Being green is everywhere these days, whether it is in the school, factory or anywhere on the Internet. This is because our planet is in danger, losing resources, polluting resources and destroying ecosystems(生態(tài)系統(tǒng)). Different species are dying because we can’t take care of our home. Now ask yourself why you don’t want a green healthier lifestyle and to save animals. Keep that in mind as you read on.
There are many ways to be green, first of all, everyone should recycle; it’s something easy and helps our planet in many ways. All you’d have to do is put recycling in recycling and garbage in garbage. Another popular thing is to try your best not to drive a car. Sometimes you can just walk, bike, or take a subway. This ensures that our air won’t be polluted, which in turn helps our lungs and everything else on our planet. Next thing is saving energy. We can do this by not using too much heat or air conditioning in summer or winter. It’s not preferable because it’s hard, but you can try and put your washing machine on cold whenever possible and try to keep electronics out of the rubbish. What’s more, remember to stop drinking from plastic bottles because plastic can only be used once and if used many times, it will become unhealthy. So you’d better use a glass or buy a reusable water bottle. The last and most important thing is, spread this news to the world and tell them what’s happening in our world. I’ve only listed a small part of the endless possibilities to save this world. The least you can do is do the simple ones.
【小題1】What does the underlined word “that” in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A.The importance of being green. |
B.The question asked in this paragraph. |
C.The present situation of the Earth. |
D.The reader’s contribution to the Earth. |
A.Two. | B.Three. |
C.Four. | D.Five. |
A.call on others to protect our Earth |
B.recycle what we have used |
C.try our best to stop driving cars |
D.save as much energy as possible |
A.tell us the importance of protecting our Earth |
B.Help us to cut down the pollution on our Earth |
C.teach us some knowledge about our health today |
D.guide us to some ways of protecting our Earth |
【小題1】B
【小題2】D
【小題3】A
【小題4】D
解析試題分析: 本文講述因為我們不善待我們的家園—地球,現(xiàn)在我們處于危險的狀態(tài),生物系統(tǒng)被破壞,資源被污染,給出五種方式來讓世界變得更環(huán)保,最重要的是號召人們行動起來保護(hù)地球
【小題1】B 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段提到Now ask yourself why you don’t want a green healthier lifestyle and to save animals. Keep that in mind as you read on.現(xiàn)在問問你自己為什么不想過更綠色的健康生活方式去挽救這些動物呢,把這個問題記住,當(dāng)你閱讀時,故選B項。
【小題2】D 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段提到first of all, everyone should recycle循環(huán)利用Another popular thing is to try your best not to drive a car不開車Next thing is saving energy.節(jié)約能源;what’s more, remember to stop drinking from plastic bottles 停止用塑料袋The last and most important thing is, spread this news to the world and tell them what’s happening in our world.最重要的是傳播這個消息讓更多的人了解地球的現(xiàn)狀,一共五種,故選D項。
【小題3】A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段提到The last and most important thing is, spread this news to the world and tell them what’s happening in our world. I’ve only listed a small part of the endless possibilities to save this world. The least you can do is do the simple ones最重要的是傳播這個消息,讓世界上更多的人了解地球的現(xiàn)狀,號召人們保護(hù)地球,故選A項。
【小題4】D 寫作意圖。本文講述因為我們不善待我們的家園—地球,現(xiàn)在我們處于危險的狀態(tài),生物系統(tǒng)被破壞,資源被污染,給出五種方式來讓世界變得更環(huán)保,最重要的是號召人們行動起來保護(hù)地球,故選D項。
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
“The first and best of victories for a man is to conquer himself; to be conquered by himself is, of all things, the most shameful,” says Plato. Self-control is at the root of all the advantages. Let a man give in to his impulses (沖動) and feelings, and from that moment he gives up his moral freedom.
A single angry word has lost many friends. When Socrates found in himself any temper or anger, he would check it by speaking low in order to control himself. If you are conscious of being angry, keep your mouth shut so that you can hold back rising anger. Many a person has dropped dead in great anger. Fits of anger bring fits of disease. “Whoever the gods would destroy, they first make them mad.” “Keep cool,” says Webster, “anger is not argument.” “Be calm in arguing,” says George Herbert, “for fierceness (狂怒) makes error a fault.”
To be angry with a weak man is to prove that you are not strong yourself. “Anger,” says Pythagoras, “begins with foolishness and ends with regret.” You must measure the strength of a man by the power of the feelings he conquers, not by the power of those which conquer him. Self-control is man’s last and greatest victory.
If a man lacks(缺乏) self-control he seems to lack everything. Without it he can have no patience, no power to govern himself; he can have no self-confidence(自信心), for he will always be controlled by his strongest feeling. If he lacks self-control, the very backbone and nerve of character are lacking too.
