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Guided Walking Week April 2016
Dates: April 30th-May 7th 2016
Location: Abdet, Costa Blanca
A week of guided walking in the mountains around Abdet．Highlights include the climbing of Valencia’s highest summit (Sierra de Aitana), traveling completely around the impressive Puig Campana, and several explorations in the Sierra de Aitana．Ancient trails lead through spectacular canyons(峡谷) to abandoned settlements situated high in the mountains．You will discover the snow trader routes which lead from the incredible snow holes high in the mountains down to the villages and towns on the coast．These years, golden eagles have made a return to this area, and you may also see other animals—wild goats, foxes, wild pigs and red squirrels．
As part of the week you are invited to help clear some local walking paths．This involves clearing collapsed walls and rocks, cutting back fallen trees．This is of course optional and is just for half a day, it’s actually great fun!
Price:$499
Includes:
Accommodation in the beautiful mountain village of Abdet
All food-good home cooking
Beer, wine, soft drinks
Snacks and post walk treats
Packed lunches & drinks(except café/bar visits)
Expert guiding
Photos/Videos of your days in the mountains
Airport pick-up/return $25 each way(fly to Alicante)
Single room supplement $75
To book or get further information, please contact info@abdet．com．
1.What will you find during the guided walking?
A．Climbing Sierra de Aitana is the most exciting
B．Ancient trails have changed into highways．
C．The environment in Abdet is getting better．
D．Traders live in incredible snow holes．
2.What may you enjoy if you pay $499?
A．Packed lunches including bar visits．
B．Good home cooking breakfast only．
C．Bus stop pick-up/return each way．
D．Pictures and professional guiding
3.What do the details presented in the ad suggest?
A．Clearing walking paths is a must
B．People can book the walking online．
C．Accommodation conditions are tough．
D．The walking ends on April 30th 2016
科目：高中英语 来源：2016届江苏省高三下学期周练英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
In fighting with enemies, the economy dropped greatly, ______, many lives were claimed.
A. on top of that B. in contrast
C. for another thing D. above all
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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二3月入学考试英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
In its early history, Chicago had floods frequently, especially in the spring, making the streets so muddy that people, horses, and carts got stuck. An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: A man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street. Asked if he needs help, he replies,“No, thanks. I’ve got a good horse under me.”
The city planners decided to build an underground drainage(排水) system, but there simply wasn’t enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water level. The only two options were to lower the Chicago River or raise the city.
An engineer named Ellis Chesbrough convinced the city that it had no choice but to build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt. This raised the level of the city’s streets by as much as 12 feet.
This of course created a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in Chicago. Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire bulidings to meet the new street level. Small wood-frame buildings could be lifted fairly easily. But what about large, heavy structures like the Tremont Hotel, which was a six-story brick building?
That’s where George Pullman came in. He had developed some house-moving skills successfully. To lift a big structure like Tremont Hotel, Pullman would place thousands of jackscrews(螺旋千斤顶) beneath the building’s foundation. One man was assigned to operate each section of roughly 10 jackscrews. At Pullman’s signal each man turned his jackscrew the same amount at the same time, thereby raising the building slowly and evenly. Astonishingly, the Tremont Hotel stayed open during the entire operation, and many of its guests didn’t even notice anything was happening.
Some people like to say that every problem has a solution. But in Chicago’s early history, every engineering solution seemed to create a new problem. Now that Chicago’s waste water was draining efficiently into the Chicago River, the city’s next step was to clean the polluted river.
1.The author mentions the joke to show_________.
A. horses were fairly useful in Chicago
B. Chicago’ streets were extremely muddy
C. Chicago was very dangerous in the spring
D. the Chicago people were particularly humorous
2.The city planners were convinced by Elllis Chesbrough to__________.
A. get rid of the street dirt
B. lower the Chicago River
C. fight against heavy floods
D. build the pipes above ground
3.The underlined word”hoist”in Paragraph 4 means ___________
A. change B. lift C. repair D. decorate
4.What can we conclude about the moving operation of the Tremont Hotel?
A. It went on smoothly as intended.
B. It interrupted the business of the hotel.
C. It involved Pullman turning ten jackscrews.
D. It separated the bulding from its foundation.
5.The passage is mainly about early Chicago’s _________
A. popular life styles and their influences
B. environmental disasters and their causes
C. engineering problems and their solutions
D. successful businessmen and their achievements
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届宁夏长庆高级中学高三下学期第一次模拟考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
D Throughout the history of the arts, the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists．No matter what objects they select, artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change---to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before．
Landscape (风景) is another unchanging element of art．It can be found from ancient times through the17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists．In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice．Leslie sought out the same place where ThomasCole, a romanticist, had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before．Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Leslie paints what he actually sees．In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotion, and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background．He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom．
Besides, all art begs the age-old question: What is real? Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another．The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests．To sum up, understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods．
Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant．Past or present, Eastern or Western, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience．Many and different are the faces ofart, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings．
1.The underlined word “poetry” most probably means ________ ．
A．an object for artistic creation
B．an unusual quality
C．a collection of poems
D．a natural scene
2.Leslie’s paintings are extraordinary because ___________．
A．they draw attention to common things in life
B．they look like works by 19th-century painters
C．they are close in style to works in ancient times
D．they depend heavily on color photography
3.What is the author’s opinion of artistic reality?
