Do you want to live another 100 years or more? Some experts say that scientific progress will one day help humans to last tens of years longer than what is now seen as the natural limit(限制)of the human life span(寿命).
“ I think we are knocking at the door of immortality (永生),” said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. “ I think by 2075 we will see it and that’s a conservative estimate(保守估计).”
At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said progress in using genes as well as nanotechnology(纳米技术)makes it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. “ There is a great push so that people can live from 120 to 180 years,” he said. “ Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years.”
However, many scientists who research into aging are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to last about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.
Scientists also disagree on what kind of life the super aged might live. “It remains to be seen whether you could be healthy enough to have good quality of life when you pass 120.” said Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Center. “ At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all.”
1.By saying “ we are knocking at the door immortality”, Michael Zey means_____.
A.they believe that there is no limit of living
B.they are sure to find the truth about long living
C.they have got some ideas about long living
D.they are able to make people live beyond the present life span
2.Donald Louria’s attitude toward long living is that_____.
A.people can live from 120 to 180
B.it is still doubtful how long humans can live
C.the human body is designed to last about 120 years
D.it is possible for humans to live longer in the future
3.The underlined “ it” (Para. 4) refers to_____.
A.a great push
B.the idea of living beyond the present life span
C.the idea of living from 200 to 300
D.the conservative estimate
4.What would be the best title for this text?
A.Living longer or not
B.Science, technology and long living
C.No limit for human life
D.Healthy lifestyle and long living
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题
Do you want to live another 100 years or more? Do you want to live never to die? Some experts say, it will be not a dream one day. Modern technology will make it come true. Man will live more years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life.
“ I think we are knocking at the door of immortality,” said Michael, a professor and author of two books on human life expectancy. “I think by 2075 we will see it and it’s no longer a dream. Human’s life expectancy may have not limit.”
At the meeting in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School said advances in using genes as well as other technology make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. “There is a great push so that people can live from 120 to 180 years,” he said. “Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 300 or 500 years.”
However, many scientists are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to last more than about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and other parts of the body will finally lead all humans to death.
Scientists also hold different opinions on what kind of life man might live. “If you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life? It’s a big question.” said Leonard Poon, director of the university center. “At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all.”
1.The underlined word in the second paragraph probably means _____.
A.dying slowly B.living longer C.living forever D.dying quickly
2.Donald’s attitude is that______.
A.human beings may never die in the future
B.it is not certain how long humans can live
C.the human body can last about 120 years
D.it is possible for man to live longer in the future
3.What would be the best title for this text?
A.Living longer or not B.Science and long living
C.No limit for human life D.Healthy lifestyle and living
4.In the last sentence “get to that point” means ____.
A.get that idea B.get to 120 years old
C.know how to live forever D.have good quality of life
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Do you want to live another 100 years or more? Some experts say that scientific progress will one day help humans to last tens of years longer than what is now seen as the natural limit(限制)of the human life span(寿命).
“ I think we are knocking at the door of immortality (永生),” said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. “ I think by 2075 we will see it and that’s a conservative estimate(保守估计).”
At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said progress in using genes as well as nanotechnology(纳米技术)makes it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. “ There is a great push so that people can live from 120 to 180 years,” he said. “ Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years.”
However, many scientists who research into aging are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to last about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.
Scientists also disagree on what kind of life the super aged might live. “It remains to be seen whether you could be healthy enough to have good quality of life when you pass 120.” said Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Center. “ At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all.”
1.By saying “ we are knocking at the door immortality”, Michael Zey means_____.
A.they believe that there is no limit of living
B.they are sure to find the truth about long living
C.they have got some ideas about long living
D.they are able to make people live beyond the present life span
2.Donald Louria’s attitude toward long living is that_____.
A.people can live from 120 to 180
B.it is still doubtful how long humans can live
C.the human body is designed to last about 120 years
D.it is possible for humans to live longer in the future
3.The underlined “ it” (Para. 4) refers to_____.
A.a great push
B.the idea of living beyond the present life span
C.the idea of living from 200 to 300
D.the conservative estimate
4.What would be the best title for this text?
A.Living longer or not
B.Science, technology and long living
C.No limit for human life
D.Healthy lifestyle and long living
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Do you want to work with people or animals or machines or tools? Do you want to work indoors or outdoors, directly serve people in need or serve people behind the scenes? These are the typical questions that a volunteer service agency would ask.
Every year, thousands and thousands of people in the west offer volunteer services. Volunteering greatly strengthens the community partly because it helps the old, the young, the weak, the sick, the disabled and the injured to overcome difficulties.
Volunteers usually help in many different ways. They may give people advice, offer friendship to the young, drive the elderly to church, counsel kids against drugs. Work as an assistant in a school or nursing home, raise funds, plant trees, help out in local libraries and do many other things.
