Another war___________ between the two countries and people of them suffered a lot.


  1. A.
    broke through
  2. B.
    broke off
  3. C.
    broke out
  4. D.
    broke down
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科目：高中英語 來源：河北省邢臺一中2011－2012學年高二下學期第四次月考英語試題 題型：050

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　　My father made a deal with me that he would match whatever I could come up with to buy my fir st car．From the time I wa s a saver．My allowance, back in tho se day s, wa s twenty five cent s a week．I grew up on a farm near a small town called Ventura．In tho se day s the area wa s mo stly agricultural．The climate wa s and still i s a s clo se to perfect a s you could get．I earned some of my money picking one crop or another．When I wa s about ten, a school friend' s family owned walnut orchard s(果園)and it wa s harve st time．She told me we could earn five dollar s for every bag of walnut s we picked．I certainly learned about picking walnut s that day．Not surprisingly, that wa s my fir st and la st time a s a walnut picker．

　　In 1960 my grandmother pa s sed away．She left me 100 share s of AT＆T．One hundred share s of stock don't seem like much today but back then tho se share s paid me＄240 per year in dividend s(利息)．That wa s huge for a kid my age．

　　By the time I wa s seventeen．I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and I knew exactly that I wanted．Ithink my father wa s somewhat suri sed when I announced I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and wa s ready to buy my new car．I'll never forget the evening my father said, “Let' s go see about that car”．I wa s so excited．

　　My father could have ea sily ju st given me the car but he alway s in si sted that hi s children work for what they got．Thi s wa s not a bad thing．I learned self-reliance．Self-reliance i s equal to freedom．Now that I think about it I need to be thanking my father．

(1)

Which one of the following s didn't belong to the saving of ＄1, 300?

[　　]

A．

Weekly allowance．

B．

Her earning s by picking crop s．

C．

Share s left by grandma．

D．

Money earned from selling share s．

(2)

The underlined part in the second paragraph probably meant ________．

[　　]

A．

she didn't have the chance of picking walnut s

B．

enough money had been earned for her car

C．

the work wa s too hard for children like her

D．

she had no time to do that again for some rea son

(3)

We can know from the pa s sage the author got her car at the age of ________．

[　　]

A．

16

B．

17

C．

18

D．

19

(4)

The purpo se of the author' s father doing like that wa s to ________．

[　　]

A．

give the author freedom

B．

be unwilling to buy the author a car

C．

teach the author to learn self－reliance

D．

give the author a big surpri se

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科目：高中英語 來源：河北省邢臺一中2011－2012學年高二下學期第四次月考英語試題 題型：050

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　　Two year s ago, Wendy Ha snip, 47，experienced a brain injury that left her speechle s s for two week s．When she finally recovered, she found her self talking with what seemed to be a French accent．“I phoned a friend the other day, and she spent the fir st ten minute s laughing, ” Ha snip said at the time, “while I have nothing again st the French．”

　　Ha snip suffered from foreign accent syndrome(外國口音綜合癥), a rare condition in which people find them selve s speaking their own language like someone from a foreign country．The condition u sually occur s in people who have experienced a head injury or a stroke-a sudden lo s s of con sciou sne s s, sen sation, or movement cau sed by a blocked or broken blood ve s selin the brain．

　　The condition wa s fir st identified during the Second World War in a Norwegian woman who se head wa s injured during an attack by the German military．The woman recovered but wa s left with a German-sounding accent, to the horror of fellow villager s who avoided her after that．

　　Re searcher s have di scovered that the combined effect of the damage to several part s of the brain make s victim s lengthen certain syllable, mi spronounce sound s, and change the normal pitch(音高)of their voice．Tho se change s in speech add up to what sound s like a foreign accent．

　　Another re searcher, a phonetician, say s victim s of the syndrome don't acquire a true foreign accent．Their strangely changed speech only re semble s the foreign accent with which it ha s a few sound s in common．

　　When an Engli sh woman named Annie recently developed foreign accent syndrome after a stroke, she spoke with what seemed to be a Scotti sh accent．However, Annie' s Scotti sh coworker s said she didn't sound at all like a Scot．

(1)

According to the pa s sage, people ________ may have foreign accent syndrome．

[　　]

A．

who se parent ha s experienced a head injury

B．

who have lived in a foreign country for a long time

C．

who have lo st their con sciou sne s s owing to a stroke

D．

who have learned foreign language from their coworker s

(2)

If a per son suffer s foreign accent syndrome, ________．

[　　]

