Reports tell us that Americans work more and ...

Reports tell us that Americans work more and vacation less than people in other major developed countries. Still millions of Americans do try to get away from home for a week or two in the summer months. Some might even have the time and money to spend longer on vacation.

For example, many retired(退休的) Americans can be found driving around the United States in big recreational vehicles, known as R.V's. These serve as a home away from home. In fact, It might even be their only home as they see the country.

Some American families get in their cars and drive to historic places like Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. There, they can experience what life was like for early Americans. If that is not exciting enough, also in Williamsburg is a water park and an amusement park with rides.

Other Americans visit national parks like Yellowstone or Yosemite out in the West. They want to spend time with nature. Or they take their vacation by a lake or the ocean. They might swim or fish. But many just want to sit and enjoy the feeling of doing nothing, except maybe reading a book.

Some families fly to other countries on vacation. Or they go on a cruise ship and stop in different ports. Cruise ships are like floating cities.

But not everyone goes someplace special on vacation. This might be the only time for people to work on things like home improvement projects. And while they do that, they might think of all the fun their friends are having.

1.What can be the best title for the text?

A.Not all Americans take summer vacations.

B.Americans enjoy more work and less vocation.

C.Where Americans go on their summer vacations.

D.Different places have different summer vacations.

2.If you want to spend time with nature, you can do the following things except______.

A.to visit historic places B.to see the country

C.to stay by a lake D.to visit national parks

3.Which of the following is NOT true?

A.People choose different places depending on different interests.

B.All the people just do nothing but relax themselves for vacations.

C.Not all Americans can afford time and money to go on a vacation.

D.People interested in history can have fun in Colonial Williamsburg.

4.What does the underlined sentence of the passage mean?

A.They think of their work at home as a special kind of vacation.

B.They can imagine what fun their friends are having on vacation.

C.They fully enjoy doing their work on home improvement projects.

D.They might admire their friends for having time going on vacation.

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In the United States, 30 percent of the people have a “weight problem”. To many people the cause is obvious (明显的): they eat too much. But scientific evidence (证据) does little to support this idea. Going back to America of 1910, we find that people were thinner than today, yet they ate more food. In those days people worked harder physically, walked more, used machines much less, and didn’t watch television.

Several modern studies, moreover, have shown that fatter people don’t eat more on average than thinner people. A 1979 study of 3,545 London office workers showed that fat people eat less than slim (苗条的) people.

Studies also show that slim people are more active than fat people. A study by a research group at Stanford University found the following interesting facts:

The more the man ran, the greater loss of the body fat.

The more they ran, the greater increase in food intake.

Thus, those who ran the most ate the most, yet lost the greatest amount of body fat.

1.Nowadays many Americans have the problem that ______.

A.they are too slim B.they work too hard

C.they are too fat D.they lose too much body fat

2.According to the passage, how many people in 900 Americans have a “weight problem”?

A.150. B.300. C.600. D.270.

3.The Americans in 1910 ________.

A.ate more food and had more physical activities B.ate less food but had more physical activities

C.ate less food and had less physical activities D.had more problems

高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

It was difficult to tell whether he could __________　our team and work for us for that situation?

高一英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

Computers can help us in many ways, but they cannot think or do things on their own. Humans have to feed them with information and tell them what to do. They cannot come up with any new information, but they can save much time and work. For example, all the information and the office files (文件) can be stored in a computer’s “memory”.

The first computers were huge and expensive. They filled up almost the whole floor of large offices. Later, scientists found ways to produce cheaper and smaller computers. They invented chips (芯片) which made it possible to store more information in less space.

Today, computers are not only cheaper, but also more compact. They can just be placed on top of an ordinary writing table. They can even be carried from place to place easily. Computers are not only used in offices by companies, but are used at home by families who can afford them.

Robots are only moving parts controlled by computers. A robot can do the same work as a person for 24 hours without complaining or getting tired.

In Japan and some places in America, robots are used in factories to assemble (装配) cars. As computers become more and more common in businesses and factories, people fear that one day computers and computer-controlled robots will put human workers out of work.

1.What were the first computers like?

A.Small and cheap B.Huge and expensive

C.Small and expensive D.Huge but cheap

2.The underlined phrase “more compact” can be replaced by “_______________”.

A.larger B.brighter C.smaller D.heavier

3.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A.Robots are controlled by computers. B.Robots can do the same work as humans.

