After at least five years of transporting you around the country, car batteries will now spend their retirement making you tea and toast and running your washing machine.
Used electric car batteries are being changed into home energy storage units which can be linked to rooftop solar panels to keep lights on and devices running when the sun goes down. The plan between Honda and Snam, an Italian energy infrastructure company, will reuse or recycle thousands of batteries from electric and hybrid cars and trucks across Europe, with single batteries installed（安装）in homes and lines of them linked to wind farms to store electricity.
They will also be used by homes and businesses on "time of use" electricity rates—to be charged up when electricity is cheap and used when the rate increases at times of peak demand. The plan will help solve one of the biggest challenges for the rapidly growing electric car industry —how to deal with large batteries which contain valuable metals such as lithium and cobalt but are expensive to break down and recycle.
Most have a warranty（保证）lasting five to eight years depending on how well they are managed and how often recharged. Used batteries have 50 to 90 per cent of their original capacity, according to Aceleron, which makes batteries that are easier to reuse and recycle.
Amrit Chandan, its founder, said："Transport is the largest source of carbon emissions in the UK, and in order to reduce carbon emissions, million electric vehicles are sold each year. But we are currently solving one environmentally friendly issue while ignoring another. Waste is the elephant in the room. By designing batteries for the circular economy from the start, we can prevent mountains of battery waste from being created worldwide. "
1.What can be inferred about used batteries from paragraph 2？
A.They will be taken apart.
B.They will soon disappear.
C.They can be given a second life.
D.They are used to produce electricity.
2.What is the biggest problem facing electric car industry？
A.The solution to battery waste.
B.The production of electric vehicles.
C.The invention of cheap batteries.
D.The creation of fast electric cars.
3.What does the underlined word "they" in paragraph 4 refer to？
A.Used batteries.
B.Cars and trucks.
C.Homes.
D.Hosts.
4.What is the main idea of the text？
A.Battery waste has become a big concern.
B.Transport is responsible for carbon emissions.
C.Used electric car batteries will soon power homes.
D.New reusable battery can get rid of battery waste.
高三英语阅读选择中等难度题
After at least five years of transporting you around the country, car batteries will now spend their retirement making you tea and toast and running your washing machine.
Used electric car batteries are being changed into home energy storage units which can be linked to rooftop solar panels to keep lights on and devices running when the sun goes down. The plan between Honda and Snam, an Italian energy infrastructure company, will reuse or recycle thousands of batteries from electric and hybrid cars and trucks across Europe, with single batteries installed（安装）in homes and lines of them linked to wind farms to store electricity.
They will also be used by homes and businesses on "time of use" electricity rates—to be charged up when electricity is cheap and used when the rate increases at times of peak demand. The plan will help solve one of the biggest challenges for the rapidly growing electric car industry —how to deal with large batteries which contain valuable metals such as lithium and cobalt but are expensive to break down and recycle.
Most have a warranty（保证）lasting five to eight years depending on how well they are managed and how often recharged. Used batteries have 50 to 90 per cent of their original capacity, according to Aceleron, which makes batteries that are easier to reuse and recycle.
Amrit Chandan, its founder, said："Transport is the largest source of carbon emissions in the UK, and in order to reduce carbon emissions, million electric vehicles are sold each year. But we are currently solving one environmentally friendly issue while ignoring another. Waste is the elephant in the room. By designing batteries for the circular economy from the start, we can prevent mountains of battery waste from being created worldwide. "
1.What can be inferred about used batteries from paragraph 2？
A.They will be taken apart.
B.They will soon disappear.
C.They can be given a second life.
D.They are used to produce electricity.
2.What is the biggest problem facing electric car industry？
A.The solution to battery waste.
B.The production of electric vehicles.
C.The invention of cheap batteries.
D.The creation of fast electric cars.
3.What does the underlined word "they" in paragraph 4 refer to？
A.Used batteries.
B.Cars and trucks.
C.Homes.
D.Hosts.
4.What is the main idea of the text？
A.Battery waste has become a big concern.
B.Transport is responsible for carbon emissions.
C.Used electric car batteries will soon power homes.
D.New reusable battery can get rid of battery waste.