A．

hi s coworker s will be afraid of him and avoid contacting with him

B．

he ha s more chance of suffering stroke again

C．

he will speak a fluent foreign language like native speaker s

D．

hi s speech only ha s a few sound s in common with the foreign accent

(3)

Writing thi s pa s sage, the writer' s main purpo se i s to ________．

[　　]

A．

introduce foreign accent syndrome and some related information

B．

warn people not to be at the ri sk of experiencing a stroke

C．

make it clear that foreign accent syndrome can be cured

D．

tell a story of an injured woman during the Second World War

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科目：高中英語 來源：山東省濰坊市2010屆高三下學期第二次模擬考試英語試卷 題型：閱讀理解


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Taste is suc．h a subjective matter that we dori't usually conduct preference tests for food． The most you can say about anyone's preference is that it's one person's opinion．But because the two bigcola companies-Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola-are marketed so aggressively, we've wondered how big arole taste-preference actually plays in brand loyalty．We set up a taste test that challenged people who identified themselves as either Coca-cola or Pepsi fans: Find your brand in a blind tasting．
we inwited staff wolunteers who had a strong liking for either Coca-Cola Classic or Pepsi, Diet Coke．or Diet Pepsi．These were people who thought they'd have no trouble telling their brand from the oLher brancl．
We eventuallv located 19 regular cola drinkers and 27 diet cola drinkers．Then we fed them with four unidentified samples of cola one at a time, regular colas for the one group, diet versions for the other．rOVe asked them to tell us whether each sample wa．s Coke or Pepsi; then we analyzed the records statistically to compare the participants' choices \~-ith what mere guesswork could have accom-plished．
Getting all four samples right was a tough test, biit not too tough, we thought, for people whobelieved they could recognize their brand． In the end, only 7 0ut of 19 regular cola drinkers correct-ly identified their brand of choice in all four trial．s． The diet-cola drinkers did a little worse-only 7 out of 27 identified all four samples correctly．
Both groups did better than chance would predict, but nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times．Two people got all'four samples vrrong． Overall, hal．f theparticipants did about as well on the last round of tasting as on the first, so tiredness, or taste burn-out, was not a factor． Our preference test results suggest that only a few Pepsi participants and Coke fans may really be able to tell their favorite brand by taste and price．
71．According to the passage the preference test was conducted in order to______
A．show that a person's opinion about taste is mere guesswork
B．compare the ability of the participants in choosing their drinks
C．find out the role taste preference plays in a person's drinking
D．reveal which cola is more to the liking of the dr-inkcrs
72．The statistics recorded in the preference tests show that         
A．there is not much difference in taste between Coca-Cola and Pepsi
B．few people had trouble telling Coca-Cola from Pepsi
C．people's tastes differ from one another
D．Coca-Cola and Pepsi are people's two most favorite drinks
73．It is implied in the first paragraph that______
A．the competition between the two colas is very strong
B．blind tasting is necessary for identifying fans
C．the purpose of taste test is to promote the sale of colas
D．the improvement of quality is the chief concern of the two cola companies
74．The underlined word "bumout" here refers to the state of          ．
A．being seriously bumt in the skin
B．being badly damaged by fire
C．being unable to bum for lack of fuel
D．being unable to function because of too much use
75．The author's purpose in writing this passage is to           ．
A．emphasize that taste and price are closely related to each other
B．recommend that blind tasting be introduced in the quality control'of colas
C．show that taste preference is highly subjective
D．a(chǎn)rgue that taste testing is an important marketing strategy

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科目：高中英語 來源：新課標2011屆高三上學期單元測試（3） 題型：閱讀理解

 

       Taste is suc．h a subjective matter that we dori't usually conduct preference tests for food．The most you can say about anyone's preference is that it's one person's opinion．But because the two bigcola companies-Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola-are marketed so aggressively, we've wondered how big arole taste-preference actually plays in brand loyalty．We set up a taste test that challenged people who identified themselves as either Coca-cola or Pepsi fans: Find your brand in a blind tasting．

       We inwited staff wolunteers who had a strong liking for either Coca-Cola Classic or Pepsi, Diet Coke．or Diet Pepsi．These were people who thought they'd have no trouble telling their brand from the oLher brancl．

       We eventually located 19 regular cola drinkers and 27 diet cola drinkers．Then we fed them with four unidentified samples of cola one at a time, regular colas for the one group, diet versions for the other．rOVe asked them to tell us whether each sample wa．s Coke or Pepsi; then we analyzed the records statistically to compare the participants' choices \~-ith what mere guesswork could have accom-plished．

       Getting all four samples right was a tough test, biit not too tough, we thought, for people whobelieved they could recognize their brand．In the end, only 7 0ut of 19 regular cola drinkers correct-ly identified their brand of choice in all four trial．s．The diet-cola drinkers did a little worse-only 7 out of 27 identified all four samples correctly．

