I'd gone from a tiny village school with a total of 60 students, to a huge school, with thousands of pupils．I was a little fish in a very big       . I lived too much of my first year        doing anything wrong．I just decided to be the wallflower when it discussion and answering questions．I was always the one that         Class        didn't look the teacher in the eye       they asked me to answer．I listened well, and          everything in, but I always liked to be a spectator（旁觀者）．It's hard not t0           what others may think of you when you are speaking in front of many              ．It did take long for me to feel teachers and make friends with classmates．Some people       with straight into a new learning environment． 
Some people       straight into a new learning environment.       , most are nervous and feel they don't fit in．It's completely       , so it should not be a worry to you．Be            and you will adapt to the new school．School life is          you make obit．Some       it; some Iike it．-But it's only when you leave that you can really appreciate how school       you into the person you become．
It's so important to       yourself out of your comfort zone．If you're shy, tell yourself you’ I raise your  _      at least once every lesson; if you're quick-minded, try to give other people a （n）     In time, you will ___it will do you benefit from it .
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A．classB．school C．lake D．house
小題2:
A．in fear ofB．in favor of C．in honor ofD．in danger of
小題3:
A．got toB．referred toC．turned to D．came to
小題4:
A．sharplyB．purposely C．hopelessly D．searchingly
小題5:
A．in caseB．so that C．the moment D．soon after
小題6:
A．wroteB．broughtC．took D．got
小題7:
A．doubtB．a(chǎn)pply C．check D．care
小題8:
A．teachersB．classmates C．a(chǎn)dults D．friends
小題9:
A．a(chǎn)ngryB．popular C．disappointed D．comfortable
小題10:
A．slideB．fitC．change D．turn
小題11:
A．Therefore B．InsteadC．HoweverD．Meanwhile
小題12:
A．normalB．strange C．a(chǎn)wkwardD．interesting
小題13:
A．proudB．practical C．privateD．positive
小題14:
A．whatB．how C．which D．when
小題15:
A．likeB．ignore C．a(chǎn)ccept D．hate
小題16:
A．forcesB．develops C．places D．teaches
小題17:
A．pushB．takeC．kick D．remove
小題18:
A．voiceB．question C．hand D．head
小題19:
A．a(chǎn)nswer B．chance C．hugD．smile
小題20:
A．forgetB．forgiveC．realizeD．remember

小題1:C
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:B
小題5:A
小題6:C
小題7:D
小題8:B
小題9:D
小題10:B
小題11:C
小題12:A
小題13:D
小題14:A
小題15:D
小題16:B
小題17:A
小題18:C
小題19:B
小題20:C