A．It does not have a long-lasting standard
B．It will not be found in future works of art．
C．It is expressed in a fixed artistic form．
D．It is lacking in modern works of art．
4.Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?
A．History of the arts．
B．Use of modern technology in the arts．
C．Basic questions of the arts．
D．New developments in the arts．
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届宁夏银川一中高三第一次模拟考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
完形填空（共1小题）
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，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I was eighteen, I couldn’t wait to get my first job, which meant I made the first step toward adulthood．
But it was difficult to get a work permit．One ork permits．Although I had night blindness, my vision was clearer during the day, which helped me walk by myself．Then the doctor began the ．He looked into my eyes with a bright light．“I suggest your parents take you to an eye specialist,” he said, “I you have a retinal(视网膜) disease．If you do, you’ll never a day in your life…”
My parents did take me to specialists．After much time and money spent seeking an result, it was determined that I had an eye disease that slowly a person of sight．But still, during daylight, I could walk without ．I could read, but not for hours．My eyes began to and words slipped off the page when I read more than a few pages．However, no matter how tired my eyes became, I never gave up reading．I knew the of great writers as well as the most popular music stars．Their words were powerful, which me to try writing．Soon writing brought me a lot of each time I completed a paper．
Then an important phone call from an editor changed my life．An article I appeared in a local newspaper．The newspaper, to my , continued to print my work．Next, a book series published several of my essays．I got interested in writing and up with each acceptance．On the pages, readers never knew of my blindness I chose to present it．For me, finding my voice through writing gave me the pride and satisfaction I so many years ago．Now, I have numerous essays and articles in ．
Should I be thanking that misguided doctor? By falsely predicting that I could never work a day, he fueled my into success．He set the bar too and focused on what I wouldn’t be able to do．Yet I proved what I could do．
1.A．station B．company C．clinic D．lab
2.A．silently B．proudly C．suddenly D．easily
3.A．operation B．treatment C．examination D．argument
4.A．suspect B．acknowledge C．confirm D．advocate
5.A．rest B．work C．live D．sleep
6.A．urgent B．obvious C．accurate D．ordinary
7.A．reminds B．robs C．warns D．informs
8.A．assistance B．medicine C．allowance D．balance
9.A．dance B．shine C．widen D．tear
10.A．houses B．habits C．names D．addresses
11.A．asked B．permitted C．forced D．encouraged
12.A．pleasure B．worry C．trouble D．stress
13.A．admitted B．penned C．wanted D．described
14.A．shame B．admiration C．delight D．disappointment
15.A．gave B．lit C．came D．put
16.A．although B．after C．since D．unless
17.A．feared B．sought C．brought D．rejected
18.A．mind B．use C．time D．print
19.A．imagination B．personality C．motivation D．responsibility
20.A．low B．far C．long D．close
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信息匹配（共1小题）
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。
May the first is an important date in the college admission process in the United States．This is the last day for high school seniors to accept or reject offers of admission in the fall．But according to a recent report, there is a great change．Acceptance rates at the top colleges this year were lower than ever．1.
These days, college applicants are applying to more colleges because online and common applications make the process easier．2. On the other hand, deciding students for top colleges to accept can be difficult because it takes much time．Students may not like being put on waiting lists．Also, common colleges work more to get the students they accept to accept them．Some colleges hold visiting days that offer a chance to attend classes and stay overnight．Some universities send gifts． 3.
For many families, the most important thing colleges can do is show them the money, especially this year; the weak economy makes parents nervous． 4. The recent problems that spread from the housing market to credit markets have even affected student’s loans．So lately, top schools have to spare lots of money to increase their financial aid for students．
5. The Education Department expects the number of high school graduates to start to go down．This will happen as the last of the children of the baby boom generation finish high school．The number is not expected to start rising again until 2016．
A．Besides, top colleges are facing changes in the population．
B．What contributes to it?
C．But a mistake can be costly if it happens．
D．But top colleges ignore them．
E．They have international students who know English．
F．It can mean several acceptances to choose from．
G．They cannot afford college as planned．
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届湖北省黄冈市高考英语阅读理解专项精练（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
阅读理解。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton. University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.
His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary: “My own happiness in the past often approached such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”
This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quick brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.
However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The Love of the Last Tycoon in 1940. While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.
1.How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage?
A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8
2.Which of the following is the correct order to describe Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?
a. He became addicted to drinking.
b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.
c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.
d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.
e. He failed to reorder his life.
f. He joined the army and met Zelda.
A. f-c-e-a-b-d B. b-e-a-f-c-d
C. f-d-e-c-b-a D. b-f-c-d-e-a
3.We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald .
A. had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama.
B. was well educated and well off before he served in the army
C. would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down
D. helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital
4.The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about .
