科目:高中英語 來源:學習·探究·診斷 高二英語(下) 題型:050
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Dog owners now have a little help understanding their furry friends. A new device called Bow-Lingual “translates” dog barks into English, Korea or Japanese.
Bow-Lingual's Japanese inventors spent much time and money-analyzing dog barks. They found that dog noises can be broken down into six different emotions: happiness, sadness, frustration, anger, assertion and desire.
Part of the Bow-Lingual device hangs on the dog's collar. The other part is a handle-held unit for the owner. When the dog barks, the unit displays translated phrases.
Some people have scoffed at Bow-Lingual. “Who would pay US $ 120 to read a dog's mind?” they ask.
But those who have purchased Bow-Lingual praise the device. Pet owner Keiko Egawa, of Japan, says it helps her empathize with her dog, Harry. “Before we go to the par, he always says he wants to play,” says Egawa, “and after a walk, he always says he is hungry.”
Bow-Lingual is riot yet available in Chinese. So you'd better keep studying Studio Classroom, or soon your dog may know more English than you do!
1.This passage is mainly talking about ________.
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A.Bow-Lingual's inventors
B.dog barks and their different emotions
C.talking dogs
D.a(chǎn) little help for dog owners
2.Which of the following sentences is TRUE according to the passage?
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A.Dog owners now can understand their dogs better.
B.Bow-Lingual is a new device that enables dogs to talk in English, Korean or Japanese.
C.More and more Chinese dog owners would keep studying Studio Classroom in order to know more English than their dogs.
D.People who have used the Bow-Lingual say it helps them better understand their dogs.
3.What does “scoffed at” mean in the 3rd paragraph?
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4.How do you understand the sentence “Bow-Lingual is not yet available in Chinese” in the last paragraph?
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A.Bow-Lingual has not yet appeared in Chinese market.
B.Bow-Lingual can not yet recognized Chinese dogs' barks.
C.Chinese dog owners do not know yet how to use Bow-Lingual.
D.Dog barks can not yet be translated into Chinese phrases with Bow-Lingual.
5.The writer of this passage is most likely to be ________.
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科目:高中英語 來源:重慶市南開中學2010屆高三上學期期末測試 題型:閱讀理解
第三部分:閱讀理解(共20小題,每題2分,滿分40分)
閱讀下列短文,從每題所給的四個選項(A、B、C和D)中,選出最佳選項,并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
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Part one: First Major Novels
If Dickens had remained the author of Pickwick, Oliver Twist, and The Old Curiosity Shop, he might have gained lasting fame only as an author of cheerful comedy. But Dombey and Son, published in 1846 and continued till 1848, is a realistic novel of human life in a society which had taken more or less its modern form. The novel is a study of the influence of the values of a business society n the members of the Dombey family.
Part two:
In 1851 Dickens was struck by the death of his father and one of his daughters within 2 weeks.
Partly in response to these losses, he created a series of works which have come to be called his
“dark” novels and which rank among the greatest success of the art of fiction.
Par three: Later Works
In 1859 Dickens published A Tale of Two Cities, a historical novel of the French Revolution, which is read today most often as a school text. It is fine picture of the historical period and a moving tale of a surprisingly modern hero. Besides publishing this novel in the lately founded All the Year Round, Dickens also published 17 articles, which appeared as a book later.
Dickens’s next novel, Great Expectations(1860~1861), tells the story of a young man’s moral(道德的)development in the course of his life-from childhood in the provinces to gentleman’s role in London. Not based on his own life like David Copperfield, Great Expectations belongs to type of fiction called, in German, Bildungsroman (the novel of a man’s education or formation by experience.)
56.Which of the following Dickens’ novel shows a clear change of style?
A.David Copperfield B.Pickwick
C.Dombey and Son D.Oliver Twist
57.The best title for Part two might be .
A.Unexpected deaths B.Dark novels
C.Great losses D.The art of fiction
58.According to the passage, A Tale of Two Cities .
A.is about the Industry Revolution B.can be found in most of the textbooks
C.is better than his “dark” novels D.is probably published in a new magazine
59.In Great Expectation, Dickens writes about .
A.the growth of a man B.how to become a gentleman
C.his own life experience D.a(chǎn) man’s school education
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科目:高中英語 來源:2013-2014學年湖北省黃岡市高三年級3月測試英語試卷(解析版) 題型:閱讀理解
Many people believe that teaching children music makes them smarter, better able to learn new things. But the organizers of a new study say there's no scientific evidence that early musical training affects the intelligence of young people.
An estimated 80 percent of American adults think music lessons improve children's abilily to learn or their performance in school. They say that the satisfaction for learning to play a new song helps a child express creativity.
Researchers at Harvard University, however, have found that there's one thing musical training does not do. They say it does not make children more intelligent. Samuel Mehr is a graduate student at Harvard's School of Education. He said it is wrong to think that learning to play a musical instrument improves a child's intellectual development. He says the evidence comes from studies that measured the mental ability of two groups of 4-year-olds and their parents. One group attended music class, the other went to a class that places importance on the visual arts—arts that can be seen.
