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1.The current temperature in New York is

A. 47℃               B. 43℃            C. 13℃            D. 8℃

2.How far can we see clearly at the most in New York on Monday?

A. 10 miles               B. 15 kilometers        C. 30.27 inches         D. 43 meters

3.It will rain in New York on ________.

A. Monday             B. Wednesday        C. Friday               D. Saturday

4.has the fourth lowest temperature on Monday.

A. Chicago                B. New York        C. Tokyo            D. San Francisco

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

1.The least likely choice for 5-year-old Jack to make among the museums is __________ .

A. QMA　　 B. TNYHS　　 C. TMMI　　 D. QCFM

2. According to the text , which of the following is NOT true ?

A. All the museums mentioned above lie in New York City .

B. No other museum in New York City is better than MMI .

C. NYHS has the most hands-on activities in America .

D. Lucky visitors can see grapes in one of the museums .

3.In which museum can you enjoy outdoor fun ?

A. MMI .　　 B. QCFM .　　 C. NYHS .　　 D. QMA .

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NEW YORK—Microsoft on Monday made another effort to challenge Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android in the exploding smartphone market—launching a wireless operating system，Windows Phone 7.

Consumers will consider it“always delightful and thoroughly mine，”Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said at a launch event. Ballmer said last year that Microsoft had“screwed up”with its Windows Mobile operating system.For example，it failed to keep up with touch-screen innovations that make iPhones and Android phones easy to use.

Microsoft fell from third to fourth place in market share this year，behind BlackBerry，iPhone and Android. Only 10.8% of smartphone owners used Microsoft’s system in August，down from 18% last December.

But Windows Phone 7 is“a total departure from anything they’ve done”.Microsoft says it sought to simplify common activities. For example，you can instantly take a picture with a phone’s camera by pushing a button on the device. You don’t have to first awaken it from its sleep mode and launch the camera application. You also can program the phones to automatically upload photos to Facebook or other social network sites in a couple of seconds. Users can easily work with Microsoft Office contact and calendar information as well as documents created in Microsoft’s Word，Excel and PowerPoint.

The phones will not show videos built on Adobe’s Flash platform，widely used by services including YouTube and Hulu.

AT&T will offer the first Windows Phone 7 smartphone，the Samsung Focus，on Nov.8.Soon after，it will have the LG Quantum and HTC Surround. Each will cost S|  199.99 with a two-year service contract. T-Mobile will have two Windows Phone 7 models out for the holiday shopping season：the HTC HD7 and Dell Venue Pro. It did not say how much they’ll cost.

1.What is the main idea of paragraph 4？

2.What does the underlined phrase“screwed up”in the 2^nd paragraph probably mean？

3.Which of the following phones will NOT use Windows Phone 7 operating system？

4.Why did Microsoft see a drop in market share last year？

5.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage？

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1.The least likely choice for 5-year-old Jack to make among the museums is______.

A．T MMI          B．T NYHS         C．QMA            D．QCFM

2.According to the text, which of the following is NOT true?

A．All the museums mentioned above lie in New York City.

B．No other museum in New York City is better than MMI.

C．Lucky visitors can see grapes in one of the museums.

D．NYHS has the most hands-on activities in America.

3.We can know from the text that______.

A．visitors can pay a visit to all the museums by subway

B．people can visit only one of the any day

C．there is often a rare bird flying in the sky above MMI

D．the Panorama is, as a matter of fact, a great gift shop

4.In which museum can you enjoy outdoor fun?

A．MMI. B．NYHS.    C．QCFM.    D．QMA.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1000 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10028

211-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org

Entrances

Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street

Hours

Open 7 days a week.

Sunday-Thursday 10:00-17:30

Friday and Saturday 10:00-21:00

Closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25,January 1,and the first Monday in May.

Admission

$25.00 recommended for adults, $12.00 recommended for students, includes the Main Building and The Cloisters(回廊）on the same day; free for children under 12 with an adult.

Free with Admission

All special exhibitions, as well as films, lectures, guided tours, concerts, gallery talks, and

family/children's programs are free with admission.