C.Robots do not get tired of working. D.Robots are used to sell cars in China.

4.Humans fear that one day computers and robots_______________.

A.will be busier than humans B.will be cleverer than humans

C.will make humans jobless D.will make humans become blind

5.The BEST title for this passage can be _______________.

A.Computers and robots B.Old and new computers

C.Robots are our servants D.The electronic invention

高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

One morning a few years ago, Harvard President Neil Rudenstine overslept. For this busy man, it was a sort ofalarm: after years of non-stop hard work, he might wear himself out and die an early death.

Only after a week’s leave—— during which he read novels, listened to music and walked with his wife on a beach—— was Rudenstine able to return to work.

In our modern life, we have lost the rhythm between action and rest. Amazingly, within this world there is a universal but silly saying: “I am so busy.”

We say this to one another as if our tireless efforts were a talent by nature and an ability to successfully deal with stress. The busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselves and, we imagine, to others. To be unavailable to our friends and family, and to be unable to find time to relax—— this has become the model of a successful life.

Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the guide telling us where to go, the food providing is with strength, the quiet giving us wisdom.

How have we allowed this to happen? I believe it is this: we have forgotten the Sabbath, the day of the week—— for followers of some religions—— for rest and praying. It is a day when we are not supposed to work, a time when we devote ourselves to enjoying and celebrating what is beautiful. It is a good time to bless our children and loved ones, give thanks, share meals, walk and sleep. It is a time for us to take a rest, to put our work aside, trusting that there are larger forces at work taking care of the world.

Rest is s spiritual and biological need; however, in our strong ambition to be successful and care for our many responsibilities, we may feel terribly guilty when we take time to rest. The Sabbath gives us permission to stop work. In fact, “Remember the Sabbath” is more than simply permission to rest; it is a rule to obey and a principle to follow.

1.The “alarm” in the first paragraph refers to “_______”.

A.a signal of stress

B.a warning of danger

C.a sign of age

D.a spread of disease

2.According to Paragraph 4, a successful person is one who is believed to _______.

A.be able to work without stress

B.be more talented than other people

C.be more important than anyone else

D.be busying working without time to rest

3.Some people feel guilty when taking time to rest because they _______.

A.think that taking a rest means lacking ambitions

B.fail to realize that rest is an essential part of life

C.fail to realize that religions force them to rest

D.think that taking a rest means being lazy

4.What is the main idea of this passage?

A.We should balance work with rest.

B.The Sabbath gives us permission to rest.

C.It is silly for anyone to say “I am busy.”

D.We should be available to our family and friends.

高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

Now that newsrooms(新闻编辑室) are becoming less popular in the US，young people have begun to tell their own stories．

GlobalGirl Media，an organization that teaches teenage girls digital(数码的) storytelling skills for free，was started by award-winning filmmakers Amie Williams and Meena Nanji in Los Angeles in 2010．

“By giving girls a voice，you introduce a different story，and change the existing one,”said Danny Glover，a member of the GlobalGirl Media organization．

“When the camera’s in my hands，I feel like I can’t lose，”Said Cheyenne Grisez，14．“It makes me happy and I feel like I can do anything．”

On the final day of the summer academy in California,Williams worked with Grisez and Camila Prado,15, on a short film about Prado’s fight against an eating disorder(紊乱). In the film，Prado bravely interviewed her parents and sister about how she was able to beat her bad feelings and eating disorder. This film and others the girls had made were shown to parents and friends on the last day of the academy, celebrating their hard work．

“It’s their story，and nobody knows how to tell it better than they do.”Williams said．

“These girls are from really difficult backgrounds. They feel trapped sometimes. They feel alone．”Williams said．“The camera gives them a way to look at their world in a different way and get out of that feeling.’’

Girls in the program practice their skills and build confidence by going out in the community and interviewing people for the short films．Many of them had no experience, but found they had good storytelling skills．

“I work with these girls. Every day I leave gratefully，because I know that．due to the work we're doing with them，things will be better，”said GlobalGirl Media summer academy project director Heather Faison．

1.Why do many American girls like to tell stories using the camera?

A．Their parents hate to give them a hand．

B．They desire to improve their photo skills．

C．They can make profits from their documentaries．

D．The camera can help them out of their trouble．

2.What do we learn about GlobalGirl Media from the text?

