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1、I hate shopping and it bores me enormously. I really cannot understand such a useless and expensive habit. I only shop for clothes when I can t get out of it and when I do, I make sure I buy good quality and as much as I can afford, to put off having to go again for as long as possible. I have frien

2、ds who will spend a Whole day going from shop to shop trying on lots of different clothes and not buying anything. Thats really stupid.-PamI can t see the point in spending a lot of money on clothes, when they are so much cheaper abroad. I do most of my shopping when I go on holiday, and get great c

3、lothes for half the price. I love finding bargains! I also buy a lot in sales. The clothes may be out of fashion a bit, but they re good quality, and if you wait long enough, they come back into fashion!-MeghanI personally still spend half of my wage on clothes. I usually only ever wear something th

4、ree times before I throw it in the back of my wardrobe （衣橱）. I never wear a party dress more than once. If I lost my job and couldnt afford to buy lots of clothes, I would never be able to go out of the house again.-Shelly21. What does Pam focus on when shopping for clothes?A. Price. B. Brand.C. Pat

5、tern. D. Quality.【答案】D【解析】细节理解题。由第二段中的“I make sure I buy good quality and as much as I can afford”可知，Pam在买衣服时，注重的是衣服的质量。故D选项正确。22. Who is a bargain hunter?A. Blanca. B. Pam.C. Meghan D. Shelly.【答案】C由第三段中的“I love finding bargains! I also buy a lot in sales”可知，Meghan喜欢寻找便宜的衣服，她经常买促销的衣服。故C选项切题。23. Whic

6、h of the following can best describe Shelly?A. She has no taste for clothes.B. She is addicted to shopping.C. She is always leading the fashion.D. She goes shopping only when necessary.【答案】B【解析】推理判断题。由最后一段可知，Shelly 会把一半的薪水用来买衣服。一件衣服只穿三次就放起来不穿了。参加聚会时穿的衣服从来没有重复过。由此可以推知，她对购买衣服非常的上瘾。故B选项正确。 B（河北省衡水中学201

7、6-2017学年高一下期中试题）Nowadays, parents worry a lot because their children spend hours and hours in front of the TV screen. Because this doesnt happen to only one specific family, many experts warn us that there can be some serious effects of children watching violence on television.Children who become ad

8、dicted（上瘾的） to TV sit down and turn on the TV as soon as they get home. Although they have lots of homework, they become absorbed in TV programs.Since they spend tons of time watching TV, they have less time to enjoy real life activities such as playing with friends, playing outdoor sports, or enjoy

9、ing other kinds of entertainment.There are too many violent scenes on TV. Some experts say there are 25 acts of violence per hour on TV. In addition, there are many experiments by psychologists which show how TV violence influences children. Finally, people worry that children tend to imitate what t

10、hey watch on TV and may start to behave more violently.What should be done? First of all, the government should regulate TV violence. It should also encourage people to invent and develop new technology which can block violent scenes from the programs children watch. For example, with a rating syste

11、m（分级制度） and the V-chip, unfit scenes of violence and sex can be blocked out. Second, parents should monitor what their children watch. At the same time, they should make their children interested in real life activities. Then when the children start to spend more time playing with friends or reading

12、 books, parents can stop their monitoring.It is a fact that there is more violence on TV today than there was ten years ago. Moreover, violent incidents occur more frequently in real life. Its time to realize how harmful watching TV violence is, and its time to keep our children from watching violen

13、ce.24. What experts really worry is that .A. children spend too much time watching TVB. TV violence has a bad influence on childrenC. children become addicted to TV programsD. children have less time to do their homework【解析】细节推断题。由第一段最后一句话“many experts warn us that there can be some serious effects

14、of children watching violence on television.”我们可知专家们担心的是电视暴力会对儿童有不好的影响；故选B。25. The author explain how the government should control TV violence by .A. giving an exampleB. giving a definitionC. making a comparisonD. presenting research findings【答案】A【解析】细节考查题。由第5段“ For example, with a rating system（分级

15、制度） and the V-chip, unfit scenes of violence ”我们可以发现，作者在介绍政府应如何管理电视暴力时，采用的是举例子；故选A。26. What does the underlined word “imitate” in Paragraph 4 most probably mean?A. Explain. B. Copy.C. Ignore. D. Avoid.由第四段最后一句话“Finally, people worry that children tend to imitate what they watch on TV and may start t

