阅读下面材料.在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式.As is known to us, the year 2016 has one extra day in it - February 29th. This is because it’s 1. we call “a leap year . Every four years, the year has 366 days in 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

As is known to us, the year 2016 has one extra day in it — February 29th. This is because it’s 1. we call “a leap year”. Every four years, the year has 366 days in 2. instead of 365.

It is called a leap year because hundreds of years ago in England, the extra day wasn’t 3. (legal) recognized. There is a well-known tradition in the UK 4. (associate) with February 29th, introduced many centuries ago. Women are allowed to break with tradition and propose(求婚) to their boyfriends on this day. This all started back in the 5. (five) century, when a famous Irish saint made a 6. (complain) that women had to wait too long for men to propose. According to the legend, Saint Patrick said any female dreaming of a proposal could ask her boyfriend to marry her on this additional day in February. This so-called tradition 7. (write) in law in the thirteenth century. Scotland passed a law allowing women to propose to men in a leap year. It was said that if the men refused, they had to pay a fine!

Now in 2016, there are calls 8. February 29th to become a public holiday. Some people believe that it should be an 9. (office) day off, because no one gets 10. (many) payments for working an extra day in a leap year. For the moment though, the British still have to go to work on this day.

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When I was about twelve, I was taken out for dinner with my family one day. As we headed towards the , a girl about my age came up to us and asked if we had any spare . My mom asked where she kept her things. She pointed to an old car. She said there were six of them in that car, which was the same size as my .

After her a few dollars, we said goodbye. Then, my mother sent me inside the restaurant with my dad and my . But she didn’t come. , she had gone home and our cupboards into a few bags. She brought all the over to the car and handed the bags to the family. I wasn’t there when that , but I could imagine the appearing on their faces.

Later, when I about what she had done, I asked her she helped them. She told me that the girl’s family needed help. The girl and I were the same , yet we lived lives.

Here I stood, in good clothes, headed to dine in a restaurant and then back home to the bedroom I with my sisters. I remembered thinking that the other girl didn’t have any food to eat and had to share a cold car with five other people. After this picture in my mind, I understood why my mom had done what she had done. She me one of the best lessons I ever learned.

1.A. hospital B. supermarket C. restaurant D. park

2.A. meal B. room C. change D. time

3.A. performing B. visiting C. owning D. living

4.A. family B. vehicle C. house D. team

5.A. sharing B. asking C. handing D. showing

6.A. sisters B. friends C. teachers D. classmates

7.A. Besides B. Instead C. Though D. Therefore

8.A. threw B. sent C. divided D. emptied

9.A. clothes B. money C. goods D. food

10.A. ended B. happened C. passed D. expressed

11.A. smiles B. disappointment C. sadness D. tears

12.A. put out B. made out C. brought out D. found out

13.A. when B. what C. why D. whether

14.A. really B. normally C. finally D. hardly

15.A. size B. shape C. grade D. age

16.A. familiar B. different C. happy D. similar

17.A. dressed B. lost C. involved D. engaged

18.A. played B. compared C. communicated D. shared

19.A. painting B. designing C. organizing D. taking

20.A. directed B. taught C. devoted D. told

假设你是新华中学高二3班学生李华。请你以“My Dreaming Senior Year(理想高三)”为题写一篇100-120词的英语短文参加比赛。内容要点如下：

1. 简单做自我介绍。

2.高三学习时间设计。

3. 业余活动的设想等。

About 30 years ago, I left Cuba for the United States with my son. After getting settled finally in Brunswick, New Jersey, I enrolled(注册) my son in kindergarten. Several weeks later, my son’s teacher asked me to meet him at his office.

In the teacher’s office, and exchange of greetings was followed by his questions: “Is your son mentally retarded(弱智的)？Does he suffer from any kind of mental disability?”

Was he talking about my wonderful Scola? NO, no, it can’t be. What a helpless, lonely moment! I told him that Scola was a quiet, sweet little boy, instead. I asked him why he was asking me all these questions.

