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The "Occupy Wall Street" movement gained more support on Wednesday as unions and students joined in. With the protests developing from a group of young people's camping out near the New York Stock Exchange on September 17 to large-scale (大规模的) movements across the country and around the world, people can't help asking: What has led to "Occupy Wall Street?"
Three years after the severe economic crisis, the U.S. economy now is stuck again. Protesters are not satisfied with the present economic situation since unemployment rate is above 9 percent and economic growth has slowed. The housing market is still struggling for a recovery three years after the bubble (泡沫) burst. People are losing their houses even after they have paid a large amount of mortgage(抵押). It is getting difficult for young people to find jobs. People feared that a similar crisis like the one in 2008 may be already on its way.
It is Wall Street that possessed the most riches. It is Wall Street greed that, at least partly, led to the financial crisis in 2008. It was Wall Street's "fat cats" who take taxpayers' aid money as their own big bonus (奖金). With the growing economic crisis around the world, people realize that Wall Street is responsible for it. So they try to target people who created the crisis.
The majority of the protesters are young people under 30. Many of them are unemployed. Some are students with mountains of loans (贷款). Some are hard-working people about to lose their houses even if they have paid a large amount of mortgage. They are complaining that the hard-working middle class is getting poor, yet Wall Street stays wealthy.
William Cohan, author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the world, wrote recently that Wall Street not only learned nothing from the 2008 crisis, they are also trying to kill all reforms that might "break this dangerous cycle in which bankers get very rich while the rest of working people suffer from their mistakes."
1.. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. The cause of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.
B. The demand of the protesters of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.
C. The popularity of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.
D. The development of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.
2.. According to the second paragraph, what set off the “Occupy Wall Street” movement?
A. The housing market. B. The bad economic situation.
C. The mortgage D. The high unemployment rate.
3.. We can learn from the passage that Wall Street is the symbol of ________ in the USA.
A. civilization B. power C. wealth D. fashion
4. We can infer that William Cohan ________.
A. is the organizer of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement
B. lives on Wall Street
C. is against the “Occupy Wall Street” movement
D. approves of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement
高三英语简单题
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The "Occupy Wall Street" movement gained more support on Wednesday as unions and students joined in. With the protests developing from a group of young people's camping out near the New York Stock Exchange on September 17 to large-scale (大规模的) movements across the country and around the world, people can't help asking: What has led to "Occupy Wall Street?"
Three years after the severe economic crisis, the U.S. economy now is stuck again. Protesters are not satisfied with the present economic situation since unemployment rate is above 9 percent and economic growth has slowed. The housing market is still struggling for a recovery three years after the bubble (泡沫) burst. People are losing their houses even after they have paid a large amount of mortgage(抵押). It is getting difficult for young people to find jobs. People feared that a similar crisis like the one in 2008 may be already on its way.
It is Wall Street that possessed the most riches. It is Wall Street greed that, at least partly, led to the financial crisis in 2008. It was Wall Street's "fat cats" who take taxpayers' aid money as their own big bonus (奖金). With the growing economic crisis around the world, people realize that Wall Street is responsible for it. So they try to target people who created the crisis.
The majority of the protesters are young people under 30. Many of them are unemployed. Some are students with mountains of loans (贷款). Some are hard-working people about to lose their houses even if they have paid a large amount of mortgage. They are complaining that the hard-working middle class is getting poor, yet Wall Street stays wealthy.
William Cohan, author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the world, wrote recently that Wall Street not only learned nothing from the 2008 crisis, they are also trying to kill all reforms that might "break this dangerous cycle in which bankers get very rich while the rest of working people suffer from their mistakes."
1.. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. The cause of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.
B. The demand of the protesters of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.
C. The popularity of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.
D. The development of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.
2.. According to the second paragraph, what set off the “Occupy Wall Street” movement?
A. The housing market. B. The bad economic situation.
C. The mortgage D. The high unemployment rate.
3.. We can learn from the passage that Wall Street is the symbol of ________ in the USA.
A. civilization B. power C. wealth D. fashion
4. We can infer that William Cohan ________.
A. is the organizer of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement
B. lives on Wall Street
C. is against the “Occupy Wall Street” movement
D. approves of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement
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Most of the students in the Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong ______ have participated for more rights, but what they did caused serious effects on people’s living.
