A pioneering headteacher is calling for all high schools to follow his lead and start classes at 11 am，allowing teenagers two hours extra in bed.
Dr. Paul Kelley，head of Monkseaton Community High School in North Tyneside，said it would mean the end of sleeping in lessons before lunch，after experiments showed teenagers could have different body clocks from adults and younger children.
Russell Foster，an Oxford professor of neuroscience(神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)科學)，tested the memory of 200 Monkseaton pupils at 9 am and 2 pm using pairs of words，and discovered a 9% improvement in the afternoon. Students correctly identified 51% of word pairs in the later session，compared with 42% in the morning. Tayler McCullough,15，one of the test subjects，said “The majority of students would welcome the extra hours in bed. I'm extremely hard to get up in the morning. One or two people like to get to school early，but most of us would be up for going in later. I'm sure it would make a big difference to our learning ability.”
Kelley is adamant that a change of school timetable will have a meaningful effect on exam performance. He wants his school's governors to approve his plan and put the new timetable in place before the opening of Monkseaton's new school building，the most technologically-advanced in the country，in September.
Kelley hopes his latest idea will be just as successful.“We have to be practical. But this proves that，by starting later，children's learning improves，as does their health.”
Foster said，“This is preliminary(初步的)data，but what's exciting is that it matches more detailed studies carried out in Canada and the US. Teenagers get up late not because they are lazy but because they are biologically programmed to do so.”
68．How many professors are mentioned in the passage?
A．One. B．Two. C．Three. D．Four.
69．According to Russell Foster's research，________.
A．the students tested had very good memories
B．the students tested did better jobs in the afternoon
C．42% of the students tested could do very good jobs
D．51% of the students tested could master 9% of words
70．Foster's opinion on teenagers' getting up late is that ________.
A．teenagers are practical
B．teenagers are lazybones
C．it's based on their body development
D．it's good for their learning and health
科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：閱讀理解
The painter Georgia O’keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887 and grew up on her family’s farm. At seventeen she decided she wanted to be an artist and left the farm for schools in Chicago and New York, but she never lost her bond with the land. Like most painters, O’Keeffe painted the things that were most important to her, and nearly all her works are simplified portrayals of nature.
O’Keeffe became famous when her paintings were discovered and exhibited in New York by the photographer Levered Stieglitz, whom she married in 1924. During a visit to New York in 1929, O’Keeffe was so moved by the bleak（荒涼的） landscape and broad skies of the Western desert that she began to paint its images. Cows’ skulls and other bleached（變白的） bones found in the desert figured prominently（突出的） in her paintings. When her husband died in 1946, she moved to New Mexico permanently and used the horizon lines of the desert, colorful flowers, rocks, barren(貧瘠的) hills, and the sky as subjects for her paintings. Although O’Keeffe painted her best known works in the 1920’s, 1930’s and 1940’s, she continued to produce tributes（貢品、頌詞） to the Western desert until her death in 1986.
O’Keeffe is widely considered to have been a pioneering American modernist painter. While most early modern American artists were strongly influenced by European art, O’Keeffe’s position was more independent. She established her own vision and preferred to view her painting as a private endeavor. Almost from the beginning, her work was more indentifiably American than that of her contemporaries in its simplified and idealized treatment of color, light, space, and natural forms.
Which of the following best tells what this passage is about ?
A. O’Keeffe was a distinctive modern American painter.
B. O’Keeffe was the best painter of her generation.
C. O’Keeffe liked to paint only what was familiar to her.
D. O’Keeffe used colors and shapes that are too reduced and simple.
Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an influence on O’Keeffe’s paintings ?
A. Her rural upbringing B. Her life in the West
C. The works of European artists D. The appearance of the natural landscape
Which of the following is most similar to O’Keeffe’s relationship with nature?
A. A photoghrapher’s relationship with a model.
B. A writer’s relationship with a publisher.
C. A student’s relationship with a teacher
D. A carpenter’s relationship with a hammer.
Why is O’Keeffe considered an artistic pioneer ?
