_____ more effectively with others, more and more people equip themselves with a higher education.
A. Compete B. Being competed C. To compete D. Competing
科目:高中英語 來源:2013-2014學(xué)年江蘇省高三3月份模擬英語試卷(解析版) 題型:閱讀理解
All it took was a slice of Xinjiang cake to spark heated debates online over China's policy on ethnic minorities (少數(shù)民族) .
Since Monday, qiegao (cut cake) has been a trending topic on Sina Weibo, China’s main Twitter-like microblogging service.
The cake was a reference to Xinjiang’s famed nut cake, sometimes known by its old Turkic name baklava, a popular pastry across Central Asia and the Middle East. In Xinjiang, they are sold by Uygur vendors on tricycles who are known to charge dubious prices depending on the time and season.
The ethnic flare-up started after the Yueyang police from Hunan province posted a message on their official Weibo account. It reported a dispute in Pingjiang county over an overpriced piece of nut cake between a Xinjiang Uygur vendor and a villager named "Ling".
Villager Ling got into a fight with a Uygur due to a misunderstanding. The verbal dispute eventually escalated into a fight and then a mass fight. As a result, two people were injured and Xinjiang nut cakes worth about 160,000 yuan (US$25,000) were destroyed. The total damage was worth 200,000 yuan which included a broken motorcycle and injuries to people. Local police have detained Ling. The 16 Uygur sellers were dully compensated and sent back to Xinjiang.
"Yueyang police incident" quickly became one of the most popular topics on Weibo. Yueyang police removed the post shortly after. As of Tuesday night, the topic was still amassing more than 66,000 hits.
The incident is just one of many similar cases of ethnic tensions across China, notably in Xinjiang province, where deeply entrenched social and racial frictions between the dominant ethnic Han Chinese and minority Uygur Muslims occasionally spark violence. Many Uygurs living in major Chinese cities are viewed by locals as thieves, crooks and even terrorists.
1.Which of the following is true?
A. The dispute is between a Xinjiang Uygur vendor and a policeman.
B. Nut cake is a popular pastry across East Asia and the Middle East.
C. The prices of Baklava will change according to the time and season.
D. The demand of the 16 Uygur sellers were refused and they were sent back to Xinjiang.
2.How much did the broken motorcycle cost?
A. 160,000 yuan B. 200,000 yuan C. 40,000yuan D. We don’t know
3.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. World's most expensive baklava
B. Ethnic tensions across China
C. Pay attention to the Uygurs
D. Misunderstanding caused a fight
4.What can we infer from the passage?
A. Yueyang police are afraid of the Xinjiang Uygur vendor
B. It’s not the only ethnic tension across China,
C. Many Uygurs living in major Chinese cities are viewed by locals as thieves, crooks and even terrorists.
D. Villager Ling got into a fight with a Uygur due to a misunderstanding.
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閱讀下列短文并根據(jù)所讀內(nèi)容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~,每空格1詞(共10個小題;每小題1分,滿分10分)
Zebras have their own bug repellent(驅(qū)蟲劑)?
Eww bugs! They are so annoying! We humans are lucky that we can apply repellents to avoid nasty bites. But what’s an animal to do? They have no choice but to spend their days shooing them off with their tails, unless, of course, they are zebras, who apparently have their own automatic repellent--- their striped skin!
Scientists had originally thought that the reason why the animal had developed the black and white lines was to help protect itself from predators in the African savannah, because the stripes make it difficult to single out one zebra that is traveling with a herd.While that may be true, the theory has never been tested or proven. Now the experts have another---that the stripes have evolved to repel the annoying horse flies that not only feed off their blood, but also, transmit dangerous germs into the bodies of these innocent animals.
The study was performed by a team of Swedish scientists. One of the clues that got them thinking along these lines was the fact that darker horses got bitten more often than light-colored or white ones.
The fact that zebras are born black and only develop strips as they grow older made the scientists theorize that the stripes may be something the animals have developed to make themselves less attractive to flies.
To test if this may be the case, they painted some boards at a horse-infested horse farm in Budapest with patterns of black and white stripes of varying widths and applied a layer of glue on them. What they noticed was that the places where the black and white stripes were at their narrowest (similar to what zebras have) attracted the fewest flies. They achieved similar results when they painted horses with black and white zebra-like stripes.
While the research are not sure why this may be the case, they believe it may be something to do with the way insects operate---horseflies are attracted to horizontally polarized light(偏振光); since white does not reflect it, white horses are luckier than black ones. But zebras seem to be the luckiest of all. When the researchers measured the polarized light reflected from real zebra skins, they found that it matched light patterns that were the least attractive to horseflies.