A. should B. might C. would D. Can
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Most of the students in the Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong ______ have participated for more rights, but what they did caused serious effects on people’s living.
A. should B. might
C. would D. Can
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Like many of the protesters (抗议者) at Occupy Wall Street in New York, Amanda Vodola is young, underemployed and loaded with student debt. She spends her days _________, helping _________ the movement, and her evenings waiting tables at a restaurant in Brooklyn. Last spring, she graduated from Fordham University with a degree in English. “I grew up with this narrative that to get a good job I need to go to school,” she says. But the job she has “is not enough to pay the bills”. And the bills she has _________ most about are the ones tied to that narrative: the $30,000 she _________ in college loans.
In November, when their six-month grace period run _________, Vodola and millions of other students who graduated in May have to start _________ their loans. Repayment requirements for private loans kick in (开始生效) _________ whether _________ have found jobs. Since employment rates for recent college graduates have _________ in the past two years, as have starting salaries, the __________ of a sharp rise in student-loan delinquencies (到期未付) has led some economists to __________ that this could be the next __________ crisis, rippling (波及) into the wider economy. Total US student-loan debt, which __________ credit-card debt for the first time last year, is on track to __________ $1,000 billion this year. That’s a nearly 8% __________ over last year.
But neither these __________ nor the voices of students, __________ by debt, at protests in cities and on campuses throughout the nation are likely to keep the families of high school seniors from seeing a brand-name education as a __________ to a better life. They’ve long been told that higher education is an __________ in the future—even as the costs of college has __________ 538% over the past thirty years.
1.A.running around B.keeping fit C.warming up D.checking out
2.A.establish B.resemble C.found D.organize
3.A.puzzled B.interrupted C.worried D.carried
4.A.collects B.owes C.costs D.accounts
5.A.down B.up C.off D.out
6.A.raising B.repaying C.rearranging D.rating
7.A.although B.in contrast with C.regardless of D.because of
8.A.borrowers B.owners C.lenders D.holders
9.A.dropped B.changed C.collapsed D.slimmed
10.A.stability B.possibility C.promotion D.security
11.A.command B.instruct C.appreciate D.predict
12.A.political B.religious C.financial D.legal
13.A.decreased B.topped C.compared D.lowered
14.A.hit B.knock C.blow D.strike
15.A.advance B.progress C.transfer D.increase
16.A.conclusions B.graphs C.statistics D.abstracts
17.A.rejected B.burdened C.admitted D.boycotted
18.A.sign B.label C.fame D.ticket
19.A.investment B.instrument C.indication D.inspiration
20.A.strengthened B.flown C.zoomed D.broken
高三英语完形填空困难题查看答案及解析
The Occupy protests(抗议) in Hong Kong are approaching an end. Traffic on Mong Kok’s Argyle Street resumed in the late afternoon after the clearance of the barriers and tents by protesters, who remained largely calm, only resisting the clearance at several points.
Some 3,000 police officers were deployed(部署) in the operation, a much higher number than were used to assist in the clearance of a protest site in Admiralty District on November 18.
The operation in Mong Kok comes a week after the partial clearance of another protest site next to the local government headquarters in Admiralty, bringing an end to the months-long protest movement.
Some 3,000 police officers also stood guard at the former protest site in Admiralty on Tuesday.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying expressed on Tuesday his hope that business could resume for shops in the area. He also restated that the protest was an unlawful gathering, and called for the protesters to respect and obey the law.
“The common call of Hong Kong people has finally been answered. Now the protest is coming to an end which is necessary and unavoidable. The public has suffered enough,” Leticia Lee See-yin told the Global Times.
“Many people are living in Mong Kok or operating their businesses in the area. They are all angry at the protest for affecting their business. Two shop owners even shut down their stores because they can no longer afford losses caused by the protest,” said Lee.
It is believed that the successful clearance of the Mong Kok site has proven that the protests are decreasing as they approach an end.
“The authorities met with much less resistance compared to a month ago when protesters reacted violently when police tried to remove barriers in the same area in Mong Kok. Now the public has expressed a stronger desire than ever for the protest to end,” Tang Ka-piu, a lawmaker, told the Global Times.
1.The underlined word “resumed” in the first paragraph most probably means “_______”.
A. came to a stop B. moved faster
C. returned to normal D. piled up
2.It can be learned from the passage that the occupy protests _______.
