Discover the beautiful, silent, white world or Antarctica on the holidays of a life-time．Head South to Buenos Aires and then transfer to the world's most southern city, Ushuaia．From there, it's about 1,000 kilometers on a special icebreaker ship to the freezing temperature of Antarctica．
Getting off the ship and taking your first step onto the ice, you will imagine what it is like to be an explorer．Meet penguins（企鹅） sitting on their eggs, or see an Antarctic seal that lives all the year round on the ice．But do not get closer than five meters to any animal, in case you frighten it or make it angry．
The friendly crew of the ship will look after you as you explore the ice continent. We promise you fantastic meals and a comfortable bed — you sleep in a four-person cabin — as well as many special treats．If you don't think it is cold enough, try the ''polar plunge" — jump into a special hole dug in the ice and dip your head under the water．You can then jump into a hot bath and if you succeed we will give you a certificate．
After you wake up for the first time in the Antarctica you will understand why everybody who goes there falls in love with the place．The scenery is different every day because the sea ice is always moving．
Our ships travel to Antarctica from November to March — phone today and book your dream holiday!
1.How should you behave when you see animals on Antarctica?
A. Don't take photos with them．
B. Sit on the legs of the penguin．
C. Don't watch them too near．
D. Never make them angry．
2.If you want to get a certificate, you have to ．
A. try the "polar plunge"
B. sleep in a four-person cabin
C. have a bath in hot water
D. dive in the sea
3.The author writes this text mainly to ．
A. describe what Antarctica is like
B. tell about the scenery in Antarctica
C. call for people to discover Antarctica
D. attract more tourists to Antarctica
科目：高中英语 来源：2015届广东省湛江市高三8月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Susan was born as the ninth child in a Catholic family. She suffered from learning disabilities ever since her birth because of her mother’s poor health.
School was difficult for Susan and she was bullied because of her different behaviors. Her siblings, who were much older, had life experiences that were unknown to their little sister. From the time of her birth, Susan was a screamer. The only really safe place that she would use as a repeat was her bedroom. There she would hang posters of her musical idols on the wall and sing popular music into a hairbrush that she pretended was a microphone.
One by one the siblings moved away from home and then Susan’s father died. This left her alone with an aging mother and a cat. The siblings accused her mother of not expecting more out of Susan. She had seen many professionals and remembered hearing the word “borderline” but didn’t know what it meant. She tried volunteer work. Her best state of mind, however, was found when she was singing and so she would regularly join others in karaoke or pubs where she could show her skills and receive appreciation from the crowd.
When Susan announced at Christmas that she was planning to compete in the Britain’s Got Talent contest, her siblings tried to discourage her. It was a wonder that she was even able to do the audition considering the troubles she faced just physically getting to the right place.
“The Woman I Was Born to Be” is a beautiful story written in the simple but humorous voice of the author, Susan Boyle. She tells her story from birth to the present in an interesting and educational manner. The writing is supplemented by photos from her albums.
I love this book! In fact, I read the whole thing in one day!
There is something in the stories that not only teaches the reader but also inspires us to reach for our dreams — no matter how impossible they may seem to be!
1.This passage should be ___________.
A. a news report B. a biography
C. a book review D. an introduction
2.When Susan was young, ____________.
A. her mother died of an illness
B. her siblings liked her very much
C. she was fond of music
D. she was envied at school
3.According to the passage, which was NOT true?
A. Susan’s mother expected too much out of her.
B. Susan tried doing a lot of volunteer work.
C. Susan’s siblings tried to stop her from competing in the Britain’s Got Talent contest.
D. Susan’s performances were well received by the customers in pubs.
4.The book “The Woman I Was Born to Be” ______________.
A. is always a best-seller B. is written in a serious voice
C. is full of sad stories D. contains some photos of Susan
5.What does the author think of Susan Boyle？
A. Pitiful and selfless. B. Shy and passive.
C. Great and generous. D. Determined and inspiring.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届广东省高三暑假联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Feeling blue about the world? “Cheer up,” says science writer Matt Ridley. “The world has never been a better place to live in, and it will keep on getting better both for humans and for nature.”
