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科目：高中英語 來源：學(xué)習(xí)高手必修一英語北師版 北師版 題型：050

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　　Thanksgiving Day is a special holiday in the United States and Canada．Families and friends gather to eat and give thanks for their blessing．

　　Thanksgiving Day is really a harvest festival．This is why it is celebrated in late fall, after the crops are in．But one of the first Thanksgivings in America had nothing to do with a good harvest．On December 4, 1619, the Pilgrims from England landed near what is now Charles City, Virginia．They knelt down and thanked God for their safe journey across the Atlantic．

　　The first New England Thanksgiving did celebrate a rich harvest．The Pilgrims? landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620．They had a difficult time and the first winter was cruel．Many of the Pilgrims died．But the next year, they had a good harvest．So Governor Bradford declared a three day feast．The Pilgrims invited Indian friends to join them for their special feast．Everyone brought food．

　　In time, other colonies began to celebrate a day of thanksgiving．But it took years before there was a national Thanksgiving Day．During the Civil War, Sarah Josepha Hale persuaded Abraham Lincoln to do something about it．He proclaimed the last Thursday of November 1863 as a day of thanksgiving．Today, Americans celebrate this happy harvest festival on the fourth Thursday in November．Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving Day in much the same way as their American neighbors．But the Canadian Thanksgiving Day falls on the second Monday in October．

(1)

Thanksgiving Day is celebrated ________

[　　]

A．

in spring

B．

in summer

C．

in autumn

D．

in winter

(2)

The first to celebrate thanksgiving were ________．

[　　]

A．

some people from England

B．

the American Indians

C．

Sarah Josepha Hale

D．

Governor Bradford

(3)

We can infer from the passage that New England must be ________．

[　　]

A．

in the USA

B．

in Great Britain

C．

in Canada

D．

on some island off the Atlantic

(4)

Which of the following is NOT true?

[　　]

A．

Thanksgiving Day used to be a holiday to celebrate a good harvest．

B．

Abraham Lincoln was not the first to decide on thanksgiving celebrations．

C．

Thanksgiving Day is celebrated to express the American and Indian people’s thanks to God．

D．

There’s little difference between the American way and the Canadian way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day．

(5)

The passage mainly tells us ________．

[　　]

A．

how Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in the USA

B．

how Thanksgiving Day came into being and the different ways it is celebrated

C．

that Thanksgiving Day is in fact a harvest holiday

D．

how the way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day changed with the time and places

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NEW YORK— Picking a Christmas tree takes most people a few minutes, or a couple of hours if they head for the woods. Dave Murbach needs 11 months.

Almost every day of every year, Murbach’s thoughts turn to vision of a perfectly shaped evergreen tree that will take everyone's breath away.

     Murbach is the man responsible for finding the towering tree that makes more attractive Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center each Christmas season.

     “I'm always looking for a tree,” the center's chief gardener says. “I look for it even when I go to the beach in the summer. It' s like a homework assignment hanging over your head.”

     And if he gets it wrong, there's nothing hiding it.

     “Every day it's up, 400,000 people go by, and 2.5 million people watch the lighting celebration on television,”he says.

    This year’s tree, a 74-foot Nomy spruce (云杉) from Richfield, Ohio, flown to New York on the world's largest cargo plane, was lighted on December 2.

    The arrival of the tree leads in the Christmas season in New York — a tradition dating back to 1931, when the workers building Rockefeller Center put up a small tree with ornaments (裝飾品). 

     The search for the next year's tree starts soon after the old tree is chopped up for wood chips and horse-jumping logs.

    Murbach has three standards: The tree must be at least 65 feet high, at least 35 feet across and leaves dense (密集的) enough not to see through.

    That's not as simple as it sounds. Though forests are full of evergreens, few get enough sunlight or space to fill out. And branches in snow regions often break under the weight, making trees unbalanced.

    Back at the office, he sorts through hundreds of letters from people offering their trees, many addressed simply to “Mr. Christmas Tree Man.”

