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      Britain is set to face an increase in cold winters, with up to oneinseven hitting the UK with
longer periods of time when temperatures are below freezing, a study has suggested.The
prediction was based on research that found out how low solar activity affected winter weather
patterns.
     However, the researchers were eager to stress that their findings did not suggest that the
region was about to fall suddenly into a "little ice age"．The findings appear in the journal
Environmental Research Letters."We could get to the point where oneinseven winters are very cold, as we had at the start of last winter and all through the winter before last."said coauthor
Mike Lockwood, professor of space environment physics at the University of Reading.
Using the Central England Temperature (CET) record, the world's longest instrumental data
series that dates back to 1659,the team said that in general temperatures during recent winters
had been obviously lower than the longerterm temperatures."The mean CET for December,
January and February for the recent relatively cold winters of 2008～2009 and 2009～2010
were 3.50℃ and 2.53℃ respectively," they wrote."However, the mean value for the previous 20 winters had been 5.04℃.The series of lower winter temperatures in the UK during the last three years had raised questions about the probability of more similar, or even colder winters
occurring in the future."
     Last year Professor Lockwood and colleagues published a paper that found a link between
fewer sunspots and atmospheric conditions that "blocked" warm westerly winds reaching
Europe during winter months, opening the way for cold easterly winds from the Arctic and
Russia to sweep across the region.Professor Lockwood, while acknowledging that there were a
range of possible meteorological factors (氣象因素) that could influence blocking events, said
the latest study moved things forward by showing that there was "improvement in the predictive skill" when solar activity was taken into consideration.
1. We can know from the second paragraph that ________.
A. research shows that Britain will soon fall into an ice age
B. Mike Lockwood's research focuses on space environment physics
C. it was quite cold in Britain over the entire winter last year
D. so far oneinseven winters have been very cold in Britain

2. The underlined word "mean" in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to "________"．

A. average  
B. stable
C. ungenerous  
D. changeable
3. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. It was sunspots that blocked warm westerly winds reaching Europe.
B. Meteorological factors hardly have any influence on blocking events.
C. The latest study done by Professor Lockwood was of little practical value.
D. Considering solar activity or not affects the accuracy of weather forecasting.
4. What's the best title of the passage?
A. Another Big Danger Approaching the UK
B. Research Finds out Solar Activity Is to Blame for the Cold
C. UK Faces More Cold Winters Due to Weaker Solar Activity
D. Changes in Weather Patterns Should Be Responsible for Low solar Activity
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      Water is very important to living things. Without water there can be no life on the earth. All animals
and plants need water. Man also needs water. We need water to drink, to cook our food and to clean
ourselves. Water is needed in offices, factories and schools. Water is needed everywhere.
      There is water in seas, rivers and lakes. Water is found almost everywhere. Even in the desert part
of the world, there is some water in the air. You can not see or feel it when it is a part of the air. The
water in the seas, rivers and lakes is a liquid, the water in the air is a gas, and we call it water vapor (蒸氣).
      Clouds are made of water. They may be made of very small drops of water. They may also be made
of snow crystals(結(jié)晶體). Snow crystals are very small crystals of ice. Ice is frozen water. It is a solid.
There can be snow and ice everywhere in winter.
     Water may be a solid or a liquid or a gas. When it is a solid, it may be as hard as a stone. When it is
a liquid, you can drink it. When it is a gas, you can not see or feel it.

1. Where can we find water?

A. We can find water when it turns into vapor.
B. Water can be found almost everywhere.
C. We can see water in deserts here and there.
D. Water is only in seas and rivers.

2. We can drink water when it is____.

A. a liquid  
B. a solid  
C. in the air  
D. turned into ice

3. Clouds are made of

A. seas, rivers and lakes      
B. blocks of ice
C. very small drops of water or snow crystals
D. solid, liquid and gas

4. Water has three states(狀態(tài)). They are ____.

A. ice, snow and air    
B. solid, vapor, snow
C. drops of water, blocks of ice and crystals of water
D. solid, liquid and gas

