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A. Four adults book one day tour.
B. Three adults book on the same tour.
C. Four adults book two day tours.
D. Three adults book at least two day tours.
2.According to the passage, The John Muir Trust is probably a group which ________.
A. helps you save money B. is ready to save tourists from danger
C. helps you make a tour plan D. works on environmental protection
3.Which of the following is NOT the characteristic of the tour of Scotland?
A. No insurance. B. Small group.
C. Sustainable tourism. D. Local guide.
4.In which part of a newspaper will you most possibly see this advertisement?
A. Editorial & Opinion B. Fashion & Style
C. Business Today D. Leisure Time
高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
Across the world, 1.1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water. More than 2.5 billion people lack basic sanitation (卫生设备).
The combination proves deadly. Each year, diseases related to inadequate (不充足的) water and sanitation kill between 2 and 5 million people and cause an estimated 80 percent of all sicknesses in the developing world. Safe drinking water is a precondition (前提) for health and the fight against child death rate, inequality between men and women, and poverty.
Consider these facts:
The average distance that women in Africa and Asia walk to collect water is 6 kilometers.
Only 58 percent of children in sub-Saharan Africa are drinking safe water, and only 37 percent of children in South Asia have access to even a basic toilet.
Each year in India alone, 73 million working days are lost to water-born diseases.
Here are three ways you can help:
(1) Write Congress
Current US foreign aid for drinking water and sanitation budgets only one dollar per year per American citizen. Few members of Congress have ever received a letter from voters about clean drinking water abroad.
(2) Donate to a project with a faith-based organizations
Many US religious groups already donate to water and sanitation projects, working with partner organizations abroad. Simply a single project by a US organization can make safe water a reality for thousands of people.
(3) Support nonprofit water organizations
Many US-based nonprofits work skillfully abroad in community-led projects on drinking water and sanitation. Some organizations are large, others small, some operate worldwide, others are devoted to certain areas in Africa, Asia, or Latin America. Support them generously.
1.The passage is probably written for ________.
A. Americans B. people in developing countries
C. religious leaders D. nonprofit water organizations
2.What is the problem that the facts exposed?
A. Inequality between men and women.
B. Many people have no access to clean drinking water.
C. Less effort has been made to improve the basic sanitation.
D. Children suffer most from the lack of basic sanitation.
3.The purpose of the passage is to arouse people to ________.
A. help the developing countries
B. help solve the water shortage and sanitation problem
C. support nonprofit water organizations
D. help get rid of water-related diseases around the world
4.Which is the best title of the passage?
A. From Water Shortage and Sanitation to Poverty
B. Developing World, A Place Needs Help
C. Water Shortage and Sanitation, What Can We Do?
D. Water Shortage and Sanitation
高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef will lose most of its coral cover by 2050 and, at worst, the world’s largest coral system could collapse by 2100 because of global warming, a study recently said.
The study by Queensland University’s Center for Marine Studies, commissioned (委托) by the Worldwide Fund for Nature, said that the destruction of coral on the Great Barrier Reef was unavoidable due to global warming, regardless of what actions were taken now. “Under the worst-case scenario, coral populations will collapse by 2100 and the reestablishment of coral reefs will be highly unlikely over the following 200-500 years,” said the report entitled “Implications (可能的影响) of Climate Change for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.”
The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest living reef formation stretching 2,000 km north to south along Australia’s northeast coast. “Only if global average temperature change is kept to below two degrees Celsius can the Reef have any change of recovering from the predicted damage,” the report said. Coral has a narrow comfort zone and is highly stressed by a temperature rise of less than one degree Celsius. Water temperature rises of less than one degree coincided (同时发生) with the world’s worst recorded coral bleaching (颜色变淡) period in 1988. The warmer water forces out the algae (海藻) that give coral its color and, if all are lost, the coral dies and the reef will die out. In 1988, 16 percent of the world’s coral died, with 46 percent of the Indian Ocean coral destroyed.
Scientists express water temperatures to rise this century by between two and six degrees Celsius. “There is little to no evidence that corals can adapt fast enough to match even the lower temperature rise,” said the report. Over-fishing and pollution from coastal farms were also contributing to the destruction of coral on the Great Barrier Reef.
The Great Barrier Reef supports huge fishing and tourism industries. Even under favorable conditions tourists would only be able to experience real corals in reef “theme parks”.
1.The underlined word “scenario” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________.
