When building houses, people used to think about not only the climate of the areas but also the building materials and the fashions for their houses. However, since electricity became more and more expensive, people began to pay much more attention to the energy they could get for their houses and the new ways they could find to protect their houses from both cold and heat.

Now, houses of an old yet new type have been widely built. In some parts of the world, people share their houses with their livestock(家畜).During cold weather, they gather their cows, goats, or other animals and keep them on the first floor of their houses. The reasons are that the animals can be protected from the cold and that they can help to heat the houses as well. The body heat given off by the animals rises to the second floor of the houses, where people live. By sharing their houses with their livestock, people gain a source of heat.

People who live in or near cities do not usually keep livestock. However, home builders use the fact that heat rises. This natural law can be used in building houses in these areas. Instead of keeping livestock on the first floor, builders fill it with large rocks. As they are open to the sun’s rays during cold weather, these rocks take in heat. They also give off the heat, and, of course, the warm air rises into the living areas of the houses. So these houses are energy-saving.

House-building becomes a great challenge(挑战)to building designers and energy engineers. They try to meet this challenge by learning from old traditions and by using modern technology. And someday in the future, people will be able to live in more energy-saving houses.

1.What did people begin to consider as electricity was no longer cheap?

A. The climate of their areas. B. The energy for their houses.

C. The fashions for their houses. D. The building materials for their houses.

2.People in some areas gain a source of heat by _________.

A. keeping their livestock downstairs

B. protecting their livestock from the cold

C. sharing their houses only with their cows

D. living on the second floor with their livestock

3.The underlined words “natural law” in the third paragraph refer to the fact that ________.

A. heat raises the temperature in the houses

B. heat goes in the upward direction

C. heat goes up if temperature is raised

D. heat increases the temperature of rocks

4.From the passage, we can conclude that __________.

A. people will no longer consider building materials in the future

B. energy-saving buildings will become more popular in the future

C. almost all people will move into the houses heated by large rocks

D. energy engineers will devote themselves only to modern technology

【山东省菏泽市2017届高三一模】

完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

On Friday I called my parents, who are in their early 90s now. They were upset as they didn’t______what to send us and our adult kids for Christmas presents. Both of them have suffered serious______problems recently, and I______them not to worry about it because all of us had what we needed and didn’t______anything more.

Not happy with that,they______getting us all-something. Although they were in poor health this year, they still thought it was______for them to send something to us all. My mother said that she was______the other brothers and sisters fruit and delicious food baskets. That gave me a(n)______.I asked her to______,in that case, giving whatever she would have given us to a local food bank.Or______,they donate money she would have______on all of us to the food bank. When I checked with my kids, I knew what I suggested was proven exactly.______,for all of us would be ______to know we had been able to donate to a local food bank.

She and my father______this idea, but had no idea where a food bank would be.______my father was still quite able and interested in doing his own computer searches,his______to do this has gradually been going down.I looked it up right there and then discovered not one______three local food banks, and the center for a state-wide food bank______right there in their town. I gave them the______and phone number, which they asked for. They seemed to feel a great______at this suggested solution and I was very grateful.

1. A. admit B. abolish C. know D. keep

2. A. finance B. health C. work D. affection

3. A. begged B. ordered C. warned D. rejected

4. A. borrow B. sell C. refuse D. need

5. A. gave up B. insisted on C. dreamed of D. applied for

6. A. difficult B. strange C. impossible D. important

7. A. giving B. owing C. lending D. sharing

8. A. belief B. mind C. idea D. opinion

9. A. allow B. consider C. practice D. avoid

10. A. easier B. worse C. less D. stronger

11. A. made B. paid C. spent D. cost

12. A. real B. controversial C. unreasonable D. right

13. A. delighted B. disappointed C. generous D. energetic

14. A. deleted B. hated C. liked D. found

15. A. Unless B. Although C. If D. When

16. A. chance B. purpose C. desire D. ability

17. A. and B. so C. but D. or

18. A. floated B. located C. covered D. adjusted

19. A. address B. date C. appointment D. sign

20. A. egret B. curiosity C. interest D. relief

【2017山西名校联考】根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

____1.___Moving from high school into college can be especially different because of the freedom students experience in college along with a new set of expectations.

