Tayka Hotel De Sal
Where: Tahua, Bolivia
How much: About $95 a night
Why it’s cool: You’ve stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That’s something few can claim. Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt—including the beds (though you’ll sleep on regular mattresses (床墊) and blankets).The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake that’s the world’s biggest salt flat. Builders use the salt from the 4,633-square-mile flat to make the bricks, and glue them together with a paste of wet salt that hardens when it dries. When rain starts to dissolve the hotel, the owners just mix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.
Green Magic Nature Resort
Where: Vythiri, India
How much: About $240 a night
Why it’s cool: Ridding a pulley(滑輪)-operated lift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure. As you look out of your open window—there is no glass!—you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy. Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel, or just sit on your bamboo bed and read. You don’t even have to come down for breakfast—the hotel will send it up on the pulley-drawn “elevator”.
Dog Bark Park Inn B&B
Where: Cottonwood, Idaho
How much: $92 a night
Why it’s cool: This doghouse isn’t just for the family pet. Sweet Willy is a 30-foot-tall dog with guest rooms in his belly. Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his side. You can relax in the main bedroom, go up a few steps of the loft in Willy’s head, or hang out inside his nose. Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant outside.
Gamirasu Cave Hotel
Where: Ayvali, Turkey
How much: Between $130 and $475 a night.
Why it’s cool: This is caveman cool! Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash. But your stay will be much more modern. Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic ash, called tufa, keeps the rooms cool, about 65℉in summer.(Don’t worry—there is heat in winter.)
1.What is the similarity of the four hotels?
A. Being expensive. B. Being beautiful.
C. Being natural. D. Being unique.
2.What does the underlined part “Sweet Willy” refer to?
A. The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.
B. The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner.
C. The name of the hotel.
D. The name of the hotel owner.
3.Which of the hotel makes you have a feeling of living in the far past?
A. Tayka Hotel De Sal B. Green Magic Nature Resort
C. Dog Bark Park Inn B&B D. Gamirasu Cave Hotel
閱讀快車系列答案科目：高中英語 來源：2015-2016學年湖南冷水江市高二上學期期中英語試卷（解析版） 題型：信息匹配
根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。
1. One of the best things you can possibly do is to start you own club. It’s great fun especially if you are the sort of person who feels there’s never anything to do during the school holidays.
The first thing you need to come up with is an idea for your club. 2. Pets, clothes, pop music or dancing groups, sports, making things? The list is endless.
Next you need some friends to be in your club with you. 3. All you need is three or four other people who are interested in the same thing as you.
4. You should all sit down somewhere together with lots of pieces of paper and write down every name you can think up. That’ll keep you busy for ages.
At your first meeting you should make up a rule book. And the first rule should be no grown-ups or little/big brothers or sisters! The best clubs are always secret!
Now you have just about everything you need, except membership cards. These are very important and again you can speed a lot of time making them. 5. Why not leave some space for a photo of yourself? That will make the membership card really look like it.
So there you are, get clubbing! Once you get started you’ll think of loads of more interesting things to do!
A. That’s easy.
B. Enjoy your own club!
C. Invite a designer to join you.
D. What are you interest in?
E. Summer vacation is just around the corner.
F. Then you need to pick a name for your club.
G. Use a bright thick pen to make a special design.
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科目：高中英語 來源：2015-2016學年重慶市高二上學期期中英語試卷（解析版） 題型：閱讀理解
Children’s allowance. Many children first learn the value of money by receiving an allowance(零用錢). The purpose is to let them learn from experience at an age when financial （財政的；財務的；金融的)mistakes are not very costly.
In any case, parents should make clear what the child is expected to pay for with the money. At first, young children may spend all of their allowance soon after they receive it. If so, they’ll learn the hard way that spending must be done within a budget（預算）. Parents are usually advised not to offer more money until the next allowance. It is to show them that a budget demands choices between spending and saving.
Many people who have written on the subject of allowances say it is not a good idea to pay your child for work around the home. These jobs are a normal part of family life. Paying children to do extra work around the house, however, can be useful. It can even provide an understanding of how a business works.
Allowances give children a chance to experience what they can do with money. They can share it in the form of gifts or give it to a good cause. They can spend it by buying things they want. Or they can save it. Saving helps children understand that costly goals require sacrifice: They have to cut costs and plan for the future. Requiring children to save part of their allowance can also open the door to future saving and investing. Many banks offer services to help children learn about personal finance.
