Windows 8, apart from Windows 95, is the biggest surprise and the only version of Microsoft’s operating system that has been changed from the core（核心）when compared to its former one. However, a recent study has shown that under 20% of business owners would be willing to upgrade to the new version of Windows. The reason for this remains to be discussed and debated, and we will try to throw light on this research by providing you with some of the most common advantages and disadvantages of Windows 8.
Generally speaking, there are a great number of plus sides related to upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8.
Speed—This is the biggest advantage to mention. Boot time has been reported to be up to nine times shorter than that with Windows 7.
New passwords—Instead of typing your passwords, Windows 8 will let you use gestures on your favorite photos to enter your password. This is not only practical but also extremely cool!
Windows 8 experience—Apart from computers, Windows 8 will be used on all devices, including smart phones, tablet PC’s and so on. Also, owing to the fact that it has been specifically designed with touch screen users in mind, Windows 8, besides using keyboard and mouse, will offer a whole new user experience.
However, there are still some disadvantages.
The first one that has to be mentioned is that there is no Start Menu from Windows. Yes, there is no Start button in the lower left corner, and this might be a real puzzle of many Windows users. Also, many users have had a problem to get used to the new interface（界面）introduced by Windows 8. The biggest problem that is worth noticing is that Windows 8 was originally designed for touch screen users, and this may have a bad effect on desktop users who have gotten used to doing everything with the help of their keyboard and mouse.
1.What does “plus sides” in Paragraph 2 probably refer to?
A. Math symbols. B. New rules.
C. Strengths. D. Messages.
2.According to the text the greatest advantage of Windows 8 is its ______.
A. high speed B. complex passwords
C. unique experience D. new interface
3.From the text we can learn that Windows 8 ______.
A. no longer requires a password
B. can be used on more than computers
C. will be popular with desktop users
D. was upgraded from windows 95
4.Many Windows 8 users face the problem that ______.
A. Start Menu is hidden in the lower left corner
B. they don’t get accustomed to the new interface
C. keyboard and mouse can’t be used any longer
D. they have to use fingerprints instead of button
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年河南南阳宛东五校高二下学期第一次联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
THEATRE
City Varieties
The Headrow, Leeds. Tel. 430808
Oct 10—11 only A Night at the Varieties. All the fun of an old music hall with Barry Cryer,Duggle Brown, 6 dancers, Mystina, Jon Barker, Anne Dural and the Tony Harrison Trio; Laugh again at the old jokes and listen to your favorite songs.
Performances: 8 pm nightly.
Admission: ?5; under 16 or over 60: ?4.
York Theatre Royal
St Leonard's Place, York. Tel. 223568
Sept. 23--Oct 17 Groping for Words - a comedy by Sue Townsend. Best known for her Adrian Mole Diaries, Townsend now writes about an evening class, which two men and a woman attend. A gentle comedy.
Admission: First night, Mon: ?2; Tues—Fri: ?3.25 - 5.50; Sat: ?3.50 - 5.75.
Halifax Playhouse
King's Cross Street, Halifax. Tel. 365998
Oct 10—17 On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson. This is a magical comedy about real people. A beautifully produced, well-acted play for everyone. Don't miss it.
Performances: 7:30 pm.
Admission: ?2. Mon: 2 seats for the price of one
Grand Theatre
Oxford Street, Leeds. Tel. 502116
Restaurant and Caf?
Oct —17 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13. Sue Townsend’s musical play, based on her best-selling book.
Performances: Evenings 7:45. October 10—17,at 2:30 pm. No Monday performances.
Admission: Tues—Thurs: ?2—5; Fri & Sat: ?2—6.
1. Which theatre offers the cheapest seat?
A. City Varieties B. Halifax Playhouse
C. Grand Theatre D. York Theatre Royal
2.If you want to see a play with old jokes and songs, which phone number will you ring to book a seat?
A. 430808 B. 223568 C. 365998 D. 502116
3. We may learn from the text that Sue Townsend is________.
A. a musician B. an actress
C. a writer D. a director
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年山东淄博高青县第一中学高一4月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Decision-making under Stress
A new review based on a research shows that acute stress affects the way the brain considers the advantages and disadvantages, causing it to focus on pleasure and ignore the possible negative (负面的) consequences of a decision.
The research suggests that stress may change the way people make choices in predictable ways.
“Stress affects how people learn,” says Professor Mara Mather. “People learn better about positive than negative outcomes under stress.”
