Because every day we have _______mail to receive ,we may not be able to reply to your letter.
A. a great many of B.a large number of
C.a large amount of D. a plenty of
科目:高中英語 來源:2014-2015學(xué)年浙江省嘉興市高二暑假作業(yè)檢測英語試卷(解析版) 題型:閱讀理解
The predictability of our death rates is something that has long puzzled social scientists. After all, there is no natural reason why 2,500 people should accidentally shoot themselves each year or why 7,000 should drown or 55,000 die in their cars. No one establishes a quota (定額) for each type of death. It just happens that they follow a consistent pattern year after year.
A few years ago a Canadian psychologist named Gerald Wilde became interested in this phenomenon. He noticed that mortality rates for violent and accidental deaths throughout the Western world have remained strangely static throughout the whole of the century, despite all the technological advances and increases in safety standards that have happened in that time. Wilde developed an interesting theory called “risk homeostasis”. According to this theory, people naturally live with a certain level of risk. When something is made safer, people will get around the measure in some way to get back to the original level of danger. If, for instance, they are required to wear seat belts, they will feel safer and thus will drive a little faster and a little more recklessly, thereby statistically canceling out the benefits that the seat belt offers. Other studies have shown that where a crossing is made safer, the accident rate invariably falls there but rises elsewhere along the same stretch of road as if making up for the drop. It appears, then, that we have an inborn need for danger. In all events, it is becoming clearer and clearer to scientists that the factors influencing our lifespan are far more subtle and complex than had been previously thought. It now appears that if you wish to live a long life, it isn’t simply a matter of paying attention to certain precautions such as eating the right foods, not smoking, and driving with care. You must also have the right attitude. Scientists at the Duke University Medical Center made a 15-year study of 500 persons personalities and found, somewhat to their surprise, that people with a suspicious or mistrustful nature die prematurely far more often than people with a sunny disposition. Looking on the bright side, it seems, can add years to your life span.
1.What social scientists have long felt puzzled about is why __________.
A. the death rate can not be predicted
B.the death toll remained stable year after year
C.a quota for each type of death has not come into being
D.people lost their lives every year for this or that reason
2.In his research, Gerald Wilde finds that technological advances and increases in safety standards __________.
A.have helped solve the problem of so high death rate
B.have oddly accounted for death rates in the past century
C. have reduced death rates for violent and accidental deaths
D. have achieved no effect in bringing down the number of deaths
3.According to the theory of “risk homeostasis”, some traffic accidents result from ___________.
A. our inborn desire for risk
B. our fast and reckless driving
C. our ignorance of seat belt benefits
D. our instinctive interest in speeding
4.By saying “statistically canceling out the benefits that the seat belt offers” (Para. 2), the author means __________.
A. wearing seat belts does not have any benefits from the statistic point of view
B. deaths from wearing seat belts are the same as those from not wearing them
C. deaths from other reasons counterbalance the benefits of wearing seat belts
D. wearing seat belts does not necessarily reduce deaths from traffic accidents
5.Which of the following may contribute to a longer life span?
A. Showing adequate trust instead of suspicion of others
B. Eating the food low in fat and driving with great care
C. Cultivating an optimistic personality and never losing heart
D. Looking on the bright side and developing a balanced level of risk
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_______ I shouted at the top of my voice _______ turn his head.
A. Not until / did he B. Not until / he did
C. Until / he did not D. Until / did he not
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科目:高中英語 來源:2014-2015學(xué)年河北省高三上第一次考試英語試卷(解析版) 題型:閱讀理解
As many as 4 out of every 1,000 infants born today have permanent hearing loss. When parents learn that their child has hearing loss, they are faced with many difficult decisions. These decisions can include choosing therapies and schools, as well as finding financial help for hearing aids or cochlear implants (人工耳蝸).
Help Me Hear Foundation is a public charity that gives the gift of hearing to deaf children from families existing on very low incomes around the world.
Help Me Hear Foundation believes that a child’s first years of development are critical. Being able to hear is vital to human, and Help Me Hear Foundation seeks to provide a positive lasting impression on society through its programs.
Recipients of Help Me Hear Foundation’s benefits receive state-of-the-art hearing devices that otherwise would cost thousands of dollars per child over the course of their lifetime. The Foundation raises money through donations for hearing aids and cochlear implants, which saves recipients and their families on average over $50,000 on related expenses.
