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科目：高中英语 来源：活题巧解巧练·高二英语·下 题型：050
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Each Indian tribe bad a different language. Many Indians never learned any language except thier own. Do you know haw Indians from different tribes talked to each other? They had two ways to talk without sound. One way was by sign language, another by signals.
Sign language is a way of talking by using signs. Indians used sign language when they met strangers. In this way, they could find out whether the stranger was a friend or an enemy. In Indian sign language, signs were made with the hands. One sign meant“man”. Another meant “horse” . To tell the time of the day when something happened, an Indian pointed to the sky. He showed where the sun had been at the time.
Indians usually used signals when they wanted to send message to someone far away. To make signals, an Indian might use a horse. He might use a blanket, or he might use smoke, a mirror or fine arrows.
To signal that he had seen many animals, an Indian rode his horse in a large circle. Sometimes the Indians gave a signal like this and then went away to hide. This meant that there was danger.
The blanket signal was visible from far away. An Indian held the corners of a blanket in his hands. Then he began to wave the blanket from side to side in front of him. An Indian could send many different signals with his blanket.
He could also send many signals with a mirror. He usually used the mirror to warn someone of danger. Or he tried to get the attention of a person far away. But he also used it to send messages in code. Of course, mirrors could be used only when the sun was shining. At night, Indians used fire arrows for signaling.
An Indian also sent signals with smoke. He made a small fire of dry wood. Then he put grass or green branches on it. He held a blanket over the fire for a minute. When he removed the blanket from the fire. there was a cloud of smoke. The number of clouds of smoke told his message in code.
Now you can see that Indians didn't need to learn each other's language. They could talk to one another by using signals or sign language.
1．The story tells about ________.
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A．tribes living in India
B．the Indians who had many kinds of languages
C．the Indians who didn't use their languages
D．how Indians communicated between different tribes
2．Which of the following is true according to the text?
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A．When Indians wanted to say “sun”, he pointed to the sky.
B．When an Indian meant there was danger, he drew a circle on the
C．Indians sent signals signals with dry wood fires at night.
D．Indians use sign language to find out whether a stranger was a friend or an enemy .
3．Many Indians never learned any language except their own because ________.
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A．they thought it was no use learning a second language
B．they could communicate with each other by writing message
C．they thought they could easily make themselves understood without learning a new language
D．they would use signals or sign language
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科目：高中英语 来源：2004全国各省市高考模拟试题汇编(天利38套)·英语 题型：050
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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。
As prices and building costs keep rising. The “do-it-yourself (DIY)” trend (趋势) in the U.S. continues to grow.
“We needed furniture for our living room.” Says John Ross. “and we just didn't have enough money to buy it. So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs.” John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high. The Rosses took a 2 - week course for $ 280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repair; around the house.
Jim Hatfied has three boys and his wife has died. He has a full-time job at home as well as in a shoe making factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $ 420.“I was deeply upset about it. Now I've finished a car repair course. I should be able to fix the car by myself.”
John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything they can to save money so they can fight the cost of living. If you want to become a “do - it - yourselfer”, you can go to DIY classes. And for those who don't have time to take a course, there are books that tell you haw you can do things yourself.
1．We can learn from the text that many newly married people ________.
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A．find it hard to pay for what they need
B．have to learn to make their own furniture
C．save time and money
D．seldom go to a department store to buy things
2．John and his wife went to evening classes to learn how to ________.
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A．run a DIY shop
B．make or repair things
C．save time and money
D．improve the quality of life
3．When the writer says that Jim has a full-time job at home, he means Jim ________.
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A．makes shoes in his home
B．does extra work at night
C．does his own car and home repairs
D．keeps house and looks after his children
4．Jim Hatfield decided to become a do - it - yourselfer when ________.
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A．his car repairs cost too much
B．the car repair class was helpful
C．he could not possibly do two jobs
D．he had to raise the children all by himself
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：053
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Australia, the last continent, was discovered by ships belonging to some European nations in the seventeenth century. These nations were less interested in changing it into a colony(殖民地)that in exploring it. As in the early history of the United States, it was the English who set up the settlements in Australia. This history and the geography of these two British colonies have some other things in common as well.
Australia and the United States are about the same in size, and their western lands are both not rich in soil. It was the eastern coast of Australia and America that the English first settled, and both colonies soon began to develop towards the west. However, his westward movements took place more because the English were searching for better land than the population was increasing. Settlements of the western part of both countries developed quickly after gold was discovered in America in 1849 and in Australia two years later.
Although the development of these two countries has a lot in common, there are some striking differences as well. The United States gained its independence from English by revolution while Australia won its independence without having to go to war. Australia, unlike the United States, was firstly turned into a colony by English prisoners and its economic development was in wheat growing and sheep raising. By 1922 ,for example, Australia had fifteen times more sheep than it had people, or almost half as many sheep as there are people today in the United States. Yet, in spite of these and other main differences, Australia and the United States haw
more in common with each other than either one has with most of the rest of the world.
(1)Who turned Australia into a colony? ________.
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A．Britain
B．Several European countries
C．The United Stales of America
D．None of the above
(2)In the early history of American and Australia, both colonies developed towards the west firstly for the reason that ________.
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A．the population was increasing rapidly in the east
B．the English thought there might be richer land there
C．gold was discovered there
D．fewer people lived there
(3)In the early 1920s,________.
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A．Australia had one fifteenth as many people as sheep
B．there were more sheep in Australia than in the United States
C the population in Australia was greater than that of the United Slates
D．the United States had twice as many sheep as people
(4)Australia, unlike the United States, ________.
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A．won its independence by peaceful meant
B．was the last and biggest continent to be discovered
C．its economic development was in wheat growing and sheep raising
D．was not rich in gold in its western part
(5)The last sentence in the last paragraph“... Australia and the United Stales have more in common with each other than either one has with most of the rest of the world.”means ________.
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A．The United States and Australia do not have any main differences
B．The United States and Australia have much more in common than they have with other countries
C．The United States and Australia have nothing in common With the rest of the world
D．In common with the rest of the world, the United States and Australia have a lot of differences
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科目：高中英语 来源：湖北省孝感高中2010届高三上学期第三次综合测试英语试题 题型：050
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科目：高中英语 来源：广东省六校联合体2012届高三11月联合考试英语试题 题型：050
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