A. imagination B. intention C. expectation D. prediction
2.From the passage, we can infer that ________.
A. corals have no difficulty in adapting the temperature change
B. if we take quick actions we can avoid the destruction of corals
C. we can find corals in many areas of the seas or oceans
D. the algae help corals to live
3.Which of the following is NOT the cause of the destruction of coral on the Great Barrier Reef?
A. Direct sunshine. B. Over-fishing.
C. Global warming. D. Pollution.
4.By saying “Coral has a narrow comfort zone” (Para. 3), the author means ________.
A. coral can only live in a small area
B. coral prefers a crowded place
C. coral can hardly adapt to the temperature change
D. coral grows best in a small area
高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
Singles Day falls on every November 11th, and as the name indicates, this relatively new holiday is one specially for people who are still living the single life. I was a bit surprised when I googled “Singles Day” on the Internet, to find that China is the only country in the world that has set up a special day for singles to celebrate their lives.
An old story goes that once there were four single men, leading very boring lives. None of them were married, or had lovers, or did anything exciting. They just sat around all day and played Mahjong. One day they played Mahjong from 11 in the morning until 11 at night. During the game, no matter who won, the winning card was always the “four columns” card (the card shows four independent, parallel columns in two lines). Even more of a coincidence, it was Nov. 11. In order to remind them of the day, they nicknamed it Singles Day.
Singles Day was first celebrated at various universities in Nanjing, capital city of Jiangsu Province during the 1990s. These college students carried their university tradition into society after they graduated. Singles Day is now a special day for all.
The main way to celebrate Singles day is to have dinner with your single friends, but it’s important that each person pay their own way to show their independence. People also hold “blind date” parties in an attempt to say goodbye to their single lives.
For breakfast on Singles Day, singles often eat four youtiao (deep-fried dough sitcks) representing the four “ones” in “11.11” and one baozi (steamed stuffed buns) representing the dot in between.
Many singles also choose to say goodbye to their single lives on the day. Many attend “blind date” parties and many people choose to marry on this day. In addition to meaning “single”, the four “ones” of the date can also mean “only one” as in “the only one for me”. Some people will use this date and this meaning to tell their special someone that they are the only “one” in their heart.
1.Which of the statement is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Singles Day has a long history.
B. Only men celebrate Singles Day.
C. Singles Day is only celebrated in China.
D. Students in Nanjing University started Singles Day.
2.People celebrate the festival mainly by ________.
A. playing Mahjong B. having dinner
C. getting married D. hanging out with friends
3.What is the best title of the passage?
A. Singles Day
B. Four Single Men’s Singles Day
C. University Culture on Singles Day
D. Symbolic Food on Singles Day
4.Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?
(a-para.1 b-para.2 c-para.3 d-para.4 e-para.5 f-para.6)
A. a B. a C. a D. a
b c d b c d f b d b c d e
e e c e f
f f
高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
Long bus rides are like television shows. They have a beginning, a middle, and an end — with commercials thrown in every three or four minutes. The commercials are unavoidable. They happen whether you want them or not. Every couple of minutes a billboard glides by (滑过) outside the bus window. Only if you sleep, which is equal to turning the television set off, are you spared the unending cry of “You Need It! Buy It Now!”?
The beginning of the ride is comfortable and somewhat exciting, even if you’ve traveled that way before. Usually some things have changed — new houses, new buildings, sometimes even a new road. The bus driver has a style of driving and it’s fun to try to figure it out the first hour or so. If the driver is particularly careless or daring, the ride can be as thrilling as a horror story. Will the driver pass the truck in time? Will the driver move into the right or the left-hand lane? After a while, of course, the excitement dies down. Sleeping for a while helps pass the middle hours of the ride. Food always makes bus rides more interesting, but you’ve got to be careful of what kind of food you eat. Too much salty food can make you very thirsty between stops.
The end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning. You know it will soon be over and there’s a kind of expectation and excitement in that. The seat, of course, has become harder as the hours have passed. By now you’ve sat with your legs crossed, with your hands in your lap, with your hands on the arm rests — even with your hands crossed behind your head. The end comes just at the right time. There just no more ways to sit.
1.The long bus rides and TV shows are alike, because ________.
A. they both can offer people with thrilling stories
B. they both are boring
C. they both have a beginning, a middle, and an end, with commercials in between
D. they both force people to sit for a long time
2.During the whole bus ride, what come to the passengers’ eyes most frequently?
