Monkeys! A primate storyUntil 28 January 2019...

Monkeys! A primate story

Until 28 January 2019 Go bananas for the world of primates （灵长类动物）at Queensland Museum's latest exhibition， Monkeys! A Primate Story．

SPECIAL OFFER： From 3-21 December buy a ticket to SparkLab and visit Monkeys for only ﹩5． Present your SparkLab ticket to the ticket desk to buy discounted entry to Monkeys! A Primate Story．

Discounted tickets are available from Monday to Friday only． Ticket must be used on day of purchase and it cannot be used with any other offer， Annual Pass upgrade not included．

Monkeys! is a unique chance to discover a collection that's been over two centuries in the making． Many primate animals are becoming endangered due to human activity， so it's the most important that we understand how a modern， changing world impacts on their environments． How can we make sure the survival of these creatures？ And in turn， how have they succeeded in living in urban environments and facing new challenges？

Ticket Prices

Adult： ﹩12

Child （5-15 years）： ﹩12 Family （2A + 2C）： ﹩40 Annual Pass holder： ﹩10.80

Open time

This exhibition is a timed ticketed experience， and is open daily from 9：40 am to 5：00 pm． Entry times begin at 9：40 am daily， then at 20-minute intervals （间隔）through to the last entry at 4：00 pm．

Season Pass for Annual Pass holders

Do you have an Annual Pass？ When you buy a Monkeys! ticket， you can get a Season Pass to Monkeys! A Primate Story． This means unlimited re-entry to Monkeys! during the exhibition period （29 September 2018 to 28 January 2019）．

It is important to point out that no monkeys were harmed for this exhibition． The primates came from zoos． Protecting endangered primates is a strong theme throughout and a key visitor takeaway．

1.If a couple with two 8-year-old children go to Monkeys! on 26January 2019， how much should they pay altogether at least？ ______

A. ﹩43.2 B. ﹩48

C. ﹩40 D. ﹩20

2.Which of the following statements is NOT true？ ______

A. The entry time is from 9：40 am to 5：00 pm every day．

B. A Season Pass to Monkeys! means unlimited re-entry to it during the exhibition period．

C. The exhibition focuses on the protection of endangered primate animals．

D. Monkeys! provides people with a unique chance to discover a collection．

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

For some reason, it takes constant reminders that we primates（灵长目）need nurturing.

In a recent study of 46 baby chimpanzee（黑猩猩）orphans, Kim Bard of the University of Portsmouth in England and her colleagues demonstrated that primate babies that have tight relationships with mother figures do much better on cognitive（认知）tests than babies who receive only food, shelter, and friendship with peers. But this is not breaking mews. In fact, it’s old news.

In the 1950s, Harry Harlow conducted a series of experiments with baby monkeys that showed, without doubt, that lack of love and comfort makes for a crazy monkey.

Harlow constructed a cage that included a wire monkey “mother” topped with a plastic face. In this wire he fixed Mom with a milk bottle. The cage also held another wire mother covered with terry cloth. The baby monkeys spent all their time with the cloth mother and only went to the wire mother to feed, demonstrating that a soft touch beat something to eat any day.

Harlow’s monkey work was important because, at the time, child care “experts” and everybody’s grandmother had a “no touch, no comfort” policy toward children. They advised parents not to respond to crying babies, felt babies should sleep alone to grow up independent, and for God’s sake put those kids down. But Harlow’s work changed all that. Mothers were soon permitted to have their newborns next to them in the hospital.

The current chimp research based on Harlow’s work shows that mother love not only makes for a psychologically well-adjusted child, but also makes for a smart kid. Bard and her colleagues evaluated the abilities of the chimps when they were 12 months old with standard human tests for children of that age, tests that ask little kids to imitate some action.

The highly raised chimps did better than the ones that were not loved, and what do you know, the well-raised chimps did even better than human kids on this small IQ test.

So we hear it once again. We are primates, social animals which need care and love. We need to be held and talked to and made to feel that at least one person wants to be with us all the time. And if we get that kind of connection, we are sure to be fine, even better than fine.

1.The study Kim Bard and his colleagues did ______.