高三英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of the proportion of a woman' s life spent in caring for the children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, four or five of whom lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman' s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five years and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has to take care of children, her work is lightened by modern living conditions.
This important change in women' s life-patterns has only recently begun to have its full effect on women' s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls took a full-time job after they left school. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school- leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women usually marry older, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Many more afterwards return to full-or-part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life, and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them.
1.At what age did most women marry around the 1890 according to the passage?
A.At about twenty-five
B.In their earl fifties
C.At the age of fifteen
D.At any age from fifteen to forty-five
2.What happened to an ordinary family in about 1900?
A.The youngest child could live to fifteen.
B.Four of five children died after they were five.
C.Seven or eight children lived to be more than five.
D.Some children died when they were very young.
3.When she was over fifty, a late nineteenth-century mother ______.
A.was usually expected to die fairly soon
B.would expect to work until she died
C.would be healthy enough to take up paid jobs
D.was less like to find a job even if she wanted to
4.What do we know from the passage?
A.Husbands and wives share equal responsibilities at home.
B.More and more women are looked down upon by husbands.
C.Today women prefer to get married rather than get jobs.
高三英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
In English, if new words continue to be used for at least five years they generally______ the Oxford English Dictionary．
A．come up with B．make up for
C．look up to D．end up in
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
In English, if new words continue to be used for at least five years they generally ________ the Oxford English Dictionary.
A．come up with B．end up in C．look up to D．make up for
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
An American brother and sister have survived a 14-hour swim to safety in the Caribbean after the fishing boat they had rented sank off the north coast of St Lucia.
Dan Susk, 30-year-old IT professional from San Francisco, said he had been fishing in rough seas with help from his sister, Kate Suski, a 39-year-old architect, when the ship began to sink on 21April. Water flooded the engine room. The captain threw life jackets to the Suski and said, “Jump out! Jump out!” The Suski obeyed and jumped into the water with the captain and the first mate (大副). Less than five minutes later the boat sank. They were at least eight mile was telling us to stay together, and that help was on its way and that we needed to wait, Kate Suski said. After an hour, when no help came, the Suski decided to swim for it and lost sight of the captain and the first mate.
A helicopter appeared in the distance but no one spotted them. Several hours went by, and the sun began to set. “There’s this very real understanding that the situation is dire,” Kate Suski said both considered the possible ways we might die. Would we drown? Be eaten by a shark? Would our legs give out and make it impossible to swim?
They swam for 12 to 14 hours, talking as they pushed and trembled their way through the ocean. When in the moonlight they finally came within about 10 meters of land they realized that they were looking at steep rocky cliffs and would be beaten to death against them if they tried to approach any closer. They swam until they noticed sand nearby around midnight and dragged themselves ashore. Later, the Suski were treated in hospital. They learned that the captain and the first mate were rescued after spending nearly 23 hours in the water.
1.How many people were there on the fishing boat before it sank?
A.5. B.4.
C.3. D.2
2.What does the underlined word "dire" in Paragraph 3 mean?
A.Awkward B.Serious
C.Perfect. D.Different
3.What do we know about the Suskis?
A.They were rescued by a helicopter.
B.They survived 23 hours in the water.
C.They swam over eight miles to the shore
D.They got back on land as soon as they saw it.
4.Which of the following can best describe the Suskis?
A.Brave and calm. B.Strong and sensitive
C.Optimistic and generous. D.Faithful and curious
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More than four out of five people admit to telling little white lies at least once a day and the preferred way of “being economical with the truth” is to use technology such as cell phones, texts and e-mails, a survey last Thursday said.
The research by UK pollsters 72 Point found that “techno-treachery(高科技说谎)” was wide-spread with nearly 75 percent of people saying gadgets made it easier to fib(撒小谎).
Just over half of respondents(被调查者) said using gadgets made them feel less guilty when telling a lie than doing it face to face.
The workplace was a favorite location for fibbing with 67 percent of the 1,487 respondents admitting they had lied at work.
The top lie was pretending to be ill (43 percent) followed by saying work had been completed when it hadn’t (23 percent). Worryingly for bosses 18 percent said they lied to hide a big mistake.