For example, two recent studies looked at how people learned to connect images(影像) with either rewards or punishments. In one experiment, some of the participants were first stressed by having to give a speech and do difficult math problems in front of an audience; in the other, some were stressed by having to keep their hands in ice water. In both cases, the stressed participants remembered the rewarded material more accurately and the punished material less accurately than those who hadn’t gone through the stress.
This phenomenon is likely not surprising to anyone who has tried to resist eating cookies or smoking a cigarette while under stress –at those moments, only the pleasure associated with such activities comes to mind. But the findings further suggest that stress may bring about a double effect. Not only are rewarding experiences remembered better, but negative consequences are also easily recalled.
The research also found that stress appears to affect decision-making differently in men and women. While both men and women tend to focus on rewards and less on consequences under stress, their responses to risk turn out to be different.
Men who had been stressed by the cold-water task tended to take more risks in the experiment while women responded in the opposite way. In stressful situations in which risk-taking can pay off big, men may tend to do better, when caution weighs more, however, women will win.
This tendency to slow down and become more cautious when decisions are risky might also help explain why women are less likely to become addicted than men: they may more often avoid making the risky choices that eventually harden into addiction.
1.We can learn from the passage that people under pressure tend to ______.
A. keep rewards better in their memory
B. recall consequences more effortlessly
C. make risky decisions more frequently
D. learn a subject more effectively
2.According to the research, stress affects people most probably in their ______.
A. ways of making choices B. preference for pleasure
C. tolerance of punishments D. responses to suggestions
3.The research has proved that in a stressful situation, ______.
A. women find it easier to fall into certain habits
B. men have a greater tendency to slow down
C. women focus more on outcomes
D. men are more likely to take risks
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年广东广州南沙区第一中学高二下学期第一次月考英语卷（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。
It is generally believed that money can’t buy happiness. However, that may not be always true. According to a recent article, in the last few years, new research has given us a far deeper understanding of the relationship between what we earn and how we feel. Broadly speaking, people with higher incomes are happier than those who struggle to get by. But it also shows you need to spend wisely if you expect those bank notes to put a smile on your face. 1.
1. Buy experiences, not material goods.
In a recently published study, Professor Ryan at San Francisco State University in the US, found that when people don’t have much money to spare, they tend to stick to material goods. 2. But they actually provide both more happiness and more lasting value.
2. 3.
No matter how much money you spend on something and how special that product is, you will get used to having it over time and lose interest in it. With the same money you spend on one big object, you can buy many little things. Buying small things means you can get frequent small pleasures.
3. Be sure to buy time.
4. For example, that big house in the suburbs may seem like a good idea, but a 2014 study by researchers from University of Zurich in Switzerland found that people with longer time on the way reported lower life satisfaction, all other things being equal.
4. Try giving it away.
Elizabeth Dunn, professor at the University of British Columbia in Canada, found that in nations as diverse as Canada, South Africa and Uganda, giving away money consistently made people happier. 5.
A. Be sure to buy what you like.
B. Here are some ways to better spend your money.
C. Buy lots of little things, rather than one big thing.
D. There are a lot of reasons someone might buy something.
E. People think experiences only provide temporary happiness.
F. This was even true when people giving away were relatively poor.
G. Consider how the things you buy will affect how you spend your time.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届江西吉水中学高三第五次月考英语试卷（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(1个单词)或括号内单词的的正确形式。
Now if you’ve got nothing to do today, why not go to the east part of the city and get digging? That’s the message from No.1 Senior High School, _1.__ is organizing a tree planting event near East Mountain. In order to improve the environmental _2._ (educate) of its students and get more people __3._ (organize), the school is planning to plant __4.__ total of 1,400 trees paid by the government over the next few days. They are hoping to plant half of them today and they __5.__(look) for volunteers to come along and help. No experience is necessary, __6.__ there will be experts to give directions and the __7.__ (equip) will be provided. Everyone is welcome to come along anytime __8.__ 10 am and 4 pm. I don’t think you need my advice of what sort of shoes or clothes you have to wear. And of course, gloves will be essential _9.__ (protect) your hands. So it could be10. (real) a nice day out for all the families. Enjoy your day.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年河南周口中英文学校高一下学期第一次月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
There was once a farmer who had a fine olive orchard（橄榄园）. He was very hardworking, and the ________ always prospered（繁荣）under his care. But he knew that his three ________ looked down upon the farm work, and were eager to make wealth.
