Over the years, many cities and states have tried to put a tax(税) on sugary drinks. Last week, Berkeley, California succeeded. The city in northern California will charge a penny-per-ounce tax on most sugary drinks. The tax is expected to raise more than ＄1 million every year to fight against obesity(肥胖).
Makers of sugary drinks are against the tax. They say picking out one product will not solve the obesity problem in America. They also argue that a tax is an attack on personal freedom. “Families should be able to make the choice for their kids without the government stepping in,” said Chris Gindlesperger, a spokesperson for the American Beverage Association(美国饮料协会).
Gindlesperger says that the fight against obesity is more successful when the government partners with industry. He shows how the beverage industry worked with President Bill Clinton’s administration is the 1990s. They introduced water, milk, and fruit juice into a large number of schools, which took the place of sugary drinks. More recently, the beverage industry listened to First Lady Michelle Obama’s suggestion that labels(标签)on sugary drinks be clearer. Containers of up to 20 ounces will show the total calories on the front.
Some people say a tax is a surefire way to help reduce obesity in the U.S. “There is clear evidence that taxes result in less consumption(消费) of sugary drinks,” says Dr. Rachel Johnson, a spokesperson for the American Heart Association. She points to Mexico as an example. The country put up a tax on sugary drinks in January, and sales have already dropped by 10%. What’s more, sales of healthier drinks have increased. Bottled water sales are up by 13%. Milk sales are up by 7%.
Another purpose of the tax is to raise money to fight childhood obesity. Money will be used to build playgrounds, create educational materials, and increase the sales of the healthier foods. “We’ve already helped reduce obesity to some degree,” says Dr. Johnson. “I’m confident that we’re going to see even bigger progress soon.”
1.In the 1990s, sugary drinks in many schools _________.
A．were charged a penny-per-ounce tax
B．were not as popular as they are today
C．were replaced by water, milk, and fruit juice
D．were not more than 20 ounces per bottle
2.The underlined word “surefire” in Paragraph 4 can best be replaced by “_________”.
A．good B．stupid C．strange D．new
3.Why does Johnson talk about Mexico?
A．It is her favorite country.
B．She likes Mexican sugary drinks.
C．She tries to show a tax can help a lot.
D．It produces all kinds of sugary drinks.
4.What is the purpose of this text?
A．To ask kids to drink fewer sugary drinks.
B．To show how to fight childhood obesity.
C．To talk about different taxes in Berkeley.
D．To discuss if sugary drinks should be taxed.
阅读快车系列答案科目：高中英语 来源：2016届河南八市高三12月联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
I have been in Limoges for a month now. since living here, I have tried to integrate(融合) into the local community and one way I have found to do this is by following the local rugby team.
I decided to look for information on the local rugby team after the tourism office could not help me. I searched for the club office online and decided to look into it. The following day I went back to the club after speaking with them and decided to get a season ticket for the rest of my stay here. I will now be going to each home game as well as travelling to the away games with the team and the fans. I am sure that it is going to be a great experience during my time abroad here. I will also be travelling through various regions of France so I will be visiting new places throughout the season. There is another team in a town called Brive not so far away who play in the top league in France, but I decided to stay local. I may go and see them with other assistants if possible during our stay.
I witnessed a friendly match on Saturday when they played Stade Dijon in the division below them. The match finished 70-12. After the match, both teams went to the club house to see the Rugby World Cup semi-final between New Zealand and Australia. Both teams respected each others which is something you don’t always see in other sports. I spoke to the president of the club after the game and he told me, “This is a family club.” Hopefully this year will be a good year for Limoges.
1.How did the writer try to combine into Limoges' community?
A. By taking part in the local rugby team.
B. By watching the rugby matches in Limoges,
C. By playing often with the people in Limoges.
D. By paying close attention to the local rugby team.
2.The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to_____________,
A. the club office B. the local rugby team
C. the tourism office D. the local community
3.Why did the two teams go to the club house aft6r the match?
A. To show respect to each other.
B. To watch the Rugby World Cup semi-final.
C. To clean the club together.
D. To exchange experience with each other.
4.What can we infer from the text?