1.Giving children an allowance can mostly help them ______.
A. cut their living costs
B. learn to plan for the future
C. earn a living when young
D. get some financial knowledge
2.By receiving an allowance, children can learn ______.
A. how to spend money from experience
B. when to avoid making mistakes
C. what they should do next at a young age
D. what they can do with money earned
3.What is the best title for the passage?
A. Allowance, a great way to educate children
B. Allowance, a costly burden for children
C. Give allowances to children at once
D. Develop children’s allowances
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科目：高中英語 來源：2016屆新疆兵團農(nóng)二師華山中學高三上學期第一次月考英語試卷（解析版） 題型：書面表達
某英文報社組織主題為“我喜歡的英語諺語”征文活動，你有意參加。請用下面的諺語作為標題寫一篇英語作文，內(nèi)容須包括：1、該諺語的含義；2、體現(xiàn)該諺語含義的個人經(jīng)歷。
Where there is a will, there is a way.
注意：1、詞數(shù)：80-120
2、文中不得透露個人姓名和學校名稱。
參考詞匯：諺語proverb
Where there is a will, there is a way.
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科目：高中英語 來源：2016屆新疆兵團農(nóng)二師華山中學高三上學期第二次月考英語試卷（解析版） 題型：短文改錯
短文改錯(共10小題，每小題1分，滿分10分)
假如英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10處錯誤，每句中最多有兩處。錯誤涉及單詞的增加、刪除或修改。
增加：在缺詞處加一個漏詞符號∧，并在此符號下面寫出該加的詞。
刪除：把多余的詞用斜線\劃掉。
修改：在錯詞下面劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。
注意：1.每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞；
2．只允許修改10處，多者(從第11處起)不計分。
My cousin Li Ming is a senior three student, who devoted himself to his lessons every day. Last Saturday, as usual, he went to several class. In the evening, he continued to study at home until deeply into the night. He was too sleepy and tired that he couldn’t work effectively. In Sunday morning, he was about to do his lessons while his father came up and advised him to take a break. Soon they came up a good idea. They decided to go cycling in the countryside. Li Ming enjoyed himself competing and chatting with his father and felt relaxing in the open air. On Monday, Li Ming was energetic and active in class. He spent a whole day in the country, and Li Ming said what he had done was worth.
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科目：高中英語 來源：2016屆寧夏長慶高級中學高三上學期第三次月考英語試卷（解析版） 題型：閱讀理解
Recently I spoke to some of my students about what they wanted to do after they graduated, and what kind of job prospects they thought they had.
Given that I teach students who are trained to be doctors, I was surprised to find that most thought that they would not be able to get the jobs they wanted without “outside help”. “What kind of help is that?” I asked, expecting them to tell me that they would need a relative or family friend to help them out.
“Surgery(外科手術(shù)), ”one replied. I was pretty alarmed by that response. It seems that the graduates of today are increasingly willing to go under the knife to get ahead of others when it comes to getting a job. One girl told me that she was considering surgery to increase her height. “They break your legs, put in special extending screws, and slowly expand the gap between the two ends of the bone as it regrows. You can get at least 5 cm taller! ”
At that point, I was shocked. I am short. I can’t deny that, but I don’t think I would put myself through months of agony(痛苦)just to be a few centimeters taller. I don’t even bother to wear shoes with thick soles, as I’m not trying to hide the fact that I am just not tall!
It seems to me that there is a trend toward wanting “perfection”, and that is an ideal that just does not exist in reality.
No one is born perfect, yet magazines, TV shows and movies present images of thin, tall, beautiful people as being the norm. Advertisements for slimming aids, beauty treatments and cosmetic surgery clinics fill the pages of newspapers, further creating an idea that “perfection” is a requirement, and that it must be purchased, no matter what the cost is. In my opinion, skills, rather than appearance, should determine how successful a person is in his chosen career.
1.Many graduates today turn to cosmetic surgery to .
A. marry a better man/woman
B. become a model
C. get an advantage over others in job-hunting
D. attract more admirers
2.According to the passage, the author believes that .
A. everyone should pursue perfection, whatever the cost is
B. it’s right for graduates to ask for others to help them out in hunting for jobs
C. media are to blame for misleading young people in their seeking for surgery
D. it is one’s appearance instead of skills that really matters in one’s career
3.What does the author think of his height?