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科目：高中英語 來源：期末題 題型：閱讀理解

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B. If you want to learn English, we can teach you!
C. Top English, the best English!        
D. We have what you want!
2. If you work in a joint Venture(合資) Company, you probably take the       course.
A. Standard Spoken English              
B. Intermediate Business English
C. TOEFL Super Studies                
D. Children's Weekend
3. Which of the following courses can be learned by the same person?
A. Basic Studies and Standard Spoken English.
B. Intermediate Spoken English and Basic Business English.
C. Standard Spoken English and TOEFL Super Studies.
D. Intermediate Business English and TOEFL Super Studies.
4. If you want to join the English Salon, you should at least        .
A. be a university graduate        
B. be a student learning English in the Top English City
C. be an English lover or can speak English well
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     根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容, 從短文后的七個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng).選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為
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                                              Early Childhood Education
     Early childhood education is the formal (正規(guī)的) teaching and care of young children .It primarily
focuses on learning through playing to encourage the child's different kinds of development.    1   
     Studies with Head Start programs throughout the United States have shown some evidence that there
are quite a few advantages to early childhood education, which can produce significant gains in children's
learning and development. Compared to a child who does not attend pre-school, children completing
their early education programs are found to be better at math and reading skills. They are excited to learn
and have the tools to do so.    2   These children are more competent in their pre-school, kindergarten
and school-age years, and they are usually reported as "friendlier" by parents and the children's peers
(同伴). 
     3  In studies with matched control groups, more students who had early schooling experiences were
employed at the age of 19, fewer were on welfare, and fewer were involved with the criminal activity.
What's more, some studies show that children attending pre-school are more likely to graduate and have
higher education, and be well integrated (綜合) as an adult.
    Early childhood education gives most children a jump-start on education for their kindergarten and
primary school years. It is clear that early childhood education can have some great benefits for children.
    4   If early childhood education is less effective, perhaps the best model is finding strategies for
allowing a parent to stay home with his or her child for at least the first two to three years. Also important
is considering a child's own personality.    5    

A. The long-term influence of early education is significant as well.
B. They can benefit greatly from encouragement in their early childhood.
C. Yet its quality must be assessed to see what kind of benefits it actually provides.
D. They are also able to relate to others in a superior way and that improves their social skills.
E. Many experts of education have concerned about what early childhood education means today.
F. Individual differences in children mean that not all children will get equal benefits from early
     childhood education.
G. It consists of activities that serve children in the pre-school years and is designed to improve
     later school performance.

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閱讀理解。
     The pupils of the remote Beau-Roc primary school in Haiti are chanting. One of them plays a guitar made
from an empty oil tin. Their headmistress, Emile Jean-Noel, is one of the few women school headteachers in
the country.
     Today, over 70% of Haitian population live without proper food, water, schools, or housing. To reduce the
hunger that prevents learning and to encourage parents to send their children to school, meals are provided by
the World Food Programme.
     "We are so cut off that we have many difficulties," comments Emile, adding that finding chalk, school books
and other materials is practically impossible. Entile tries to encourage people around her to make use of available
resources. Her efforts are bearing fruit. One of her successes was convincing local women to contribute to
their children's schooling and increase their income by selling embroidery (刺繡) and other handicrafts.
     Recent political instability has meant that the country has not invested (投資) in education for ten years.
Only 44% of children go to school and less than half of them finish primary school. Less than a third of these
children go on to secondary school. In rural areas it is not rare to find 17 and 18 year olds in primary school-
Beau-Roc has only 4 teachers for 260 pupils. Emile works constantly to improve her pupils' environment.
Under her direction, a local worker is now constructing a store house for the food delivered regularly by the
WFP.
     Not only is Emile's salary small, but she receives it irregularly. For her, transport is a real headache. She
lives five kilometers away and has to take the tap, a privately-owned bus, costing more than she can afford.
     "The decision to be a rural teacher in Haiti should not be taken lightly", Emile comments. "With all the
sacrifices and risks it requires, only those who are really cut out for teaching should do it." However, Emile
loves her job. "I always feel at home with the children and, because the parents understand what I'm doing,
I try to give my best."
1. Which of the following is extremely difficult for Beau-Roc primary school?
A. Teaching the women how to make embroidery and other handicrafts.
B. Persuading local women to care about their children' s education.
C. Encouraging people around to use those available resources.
D. Finding chalk, school books and other materials.
2. The many figures in Paragraph 4 indicate _____.
A. poor investment in Haitian education
B. political instability in Haiti
C. challenges in Emile's life
D. Emile's constant efforts
3. In the last paragraph, "those who are really cut out for teaching" refer to people who are _____.
A. dismissed from teaching
B. unfamiliar with teaching
C. qualified for teaching
D. cautious about teaching
4. What topic is presented in this passage?
A. Hardship for teachers.
B. Devotion to education.
C. Politics and children.
D. Love and beauty.

