---Did you enjoy the party last night?
--- _______! Everybody was in high spirits.
A. Not a little B. Not a bit
C. I couldn’t agree more D. I don’t believe so
科目：高中英語 來源：2014-2015學年江蘇連云港灌云四隊中學高二10月月考英語試卷（解析版） 題型：單項填空
How proud she is! She has been ________ Beijing University.
A. admitted to B. agreed to
C. received by D. addicted to
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Christmas Day is drawing near and the children ____________ receive gifts.
A. can’t wait for B. are hoping for
C. can’t wait to D. are wishing for
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科目：高中英語 來源：2014-2015學年江蘇鹽城時楊中學、建湖二中高二上期中英語試卷（解析版） 題型：單項填空
— Lucy, my good friend died in an accident yesterday.
— .
A. That’s all right B. You are lucky
C. Oh, well, that’s life D. Don’t worry
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科目：高中英語 來源：2014-2015學年江蘇鹽城時楊中學、建湖二中高二上期中英語試卷（解析版） 題型：單項填空
At the Olympic Games, only the athletes who have reached the agreed standard for their event will be ______ as competitors.
A. deserted B. discussed
C. admitted D. advertised
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科目：高中英語 來源：2014-2015學年江蘇灌南華僑雙語學校高二上期中英語試卷（解析版） 題型：閱讀理解
In high school, “cool” is the rule, so teenagers will do anything to avoid possibly embarrassing situations.
But not Samantha Elton, 15. She seeks them out. And if she can make a fool of herself as in the process, well, that’s even better.
For the past two years, Elton, has been a practitioner of improvisation, doing things that others would be embarrassed to consider.
Elton is a member of High School Jesters, a group that teaches improvisation techniques to students. The group was founded two years ago by Nicholas Kopatich, himself a keen improviser.
“I was sitting in my dorm room and some friends were having chats about comedy and improvisation,” Kopatich recalls. They asked for lessons after Kopatich told them he had improvisation experience. The small group turned out to be pretty good at it, so they did a show for the dorm. And things snowballed.
While even her mother marvels at Elton’s ability to get up in front of audience without a script to fall back on, the teen enjoys such opportunities. Performing improvisation comes with a certain freedom that theater doesn’t provide.
“What I like about it the most is that I don’t have to be a certain character or a certain way, and because of that I can’t get anything wrong,” Elton says, “I get to write the story while I’m doing it.”
Monica Elton, Samantha’s mom, thinks the workshops are a valuable outlet that a lot of students may not get in their schools. High school kids don’t usually like to act silly or look uncool, she says, but improvisation teaches them that it’s OK to have flaws.
“I like to think we give kids positively that allows them to gain confidence,” says Brent Mukai, a High School Jesters instructor. The great thing about improvisation is that it is an art form that is open to anyone. But there’s more to it than getting up in front of audience and telling jokes or acting silly.
“You don’t need to be the most amazing actress to be an improviser,” Samantha Elton says, “It’s really a place where I can show people my creativity. I can paint pictures for people and entertain others.”
It’s really free.
1.What do we know about improvisation?
A. Performers act as a certain character.
B. Performers need a script to act on.
C. Performers intend to make audience embarrassed.
D. Performers develop the story as they are playing.
2.According to Monica, practicing improvisation made Elton _______.
A. treat flaws as normal things
B. accept cool as the rule
C. avoid doing embarrassing things
D. care about what others comment on her
3.It can be inferred that Kopatich formed High School Jesters _______.
A. on purpose B. by accident
C. for business D. out of curiosity
4.The passage mainly tells us that ________.
A. teens make a fool of themselves
B. teens perform improvisation to be cool
C. teens express creativity through arts
D. teens gain confidence in the improvisation
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科目：高中英語 來源：2014-2015學年江蘇灌南華僑雙語學校高二上期中英語試卷（解析版） 題型：單項填空
Our factory has been developing rapidly this year. This year’s production is five times _____ it was ten years ago.
A. that B. what
C. which D. as
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科目：高中英語 來源：2014-2015學年江蘇淮安范集中學高二期中英語試卷（解析版） 題型：閱讀理解
If you are hungry, what will you do? Grab a piece of your favorite meal and stay quiet after that? Just like stomach, even your mind will be hungry. But it never lets you know, because you keep it busy thinking about your dream lover, favorite star and many such absurd things. So it silently begins to hide your needs and never lets itself grow. When mind loses its freedom to grow, creativity gets its full stop. This might be the reason why we all sometimes think “What happens next?”, “Why can’t I think?”, “Why am I always given the difficult problems?” Well, this is the after-effect of using our brain for thinking of not-so-worthy things.
Hunger of the mind can be actually satisfied through extensive reading. But why is it reading but not watching TV? Because reading has been the most educational tool used by us right from the childhood. Just like that to develop other aspects of our life, we have to turn to reading for help. You have a number of books in the world which will answer all your “how-to” questions. Once you read a book, you just don’t run your eyes through the lines, but your mind decodes (譯解) it and explains it to you. The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed. Now this seed is unknowingly used by you in your future to develop new ideas. The same seed, if used many times, can help you link and relate a lot of things, which you would never thought of in your wildest dreams! This is nothing but creativity. The more books you read, the wider your mind will become. Also this improves your oratorical (speech-making) skills to a large extent and also makes a significant contribution to your vocabulary. When you start speaking English or any other language fluently with your friends or other people, you never seem to run out of the right words at the right time.
Actually, I had a problem in speaking English fluently, but as I read, I could improve significantly. So guys, do join me and give food for your thoughts by reading, reading and more reading. Now what are you waiting for? Go, grab a book and let me know!
1. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Hunger of the mind
B. Stomach and Mind
C. Feed your Mind by reading
D. Reading or Watching TV
2.You don’t know your mind is in hunger because _____.
A. you are not hungry
B. you keep it thinking of silly things
C. your creativity gets a full stop
D. you always meet with difficult problems
3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as the advantage of reading?
A. Reading can make your dream come true.
B. Reading can contribute to your vocabulary.
C. Reading can improve your spoken ability.
D. Reading can make people creative.
4.The purpose of the author in writing this passage is to _______.
A. comment and blame B. introduce and describe
C. explain and persuade D. advise and inform
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科目：高中英語 來源：2014-2015學年江蘇淮安漣水中學高二上第一次模塊檢測英語試卷（解析版） 題型：填空題
任務型閱讀（每空一詞）(共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分)
Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. Women’s education may be an unusual economical field, but increasing women’s contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics, with its focus on encouragement, provides an explanation for why so many girls are rid of an education.
Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else’s family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school-the prophecy becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious(惡性的) circle of neglect.
An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle.
Few will argue that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic advantages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a significant effect on health practices, including family planning.
Topic: The significance of female 1. in developing countries
Viewpoint | Educating girls is more 2. and worthy of being invested. | |
Families | From low-income families | From educated mothers’ families |
Attitudes | Girls are of 3. importance than boys. | Development should be for all the 4. . |
Practices | There is little 5. in daughters, while boys are sent to school. Girls are made to stay at home, 6. housework. | It is insisted that girls and boys be offered chances to be 7. equally. |
Consequences | A vicious circle | A virtuous circle |
Significance | Educating women contributes to social 8. , has economic advantages and 9. health practices significantly, including family planning. | |
10. | Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding. | |
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