When the area was _______ by the flood, the government organized people to send food and medicine there immediately.
A. cut away B. cut down
C. cut off D. cut up
科目:高中英語 來源:2014-2015學年浙江杭州西湖高級中學高二10月月考英語試卷(解析版) 題型:閱讀理解
IN the famous fairy tale, Snow White eats the Queen’s apple and falls victim to a curse; in Shakespeare’s novel, Romeo drinks the poison and dies; some ancient Chinese emperors took pills that contained mercury, believing that it would make them immortal, but they died afterward.
Poison has long been an important ingredient in literature and history, and it seems to always be associated with evil, danger and death. But how much do you really know about poison?
An exhibition, the Power of Poison, opened last month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, intended to give the audience a more vivid understanding of poison. The exhibition will continue until Aug 2014, reported The New York Times.
The museum tour starts in a rainforest setting, where you can see live examples of some of the most poisonous animals: caterpillars, frogs and spiders. Golden poison frogs, for instance, aren’t much bigger than a coin, but their skin is covered in a poison that can cut off the signaling power of your nerves, and a single frog has enough venom to kill 10 grown humans.
The exhibition also features interactive activities. In an iPad-based game, visitors are presented with three puzzling illnesses and asked to identify the poisons based on symptoms. In one case, for example, a pet dog is found sick in a backyard and visitors have to figure out whether it was the toad (蟾蜍), the leaky batteries in the trash or the dirty pond water that did it.
“Poisons can be bad for some things,” Michael Novacek, senior vice president of the museum, told NBC News. “Yet they can also be good for others.”
This is what visitors learn from the last part of the exhibition, which displays how poisons can be used favorably by humans, including for medical treatment.
The blood toxins of vampire bats, for example, can prevent blood from clotting (凝結), which may protect against strokes. A poisonous chemical found in the yew tree is effective against cancer, which is what led to the invention of a cancer-fighting drug called Taxol. One chemical in the venom of Gila monsters can lower the blood sugar of its victims, so it has been used to treat diabetes.
The benefits from natural poisons are not limited to just medicine. Believe it or not, many substances that we regularly take in – chili, coffee and chocolate, etc. – owe their special flavors or stimulating effects to chemicals that plants make to poison insects.
1.By mentioning Snow White and Romeo at the beginning of the story, the author intends to____________.
A. show that poison has long been involved in literature
B. show that poison is always linked with evil and death
C. draw readers’ attention to the topic of the article
D. get readers to think of more examples of the use of poison in stories
2.What is the main purpose of the exhibition The Power of Poison?
A. To give people more in-depth knowledge about poison.
B. To teach people how to handle poisonous animals.
C. To inform people about which animals are the most poisonous.
D. To show how poison has been used for medical treatment.
3.Which of the following statements about the exhibition is TRUE according to the article?
A. The exhibition will lead visitors to a real rainforest.
B. Golden poison frogs are the most poisonous animals on display.
C. Those who visit the exhibition can join in some iPad-based interactive games.
D. Visitors can listen to lectures on recent studies of poisonous animals.
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In ______1600’s, Shakespeare made use of _______wider vocabulary than ever before .
A. the ;a B./ ;/
C. the ;/ D./;a
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科目:高中英語 來源:2014-2015學年浙江杭州地區(qū)六校高二上期中英語試卷(解析版) 題型:完形填空
Nine years ago, after Leo had died, people said to me, “I never knew he was your stepfather.” You see, I never called him . At first, he was no one special in my life. Then he became my friend. , I felt he was also my father.
Leo married my mother when I was eleven. Two years later we moved into a house in a new suburban development, where we put down roots. At first our lawn was just a mud with wild grass, but Leo saw bright . “We’ll plant trees there to give us as well as some flowers,” he said. And just these little touches made our house from all the others. More importantly, a real family was . Leo was becoming a full-time parent, and I was learning what it to have a father.
Weekday mornings when the weather was bad, Leo often drove me to school. Having a father
you off may have been something my classmates took for granted, I always thought it was wonderful. mornings, we went to the hardware shop, then stepped into the five-and-ten, buying a sports magazine or something else. Some people might think that doing shopping together is nothing , but I, who had ever before spent my childhood other families do their everyday activities, experienced them now with delight. , I realized that Leo gave me what I needed most—the of doing ordinary things together as a family.
1.A. itB. thatC. soD. one
2.A. In timeB. At the timeC. First timeD. On time
3.A. necessitiesB. possibilitiesC. recognitionD. decoration
4.A. vegetablesB. grassC. shadowD. shade
5.A. beautifulB. similarC. sameD. different
6.A. formingB. developingC. growingD. becoming
7.A. becameB. meantC. followedD. got
8.A. cutB. helpC. dropD. drive
9.A. soB. andC. butD. since
10.A. MondayB. WeekdayC. FridayD. Saturday
11.A. specialB. usualC. especialD. different
12.A. noticingB. recognizingC. understandingD. watching
13.A. modestB. extremeC. deepD. high
14.A. Looking backB.Coming backC. Looking forwardD. Going back on
15.A. achievementB. recognitionC. experienceD. procedure
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At the conference, they came up with three different _____ to solving the serious problem.