Volunteering can be a few hours a week or a few hours a month, time during the day, evenings or weekends, either part time or full time. Anybody who likes to serve people in need can become a volunteer.
The art of volunteering is a process of both giving and receiving. Volunteering allows volunteers to meet new people and make new friends and mix with people from all walks of life. Volunteering is an excellent way to experiment, practice and try out new techniques and skills. It is much more effective to practice a skill than to read about it or study it in a classroom. Volunteering is a great way to develop good teamwork skills, discover your individual talents and explore career choices. Being a volunteer takes individuals on a wonderful journey and helps them learn many important things beyond their school.
1.What’s the main idea of the passage? (2分)
________________________________________________________________________________________
2.What kind of volunteer jobs would you like to take? Why? (3分)
_________________________________________________________________________________________
高一英语其他题中等难度题查看答案及解析
Suppose you want to buy some new clothes or a new TV. Or maybe you need some work done on your car. How can you find the best price without shopping all over town? Ads can help you. Ads can show you lots of prices. And you don’t have to go anywhere to see them. Just open a newspaper or magazine, and you’ll find plenty of ads.
The following is an ad about TV sets for sale. Please read it and answer the questions below.
1.How many different kinds of TV sets does the store advertise here?
A.Two. B.Three.
C.Four. D.Five.
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the advertisement?
A.You can buy any kind on July 14th.
B.The service time is 9-9 every day except Monday.
C.The larger the screen is, the higher the price will be.
D.The lowest price is a little more than 300.
3.Which is NOT mentioned in the ad?
A.The price of each TV sets
B.The postcode of the area where the store is.
C.The address of the store.
D.The names of the TV sets.
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
On some level, I always knew that I wanted to be a doctor-at least from the age of eight or ten years old, anyway.
Although my father wasn’t a doctor, he made his own brand of “house calls”. I followed him as he brought a plate of my mother’s home cooking to an elderly man named Frank on all major holidays and when Frank was sick. As far as I know, their only connection was that Frank was an occasional customer at Dad’s small gas station. Frank’s home was a two-room house on the rough side of town with an old front porch (门廊) where you could fall if you weren’t careful. Frank had no relatives and as far as I could tell, no other visitors either. Through his attitude and by caring, my father was teaching me to be a doctor, although neither of us knew it at the time.
When I was 13, my father developed lung cancer. He brought home a diagram the doctor had drawn showing where his cancer was and told me that he was going to die. He asked me to take care of my mother when he was gone. I was an only child. He said he loved me on the night when he died.
When you’re 13 and your father dies, you have some choices to make. You can use the situation as an excuse for letting your actions and graded go down, or you can honor his memory and try to do something positive with yourself. I focused my energy on my schoolwork and my goal of becoming a doctor.
1. What’s the father’s “own brand of ‘house calls’”?
A. his treatment for frank’s serious illness.
B. his care for Frank.
C. his attitude towards the author.
D. his wish that his kid would be a doctor.
2. The author began to want to be a doctor when_________
A. father helped frank regularly
B. Father developed lung cancer
C. father asked him/her to take care of Mother
D. father died
3. what was the influence of Father’s death on the author?
A. The author began to think seriously about his/her career.
B. The author was too sorrowful to carry through his /her study.
C. The author used the situation as an excuse for quitting school.
D. The author made great effort at his/her goal of becoming a doctor.
4. The best title for the text would be_________.
A. What Made Father Respectable
B. What Led Me to Be a Doctor
C. How to Help Strangers
D. How to Deal with Death
高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
30.— What’s the trouble with you, Andy?
— I want to find another firm. Whatever I do, I can’t ________ the boss now.
A.support | B.serve | C.fit | D.satisfy |
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— Professor Smith, some students want to have a talk with you. ___ they wait here or outside?
— Show them in now, please.
A. Will B. Shall C. Would D. Must
高一英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
It is Saturday night and you want to turn on your television. Can you? Or do you first need to call your partner, or your child, or whoever it is in your household who knows which handset to use and which buttons to press? If so, you are not alone. Our televisions are an unspoken disaster zone. Finally, somebody has said something.
All hail (致敬) the Duke of Edinburgh. “To work out how to operate a television set, you practically have to make love to the thing,” he says, in this week’s Saturday Review. “And why can’t
you have a handset that people who are not ten years old can actually read?”
The Duke is often a reactionary (反动者), but this is not reactionary thinking. Our computers become ever easier to operate. Our cars almost drive themselves. Some mobile telephones, such as the phone, are obvious wonders: successful designs that could be operated by a child. The remote control of your television, by comparison, has changed only for the worse.
