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科目:高中英語 來源:英語完形填空天天練 高一同步 題型:054
Jenkins was a jeweller, who had made a large diamond (鉆石) ring worth £57,000 for the Silkstone Jewellery Shop. When it was ready, he made a copy of it which looked 1 like the first one but was worth only £2,000. He took this to the shop, which 2 it without a question.
Jenkins gave the much more 3 ring to his wife for her fortieth birthday. Then, the husband and wife 4 to Paris for a weekend. As to the 5 ring, the shop sold it for £60,000.
Six months later the buyer 6 it back to Silkstone's office. “It' s a faulty (有瑕疵的) diamond.” he said, “It isn't worth the high 7 I paid.” Then he told them the 8 . His wife's car had caught fire in an 9 . She had escaped (幸免), 10 the ring had fallen off and been damaged (損壞) in the great 11 of the fire.
The shop had to 12 . They knew that no fire on earth can 13 damage a perfect diamond. Someone had taken the 14 diamond and put a faulty one in its place. The question was: who 15 it?
A picture of the ring appeared in the 16 . A reader thought he 17 the ring. The next day, another picture appeared in the papers which 18 a famous dancer walking out to a plane for Paris. Behind the dancer there was a woman 19 a large diamond ring.“Do you know the 20 with the lovely diamond ring?” the papers asked their readers. Several months later, Jenkins was sentenced to seven years in prison.
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:054
完形填空:
閱讀下面短文,掌握其大意,然后從1~25各題所給的四個選項中,選出一個最佳答案.
(A)
A class of small boys in a German school had been making a lot of noise, so their teacher decided 1 . He kept them in the classroom after the other boys 2 and told them to add all the numbers from 1 to 100 together.
The boys sadly 3 their exercise books and began to write the numbers down—all of them 4 one boy, who had been in that school only for a few days. This boy looked out of the window for a few moments, wrote a number in his exercise book and 5 his hand.
“May I go home when I've found the answer, sir? ” he asked.
“Yes, you may, ” answered the teacher.
“Well, I've found it, sir” said the boy.
The teacher and the other boys were all very surprised.
“ 6 ,” said the teacher.
The boy brought it. It was quite correct, so the teacher had to let the boy go home. The next morning, the 7 teacher asked the new boy how he had found the answer so quickly.
“Well, sir, ” he said, “I thought that there 8 the answer, and I found one, you see, If you add 100 to 1, you get 101, and if you add 99 to 2, you also get 101, 98 to 3 is 101 too, and if you go on until you reach 51 and 50, you have 101 fifty times, which is 5050. ”
After this, the teacher gave the boy 9 the other boys in the class. His name was Karl Friedrich Gauss, and when he 10 , he became a famous professor of mathematics.
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On October 21st of 1833, Alfred Nobel was born in Sweden. His father was an engineer, and at that time he was 11 explosives (炸藥). When Alfred was 12 to go to university, his father sent him to the United States to study mechanical engineering (機械工程學(xué)).
When he left university, he started a factory with his brother to make a new and very powerful explosive. At first the factory 13 , but one day there was a terrible explosion (爆炸) in the factory. It killed several workmen and Alfred's brother. Alfred himself was not there that day.
Alfred 14 after his brother's death, but he did not stop working; he moved his factory onto a boat, and took it a few miles out to sea. “If 15 ,” he said to himself, “I will be killed, but 16 will be hurt. ” He was not killed 17 , but made a new and much safer explosive. He called it dynamite (甘油炸藥).
This was the time, in 18 of the nineteenth century, when many modern roads and the first railways and tunnels 19 in Europe. Everybody wanted to use Nobel's new dynamite. He soon became very rich.
But Nobel's dynamite was not always used for making roads; it was also 20 making war. “It's Nobel's fault (錯誤), ” many people said, “It's his dynamite they're using to make war. ” It was true; it was his dynamite; but was it his fault?
One day, in 1891, Nobel opened a newspaper and read the story of his own death! It was 21 , of course, and at first he laughed; but he did not laugh then he saw the things the newspaper 22 him, “A very bad man, ” they said, “…terrible…wanted to destroy the world with his dynamite…”
Poor Alfred Nobel! He decided to leave Paris, and went to live in Italy. There he 23 in a big house, working and studying every hour of the day.
In 1896, Alfred Nobel died. But that was 24 his name. When he died, he left a lot of 25 five Nobel Prizes. These are given every year for important work in five different fields, One prize is for chemistry, another for physics and another for medicine; there is also one for literature (文學(xué)); and the fifth one, the most important one for Alfred Nobel, is the Nobel Peace Prize.
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:054
Every summer, a great many students travel to other countries looking for work and adventure. Most of the 1 are in seasonal work, mainly connected with tourism and 2 .The pay is usually poor, but most people work abroad for the 3 of travel. You can pick grapes in France, entertain(逗樂)kids on American summer camps, and, of course, there are 4 jobs in hotels and restaurants.
But it is not easy to find work,“ 5 you speak the language of the country well, there will be very few openings,”says Anthea Ellis, an adviser on 6 for students.“If you work with a family in Italy, you’ll have to speak Italian. When you wash dishes in a restaurant in Paris, the owner will expect you to speak 7 .British students only have a language 8 for jobs in the USA and Australia.”
9 enjoys the experience. Sarah James was employed to help forty American children in Europe. The two teachers with the children had never been 10 .One child lost his passport; another became seriously ill and was 11 home; the whole group was thrown out of one hotel because of the 12 they made, and Sarah herself was robbed on her only 13 evening of the entire trip.“I did visit a lot of new places,” she says,“but it wasn’t worth it. The pay was 14 and it really was a 24 hour-a-day job. The kids never slept!”
