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The alarm sounds. Students swing their backpack over their shoulders, board the school bus, make their way to their homeroom and the bell rings - school is back. But for more homes in America, school looks more like students waking up, making their way to the dining room or home office, setting up laptops and learning in the comfort of home.

Virtual(虚拟的) schooling, defined as “a public school that offers only instruction in which students and teachers are separated by time and/or location, and interaction occurs via computers and/or telecommunications(电信) technologies'”, has increased over the past decade. According to the National Education Policy Center, enrollments(入学) in virtual schools increased by 17,000 students between 2015-16 and 2016-17 to 295,51 8 students.

For Arizona Virtual Academy, a full online public K-12 charter school, they use K12 Inc. curriculum. K12 serves students in all 50 states and more than 100 countries with digital learning platforms and technology, providing on line education. “We always are improving our platforms and the technology that we use to make sure that we're keeping up with the changing trends, not only with education but also with technology,'” Dr. Kelly Van Sande said. Another piece of new technology they've rolled out is a new app where parents can find virtual schools available in their area.

Carrie Faulkner chose to enroll two of her children in Arizona Virtual Academy. She says they've done schooling online in Chicago, in California, at restaurants, and on her cousin's floor in Kansas. “It doesn't matter whether he/her son) is on the couch, in his bed or at the kitchen table-he can do schooling wherever he wants to,” Faulkner said. “I wish they had it for me back when I was in school. That would have been awesome.”

1.What's the purpose of paragraph 1?

A.To give an example of virtual schooling.

B.To introduce the topic “virtual schooling”

C.To describe vividly students going to school.

D.To compare real schooling with virtual schooling.

2.How many students enrolled virtual schools during the 2015-2016 school year?

A.17,000 B.147,759

C.278,518 D.295,518

3.What can we infer about Arizona Virtual Academy?

A.They provide both online and offline education.

B.They're intended for students in the United Stated.

C.Their new app lets people find school nationwide.

D.Their platforms and technology are very advanced.

4.What is Carrie Faulkner's attitude to virtual schooling?

A.Favorable B.Doubtful

C.Indifferent D.Disapproving

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The alarm sounds. Students swing their backpack over their shoulder, board the school bus, make their way to their homeroom and the bell rings— school is back. But for more homes in America, school looks more like students waking up, making their way to the dining room or home office, setting up laptops and learning in the comfort of home.

Virtual(虚拟的)schooling, described as “a public school that offers only instruction in which students and teachers are separated by time and/or place, and interaction occurs via computers and/or telecommunications(电信)technologies”, has increased over the past decade. According to the National Education Policy Center, enrollments(注册人数)in virtual schools was 278,518 between the 2015 — 2016 school year and the 2016 — 2017 school year increased by 17,000.

For Arizona Virtual Academy, a full-time online public K-12 school, they use K12 Inc. curriculums. K12 Inc. serves students in all 50 states and more than 100 countries with digital learning platforms and technology, providing online education. “We always are improving our platforms and the technology that we use to make sure that we’re keeping up with the changing trends, not only with education but also with technology,” Dr. Kelly Van Sande said. Another piece of new technology they’ve rolled out is a new app where parents can find virtual schools available in their area.

Carrie Faulkner chose to enroll two of her children in Arizona Virtual Academy. She says they’ve done schooling online in Chicago, in California, at restaurants and on her cousin’s floor in Kansas. “It doesn’t matter whether he (her son) is on the couch, in his bed or at the kitchen table, he can do schooling wherever he wants to,” Faulkner said. “I wish they had it for me back when I was in school. That would have been awesome.”

1.Why does the author compare the two kinds of schooling in the first paragraph?

A. To attack real schooling.

B. To give an example of virtual schooling.

C. To introduce the topic “virtual schooling”.

D. To describe vividly students’ going to school.

2.How many students attended virtual schools during the 2016 — 2017 school year?

A. 295, 518 B. 17, 000. C. 278, 518. D. 147, 759.

3.What can we infer about Arizona Virtual Academy?

A. They provide both online and offline education.

B. They’re intended for students in the United States.

C. Their new app lets people find schools worldwide.

D. Their platforms and technology are very advanced.

4.What is Carrie Faulkner’s attitude to virtual schooling?

A. Ambiguous. B. Cautious C. Supportive. D. Disapproving.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

At railway stations all across Britain next week, groups of students will gather with their backpacks to wait for the trains that will carry them home for Christmas. This is as large a movement of human beings as before, but with more contradictory traffic flows, so that trains filled with the young pass each other travelling in every direction.

At first, I went home every weekend with my washing, but then those visits became less regular. How did I let my parents know I was coming? They had no phone. Perhaps I wrote to them ("Expect me with dirty shirts this Friday afternoon"), but more likely I didn't let them know, and just turned up or didn't turn up, not understanding that my parents' dashed hopes of seeing me were a greater casualty of my carelessness than a spoiled tea.