A. The writer must be a top rugby player.
B. The writer is likely to be a boss of a rugby club.
C The writer is likely to come from Australia.
D. The writer probably works as an assistant in France.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届江苏省高三12月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
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请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后个题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The professor’s house，big and untidy，stood alone at one end of a huge garden.The place was totally uncared for, quite and overgrown with all sorts of useless things. I my way through bushes and tall weeds to the front door and rang the bell.
I was glad that I had found him. In twenty minutes he me right on all the that had puzzled me. I was on the of leaving when I looked out of his study window and said, “You’re very fond of gardening, I see.”
“No, I’m not,” he said. “ , I love this garden, though. It’s I always wanted it to be. I never touch it at all.”
“It could be made lovely. It a pity to let all this ground go to waste. But perhaps you don’t that way?” said I.
“I don’t. I lived here when I was a child, and I had of gardening then. It was my father’s hobby，you see. Unfortunately, he wasn’t enough to do it himself. My brother and I did all of it between us year after year. There was one right way and many wrong ways. Each blade (叶片) of grass was an enemy to be by hand, not just cut off. I’ve spent a good part of life at work here.”
“I see. You took a dislike to it, and now you’re getting even!”
“I dislike it. Then, of course, I didn’t understand the it had. It used to me. It appeared in my dreams—a mistake here, something not quite straight here, the enemy showing its head in a place I was to have cleaned. The work was too much. It seemed endless. The size of the place was itself a fight to a boy.”
“And now it’s yours，you’re just letting it go to...”
“ ?” he said. “No，I don’t agree with that. This garden and I are now the best friends. I like it grow its own way. I make no demands on it. I never disturb it, and it never disturbs me. It has at last, and so have I.”
“But the path is over grown. It’s inconvenient for you，isn’t it?”
“That’s part of my ,” he laughed. “You can go out the back way. The weeds are shorter there because they don’t get the sun.”
1.A. wild B. crazy C. large D. nice
2.A. lost B. felt C. took D. made
3.A. let B. put C. taught D. explained
4.A. gardening B. plants C. problems D. solution
5.A. time B. point C. permission D. request
6.A. Even if B. So C. As though D. Even so
7.A. as B. where C. why D. whether
8.A. seems B. is C. proves D. sounds
9.A. recognize B. sense C. see D. know
10.A. fond B. short C. free D. enough
11.A. interested B. fit C. content D. demanding
12.A. fought against B. cleared up C. rooted out D. cut down
13.A. effect B. reason C. cause D. result
14.A. astonish B. shock C. worry D. disappoint
15.A. thought B. supposed C. ordered D. expected
16.A. Sell B. Develop C. Ruin D.Grow
17.A. noticing B. attending C. watering D. watching
18.A. on B. in C. with D. of
19.A. freedom B. time C. sunlight D. space
20.A. life B. pleasure C. job D. research
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An environmental group called the Food Commission is unhappy and disappointed because of the sales of bottled water from Japan. The water, it angrily argues in public, has traveled 10,000 “food miles” before it reached Western customers. Transporting water halfway across the world is surely the extremely stupid use of fuel when there is plenty of water in the UK. It is also worrying that we were wasting our fuel by buying prawns from Indonesia (7,000 food miles ) and carrots from South Africa (5,900 food miles).
Counting the number of miles traveled done by a product is a strange way of trying to tell the true situation of the environmental damage due to industry. Most food is transported around the world on container ships that are extremely energy efficient. It should be noticed that a ton of butter transported 25 miles in a truck to a farmers’ market doesn’t necessarily use less fuel on its journey than a similar product transported hundreds of miles by sea. Besides, the idea of “food miles” ignores the amount of fuel used in the production. It is possible to cut down your food miles by buying tomatoes grown in Britain rather than those grown in Ghana. The difference is that the British ones will have been raised in heated greenhouse and the Ghanaian ones in the open sun.
