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科目：高中英語 來源：江西省于都縣2010屆高三下學期3月模擬考試英語試題 題型：閱讀理解
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Although man has known asbestos for many hundreds of years, it was not until 160 years ago that it was mined for the first time on the North American continent. H. W. Johns, owner of a New York City Supply Shop for roofers, was responsible for he opening of that first mine.
Mr. Johns was given a piece of asbestos which had been found in Italy. He experimented with the material and then showed its surprising powers to his customers. After putting on a pair of asbestos gloves, which looked much like ordinary work gloves, he took red-hot coals from the fireplace and played with them in his hands. How astonished the customers were to discover that he was not burned at all. You can well imagine that he had increasing business in asbestos roofing materials. However, because it was very expensive to transport them from Italy to the United States, Mr. Johns sent out a young scientist to seek a source nearer home. This young man found great vein in the province of Quebec in Canada.
Ever since 1881 Quebec has led the world in the production of this unusual mineral, which is made up of magnesium, silicon, iron, and oxygen. When it is mined, the asbestos is heavy, just as you would expect a mineral to be. When it is separated, a strange thing happens; the rock breaks down into fine, soft, soapy fibers .
Scientists do not know why the rock can be separated easily into threads,but they have found thousands of uses of this fireproof material, of the so-called “cloth of stone”.
60. Which title best expresses the main idea of this passage?
A. Asbestos mined in Canada B. Fireproof matter
C. A “wonder” mineral D. A new roofing material
61. Johns proved his ability as a salesman by_______.
A. going into roofing business
B. carrying asbestos from Italy
C. sending a trained scientist
D. showing the use of asbestos gloves
62. Which is the most important character of asbestos that the author wants to show us?
A. It is like thread. B. It feels soapy.
C. It burns easily. D. It is unusually heavy.
63. The author’s main purpose in writing this passage was to _______.
A. show the need for more scientists
B. compare asbestos with other minerals
C. increase the sales of asbestos
D. present facts about asbestos
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科目：高中英語 來源：2010年河北省邯鄲市高三第二次英語試題 題型：閱讀理解
After more than a year of bitter political debate, President Obama sat down in the White House East Room on March 23 and signed the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law with a pen，and then another pen，and another. Obama used 22 pens to sign the 
$938 billion health care bill.
The practice of using different pens to sign important legislation（法規(guī)）dates at least as far back as Franklin Roosevelt. The reason is fairly simple. The pen used to sign historic legislation itself becomes a historical artifact. The more pens a President uses, the more thank-you gifts he can offer to those who helped create that piece of history. The White House often give pens to supporters of the newly signed legislation. When Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, he reportedly used more than 75 pens and gave one of the first ones to Martin Luther King Jr. And in 1996, President Clinton gave the four pens he used to sign the Line-Item Veto bill to those most likely to appreciate the bill's consequence.
Once they're given away, some pens end up in museums; others are displayed proudly in recipients'(接受者) offices or homes. But they sometimes appear again, like in the 2008 presidential campaign（競選活動）, when John Macain promised to use the same pen given to him by President Reagan to 
cut pork from the federal budget.
Not
every President goes for the multipen signature, however. President George W. Bush preferred signing bills with only one pen and then offering several unuse
d "gift" pens as souvenirs.
【小題1】.We can learn from paragraph 1 that the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act .
| A．has been passed easily |
| B．was put forward one year ago |
| C．becomes law in the USA |
| D．is unimportant |
| A．Supporters of the newly signed legislation are likely to get some of them. |
| B．Obama will keep them. |
| C．They will be just set aside |
| D．They will be sold to the public at a high price. |
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科目：高中英語 來源：2015屆北京市東城區(qū)高一下學期期末考試英語卷（解析版） 題型：其他題
This novel was about an unbelievable but g 1. adventure. Its author was a black businessman who was b 2. up in America. In 1956, he visited Africa, his birthplace. One day, when he was w 3. on the pavement near the bay enjoying the sea scenes, he lost his money and passport that he kept in an e 4. So he went to the embassy to s 5. help, but the ambassador with rude manners didn't p 6. his staff to help though he bowed to him. S 7. at his impatient face, he understood that it was the f 8. of his skin colour that accounted for their rejection. So he decided to take a c 9. to sail on a small boat home. He met a large amount of difficulty but was never stopped. On the c 10. , difficulty pushed him to go ahead harder.
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科目：高中英語 來源：福建省2009-2010學年高一下學期期中考試英語試題 題型：短文填詞
第Ⅱ卷 寫作(共兩節(jié), 滿分35分)
第一節(jié):短文填詞(閱讀下面短文, 根據(jù)以下提示:1)漢語提示, 2)首字母提示,3)語境提示, 在每個空格內(nèi)填入一個適當?shù)挠⒄Z單詞, 并將該詞完整地寫在下面對應的橫線上。共10分）
Mark Twain’s The Million pound bank Note tells an interesting story. It happened in the summer of 1903. An American 76( 商人 ), Henry Adams., lost his way in the sea. He’d just about given himself up for lost when he was s 77 by a ship by chance, 78 brought him to England.79 no money on him, he had to work on the ship without payment to earn his p__80___, When he was w___81__on the street on the pavement in London, someone asked him to enter a big house. Two old and __82__ brothers, Roderick and Oliver, made a bet on him _83__ a man could survive a month in London with a million note. Roderick _84___ it, while Oliver, on the 85, thought it would work. That’s how the story starts.
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第Ⅱ卷 寫作(共兩節(jié), 滿分35分)
第一節(jié):短文填詞(閱讀下面短文, 根據(jù)以下提示:1)漢語提示, 2)首字母提示,3)語境提示, 在每個空格內(nèi)填入一個適當?shù)挠⒄Z單詞, 并將該詞完整地寫在下面對應的橫線上。共10分）
Mark Twain’s The Million pound bank Note tells an interesting story. It happened in the summer of 1903. An American 76( 商人 ), Henry Adams., lost his way in the sea. He’d just about given himself up for lost when he was s 77 by a ship by chance, 78 brought him to England.79 no money on him, he had to work on the ship without payment to earn his p__80___, When he was w___81__on the street on the pavement in London, someone asked him to enter a big house. Two old and __82__ brothers, Roderick and Oliver, made a bet on him _83__ a man could survive a month in London with a million note. Roderick _84___ it, while Oliver, on the 85, thought it would work. That’s how the story starts.
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