A. approaches B. means
C. methods D. ways
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科目:高中英語 來源:2014-2015學年浙江杭州地區(qū)六校高一上期中英語試卷(解析版) 題型:單詞拼寫
根據(jù)下列句子及所給單詞的首字母,在句子右邊的橫線上寫出空缺處各單詞的正確形式。(每空只寫一個單詞)
1.Wherever you are, your parents are always c_______________ about you.
2.He’s been s_____________ from a strange disease unknown to doctors for ages.
3.I’d be g___________ if you could give me some help while I’m here.
4.----He’s just come back from abroad, majoring in English.
----No wonder he speaks English so f___________ .
5.I’m terribly sorry but I didn’t r___________ you just now at the first sight because you’ve changed a lot.
6.The university students are from different parts of our country, so they speak Chinese Putonghua with local a___________. .
7.In order to save e_____________, please turn off the lights, fans and the computer whenever we leave the classroom.
8.I’m glad that my English is g_____________ getting better with the help of my teacher as well as my own efforts.
9.He is so stubborn that it seems impossible to p____________ him to change his mind.
10.The whole city of Wenchuan was almost d___________ by one of the biggest earthquakes which happened on May 12 ,2008.
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It was the third time that she ______to this mountain village to see the children.
A. has come B. had come
C. came D. would come
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科目:高中英語 來源:2014-2015學年浙江富陽第二中學高二上第一次質檢英語試卷(解析版) 題型:閱讀理解
Women were friends, I once would have said, when they totally love and support and trust each other, and bear to each other the secrets of their souls, and run—no questions asked—to help each other, and tell harsh truths to each other(No, you can’t wear that dress unless you lose ten pounds first.) when these truths must be told.
In other words, I once would have said that a friend is a friend all the way, but now I believe that’s narrow point of view. Friendships serve many different functions,meet different needs and range from those as all-the-way as the friendship of the soul sisters mentioned above to that of the most casual playmates.
Convenience friends are women with whom we’d have no particular reason to be friends: a next-door neighbor or the mother of one of our children’s closest friends. They’ll lend us their cups for a party. They’ll drive our kids to school when we’re sick. They’ll take us to pick up our car when we need a lift .As we will for them. But we don’t , with convenience friends, ever come too close or tell too much; we maintain our public face and emotional distance.
Special-interest friends aren’t intimate(親密),and they needn’t involve kids or cats. Their value lies in some interest jointly shared .And so we may have an office friend or a tennis friend.
“I’ve got one woman friend,” says Joyce,” who likes, as I do, to take music courses, which makes it nice for me and her. I’d say that what we’re doing is doing together, not being together.”
Crossroads friends are important for what was for the friendship we shared at a crucial(關鍵的),now past, time of life. A time, perhaps, when we roomed in college together or went together through pregnancy, birth and that scary first year of new motherhood.
Crossroads friends develop powerful links, links strong enough to endure with not much more contact than once-a-year letters at Christmas. And out of respect for those crossroads years, for those dramas and dreams we once shared, we will always be friends.
Crossroads friends seem to maintain a special kind of intimacy ----dormant(休眠的) but always ready to be revived(復活) ---and though we may rarely meet ,whenever we do connect, it’s personal and strong. Another kind of intimacy exists in the cross-generational friendships, the friends that form across generation in what one woman calls her daughter-mother and her mother-daughter relationships.
There are good friends, pretty good friends and very good friends, and these friendships are defined by their level of intimacy. We might tell a good friend, for example, that yesterday we had a fight with our husband. And we might tell a pretty good friend that this fight with our husband made us so mad that we slept on the couch. And we might tell a very good friend that the reason we got so mad in that fight that we slept on the couch had something to do with a girl who works in his office. But it’s only to our very best friends that we’re willing to tell all, to tell what’s going on with that girl in his office.
1.The underlined word “harsh”(in Para.1)probably means “------“
A. protective B.impossible
C. unpleasant D. unbelievable
2.What can we know about convenience friends?
A.People may share their sorrow and pain with their convenience friends.
B.People may borrow a large sum of money from their convenience friends.
C.People may ask their convenience friends to pick up their children for them.
D.People would like to seek comfort and convenience from their convenience friends.
3.What is the similarity between crossroads friends and cross-generational friends?
A.They often write to each other but never meet.
B.They become friends at a crucial time of their life.
C. They both enjoy a special kind of intimacy with each other.
D.The relationship usually exists between mothers and daughters.
4.The friendships in the passage are classified(分類) according to _________.
A.different stages of one’s life
B.the purpose of making friends
C.how people make friends with others
D.how close the relationship is
5.What would be the best title for the passage?
A.The value of friendship
B.How to make lasting friendships
C.Ways to avoid destroying your friendship
D.Friends, good friends and such good friends
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— My watch doesn’t work; I’ll get it .
— Why not buy a new one. It’s too old.
A. to repair B. repairing
C. repair D. repaired
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