Some members suggested that the sports meeting _______ because of the bad weather   
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A. be put off            
B. put off            
C. putting off        
D. to be put off
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解

BUKHANNON, West Virginia—Two rescue teams slowly moved along a two-mile path on Monday night to the site of a coal mine explosion that trapped 13 miners, who had not been heard from since the early morning accident.

     Meanwhile, at a nearby church, more than 250 family members and friends gathered, waiting for updates(最新報(bào)道)on the rescuers’ progress.

    The miners were trapped at about 6:30 and many families weren’t informed of the accident until about 10 a.m-more than three hours after it happened.“It’s very upsetting, but you’ve got to be patient, I guess,” said John Helms, whose brother, Terry, was trapped in the mine.

     The trapped miners were about 260 feet underground and about 10,000 feet from the Sago Mine’s entrance, said Roger Nicholson, general counsel from International Coal Group.

     At a late night news conference, Nicholson said one team had advanced about 4, 800 feet in the four hours since entering the mine just before 6 p.m.Another team entered the mine about 30 minutes later.

     He said the crew was very experienced, with some members having worked underground for

30 to 35 years.The miners were equipped with about one hour of breathable oxygen each.The company has not released the names of the miners.

     The teams test the air about every 500 feet, and have to disconnect (remove) the power to the phones they use to communicate with the surface before doing that.“ We don’t want to be energizing anything if it’s in an atmosphere with burnable gases,” Kips said.

     The cause of the explosion was not immediately known.High levels of carbon monoxide were discovered shortly after the explosion, which delayed rescue efforts, but those levels have since subsided(減退), authorities said.

According to the passage, we can infer that ________.

       A.a(chǎn)ll the miners who were trapped underground were still alive

       B.communication with the trapped miners was cut off

       C.the two rescue teams entered the mine at the same time

    D.the rescue started as soon as the accident happened

If the first team advanced at an average speed, they could dig about _______ per hour.

 A.1,000 feet            B.2,400 feet        C.1,200feet        D.4,800feet

Where can the passage be seen?

       A.In a magazine.           B.In a newspaper.        

       C.In a science book..      D.On an advertisement.

Which of the following shows the position where the miners were trapped?

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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解

He was the baby with no name. Found and taken from the north Atlantic 6 days after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, his tiny body so moved the salvage (救援) workers that they called him “our baby.” In their home port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, people collected money for a headstone in front of the baby's grave (墓), carved with the words: “To the memory of an unknown child.” He has rested there ever since.

But history has a way of uncovering its secrets. On Nov. 5, this year, three members of a family from Finland arrived at Halifax and laid fresh flowers at the grave. “This is our baby,” says Magda Schleifer, 68, a banker. She grew up hearing stories about a great-aunt named Maria Panula, 42, who had sailed on the Titanic for America to be reunited with her husband. According to the information Mrs. Schleifer had gathered, Panula gave up her seat on a lifeboat to search for her five children -- including a 13-month-old boy named Eino from whom she had become separated during the final minutes of the crossing. "We thought they were all lost in the sea," says Schleifer.

    Now, using teeth and bone pieces taken from the baby's grave, scientists have compared the DNA from the Unknown Child with those collected from members of five families who lost relatives on the Titanic and never recovered the bodies. The result of the test points only to one possible person: young Eino. Now, the family sees no need for a new grave. "He belongs to the people of Halifax," says Schleifer, "They've taken care of him for 90 years."

                                Adapted from People, November 25, 2002

What is probably the boy's last name?

       A. Schleiferi.       B. Eino.            C. Magda.       D. Panula.

Some members of the family went to Halifax and put flowers at the child's grave on Nov. 5, __________.

       A. 1912 B.1954             C. 2002            D. 2004

This text is mainly about how _________.

       A. the unknown baby’s body was taken from the north Atlantic

       B. the unknown baby was buried in Halifax, Nova Sotia

       C. people found out who the unknown baby was

       D. people took care of the unknown baby for 90 years

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According to the United States government, people are classified as homeless if they have no place to stay and no expectation of finding a place for the next thirty days. Although technically accurate, that is an impersonal assessment of an enormous and very human problem.