But, employers were not the only ones on the receiving end of dishonest statements. Just over 40 percent of the respondents said they had lied to their families or partners.
Key topics to lie about were: buying new clothes or the cost of them (37 percent), how good someone looked in something (35 percent), how much they had eaten (35 percent) and drunk (31 percent) and how much they weighed (32 percent).
1. The underlined phrase “being economical with the truth” probably means ________.
A. telling lies B. making apologies C. feeling guilty D.admitting mistakes
2. It can be inferred from the passage that ___________.
A. employers sometimes lie to their employees, too
B. 75% of people have ever lied to someone
C. without gadgets, people may feel more pressure when telling white lies
D. more people lie to their family than to their bosses
3. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A. Cell phones make people more likely to lie.
B. Some people might lie to their bosses when they are not doing their work well.
C. 40% of employers admit that they have lied to their families or partners.
D. Nearly 1,500 people were questioned in the survey.
4. According to the passage, in which of the following situations are you most likely to lie?
A. You are going to spend the night at your friend’s, which your parents won’t allow.
B. Your friend is wearing a new dress and asks you how you find it.
C. You are a little too fat, and you’re trying to tell your friend how heavy you are.
D. You want to ask your boss for a sick leave, although you are not ill.
5. The main idea of the passage is that __________.
A. people are getting more likely to lie
B. gadgets are seen as the best way to tell white lies
C. most people tell white lies at the workplace
D. 18% of people lie to their bosses
高三英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
The city of Nanchang has grown so fast that it’s at least _____ what it used to be.
A. five times the size of B. the size as five times large as
C. five times larger D. as five times size of
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
The city of Chengdu has grown so fast that it's at least ______ what it used to be．
| A．five times the size of | B．five times the size as large as |
| C．five times larger | D．five limes size as |
高三英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析
The city of Nanchong has grown so fast that it’s at least________what it used to be.
A．five times the size of B．five times the size as large as
C．five times larger D．five times size as
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
There are around 6,000 living languages in the world—and at least half of these are in danger. In every part of the world, languages are disappearing. In fact, one scientist has said that languages are in more danger of extinction than birds or animals. Professor Steve Sutherland of the University of East Anglia says that in the past 500 years 4.5 percent of languages have died out—compared with 1.3 percent of birds, and 1.9 percent of mammals.
Languages come and go, and thousands have done exactly that without leaving any trace(痕迹). Only a very few—Basque, Greek and Latin among them—have lasted more than 2000 years. But it seems that the pace of their disappearance is becoming quicker.
The Ethnologue, a database of all the languages spoken in the world, states that 417 languages are spoken by so few people that they are in the final stages of becoming extinct. If very few people speak a language, it will probably die out.
Languages may be lost through migration, as people move from small towns to city centers, or when environments are destroyed by the search for oil or wood. Natural disasters can also devastate populations, and along with them, their language. Governments also play a role in the extinction of languages. The need to establish “official languages”, for a country to educate its children and carry out its business, had a disastrous effect on many small languages.
What is lost if a language is lost? Some people argue that languages die as the human race develops. Obviously there could be great benefits if everyone in the world spoke the same language—some industries already reflect this, with English essential for pilots and air traffic controllers. But there are more important things than convenience. As languages are lost, whole ways of life and knowledge may be lost along with them.
To put it simply, language expresses something about who we are, about where we live in the world. Ani Rauhihi, a Maori teacher in New Zealand’s North Island, sums it up: “If you grow up speaking our language, you won’t know who you are.”
1.What do the figures mentioned in the first paragraph suggest?
A. Most languages have died out completely.
B. Languages are in great danger of extinction.
C. Languages are disappearing slower than before.
D. Animals are disappearing faster than languages.
2.What can best replace the underlined word “devastate” ?
A. raise
B. control
C. improve
D. destroy
3.What if a language is lost according to the passage?
A. There will be great trouble.
B. There is no need to worry about it.
C. Its culture and knowledge will also be lost.
D. People will be able to communicate with others conveniently.
4.What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. Languages reflect our identity.
B. People will speak the same language one day.
C. Ani Rauhihi cares less about languages dying out.
D. Fewer people will remember their own languages.
高三英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析