What is the idea of “food miles” does provide, however, is the chance to cut out Third World countries from First World food markets. The number of miles traveled by our food should, as I see it, be regarded as a sign of the success of the global trade system, not a sign of damage to the environment.
1.The Food Commission is angry because it thinks that ________.
A. UK wastes a lot of money importing food products
B. some imported goods causes environmental damage
C. growing certain vegetables causes environmental damage
D. people wasted energy buying food from other countries
2. The phrase “food miles” in the passage refers to the distance ________.
A. that a food product travels to a market
B. that a food product travels from one market to another
C. between UK and other food producing countries
D. between a Third World country and a First World food market
3.By comparing tomatoes raised in Britain and in Ghana, the author tries to explain that ________.
A. British tomatoes are healthier than Ghanaian ones
B. Ghanaian tomatoes taste better than tomatoes ones
C. cutting down food miles may not necessarily save fuel
D. protecting the environment may cost a lot of money
4. From the passage we know that the author is most probably ________.
A. a supporter of free global trade
B. a member of a Food Commission
C. a supporter of First World food markets
D. a member of an energy development group
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年山西大同第一中学高二上学期期中英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
A classical guitarist was excited to hear from New York City police that his valuable guitar had been found. It disappeared almost a year ago when he got out of a cab and forgot to take the guitar with him. Laurence Lennon, 44, said he was running late that day. He was talking to his manager on his cell phone when he dashed out of the taxi. He said that he gave the driver $ 60 and told him to keep the change. He walked through the front doors of the concert hall still talking on the phone to his manager.
Upon discovering his loss, Lennon used his cell phone to call the police. The policewoman asked him for the name of the cab company, the number of the cab, and the name of the driver. He said that she had to be kidding.
She told Lennon that he could file a missing items report at the police station or online. Lennon asked for the online address. She told him that finding the guitar might take a couple of years—finding guitars was not as important as finding murderers and marijuana smokers. Then she told him to have a nice day.
“This year has been depressing，” said Lennon. “I had to put off the recording of two new CDs. I've been using borrowed guitars. And I was losing hope of ever recovering my guitar.”
Lennon was reunited with his $ 100,000 musical instrument yesterday. The case and the guitar had been discovered in the corner of a coffee house only two blocks from where Lennon had lost it in the first place. Lennon had offered a $ 10,000 reward for its return. He said he would give the reward to the coffee house owner, who had informed the police.
1.It can be inferred from this reading passage that________.
A. Lennon couldn't give any useful information about the driver and his cab
B. Lennon gave the driver much more money than what was actually needed
C. Lennon was too busy talking to his friend to remember to pay the cab driver
D. Lennon used to work at the concert hall in New York City
2. The policewoman told Lennon________.
A. not to worry about the guitar
B. to have a nice day in New York City
C. to wait with patience
D. to find the cab driver and talk to him
3. Which of the following is the most important according to the policewoman?
A. Finding a lost guitar. B. Finding the cab driver.
C. Enjoying one's own life D. Finding murderers.
4.The underlined word“depressing”can be best explained by“________”．
A. making people unfortunate
B. making people feel sad
C. making people losing money
D. making people losing good luck
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年贵州遵义航天高级中学高一上期中英语试卷（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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The first day of school our professor asked us to know someone we didn't know. I turned ________ to find a little lady smiling at me .She said, "Hi handsome. I’m Rose, eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a ________ ?"
I laughed and responded, "Of course you ________!" and she gave me a big squeeze.(挤压)
"Why are you in college at such an innocent(无辜的) ________ ?" I asked.
She ________ replied, " To meet a ________ husband, get married, and have a couple of kids..."
"No seriously," I asked.
"I always ________having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me.
After class we talked a lot and became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would ________ class together and then talk nonstop. Actually, she easily ________ friends wherever she went.
________the end of the semester we ________ Rose to speak at our football banquet(宴会).
I'll never forget what she ________ us. As she began to________ her speech, she ________ her cards on the floor. As we laughed she________ her throat(喉咙) and began, "We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old________we stop playing. There are four ________ to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find ________ every day. You have to have a dream. When you________ your dreams, you die”.