My son could not follow the teacher’s directions, he told me, and thus, Scola was disrupting the class. Didn’t he know my son did not speak English yet?

He was angry; “Why hasn’t your son been taught to speak English? Don’t you speak English at home?”

No, I didn’t speak English at home, I replied. I was sure my son would learn English in a couple of months, and I didn't want him to forget his nativ e language. Well, wrong answer! What kind of person would not speak in English to her son at home and at all time? “Are you one of those people who come to this country to save dollars and send them back to their country, never wanting to be a part of this society?”

Needless to say, I tried to tell him I was not one of “those people.” Then he told me the meeting was over, and I left.

As I had expected, my son learned to speak English fluently before the school year was over. He went on to graduate from college and got a job, earning close to six figures. He travels widely and leads a well-adjusted, contented life. And he has benefited from being bilingual(双语的)。

Speaking more than one language allows people to communicate with others; it teaches people about other cultures and other places—something very basic and obviously lacking in the “educator” I met in New Jersey.

1.The teacher asked the author to his office__________

A. to discuss Scola’s in-class performance

B. to get Scola enrolled in kindergarten

C. to find a language partner for Scola

D. to work out a study plan for Scola

2.What does the underlined word “disrupting” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A. Breaking B. Following

C. Attending D. Disturbing

3.The author’s attitude towards being bilingual may best be described as__________.

A. critical B. casual

C. positive D. passive

4.This text is likely to be selected from a book of _________.

A. medicine B. education

C. geography D. history

Have you ever considered why you begin yawning too when you see someone yawn? Or how hard it is to be among people laughing and not laugh yourself? Well, apparently it's because we have mirror neurons (神经元）in our brains.

Put simply, the existence of mirror neurons suggests that every time we see someone else do something, our brains imitate it whether or not we actually perform the same action. This explains a great deal about how, we learn to smile, talk, walk, dance or play sports. But the idea goes further: mirror neurons not only appear to explain physical actions, they also tell us that there is a biological basis for the way we understand other people.

Mirror neurons can undoubtedly be found all over our brains, but especially in the areas which relate to our ability to use languages, and to understand how other people feel. Researchers have found that mirror neurons relate strongly to language. A group of researchers discovered that if they gave people sentences to listen to ( for example: “The hand took hold of the ball” ) , the same mirror neurons were triggered as when the action was actually performed (in this example, actually taking hold of a ball).

Any problems with mirror neurons may well result in problems with behavior. Much research suggests that people with social and behavioral problems have mirror neurons which are not fully functioning. However, it is not yet known exactly how these discoveries might help find treatments for social disorders.

Research into mirror neurons seems to provide us with even more information regarding how humans behave and interact. Indeed, it may turn out to be the equivalent (相等物）for neuroscience of what Einstein's theory of relativity was for physics. And the next time you feel the urge to cough in the cinema when someone else does — well, perhaps you'll understand why.

1.Mirror neurons can explain _____

A. why we smile when we see someone else smile

B. why we yawn when we see someone else stay up late

C. why we cry when we are hurt

D. why we cough when we suffer from a cold

2.The underlined word "triggered" in the third paragraph probably means “_____’’.

A. built up B. broken up

C. set off D. cut off

3.We can learn from the passage that mirror neurons _____.

A. determine our knowledge and language abilities

B. control human physical actions and feelings

C. result in bad behavior and social disorders

D. relate to human behavior and interaction

4.What is the passage mainly about?

A. Ways to find mirror neurons.

B. Problems of mirror neurons.

C. Functions of mirror neurons.

D. Existence of mirror neurons.

“People are ruder today because they are rushed and more ‘time poor’ than ever before，” says Patsy Rowe, “Manners_have_fallen_off_the_radar(雷达)．” Due to our strong attraction to electronic equipment it is a wonder more people don't wake up each morning and greet the singing birds with a complaint(抱怨)about the noise. Here are some examples of rudeness.