A. Some salty food on the bus. B. The programs on TV.
C. Advertisements on the road. D. Trucks on the road.
3.In order to pass the middle hours of the ride, you can ________.
A. read the billboards B. have something to eat
C. watch TV shows D. sleep
4.The purpose of the passage is to ________.
A. show how much bus rides differ from TV shows
B. teach us how to deal with each period of a long bus ride
C. persuade readers to take a long bus ride
D. give the author’s opinion on long bus rides
高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
Good afternoon, and welcome to England. We hope that your visit here will be a pleasant one. Today, I would like to draw your attention to a few of our laws.
The first one is about drinking. Now, you may not buy alcohol (酒) in this country if you are under 18 years of age, nor may your friends buy it for you.
Secondly, noise. Enjoy yourselves by all means, but please don’t make unnecessary noise, particularly at night. We ask you to respect other people who may wish to be quiet.
Thirdly crossing the road. Be careful. The traffic moves on the left side of he road in this country. Use pedestrian crossings (人行横道) and do not take any chances when crossing the road.
My next point is about litter (throwing away waste material in a public place). It is an offence (违法行为) to drop litter in the street. When you have something to throw away, please put it in your pocket and take it home, or put it in a litter bin.
Finally, as regards smoking, it is against the law to buy cigarettes or tobacco (烟草) if you are under 16 years of age.
I’d like to finish by saying that if you require any sort of help or assistance, you should contact your local police station, who will be pleased to help you.
Now, are there any questions?
1.The main purpose of this speech would be to ____ .
A.prepare people for international travel |
B.declare the laws of different kinds |
C.give advice to travellers to the country |
D.inform people of the punishment for breaking laws |
2.From the speech we learn that ____
A.In this country, if you are under 18 years of age, you may not buy alcohol, but your friend can buy it for you. |
B.You may not buy cigarettes or tobacco unless you are above 16 years of age. |
C.Because the traffic moves on the left side of he road ,you must use pedestrian crossings when crossing the road. |
D.You can’t make noise except at night. |
3. The underlined word contact in the seventh paragraph means ____ .
A.keep in touch with | B.get in touch with | C.join | D.report |
高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
Fifteen people were killed and 38 others injured in a road accident early Wednesday morning in Enshi, Central China's Hubei Province.
The bus, travelling from Wanzhou in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality to Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong Province, had 53 passengers on board, three more than permitted.
At around 1 am on Wednesday, the bus increased speed gradually on a curve(弯路)and plunged(往前冲) more than 30 metres into a valley below. Thirteen people, including one of the two drivers, died at once. Two others died on the way to hospital.
Although the cause of the accident is still unclear, the local police said the driver paid no attention to the official warning signs on the expressway(高速公路).
It hit a section which had been closed as a result of snow.
Because of the cold weather and icy roads,the expressway had been closed by police since Tuesday morning. But the bus drivers took the dangerous route, paying no attention to the warnings.
The rescue team, which included more than 30 medical workers and 120 local villagers,joined together and rushed to the scene at the news of the accident. By 5 am, all of the injured had been sent to three local hospitals for emergency treatment. A hospital source said most of the patients were in a stable(稳定的)condition but a few were still in danger.
According to a 2009 national public opinion poll, traffic accidents ranked as people's third biggest security(安全) concern.
1. When the accident took place,____.
A.the bus was on the way to Shenzhen |
B.most of the passengers were sound asleep |
C.all the passengers were given immediate rescue |
D.it was snowing hard |
2. The expressway was closed to ____.
A.protect the passengers from being frozen |
B.make the police have a good rest |
C.stop cars traveling around |
D.avoid(避免) the happening of traffic accidents |
3. What the local villagers did showed that they were ____.
A.curious(好奇的) | B.warm hearted |
C.frightened | D.simple minded |
高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy—five, he gave £ 12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment (设备) for a children’s playground.