A. He hates to be called a short man.
B. He tries to increase his height through surgery.
C. He always wears shoes with thick soles to hide the fact.
D. He just accepts it as it is.
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科目：高中英語 來源：2016屆寧夏大學附屬中學高三上學期第三次月考英語試卷（解析版） 題型：閱讀理解
The flying car has been talked about for many years, but now it appears to become a reality.
An international company has built a two-seater plane that, at the touch of a button, transforms into a car perfectly suitable for driving on public roads. It takes 15 seconds to switch between flying and driving. With its wings fully open and the propeller(螺旋槳) spinning, it can take off from any airfield.
Flying cars are quicker than traditional ones, and they can run on ordinary fuel. Another big advantage is that they are cool, like something you would see in an action film. At the moment, however, the flying car’s wheels are illegal to leave the ground. That is not because of technical reasons or problems with the design. It is because the various road and aircraft authorities simply cannot agree on whether it is a car or a plane.
Nevertheless the company hopes to produce and deliver its first flying car soon. The company already has orders for 40 of them. The majority potential customers are older and some are retired. There have even been orders from some people who have no pilot’s license.
The flying car will cost around $ 200,000. “For an airplane, that’s a very reasonable price, but for a car, it’s quite expensive,” explains Alan. “But it just is not possible to make a $ 10,000 flying car yet.”
This latest means of transport will not become a mass-market item in the near future, but in the long term it has the potential to change the way you travel. It will become no more expensive than driving your car on the motorway. Travel time could be reduced by more than half.
So the next time you are told to fasten your seat belt, it may be to prepare for take-off.
1.We know from the passage that the flying car .
A. has to run on special fuel
B. will replace traditional planes
C. is popular with the rich
D. can shift between two forms
2.The flying car is presently forbidden to take off because .
A. many people think driving is not very safe
B. it’s hard to decide whether it’s a car or a plane
C. the government and the authorities accept it
D. there are still some technical problems to be solved
3.According to the passage, we can learn .
A. in the future few people will be able to afford a flying ear
B. owning two kinds of driving licenses is of great importance
C. because of the appearance of the flying car, traffic jams will disappear
D. flying cars may share the market in the future
4.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Your Car Is Ready for Take-off
B. Flying Car Will Be the Leading Means of Transportation
C. Affording a Flying Car Is a Necessity
D. The Advantages of Flying Cars
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科目：高中英語 來源：2015-2016學年浙江溫州龍灣區(qū)龍灣中學高二上期中英語試卷（解析版） 題型：單項填空
Mark never considers himself as ________ failure. On the contrary, he thinks he is on the road to _______ success.
A. a；不填 B. a; the
C. 不填；a D. the; 不填
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科目：高中英語 來源：2015-2016學年四川省高一上期中英語試卷（解析版） 題型：閱讀理解
As one comes to some crossroads, he or she sees a sign which says that drivers have to stop when they come to the main road ahead. At other crossroads, drivers have to go slow, but they do not actually have to stop unless, of course, there is something coming along the main road; and at still others, they do not have either to stop or to go slow, because they are themselves on the main road.
Mr. Williams, who was always a very careful driver, was driving home from work one evening when he came to a crossroad. It had a “SLOW” sign. He slowed down when he came to the main road, looked both ways to see that nothing was coming, and then drove across without stopping completely.
At once he heard a police whistle (口哨聲), so he pulled into the side of the road and stopped. A policeman walked over to him with a notebook and a pen in his hand and said, “You didn’t stop at that crossing.”
“But the sign there doesn't say ‘STOP’.” answered Mr. Williams, “It just says ‘SLOW’, and I did go slow.”
The policeman looked around him, and a look of surprise came over his face. Then he put his notebook and pen away, scratched (抓) his head and said, “Well，I'm in the wrong street！”
1.Mr. Williams was driving ____ one evening.
A. to a party
B. to his office
C. home after work
D. to work from home
2.When he was stopped by a policeman, he ____.
A. was driving at a high speed
B. was driving onto the main road
C. was going to stop his car
D. was driving slowly
3.Mr. Williams continued driving at the crossing because____.
A. he didn't see any sign there.
B. he paid no attention to the traffic rules
C. he didn't have to stop
D. he was eager to get home
4.Looking round Mr. Williams, the policeman was surprised because____.
A. he met a mad man
B. he realized that he himself was mistaken
C. Mr. Williams dared to speak to him like that
D. Mr. Williams would not apologize to him
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