A. have made the public suffer a lot
B. have lasted for two months
C. are supported by common people
D. have caused no loss for the citizens
3.Which of the following is True according to the passage?
A. Police officers didn’t meet with any resistance in the late afternoon clearance.
B. Many more than 3000 police officers took part in the clearance in Admiralty District.
C. The authorities are not capable of dealing with the resistance from the protesters.
D. The occupy protests are announced illegal and harmful for the business.
4.How do the Hong Kong public feel about the occupy protests?
A. Approval. B. Annoyed. C. Scared. D. Desirable.
高三英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
According to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, we might all be braggarts(大话王) in this competitive society addicted to social networking.
Take a close look at your socialnetworking sites. Do you like to post photos of yourself in restaurants to show others what an exciting life you have? Or do you like to write about how happily in love you are? Or perhaps you are of the subtle type who constantly complain about jobs but really just want to impress others with your important position.
According to the results of a series of experiments conducted by Harvard University neuroscientists(神经科学家), the reward areas of our brain——the same areas that respond to “primary rewards” such as food ——are activated when we talk about ourselves. We devote between 30 to 40 percent of our conversation time to doing just that. Unfortunately, Bernstein says, some people can't tell the difference between sharing positive information that others might actually want to know and direct bragging. She suggests that bragging involves comparison, whether stated or implied.
“We are expected to be perfect all the time. The result is that more and more people are carefully managing their online images”. says Elizabeth Bernstein, a columnist with the Wall Street Journal.
But the issue is not limited to the Internet. In a fiercely competitive job market we must sell ourselves on multiple platforms and show that we are better than others. In fact, we have become so accustomed to bragging that we don't even realize we are doing it, says Bernstein. This is harmful to our relationships and puts people off.
Bernstein talked to some experts who said that people brag for all sorts of reasons: to appear worthy of attention; to prove to ourselves we are doing fine and that people who said we would fail are wrong; or simply because we're excited when good things happen to us.
“Feel sorry for them, because they're doing this unconscious, destructive thing that won't help them in the long run，” said Professor Simian Valier, a research psychologist at Washington University.
1.The underlined word “subtle” in Para.2 is closest in meaning to “________”．
A．hidden B．apparent
C．outstanding D．simple
2.Which of the following is one of the features of braggarts?
A．They control conversation and only talk about themselves.
B．They know well how to share positive information.
C．They selfpromote to stand out in their career.
D．They don't pay much attention to their online image.
3.What can we infer from the passage?
A．Braggarts make a good first impression but the effect decreases over time.
B．People who like bragging know what they are doing.
C．Braggarts always adopt comparison directly to show they are excellent.
D．They care much about the feelings of others when talking.
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
The Wall Street Journal recently published an excellent article penned by Wendy Bounds on a hot topic here at MNN: the air-purifying qualities of the common house plant. Given that the air inside your home can be 2 to 5 times more polluted than the air outside of it, making it clean with plants like peace lily (百合花) and asparagus fern (芦笋蕨) is an economical. artistically pleasing alternative to air purifiers. So it’s been acknowledged that a bunch of pretty putted houseplants can help you maintain a healthier home, but a smarter home?
That' s the question in light of a recent study published by the Journal of Environmental Psychology showing that the presence of plants in a room, particularly in an office environment, can shrink attention span (范围). Struggling directive attention (the kind of attention that takes effort) can be refreshed through exposure ho to naturalistic environments. Basically, taking a walk through the park can clear one’s head. But can a head be refreshed simply by being surrounded by houseplants?
To test their theory, the study’s authors rounded up a bunch of participants, put some of them in a mom with no plants and put others in a room with our plants placed around a desk, and put them all to the same series of tests. First was a Rearing Span Teat which involves reading a series of sentences aloud and remembering the Last word in each sentence. This task requires that you fluently switch between attention demanding tasks: from rending and memorizing at one moment. to writing and recalling at the next. Next came a proofreading task fallowed by another Reading Span Test.
The results? Participants working in the room with the plants improved their performance from the first Reading Span Test to the second while those working in the room lacking in greenery did not. Consequently, the benefits of working among plants is indeed evident.
1.What do we know from the first paragraph?
A.Staying indoors can help avoid the poorer air outdoors.
B.Houseplants can Function as beautiful cheap air purifiers.
C.Planting polled flowers as decorations is very interesting.