    The homeless population represents all of us Americans. It includes men and women, the elderly, children, and infants. Its members are from all ethnic groups. What they have in common is poverty.

    Currently in the U.S., thirty-nine million people live in poverty. When money is really tight, paying the rent or buying food often becomes a choice. Government assistance in the form of food stamps does help but, as one homeless man explains, you can’t pay the rent with food stamps.

    With no money for rent, the streets and homeless shelters become the alternative.

    Although men make up the largest group within the homeless population, homeless women with children are rapidly joining them. In fact, one quarter of the homeless people in the U.S. are teenagers and young children.

    People may become homeless for numerous reasons. However, there are certain factors that many of these individuals have in common. They include a lack of adequate education and job skills. A majority of the teenagers and adults have not completed high school.

    The abuse of alcohol and drugs is also a common factor. One third of the adult homeless population abuses alcohol, while one quarter of the same group uses drugs.

    Some members of this population suffer mental health problems. Within the past several years many institutions for the mentally ill have been closed and their patients sent “home”. Unfortunately, a number of those people have no home to go to and they are unable to adequately look after themselves.

    Job loss in today’s economy has also become a real factor in the loss of people’s homes. The breakup of families through abandonment and divorce is also contributing factors, particularly when there are children involved. The parent who is left to care for the kids with inadequate income may be forced to depend on the homeless shelters to put a roof over their heads.

The writer thinks that the U.S. government’s definition for the homeless shows _________.

A. an insincere attitude toward the homeless

B. an unbearable attitude toward the homeless

C. an uncivilized attitude toward the homeless

D. an unsympathetic attitude toward the homeless

The U.S. government helps the homeless by _________.

A. giving them homeless allowance           B. giving them food stamps

C. finding jobs for them                        D. finding residence (a place to live) for them

People become homeless for all the following reasons EXCEPT _________.

A. the lack of adequate education

B. the abuse of alcohol and drugs

C. the closure of institutions for the mentally ill

D. the poor performance of economy

The breakup of families is likely to lead to homelessness because a parent with kids may _________.

A. lose his or her job in today’s economy

B. be unable to look after the kids

C. not have enough income

D. find residence at a homeless shelter

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科目:高中英語 來源:2013-2014學(xué)年高考第二輪專題復(fù)習(xí)提分訓(xùn)練專題十三完形填空英語試卷(解析版) 題型:完型填空

(2013·高考新課標(biāo)全國卷Ⅰ)I went to a group activity,“Sensitivity Sunday”,which was to make us more ____ the problems faced by disabled people.We were asked to“___a disability” for several hours one Sunday.Some members,____,chose to use wheelchairs.Others wore sound?blocking earplugs (耳塞) or blindfolds (眼罩)

Just sitting in the wheelchair was a____experience.I had never considered before how____it would be to use one.As soon as I sat downmy____made the chair begin to roll.Its wheels were not___.Then I wondered where to put my____.It took me quite a while to get the metal footrest into____.I took my first uneasy look at what was to be my only means of____for several hours.For disabled people,“adopting a wheelchair”is not a temporary(臨時(shí)的)___.

I tried to find a____position and thought it might be restful____kind of nice,to be___around for a while.Looking around,I____I would have to handle the thing myself! My hands started to ache as I____the heavy metal wheels.I came to know that controlling the____of the wheelchair was not going to be a(n)____task.

My wheelchair experiment was soon____.It made a deep impression on me.A few hours of “disability” gave me only a taste of the____,both physical and mental,that disabled people must overcome.