The Foundation tries to be a transparent charity, and wants to be a catalyst for allowing deaf and hearing-impaired children to develop in a typical fashion alongside their peers.
Needy families can obtain information on specific services, and find out about deafness education by visiting the Help Me Hear Foundation’s website. The website offers helpful information on how hearing aids work, and how hearing aids ease many of the learning and language challenges that hearing-impaired children deal with on a daily basis.
1. Help Me Hear Foundation was probably set up to _____.
A. build schools for deaf children
B. research deaf children’s behavior
C. protect deaf children from being ignored
D. offer real help to poor deaf children
2. We learn from the text that _____.
A. the local government is in charge of the foundation
B. the work of the foundation depends on donations
C. even blind children can turn to the foundation
D. poor deaf African children cannot get help from the foundation
3. For whom is the text most probably written?
A. Poor parents who have deaf children.
B. Doctors who want to improve skills.
C. Students who cannot see the blackboard clearly.
D. Teachers who have deaf children in their class.
4.. The author writes the text mainly to _____.
A. tell how to avoid permanent hearing loss
B. explain how hard a life deaf children live
C. introduce Help Me Hear Foundation
D. advise people to give money to Help Me Hear Foundation
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I’m going to bed. I’d appreciate_____if you would turn your MP5 player down.
A. this B. it C. you D. that
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The living room is clean and tidy ,with a dining table already _____for a meal to be cooked.
A. laid B. laying
C. to lay D. being laid
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There was a very special teacher who made a far?reaching difference in my life.
Fall,1959,the first day of class at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School was about to begin. “Who,”I asked a senior,“is Mrs. McNamara,my 10 th grade English teacher?”He just ____ and said something about my being in ____.Soon,I understood what he meant. Mrs. McNamara had a pattern of ____ that she repeated again and again. We would have a literature reading task for ____.The next day,when we came to class,there would be two or three topics on the blackboard ___ to the homework reading. We were ____ to write an in?class essay about one of the topics. The following day,she would ____ the corrected and graded essays and each person would be called ____ to stand in front of the class and to ____ his/her essay. The class were required to criticize (評論) that essay,____the grade of everyone in class would be reduced.
The first time that I ____ her read?write?criticize method,I had not ____ to do the homework and had written something without knowing what it meant.____ the extreme embarrassment I suffered,standing before my classmates,____myself. No one laughed at me;no one would be ____ enough,or foolish enough,to do that in Mrs.McNamara's class. The embarrassment came from ____ and along with it came a strong ____ not to let it happen again.
Mrs. McNamara kept all of our written work in files;it was easy to see the ____ in writing that had occurred. What was not so easy to see was the inner transformation that had taken place,at least for me. What Mrs. McNamara ____ me to do was to see myself as others see me and,having done that,I could improve myself. And I____.Thank you,Mrs. McNamara.
1.A.nodded B.laughed C.a(chǎn)pologized D.shouted
2.A.trouble B.sorrow C.danger D.a(chǎn)nger
3.A.behaviour B.evaluation C.a(chǎn)ctivity D.thought
4.A.review B.performance
C.practice D.homework
5.A.added B.related C.contributed D.compared
6.A.expected B.persuaded C.a(chǎn)llowed D.a(chǎn)dvised
7.A.collect B.return C.send D.receive
8..A.on purpose B.a(chǎn)t first C.by chance D.in turn
9.A.talk through B.hand over C.read out D. show off
10.A.so B.a(chǎn)nd C.but D.or
11.A.tried B.a(chǎn)dopted C.examined D.experienced
12.A.undertaken B.a(chǎn)ttempted C.bothered D.hesitated
13.A.Remember B.Predict C.Bear D.Imagine
14.A.playing jokes on B.making a fool of
C.setting a trap for D.taking advantage of
15.A.brave B.careless C.proud D.selfish
16.A.above B.within C.behind D.below
17.A.tendency B.preference
C.determination D.sense
18.A.improvements B.pains
C.difficulties D.a(chǎn)dvantages
19.A.trusted B.invited C.forced D.permitted
20.A.did B.could C.had D.would
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A friend of mine will go to France________Hong Kong,and we agree to contact each other________email.
A.via;by B.a(chǎn)cross;with C.over;by D.with;via
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I have ____ all my papers but I still can’t find my notes.
A. looked out B. looked for C. looked down D. looked through
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