And in all this I suspect I was typical, at least of young men. As for our fathers and mothers, none of them talked of "empty-nest syndrome", even though its implication that the principal human duty is to protect and feed the young would have suited their generation better than ours. Then, the feelings of loss went without a name. Today, it's a condition with remedies, which will make parents feel more enjoyable in their life. The Mayo Clinic, for example, suggests you try to maintain regular contact with your children through "visits, phone calls, emails, texts or video chats". If you feel depressed, lean on loved ones or your mental health provider. Above all, stay positive: "Thinking about the extra time and energy you might have to devote to your marriage or personal interests after your last child leaves home might help you adapt to this major life change."

What can’t be denied, however, is that children often leave home. In modern societies, this is what they do. Christmas is the very time they can be depended on to return. For the non-religious, that may be this season’s true comfort and significance.

1.The main reason for the busy traffic across Britain next week is that________.

A．young students will travel home for Christmas

B．young people will travel in every direction

C．it is a large movement of human beings

D．the traffic flows will be more contradictory

2.From the second paragraph we can learn that the writer________.

A．went home every week to wash dirty clothes

B．understood his parents’ desire of seeing him

C．didn’t understand his parents’ feelings

D．went home to see his parents regularly

3.The underlined word “remedies” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________.

A．reasons           B．excuses           C．habits            D．solutions

4.From the last paragraph we know that________.

A．in modern society, children should leave home

B．Christmas is likely a time for family reunion

C．the significance of Christmas is celebration

D．Christmas is not a comfort for the non-religious

5.From the passage we can infer that by writing the article the writer’s purpose is to________.

A．persuade the young to show concern for their parents

B．ask the young to go home regularly

C．make the young understand their parents’ interests

D．enable the young to be more independent

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IT’S over – millions of Senior 3 students across the country have finished their last exams. But in two years, it’ll be your turn in the examination room. How can you spend the time you have left to best effect? Read these thoughts from new graduates to get some pointers.

Cao A’min, 18

Xuanhua No 1 High School, Hebei

Study: Keeping pace (步伐) with teachers is a good way to study. Teachers are experienced and their plans are systematic (系统的). But remember to work in a way that suits you. It’s also important to learn from past mistakes. Keep a notebook to make a record of the mistakes you make – it’ll help you avoid making the same ones later.

Zhang Zilu, 17

Xinyu No 1 High School, Jiangxi

Friendship: This time of life may be hard, but you’re not alone. You may be busy studying, but you can show you care by calling your friends or sending a short message. Don’t let your friendships die. Some boys and girls in my class were in love, but I’d advise against a relationship at this stage.

Zhan Yu, 17

Huanggang High School, Hubei

Health: It’s as important to live well as it is to study well, I think. I went to bed no later than 11:30 pm. It put me in the right mood for the next day. I didn’t follow a special diet (饮食), but I did make sure I ate a nutritious (有营养的) breakfast each day.

Ju Shuntian, 18

Yantai Economic and Technological Development Zone Senior High School, Shandong

Relaxation: The person who plays well, studies well. Having a lot of schoolwork doesn’t mean having to give up on every other activity. I played basketball or took a walk to relax when I felt tired. Time out is not a waste of time but helps you study more efficiently (高效地).

Zhang Qingzhou, 17

Dongtai High School, Jiangsu

Options: Besides taking the big exam, you have other choices for college. I took the independent enrollment (自主招生) exam held by Peking University and some other students even prepared to study abroad. Pay attention to any relevant information you can find, whether it’s from school, the news media or another source (来源).

1.Who is the passage mainly written for?

2.This passage shows students some aspects of proper arrangement except ________.

3.What’s Zhang Zilu’s attitude to students’ love happening in senior life?

4.If you’d like to take the independent enrollment, what should you do?

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Most students set their alarm clocks to ensure they can attend on-line classes____.

A.on purpose B.on occasion C.on average D.on schedule

高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

A meadow in bloom （鲜花盛开的草甸）cannot be more appealing for British. The swinging wild flowers at their peak show essence（精髓）of the season and are perfect for ______ with your video camera. But that is a thing of the ______.

Motorways, new towns, factories―Britain has ______ much damage to its natural scenery, and every year more land of the countryside is ______ to tall buildings. While no wildlife habitat has escaped the ______ of the developer’s bulldozer （推土机）, none has ______ a greater impact than the meadow. Around 93% of Britain’s meadows have ______ in the past 70 years.

The blooming meadow was a much-loved ______ of the English countryside poetry for generations, as ______ to the summer as white snow to the winter. Nowadays, scenes of a farmer’s field ______ of colorful wild flowers are more ______ to be seen on greeting cards than on country roads in July.