Some people prefer to do almost everything over the Internet. To them, dealing with an actual human needs more patience. It feels very slow because humans don't work at 4G speeds. When you have dinner with friends, you will often notice someone paying more attention to his mobile phone. We have programmed ourselves to think that every new message brings life－changing news, so taking calls and checking our texts are more important than talking to the people we are with. What is worse, some people even tend to send anonymous(匿名的) rude messages by email.

However, rudeness is never acceptable. Don't assume it is OK to be rude if the person you're in touch with won't recognize you. If you have something awful to say, have the courage to face the person and say it, write a letter or email and sign it, or forget it. Upsetting people with unsigned messages is cruel and disgusting.（令人厌恶的）

We shouldn't blame technology for our shortcomings. Technology is here to help us，but we should not allow it to take over our lives. An important step is acknowledging our shortcomings. People spend a lot of time pointing out bad manners but it would be even more helpful if we'd publicly acknowledge good manners when we see them.

1.What can be inferred from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1?

A．People can tell good from bad behavior.

B．Radar is able to observe human behavior.

C．People care little about their behavior.

D．Radar can be used to predict human behavior.

2.Some people are less willing to deal with humans because ________．

A．they are becoming less patient

B．they are growing too independent

C．they have to handle many important messages

D．they have to follow an evolutionary step backward

3.The author thinks sending unsigned awful messages is ________．

A．ridiculous

B．disgusting

C．acceptable

D．reasonable

4.What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．We should applaud （为喝彩） good behavior.

B．Technology can never be blamed.

C．We should keep pointing out mistakes.

D．Technology will take over our lives one day.

Children all round the world are familiar with fairy tales such as “The Little Mermaid”(美人鱼), “The Princess and the Pea” and “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. The colourful ______ from the stories made us laugh and cry throughout our ______.

The stories are the creation(创作) of Danish writer Hans Christian Anderson. He was born into a ______ family in Odense, Denmark, on April 2, 1805. His ______ life was not easy. His father was a shoemaker and his mother a washerwoman. He ______ very little education. As a child he was very______ and was laughed at for being feminine (女性化的) and tall.

In 1816 his father died and Anderson was ______ to go out to work, first in a tailor’s shop and ______ at a tobacco factory. _____ the age of 14 Anderson moved to Copenhagen to start a career as a singer and actor. He struggled for three years ______ he had to leave the theatre when his voice ______ in 1822.

______, Anderson went to a grammar school. Having done well, he was admitted to Copenhagen University in 1828. He began to publish his fairy tales in 1835. They _____ in small volumes (量) until his death.

______ Anderson lived a ______ life, he tried to make people ______ in all his stories. He wrote because he didn’t want children to have a ______ childhood as he did. The works ______ Anderson world fame(声誉), but he remained a ______ man. He never married and his friends were the people who paid for his work. Anderson ______ on August 4, 1875. His home in Odense is now a museum and thousands of people visit it every year.

1.A. partsB. picturesC. heroesD. characters

2.A. daysB. timeC. childhoodD. years

3.A. poorB. musicalC. bigD. happy

4.A. earlyB. writingC. laterD. school

5.A. acceptedB. foundC. receivedD. gained

6.A. emotional(情绪化的)B. upset

C. popularD. naughty (调皮的)

7.A. allowedB. forcedC. willingD. used

8.A. thenB. latelyC. secondD. finally

9.A. ByB. FromC. AtD. Since

10.A. sinceB. afterC. untilD. still

11.A. lostB. changedC. brokeD. worsened

12.A. Even soB. AfterwardsC. From then onD. Otherwise

13.A. turned outB. sold outC. came outD. went out

14.A. SinceB. BecauseC. AlthoughD. As

15.A. hardB. interestingC. happyD. successful

16.A. cryB. laughC. appreciateD. learn

17.A. sadB. happyC. busyD. strange

18.A. gotB. broughtC. madeD. cost

19.A. poorB. unhappyC. moodyD. lonely

20.A. passed awayB. passed byC. leftD. went

假如你是新华中学的学生李华，得知某英文报社招聘兼职记者，你有意应聘，请按下列要求给报社写一封自荐信。

内容要点：

1. 表示感兴趣

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