A．included 46 baby and mother monkeys

B．was nothing new to people about the findings

C．showed that many chimpanzees lacked love when they were young

D．showed that many chimpanzees had good relationships with their mothers

2.Why was Harlow’s monkey work important?

A．Because the “no touch, no comfort” policy toward children was quite right.

B．Because parents were advised not to respond to babies’ crying.

C．Because Harlow’s work changed people’s former belief in child care.

D．Because mothers were not allowed to have their newborns next to them in the hospital.

3.Harlow built two “mothers” for baby monkeys to ______.

A．make them live comfortably               B．let them have more choices

C．give them more love                     D．make a comparison

4.Which of the following is TURE according to the text?

A．Well-raised chimps always do even better than human kids.

B．A 12-month chimps is far cleverer than a child of that age.

C．The newborns were not allowed to be with their mothers in the past in the hospital.

D．Constantly touching the baby can make it feel safer.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Vishweshwar Butt Saklani took his last breath on January 18, 2019, but he will live on in the memory of his countrymen as the “Tree Man of Uttarakhan”, who planted over 5 million trees.

Saklani had been ______ of trees all his life. He planted his first tree at eight under his uncle’s ______, and kept it for the next seven decades of his life, until he was ______.

People know he loved trees, but ______ know that he planted trees to ______ the sad situations in his life. When his brother died, the Tree Man disappeared into the forest every morning and ______ whole days planting trees. Then in 1958, his wife died and he did the same to do with the ______. It was like he ______ his life to planting trees as a tribute(致敬，悼念) to his ______ brother and wife.

The people of his village grew to love him,______ it wasn’t always like this. In the beginning, villagers didn’t ______ him and even beat him, because he was covering common land. But he never ______. He continued planting trees and eventually got ______.

Saklani kept ______ his forest until 10 years ago, when he lost his sight. In 1986, he received the Indira Priyadarshani Award for his ______ efforts to protect the forest. In the same year, Saklani suffered a(n) ______ blow, after a massive wildfire turned many trees to ______. Despite the efforts of the local community to control the ______, it still destroyed much of the Tree Man’s forest. Although ______ by the disaster, Saklani believed that the trees would grow back once the rains came.

Saklani died at 96, but his ______ lives on in the forest.

1.A.rid B.fond C.proud D.confident

2.A.protection B.command C.guidance D.control

3.A.blind B.deaf C.exhausted D.bored

4.A.much B.many C.little D.few

5.A.deal with B.focus on C.come across D.carry on

6.A.wasted B.cost C.spent D.took

7.A.bond B.project C.fantasy D.pain

8.A.attached B.devoted C.adjusted D.applied

9.A.disappeared B.disabled C.late D.modest

10.A.but B.or C.and D.so

11.A.inspire B.encourage C.judge D.support

12.A.moved off B.cut in C.gave up D.lost face

13.A.paid B.understood C.prepared D.satisfied

14.A.growing B.equipping C.exporting D.expanding

15.A.continued B.expected C.worthless D.limitless

16.A.particular B.major C.subtle D.astonishing

17.A.ashes B.grains C.mess D.failure

18.A.leaves B.smoke C.flames D.dust

19.A.disturbed B.amused C.shocked D.hit

20.A.performance B.spirit C.effect D.personality

高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

__________ the bananas to go bad, he preferred to sell them at half price.

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

For most of us, there is no debate — bananas are yellow. Color isn’t as objective as you might think though. Our brain decides what color we are looking at based on the light that comes into our eyes, and how we see colors actually varies a lot.

There are many ways color can confuse our brains. Positioning and shading can change what we think we are looking at. Two people can see the same thing very differently because of how our brains deal with light.

How we see color, however, is governed by much more than just our bodies. Our emotions or even the time of year, can change how our eyes and brains react to what we see. Yellow looks different to us depending on the season, according to scientists at the University of York. In the summer yellow appears more “greenish” whereas in the winter yellow appears more “reddish”. This is the result of living in an environment where the level of green light increases in the summer. When the trees are full of leaves, our eyes need to adapt. With extra green all around us, our brain has to recheck its understanding of yellow.

