but you are paying more. 4. . So it is necessary to use reusable water bottles instead of plastic water bottles.
Changing the world had to start from small things. 5.. However, every little helps a mickle(多量). Keep in mind what Margaret Mead once said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
A. So give up just one day of eating meat.
B. One of the most serious threats to our planet is plastic pollution.
C. Going green is a way that we can have a meaningful influence on the world.
D. Also plastic bottles will cause plastic pollution.
E. It may seem as if the small changes are not influencing the world.
F. But what happens to the old ones?
G. Actually there is little or no difference between bottled water and tap water.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年湖南岳阳一中高二上学期期中英语试卷（解析版） 题型：语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
James Long is holding a debate called “The economy or the environment — must we choose?” Lin Shuiqing, 1. environmentalist and Qian Liwei, an economist expressed their own opinions.
Mr. Lin holds the opinion 2. large areas of the world are damaged by industrial waste. In addition, many sea creatures are being destroyed 3._______ fishing boats. Other types of waste flow into the river, 4._____________(kill) river and sea life. The world’s population is approaching 6.5 billion. He advises people to cut back 5. production, reduce what we make and buy, expand our cycling industry, and meanwhile teach people about environmentally friendly ways of living.
While Mr. Qian thinks economic development is not definitely bad for the environment. Through working side by side with environmentalists, 6._________ thinks a healthy environment and a stable economy should be possible at the same time. But he does agree that recycling may be the key to 7.________ (help) both sides. People need more effective laws to preserve the environment 8. still allow the economy to grow. Those factories 9.____________ pollute the environment should have to pay higher taxes.
At last, James says they will open the 10. for further discussion.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016年北京市朝阳区高三上学期期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
The Entropia Universe
The Entropia Universe is a virtual world on the Internet, which seems very like our real life．It is set in a distant future and based on a planet called Calypso．Entropia was the brainchild of a group of Swedish computer lovers who decided to see if they could create a three dimensional (维度的) virtual world that could be placed on the Internet．They did manage after they received the financial backing they needed．
The game can be played for free, but nearly all in-game activities require personal resources that you have available to use．Although there are various activities to keep you busy on Calypso, what most people do first is to find themselves a profession, such as hunting the fierce animals on Calypso, mining the precious minerals and making tools．Then they can think about buying their virtual house or paying a visit to a virtual nightclub or doing any of the other activities that make life bearable．
Entropia has its very own economy (经济) and its own currency, the PED (Project Entropia Dollars)．Players move real world money into PED which they then use to pay for their life on Calypso．However, the virtual things inside Entropia do have a real value in the outside world, and careful business deals mean that players can actually make real money there．PED can be changed into dollars any time at a rate of 10PED to 1US$．
What’s so impressive about The Entropia Universe is the number of players; currently more than 600,000 representing over 220 countries from planet Earth．A number of players insist that it’s a good way to make money．However, the reality of Entropia’s economic system is that most people end up paying more than they earn and it’s not uncommon to find players who are paying up to $200 a month into their PED account．This might not be the most economical way of spending one’s free time．However, some people say that for them the fact that they can escape the realities of the earthbound life and become a different person with a completely different life for a few hours every week is worth the use of money, even if they don’t get any interest rates on it．
1.What can we learn about The Entropia Universe?
A． It costs nothing to join．
B． It focuses on business plans．
C． It is designed for computer lovers．
D． It presents what life is like on other planets．
2.What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?
A． What people do on Calypso．
B． When people buy houses there．
C． How people make life bearable．
D． Why people often find a job first．
3.According to the author, playing on The Entropia Universe ______．
A． may be very annoying
B． can be quite expensive
C． is a cheap way to kill time
D． is a good way to earn money
4.What can be inferred about The Entropia Universe?
A． It is technical．
B． It is satisfying．
C． It is ridiculous．
D． It is educational．
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