科目：高中英语 来源：2012届度山东省德州市高三上学期期中联考英语题 题型：阅读理解
When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship（奖学金）and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”, shown in late April.
Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted（吸毒）parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.
Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets.“What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,”she wrote in her book Breaking Night.
She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time.”
Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.
1.In which order did the following things happen to Liz?
a. Her mother died of AIDS. b. She worked at a petrol station.
c. She got admitted into Harvard. d. The movie about her life was put on.
e. She had trouble finding a place to sleep.
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A．b, a, e, c, d |
B．a, b, c, e, d |
C．e, d, b, a, c |
D．b, e, a, d, c |
2.The main idea of the passage is ________.
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A．how Liz managed to enter Harvard University |
B．what a hard time Liz had in her childhood |
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C．why Liz loved her parents so much |
D．how Liz struggled to change her life |
3.What actually made her go towards her goal?
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A．Envy and encouragement. |
B．Willpower and determination. |
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C．Decisions and understanding. |
D．Love and respect for her parents. |
4.When she wrote “What drove me to live on...I had only experienced a small part of the society”, she meant that ________.
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A．she had little experience of social life |
B．she could hardly understand the society |
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C．she would do something for her own life |
D．she needed to travel more around the world |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2010年福建省高二下学期期末考试英语卷 题型：单项填空
China’s economic development has made rapid progress in the past years and young people have made great contribution to this progress．
A．/ ; a B．the; / C．a; a D．/ ; /
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科目：高中英语 来源：2010年湖南省高一上学期第一次月考英语卷 题型：其他题
阅读下面短文，简要回答问题。
One of the greatest things about growing older is that you get to stay up late. It’s not just your parents who that decision. Your body lets you enjoy dark hours, too.
Resent study has shown that brain changes during teen years make it easier for kids to stay up late. “But it doesn’t mean that you should stay up late just because you can stay up late,” scientists say. Young people who don’t get enough sleep are often late for school, or they miss it completely. And their grades go down. “If you’re sleeping in school, you’re not learning,” says Mary Carskadon who is a sleep researcher.
Lack of sleep is a growing problem in the United States. Schools have been starting earlier in recent years. And with TV, computers, and video games attracting them, people of all ages are sleeping less than their parents or their grandparents did.
Sleep is important because it gives our bodies time to recover from the stress (压力) of living. Studies show that the adults (成人) who sleep less than 6 hours a night have mote heart problems and die sooner than the adults who sleep 7 to 8 hours a night.
How much sleep do you need? It depends mainly on your age. Babies often sleep for the most of the day. By the time they’re 10 years old, kids need an average of 10 hours a night. As they get older, kids have signs to sleep less. But given the chance in an experiment to sleep as long as they want to, young teenagers have 10 hours of sleep. There are even some indications that teenagers may need more sleep than younger kids.
1. Find in the passage a word closest in meaning to the underlined word “indications”.（在文章中找一个与indications意义相近的词） (2分)
_______________________________________.
2. What is the main cause of young teenagers’ staying up late? (回答字数不超过8个) (3分)
_________________________________________________________________.
3. Why is sleep so important? (回答字数不超过13个) (3分)
________________________________________________________________.
4. What can be the best way to ensure the sleeping time of the school children in the USA according to the passage? (回答字数不超过6个) (2分)
__________________________________________________________________.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2010年孝感高一下学期期末考试英语卷 题型：阅读理解
Women are on their way to holding more than half of all American jobs. The latest government report shows that their share of non-farm jobs nearly reached fifty percent in September, 2009.
The job market continues to suffer the effects of last year’s financial crash. On the one hand more women have entered the labor market over the years, and on the other hand the economic recession (衰退) has hit men harder than women. In October the unemployment rate for men was almost 11% compared to 8% for women.
Industries that traditionally use lots of men have suffered deep cuts. For example, manufacturing (制造业) and building lost more jobs last month. But health care and temporary employment services have had job growth. Both of those industries employ high percentages of women.
Thirty years ago, women earned sixty-two cents for every dollar that men earned. Now, for those who usually work full time, women earn about eighty percent of what men earn. And a recent study from the University of California, Davis, reveals that women hold fifty-one percent of well-paid management and professional jobs. Yet the study also shows that men still hold about nine out of every ten top positions at most companies. The results have remained largely unchanged for five years.
Also, a new research paper in the journal Sex Roles looks at the experiences of women who are the main earners in their families. Rebecca Meisenbach at the University of Missouri in Columbia interviewed fifteen women. She found that they all value their independence and many enjoy having the power of control, though not all want it. But they even feel more pressure and worry. That is partly because of cultural expectations that working women should still take care of the children. Also, men who are not the main earners may feel threatened.
1.Which of the following is a reason why women have a larger share of jobs?
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A．Women workers are paid less than men. |
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B．More women now have higher education than men. |
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C．The economic recession has affected men more than women. |
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D．Industries that traditionally use lots of men now need more women. |
2.There have been an increasing number of jobs for women in .
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A．manufacturing |
B．building |
C．health care |
D．farming |
3.In the late 1970s, if a man earned 500 dollars a month, a woman probably earned .
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A．＄260 |
B．＄310 |
C．＄400 |
D．＄500 |
4.If a woman is the main earner in her family, she probably .
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A．hopes to be less independent |
B．has the power of control |
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C．feels a bit threatened |
D．is less worried |
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科目：高中英语 来源：20102011湖南師大附中高一下学期期末考试英语试题 题型：填空题
A very old tree had been growing quite slowly for many years. It was nearly the 1 tree in the forest, and it raised its head high above the 2 trees towards the sky like a king of trees.
One spring day, the wind brought a little seed and dropped it 3 the roots of the tree. Soon it grew into a plant. “I’ll climb to the top of the tree,” said 4 little plant. “They’ll see how quickly I can grow.” So it held tightly to the tree, climbed and climbed 5 it climbed up to the top branch. It said to the tree, “You have grown for a great many years, and I only began this summer – see 6 high I have got!”
But the old tree just said nothing at all. Later, a great storm came, bringing snow and heavy winds. The old tree didn’t mind the cold at all, but the poor little plant had grown so fast 7 it had forgotten to grow well. 8 that cold night it fell onto the ground. And that was the end of the little plant.
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