Although expansion of cities has ______ England’s green land, the primary cause for the loss was the post-war trend of frequent ______ practice. These wildflower-rich habitats began to decrease during wartime when traditionally managed grassland was ______ to serve as farmland. The sowing of highly productive crops, such as potatoes, ______ the practice after the war. More of the grassland was,______, gone forever.

In terms of biodiversity, the ______ of the habitat cannot be overstated: a common old meadow can ______ around 130 different plant species. Many of them are ______, since they flower for just a few days in midsummer. An uncut meadow is also a ______ for many of Britain’s threatened birds to keep away from enemies.

1.A.recording B.exploring C.examining D.decorating

2.A.future B.dream C.war D.past

3.A.fought B.ignored C.witnessed D.described

4.A.compared B.connected C.lost D.left

5.A.progress B.spread C.pollution D.invention

6.A.avoided B.resisted C.had D.suffered

7.A.survived B.disappeared C.recovered D.improved

8.A.title B.style C.image D.idea

9.A.symbolic B.conventional C.special D.evident

10.A.full B.short C.worthy D.fond

11.A.impossible B.likely C.popular D.precious

12.A.put into B.eaten into C.set down D.laid down

13.A.commercial B.industrial C.agricultural D.environmental

14.A.considered B.designed C.allowed D.transformed

15.A.finished B.simplified C.deepened D.modernized

16.A.otherwise B.however C.meanwhile D.therefore

17.A.significance B.balance C.convenience D.difference

18.A.accept B.prepare C.guarantee D.support

19.A.typical B.rare C.regular D.fresh

20.A.shelter B.necessity C.concern D.source

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New Holland honeyeaters are experts at sounding the alarm when there's danger, according to new research from biologists at the Australian National University(ANU)and the University of Cambridge.

Study authors, Dr. Jessica McLachlan and Professor Rob Magrath, found honeyeaters can spread the word in the blink of an eye, using a two-stage alarm.

It's particularly effective when they are threatened by fast-moving birds of prey.

＂When a hawk is swooping down, its target has only a second to flee to cover-a split second can make the difference between life and death," Dr. McLachlan said.

＂But animals often signal urgent danger using repeated notes, which makes sure others hear the warning but it takes a long time to deliver."

＂So there's a problem. How to send a lightning-fast message in a long call?”

New Holland honeyeaters solve this problem elegantly. They "front-load" information about urgency into the first note of their alarm call, so other honeyeaters can respond quickly.

The clever honeyeaters follow this up with more notes to reinforce the message and signal how long to remain hidden.

＂They use a long call, with lots of notes, to make sure the message is heard," Professor Magrath said." And the more notes, the more urgent the danger."

＂But they also modify the first note to indicate if it's necessary to take immediate cover. So it's a two-part message that is quick, reliable and informative."

The technique is so effective the authors expect to see other species adopt it.

＂Many other species modify alarm calls as the threat increases, but there is surprisingly little known about how fast they convey the message," Professor Magrath said.

The researchers conducted their study in Canberra's National Botanic Gardens over a period of several years.

＂These birds live in the Gardens and are used to having people around. This helped us to record natural interactions with their predators(捕猎者)，such as sparrow hawks and currawongs, and to video the honeyeaters' responses to different alarm calls," Professor Magrath said.

1.According to Dr. Jessica McLachlan,______

A.speed counts when it comes to honeyeaters' life or death

B.the second-part message in a honeyeater's call is more reliable

C.the message about where to take cover is conveyed very fast

D.the urgency degree relies on the first note in a honeyeater's call

2.What does"they"in Paragraph 12 refer to?

A.alarm calls B.modified notes

C.other species D.clever honeyeaters

3.The researchers' findings are mainly based on

A.the comparison between honeyeaters and other birds

B.the analysis of length of alarm calls made by honeyeaters

C.the record of the honeyeaters' response and signal transmission

D.the observation of birds in Canberra's National Botanic Gardens

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

There is no sound worse than an alarm clock first thing in the morning.Some of us are the type to jolt out of bed with a smile.1. While I have a love-hate relationship with mornings,I have found that there are indeed ways to make mornings a little more bearable.

Mentally plan out your day.

One way to combat the morning blues is to mentally plan out your day right when you wake up to prepare yourself for the day.Give yourself at least one little thing to look forward to each day.2.

Meditate.

Meditation (冥想) will clear your mind and relax your body.Even just ten minutes of focused mental thought can completely clear your mind.3. Of all of them,I like Headspace best,which provides 10-minute sessions that leave you feeling relaxed,and ready to have a great day!4.

People say “look good,feel good.” If you have your outfit ready in advance,you are more likely to feel confident and mentally prepared for the day.Whether it’s a pair of jeans or a sweater,pick out clothes that you feel great in.

Go with a friend or classmate to breakfast,school,etc.

