“If you want to see something well, reach out and touch it!”
That may seem a strange thing to say．But touching things can help you to see them better．
Your eyes can tell you that a glass ball is round．But by holding it in your hands, you can feel how smooth and cool the ball is．You can feel how heavy the glass is．When you feel all these about the ball, you really see it．
With your skin, you can feel better．For example, your fingers can tell the difference between two coins in your pockets．You can feel a little drop of water on the back of your hand, too．
You can even feel sounds against your skin．Have you ever wanted to know why some people like very loud music? They must like to feel the sounds of music．
All children soon learn what “Don’t touch!” means．They hear it often．Yet most of us keep on touching things as we grow up．In shops, we often have to touch things before we buy them．
The bottoms of our feet can feel things, too．You know this when you walk on warm sand, cool grass or a hard floor．All feel different under your feet．
There are ways of learning to see well by feeling．One way is to close your eyes and try to feel everything that is touching your skin．Feel the shoes on your feet, the clothes on your body, the air on your skin……
Most museums are just for looking．But today some museums have some things to touch．Their signs say, “Do touch!” There you can feel everything on show．
1.By touching things,___________．
A．you will have a strange feeling
B．you will learn how to reach out
C．you can see things better
D．you can tell what colors they are
2.Which of the following best serves as the best title of the story?
A．Touching by Feeling
B．To See or to Feel
C．Seeing by Feeling
D．Seeing Is Believing
3.When people buy things in shops, they often _________．
A．try them on first
B．put their right hand on them
C．just have a look
D．feel and touch them
科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年四川省春高一下期6月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.
A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.
Men often discover their affinity(亲密) to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, ‘Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.
A good book is often the best urn(瓮)of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters.
Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift(筛) out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive but what is really good.
Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were, in a measure, actors with them in the scenes which they describe.
The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed(加以防腐处理) in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
1.What’s the meaning of the underlined word “immortality”?
A.difficult to find B.last for a long time
C.very important D.hard to destroy
2.How do we get close to the greatest minds through reading?
A.by talking to them about what we thought
B.by experiencing what they have gone through in life
C.by sharing their feeling and reading their minds
D.by acting with them on the stage
3.What is the best title of this text?
A.Companionship of books
B.Life without books
C.Unforgettable books
D.Sorting out books
4.This passage is mainly developed by __________.
A.analyzing causes
B.making comparisons
C.examining differences
D.following the order of importance
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年福建福州第八中学高二下期末英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Because I will be away for a few days after Spring Break, I am writing this during the actual holiday, when I can use time to catch up on a number of purely administrative (管理的) items.
First of all, you should have received the letter I sent out on April 2 advising of the transition (过渡) arrangements to new leadership at ISM (International School of Moscow). In that letter I pointed out that Dr. Paul Malone will be arriving in Moscow on Monday, May 4th, and that I will work with him during that week to ensure smooth transition. My last day at ISM will be Friday, May 8th.
Several people have asked me why I required Dr. Malone to come early. There are many problems facing ISM at the moment which have major implications (影响) for the future, and it makes sense for the new director to come aboard before the end of the school year. This will give him the chance to play a major role in the planning process for 2014—2015 and beyond. The fact that Paul Malone is able to arrive in early May is good for the school. I have been working closely with him, and will do everything possible to see that he can move in easily when I leave. From here I will go to Hong Kong for a couple of weeks to spend time in my new situation, and then I will return to the United States for a few weeks’ vacation.
In the most recent edition of the Compass(a kind of paper of ISM), I wrote briefly what I consider to be the major challenge for ISM in the future. I am sure that the new leadership of the school will be able to face those challenges in an active manner, which will ensure a strong future for the school. I shall certainly watch the progress of the school with interest. The results of the school for the past few years have been quite outstanding, and I fully expect that level of performance to continue.
1. We can infer from the text that the writer was the ________ of ISM.
A. director B. employee
C. teacher D. student
2. Why should Dr. Malone come to ISM early?
A. To work closely with the author.
B. To do everything possible for the school.
C. To move in easily when the author returns.
D. To work with the author for a few days and make a future plan.
3. From the text, we learn that ________.
A. Paul Malone is a capable man
B. the writer is a best friend of Paul Malone’s
C. Paul Malone will work with the writer for several years
D. the writer will do his best to help Paul Malone to work well at ISM
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年四川双流中学高二10月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
完形填空）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Love in a Box
When I was a little girl, I found love in a box all because of a class assignment (课堂作业). On a Friday night I ____________ at dinner table, “My teacher said we have to bring a box, a special box, for our valentines (情人节礼物) on Monday”．
Mother said, “We'll see，” and she continued eating.
What did “We'll see” mean? I had to have that box __________ my second grade Valentine's Day would be a disaster. Maybe they didn't love me enough to help me with my __________.
All Saturday I waited _________ and with Sunday arriving, my concern increased, but I ___________ an enquiry about the box might ___________ anger or loud voice, for in my house children only asked once. More than that_________ trouble.
Late Sunday afternoon, my father called me into the kitchen. The table was covered with colorful ________of different kinds. A(n) ___________ shoebox rested on top of it. _________ flooded through me when Daddy said, “Let's start to work _________ your project.”
In the next hour my father __________ the shoebox into impressive valentine box. Colorful paper covered the ugly cardboard with red hearts ___________ to what I considered all the right places. He sang while he worked. When he finished, he was so delighted that a________smile spread over his face. “What do you think of that？” he asked.
I answered him with a hug.
But inside, __________ danced all the way to my heart. It was the first time that my father devoted so much _________ to me, for his world consisted of work only.