A. Her work became influential in Europe.
B. She painted the American Southwest.
C. Her paintings had a definite American style.
D. She painted things that were familiar to her.
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科目：高中英語 來源：2012-2013學年浙江省臺州市六校高二10月月考英語卷（帶解析） 題型：完型填空
In 1957, Jane Goodall first met the famous anthropologist (人類學者) Dr Louis Leakey, who later played an important role in her life. With the 32 of gaining insight into humans’ evolutionary (進化的) past, Dr Leakey 33 a pioneering long-term field study on 34 chimps. Even though Jane had no formal 35 , her patience and determination to understand animals 36 him to choose her for the study. 37 it was unusual for a woman to work in the forest of Africa, going there 38 the fulfillment (實現(xiàn)) of her childhood dream. In the summer of 1960 she 39 in Tanzania(坦桑尼亞) on Lake Tanganyika’s eastern shore. This marked the 40 of the longest continuous field study of animals in their 41 habitat(棲息地). Five years 42 , she earned a doctor’s degree at Cambridge University and then 43 to Tanzania to found the Gombe Stream Research Center. And in 1977, to provide on-going 44 for chimp research, Dr Goodall 45 The Jane Goodall Institute.
Today, she 46 most of her time traveling around the world, giving lectures on her 47 at Gombe and speaking to school groups about Roots &Shoots, her environmental education and humanitarian program for the 48 .
“Chimps have given me so 49 . The long hours spent with them in the 50 have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my 51 of human behavior, of our place in nature.”
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科目：高中英語 來源：2011-2012年廣東廣雅中學高二第一學期期中考試英語試卷 題型：閱讀理解
In Stockholm, the Swedish Academy has chosen the British author Doris Lessing for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The selection of Doris Lessing for a Nobel was popular among the hundreds of journalists gathered for the announcement in Stockholm.
Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Horace Engdahl said with skepticism, fire and visionary power Lessing has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny.
Doris Lessing was born in 1919 in Persia - modern-day Iran - to British parents, moving as a child with her family to southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, where she stayed in school only to the age of 14.
A year after moving to London, she published her first novel in 1950. The Grass is Singing examines unbridgeable racial conflict in colonial Africa through the eyes of a white farmer’s wife and her black servant.
A member of the British Communist Party during the 1950s and a campaigner against nuclear arms and South African apartheid, Lessing was for years banned from that country and from Rhodesia.
Her literary breakthrough came in 1962 with publication of The Golden Notebook, seen by many, though not necessarily Lessing, as a pioneering work of modern feminism. A disjointed study of the mind of the main character, Anna Wulf, the novel explores her thoughts about Africa, politics and communism, relationships with men and sex, and Jungian analysis and dream interpretation.
Lessing’s themes shifted to psychology in her works from the 1960s, and by the 1970s she was fascinated with the Islamic mystic tradition of Sufism. Her turn toward science fiction with the Canopus series in the early 1980s was not warmly received by traditionalist critics, but she has continued to win new readers and numerous literary awards, including the David Cohen British Literary Prize and the Companion of Honour from the Royal Society of Literature, both in 2001.
Following the announcement, the Horace Engdahl told VOA why he was personally so pleased with Lessing’s selection.
"She is one of the truly great writers - of novels, short stories, fiction and non-fiction," Engdahl said. "She is one of the few writers who have had the courage to uphold the principle of equality between the male and female experience, and she has given the impulse to numbers of other women writers. And she is really the mother of a school that is one of the most important in our contemporary literature."
At 87, Doris lessing is the oldest Nobel Literature laureate since the first prizes were awarded in 1901. Each Nobel Prize is this year accompanied by a check for approximately $1.4 million.
【小題1】How old was Doris Lessing when she published her first novel?
| A．14 | B．26 | C．31 | D．50 |
| A．It is mainly about racial conflict between the whites and the blacks in the US. |
| B．The main characters are a white farmer’s wife and her black servant. |
| C．It was published in Africa. |
| D．It was Doris Lessing’s most famous novel. |
| A．Journalists are very interested in the election of Doris Lessing’s for Nobel Prize. |
| B．Doris Lessing regard The Golden Notes as a pioneering work of feminism. |
| C．Doris Lessing has written about many different subjects. |
| D．Many writers have the courage to stick to the equality between the male and female experience. |
| A．institution for educating children |
| B．college or university |
| C．department of a university |
| D．group of writers, thinkers |
| A．Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize for literature. |
| B．The greatest British female writer. |
| C．The oldest Nobel Prize winner. |
| D．2007 Nobel Prize announced in Stockholm. |
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科目：高中英語 來源：2014屆福建省高一下學期期末考試英語試卷（解析版） 題型：閱讀理解
Doris Lessing was born in 1919 in Persia, moving as a child with her family to southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, where she stayed in school only to the age of 14.
A year after moving to London, she published her first novel in 1950. The Grass is Singing examines unbridgeable racial conflict(沖突) in colonial Africa through the eyes of a white farmer’s wife and her black servant.