5. Sharing the first moments of the day with others will fuel your mind and let you ease into your day. Also,having a regimented (受管制的) morning routine with others will help ensure that you are on-time for school and that you have a reason to get up in the morning.

A.Put on your clothes for the night.

B.Lay out your clothes the night before.

C.Others love to exercise in the morning.

D.Mornings are best when you have good company.

E.However,for others,mornings are the worst enemy.

F.It can even be a cookie of your favorite taste on the lunch break.

G..It’s easy with the availability of apps and YouTube guided exercises out there.

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People may set an alarm on the phone or clock that sounds like this: beep beep beep. That hard, unpleasant sound may be making it harder to shake off the sleepy feeling in the morning known as grogginess. So, is there a better way to wake up? A recent study says yes. The answer is music.

The study, carried out by researchers in Australia, involved 50 people. The researchers found that people who wake up to musical alarms reported feeling more awake and alert. Stuart McFarlane, a lead writer of the study stated, "We are very surprised by these findings as one might expect a harsh beeping sound to be more successful," at waking up a person.

Sleep inertia is another term for grogginess. It means a person has a heavy feeling when waking up, and has trouble getting moving again after sleeping. McFarlane said people need to better understand sleep inertia's harmful effects on human performance later in the day.

Not everyone will experience the full effect. But for those who do, "care should be taken" when performing duties that require a top performance within this period, he said. This includes "dangerous tasks like driving or riding our bikes" shortly after waking up. The same is true for people who work in dangerous situations shortly after they wake, including firefighters and pilots.

So, what makes musical alarms better for waking up? The researchers think the music may be more successful in reducing sleep inertia because it has several tones, compared to the single tone of a "beeping" alarm. McFarlane said that the changes over time between the music tones may help increase a person's attention when waking from sleep.

And is there a kind of music that is best to wake up to? There may be, McFarlane said. "We could suggest alarm sounds that are tune full and easy to hum or sing along with. The current sounds I have been using include 'Close to me' by the Cure and 'Borderline' by Madonna."

No matter how you wake up, experts say, the amount of sleep you get also matters — a lot.

1.Which of the following might be the best title for the text?

A.What is grogginess? B.Why are musical alarms better?

C.Which music is the best? D.How can we overcome grogginess?

2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A.Sleep inertia is another cause for grogginess.

B.How long a person sleeps is of great importance.

C.The 'beeping' alarm is not effective mainly because of its noisy tone.

D.It is dangerous for everyone to drive or ride bicycles shortly after waking up.

3.The paragraph following this passage is likely to focus on 　　　　 .

A.examples of good musical alarms

B.more findings of the application of music

C.explanations about why music is more helpful

D.suggestions on how to sleep well and feel fresh each morning

4.In which section of a magazine may you find the passage?

A.Health. B.Fiction.

C.Technology. D.Entertainment

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Every Friday we have a fire alarm test at nine o'clock sharp, and even though the sound is very noisy, I am so happy because when I heard that it reminded me today is Friday and tomorrow is weekend, it is the last working day of the week and I have two days off, it’s so excited!Sometimes we have a fire drill, when you hear the fire alarm, everybody have to run out through the fire exit.

One Monday at nine o’clock, the alarm was sounded and I was working behind the fish house and didn’t hear it. The department manager and staff were looking for me thoroughly, finally they found me and asked me to stop my job and follow them went out.

"I am busy, No problem! You leave, I work." I said.

"No, this is the law, everybody has to leave." The manager said.

I understood that if I insisted not to leave, they must carry me out. I went out with them together finally, no choice.

One afternoon, when I was working outside, the fire alarm cropped up（突然出现） sounding wildly, nobody knew what’s happening, some were standing and looking around, some were asking questions, some were running, I knew this wasn’t a test or drill, must be a real one. At that moment, one lady called me from a distance:"Jinglebell: leave your job, go out quickly."I joined the crowded flow of customers and staff going out. I asked somebody what's happened? And they told me this is a real one as there was some smoke on the shop floor.Finally I found out, actually there was no problem, that it was an electrician who used the equipment for the carpet and made a little smoke.

After that I asked somebody how to deal with the customer’s food in the restaurant in that case, because they went out to leave because of the fire, but hadn't finished their food. They told me that the customers who had bought food or drinks there could get a new one.

I don't understand, if in China, under that situation, everybody must carry a bucket（桶） or some other water containers to the fire spot, to fight the flames.

I agree with the English emphasis the human right, but maybe a very small problem could become a big problem while everybody had withdrawn from the shop, because the fire fighters could not come at once.

I was just thinking.

1.Despite the noise from the fire alarm, the author still feels happy because _____.

2.If there is a fire breaking out in a restaurant, what will happen in China?

3.What’s the author’s attitude to the human right?

4.Why does the author think that a very small problem may become a big one while everybody had withdrawn from the shop?

高三英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析