The holiday party arrived, and my classmates put cards, and presents into the valentine boxes. Laughter filled our classroom until dismissal (放学) time ___________.
On the way home, I held out my valentine box for the world to __________. The love that filled it meant more to me than all the valentines inside.
The valentine box became a symbol of his love that __________ through decades of other Valentine's Days. He gave me other gifts through the years, but none ____________ compared with the love I felt within the limits of the old, empty shoebox.
1.A. sat B. appeared C. served D. announced
2.A. and B. or C. however D. so
3.A. project B. plan C. idea D. design
4.A. sadly B. disappointedly C. anxiously D. patiently
5.A. found B. knew C. realized D. imagined
6.A. start B. produce C. mark D. cause
7.A. saved B. took C. invited D. had
8.A. boxes B. gifts C. food D. paper
9.A. new B. empty C. attractive D. big.
10.A. Relief B. Excitement C. Cheer D. Calm
11.A. by B. off C. in D. on
12.A. folded B. changed C. packed. D. pressed
13.A. joined B. attached C. linked D. connected
14.A. broad B. brief C. slight D. confident
15.A. fun B. joy C. interest D. amusement
16.A. money B. hope C. support D. time
17.A. reached B. set C. spent D. came
18.A. accept B. respect C. admire D. recognize
19.A. carried B. lasted C. spread D. kept
20.A. yet B. even C. ever D. still
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年湖北沙中学高一下第一次半月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：语法填空
阅读下面的句子，根据首字母或中文提示在空白处填入合适的单词
1.The species of apes(猿) may have been the last common a__________ of humans and all great apes living today.
2.It’s bad manners for the children to play a t___________ on their teacher.
3.I don’t think all the human beings like to see the pretty girls and h____________ boys.
4.If you do something wrong you should a________ to others.
5.Without my p________ anyone is not allowed to enter the room.
6.The central government has made a series of _________ (农业) policies to encourage farmers to work the land.
7.Britain, France and Germany are all developed _________ （欧洲）countries.
8.It was very _________(明显) that he showed no interest in our plan.
9.Hopefully Jane will understand and _________ (原谅) you, if she really loves you.
10.When the girl was saved up the shore, she was almost _________（淹死）.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年甘肃天水市高一上学期期末英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
When I was a boy, I used to love walking in the woods around my home．My mom warned me several times never to travel so far that I would lose sight of the house．Being a typical boy, however, I soon found myself hiking further and further away, testing just how far I could go into the woods without getting lost．After losing my way once for two hours, though, I decided that I had better leave a trail the next time I went for a walk．
The very next day I decided to try it．I walked into the woods until the house was out of sight．Then I broke a small branch on a young tree to mark my place．I wandered further in and broke another limb and then another．In a few spots where there were no limbs small enough, I snapped the heads off the low plants that were growing where the sunlight broke through the trees．After a while I finally got tired and decided to head back．Turning around I easily found my tracks, but instead of being proud I felt sad．I could see the trail of destruction I had left in the woods going on and on．Looking at the broken limbs and dead flowers I wondered if God was disappointed in me and I vowed never to do that again．Instead, I started to cherish my times alone in the woods with nature．I’d sit by the streams and listen to them sing．I’d watch the birds and squirrels．I’d bend down to smell the flowers．And I even buried an acorn or two hoping that one day an Oak might grow．
There is an old Native American Saying that goes “We will be known forever by the tracks we leave．” As I have grown older and wiser, I have done my best to never leave a trail of destruction in my life as I did in the woods that day．I have instead tried to leave tracks of love, kindness, goodness, and compassion and I have strived to show others that they can do the same．May you always leave tracks of joy as you follow your own trail of love．
1.When the boy headed back from the woods, he felt sad because ______
A．he lost his way in the woods
B．he could find his tracks so easily
C．he left many trails of destruction
D．God was very disappointed in him
2.The boy took off some branches to ______．
A．protect himself
B．make his way out
C．see the sun clearly
D．leave some marks
3.The author wrote the passage to ______．
A．call on us to leave tracks of virtues in life
B．inform us that we shouldn’t destroy trees
C．tell us how to avoid getting lost in the woods
D．show us ways to get back home in the forest
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届江苏淮安市高三12月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
He asked me to give him a lift ________ I could make an explanation about the crowded space in my car．It was so hard to refuse him!
A． until B． while C． before D． when
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届广东汕头金山中学高三上学期期末英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.
“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components (元件),” said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.
They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it’s connected to,” said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.
While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. “Basically it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.
Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day to day basis.”
1.The difficulty the team of engineers met with while making the robotic fly was that __________.
A. they had no model in their mind
B. they did not have sufficient time
C. they had no ready-made components
D. they could not assemble the components
2.It can be inferred from paragraphs 3 and 4 that the robotic fly __________.
A. consists of a flight device and a control system
B. can just fly in limited areas at the present time
C. can collect information from many sources
D. has been put into wide application
3.Which of the following can be learned from the passage?
A. The robotic flyer is designed to learn about insects.
B. Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.
C. There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.
D. Wood’s design can replace animals in some experiments.
4.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A. Father of Robotic Fly
B. Inspiration from Engineering Science
C. Robotic Fly Imitates Real Life Insect
D. Harvard Breaks Through in Insect Study
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年广东肇庆高二上学期期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：书面表达
书面表达
假设你打算去英国旅游，想在网上寻找一个旅伴。请根据以下要点写一篇英语启事，介绍你的行程计划和对旅伴的要求。
1.自我介绍（性别、年龄等）；
2.行程安排（目的地、景点等）；
3.对旅伴的要求（年龄、性别、外语程度、旅游经验等）。
注意：
1．词数100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。
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