Ask about today's activities at the Great Hall Information Desk.

The Cloisters Museum and Gardens

The Cloisters museum and gardens is a branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of Europe in the Middle Ages. The extensive

collection consists of masterworks in sculpture, colored glass, and precious objects from Europe dating from about the 9th to the 15th century.

Hours: Open 7 days a week.

March-October 10:00-17:15

November-February 10:00-16:45

Closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25,and January 1.

1.How much may they pay if an 11-year-old girl and her working parents visit the museum?

A.$12. B.$37.

C.$ 50. D.$ 62

2.The attraction of the Cloisters museum and gardens lies in the fact that ________.

A.it opens all the year round

B.its collections date from the Middle Ages

C.it has a modern European-style garden

D.it sells excellent European glass collections

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A story posted by The New York Post Monday tells the tale of Katrina Holte, a Hillsboro woman who quit her job to cosplay a 1950s housewife.

Let me start by expressing admiration to Holte for using her 2019 freedoms to follow her 1950s dreams. Everyone should be so lucky as to get to decide what they wear and how they spend their time. That’s the future our foremothers fought for.

But as much fun as I am sure she is having living a vintage (复古的) life, which literally includes watching shows like “I Love Lucy” and listening to vinyl recordings (刻录碟片) , I think it’s important to remember that being a 1950s housewife was actually totally awful, and something our grandmothers and mothers fought against.

For example, once I called my grandma and asked her for her recipe for Cloud Biscuits, these delicious biscuits she used to make that we would cover with butter and homemade raspberry jam on Thanksgiving.

“Why would you want that?” she said. “Go to the store. Go to the freezer section. Buy some pre-made biscuits and put them in the oven.”

She straight-up refused to give me the recipe, because it was hard and took a long time to make. In her mind, it was a waste of time.

Getting off the phone, it occurred to me that spending every day of your life serving a husband and five children wasn’t fun at all. And then there are the grandchildren who eventually come along demanding Cloud Biscuits, a whole new expanded set of people to feed.

She was basically a slave to those hungry mouths, cooking scratch meals three times a day

When she wasn’t trapped in the kitchen, she had to keep the house clean, make sure she looked good enough to be socially acceptable, and make sure her kids and husband looked good enough to be socially acceptable. And she had no days off.

I know my grandma loves her kids and her grandkids, her husband and the life she led, but man, it must have been a lot of thankless, mindless labor.

No wonder everyone went all-in on processed foods when they came around. Imagine the nice break something like a microwave dinner would give a woman working, unpaid, for her family every single day?

I also had another grandma. She was a scholar who helped found the Center for the Study of Women in Society at University of Oregon. She was a pioneering second-wave feminist who wrote books, gave lectures and traveled the world.

But, she did all of that after divorcing my grandpa, when most of her kids were out of the house. Back then, in the 1950s and the 1960s, there was no illusion about women “having it all”. How could that even possibly happen? If you were taking care of a family, waiting on your husband, you had no time to follow your dreams, unless you made that your dream

A lot of women took that approach. We call it Stockholm Syndrome now.

And of course, these women I am talking about are upper-middle-class white women. Romanticizing the 1950s is especially disgusting when you think about how women of color and poor women were treated back then, and the lack of education and choices available to them.

Because the women in this country demanded something approaching equality, Holte has the chance to live out her fantasy. Not every woman in America is so lucky.

We still don’t have pay equality and in many states, we still don’t have autonomy over our own bodies. Poor women and women of color still lack the opportunities of their wealthy and white peers.

And while it’s getting better, women are still expected to be responsible for the emotional labor of running a household and raising the children.

But at least we can get jobs. At least we don’t have to sew our own clothes, wear a full face of makeup every day and spend hours making Cloud Biscuits some ungrateful kid will wolf down, barely remembering to say thank you.

1.According to the author, what is the future our foremothers fought for?

A.Watching shows like “I Love Lucy” and listening to vinyl recordings.

B.Having the freedom to make choices in their daily life.

C.Making Cloud Biscuits for their kids and husbands.

D.Making sure their kids and husbands socially acceptable.

2.What does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 13 refer to?