Researchers in Rochester, New York have found that feeling sad can impact on your ability to identify (辨别) colors. Participants were shown some small pieces of cloth which had most, but not all, of the colors removed from them. Later, they were asked to identify what color they were looking at. A group who had watched the death of Mufasa in The Lion King found it harder to pick out blue and yellow than others who had not seen the film. Psychologists believe that dopamine — which controls our brain’s reward and pleasure centers — has an impact on how we identify these colors. So while color might seem to be one of the simplest things in our world, it is actually a mystery scientists are only just beginning to solve.

1.What does the passage mainly focus on?

A.Why we see colors differently. B.How our brains receive colors.

C.Why colors affect our emotions. D.How people can identify colors.

2.Which of the following is unable to affect people’s ability to identify colors?

A.Position. B.Intelligence.

C.Environment. D.Feeling.

3.Yellow looks different in summer and winter because of ___________.

A.people’s different sight B.the different temperatures

C.the different levels of green light D.people’s different body conditions

4.What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A.The sad feeling weakens people’s ability to identify colors.

B.We can find out the secret of dopamine in some movies.

C.Scientists have found the answer to the color mystery.

D.There are many ways that color can entertain our brains.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Most shoplifters (商店扒手)agree that the January sales offer wonderful opportunities for the hard-working thief. With the shops so crowded and the staff so busy, it does not require any extraordinary talent to help you to take one or two little things and escape unnoticed. It is known, in the business, as "hoisting".

But the hoisting game is not what it used to be. Even at the height of the sales, shoplifters today never know if they are being watched by one of those evil little balls（摄像头）that hang from the ceilings of so many department stores above the most desirable goods.

As if that was not trouble enough for them, they can now be filmed at work and forced to attend a showing of their performance in court.

Selfridges was the first big London store to install videotape equipment to watch its sales floors. In October last year the store won its first court case for shoplifting using an evidence a videotape clearly showing a couple stealing dresses. It was an important test case which encouraged other stores to install similar equipment.

When the balls first make an appearance in shops, it was widely believed that their only function was to frighten shoplifters. Their somewhat ridiculous appearances, the curious holes and red lights going on and off, certainly make the theory believable.

It did not take long, however, for serious shoplifters to start showing suitable respect. Soon after the equipment was in operation at Selfridges, store detective Brian Chadwick was sitting in the control room watching a woman secretly putting bottles of perfume（香水）into her bag.

"As she turned to go," Chadwick recalled, "she suddenly looked up at the 'balls' and stopped. She could not possibly have seen that the camera was trained on her because it is completely hidden, but she must have had a feeling that I was looking at her."

"For a moment she paused, but then she returned to counter and started putting everything back. When she had finished, she opened her bag towards the camera to show it was empty and hurried out of the store."

1. January is a good month for shoplifters because ________.

A they don't need to wait for staff to serve them

B they don't need any previous experience as thieves

C there are so many people in the store

D January sales offer wonderful opportunities for them

2.The case last October was important because ________ .

A. the store got the dresses back

B .the equipment was able to frighten shoplifters

C. other shops found out about the equipment

D. the kind of evidence supplied was accepted by court

3.The woman stealing perfume ________.

A. guessed that the detective had seen her

B. was frightened by its shape

C. could see the camera filming

D. knew that the balls were for her

4. The woman's action before leaving the store shows that she ________.

A. was sorry for what she had done

B. was afraid she would be arrested

C. decided she didn't want what she had picked up

D. wanted to prove she had not intended to steal anything

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Dear Mr. Watson,

CLAIM AL54323432–-STORM DAMAGE TO ROOF

I received a cheque for $623 dated 26 January in payment of my recent claim(索赔). However, I wish to tell you how upset I have been by the way your Claims Assessor, Mr. Michael Tan, handled this claim.

When Mr. Tan first called me, he specifically told me that he believed I had been overcharged, and he would expect to pay that price for work on a double garage, rather than a single garage like mine. Mr. Tan suggested that I neither use nor recommend this contractor again. He continued to tell me it was unlikely for me to receive full payment. Never during this conversation did he mention that the reason for not receiving full payment was because of the nature of my insurance policy.