試題分析：在作者自己剛剛從一個只有六十個學(xué)生的鄉(xiāng)村學(xué)校轉(zhuǎn)到一個幾千人的大學(xué)校后，他感覺就像一個大池塘里的魚一樣。而且他上課不敢回答問題，不敢參與討論，就像一個旁觀者。后來他漸漸和老師和同學(xué)們成為了朋友。
小題1:C名詞辨析。A．班級B．學(xué)校C．湖D．房子。根據(jù)前面I was a little fish判斷C選項正確。
小題2:A介詞短語辨析。A．害怕  B．愛好   C．榮譽(yù)D．在危險中。根據(jù)下文的講述可知作者不敢看老師、想當(dāng)壁花等一系列的行為都是膽小表現(xiàn)，害怕犯錯，答案選A。
小題3:D動詞短語辨析。A．到達(dá)  B．自愿C．轉(zhuǎn)向D．來到。前后句均說的是在課堂上的表現(xiàn)，所以此處指作者來到教室，選D。
小題4:B副詞辨析。A．尖銳地  B．故意地C．無望地D．搜索地。根據(jù)上下文可知作者不敢看老師是因為害怕，所以是“故意地、有意地”，其余不符合語境，答案選B。
小題5:A短語辨析。A．萬一B．為的是C．此刻D．不久后。從情理推測不敢看老師是害怕被老師注意到，被叫起來回答問題，前后句是一種假設(shè)，故答案選A。
小題6:C動詞辨析。A．寫  B．帶來C．帶走D．得到。根據(jù)前句I listened well，可知此處指把一切老師講的內(nèi)容都領(lǐng)會了，固定搭配：take in “吸收、領(lǐng)會”，答案選C。
小題7:D動詞辨析。A．懷疑 B．提供    C．檢查D．在意。從上下文內(nèi)容可知作者害怕在課上引起注意，害怕被別人品頭論足，所以D選項適合語境，選D。
小題8:B名詞辨析。A．教師 B．同學(xué)C．成年人D．朋友。根據(jù)上文的講述可知作者說的是在課堂上的表現(xiàn)，所以應(yīng)該是在同學(xué)們面前，答案選B。
小題9:D形容詞辨析。A．生氣B．流行C．失望D．舒服、自在。根據(jù)上下文可知作者沒多久就融入了同學(xué)們中間，所以在新的環(huán)境中不再拘謹(jǐn)，所以選D。
小題10:B動詞辨析。A．滑動B．適合C．改變D．轉(zhuǎn)向。下文most are nervous and feel they don't fit in．可知此處指很多人很容易適應(yīng)新的環(huán)境，答案選B。
小題11:C副詞辨析。A．因此 B．代替C．然而D．同時。由前句內(nèi)容可知作者在這里強(qiáng)調(diào)對比，指有的人很容易適應(yīng)新環(huán)境，而有的人不好適應(yīng)，是轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系，選C。
小題12:A形容詞辨析。A．普通的B．奇怪的C不靈活的    D．有趣的。根據(jù)下文所表示的結(jié)果so it should not be a worry to you．可以判斷人們在新的環(huán)境和陌生人面前感到拘謹(jǐn)是正常的，答案選A。
小題13:D形容詞辨析。A．驕傲的B．實際的C．私人的D．積極的。根據(jù)后面的并列句and you will adapt to the new school可以推斷只有積極樂觀 才可能很快適應(yīng)新環(huán)境，故答案選D。
小題14:A疑問詞辨析。A．什么 B．如何C．哪個D．何時分析結(jié)構(gòu)可知此句為表語從句，從句缺少make的賓語，排除BD選項，而which指“哪個，哪些”，強(qiáng)調(diào)選擇范圍，故答案選A。
小題15:D動詞辨析。A．喜歡B．忽視   C．接受D．討厭根據(jù)后句some like it 可以判斷此處是強(qiáng)調(diào)一種對比，like的反義詞是hate，故答案選D。
小題16:B動詞辨析。A．強(qiáng)迫 B．發(fā)展C．放置    D．教學(xué)。從上文內(nèi)容可知此處強(qiáng)調(diào)學(xué)校的作用是會把一個人培養(yǎng)成為你現(xiàn)在的樣子。句意：只有當(dāng)你離開學(xué)校后，你才會真正感激學(xué)校是如何把你培養(yǎng)成現(xiàn)在的樣子的。答案選B。
小題17:A動詞辨析。A．推 B．帶走C．踢    D．移動。根據(jù)后句out of your comfort zone可以推斷此處指只有環(huán)境逼著一個人去成長，所以選A，其余選項不符合語境。
小題18:C名詞辨析。A．聲音B．問題C．手D．頭。從上文可知作者說的是學(xué)校生活，所以此處指學(xué)生上課時有問題要敢于舉手，答案選C。
小題19:B名詞辨析。A．答案B．機(jī)會C．擁抱D．微笑。根據(jù)前句可知作者建議人們要積極地改變自己，靦腆的要大膽起來，而別人也要給這些人們表現(xiàn)自己的機(jī)會，所以答案選B。
小題20:C動詞辨析。A．忘記  B．原諒C．意識到D．記得。如果積極地去嘗試，那么人終歸會有所改變的，這是人們自己能感覺到的事情，故答案選C。
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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解



Micro bloggers：have you ever compared the number of fans on your Sina Weibo or Tencent micro blog with those of your friends ?Don’t imagine you have more fans just because your number is bigger——some of them might be “zombie fans”，or fake(假的)followers．
That’s what Chen Chuanliang ，creator of Leijian Network，found when he bet against his friend several months ago．Chen，who used to do data mining for Microsoft Asia Research Institute，discovered that there were far more invalid(無效的)micro blog accounts than he had imagined．
Later Chen picked 1 0 users on Sina Weibo and analyzed their statistics．Kai-Fu Lee，the former CEO of Google China，who’s on Chen’s list of research，posted a message on his micro blog after he found out that he had more than 1 million fake fans(out of about 5 million)，joking“I have 1 million zombie fans ?If united，we can finally defeat those plants．”
According to a report by S Weekly in March，zombie fans on micro blogs are defined as invalid accounts signed up by network companies for the purpose of increasing the number of fans for certain users and getting them more attention．
And this kind of fake followers are also very much alive on Western social networks such as Twitter and Facebook ．
The Financial Times reported in August，that Newt Gingrich，a Republican candidate in the US presidential election，bought about 80 percent of his 1．3 million Twitter followers and tried to use them as help in his campaign．
Now there are also business deals through which users can get hundreds of thousands of fans for their micro blog accounts，by paying a small amount of money．
“We have been working to find ways to block or delete those invalid accounts，”Mao Taotao，a spokesperson for Sina Weibo told S Weekly.
“But as the fake accounts grow so fast，they’re going to be here for a while．
小題1:Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?
A．Micro BloggersB．Blog Accounts
C．Zombie FansD．Micro Blog Fans
小題2:Users get zombie fans for their micro blog accounts by________.
A．making friends with people
B．paying a little money
C．helping their weibo followers
D．doing search on the Internet
小題3:It can be learnt from the passage that________.
A．there are more fake fans in America than in China
B．invalid accounts for micro blogs will be deleted in no time
C．there exist many fake fans on western social networks as well
D．Newt Gingrich had 1．3 millions followers in his presidential election
小題4:The underlined word“their” in the passage refers to
A．deals’B．fans’C．campaigns’D．users’