She ended her ________ by courageously singing "The Rose."(258words)
1.A. round B.on C. off D. away
2.A.gift B. hug C. kiss D. dream
3.A. must B. may C. will D. should
4.A. time B. year C. age D. period
5.A. interestingly B. seriously C. innocently D. jokingly
6.A. tall B. poor C. rich D. small
7.A. waited for B. heard of C. hunted for D. dreamed of
8.A. attend B. leave C. skip D. have
9.A. had B. made C. found D. became
10.A. At B. By C. In D. To
11.A. invited B. required C. demanded D. told
12.A. gave B. taught C. spoke D. asked
13.A. tell B. deliver C. say D. speak
14.A. put B. lay C. left D. dropped
15.A. cleaned B. washed C. cleared D. opened
16.A. as B. so C. because D. if
17.A. steps B. answers C. secrets D. solutions
18.A. stories B. happiness C. dreams D. humor
19.A. find B. realize C. achieve D. lose
20.A. speech B. story C. dream D. song
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年浙江杭州市五校联盟高三12月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Since around the later part of the 1950s, society started to realize that tobacco cigarettes caused health problems. As research progressed along with increasing numbers of people that developed lung cancer, emphysema, and other smoking related illnesses, cigarette smoking has become less accepted and popular. Unfortunately, the nicotine contained in cigarettes is one of the most addictive substances on the planet and makes quitting smoking one of the hardest things to do. In 2003, Chinese pharmacist, Hon Lik invented the electronic cigarette as a safer, and cleaner way to breathe in nicotine after his father, a heavy smoker, passed away from lung cancer attributed to smoking tobacco cigarettes.
Hon Lik applied for his first patent on the electronic cigarette in 2003 and afterwards introduced e-cigs to the Chinese market in the following year through his employer, Golden Dragon Holdings. Golden Dragon Holdings later changed the company’s name to “Ruyan” in order to better match the company’s name(Ruyan means “almost like smoke”)to the new product. Since the renaming, the Ruyan company has continued e-cigarette development and grown to be one of the largest global e-cig manufactures.
Dr.Sam Han, CEO of Cixi E-CIG Technology, Inc, Ltd. also has a number of e-cig related inventions, including four patents in the United States and two in China that are electronic cigarette and e-liquid technology related. Similar to Hon Lik’s father. Dr. Han was a heavy smoker for more than 40 years before beginning to work on electronic cigarette technologies in order to help himself and others make the shift to vapor smoking. Dr.Han continues to market and conduct R&D in e-cig related techonologies to this date.
After the successful deployment of Ruyan and Cixi E-CIG electronic cigarettes in China and Asia, the products started to be sold in significant quantities on the Internet.
1.How many years is it since the electronic cigarette was first invented according to the passage?
A. About 5 years. B. About 11 years.
C. About15 years. D.About 20 years.
2.What’s the direct reason why Hon Lik invented the electronic cigarette according to the passage ?
A. Tobacco cigarettes caused health problems.
B. Tobacco cigarettes were too expensive for customers to buy.
C. Quitting smoking became one of the hardest things to do.
D. His father died from lung cancer due to smoking tobacco cigarettes.
3.Since when have Chinese smokers have been able to buy Hon Lik’s electronic cigarettes according to the passage?
A.2000. B.2003. C.2004. D.2005.
4.What’s the correct order of the following events according to the passage?
① Hon Lik applied for his first patent on the electronic cigarette.
② Hon Lik’s father died from lung cancer because of smoking tobacco cigarettes.
③ Hon Lik’s electronic cigarettes were introduced to the Chinese market.
④ The name of the company Golden Dragon Holdings was changed to “Ruyan”.
A. ①③②④ B.①④②③
C.②④①③ D.②①③④
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年浙江杭州市五校联盟高三12月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
It may not be a great suggestion. But before ______ is put forward, we’ll make do with it.
A. a good one B. a better one
C. the best one D. a best one
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The boy has great ____ in sports. Trained properly, he’ll make a first-class athlete in time.
A. motivation B. influence
C. potential D. possibility
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