A．It was founded by the government．

B．It gets much money from girl students．

C．It gives girls digital storytelling skills．

D．It has newsrooms in California．

3.What difficulty did Prado overcome by making her film?

A．Self-harm．　　　　　　　　　　 B．Poor school scores．

C．An eating disorder.　　　　　 D．Teenage difficulty．

4.Who directed GlobalGirl Media summer academy project in California?

A．Heather Faison　　　　　　 B．Amie Williams．

C．Danny Glover．　　　　　　 D.　 Meena Nanji

高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

Now that newsrooms(新闻编辑室) are becoming less popular in the US，young people have begun to tell their own stories．

GlobalGirl Media，an organization that teaches teenage girls digital(数码的) storytelling skills for free，was started by award-winning filmmakers Amie Williams and Meena Nanji in Los Angeles in 2010．

“By giving girls a voice，you introduce a different story，and change the existing one,”said Danny Glover，a member of the GlobalGirl Media organization．

“When the camera’s in my hands，I feel like I can’t lose，”Said Cheyenne Grisez，14．“It makes me happy and I feel like I can do anything．”

On the final day of the summer academy in California,Williams worked with Grisez and Camila Prado,15, on a short film about Prado’s fight against an eating disorder(紊乱). In the film，Prado bravely interviewed her parents and sister about how she was able to beat her bad feelings and eating disorder. This film and others the girls had made were shown to parents and friends on the last day of the academy, celebrating their hard work．

“It’s their story，and nobody knows how to tell it better than they do.”Williams said．

“These girls are from really difficult backgrounds. They feel trapped sometimes. They feel alone．”Williams said．“The camera gives them a way to look at their world in a different way and get out of that feeling.’’

Girls in the program practice their skills and build confidence by going out in the community and interviewing people for the short films．Many of them had no experience, but found they had good storytelling skills．

“I work with these girls. Every day I leave gratefully，because I know that．due to the work we're doing with them，things will be better，”said GlobalGirl Media summer academy project director Heather Faison．

1.Why do many American girls like to tell stories using the camera?

A．Their parents hate to give them a hand．

B．They desire to improve their photo skills．

C．They can make profits from their documentaries．

D．The camera can help them out of their trouble．

2.What do we learn about GlobalGirl Media from the text?

A．It was founded by the government．

B．It gets much money from girl students．

C．It gives girls digital storytelling skills．

D．It has newsrooms in California．

3.What difficulty did Prado overcome by making her film?

A．Self-harm．　　　　　　　　　　 B．Poor school scores．

C．An eating disorder.　　　　　 D．Teenage difficulty．

4.Who directed GlobalGirl Media summer academy project in California?

A．Heather Faison　　　　　　 B．Amie Williams．

C．Danny Glover．　　　　　　 D.　 Meena Nanji

高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

There is one thing that can ruin vacations, make business meetings less than successful, and can cause more problems than anything else for air travelers. Jet lag!

1.The travel time is too fast for the human body to adjust easily. Long distance air travel to a new time zone disrupts (打乱) three important senses: the sense of place, the sense of time, and the sense of well-being.

Sense of place: To some degree, all locations are geographically and even chemically different from one another. Humans, like all living things, have a strong sense of place. 2.

Sense of time: We all also have a natural sense of time that is linked to our sense of place. Our bodies function on a program that takes about a day to run.3.This is why travel to a distant time zone makes us miss the usual hometown patterns of something as simple as the times of sunrise and sunset.

Sense of well-being: We have a sense of well-being when we are healthy and happy. 4.That is why flying to a new environment and time zone often causes a disruption in our sense of well-being.

For thousands of years, people didn’t experience disruption in their sense of time and place because there were no rapid means of transportation.5. However, although we can travel by plane now, our bodies have not yet adapted to long-distance air travel. That is why we suffer the jet lag.

A.The invention of the airplane changed all this.

B.We can make the effort to overcome the jet lag.

C.They sense the different qualities of dawn, noon, and midnight.

D.Jet lag results from traveling a long distance to a new zone.

E.This sense is strongly connected to our senses of place and time.

F.It took weeks, months, years, or even generations to travel great distances.

G.This makes people homesick for familiar surroundings and wish for their own bed

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The brain, rather than our eyes, may be more important for sight, researchers studying fruit flies have discovered. The discovery could change the way we think about vision.