Ridley calls himself a rational optimist—rational, because he’s carefully weighed the evidence; optimistic, because that evidence shows human progress to be both unavoidable and good. And this is what he’s set out to prove from a unique point of view in his most recent book, The Rational Optimist . He views mankind as grand enterprise that, on the whole, has done little but progress for 100,000 years. He backs his findings with hard facts gathered through years of research.
Here’s how he explains his views.
1）Shopping fuels invention
It is reported that there are more than ten billion different products for sale in London alone. Even allowing for the many people who still live in poverty, our own generation has access to more nutritious food, more convenient transport, bigger houses, better cars, and, of course, more pounds and dollars than any who lived before us. This will continue as long as we use these things to make other things. The more we specialize and exchange, the better off we’ll be.
2) Brilliant advances
One reason we are richer, healthier, taller, cleverer, longer-lived and freer than ever before is that the four most basic human needs—food, clothing, fuel and shelter—have grown a lot cheaper. Take one example. In 1800 a candle providing one hour’s light cost six hours’ work. In the 1880s the same light from an oil lamp took 15 minutes’ work to pay for. In 1950 it was eight seconds. Today it’s half second.
3) Let’s not kill ourselves for climate change
Mitigating(减轻) climate change could prove just as damaging to human welfare as climate change itself. A child that dies from indoor smoke in a village, where the use of fossil-fuel(化石燃料) electricity is forbidden by well- meaning members of green political movements trying to save the world, is just as great a tragedy as a child that dies in a flood caused by climate change. If climate change proves to be mild, but cutting carbon causes real pain, we may well find that we have stopped a nose-bleed by putting a tourniquet(止血带) around our necks.
1.What is the theme of Ridley’s most recent book?
A. Weakness of human nature.
B. Concern about climate change.
C. Importance of practical thinking.
D. Optimism about human progress.
2. How does Ridley look at shopping?
A. It encourages the creation of things.
B. It results in shortage of goods.
C. It demands more fossil fuels.
D. It causes a poverty problem.
3.The candle and lamp example is used to show that__________.
A. oil lamps give off more light than candles
B. shortening working time brings about a happier life.
C. advanced technology helps to produce better candles.
D. increased production rate leads to lower cost of goods.
4. What does the last sentence of the passage imply?
A. Cutting carbon is necessary in spite of the huge cost.
B. Overreaction to climate change may be dangerous.
C. People’s health is closely related to climate change.
D. Careless medical treatment may cause great pain.
5. According to the passage, which of the following statements is True?
A. Matt Ridley doesn’t think the world is a good place to live in.
B. Climate change won’t cause a child’s death.
C. Matt Ridley based his unique point of view on his long-term research.
D. People will have more freedom for the development of the world.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届广东省广州市海珠区高三摸底考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：信息匹配
请阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。
下面是有关美国系列丛书YOU中的几本，首先请阅读它们的标题及封面信息：
A. | B. |
YOU ON A WALK Listen as You Walk for a Learner, Healthier Life | YOU STAYING YOUNG The Owner’s Manual for Extending Your Warranty |
C. | D. |
YOU THE SMART PATIENT An Insider’s Handbook for Getting the Best Treatment | YOU ON A DIET The Owner’s Manual for Waist Management |
E. | F. |
YOU BEING BEAUTIFUL The Owner’s Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty | YOU BREATHING EASY Meditation and Breathing techniques to Relax, Refresh and Revitalize |
下面是一些书籍的内容简介，请把它们与对应的标题及封面信息进行匹配：
1.Most people think of the aging of our bodies in the same way we think of the aging of our cars: the older we get, the more inevitable it is that we’re going to break down. Most of us believe that at age 40 or so, we can’t stay young but begin the decline of our minds and bodies. But according to the authors, that’s a mistake.