【小題1】What’s the main idea of the passage?_____
A.Self- control is important for a man. |
B.We should learn to be strong. |
C.A man who keeps cool won’t lose any game. |
D.The great heroes in history knew how to control themselves. |
A.If you are mad, the gods will kill you. |
B.If you lose your temper first, gods will kill you first. |
C.If you can’t control yourself, you will be crazy. |
D.If the gods want to kill you, they will make you mad first. |
A.The first and best of victories for a man is to conquer himself. |
B.You will make a small mistake serious if you don’t keep cool. |
C.You must measure a man’s strength by the power of the feelings which conquer him. |
D.Anger begins with foolishness and ends with regret. |
A.Being calm in arguing. |
B.Checking your temper or anger by speaking low. |
C.Keeping your mouth shut. |
D.Trying to make the other angry first. |
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It was blazing hot, just like most July days. I stepped into a tiny ice-cream shop to cool off with a
chocolate ice-cream. It was an old woman bent over a table near the door. Her back was so badly twisted that her face nearly touched the tabletop. I sat down facing her a couple of tables away.
“Poor woman,” I thought, “What does she get out of life? Why God let people live so long past their prime?”
As I thought, another aged lady entered the shop and sat down with her. Soon the two of them were talking about childhood days. They talked of how little the shop had changed in 70 years... In minutes, the two of them were trembling with laughter.
I looked again at the first woman, then in the mirror on a nearby wall, catching a picture of myself. I was wearing a dirty shirt. She was well dressed in white, her hands sparking with gold rings. I was sad. She was laughing, smiling. I was putting the pieces of my life together. She had millions of wonderful memories to recall. I sat alone. She was sharing the day with a good friend. I was secretly worried about getting old. She was old, but it wasn’t hurting her.
As I left the shop, I thought of my foolish question about God letting people live past their prime. Why, that woman was more alive, more sensitive to life than I was. Age has not bent her spirit.
【小題1】From the passage we know that the ice-shop _________.
A.changed a lot in the past | B.had only a couple of tables |
C.started its business 70 years ago. | D.had only women shoppers. |
A.miserable life |
B.wonderful experience |
C.long career |
D.time of great strength, beauty, vigor(活力) |
A.the old lady had lived a full and satisfying life |
B.the writer had more problems than the old lady |
C.the old lady was very lonely and sad |
D.the old lady had learned to enjoy the simple things in life |
A.She was more alive and sensitive to life than the writer. |
B.She considered the young man pitiable. |
C.She was to be pitied for her old age. |
D.People should not be allowed to live when they are too old. |
A.To tell us the life of old people |
B.To show that old age does not mean being short of spirit. |
C.To show the difference between the old and the young. |
D.To make the reader have a pity on the old people. |
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:單選題
Using too much water or throwing rubbish into our rivers are clear ways that humans can put our water supply in danger, but we also affect our water supply in less obvious ways. You may wonder how paving (鋪砌) a road can lead to less useable fresh water. A major part of the water we use every day is groundwater. Groundwater does not come from lakes or rivers. It comes from underground. The more roads and parking lots we pave, the less water can flow into the ground to become groundwater.
Human activity is not responsible for all water shortages (短缺). Drier climates are of course more likely to have droughts (干旱) than areas with more rainfall, but in any case, good management can help to make sure there is enough water to meet our basic needs .
Thinking about the way we use water every day can make a big difference, too. In the United States, a family of four can use 1.5 tons of water a day! This shows how much we depend on water to live, but there’s a lot we can do to lower the number.
You can take steps to save water in your home. To start with, use the same glass for your drinking water all day. Wash it only once a day. Run your dishwasher (洗碗機) only when it is full. Help your parents fix any leaks (裂縫) in your home. You can even help to keep our water supply clean by recycling batteries instead of throwing them away.
【小題1】Which of the following is most likely to lead to less groundwater?
A.Using river water. | B.Throwing batteries away. |
C.Paving parking lots. | D.Throwing rubbish into lakes. |
A.All water shortages are due to human behavior. |
B.It takes a lot of effort to meet our water needs. |
C.There is much we can do to reduce family size. |
D.The average family in America makes proper use of water. |
A.show us how to fix leaks at home |
B.tell us how to run a dishwasher |
C.prove what drinking glass is best for us |
D.suggest what we do to save water at home |
A.why paving roads reduces our water |
B.how much we depend on water to live |
C.why droughts occur more in dry climates |
D.how human activity affects our water supply |
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:完型填空
It is nice to know what the weather will be like when we plan a trip. Do you know anything about the history of weather? Don’t look at the sky. Don’t look for old weather reports. Looking at the tree rings is more important. Correct weather reports date back only one century, but some trees can provide an exact record of weather even further back.