D.Air purifiers are the most effective to create a healthy home.
2.What does the underlined part in paragraph 2 probably refer to?
A.Focus one’s attention. B.Disturb one’s attention.
C.weaken one’s attention. D.Turn one’s attention away.
3.What does the test prove?
A.Working in nature helps increase productivity.
B.Houseplants will be in great demand in our life.
C.Greenery creates healthier naturalistic atmosphere indoors.
D.Working among houseplants improves mental functioning.
4.What can be a suitable title for the text?
A.Flowers: Grand Feast to Eyes B.Greenery: Effective Air-purifier
C.Houseplants: Visual Brain Food D.Potted Plants: Great! House-beautifier
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
The Wall Street Journal recently published an excellent article penned by Wendy Bounds on a hot topic here at MNN: the air-purifying qualities of the common houseplant. Given that the air inside your home can be 2 to 5 times more polluted than the air outside of it, making it clean with plants like peace lily(百合花)and asparagus fern(芦笋蕨)is an economical, artistically pleasing alternative to air purifiers. So, it's been acknowledged that a bunch of pretty potted houseplants can help you maintain a healthier home, but a smarter home?
That's the question in light of a recent study published by the Journal of Environmental Psychology showing that the presence of plants in a room, particularly in an office environment, can shrink attention span(范围). Struggling directive attention (the kind of attention that takes effort) can be refreshed through exposure to naturalistic environments. Basically, taking a walk through the park can clear one's head. But can a head be refreshed simply by being surrounded by houseplants?
To test their theory, the study's authors rounded up a bunch of participants, put some of them in a room with no plants and put others in a room with four plants placed around a desk, and put them all to the same series of tests. First was a Reading Span Test, which involves reading a series of sentences aloud and remembering the last word in each sentence. This task requires that you fluently switch between attention demanding tasks: from reading and memorizing at one moment, to writing and recalling at the next. Next came a proof-reading task followed by another Reading Span Test.
The results? Participants working in the room with the plants improved their performance from the first Reading Span Test to the second while those working in the room lacking in greenery did not. Consequently, the benefits of working among plants is indeed evident.
1.What do we know from the first paragraph?
A.Staying indoors can help avoid the poorer air outdoors.
B.Houseplants can function as beautiful cheap air purifiers.
C.Planting potted flowers as decorations is very interesting.
D.Air purifiers are the most effective to create a healthy home.
2.What does the underlined part in paragraph 2 probably refer to?
A.Focus one's attention. B.Disturb one's attention.
C.Weaken one's attention. D.Turn one's attention away.
3.What does the test prove?
A.Working in nature helps increase productivity.
B.Houseplants will be in great demand in our life.
C.Greenery creates healthier naturalistic atmosphere indoors.
D.Working among houseplants improves mental functioning.
4.What can be a suitable title for the text?
A.Flowers: Grand Feast to Eyes B.Greenery: Effective Air-purifier
C.Houseplants: Visual Brain Food D.Potted Plants: Great House-beautifier
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Bill has been working on The Wall Street Journal for eight years and never once__________late to work.
| A．he had come | B．he has come | C．had he come | D．has he come |
高三英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
Blood is important to support our lives. But for now, the only way we can get more of it is through donation. And donated blood has its own problems. First of all, certain blood types are extremely rare. Type O negative blood (O-), for example, only 1.(exist) in 7 percent of people, according to Sunday Times. There are fewer 2.(donate) and therefore there isn’t enough of this type of blood for everybody who needs it. In addition, donated blood comes from various people, which means that it has to 3. (examine) carefully for diseases such as HIV to make sure that it’s safe for transfusion(输血).
This is__4. scientists all over the world have been trying to make blood in labs. And now, someone finally succeeded—Marc Turner at the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service has produced blood fit for transfusion, reported Forbes. Different from many ____5. scientists, who have tried to make blood by mixing up different ingredients together, Turner chose to grow blood 6.(direct) from human stem cells. He developed 7. special technique to create a chemical environment similar to that in our bone marrow (骨髓). This environment encourages stem cells to develop fully 8. red blood cell.
According to Turner, his artificial blood is 9. (likely) to contain disease viruses or produce side effects. And the best part is that 10. he managed to produce was type O- blood. Not only is it a rare blood type, it’s also a universal type, which means it can be transfused into any patient.
高三英语语法填空中等难度题查看答案及解析