2.Most people think that beauty revolves around such things as lipstick, sweet eyes, or skinny jeans, all those things that we can see in the mirror. The fact is that beauty is not some superficial pursuit, but really about your health and happiness.
3.Nothing is more fundamental to living than breathing. And breathing well is central to meditation, relaxation and other practices that slow down the aging process and feel great while you’re doing it. The book will help you enjoy all the physical, mental and spiritual benefits that come from easy breathing.
4.Everyone needs to become smart patient. In fact, in the worst cases, your life may even depend on it. Number one bestselling authors have written this indispensable handbook to help everyone to get the best health care possibly by making everyone become their own medical detective.
5.The YOU series authors have created an original book specifically designed to help you meet your daily walking goal. Just have fun doing it. They will tell you about the benefits of walking, share pointers and health tips for you to think about, and motivate you to keep going.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届山西省高二下学期期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：书面表达
假设你是星光中学的李华，将参加主题为"Let's Ride Bicycles"的英语演讲比赛。请撰写一份演讲稿，主要内容包括：
1．目前汽车带来的空气污染和交通堵塞等问题；
2．骑自行车的益处，如：节能环保、有利健康等。
参考词汇：低碳生活（low-carbon life）；节能（energy saving）
注意：1．词数：100词左右；
2．演讲稿开头和结尾已给出，该部分不计入总词数。
Good morning, everyone,
I am Li Hua form Xingguang Middle School. The topic of my speech is "Let's Ride Bicycles"．
_________________________________________________________
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届山西省忻州市高二下学期期中联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第l1处起）不计分。
Last Saturday I went to the library as usually. At about noon, I was enjoying my reading near a lake while suddenly I hear someone crying for help. I went up to see what was happening. I was shocking to find a little child struggling in the water in the distance while many peoples were standing by without doing anything. Without any hesitation, I had pushed through the crowd as I took off my coat, but jumped into the water quickly. I managed to reach him and carried him back to safety. To his great relief, the kid saved.
I was proud with what I had done. I hope everyone can give a hand when someone else is in need.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届山西省忻州市高二下学期期中联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy – five, he gave $ 60,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s ground.
As a result of his kindness, he became famous. Many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy-five. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening,” he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had daily injection in his neck.Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
1.Johnson became a rich man through _______.
A. doing business B. making whisky
C. cheating D. buying and selling land
2.The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson _______.
A. had many children in the schoolB. was a strange old man
C. was very fond of childrenD. was very kind
3.Many people wrote to Johnson to find out _______.
A. what kind of whisky he had
B. how to live longer
C. how to become wealthy
D. where to have an injection
4.When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening, he really meant that _______.
A. he needn’t an injection in the neck
B. there was something wrong with his neck
C. he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening
D. a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届山西省高二下期末英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
I am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language—the way it can evoke (唤起) an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all—all the Englishes I grew up with.
Born into a Chinese family that had recently arrived in California, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as “broken” English. But I feel embarrassed to say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than“broken”, as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness. I’ve heard other terms used, “limited English,” for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people’s perceptions(认识)of the limited English speaker.
I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.
I started writing fiction in 1985. And for reasons I won’t get into today, I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken” ; and what I imagine to be her translation of her Chinese, her internal (内在的) language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure. I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show: her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.
1.. The author used to think of her mother’s English as .
A. impolite B. amusing
C. imperfect D. practical
2.. Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?
A. Americans do not understand broken English.
B. The author’s mother was not respected sometimes.
C. The author’s mother had positive influence on her.
D. Broken English always reflects imperfect thoughts.
3. The author gradually realizes her mother’s English is .
A. well structured B. in the old style
C. easy to translate D. rich in meaning
4. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The change of the author’s attitude to her mother’s English.
B. The limitation of the author’s perception of her mother.
C. The author’s misunderstanding of “limited” English.
D. The author’s experiences of using broken English.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届山东高三上学期月考（1）英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
_____ this winding path, and you’ll come to a lovely cottage by a lake in the woods.
A. To follow B. Following
C. Followed D. Follow
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