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科目：高中英語 來源：期末題 題型：閱讀理解

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      Time and how we experience it have always puzzled us. Physicists have created fascinating theories,
but their time is measured by a pendulum (鐘擺) and is not psychological time, which leaps with little
regard to the clock or calendar. As some-one who understood the distinction observed, "When you sit
with a nice girl for two hours it seems like a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove, a minute seems like
two hours. "
     Psychologists have long noticed that larger units of time, such as months and years, fly on swifter
wings as we age. They also note that the more time is structured with schedules and appointments, the
more rapidly it seems to pass. For example, a day at the office flies compared with a day at the beach.
Since most of us spend fewer days at the beach and more at the office as we age, an increase in
structured tune could well be to blame for why time seems to speed up as we grow older.
      Expectation and familiarity also make time seem to flow more rapidly. Almost all of us have had the
experience of driving somewhere we've never been before. Surrounded by unfamiliar scenery, with no
real idea of when we'll arrive, we experience the trip as lasting a long time. But the return trip, although
exactly as long, seems to take far less time. The novelty of the outward journey has become routine.
Thus taking a different route on occasions can often help slow the clock.
     When was become as identical as identical as beads(小珠子)on a string, they mix together, and even
months become a single day. To counter this, try to find ways to interrupt the structure of your day-to
stop time, so to speak.
     Learning something new is one of the ways to slow the passage of time. One of the reasons the days
of our youth seems so full and long is that these are the days of learning and discovery. For many of us,
learning ends when we leave school, but this doesn't have to be.

1. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 is used to show         .

A. psychological time is quite puzzling
B. time should not be measured by a pendulum
C. physical time is different from psychological time
D. physical theory has nothing to do with the true sense of time

2. Why do units of time fly faster as we grow older?

A. Our sense of time changes.
B. We spend less time at the beach.
C. More time is structured and scheduled.
D. Time is structured with too many appointments.

3. In Paragraph 3 "novelty" probably means         .

A. excitement
B. unfamiliarity
C. imagination
D. amusement

4. The purpose of the passage is to         .

A. give various explanations about time
B. describe how we experience time psychologically
C. show the different ideas of physicists and psychologists on time
D. explain why time flies and how to slow it down psychologically

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     Scientists have found that human eyes are more likely to be damaged by UV rays
(紫外線) while skiing in the snow-covered areas than sitting on the beach, according to a report by the
UK newspaper The Telegraph.
     The researchers at Kanazawa Medical University, Japan and American company Johnson conducted
the study together. They looked at the effects of light reflection on newly fallen snow on a ski trail (a
rough path) in Ishikawa District, northern Japan. They compared the results with the levels of UV rays
on a sand beach in southern Japan's Okinawa District. They found that on the beach, eyes are exposed
to a daily 260 kilojoules (千焦耳) of UV a square meter compared to 658 kilojoules in snow-covered
areas.
     The findings are supported by the Japan Meteorological Agency. According to the agency, the
reflection rate of UV light on beaches is often between 10 and 25 percent, compared to 80 percent in
the new snow areas. The amount of light increased 4 percent with a 300-meter rise in height.
     Most of us know that UV rays can harm the skin. That's why we wear sunscreen on our skin before
we get out in the sun. But many of us may not realize that UV rays are also harmful to the eyes.
     If your eyes are exposed to large amounts of UV radiation over a short period of time, you may
experience a kind of sunburn of the eye, which is harmful. Your eyes will become red and feel a strange
feeling. They may be sensitive to light. Fortunately, this is usually temporary and seldom causes
permanent damage to the eyes.
     Long-term exposure to UV radiation, however, can be more serious. Scientific studies and
researches have shown that exposure to small amounts of UV radiation over a period of many years
increases the chance of eye damage, which could lead to total blindness.

1. You would most likely find the article in ________.

A. a medical magazine      
B. a travel journal  
C. a doctor's diary
D. a physics textbook

2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Too much eye exposure to UV rays may cause total blindness.
B. Short-time exposure of the eyes to UV rays doesn't harm them at all.
C. Most people know that UV rays harm the eyes as well as the skin.
D. The study was conducted by researchers from Japan, the USA and the UK.