“The trouble is, students expect to have 15 time of it.”Anthea Ellis points out.“ 16 ,they see it as a holiday. In practice, 17 ,you have to work hard. At the same time, all vacation work is casual(臨時)work. You’ll have a job when the hotel, the restaurant, or the campsite is busy. 18 ,you’ll work if it’s convenient for the company that employs you. But you have 19 employment rights. As soon as the holiday season 20 ,they’ll get rid of you.”
1. A. work B. luck
C. chances D. services
2. A. agriculture B. industry
C. hotels D. restaurants
3. A. pains B. comfort
C. difficulty D. excitement
4. A. always B. hardly
C. never D. seldom
5. A. If B. Unless
C. Because D. Although
6. A. health care B. vacation work
C. language studies D. tourist safety
7. A. Italian B. English
C. French D. Spanish
8. A. chance B. ability
C. possibility D. advantage
9. A. No one B. None
C. Not everyone D. Everybody
10. A. abroad B. employed
C. alone D. respect
11. A. driven B. ridden
C. left D. flown
12. A. friends B. decision
C. noise D. damage
13. A. busy B. free
C. tiring D. pleasant
14. A. nice B. reasonable
C. fair D. poor
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C. a demanding D. an adventurous
16. A. After all B. Worse still
C. However D. Therefore
17. A. besides B. altogether
C. though D. until
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C. And what’s more D. More or less
19. A. few B. little
C. many D. much
20. A. starts B. lasts
C. goes D. finishes
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科目:高中英語 來源:英語教研室 題型:054
But it is not easy to find work,“ 5 you speak the language of the country well, there will be very few openings,”says Anthea Ellis, an adviser on 6 for students.“If you work with a family in Italy, you’ll have to speak Italian. When you wash dishes in a restaurant in Paris, the owner will expect you to speak 7 .British students only have a language 8 for jobs in the USA and Australia.”
9 enjoys the experience. Sarah James was employed to help forty American children in Europe. The two teachers with the children had never been 10 .One child lost his passport; another became seriously ill and was 11 home; the whole group was thrown out of one hotel because of the 12 they made, and Sarah herself was robbed on her only 13 evening of the entire trip.“I did visit a lot of new places,” she says,“but it wasn’t worth it. The pay was 14 and it really was a 24 hour-a-day job. The kids never slept!”
“The trouble is, students expect to have 15 time of it.”Anthea Ellis points out.“ 16 ,they see it as a holiday. In practice, 17 ,you have to work hard. At the same time, all vacation work is casual(臨時)work. You’ll have a job when the hotel, the restaurant, or the campsite is busy. 18 ,you’ll work if it’s convenient for the company that employs you. But you have 19 employment rights. As soon as the holiday season 20 ,they’ll get rid of you.”
1. A. work B. luck
C. chances D. services
2. A. agriculture B. industry
C. hotels D. restaurants
3. A. pains B. comfort
C. difficulty D. excitement
4. A. always B. hardly
C. never D. seldom
5. A. If B. Unless
C. Because D. Although
6. A. health care B. vacation work
C. language studies D. tourist safety
7. A. Italian B. English
C. French D. Spanish
8. A. chance B. ability
C. possibility D. advantage
9. A. No one B. None
C. Not everyone D. Everybody
10. A. abroad B. employed
C. alone D. respect
11. A. driven B. ridden
C. left D. flown
12. A. friends B. decision
C. noise D. damage
13. A. busy B. free
C. tiring D. pleasant
14. A. nice B. reasonable
C. fair D. poor
15. A. a hard B. an easy
C. a demanding D. an adventurous
16. A. After all B. Worse still
C. However D. Therefore
17. A. besides B. altogether
C. though D. until
18. A. In a word B. In other words
C. And what’s more D. More or less
19. A. few B. little
C. many D. much
20. A. starts B. lasts
C. goes D. finishes
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
Once a foreigner traveling in France came to Paris for a Few days. ___1 the very first day of his staying in the French capital he sent a telegram(電報) to his wife with the 2 of the hotel where he was staying. Then he decided to go out and see the places of 3_ in the capital. He took a long walk along the streets of the city, visited a few museums and by the end of the 4 he felt tired. He wanted to 5 the hotel to take a rest there, but suddenly he realized he 6___ neither the name nor the address of 7 . He felt quite lost and slowly walked along the street, ___8 what to do. Suddenly he found 9__ in, front of a post office. He quickly ran inside and said in 10 voice," Give me a telegram form, please. " " 11 " a man answered, giving him a form. It did not 12 him long to fill it in. A minute later he handed in the telegram and paid the 13 . His wife was greatly 14 when an hour later she received ___15 telegram from her husband.. "Send me my address at once!" 1. A. On B. In C. At D. From 2. A. name and address B. telephone number C. room number D. post office 3. A. wonder1 B. excitement C. interest D. pleasure 4. A. museum B. street C. city D. day 5. A. look for B. search C. remember D. return to 6. A. remembered B. knew C. forgot D. noticed 7. A. his home B. the hotel C. his wife D. the museum 8. A. didn't know B. not to know C. not knowing" D. having not known 9. A. someone B. himself C. nobody D. him 10. A. a low B. a soft C. a sad D. an excited 11. A. I'm sorry B. Thanks for coming C. Here you are D. Can I help you 12. A. get B. use C. spend D. take 13. A. bill B. man C. money D. form 14. A. surprised B. excited C. interested D. angry 15. A. the first B. the long C. a second D. a quick |
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