Her literary breakthrough came in 1962 with publication of The Golden Notebook, seen by many, though not necessarily Lessing, as a pioneering work of modern feminism(女權(quán)運動). A separated study of the mind of the main character, Amma Wulf, the novel explores her thoughts about Africa, politics and relationships with men and sex.
Lessing’s themes changed to psychology in her works from the 1960s, and by the 1970s the was extremely interested in the Islamic mystic tradition of Sufism(蘇菲教派). Her turn toward science fiction with the Canopus series in the early 1980s was not warmly received by traditionalist critics, but she has continued to win new readers and numerous literary awards, including the David Cohen British Literary Prize and the Companion of Honour from the Royal Society of Literature, both in 2001.
Following the announcement, the Horace Engdahl told VOA why he was personally so pleased with Lessing’s selection.
“She is one of the truly great writers－of novels, short stories, fiction and non-fiction,” Engdahl said. “She is one of the few writers who have had the courage to uphold the principle of equality between the male and female experience, and she has given the impulse(沖動) to numbers of other women writers. And she is really the mother of a school that is one of the most important in our contemporary literature.”
At 87, Doris Lessing is the oldest Nobel Literature winner sine the first prizes were awarded in 1901.
1.What would be the best title for this passage?
A．Doris Lessing writes The Golden Notebook
B．Doris Lessing is a pioneer of modern feminism
C．Doris Lessing wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
D．Doris Lessing is concerned about Africa
2.It can be inferred from the passage that .
A．there are only two characters in The Grass is Singing
B．The Golden Notebook is regarded as Lessing’s masterpiece by herself
C．life in Africa in her early age lays a solid foundation for her writing
D．Doris Lessing is strongly against traditional culture in Africa
3.According to the fourth paragraph, .
A．Lessing began to believe in Christ in the 1970s
B．Lessing’s science fiction won readers
C．Lessing had won two literary medals for her writings
D．Lessing changed her themes to meet the needs of traditional critics
4.According to the Horace Engdahl, Lessing wins Nobel Prize mainly because .
A．she has rich experience in living in Africa
B．she is a head master of an important school
C．she encourages women writers to struggle against men
D．she makes great contributions to equal rights for women
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科目：高中英語 來源：2010年安徽省高二上學期期中考試英語卷 題型：閱讀理解
The painter Georgia O’keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887 and grew up on her family’s farm. At seventeen she decided she wanted to be an artist and left the farm for schools in Chicago and New York, but she never lost her bond with the land. Like most painters, O’Keeffe painted the things that were most important to her, and nearly all her works are simplified portrayals of nature.
O’Keeffe became famous when her paintings were discovered and exhibited in New York by the photographer Levered Stieglitz, whom she married in 1924. During a visit to New York in 1929, O’Keeffe was so moved by the bleak（荒涼的） landscape and broad skies of the Western desert that she began to paint its images. Cows’ skulls and other bleached（變白的） bones found in the desert figured prominently（突出的） in her paintings. When her husband died in 1946, she moved to New Mexico permanently and used the horizon lines of the desert, colorful flowers, rocks, barren(貧瘠的) hills, and the sky as subjects for her paintings. Although O’Keeffe painted her best known works in the 1920’s, 1930’s and 1940’s, she continued to produce tributes（貢品、頌詞） to the Western desert until her death in 1986.
O’Keeffe is widely considered to have been a pioneering American modernist painter. While most early modern American artists were strongly influenced by European art, O’Keeffe’s position was more independent. She established her own vision and preferred to view her painting as a private endeavor. Almost from the beginning, her work was more indentifiably American than that of her contemporaries in its simplified and idealized treatment of color, light, space, and natural forms.
1. Which of the following best tells what this passage is about ?
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A．O’Keeffe was a distinctive modern American painter. |
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B．O’Keeffe was the best painter of her generation. |
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C．O’Keeffe liked to paint only what was familiar to her. |
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D．O’Keeffe used colors and shapes that are too reduced and simple. |
2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an influence on O’Keeffe’s paintings ?
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A．Her rural upbringing |
B．Her life in the West |
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C．The works of European artists |
D．The appearance of the natural landscape |
3.Which of the following is most similar to O’Keeffe’s relationship with nature?
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A．A photoghrapher’s relationship with a model. |
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B．A writer’s relationship with a publisher. |
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C．A student’s relationship with a teacher |
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D．A carpenter’s relationship with a hammer. |
4.Why is O’Keeffe considered an artistic pioneer ?
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A．Her work became influential in Europe. |
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B．She painted the American Southwest. |
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C．Her paintings had a definite American style. |
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D．She painted things that were familiar to her. |
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