It is natural that a tree would grow best in a climate with plenty of sunlight and rainfall. It is also expected that little sunlight or rainfall would reduce the growth of a tree. The change from a favorable to an unfavorable climate can be found out by the reading pattern of rings in a tree trunk. To find out the weather of ten years ago, you can count the rings of a tree trunk from the outside to the inside. If the tenth ring is far from the other rings, then it is certain that plenty of sunny and rainy weather occurred. If the rings are close together, then the climate was bad for the tree.
Studying trees is important not only for the history of weather, but also for the history of man. In an area of New Mexico you can find only sand — no trees or people. However, many centuries ago a large population lived there. They left suddenly. Why?
A scientist studied the pattern of the rings of dead trees that had grown there. He made up his mind that the people had to leave because they had cut down all the trees. Trees were necessary to make fires and buildings. So, after the people destroyed the trees, they had to move.
In this example studying tree rings uncovered an exciting fact about the history of man.
【小題1】We can find out the weather of five years ago by counting the rings of a tree trunk ____.
A.from the left to the right |
B.from the right to the left |
C.from the inside to the outside |
D.from the outside to the inside |
A.bad | B.sunny | C.favorable | D.rainy |
A.why the people had to leave |
B.where the people had to go |
C.what the people had to eat |
D.how the people left |
A.trees provided an exact record of weather for research |
B.trees could supply them with fruit and food to live on |
C.trees could supply them with shades |
D.trees were materials for fires and buildings |
A.trees can’t live in the area without population |
B.that studying trees is important for the history of man and weather. |
C.what the real relation is between tree rings and the history of man and weather |
D.the history of man is important for the history of trees |
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
A rainforest is an area covered by tall trees with the total high rainfall spreading quite equally through the year and the temperature rarely dipping below 16℃.Rainforests have a great effect on the world environment because they can take in heat from the sun and adjust the climate.Without the forest cover,these areas would reflect more heat into the atmosphere,warming the rest of the world.Losing the rainforests may also influence wind and rainfall patterns,potentially causing certain natural disasters all over the world.
In the past hundred years,humans have begun destroying rainforests in search of three major resources(資源):land for crops,wood for paper and other products,land for raising farm animals.This action affects the environment as a whole.For example,a lot of carbon dioxide(二氧化碳)in the air comes from burning the rainforests.People obviously have a need for the resources we gain from cutting trees but we will suffer much more than we will benefit.
There are two main reasons for this.Firstly,when people cut down trees,generally they can only use the land for a year or two.Secondly,cutting large sections of rainforests may provide a good supply of wood right now,but in the long run it actually reduces the world's wood supply.
Rainforests are often called the world's drug store.More than 25% of the medicines we use today come from plants in rainforests.However,fewer than 1%of rainforest plants have been examined for their medical value.It is extremely likely that our best chance to cure diseases lies somewhere in the world's shrinking rainforests.
【小題1】Rainforests can help to adjust the climate because they ______.
A.reflect more heat into the atmosphere |
B.reduce the effect of heat from the sun on the earth |
C.bring about high rainfall throughout the world |
D.rarely cause the temperature to drop lower than 16℃ |
A.Humans have begun destroying rainforests. |
B.People have a strong desire for resources. |
C.We will lose much more than we can gain. |
D.Much carbon dioxide comes from burning rainforests. |
A.we can get enough resources without rainforests |
B.we will grow fewer kinds of crops in the gained land |
C.the level of annual rainfall affects wind patterns |
D.there is great medicine potential in rainforests |
A.Rainforests and the Environment |
B.How to Save Rainforests |
C.How to Protect Nature |
D.Rainforests and Medical Development |
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
Air pollution is a leading cause of cancer and classified among top human carcinogens (致癌物質(zhì)), said the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is the World Health Organization's (WHO) cancer agency, on Oct 17,2013.“Our task was to evaluate the air everyone breathes rather than focus on specific air pollutants,” the IARC's Dana Loomis said in a statement. “The results from the reviewed studies point in the same direction the risk of developing lung cancer is significantly increased in people exposed to air pollution.”
In 2010, lung cancer resulting from air pollution killed 223,000 people worldwide, and there was also convincing evidence that it increases the risk of bladder (膀胱) cancer. Loomis said people in Asia, Eastern North America, some places in Central America and Mexico, as well as North Africa have relatively high exposure(暴露). Developing countries with large populations and booming manufacturing sectors, such as China, are particularly at risk. This week, Harbin, the capital city of Heilongjiang province, became the first Chinese city to officially suspend classes due to serious smog, really good for teachers and students.
Many developed countries face similar problems, although to a lesser(較少的、次要的) degree than most developing nations. Between 91 and 96 percent of Europeans living in cities are exposed to levels of PM2.5—tiny particles with a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometers—that are higher than the WHO safety limits.
