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亮點激活精編提優(yōu)100分大試卷系列答案科目：高中英語 來源：2012屆浙江省衢州高級中學(xué)高三上學(xué)期期中考試英語卷 題型：閱讀理解
Most of us spend our lives seeking the natural world. To this end, we walk the dog, play golf, go fishing, sit in the garden, drink outside rather than inside the pub, have a picnic, live in the suburbs, go to the seaside, buy a weekend place in the country. The most popular free time activity in Britain is going for a walk. And when joggers (慢跑者) jog, they don’t run the streets. Every one of them automatical
ly heads to the park or the river. It is my firm belief that not only do we all need nature, but we all seek nature, whether we know we are doing so or not.
But despite this, our children are growing up nature-deprived (喪失). I spent my boyhood climbing trees. These days, children are robbed of these ancient freedoms, due to problems like crime, traffic, the loss of the open spaces and strange new ideas about what is best for children, that is to say, things that can be bought, rather than things that can be found.
The truth is to be found elsewhere. A study in the US: families had moved to better housing and the children were assessed for ADHD (多動癥). Those whose housing had more natural views showed an improvement of 19%; those who had the same improvement in material surroundings but no nice view improved just 4%.
A study in Sweden indicated that kindergarten children who could play in a natural environment had less illness and greater physical ability than children used only to a normal playground. A US study suggested that when a school gave children access to a natural environment, the entire school would do better in studies.
Another study found that children play differently in a natural environment. In playgrounds, children create a hierarchy (等級) based on physical abilities, with the tough ones taking the lead. But when a grassy area was planted with bushes, the children got much more into fantasy play, and the social hierarc
hy was now based on imagination and creativity.
Most bullying (恃強凌弱) is found in schools w
here there is a tarmac (柏油碎石) playground; the least bullying is in a natural area that the children are encouraged to explore. This reminds me unpleasantly of Sunnyhill School, with its hard tarmac, where I used to hang about in corners dreaming about wildlife.
But children are frequently discouraged from involvement with natural spaces, for health and safety reasons, for fear that they might get dirty or that they might cause damage. So, instead, the damage is done to the children themselves: not to their bodies but to their souls.
One of the great problems of modern childhood is ADHD, now increasingly and expensively treated with drugs. Yet one study after another indicates that contact with nature gives huge benefits to ADHD children. However, we spend money on drugs rather than on green places.
The life of old people is much better when they have access to nature. The most important for the growing population of old people is in quality rather than quantity of years. And study after study finds that a garden is the single most important thing in finding that quality.
In wider and more difficult areas of life, there is evidence to indicate that natural surroundings improve all kinds of things. Even problems with crime and aggressive behaviour are reduced when there is contact with the natural world.
Dr William Bird, researcher from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, states in his study, “A natural environment can reduce violent behaviour because its process helps reduce anger and behavior that people might regret later.” Wild places need encouraging for this reason
, no matter how small their contribution.
We tend to think human beings are doing nature some kind of favor when we are protecting nature. The error here is far too deep: not only do humans need nature for themselves, but the very idea that humanity and the natural world are separable things is damaging.
Human beings are a species of animals. For seven million years we lived on the planet as part of nature. So we miss the natural world and long for contact with non-human life. Anyone who has patted a dog, stroked a cat, sat under a tree with a glass of beer, given or received a bunch of flowers or chosen to walk through the park on a nice day, understands that.
We need the wild world.
It is necessary to our well-being, our health, our happiness. Without other living things around us we are less than human.
【小題1】What is the author’s firm belief?
| A．People seek nature in different ways. |
| B．People should spend most of their lives in the wild. |
| C．People have quite different ideas of nature. |
| D．People must make more efforts to study nature. |
| A．Personal freedom. | B．Things that are natural. |
| C．Urban surroundings. | D．Things that are purchased. |
| A．tend to develop a strong love for science |
| B．a(chǎn)re more likely to dream about wildlife |
| C．tend to be physically tougher in adulthood |
| D．a(chǎn)re less likely to be involved in bullying |
| A．Find more effective drugs for them. |
B．Provide more green spaces for them. |
| C．Place them under more personal care. |
| D．Engage them in more meaningful activities |
A．They lo ok on life optimistically. | B．They enjoy a life of better quality. |
| C．They are able to live longer. | D．T hey become good-humored |
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科目：高中英語 來源：2013屆山東省青島二中高三下學(xué)期第二次模擬考試英語試卷（帶解析） 題型：完型填空
Some years ago when I was in my first year in college, I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time. The moment was exciting. Salome’s 【小題1】 filled the room and brought the theater to life. I was so 【小題2】 that I decided to write an article about her.