Though there was occasional anxiety attack and sleepless night, Murbach knows the effect the tree has on people: “It's for bringing people together, attempting to bring together people you love. That's what I hope it sets off.”  But Murbach says he's always too worn out to celebrate Christmas.

51． Which is the correct order of the events in the passage?

a. Murbach’s thoughts turn to a perfectly shaped tree.

b. 2.5 million people watch the Christmas tree.

c. The tree is flown to New York.

d. It was lighted on December 2.

e. The tree is chopped up.

f. Murbach searches for the tree.

A. a, b, c, d, e, f                                B. c, d, b, f, e, a

C. c, d, e, b, a, f                                D. a, f, c, d, b, e

52． Murbach spends a lot of time         that are exhibited in Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center each Christmas season.

A. taking care of Christmas trees

B. deciding on the perfect evergreens

C. sorting the letters from people

D. deciding the TV programs

53． Why does Murbach take his job seriously?

A. Because he wants everyone to be happy with his choice.

B. Because he hopes to make everybody unable to breathe.

C. Because he enjoys showing off.

D. Because he wishes to attract people's attention to himself.

54． According to Murbach' s standard of trees, the best tree must_______ .

A. be evergreen

B. have lots of space between their branches

C. be tall enough not to see through

D. be equally balanced

55． What kind of person do you think Murbach is?

A. A person always ignoring his family.

B. A person full of love.

C. A person devoted to his work.

D. A person with great anxiety.

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科目：高中英語 來源：2011屆廣東省南塘中學(xué)高三9月月考英語卷 題型：閱讀理解

Saturday 28 April, 2001: Dennis Tito was setting off on his holiday. Mr. Tito’s journey was  certainly unusual! So was the transport he chose, and the price of his trip.
The 60-year-old multi-millionaire from New York was sitting on board a Russian spaceship.  He was on a journey to the International Space Station. It might have been a routine trip for the  two astronauts who were traveling with him, but for him it was certainly no ordinary journey.  Dennis Tito was the first tourist ever in space, and he had paid the sum of $20 million to go there.  As the spacecraft left the earth’s atmosphere, Tito drank a glass of fruit juice to celebrate and  looked down at the earth’s blue-green surface. Two minutes later, he was sick. Luckily it was  only a minor problem. He soon recovered, and from then on enjoyed a smooth journey. When he  arrived at the space station, there was a big smile on his face. “A great trip!” he commented． “I  love space.”
For a long time space travel was something for heroes. But all this is going to change.  Companies like ProSpace are investing large amounts of money in space travel. They want space  and space travel to belong to the public, not just governments. There are other plans, like voyages  through space from one side of the world to the other. Maybe we will be able to depart from New  York at nine o’clock in the morning, and arrive an hour later-- in Tokyo! Such a schedule would  allow the business traveler to return to New York on the same day, and still have eight hours for a  meeting!
【小題1】Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A．Business TravelersB．Space TouristsC．A Space ExplorationD．A Frightening Adventure
【小題2】According to the passage, Dennis Tito   .
A．enjoyed his trip very much B．was too sick to eat anything in space
C．suffered a lot during the tripD．didn’t think the trip was worthwhile
【小題3】Which of the following statements is tree according to the passage?
A．Tito was the first American tourist in space.
B．Tito contributed all of his wealth to his space trip.
C．Tito visited the Russian Space Station during his trip.
D．Space travel has become a routine for Tito since then.
【小題4】It can be expected from the passage that   .
A．space travel will belong to the public instead of governments
B．a(chǎn)irplanes will some day reach the speed of space vehicles
C．can will be able to circle the earth within less than an hour
D．travel between two places on earth will be made through space

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科目：高中英語 來源：2012屆江蘇省阜寧高級中學(xué)、大豐高級中學(xué)、栟茶高級中學(xué)高三第二次調(diào)研聯(lián)考英語 題型：閱讀理解

