科目：高中英語 來源：黑龍江省哈爾濱市第六中學2010屆高三一模英語試題 題型：閱讀理解
Do you wake up in the morning dreading the moment that your feet have to hit the floor for you to get ready for work? If that’s the case, join most of Americans. Very few people wake up to that annoying alarm clock and spring out of bed excited about having to go to work.
As if that were not enough, most of us have to fight traffic getting there, usually an hour’s drive. Then, when we get to work, we have to fight with unruly co-workers or a nagging boss. And to make matters worse, you have to fight the same traffic going in the opposite direction just to get back home.
Making dinner, fixing plates, eating and then straightening up afterwards is a job within itself. If that sounds like your life, you probably have a J-O-B. you know what J-O-B stands for? Just Over Broke, that’s what! With a job, most Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck and hating every minute of it. I know because I was doing the same thing: trading time for money. And, I came to a conclusion that it stinks (糟糕透了)! Big time!
Looking around at my co-workers, friends and relatives, I saw that they were all doing the same thing I was doing. They were complaining about the same things I was complaining about : not having enough time or money. And, I decided that I wanted to do something different.[來源:學*科*
So, I started a home-based business. There are several to choose from. The extra income has done so much for our family. We can vacation more. We have been able to give more. And, we’ve even been able to do something calling save! It’s been amazing.
Therefore, if you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired, it’s time you make a change, too. The definition of insanity (瘋狂) is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I know you aren’t stupid. If you continue to do what everyone else is doing: trading time for money, you’re going to keep getting what everyone else is getting: being broke and not having the time to do what is really important to you.
Do your due diligence. Find a home-based business that works well for you. Go to work, and live the life you’ve always imagined!
【小題1】According to Paragraph 1, which of the following statements is TRUE about most Americans?
| A．Most Americans are excited to go to work every day. |
| B．Most Americans are used to sleeping in the morning. |
| C．Most Americans are tired of having to go to work every morning. |
| D．Most Americans have alarm clocks to wake them up in the morning. |
| A．Regret. | B．Joy. | C．Pride. | D．Dissatisfaction |
| A．To set up a business at home. | B．To complain about life and work. |
| C．To spend more time on holidays. | D．To resign from the former job and get a new one. |
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科目：高中英語 來源：2013-2014學年福建省高一上學期期中英語試卷（解析版） 題型：信息匹配
從方框內選擇適當?shù)亩陶Z,把其對應的序號填入答題卷上相應的題號中。
A. set down B. at present C. changing his mind D. has gone through
E. ever since F. getting along with G. such as H. is fond of
I. cares about J. give in
1.What he ___ is whether he can buy the train ticket as soon as possible.
2.Karl Marx could speak a few foreign languages, _____ Russian and English.
3.The country _____a lot of wars in the past ten years.
4.Please speak slowly so that I can _____ your cellphone number and address.
5.How are you______your new classmates? --- Quite well.
6.The subway, which is being built in Shenyang ______, will be completed next year.
7.We have lived in Shanghai_____ we came to China.
8.Finally Mrs White had to _______ and let her husband go on smoking.
9.He _____ playing the piano while his brother is interested in listening to pop music.
10.Don’t trust him. He is always _______________________.
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科目：高中英語 來源：上海市松江區(qū)2010屆高三下學期第二次模擬考試英語試卷 題型：其他題
Section B: Vocabulary
Directions: Complete the passage by choosing the proper words in the box.
Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
|
A．hurriedly |
B．a(chǎn)nxiety |
C．professionals |
D．typical E. really |
F. simple G. bought H. ending I. design J. wonderful
Almost every day we come across situations in which we have to make decisions one way or another. Choice, we are given to believe, is a right. But for a good many people in the world, in rich and poor countries, choice is a luxury, something __41__but hard to get, not a right. And for those who think they are exercising their right to make choices, the whole system is merely an illusion, a false idea created by companies and advertisers hoping to sell their products.
The endless choice gives birth to anxiety in people’s lives. Buying something as basic as a coffee pot is not exactly __42__. Easy access to a wide range of everyday goods leads to a sense of powerlessness in many people, __43__in the costomer giving up and walking away, or just buying an unsuitable item that is not really wanted. Recent studies in England have shown that many electrical goods __44__ in almost every family are not __45__ needed. More difficult decision-making is then either avoided or trusted into the hands of the __46__, lifestyle instructors, or advisors.
It is not just the availability of the goods that is the problem, but the speed with which new types of products come on the market. Advances in __47__ and production help quicken the process. Products also need to have a short lifespan so that the public can be persuaded to replace them within a short time. The __48__ example is computers, which are almost out-of-date once they are bought. This indeed makes selection a problem. So gone are the days when one could just walk with ease into a shop and buy one thing: no choice, no __49__.