A. Zelda’s personal life
B. Zelda’s illness and treatment
C. Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham
D. Fitzgerald’s contributions to the literary world
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届湖北省黄冈市高考英语阅读理解专项精练（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
阅读理解-。阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Many people believe Henry Ford invented the automobile (汽车)．But Henry Ford did not start to build his first car until 1896.That was eleven years after two Germans developed the world's first automobile.Many people believe Henry Ford invented the production line that moved a car's parts to the worker，instead of making the worker move to the parts.That is not true，either.Many factory owners used methods of this kind before Ford.What Henry Ford did was to use other people's ideas and make them better.And he made the whole factory a moving production line.
In the early days of the automobile，almost every car maker raced his cars.It was the best way of gaining public notice.Henry Ford decided to build a racing car.Ford's most famous race was his first one.It was also the last race in which he drove the car himself.
The race was in 1901，at a field near Detroit.All of the most famous cars had entered, but only two were left：the Winton and Ford's.The Winton was famous for its speed.Most people thought the race was over before it began.
The Winton took an early lead.But halfway through the race, it began to lose power.Ford started to gain.And near the end of the race, he took the lead.Ford won the race and defeated the Winton.His name appeared in newspapers and he became well?known all over the United States.Within weeks of the race, Henry Ford formed a new automobile company.In 1903, a doctor in Detroit bought the first car from the company.That_sale was the beginning of Henry Ford's dream.Ford said: “I will build a motor car for the great mass of people.It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for one person to operate and care for.It will be built of the best materials.It will be built by the best men to be employed.And it will be built with the simplest plans that modern engineering can produce.It will be so low in price that no man making good money will be unable to own one.”
The Model T was a car of that kind.It only cost $850.It was a simple machine that drivers could depend on.Doctors bought the Model T．So did farmers.Even criminals. They considered it the fastest and surest form of transportation.Americans loved the Model T．They wrote stories and songs about it.Thousands of Model T's were built in the first few years.
1.What do we know about Henry Ford from Paragraph 1?
A．He made good use of ideas from others.
B．He produced the first car in the world.
C．He knew how to improve auto parts.
D．He invented the production line.
2.Why did Henry Ford take part in the 1901 car race?
A．To show off his driving skills. B．To draw public attention.
C．To learn about new technology. D．To raise money for his new company.
3.“That sale” in Paragraph 4 refers to______.
A．the selling of Ford cars at reduced prices
B．the sale of Model T to the mass of people
C．the selling of a car to a Detroit doctor
D．the sales target for the Ford Company
4.What was Henry Ford's dream according to the text?
A．Producing cars for average customers.
B．Building racing cars of simple design.
C．Designing more car models.
D．Starting more companies.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年江西南昌十所省命制高三第二次模拟2英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Charles Dickens is often thought of as one of the greatest British writers. February 7 marked the 200th anniversary of his birthday. Yet for many, his language is old-fashioned and his stories often improbable. So why do so many people know and read Dickens today?
One reason is the British government’s insistence that every child studies a Dickens novel at school. Alongside William Shakespeare, Dickens is on every English literature school reading list.
His stories, though often long by today’s standards, are great moral tales. They are filled with colorful characters.
Earlier this month, a ceremony was held in Portsmouth, where Dickens was born. Prince Charles said at the ceremony, “Dickens used his creative genius to campaign passionately for social justice… His characterization (人物刻画) is as fresh today as on the day it was written.”
His books stand out from many other writers because of his insight into human nature. Dickens, like Shakespeare, tells us truths about human behavior. They are as true in the 21st century as they were to his readers in the 19th century.
Readers have returned to Dickens’ books again and again over the years to see what he has to say about their own times.
No surprise then that it was Dickens whom Britons turned to during the economic crisis in the last couple of years. Dickens helped them make sense of a world that was rapidly falling apart. The BBC adapted one of his less well-known novels, Little Dorrit, into a popular television drama that introduced many Brits to the novel for the first time. A dark story about greed and money, it was the perfect illustration of bad times.
As long as Dickens’s novels have something to say to modern audiences, it seems likely that he will remain one of Britain’s best-loved writers.
1. In the article, the author intends to tell us ______.
A. why Dickens’ novels still appeal to readers in modern times
B. that Dickens’ works are no longer popular among young people
C. why the British government puts Dickens on school reading lists
D. that Dickens and Shakespeare’s works are required for study at school
2.In Britain, people still read Dickens because of ______.
a) romance in his books
b) moral value in his books
c) his colorful characters
d) his insight into human nature
e) government education requirement
f) his prediction of the current economic crisis
A. abdf B. bcde C. bdef D. abed
3.We can infer from the article that ______.
A. it’s better to read Dickens in time of difficulty
B. Dickens was a great social observer of his time
C. human nature seems worse during bad times
D. Dickens’s novels are short and easy to read
4.Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Little Dorrit is one of Dickens’ best-known novels.
B. Dickens’ novels are of greater value during economic crisis.
C. Dickens’ works have gained more popularity than Shakespeare’s
D. Dickens’ novels are still of realistic significance to today’s world.
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