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Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity (名人) chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, according to a report from Oxford University.
The effect of the celebrity role models, who have given cooking a more manly picture, has combined with a more general drive towards sexual equality and men now spend more than twice the amount of time preparing meals than they did in 1961.
According to the research by Prof. Jonatahn Gershuny, who runs the Centre for Time Research at Oxford, men now spend more than half an hour a day cooking, up from just 12 minutes a day in 1961.
Prof. Gershuny said, “The man in the kitchen is part of a much wider social trend. There has been 40 years of sexual equality, but there is another 40 years probably to come.”
Women, who a generation ago spent nearly two hours a day cooking, now spend just one hour and seven minutes—a great fall, but they still spend far more time in the kitchen than men.
Some experts have named these men in aprons as “Gastrosexuals (men using cooking skills to impress friends)”, who have been inspired to pick up a kitchen knife by the success of Ramsay, Oliver as well as other male celebrity chefs such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Marco Pierre White and Keith Floyd.
“I was married in 1974. When my father came to visit me a few weeks later, I was wearing an apron when I opened the door. He laughed,” said Prof. Gershuny. “That would never happen now.”
Two-thirds of adults say that they come together to share at least three times a week, even if it is not necessarily around a kitchen or dining room table. Prof. Gershuny pointed out that the family meal was now rarely eaten by all of its members around a table—with many “family meals” in fact taken on the sofa in the sitting room, and shared by family members. “The family meal has changed a lot, and few of us eat—as I did when I was a child—at least two meals a day together as a family. But it has survived in a different format.” 
小題1:What is one reason behind the trend that men spend more time cooking than before?
A．The improvement of cooks’ status.
B．The influence of popular female chefs.
C．The change of female’s view on cooking.
D．The development of sexual equality campaign.
小題2:What does the author think about the time men and women spend on cooking?
A．Men spend more time cooking than women nowadays.
B．Women spend much less time on cooking than before.
C．It will take 40 years before men spend more time at the stove than women.
D．There is a sharp decline in the time men spend on cooking compared with 1961.
小題3:How did Prof. Gershuny see the family meal according to the passage?
A．It has become a thing of the past.
B．It is very different from what it used to be.
C．It shouldn’t be advocated in modern times.
D．It is beneficial to the stability of the family.
小題4:Which is the best title for the passage?
A．The Changes of Family Meals
B．Equality between Men and Women
C．Cooking into a New Trend for Men
D．Cooking—a Thing of the Past for Women

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If you live in America in the 21st century you'll probably have to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It's become the default response when you ask anyone how they are doing: “Busy!” “Crazy busy!”. It is, pretty obviously, a boast disguised as a complaint. And the common response is a kind of congratulation:“ That's a good problem to have, ”or“ Better than the opposite.”
Notice it isn't generally people pulling back-to-back shifts in the ICU or commuting by bus to three minimum-wage jobs who tell you how busy they are. What those people are is not busy but tired. Exhausted! Dead on their feet. It's almost always people whose busyness is purely self-imposed work and obligations they've taken on voluntarily, classes and activities they've “encouraged” their kids to participate in. They're busy because of their own ambition or drive or anxiety, because they're addicted to busyness and dread that they might have to face in its absence.
Almost everyone I know is busy. They feel anxious and guilty when they aren't either working or doing something to promote their work. It's something they have chosen. Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance(令人安心的保證），a measure against emptiness, obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or tiny or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.
Idleness is not just a vacation. It is as necessary to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as ugly as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration.” Idle dreaming is often the essence of what we do”, wrote Thomas Pynchon. Archimedes' “Eureka” in the bath, Newton's apple :history is full of stories of inspirations that come in idle moments.
小題1:When many Americans say “Crazy busy”, they mean______.
A．they are really tired of their present situation
B．they are really proud of their present life
C．they are complaining about their current work
D．their life are full of all kinds of problems
小題2:The writer mentions Archimedes'“Eureka” and Newton's apple to show that________.
A．history is full of interesting stories
B．Archimedes and Newton were very busy, so they made great discoveries
C．people may get inspiration when they are idle
D．inspirations come from hard work
小題3:The word “its” in the second paragraph refers to_________________.
ambition      B. anxiety         C. busyness        D. dread
小題4:From the article, we can infer that ___________________.
A．generally people pulling back-to-back shifts in the ICU tell you they are busy
B．“Dead on their feet” means “being tired out”
C．a(chǎn)ll the kids are self-imposed due to the drive and motivation
D．The author seems to agree that idleness is better than busyness

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