"The evidence there is 'no'. We found no evidence for any advantage on any of these tests for the kids participating in these music clases," said Mehr.Samuel Mehr says researchers have carried out many studies in an effort to learn whether musical training can make children smarter. He says the results have been mixed. He says only one study seems to show a small percentage increase in IQ, intellectual scores among students after one year of music lessons. He does not believe that IQ is a good measure of child's intelligence. He says researchers in his study compared how well children in the musical training group did on mental processing tasks or projects, then the results were compared to those of children who did not take lessons. There was no evidence that the musical training group did much better on the mental tasks than the other group.
The researchers comfirmed the results with a larger group of children and their parents.Mr Mehr says music lessons may not offer children a fast easy way to gain entry to the best schools later of their life. But he says the training is still important for cultural reasons. In his words, "We teach music because music is important for us."
1.According to the new study, musical training______.
A. makes children smarter????????????????????????
B. helps a child express creativity
C. does not make children more intelligent??????????
D. improve children's ability to learn in school
2.Samuel Mehr may agree that______.
A. the children who attended music class are smarter than those who attended arts class
B. IQ is a good measure of a child's intelligence
C. we needn't to teach children music
D. music training is still important for cultural reasons
3.In order to confirm his view, Samuel Mehr______.
A. conducted more than one research
B. interviewed many American adults
C. taught two groups of 4-yetr-olds music and arts
D. offered children a fast way to be admitted to the best schools
4.The artical may be taken from a report about _____.
A. health????????????? B. education????????????? C. ????????????? culture????????????? D.economy
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科目:高中英語 來源:2012-2013學年山東省高三上學期期中考試英語試卷(解析版) 題型:其他題
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[1]Keeping a busy social life among lots of friends may keep people slimmer than spending hours on a treadmill, according to scientists. They say that socializing and meeting with friends helps boost levels of ‘brown fat’ in the boby which burns calories to generate heat.
[2]Living in a stimulating, social environment was found to reduce abdominal fat in mice by half over four weeks, even if they ate more. US researchers say that social stimulation can
by converting white fat into brown, White stores calories and makes us fatter, while brown burns energy to generate heat .Converting white fat into brown is difficult, as we all know, normally requiring long term exposure to cold conditions or activating part of the body’s nervous system
[3]However, scientists from Ohio State University now think that having a busy social life is an even more effective way of changing white fat into brown, The team came up with their theory by studying the effects of various living environments on mice. Those who lived alongside a greater number of mice and had more space and toys to stimulate them lost far more weight over the course of the study than their ‘couch potato’ ones.
[4]Study author Dr. Mattew During, whose team’s findings appear in journal Cell Metabolism said: I’m still amazed at the degree of fat loss that occurs. Explaining how new technology had threatened face-to-face socializing, he added: ‘It’s not just a sedentary lifestyle and high calorie foods, but an increasing lack of social engagement.’
[5]Co-author Dr. Lei Cao said: ‘Loneliness is a profound factor for cancer and death; it’s on par with cigarette smoking. Social engagement is very important’.
1.What’s the main idea of this passage? (no more than 10 words)
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2.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 5 words)
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3.What’s the purpose of the study of mice? (no more than 20 words)
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4.How does socializing help make people slim? (no more than 15 words)
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5.Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
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科目:高中英語 來源:2010-2011學年浙江省高三10月月考英語卷 題型:閱讀理解
I fell in love with England because it was quaint (古雅)—all those little houses, looking terribly old-fashioned but nice, like dolls’ houses.I loved the countryside and the pubs, and I loved London.I’ve slightly changed my mind after seventeen years because I think it’s an ugly town now.
Things have changed. For everybody, England meant gentlemen, fair play, and good manners.The fair play is going, unfortunately, and so are the gentlemanly attitudes and good manners—people shut doors heavily in your face and politeness is disappearing.
I regret that there are so few comfortable meeting places.You’re forced to live indoors.In Paris I go out much more, to restaurants and nightclubs.To meet friends here it usually has to be in a pub, and it can be difficult to go there alone as a woman.The cafes are not terribly nice.
As a woman, I feel unsafe here.I spend a bomb on taxis because I will not take public transport after 10 p.m.I used to use it, but now I’m afraid.
The idea of family seems to be more or less non-existent in England. My family is well united and that’s typically French.In Middlesex I had a neighbour who is 82 now.His family only lived two miles away, but I took him to France for Christmas once because he was always alone.
1.The writer doesn’t like London because she ______.
A.is not used to the life there now
B.has lived there for seventeen years
C.prefers to live in an old-fashioned house
D.has to be polite to everyone she meets there
2.Where do people usually meet their friends in England?
A.In a cafe. B.In a restaurant. C.In a nightclub. D.In a pub.
3.The underlined part “it” (in Par A.4) refers to______.
A.a(chǎn) taxi B.the money C.a(chǎn) bomb D.public transport
4.The writer took her neighbour to France for Christmas because he ______.
A.felt lonely in England B.had never been to France
C.was from a typical French family D.didn't like the British idea of family
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