Researchers in the University of Virginia have found that the very simple eyes of fruit fly larva (幼虫), with only 24 total photoreceptors (感光细胞) (the human eye contains more than 125 million), provide just enough light input to allow the animal’s large brain to make that input into images. Their discovery shows that vision may be less important to “seeing” than previously thought—and in fact it is the brain’s ability to process points of light into complex images that is key.

“It blows open how we think about vision.” said Barry Condron. “This tells us that visual input may not be as important to sight as the brain working behind it.”

Condron’s graduate students, Elizabeth Daubert, Nick Macedonia and Catherine Hamilton, conducted a series of experiments to test the vision of fruit fly larvae. They found that when a larva was tied to the bottom of a dish, other larvae were attracted to it as it attempted to free itself. After several further experiments to understand how they sensed the motion, the researchers learned that the nearly blind animals likely were seeing the action.

“The answer must be in the brain of these animals.” Condron said. “They are able to take just a couple dozen points of light and then process that into recognizable images; something like when an astronomer with a small telescope is able to use techniques to improve a limited image into useful information about a star.” Condron believes the animals are able to assemble useful images by rapidly scanning their heads and, in doing so, gather up enough light points to allow the brain to compose an image clear enough to “see”.

The researchers tested this by presenting larva with a video (therefore no sound and no smell) and found that the larvae still sensed and sought out the struggling larva on the video. This provides us with a good model for trying to understand the role that the brain plays in helping organisms, including humans, to process images, such as recognizing faces.

1.The writer mainly wants to tell us that __________.

A.the brain may be more important for sight than people thought

B.people should depend on brain rather than eyes for sight

C.using the fruit fly larva to test the eyes is the best way

D.some methods can keep our eyesight accurate and normal

2.The researchers chose the fruit fly larva because it __________.

A.doesn’t move very quickly B.has a very wise brain

C.only has a few photoreceptors D.doesn’t have large limbs

3.Condron used the example of “an astronomer with a small telescope” in Para. 5 to show __________.

A.how the larvae gather up enough light points

B.why the larvae moved their heads side-to-side

C.the brain helps process the light points into images

D.how we can get useful information about a star with a small telescope

4.The underlined word “assemble” in the fifth paragraph may mean “__________”.

A.observe enough actions B.receive useful information

C.choose proper equipment D.put together separate parts

高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

Lin Hanxing is a 30-year-old who lives in Beijing. She owns just five shirts, two pairs of pants, four pairs of shoes and a few other things. It's hard to believe that only five years ago, Lin was one of those people who couldn't stop buying stuff. Back then, she had more than 400 pieces of clothing and handbags

But that was before she saw an online challenge in 2014, introduced by Joshua Becker, a blogger in the United States who was promoting(推广) a minimalist lifestyle(极简生活方式). He encouraged people to reduce the number of their belongings to fewer than 100. Lin wasn’t strongly against it, so she got rid of 90 percent of her stuff. She also deleted(删除) 120 contacts she never spoke to from her social networking account. After doing all that, Lin said she felt “lighter”.

We used to think owning more was the way to lead a rich life. But now many people tend to believe that the opposite is also true--and perhaps truer.

According to US sociologist Joel Stillerman, people who are educated and well-off are more likely to have a minimalist lifestyle. “These people are making the statement: ‘I can afford to have less.’,”he said.

But leading a minimalist lifestyle doesn't mean spending less. A report by UK market research company Euromonitor found young Chinese people spend less on possessions, but more on short holidays and visits to the movies.

“They are looking for a life that is all about culture,” Alison Angus, head of lifestyles at Euromonitor, said about Chinese youth.

So perhaps it all comes down to how we define(定义) “rich”. Is wealth in life about buying more and owning more, or is it about having a more colorful life?

1.The author mentioned the change of Lin Hanxing to _______.

A.introduce the minimalist lifestyle

B.encourage us readers to buy less

C.explain the popularity of owning less

D.explain the importance of a new lifestyle

2.What’s Lin Hanxing’s attitude towards the online challenge in the beginning?

A.She was very fond of it.

B.She thought it worth a try.

C.She was strongly against it.

D.She thought it must be painful.

3.According to the passage, young Chinese people care more about _______.

A.possessions B.culture

C.education D.clothes

4.If one is rich, he is more likely to _______.

A.spend less B.buy more

C.own less D.experience more

高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析