While this theory does make logical sense, nobody is 100 percent sure that it is really true, given that it has never been tested on a real zebra. If it is true, it does raise the question of why a horse, a close relative of the zebra has failed to develop stripes. The researchers believe that this could be because there are more horseflies in Africa, where zebras reside, then anywhere else in the world.
Title | Zebras have their own bug repellent? | |
Reasons for zebras developing their strips | Original belief | With the black and white lines, one zebra is difficult to single out while traveling with a herd, thus ___1.___ it from its enemies. |
New theory | Zebras, residing in Africa where there are most horseflies in the world ,have developed strips to avoid being___2.____ . | |
A study | Researchers | A team of scientists from ___3.____ |
____4.____ | To test if strips are developed to make zebras less attractive to flies. | |
Clues | *White or light-colored horses are less __5.___ to get bitten than dark ones. *Zebras develop strips as they grow older though born black . | |
Method | *Some boards at a horse farm are painted with patterns of black and white stripes variously ___6.___ , a layer of glue applied on them *Measured the polarized light reflected from real zebra skins | |
_____7.___ | *The places where the black and white stripes were similar to the ___8.___zebras have attracted the fewest flies *Strips of zebras matched light patterns that were the least attractive to horseflies | |
Principle of zebras’ black and white strips repelling the flies | Horizontally polarized light, which white does not reflect, ____9.___ to horseflies.
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Conclusion | ____10.___tested on real zebras, the theory isn’t definitely true. | |
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to _______ a life _______.
A. get… up B. take… off C. bring… up D. turn… around
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The extraordinary Eastgate Building in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital city, is said to be the only one in the world to use the same cooling and heating principles as the termite mound(白蟻堆).
Architect Mick Pearce used precisely the same strategy when designing the Eastgate Building, which has no air-conditioning and almost no heating. The building—the country’s largest commercial and shopping complex—uses less than 10% of the energy of a conventional building of its size. The Eastgate’s owners saved $3.5 million on a $36 million building because an air-conditioning plant didn’t have to be imported.
The complex is actually two buildings linked by bridges across a shady, glass-roofed atrium(天井) open to the air. Fans suck fresh air in from the atrium, blow it upstairs through hollow spaces under the floors and from there into each office through baseboard vents(通風(fēng)口). As it rises and warms, it is drawn out via ceiling vents and finally exists through forty-eight brick chimneys.
During summer’s cool nights, big fans blow air through the building seven times an hour to cool the empty floors. By day, smaller fans blow two changes of air an hour through the building, to circulate the air which has been in contact with the cool floors. For winter days, there are small heaters in the vents.
This is all possible only because Harare is 1600 feet above sea level, has cloudless skies, little dampness and rapid temperature swings—days as warm as 31℃ commonly drop to 14℃ at night. “You couldn’t do this in New York, with its fantastically hot summers and fantastically cold winters,” Pearce said.
The engineering firm of Ove Arup&Partners monitors daily temperatures. It is found that the temperature of the building has generally stayed between 23℃ and 25℃, with the exception of the annual hot period just before the summer rains in October and three days in November, when a doorkeeper accidentally switched off the fans at night. And the air is fresh—far more so than in air-conditioned buildings, where up to 30% of the air is recycled.
1.Why was Eastgate cheaper to be built than a conventional building?
A. It was designed in a smaller size.
B. No air conditioners were fixed in.
C. Its heating system was less advanced.
D. It used rather different building materials.
2.What does “it” refer to in Paragraph 3?
A. Fresh air from outside.B. Heat in the building.
C. Hollow space.D. Baseboard vent.
3.Why would a building like Eastgate Not work efficiently in New York?
A. New York has less clear skies as Harare.
B. Its dampness affects the circulation of air.
C. New York covers a larger area than Harare.
D. Its temperature changes seasonally rather than daily.
4.The data in the last paragraph suggests Eastgate’s temperature control system_____.
A. allows a wide range of temperatures
B. functions well for most of the year
C. can recycle up to 30% of the air
D. works better in hot seasons
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What’s the chance of ________ a general election this year?
A. there beingB. there to beC. there be D. there going to be
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The priest made the ________ of the cross when he entered the church.
A. mark B. signalC. signD. gesture
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Until we lose them, scarcely__ how much pleasure and happiness our ordinary lives offer.
A.we realize B.do we realize
C. did we realize D. we have realized
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Such novelists as Tolstoy are widely read, of __works; full of great humanity, however, some are difficult to understand.
A. whose B.which
C. whom D. what
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