Stopping teens from smoking is a big challenge many communities face today. Many communities can only watch without being able to act while local businesses continue to sell tobacco products to children, even under the risk of punishment by law.
Recent studies show that a large percentage of teens today are getting their cigarettes from stores, mostly gas stations or convenience stores. As teens continue to be able to buy their own cigarettes, more and more communities begin to punish those who sell cigarettes to the teens.
One community has experienced success in their attempts to stop the sale of tobacco products to children. Woodridge, Illinois, started a program seven years ago which forbade and strictly punished the sale of tobacco products to children. The entire program includes local licensing of vendors (小販), repeated undercover inspections to see if the sale to children has stopped, and education programs in schools. Woodridge has become a model community as other communities are moving to stop teen tobacco use.
A recent national study showed that 36.5% of females, and 40.8% of males buy their cigarettes from stores, whether it is a gas station or a supermarket. Hopefully, as more and more sellers see the trouble they face if caught selling to children, they will stop selling.
True, tightening down on stores that sell tobacco to children isn’t going to completely stop the problem of teen tobacco use. Teens continue to get them from other sources. But it definitely does prevent their efforts. With more education in schools, and perhaps stronger punishments for teens caught with tobacco, more and more teens will see the problems with the tobacco usage, and will stop the habit.
1. To stop teens from smoking, more and more communities are ________.
A. punishing those who sell cigarettes to teens more severely
B. punishing teens caught with tobacco more severely
C. educating those who sell cigarettes about the danger of teen smoking
D. stopping the sale of tobacco products in stores
2. Which of the following is NOT a way Woodridge uses to stop tobacco sale to children?
A. Local licensing to tobacco sale. B. Repeated undercover inspections.
C. Education programs in schools. D. Stronger punishment of teens caught smoking.
3. It can be inferred from the passage that _____________.
A. teens can only buy cigarettes from gas stations and convenience stores
B. more communities have succeeded in stopping teen tobacco use
C. More males than females have the habit of smoking in America
D. Punishment alone cannot solve the problem of teen tobacco use
4. What attitude does the writer have towards stopping teen tobacco abuse?
A. Negative B. Optimistic C. Uncertain D. Uncaring
科目:高中英語 來源:2013屆河北衡水中學高三第一次模擬考試英語試卷(帶解析) 題型:閱讀理解
根據短文內容,從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項,選項中有兩項為多余選項。
The Winner’s Guide to Success
How do successful people think? What helps them to make success? To find out the answers, an American scholar recently visited some of the most successful people in America. 1
Be responsible for yourself
Sometimes you may want to blame others for your failure to get ahead. 2 You’re saying, “You have more control over my life than I do.”
Live life “on purpose”
Almost all successful people live life “on purpose”— they are doing what they believe they should and want to do. When you live your life on purpose, you’ll try your best to do your job or study as well as you can. You love what you do and you can find pleasure in what you do.
Write a plan
It is very difficult trying to get what you want without a good plan. 3 A good plan is like a map to you. Without this “map”, you may waste your time, money and also your energy; while with the “map” you’ll enjoy the “trip” and get what you want in the shortest possible time.
Be willing to pay the price
Nothing great is easy to get. So you must be ready to work hard — even harder than you have ever done. If you are not willing to pay the price, you won’t get anything valuable.
Never give up
4 When you are doing something, you must tell yourself again and again: Giving up is worse than failure because failure can be the mother of success, but giving up means the death of hope.
5
Once an American writer was writing a novel. He could not have a good ending for his book until one night when he had a very good idea. He was so excited that he made a phone call to one of his best friends. “I’ve got a perfect idea,” he said, “I’ll put it down later and show it to you.” But he never did, because he died that night. His book was left without a perfect ending. So remember, do what you can right away. Never delay at all.
A.It is just like trying to drive through strange roads to a city far away. |
B.It seems to us that everyone knows this. But it is easier said than done. |
C.Some people achieve success much later in life because they fail to realize earlier the importance of hard work. |
D.In fact, when you say someone or something outside of yourself is stopping you from making success, you’re giving away your own power. |
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Hawaii has planned to be the first U.S. state to roll out(正式推出)electric car stations statewide --- a move towards weaning the islands off oil.
Hawaii, which is far away from the U.S. mainland, imports foreign oil for almost 90 percent of its energy needs. One–third of that oil is used to power cars and buses on island streets. This move will help Hawaii meet its goal of reducing fossil fuel use by 70 percent by 2030.
Better Place, a Palo Alto, California-based company, will build the car recharging stations and provide recharged batteries for electric cars. The company will purchase renewable energy --- such as wind power --- from Hawaiian Electric Co.
Better Place picked Hawaii for the first statewide rollout in part because the islands are a contained environment, with few vehicles (車輛) coming in and out. Better Place would need to build a bigger network across several states to serve some mainland markets. Hawaii also has rich renewable energy resources, including wind, solar and wave power. This is important because Better Place won’t use oil. Better Place plans to recharge its batteries at night with power from Hawaii’s wind farms. That power normally goes unused because of Hawaii’s low nighttime energy needs.
Hawaii is an ideal place to show off Better Place technology because the state welcomes over five million tourists each year from the U.S. mainland, Japan, Canada and the rest of the world. “If we can get them into electric cars when they rent, we do two great things,” Shai Agassi, Better Place’s founder and chief executive officer, said. “One, we avoid emissions (排放物); two, we use the opportunity to educate them, to teach them in Hawaii how it needs to be done in the rest of the world.”