When the farmer was ________ and felt that he would die, he ________ the three sons to him and said, “My sons, there is a pot of gold ________ in the olive orchard. Dig for it, if you wish it.”
The sons tried to ________ him to tell them in what part of the orchard the ________was hidden, but he would tell them nothing more.
After the farmer was ________, the sons went to work to find the pot of gold; since they did not ________where the hiding-place was, they agreed to begin in a line, at one ________ of the orchard, and to dig until one of them should find the money.
The________ until they had turned up the________ from one end of the orchard to the other, ________ the tree-roots and between them. ________ no pot of gold was to be found. It seemed as if someone must have stolen it, or as if the farmer had been wandering in his wits. The three sons were bitterly ________ to have all their work for nothing.
The next olive ________, the olive trees in the orchard bore（结果实）more fruit than they had ________ given; when it was________ , it gave the sons a whole pot of gold.
And when they saw how much money had ________ the orchard, they suddenly understood what the wise father had ________ when he said, “There is gold hidden in the orchard. Dig for it, if you wish it.”
1.A．garden B．farm C．factory D．hospital
2.A．friends B．relatives C．sons D．children
3.A．healthy B．unlucky C．old D．sad
4.A．showed B．led C．visited D．called
5.A．sent B．put C．locked D．hidden
6.A．get B．wait C．cause D．make
7.A．gold B．goods C．jewel D．clothes
8.A．weak B．lost C．sick D．dead
9.A．think B．wonder C．know D．realise
10.A．top B．end C．surface D．bottom
11.A．searched B．dug C．discovered D．expected
12.A．sand B．ground C．soil D．floor
13.A．over B．among C．across D．round
14.A．Since B．And C．But D．Before
15.A．surprised B．disappointed C．worried D．sad
16.A．distance B．part C．season D．degree
17.A．already B．even C． still D．ever
18.A．sold B．made C．shipped D．saved
19.A．come on B．come about C．come from D．come up
20.A．thought B．mean C．planned D．guessed
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年河北石家庄一中高二下学期一次月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：短文改错
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。每处错误仅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：把多余的词用斜线(﹨)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，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。
I got up early this morning, so I went to school without breakfast. I walked in so a hurry that I stepped on a banana peel dropped by an old man walk in front of me. As the result, I slipped and fell in my back. I am so angry that I wanted to blame the old man, so I controlled myself at last. I picked out the banana peel, putting it into the dustbin and ran to school. The class had begun, but I was very happy because I did that what I should do to protect our environment.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年四川双流中学高一上学期期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Along the river banks of the Amazon and the Orinoco, there lives a bird that swims before it can fly, flies like a fat chicken, eats green leaves, has the stomach of a cow and has claws (爪) on its wings when young. They build their homes about 4.6m above the river, an important feature (特征) for the safety of the young. It is called the hoatzin.
In appearance, the birds of both sexes look very much alike with brown on the back and cream and red on the underside. The head is small, with a large set of feathers on the top, bright red eyes, and blue skin. Its nearest relatives are the common birds, cuckoos. Its most striking feature, though, is only found in the young.
Baby hoatzins have a claw on the leading edge of each wing and another at the end of each wing tip. Using these four claws, together with the beak (喙), they can climb about in the bushes, looking very much like primitive birds must have done. When the young hoatzins have learned to fly, they lose their claws.
During the drier months between December and March hoatzins fly about the forest in groups of 20 to 30 birds, but in April, when the rainy season begins, they collect together in smaller living units of two to seven birds for producing purposes.
1.What is the text mainly about?
A. Hoatzins in dry and rainy seasons.
B. The relatives and enemies of hoatzins.
C. Primitive birds and hoatzins of the Amazon.
D. The appearance and living habits of hoatzins.
2.Young hoatzins are different from their parents in that_________ ．
A. they look like young cuckoos
B. they have claws on the wings
C. they eat a lot like a cow
D. they live on river banks
3.What can we infer(推断) about primitive birds from the text?
A. They had claws to help them climb.
B. They could fly long distances.
C. They had four wings like hoatzins.
D. They had a head with long feathers on the top.
4.Why do hoatzins collect together in smaller groups when the rainy season comes?
A. To find more food.
B. To protect themselves better.
C. To keep themselves warm.
D. To produce their young.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年天津新华中学高二下学期第三次月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
_________ it comes to traffic rules, I often come across such cases __________ the local drivers obviously know them but won’t follow them.
A. If; why B. When; which
C. Once; as D. When; where
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