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科目：高中英語 來源：2010-2011學年江西省高三第二次月考英語卷 題型：閱讀理解
Habits are a funny thing. We reach for them mindlessly, setting our brains on auto-pilot and relaxing into the unconscious comfort of familiar routine.“Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting creatures,”William Wordsworth said in the 19th century. In the ever-changing 21st century, even the word“habit”carries a negative meaning.
So it seems contradictory to talk about habits in the same context as innovation (創(chuàng)新). But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.
Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits. In fact, the more new things we try, the more creative we become.
But don’t bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the brain, they’re there to stay. Instead, the new habits we deliberately press into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.
“The first thing needed for innovation is attraction to wonder,”says Dawna Markova, author of The Open Mind.“But we are taught instead to‘decide’, just as our president calls himself‘the Decider’．”She adds, however, that“to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.”
“All of us work through problems in ways of which we’re unaware,”she says. Researchers in the late 1960s discovered that humans are born with the ability to approach challenges in four primary ways: analytically, procedurally, collaboratively (合作地) and innovatively. At the end of adolescence, however, the brain shuts down half of that ability, preserving only those ways of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.
The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us use our innovative and collaborative ways of thought.“This breaks the major rule in the American belief system—that anyone can do anything,”explains M. J. Ryan, author of the 2006 book This Year I Will…and Ms. Markova’s business partner.“That’s a lie that we have preserved, and it fosters commonness. Knowing what you’re good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.”This is where developing new habits comes in.
1.Brain researchers have discovered that .
A．the forming of new habits can be guided
B．the development of habits can be predicted
C．the regulation of old habits can be transformed
D．the track of new habits can be created unconsciously
2.The underlined word “ruts”in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to .
A．zones B．connections C．situations D．tracks
3.Which of the following statements most probably agrees with Dawna Markova’s view?
A．Decision makes no sense in choices.
B．Curiosity makes creative minds active.
C．Creative ideas are born of a relaxing mind.
D．Formation of innovation comes from fantastic ideas.
4.he purpose of the author writing this article is to persuade us .
A．to give up our traditional habits deliberately
B．to create and develop new habits consciously
C．to resist the application of standardized testing
D．to believe that old habits conflict with new habits
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科目：高中英語 來源：20102011學年浙江省高二下學期期中考試英語試卷 題型：閱讀理解
Habits are a funny thing. We reach for them mindlessly, setting our brains on auto-pilot and relaxing into the unconscious comfort of familiar routine. “Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting creatures,” William Wordsworth said in the 19th century. In the ever-changing 21st century, even the word “habit” carries a negative meaning.
So it seems contradictory to talk about habits in the same context as innovation (創(chuàng)新). But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel （平行的）paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.
Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits. In fact, the more new things we try, the more creative we become.
But don’t bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the brain, they’re there to stay. Instead, the new habits we deliberately press into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.
“The first thing needed for innovation is attraction to wonder,” says Dawna Markova, author of The Open Mind. “But we are taught instead to ‘decide’, just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider’.” She adds, however, that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.”
“All of us work through problems in ways of which we’re unaware,” she says. Researchers in the late 1960s discovered that humans are born with the ability to approach challenges in four primary ways: analytically, procedurally（程序上的）, collaboratively (合作地) and innovatively. At the end of adolescence, however, the brain shuts down half of that ability, preserving only those ways of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.
The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us use our innovative and collaborative ways of thought. “This breaks the major rule in the American belief system—that anyone can do anything,” explains M. J. Ryan, author of the 2006 book This Year I Will … and Ms. Markova’s business partner. “That’s a lie that we have preserved, and it fosters（培養(yǎng)）commonness. Knowing what you’re good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.” This is where developing new habits comes in.
1. Brain researchers have discovered that .
|
A．the forming of new habits can be guided |
B．the development of habits can be predicted |
|
C．the regulation of old habits can be transformed |
|
|
D．the track of new habits can be created unconsciously |
2.The underlined word “ruts” in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to .
|
A．zones |
B．connections |
C．situations |
D．tracks |
3.Which of the following statements most probably agrees with Dawna Markova’s view?
|
A．Decision makes no sense in choices. |
B．Curiosity makes creative minds active. |
|
C．Creative ideas are born of a relaxing mind. |
D．Formation of innovation comes from fantastic ideas. |
4.The purpose of the author writing this article is to persuade us .
|
A．to give up our traditional habits deliberately |
B．to create and develop new habits consciously |
|
C．to resist the application of standardized testing |
D．to believe that old habits conflict with new habits |
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