Although both the composition and levels of air pollution can vary dramatically from one location to the other, the IARC said its conclusions apply to all areas of the world. “Given the scale of the exposure affecting people worldwide, this report should send a strong signal to the international community to take action without further delay,” said Christopher Wild, director of the IARC.
【小題1】What’s the main task of IARC?
A.To focus on cancer-causing substances. |
B.To evaluate the air quality. |
C.To study the developing risk of cancer. |
D.To send signals to the international community. |
A.a(chǎn)ccelerate | B.a(chǎn)cknowledge |
C.delay | D.decline |
A.A large number of people worldwide are exposed to air pollution. |
B.More and more people in developing countries are exposed to air pollution. |
C.Developed countries face air pollution, the level of which is higher than the safety limits. |
D.The composition and levels of air pollution vary from place to place. |
A.PM2.5,bad effect. |
B.Safety limits of air pollution. |
C.Signals of air pollution. |
D.Air pollution, cancer risk. |
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
“If you want to see a thing well,reach out and touch it!”
That may seem a strange thing to say.But touching things can help you to see them better.
Your eyes can tell you that glass ball is round.But by holding it in your hands,you can feel how smooth and cool the ball is.You can feel how heavy the glass is.
When you feel all these about the ball,you really see it.
With your skin,you can feel better.For example,your fingers can tell the difference between two coins in your pocket.You can feel a little drop of water on the back of your hand,too.
You can even feel sounds against your skin.Have you ever wanted to know why some people like very loud music? They must like to feel the sounds of music.
All children soon learn what “Don't touch!” means.They hear it often.Yet most of us keep on touching things as we grow up.In shops,we touch things we might buy,such as food,clothes and so on.To see something well,we have to touch it.
The bottoms of our feet can feel things,too.You know this when you walk on warm sand,cool grass or a bad floor.All feel different under your feet.
There are ways of learning to see well by feeling.
One way is to close your eyes and try to feel everything that is touching your skin.Feel the shoes on your feet,the clothes on your body,the air on your skin.At first,it is not easy to feel these things.You are too used to them!
Most museums are just for looking.But today some museums have some things to touch.Their signs say,“Do touch! There you can feel everything on show.If you want to see better,reach out and touch.Then you'll really see!”
【小題1】By touching things ________.
A.you will have a strange feeling |
B.you will learn how to reach out |
C.you can tell the difference between them |
D.you can tell what colors they are |
A.try them on first |
B.put their right hand on them |
C.just has a look |
D.feel and touch them |
A.The things are used by people,too. |
B.People are used to the things. |
C.People know how to use the things. |
D.The things are easy to feel. |
A.Touching by Feeling | B.To See or to Feel |
C.To See Better — Feel | D.Ways of Feeling |
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
The behaviour of a building’s users may be at least as important as its design when it comes to energy use, according to new research from the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). The UK promises to reduce its carbon emissions (排放)by 80 percent by 2050, part of which will be achieved by all new homes being zero-carbon by 2016. But this report shows that sustainable building design on its own — though extremely important- is not enough to achieve such reductions: the behaviour of the people using the building has to change too.
The study suggests that the ways that people use and live in their homes have been largely ignored by existing efforts to improve energy efficiency (效率),which instead focus on architectural and technological developments.
‘Technology is going to assist but it is not going to do everything,’explains Katy Janda, a UKERC senior researcher,‘consumption patterns of building users can defeat the most careful design. ’In other words,old habits die hard, even in the best-designed eco-home.
Another part of the problem is information. Households and bill-payers don’t have the knowledge they need to change their energy-use habits. Without specific information,it’s hard to estimate the costs and benefits of making different choices. Feedback (反饋) facilities, like smart meters and energy monitors,could help bridge this information gap by helping people see how changing their behaviour directly affects their energy use; some studies have shown that households can achieve up to 15 percent energy savings using smart meters.
Social science research has added a further dimension (方面),suggesting that individuals’behaviour in the home can be personal and cannot be predicted 一 whether people throw open their windows rather than turn down the thermostat (恒溫器) , for example.
Janda argues that education is the key. She calls for a focused programme to teach people about buildings and their own behaviour in them.
【小題1】As to energy use, the new research from UKERC stresses the importance of________.
A. zero-carbon homes | B.the behaviour of building users |
C. sustainable building design | D.the reduction of carbon emissions |
A.the ways | B.their homes |
C. developments | D.existing efforts |
A. The importance of changing building users, habits. |
B. The necessity of making a careful building design. |
C. The variety of consumption patterns of building users. |
D. The role of technology in improving energy efficiency. |
A. can be bridged by feedback facilities |
B. affects the study on energy monitors |
C. brings about problems for smart meters |
D. will be caused by building users’ old habits |
A. The social science research is to be furthered. |
B. The education programme is under discussion. |
C. The behaviour of building users is unpredictable. |
D. The behaviour preference of building users is similar. |
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