The Cost of Higher Education
Individuals (個人) should pay for their higher education.
A university education is of huge and direct benefit to the individual. Graduates earn more than non-graduates. Meanwhile, social mobility is ever more dependent on having a degree. However, only some people have it. So the individual, not the taxpayers, should pay for it. There are pressing calls on the resources (資源) of the government. Using taxpayers' money to help a small number of people to earn high incomes in the future is not one of them.
Full government funding (資助) is not very good for universities. Adam Smith worked in a Scottish university whose teachers lived off student fees. He knew and looked down upon 18th-century Oxford, where the academics lived comfortably off the income received from the government. Guaranteed salaries, Smith argued, were the enemy of hard work; and when the academics were lazy and incompetent, the students were similarly lazy.
If students have to pay for their education, they not only work harder, but also demand more from their teachers. And their teachers have to keep them satisfied. If that means taking teaching seriously, and giving less time to their own research interests, that is surely something to celebrate.
Many people believe that higher education should be free because it is good for the economy (經(jīng)濟(jì)). Many graduates clearly do contribute to national wealth, but so do all the businesses that invest (投資) and create jobs. If you believe that the government should pay for higher education because graduates are economically productive, you should also believe that the government should pay part of business costs. Anyone promising to create jobs should receive a gift of capital from the government to invest. Therefore, it is the individual, not the government, who should pay for their university education.
【小題1】 The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 2 refers to ______.

A．taxpayers B．pressing callsC．college graduatesD．government resources
【小題2】The author thinks that with full government funding ______.
A．teachers are less satisfiedB．students are more demanding
C．students will become more competentD．teachers will spend less time on teaching
【小題3】The author mentions businesses in Paragraph 5 in order to ______.
A．a(chǎn)rgue against free university educationB．call on them to finance students' studies
C．encourage graduates to go into businessD．show their contribution to higher education

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科目：高中英語 來源：2011-2012學(xué)年吉林省汪清六中高一3月月考英語試卷（帶解析） 題型：閱讀理解


Thanksgiving Day is special holiday in the United States and Canada. Families and friends gather to eat and give thanks for their blessing.
Thanksgiving Day is really a harvest festival. This is why it is celebrated in late fall, after the crops are in. But one of the first thanksgivings in America had nothing to do with a good harvest. On December 4, 1619, the Pilgrims from England landed near what is now Charles City, Virginia. They knelt down and thanked God for their safe journey across the Atlantic.
The first New England Thanksgiving did celebrate a rich harvest. The Pilgrims landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. They had a difficult time and the first winter was cruel. Many of the Pilgrims died. But the next year, they had a good harvest. So Governor Bradford declared a three-day feast（盛宴）. The Pilgrims invited Indian friends to join them for their special feast. Everyone brought food.
In time, other colonies（殖民地）began to celebrate a day of thanksgiving. But it took years before there was a national Thanksgiving Day. During the Civil War, Sarah Josepha Hale persuaded Abraham Lincoln to do something about it. He proclaimed（宣布）the last Thursday of November 1863 as a day of thanksgiving. Today, Americans celebrate this happy harvest festival on the fourth Thursday in November. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving Day in much the same way as their American neighbors. But the Canadian thanks-giving Day falls on the second Monday in October.
【小題1】Thanksgiving Day is celebrated      .

A．in springB．summer
C．in autumnD．in winter
【小題2】The first to celebrate thanksgiving were      .
A．some people from EnglandB．the American Indians
C．Sarah Josepha HaleD．Governor Bradford
【小題3】We can infer from the passage that New England must be      .
A. in the U. S. A.    B. in Great Britain
C. in Canada       D. on some island off the Atlantic
【小題4】Which of the following is NOT true?
A．Thanksgiving Day used to be a holiday to celebrate a good harvest.
B．Abraham Lincoln was not the first to decide on thanksgiving celebrations.
C．Thanksgiving Day is celebrated to express the American and Indian people’s thanks to God.
D．There’s little difference between the American way and the Canadian way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day.
【小題5】The passage mainly tells us      .
A. how Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in the U. S. A.
B. how Thanksgiving Day came into being and the different ways it is celebrated
C. that Thanksgiving Day is in fact a harvest holiday
D. how the way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day changed with the time and places

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