科目：初中英语 来源：2012届北京市石景山区中考一模英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Even though global warming may have made the weather more mild, many animals are still hibernating（冬眠）. It’s too bad that humans can’t hibernate. In fact we almost did.
Apparently, at times in the past, farmers in France liked a semi-state of human hibernation. So writes Graham Robb, a British scholar who has studied the sleeping habits of the French farmers. As soon as the weather turned cold, people all over the France shut themselves away and practiced the forgotten art of doing nothing at all for months.
In line with this, Jeff Warren, a producer at CBC Radio’s The Current, tells us that the way we sleep has changed since the invention of lighting.
When historians began studying texts of the Middle Ages, they noticed something referred to as “first sleep”, which was not clarified, though. Now scientists are telling us our ancestors most likely slept in separate periods. The business of eight hours’ continuous sleep is a modern invention.
In the past, without the artificial light, humans went to sleep when it became dark and then woke themselves up around midnight. The late night period was known as “The Watch”. It was when people actually kept watch against wild animals, although many of them simply moved around or visited family and neighbors.
According to some sleep researchers, a short of insomnia（失眠）at midnight is not a disorder. It is normal. Humans can experience another state of consciousness（清醒状态）around their sleeping, which happens in the brief period before we fall asleep or wake ourselves in the morning. This period can be a creative time for some people.
Playing with your sleep rhythms（节奏）can be dangerous, as worry may set in. Medical science doesn’t help much in this case. It offers us medicines for a full night’s continuous sleep, which sounds natural; however, according to Warren’s theory, it is really the opposite of what we need.
【小题1】The late night was called “The Watch” because it was a time for people ______.
| A．to set time to catch animals |
| B．to remind others of the time |
| C．to guard against possible dangers |
| D．to wake up their family and neighbors |
| A．sleep in the way animals do |
| B．follow their natural sleep rhythms |
| C．keep to the eight-hour sleeping way |
| D．ask doctors for help if they can’t sleep |
| A．To throw new light on human sleep. |
| B．To encourage people to sleep less. |
| C．To give some suggestions on insomnia. |
| D．To find out people’s hibernating history. |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012-2013学年江苏宝应县南片六校初二下学期5月份月度调研英语卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Motor cars were first made in England just before 1900. The parts for the bodies and engines were hand-made and the cars were built from these. One at a time. This took a long time, and the cars cost a lot of money. Then a quicker and cheaper way of making cars was found. Instead of making all the parts at their own works, some car factories asked other factories to make some of them. All the parts were then fitted together in the car factories.
Modern car-making factoriess are so large that each one is really a lot of factories close together. Each workshop makes some parts. The pieces of a car body are joined together by welders(电焊工) . All the bits and pieces that make up each car are collected and put ready for the assembly line(装配线) , where they are fitted together.
【小题1】The first motor cars were probably made by______.
| A．Europeans | B．the Whites | C．the Blacks | D．the English |
| A．found in 1900 |
| B．that all parts of motor cars were no longer made by hand |
| C．the one that they should be made in a large car factories |
| D．the different parts of motor cars were produced in different works |
| A．the factories which modern cars are making at |
| B．the factories where cars are made by modern workers |
| C．the new factories at which cars are being made |
| D．the factories where modern cars are made |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2010-2011学年浙江杭州党湾镇初级中学初二5月质量检测英语试卷（带解析） 题型：选词填空
Hangzhouhua (杭州话)：use it or lose it
There are about 6.000 languages in the world and some experts say that as many as half of these languages will disappear(消失) in the next one hundred years. Will Hangzhouhua be one of 1)________? It’s a 2)________ that more people are asking.
In China, Putonghua is the official language. That 3)________ it’s the language of government, business and the media (媒体). And it’s also the language that is 4)________ in schools.
Hangzhou is a special city. It used to be the capital of Wu and Yue States in the 10th century during the Five Dynasties period. Now it is modern, fashionable and also beautiful. And Hangzhouhua shows that by being modern, fashionable and beautiful.
Young people still speak Hangzhouhua but not as 5)________ as their parents and grandparents. They are under more and more pressure to speak Putonghua. So the language is being used 6)________ often in everyday life. Some people want to keep the language from disappearing completely 7)_________ building museums and having cultural festivals to save it. But a language isn’t a painting 8)________ a book. It’s a living thing and you 9)________ use it or lose it.
If people 10)________ using it in their daily lives, a museum or a festival will not help. It will be lost forever, like the Yangtze River dolphin.
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科目：初中英语 来源：2013届福建省泉州市德化县九年级上学期期中质量跟踪检测英语试卷（带解析） 题型：选词填空
综合填空 根据短文大意选择方框内的单词,并用其正确的形式填入空白处,使补全后的短文意思通顺, 语法正确, 结构完整。(5分)
| air, pollution, easily, good, dirty |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012-2013学年浙江省初三第一学期12月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Baron Pierre de Coubertin was a Frenchman. At his time sports were not taught in French schools. De Coubertin believed that sports should go hand in hand with studies. He had an idea. His idea was to begin the Olympics all over again.
Sports teachers of other countries liked De Coubertin ideas. So in 1896, the modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece. Since then the Olympics have been held once every four years, except three times, when there were wars.
The modern Olympic games have many foot races and field sports programs. The longest race in the games is called marathon.
Before the start of the Olympic Games, runners carry lighted torch(火炬) through many nations towards the stadium where the games will be held. These sportsmen are from different countries. Yet they work together to carry the Olympic torch. It is passed from runner to runner, When the last runner enters the stadium, he or she places the torch in a special basin filled with oil. It catches fire. It is then, only then, that the Olympic Games can begin.
The Olympic flame burns throughout the games. It is the flame of peace.
1.Before 1896 French schools didn't teach ______.
A. match B. history C. sports D. physics
2.Baron Pierre de Coubertin ________.
A. was the first man to start the Olympics
B. helped start the modern Olympics
C. believed that sports were less important than studies
D. failed to began the modern Olympics
3.According to this passage, the third modern Olympics should have been held________.
A. 1914 B. 1904 C. 1896 D. 1908
4.Marathon in the passage is________.
A. a foot race B. a jumping contest C. a field sport D. a boxing match
5.Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The Olympics do not begin until the basin of oil catches the fire.
B. The torch is carried from runner to runner through many countries.
C. Runners who carry the torch can be men or women.
D. After the start of the Olympics, the Olympic flame is put out.
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