       Both groups did better than chance would predict, but nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times．Two people got all'four samples vrrong．Overall, hal．f theparticipants did about as well on the last round of tasting as on the first, so tiredness, or taste burn-out, was not a factor．Our preference test results suggest that only a few Pepsi participants and Coke fans may really be able to tell their favorite brand by taste and price．

1.According to the passage the preference test was conducted in order to

       A．show that a person's opinion about taste is mere guesswork

       B．compare the ability of the participants in choosing their drinks

       C．find out the role taste preference plays in a person's drinking

       D．reveal which cola is more to the liking of the dr-inkcrs

2.The statistics recorded in the preference tests show that

       A．there is not much difference in taste between Coca-Cola and Pepsi

       B．few people had trouble telling Coca-Cola from Pepsi

       C．people's tastes differ from one another

       D．Coca-Cola and Pepsi are people's two most favorite drinks

3.It is implied in the first paragraph that

       A．the competition between the two colas is very strong

       B．blind tasting is necessary for identifying fans

       C．the purpose of taste test is to promote the sale of colas

       D．the improvement of quality is the chief concern of the two cola companies

4.The underlined word "bumout" here refers to the state of           ．

       A．being seriously bumt in the skin

       B．being badly damaged by fire

       C．being unable to bum for lack of fuel

       D．being unable to function because of too much use

5.The author's purpose in writing this passage is to            ．

       A．emphasize that taste and price are closely related to each other

       B．recommend that blind tasting be introduced in the quality control'of colas

       C．show that taste preference is highly subjective

       D．a(chǎn)rgue that taste testing is an important marketing strategy

 

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Taste is suc．h a subjective matter that we dori't usually conduct preference tests for food． The most you can say about anyone's preference is that it's one person's opinion．But because the two bigcola companies-Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola-are marketed so aggressively, we've wondered how big arole taste-preference actually plays in brand loyalty．We set up a taste test that challenged people who identified themselves as either Coca-cola or Pepsi fans: Find your brand in a blind tasting．

we inwited staff wolunteers who had a strong liking for either Coca-Cola Classic or Pepsi, Diet Coke．or Diet Pepsi．These were people who thought they'd have no trouble telling their brand from the oLher brancl．

We eventuallv located 19 regular cola drinkers and 27 diet cola drinkers．Then we fed them with four unidentified samples of cola one at a time, regular colas for the one group, diet versions for the other．rOVe asked them to tell us whether each sample wa．s Coke or Pepsi; then we analyzed the records statistically to compare the participants' choices \~-ith what mere guesswork could have accom-plished．

Getting all four samples right was a tough test, biit not too tough, we thought, for people whobelieved they could recognize their brand． In the end, only 7 0ut of 19 regular cola drinkers correct-ly identified their brand of choice in all four trial．s． The diet-cola drinkers did a little worse-only 7 out of 27 identified all four samples correctly．

Both groups did better than chance would predict, but nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times．Two people got all'four samples vrrong． Overall, hal．f theparticipants did about as well on the last round of tasting as on the first, so tiredness, or taste burn-out, was not a factor． Our preference test results suggest that only a few Pepsi participants and Coke fans may really be able to tell their favorite brand by taste and price．

71．According to the passage the preference test was conducted in order to______

       A．show that a person's opinion about taste is mere guesswork

       B．compare the ability of the participants in choosing their drinks

       C．find out the role taste preference plays in a person's drinking

       D．reveal which cola is more to the liking of the dr-inkcrs

72．The statistics recorded in the preference tests show that         

       A．there is not much difference in taste between Coca-Cola and Pepsi

       B．few people had trouble telling Coca-Cola from Pepsi

       C．people's tastes differ from one another

       D．Coca-Cola and Pepsi are people's two most favorite drinks

73．It is implied in the first paragraph that______

A．the competition between the two colas is very strong

B．blind tasting is necessary for identifying fans

C．the purpose of taste test is to promote the sale of colas

D．the improvement of quality is the chief concern of the two cola companies

74．The underlined word "bumout" here refers to the state of           ．

A．being seriously bumt in the skin

B．being badly damaged by fire

C．being unable to bum for lack of fuel

D．being unable to function because of too much use

75．The author's purpose in writing this passage is to            ．

A．emphasize that taste and price are closely related to each other

B．recommend that blind tasting be introduced in the quality control'of colas

C．show that taste preference is highly subjective

D．a(chǎn)rgue that taste testing is an important marketing strategy

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