However, Hawaii doesn’t expect to spend any money to improve the network. Maybe it needs to offer tax breaks or other ways to encourage people to buy electric vehicles when they are first offered.
【小題1】
The underlined part “weaning the islands off oil” (in Para 1) probably means _________.
A.exploring the islands for oil |
B.stopping Hawaii’s dependence on oil gradually |
C.importing more oil from other islands |
D.increasing the amount of oil used there |
A.①, ③ | B.②, ③ | C.②, ④ | D.①, ④ |
A.will be taught it is necessary to do as Hawaiians do to protect the earth |
B.will be offered tax breaks |
C.need to be told what should be done before travelling |
D.should be given the chance to try two things before driving |
A.Better Place is a company producing electric cars |
B.people are not encouraged to buy electric cars |
C.electric cars will be recharged with power from renewable resources |
D.Hawaii now has reduced the use oil by 90 percent |
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Stopping teens from smoking is a big challenge many communities face today. Many communities can only watch without being able to act while local businesses continue to sell tobacco products to children, even under the risk of punishment by law.
Recent studies show that a large percentage of teens today are getting their cigarettes from stores, mostly gas stations or convenience stores. As teens continue to be able to buy their own cigarettes, more and more communities begin to punish those who sell cigarettes to the teens.
One community has experienced success in their attempts to stop the sale of tobacco products to children. Woodridge, Illinois, started a program seven years ago which forbade and strictly punished the sale of tobacco products to children. The entire program includes local licensing of vendors (小販), repeated undercover inspections to see if the sale to children has stopped, and education programs in schools. Woodridge has become a model community as other communities are moving to stop teen tobacco use.
A recent national study showed that 36.5% of females, and 40.8% of males buy their cigarettes from stores, whether it is a gas station or a supermarket. Hopefully, as more and more sellers see the trouble they face if caught selling to children, they will stop selling.
True, tightening down on stores that sell tobacco to children isn’t going to completely stop the problem of teen tobacco use. Teens continue to get them from other sources. But it definitely does prevent their efforts. With more education in schools, and perhaps stronger punishments for teens caught with tobacco, more and more teens will see the problems with the tobacco usage, and will stop the habit.
【小題1】To stop teens from smoking, more and more communities are ________.
A.punishing those who sell cigarettes to teens more severely |
B.punishing teens caught with tobacco more severely |
C.educating those who sell cigarettes about the danger of teen smoking |
D.stopping the sale of tobacco products in stores |
A.Local licensing to tobacco sale. | B.Repeated undercover inspections. |
C.Education programs in schools. | D.Stronger punishment of teens caught smoking. |
A.teens can only buy cigarettes from gas stations and convenience stores |
B.more communities have succeeded in stopping teen tobacco use |
C.More males than females have the habit of smoking in America |
D.Punishment alone cannot solve the problem of teen tobacco use |
A.Negative | B.Optimistic | C.Uncertain | D.Uncaring |
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My mother is always warning me when I go out, “Don’t get off the bus ____ it is stopping.”
A、until????????????? B、before????????????? C、while????????????? D、after
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I live in a big city with a lot of homeless people. Luckily there're small ways of helping them and you needn't have a lot of__1__. One way to help is to buy their monthly magazine.__2__doing this one day, I got to__3__a young homeless man. He was often_4__the magazine at the train station.
He was a poor farmer from another country. After a while, I discovered that his__5_was close to mine. It_6__that we were born in the same month.
I met him last year_7__after his birthday, and after congratulating him, without__8__, I asked if he had had a good day. He__9__and said that he hadn't really celebrated. I felt so __10_.
I just couldn't bear the thought of this nice, young man being__11__on his 25th birthday with no presents, no cake, nothing! So I went home and looked in my yarn(紗線) basket.__12__for me, I had enough yarn__13__. I set to work and knitted a__14__for the young man. The yarn had become a little dirty__15_I didn't knit very often. Then I washed the yarn so the scarf would be__16__when he got it.
I met him on my own birthday as I was going shopping. I had__17__to meet him so I had__18__the scarf and a piece of my own birthday__19__around with me. He was very happy with these gifts and so was I. The_20__in his eyes was the best present he could have given me!
1..A. work B.energy C.money D.experience
2..A. In B.On C.Besides D.By
3.A. realize B.ignore C.know D.recognize
4.A. selling B.reading C.covering D.buying
5.A. birthday B.house C.height D.hobby
6.A. said B.found C.guessed D.meant
7.A. long B.shortly C.ever D.even
8.A. stopping B.helping C.praising D.thinking
9.A. looked up B.turned up C.looked down D.got down
10.A. foolish B.excited C.clever D.worried
11.A. calm B.happy C.alone D.hungry
12.A. Suddenly B.Luckily C.Badly D.However
13.A. used B.done C.left D.produced
14.A. scarf B.cap C.sock D.glove
15.A. when B.because C.so D.and
16.A. different B.dry C.wet D.clean
17.A. liked B.hoped C.promised D.agreed
18.A. made B.thrown C.received D.carried
19.A. cake B.present C.song D.party
20.A. light B.pain C.sight D.Tear
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