The first wide – spread commercial remote control was the Zenith Space Command, designed in 1956. It had four buttons: power, channel up, channel down and volume. Oh, for such simple things in our lives today. Before long, the remote control was out of control. Not just with televisions, but with video players, too. They came and went, and a whole generation never figured out how to use them. Why not? In all other ways, televisual technology has developed a great deal. The screens have grown grander, the picture definition (清晰度) has grown higher, and the sound clearer. The remote controls have merely grown. Nobody ever uses half those buttons. A remote revolution is long overdue.
1.What does “Our televisions are an unspoken disaster zone” mean?
A. Television is actually a great danger to humans.
B. It is very difficult to use many TV handsets properly.
C. We should treat televisions in a friendly way.
D. Somebody has said something about television.
2.What the Duke of Edinburgh says actually means that ________.
A. TV remote controls should be made easier to use
B. we must learn to respect TVs
C. we should love watching TV
D. we should buy handsets to control our TVs
3.What’s the author’s attitude to television remote controls?
A. Positive. B. Negative. C. Neutral (中立的). D. Indifferent (漠然的)
4.Which is the best title for the passage?
A. Remote Revolution. B. From Buttons to Handsets.
C. Televisions-Out of Control. D. Computers-Under Control.
高一英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
Do you want to be productive(富有成效的)at work or at home? Here's what you should do.
Turn off television
I used to tell myself that I needed a break. So, when the kids slept I turned on the cable and watched whatever program that caught my fancy. Often, I found myself not watching, just channel-surfing. And I didn’t end up watching a full program. I decided one day to just give up on TV as it made me sleep late and woke up exhausted(疲惫的).
If you want to be productive, cut off TV. You are better off reading a book. Without TV, I have managed to finish many books which I have bought but never read.
Limit Internet Use
The other big distraction that can make you sleep late is the Internet. Probably because you will be checking your emails, updating your blog, watching YouTube, etc. Try limiting the use of it at home, or switch it to the morning session.
Nowadays, I check all my personal emails early in the morning. When I get into work, I find myself less tempted to check personal emails.
Know Your Priorities(优先考虑的事)
Really, it is all about the choices you make and the priorities you have. If you know it is competitive out there in the world, how can you be a better worker than the person who is also aiming for the position above you?
Rest Early, Rise Early
You want to be productive? Rise early, read more books, have more energy, be more focused and set standards for others to catch up. It’s as simple as that.
1.The passage aims to give advice on how to ________.
A. take better care of our kids at home.
B. balance our work and energy well.
C. divide time between work and family.
D. compete against others for a better position.
2.What does the author mainly use to support her theory?
A. Ancient wisdom B. Internet information
C. Popular beliefs D. Personal experience
3.The author used to be in the habit of _________.
A. changing channels frequently when watching TV.
B. checking all her personal emails in the morning.
C. watching her favorite TV programs with her kids.
D. reading the books immediately after she bought them.
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
I want to tell you a story that changed my life many years ago. We were living in College Station, Texas and my wife and I were on our way home from Houston, Texas one Saturday morning. We decided to stop at a local restaurant to get something to eat since we had enough time. When we finished, we got back into our car and before I started it, we noticed a homeless man standing in front of the building. His clothes were worn and it looked as though he didn’t have any money. It was cold and I was sure he wanted something warm to drink; however, it was not this that I remember, because that is not what "moved" me. A dog was also walking up to the front of the building. Being a dog owner, I knew that the dog was a mother, and that she had just had some pups (小狗). She was hungry and weak and I felt bad for her. I knew if she didn’t eat soon, she and her pups would not live. People walking by didn’t even notice her. She was not as pretty and clean as most dogs, but she still deserved (值得) better. We still did not do anything, but someone else did. The homeless man, who I thought could not afford anything to eat, went into the store and bought dog food with all the money he had.
1.Where did the story happen?
A.In front of the local restaurant.
B.In front of a building.
C.In the car parking lot.
D.Near the author’s house.
2.What do we know about the dog?
A.The author wanted to help the dog, but he was un-able to.
B.The dog and her pups were in danger of dying from hunger.
C.The dog was not cute enough to be loved.
D.The author didn’t like dogs.
3.Which of the following moved the author?
A.The homeless man had no money to buy food for himself.
B.The homeless man wore worn clothes on cold days.
C.The homeless man bought food for a dog with all his money.
D.Most people walking by the dog didn’t notice her.
4.What can we conclude(得出结论) from the passage?
A.The author was so hungry that he went into the local restaurant to eat.
B.The author didn’t understand what the homeless man did.
C.The dog shouldn’t be taken care of carefully because it looked ugly.
D.Things are not always what they seem.
5.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A.My Memory B.A Poor Dog
C.The Homeless Person D.A Mother Dog
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析