3. The underlined word "sunscreen" in Paragraph 4 most probably means ______.

A. sunglasses  
B. sun cream
C. sun hat    
D. sunburn

4. What will the passage most probably talk about next?

A. Never ski on newly fallen snow in Japan.
B. Take some measures to protect your eyes while skiing in new snow areas.
C. Wearing a hat can provide protection while skiing in new snow areas.
D. Go to hospital to have your eyes examined.

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科目：高中英語 來源：同步題 題型：閱讀理解

                                                        The Cost of Higher Education
     Individuals(個(gè)人) should pay for their higher education.
     A university education is of huge and direct benefit to the individual. Graduates eam more than
non-graduates.Meanwhile,social mobility is ever more dependent on having a degree. However,only
some people have it. So the imli-
vidual,not the taxpayers,should pay for it. There are pressing calls on the resources(資源) of the
government.  Using taxpayers' money to help a small number of people to earn high incomes in the future
is not one of them.
     Full govemment funding(資助) is not very good for universities. Adam Smith worked in a Scottish
university whose teachers lived off student fees.  He knew and looked down upon 18th-century Oxford,
where the academics lived comfortably off the income received from the govemment.  Guaranteed salaries,Smith argued,were the enemy of hard work;and when the academics were lazy and incompetent,the
students were similarly lazy.
      If students have to pay for their education,they not only work harder,but also demand more from their
teachers. And their teachers have to keep them satisfied.  If that means taking teachjng seriously,and giving less time to their own research interests,that is surely something to celebrate.
         Many people believe that higher education should be free because it is good for the economy (經(jīng)濟(jì)) .  Many graduates clearly do contribute to national wealth,but so do all the businesses that invest (投資) and create jobs.  If you believe that the government should pay for higher education because
graduates are economically productive,you should also believe that the government should pay part of
business costs. Anyone promising to create jobs should receive a gift of capital from the govemment to
invest. Therefore,it is the individual,not the govemment,who should pay for their university education.
1. The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 2 refers to _____.
A. taxpayers                                  
B. pressing calls
C. college graduates                          
D. govemment resources
2. The author thinks that with full govemment funding _____.
A. teachers are less satisfied                  
B. students are more demanding
C. students will become more competent  
D. teachers will spend less time on teaching
3. The author mentions businesses in Paragraph 5 in order to____.
A. argue against free university education    
B. call on them to finance students' studies
C. encourage graduates to go into business        
D. show their contribution to higher education

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科目：高中英語 來源：浙江省期中題 題型：閱讀理解

閱讀理解。
     In America, drivers' education is part of the regular high school curriculum (課程). Every student in his
or her second year of high school is required to take a class in driver's education. However, unlike other
courses, it is not given during the regular school year. Instead it is a summer course.?
     The course is divided up into two parts: class time for learning laws and regulations, and driving time to
practise driving. Class time is not unlike any other class. The students study the basic traffic laws from a text
to pass the written driving test that is given to anyone who wants to get a driver's license.
     Driving time is a chance for the students to get behind the wheel (steering wheel) and practise starting
steering, backing up, parking, switching lanes, turning corners, and all the other maneuvers (操作) required
to drive a car. Each student is required to drive a total of six hours. The students are divided up into groups
of four. The students and the instructor go out driving for two hour blocks of time. Thus, each student gets
half an hour driving time per outing. The instructor and "driver" sit in the front seats and the other three
students sit in the back.
     After the student has passed the driver's education course and reached the appropriate age to drive (this
age differs in every state but in most cases the person must be 16 years old), they can go to a designated (指
定的) state office to take their driver's test, which is made up of an eye examination, a written test, and a
road test. The person must pass all three tests in order to be given a driver's license. If the person did well in
his or her driver's education class, he or she will pass the test with flying colors and get a driver's license.?
1. In America, the driver's course mentioned above _____.?
[     ]
A. is considered as part of the advanced education?
B. is given to anyone wanting to get a driver's license?
C. is carried on at the same time as other courses?
D. is offered to all the students of Grade 2 in high schools
2. We can infer that the students are required to _____ in their whole driving practice.
[     ]
A. spend at least six hours driving
B. get half an hour driving
C. drive for two hour blocks of time
D. go out driving for twelve times
3. Which of the following is Not True for the students wanting to get their driver's license??
[     ]
A. They must have their eyes examined.
B. They must be 16 years of age.?
C. They should go to have their driver's test.
D. They ought to do well in their driver's course.?
4. In the last sentence, "with flying colors" means _____.?
[     ]
A. happily
B. quickly
C. colorfully
D. successfully

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