Consequently, I wrote to Mr. Lance Ashe to complain about his pricing, stating that I was very upset thinking that he could have taken advantage by overcharging a 73-year-old woman. Mr. Ashe telephoned me immediately and explained his charges in detail. He later reported back to me that Mr. Tan explained that I would not receive full payment because of the type of policy I hold, which does not cover wear and tear. This was the first time this issue had been brought to my attention, so you can imagine my surprise.

When I received Mr. Tan’s letter of 2 February, this situation was explained. If this had been explained in the first place I would have accepted it and would not have questioned Mr. Ashe’s charges. Instead, by telling me initially that I had been overcharged for this work, he caused a great deal of upset, not only for me but also for Mr. Ashe.

I believed this claim was handled badly by Mr. Tan from the beginning. Therefore, a great deal of embarrassment has been caused over this issue.

I felt you should know how disappointed and upset I am. I trust you will look into this and ensure that such claims are handled more appropriately in the future.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs. Richard

1.The author writes this letter to ______.

A. inform the manager of a payment

B. complain about a mishandled case

C. demand an apology from Mr. Watson

D. require the manager to fire Mr. Tan

2.The underlined words “the contractor” in Para.2 refer to ______.

A. Mr. Tan       B. Mrs. Richard      C. Mr. Ashe    D. Mr. Watson

3.The author could not receive full payment because _______.

A. her policy doesn’t cover some of the items

B. the contractor overcharged her for the work

C. Mr. Watson doesn’t take the matter seriously

D. she spent too much money fixing her garage

4.We can learn from the passage that Mr. Tan works in a/an _______.

A. welfare organization         B. nursing house

C. local affairs office           D. insurance company

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

What did Fred have for breakfast today?

A. Bread and an egg.　　 B. Bread and an apple.　　 C. A banana and an apple.

高二英语短对话简单题查看答案及解析

This makes a fun activity for a children’s party; they love ________ the fruit and frozen bananas into the top of the machine and watching the ice cream come out below.

A.fixing B.feeding C.applying D.forcing

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Dear Mr．Watson,

CLAIM AL54323432–-STORM DAMAGE TO ROOF

I received a cheque for $623 dated 26 January in payment of my recent claim(索赔)．However, I wish to tell you how upset I have been by the way your Claims Assessor, Mr．Michael Tan, handled this claim．

When Mr．Tan first called me, he specifically told me that he believed I had been overcharged, and he would expect to pay that price for work on a double garage, rather than a single garage like mine．Mr．Tan suggested that I neither use nor recommend this contractor again．He continued to tell me it was unlikely for me to receive full payment．Never during this conversation did he mention that the reason for not receiving full payment was because of the nature of my insurance policy．

Consequently, I wrote to Mr．Lance Ashe to complain about his pricing, stating that I was very upset thinking that he could have taken advantage by overcharging a 73-year-old woman．Mr．Ashe telephoned me immediately and explained his charges in detail．He later reported back to me that Mr．Tan explained that I would not receive full payment because of the type of policy I hold, which does not cover wear and tear．This was the first time this issue had been brought to my attention, so you can imagine my surprise．

When I received Mr．Tan’s letter of 2 February, this situation was explained．If this had been explained in the first place I would have accepted it and would not have questioned Mr．Ashe’s charges．Instead, by telling me initially that I had been overcharged for this work, he caused a great deal of upset, not only for me but also for Mr．Ashe．

I believed this claim was handled badly by Mr．Tan from the beginning．Therefore, a great deal of embarrassment has been caused over this issue．

I felt you should know how disappointed and upset I am．I trust you will look into this and ensure that such claims are handled more appropriately in the future．

Yours sincerely,

Mrs．Richard

1.We can learn from the passage that Mr．Tan works in a/an _______.

A．welfare organization

B．nursing house

C．local affairs office

D．insurance company

2.The underlined words “the contractor” in Para.2 refer to ______.

A．Mr．Tan

B．Mrs．Richard

C．Mr．Ashe

D．Mr．Watson

3.The author could not receive full payment because _______.

A．her policy doesn’t cover some of the items

B．the contractor overcharged her for the work

C．Mr．Watson doesn’t take the matter seriously

D．she spent too much money fixing her garage

4.The author writes this letter to ______.

A．inform the manager of a payment

B．complain about a mishandled case

C．demand an apology from Mr．Watson

D．require the manager to fire Mr．Tan

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析