I 【小題3】 Salome Bey, telling her I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meet her to talk about her career. She 【小題4】 and told me to come to her studio next Tuesday. When I hung up, I was scared out of my mind. I 【小題5】 I was lying. I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a grocery list.
I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday. I sat there 【小題6】 , taking notes and asking questions that all began with, “Can you tell me…” I soon realized that 【小題7】 Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible. The 【小題8】 was almost unbearable. I struggled for days 【小題9】 draft after draft. Finally I put my manuscript (手稿) into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.
It didn’t take long. My manuscript 【小題10】 . How stupid of me! I thought. How could I 【小題11】 in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn’t 【小題12】 the rejection letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.
Five years later, I was moving to California. While 【小題13】 my apartment, I came across the unopened envelope. This time I opened it and read the editor’s letter in 【小題14】 :
Ms. Profit,
Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic. Yet we need some more relevant materials. Please 【小題15】 those and return the article immediately. We would like to 【小題16】 your story soon.
Shocked, it took me a long time to 【小題17】 . Fear of rejection cost me dearly. I lost at least five hundred dollars and the chance of having my article appear in a major magazine. More importantly, I lost years of 【小題18】 writing. Today, I have become a full-time writer. 【小題19】 this experience, I’ve learned a very important lesson: You can’t 【小題20】 to doubt yourself.
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科目：高中英語 來源：2013屆江蘇省高三上學(xué)期期中考試英語試卷（解析版） 題型：閱讀理解
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My mother is a geneticist, and from her I learned that despite our differences in size, shape and color, we humans are 99.9 percent the same. It is in our 36 to see differences: skin, hair and eye color, height, language. But also in our nature, way down in the DNA that 37 us human, we are almost the 38 .
I believe there is more that unites us than 39 us.
My mother came to the US from India. She is 40 enough that she got her service 41 in a diner in 1960s Dallas. My father is a white boy from Indiana whose 42 came from Germany in the mid-1800s.
It seems 43 to admit now, but I never 44 that my parents were different colors. One day, I watched my parents walk 45 the street of our church together. They were 46 in the service that day, and as they walked, I saw their hands 47 together in unison(一致地). I noticed for the first time how dark my mother was, and how white my father was. I knew them as my parents 48 I realized their skin color. I'm sorry to say that now when I see a mixed-race 49 walking down the street, I see the "mixed race" first and the "couple" second.
When my parents married in 1966, there were 50 places in this country that had laws 51 mixed marriage. 52 , my white grandfather, 53 father had been a typical racist, was not against their marriage.
Some of us are men, some are women. Some are young, some old. Some of us are short and others 54 . Some right-handed, some left-handed. We have lots of differences; we are all 55 . But deep down inside us, down in our DNA, we are 99.9 percent the same. And I believe we need to remember that.
1.A. feature B. character C. nature D. quality
2.A. gets B. lets C. has D. makes
3.A. same B. different C. familiar D. similar
4.A. differs B. divides C. departs D. splits
5.A. yellow B. white C. dark D. brown
6.A. turned out B. turned down C. turned over D. turned back
7.A. ancestors B. parents C. family D. origin
8.A. silly B. wise C. stupid D. foolish
9.A. noticed B. looked C. watched D. observed
10.A. in B. up C. out D. down
11.A. entering B. running C. attending D. participating
12.A. rocking B. shaking C. swinging D. waving
13.A. unless B. after C. before D. until
14.A. marriage B. couple C. double D. twins
15.A. always B. also C. almost D. still
16.A. allowing B. preventing C. encouraging D. banning
17.A. Therefore B. However C. But D. Otherwise
18.A. which B. whose C. that D. what
19.A. long B. high C. tall D. kind
20.A. similar B. familiar C. unique D. same
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