1.A.curious about? Baware of

Cinterested in? Dcareful with

2.A.cure? Badopt

Cprevent? Danalyze

3.A.instead? Bstrangely

Cas usual? Dlike me

4.A.learning? Bworking

Csatisfying? Drelaxing

5.A.convenient? Bawkward

Cboring? Dexciting

6.A.height? Bforce

Cskill? Dweight

7.A.locked? Brepaired

Cpowered?? Dgrasped

8.A.hands?? Bfeet

Ckeys? Dhandles

9.A.place?? Baction

Cplay? Deffect

10.A.operation? Bcommunication

Ctransportation?? Dproduction

11.A.exploration?? Beducation

Cexperiment?? Dentertainment

12.A.flexible? Bsafe

Cstarting?? Dcomfortable

13.A.yet??? Bjust

Cstill?? Deven

14.A.shown?? Bpushed

Cdriven? Dguided

15.A.realized? Bsuggested

Cagreed? Dadmitted

16.A.lifted? Bturned

Cpressed? Dseized

17.A.path? Bposition

Cdirection?? Dway

18.A.easy? Bheavy

Cmajor? Dextra

19.A.forgotten? Brepeated

Cconducted?? Dfinished

20.A.weaknesses? Banxieties

Cchallenges?? Dillnesses

 

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科目:高中英語 來源:2011浙江杭州二中高三5月模擬英語試題 題型:閱讀理解

It came as something of a surprise when Diana, Princess of Wales, made a trip to Angola in 1997, to support the Red Cross’s campaign for a total ban on all anti-personnel landmines. Within hours of arriving in Angola television screens around the world were filled with images of her comforting victims injured in explosions caused by landmines. “I knew the statistics,” she said, “But putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me; like when I met Sandra, a 13-year-old girl who had lost her leg, and people like her.”

The Princess concluded with a simple message: “We must stop landmines”. And she used every opportunity during her visit to repeat this message.

But, back in London, her views were not shared by some members of the British government, which refused to support a ban on these weapons. Angry politicians launched an attack on the Princess in the press. They described her as “very ill-informed” and a “l(fā)oose cannon (亂放炮的人).”

The Princess responded by brushing aside the criticisms: “This is a distraction we do not need. All I’m trying to do is help.”

Opposition parties, the media and the public immediately voiced their support for the Princess. To make matters worse for the government, it soon emerged that the Princess’s trip had been approved by the Foreign Office, and that she was in fact very well-informed about both the situation in Angola and the British government’s policy regarding landmines. The result was a severe embarrassment for the government.

To try and limit the damage, the Foreign Secretary, Malcolm Rifkind, claimed that the Princess’s views on landmines were not very different from government policy, and that it was “working towards” a worldwide ban. The Defence Secretary, Michael Portillo, claimed the matter was “a misinterpretation or misunderstanding”.

For the Princess, the trip to this war-torn country was an excellent opportunity to use her popularity to show the world how much destruction and suffering landmines can cause. She said that the experience had also given her the chance to get closer to people and their problems.

1. Princess Diana paid a visit to Angola in 1997______.

A. to voice her support for a total ban of landmines.

B. to clarify the British government’s stand on landmines.

C. to investigate the sufferings of landmine victims.

D. to establish her image as a friend of landmine victims.

2.. What did Diana mean when she said“…putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to

    me” (Para.1)?

A. She just couldn’t bear to meet the landmine victims face to face.

B. The actual situation in Angola made her feel like going back home.

C. Meeting the landmine victims in person made her believe the statistics.

D. Seeing the pain of the victims made her realize the seriousness of the situation.

3. Some members of the British government criticized Diana because______.

A. she was ill-informed of the government’s policy.

B. they believed that she had misinterpreted the situation in Angola.

C. she had not consulted the government before the visit.

D. they were actually opposed to banning landmines.

4. How did Diana respond to the criticisms?

A. She made more appearances on TV.

   B. She paid no attention to them.

C. She met the 13-year-old girl as planned.

D. She rose to argue with her opponents.

5. What did Princess Diana think of her visit to Angola?

A. It had caused embarrassment to the British government.

B. It had brought her closer to the ordinary people.

C. It had greatly promoted her popularity.

D. It had affected her relations with the British government.

 

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