A.Writing books, giving lectures and traveling the world.

B.Divorcing husband when kids were out of house.

C.Taking care of a family and waiting on husband.

D.Women’s illusion about “having it all”.

3.What does the “Stockholm Syndrome” in paragraph 14 really mean in the passage?

A.Women have been used to the unfair treatment at home

B.Women nowadays like the way of life in the 1950s.

C.Victims end up sympathizing with the abusers.

D.Women have the chance to live out their dreams.

4.The author thinks of the life of a 1950s housewife as ________.

A.fantastic B.admirable

C.awful D.unforgettable

5.What can we learn from the passage?

A.It was a waste of time to give grandchildren the recipe.

B.All women are not lucky to follow their own dreams in America now.

C.Housewives received recognition for their efforts from family members.

D.The upper-middle-class white women did a better job in running the household.

6.What is the author’s main purpose in writing this passage?

A.To show great appreciation to her grandmas.

B.To call on housewives to claim the pay for the housework they undertake.

C.To draw readers’ attention to the situations women face, especially those poor and of color.

D.To arouse women’s awareness of equal pay at work.

高三英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.On which day is there no train to New York City?

A. Saturday.　　 B. Sunday.　　 C. Monday.

2.Which train will the man take?

A. 10:30.　　 B. 12:20.　　 C. 15:10.

3.How much is a hard seat?

A. $15.　　 B. $6.　　 C. $8.

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In New York, Ma witnessed the Alibaba Group opening on the New York stock exchange with the largest initial public offering (IPO，新股发行) in American history. “Alibaba, the world’s largest Internet commerce company makes China equal to the US in the rapidly increasing global competition for technological innovation (创新) and economic transformation ” commented the South China Morning Post.

It has also made Ma China’s richest man with a fortune of around $25 billion (153 billion yuan), reported Reuters.

It’s reported that Ma’s rags-to-riches journey is just as spectacular as his Internet empire. Ma failed the national college entrance exams twice before he was finally in Hangzhou Normal University on his third attempt and failed in finding a suitable job several times. Aslo, Mr Ma is a big believer in perseverance, which was proved in his English study experience.

However, it was his vision and goals that launched his career.

During a short trip to the US as an interpreter in 1995, Ma first experienced the Internet. He believed in the Internet’s business potential when few other Chinese people did. He started Alibaba in his Hangzhou apartment, with 17 friends and $60,000 of funds. At the time, when e-commerce was unheard of in China, “I called myself a blind man riding on the back of blind tigers,” he once said, according to The Guardian. His unusual ideas earned him the nickname “Crazy Jack Ma” .

Indeed, Ma is different. Although he is very thin and about 160cm tall, “Ma is yet animated and forceful, said The Guardian. “He is funny, creative, and a compelling (引人注目的) speaker.

Ma told Time magazine that he was “old for the Internet”. He started to slow down and looked around. According to The Wall Street Journal, Ma “plans to open a tai chi club with the actor Jet Li, build an entrepreneur (企业家) university in Hangzhou and continue to work on several environmental projects.”

1.What made him into e-commerce industry?

A. His English learning experience.

B. His foresight and ambitions.

C. His belief in perseverance.

D. His 17 friends and $60,000 funds.

2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 mean?

A. Ma is a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

B. Ma had no confidence in his business future.

C. Ma knew little about e-commerce.

D. Ma had not enough money at that time.

3.What’s the personality of Ma Yun according to the passage?

A. Funny and competitive.

B. Determined and creative.

C. Rich and different.

D. Attractive and believable.

4.What’s the best title of the passage?

A. The Development of Alibaba Group

B. Ma Yun’s Personal Life

C. Ma Yun’s Crazy Success

D. E-commerce in China

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In New York, Ma Yun witnessed the Alibaba Group opening on the New York stock exchange with the largest initial public offering (IPO，新股发行) in American history. “Alibaba, the world’s largest Internet commerce company makes China equal to the US in the rapidly increasing global competition for technological innovation (创新) and economic transformation ” commented the South China Morning Post.