16、o behave more violently.”我们可知，儿童看电视可能会开始变得更加暴力，因此我们可以推断，儿童看到电视暴力，往往会模仿、“复制”电视上的暴力行为；27. What is the authors purpose for writing this text?A. To express his own worries about TV violence.B. To ask parents to take good care of their children.C. To inform readers of the latest situation about TV violen

17、ce.D. To call on the whole society to save children from violence.【解析】整体理解题。由第五段我们可知，作者给政府和父母制止电视暴力作出了建议，以及在最后一段，作者呼吁大家、呼吁整个社会一起保护儿童，远离暴力；故选D。C（湖南省长沙市长郡中学2016-2017学年高一下期中试题）Do you like spicy food?Whats your opinion on spicy food? Some people cannot handle even the smallest amount of chili-red pepper

18、-in their dinner while others cant get enough of it.Scientists have long been puzzled by why some people love chili while others loathe it. Plenty of research has been done on the subject, dating as far back as the 1970s. Previous results showed that a love of chili is related to childhood experienc

19、es, and cultural influences affect our taste buds too. But the latest study has found that a persons love of spicy food may be linked to his or her personality more than anything else, CBC News reported.We have always assumed that liking drives intake-we eat what we like and we like what we eat. But

20、 no one has actually directly bothered to connect these personality traits with intake of chili peppers, said Professor John Hayes from Pennsylvania State University, who led the study.But before you look at the study, you should first know that “spicy” is not a taste, unlike sour, sweet, bitter and

21、 salty. It is, in fact, a burning sensation that you feel on the surface of your tongue. This got scientists thinking that maybe a love of spicy food is brought about by peoples longing for thrill, something they usually get from watching action movies or riding a roller coaster.In the study, 97 par

22、ticipants, both male and female, were asked to fill out questionnaires about certain traits of their personality, for example, whether they like new experiences or tend to avoid risks. They were then given a glass of water with capsaicin, the plant chemical that makes a chili burn, mixed into it.By

23、comparing the answers to the questionnaire and what participants said they felt about the spicy water, researchers found that those who tended to enjoy action movies or take risks were about six times more likely to enjoy the spicy water.Interestingly, we used to believe that the reason some people

24、can withstand spicy food is that their tongues have become less sensitive to it. However, this latest study has found otherwise. “Its not that it doesnt burn as badly, its that you actually learn to like the burn,” Hayes explained.28. Whats the meaning of the underlined word “loathe” in the second p

25、aragraph?A. dislike B. fearC. put up with D. adapt to【解析】考查词义推测。根据句中Scientists have long been puzzled by why some people love chili and others loathe it，loathe应该与love 想对应，所以dislike“不喜欢”符合。故A正确。29. What did Professor John Hayes and his team discover from their study?A. what we eat actually helps to d

26、evelop our personalitiesB. Males are more likely to enjoy spicy food than femalesC. Those trying to avoid risks tend to be less interested in spicy foodD. People are wrong to treat spicy as a kind of taste rather than a feeling【解析】考查细节推理题。根据his got scientists thinking that maybe a love of spicy food

27、 is brought about by peoples longing for thrill, something they usually get from watching action movies or riding a roller coaster.喜欢刺激，观看动作片或是坐过山车的人会更喜欢吃辣食，和倒数第二段中Researchers found that those who most tended to enjoy action movies or take risks were about six times more likely to enjoy the spicy wa

28、ter在研究中，发现那些倾向于看动作片和冒险的人有更大的可能性喜欢这种辣味的水，可以推测C符合，故选C。30. Why do some people like spicy food according to the recent study?A. Because their taste buds have become less sensitiveB. Because they love the burning sensationC. Because they want to challenge themselvesD. Because the more they try spicy food

29、, the less it burns【解析】考查细节理解题。根据第四段的描述，辣味的食物会带来舌头燃烧的感觉和文章最后一句，人们喜欢吃辣食是因为人们喜欢燃烧的感觉。故B项正确。31. Whats the main idea of the passage?A. What he or she likes to eat mainly decides on his or her personalityB. That a person enjoys spicy food depends largely on the personalityC. His or her childhood experien

30、ces decide on his or her personalityD. His or her cultural background decides on his or her personality【解析】主旨大意题。文章讲的是通过研究表明，人们喜欢吃辣食跟一个人的个性有关，是因为喜欢刺激和舌头燃烧的感觉。D（辽宁省鞍山一中2016-2017学年高一下期中试题）The most exciting storms are the ones with flashes of lightning.Unfortunately,those are scarce,unless you are near the Catatumbo River in Northwestern Venezuela.Here,natures grandest sound and light show is often seen, because it happens about 160 nights a yea