As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy—five. Johnson had a sense of humour (幽默). He liked whisky (威士忌酒) and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening.”he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy—five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
1.Johnson became a rich man through
A.doing business. | B.making whisky. | C.cheating. | D.buying and selling land. |
2.The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson
A.had no children. | B.was a strange man. |
C.was very fond of children. | D.wanted people to know how rich he was. |
3.Many people wrote to Johnson to find out
A.why he gave so much money to the school. | B.how to live longer. |
C.how to become wealthy. | D.in which part of the neck to have an injection. |
4. The newspaperman
A.should have reported what Johnson had told him. |
B.shouldn’t have asked Johnson what injection he had. |
C.was eager to live a long life. |
D.should have found out what Johnson really meant. |
高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
Like many children, young Lotte Reiniger was crazy about movies, which at the time were a completely new invention. She taught herself how to cut paper silhouettes(剪影), of people, animals, and objects. I could cut silhouettes almost as soon as I could manage to hold a pair of scissors,” Reiniger said. “I could paint, too, and read...But everybody was surprised at the scissor cuts”
At first, Reiniger wanted to be an actress, but her skill at making silhouettes drew the attention of the German film industry. Before 1927, films were silent. To help the audience understand the film, title cards with printed text appeared during the film between scenes. Reiniger helped create title cards for films, using her silhouettes. In 1918, she was asked to provide stop-motion animation(定格动面), in which objects are photographed(拍摄)in a series of slightly different positions and then replayed at high speed so that the objects appear to move on their own, for wooden rats(老鼠)in the movie The Pied Piper of Hamelin. It was a breakthrough that led to her own films, first short films and then, in 1926, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the first full-length animated film.
Although Reiniger once described herself as “a primitive(原始的)caveman artist”, her work is not simple. She carefully cut bits of card, paper, and wire, creating wonderful shapes, and then made them move and dance by hand. The black shapes were then placed on colorful backgrounds. She made more than 60 films, around 40 of which survive, all cut by her own hands. Most were based on timeless fairy tales, like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.
Reiniger was truly a pioneer both in animation and for women in film-making. Though her last film came out in 1980, her style is still influential and can often be seen in today’s films.
1.What do we know about Reiniger’s cuts?
A. People silhouettes were her favorite.
B. Painting and reading helped her cuts.
C. She had a gift for cutting silhouettes.
D. Movies excited her interest in silhouettes.
2.What did Reiniger do to help the audience understand the silent films?
A. She replayed the film between scenes.
B. She cut silhouettes for title cards in films.
C. She broke up long films into shorter ones.
D. She made photos of the objects in the film.
3.What does the underlined word “It” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Creating title cards for films.
B. Making wooden rats for a film.
C. Producing The Adventures of Prince Achmed.
D. Bringing stop-motion animation into a film.
4.Which of the following words can best describe Reiniger?
A. Gifted and generous. B. Creative and productive.
C. Honest and self-confident. D. Traditional and hard-working.
高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
1990 was a significant year in world events. In February, Nelson Mandela was set free after 27 years in prison. In October, East and West Germany became one country again. Then at the end of 1990, the World Wide Web was born. For this final event we have one man to thank, Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Web.
Berners-Lee was born on June 8, 1955 in London, England. His parents, both computer designers, encouraged him to think and work creatively as he grew up. He was an excellent student and naturally took an interest in computers and science.
After graduating from Oxford University, Tim went to work at a science research center in Switzerland. There he developed some of the different systems that would later become the Web. The first was HTML, the computer language used to make web pages. The second was an address system that let computers anywhere find each other and send and receive information. In 1990, while still at the science center in Switzerland, he put them together to make the first Internet browser. It could run on any computer and allowed people to share their information with the rest of the world.
Tim knew that the more people used the Web, the more useful it would be. He wasn’t interested in money but knowledge, so he gave out his invention for free to anyone who was interested. Many were interested and the growth of the Internet began.
Today Tim works as a professor at the MIT in America, researching new and interesting ways to use the Web. He has received many awards from governments and organizations for his efforts. He is still not very interested in money. That is why he is so admired by his students and workmates. It may also be one of the reasons why few people outside the world of technology know his name.
1.What can we learn about Berners-Lee from the passage?
A. He was encouraged to be creative.
B. He didn’t do well at school.
C. He cares little about money and knowledge.
D. He is well-known all over the world.
2.Where does Berners-Lee live today?
A. England. B. Switzerland. C. America. D. Canada.
3.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. The address system was used to make web pages.
B. The World Wide Web was created in Switzerland.
C. The first web browser was very expensive to buy.
D. Many people could use the Internet before 1990.
4.What is the passage mainly about?
A. The events that took place in 1990. B. The history of the Internet.
C. The invention of the Internet browser. D. The man who created the World Wide Web.
高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析