It has also made Ma China’s richest man with a fortune of around $25 billion (153 billion yuan), reported Reuters.

It’s reported that Ma’s rags-to-riches journey is just as spectacular as his Internet Empire. Ma failed the national college entrance exams twice before he was finally in Hangzhou Normal University on his third attempt and failed in finding a suitable job several times. Also, Mr Ma is a big believer in perseverance, which was proved in his English study experience.

However, it was his vision and goals that launched his career.

During a short trip to the US as an interpreter in 1995, Ma first experienced the Internet. He believed in the Internet’s business potential when few other Chinese people did. He started Alibaba in his Hangzhou apartment, with 17 friends and $60,000 of funds. At the time, when e-commerce was unheard of in China, “I called myself a blind man riding on the back of blind tigers,” he once said, according to The Guardian. His unusual ideas earned him the nickname “Crazy Jack Ma”.

Indeed, Ma is different. Although he is very thin and about 160cm tall, “Ma is yet animated and forceful,” said The Guardian. “He is funny, creative, and a compelling (引人注目的) speaker.

Ma told Time magazine that he was “old for the Internet”. He started to slow down and looked around. According to The Wall Street Journal, Ma “plans to open a tai chi club with the actor Jet Li, build an entrepreneur (企业家) university in Hangzhou and continue to work on several environmental projects.”

1.What made him into e-commerce industry?

A. His English learning experience.

B. His foresight and ambitions.

C. His belief in perseverance.

D. His 17 friends and $60,000 funds.

2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 mean?

A. Ma is a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

B. Ma had no confidence in his business future.

C. Ma knew little about e-commerce.

D. Ma had not enough money at that time.

3.What’s the personality of Ma Yun according to the passage?

A. Funny and competitive.

B. Determined and creative.

C. Rich and different.

D. Attractive and believable.

4.What’s the best title of the passage?

A. The Development of Alibaba Group

B. Ma Yun’s Personal Life

C. Ma Yun’s Crazy Success

D. E-commerce in China

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Anne LaBastille was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. Her first experience with the wilderness was in the Adirondacks in the northeast of New York, where she worked at a summer resort to earn money for college tuition by caring for the horses, giving riding lessons, and working as a waitress. And she has many chances to begin her adventure in the Adirondack wilderness.

Anne returned to school in the fall, but she continued to spend as much time as she could in the Adirondacks. She grew to love her time alone in the mountains. Anne graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree in conservation of natural resources and began working for the National Audubon Society in Florida as a wildlife tour leader.

Although Anne took great pleasure in showing people the animals living in the Florida Keys and the Everglades National Park, she longed for the mountains in the northern parts of New York. Eventually, she decided to build a cabin near Black Bear Lake. Over the years, however, more and more tourists began hiking near her cabin. As a result, Anne decided to build another cabin deeper in the woods at Lily Pad Lake.

Anne lived in the woods for most of her life. She enjoyed living alone in the woods, and her life was far too busy for her to be lonely. When she was not writing books, she wrote articles for National Geographic, Reader’s Digest, and other magazines. In her later years, Anne conducted research in Guatemala on an endangered bird called the grebe. She also lectured nationwide about ecology. Besides, Anne worked with a number of organizations dedicated to conservation.

As a respected guide, author, and conservationist, Anne not only loved the land but also had found a way to become part of it.

1.Anne’s work at the summer resort _________.

A. showed her love for long tours

B. helped her to explore the wilderness

C. earned her high admiration in college

D. gave her a chance to learn horse riding

2.Anne built her cabin at Lily Pad Lake in order to ________.

A. live in the mountains

B. enlarge her living space

C. settle in a more beautiful place

D. get away from increasing numbers of tourists

3.We can conclude from the text that Anne _________.

A. felt very lonely living in the woods

B. made the wilderness a part of her life

C. tried to make more people aware of the grebe

D. longed to be an editor of National Geographic

4.What is the main idea of the text?

A. The life of Anne LaBastille.

B. The achievement of Anne LaBastille.

C. Anne LaBastille’s adventures in the wilderness.

D. Anne LaBastille’s pioneering work in wildlife ecology.

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