In high school, students usually live at home, and their parents take care of all their physical needs such as food and housing. ___2.___Parents are also there to help with and make sure that the student’s homework is done. During the school day, students rarely have free time. They go directly from one class to another. Teachers are always around to tell the students what to do. ___3.___So students can often complete their homework and reading in a short time.

____4.____They may be responsible for shopping, paying bills, and laundry. They also may have to cook their own meals. Their parents are not around to help with homework or even to check that it has been done. Contrary to students in high school, students in college may have a lot of free time between classes, but must discipline themselves to use this time productively or homework and other assignments.____ 5.____

A. Students do not usually have to shop for their food, take time to pay bills, or even do their own laundry.

B. High school students have to bury themselves in piles of papers

C. Finally, the work itself it not so challenging.

D. In contrast, in college, students often live away from home in dorms or apartments.

E. In college, students may apply to a bank loan and others will try to find part-time jobs.

F. Each new level of education brings new challenges and demands to students.

G. Most important, college requires a higher level of thinking and a lot more work than high school.

A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor.

The conversation soon turned into complaints about _______ in work and life. To offer his_______ coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and _______ with a large pot of coffee and a _______ of cups---porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, some beautiful—telling them to _______ themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “If you have _______all the nice-looking expensive cups have been taken up, _______ the plain and cheap ones. While it is _______ for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the _______ of your problems and stress.”

“Be assured that the cup itself __________ no quality to the coffee. __________ it is just more expensive and in some cases __________ hides what we drink.”

“__________ all of you really want is coffee, not the cup, __________ you consciously went for the best cups… And then you began __________ each other’s cups.”

Now consider this: __________ is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and ____________life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the __________ of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we __________ to enjoy the coffee. Value the coffee, not the cups! Don’t let the cups __________ you...enjoy the coffee instead.

1.A. stress B. dream C. sorrow D. truth

2.A. friends B. customers C. fellows D. guests

3.A. carried B. returned C. arrived D. reached

4.A. kind B. variety C. sort D. number

5.A. devote B. expose C. help D. absorb

6.A. searched B. witnessed C. noticed D. discovered

7.A. leaving behind B. leaving over C. falling about D. falling behind

8.A. strange B. normal C. wonderful D. important

9.A. purpose B. answer C. source D. result

10.A. takes B. links C. passes D. adds

11.A. At no time B. At all times C. In no case D. In most cases

12.A. ever B. even C. never D. hardly

13.A. What B. That C. Which D. Whether

14.A. but B. so C. and D. for

15.A. suspecting B. liking C. praising D. eyeing

16.A. Love B. Life C. Future D. Failure

17.A. contain B. create C. support D. own

18.A. quantity B. style C. quality D. standard

19.A. have B. manage C. plan D. fail

20.A. envy B. drive C. force D. assess

“Hello, Earth! Can you hear me?” That’s voice more than 400,000 people received recently. It was from Philae, a space vehicle that landed on a comet(彗星)in 2014. However, its transmissions (传输信号)back home went silent since then.

It took a 1ong time for Philae to make its way across the solar system (太阳系)and reach comet 67P/C-G. The pace vehicle got there aboard the Rosetta probe (探测器), which has been circling around the comet since Philae separated from it in November, 2014.

Philae’s job was to collect materials to study the comet’s composition. And for about two and a half days after landing, it did just that, sending the information back to scientists on Earth. But Philae’s landing on the comet’s icy surface had not been smooth. While touching down, it  jumped up and ended up in the shadow of something like a huge rock. Philae runs on solar power, but there was no light in the place where it landed. In the end, it failed to work.

However,as comet 67P/C-G moved closer to the sun, more sunlight reached the space vehicle, allowing it to power up and come back online. Philae then sent something to Rosetta, which passed on the information back to Earth.

“We only received the information for about 85 seconds, but that’s enough to let us know it is alive and well,”says Stephan Ulamec, who works for the European Space Agency.“We hope to work out where it landed exactly on the 4-kilometer-wide comet. Now we plan to change how Rosetta moves so that Philae can keep on communicating and receiving instructions.”

1.Hearing Philae’s voice,those people must have felt_______________.

A. afraid B. calm

C. excited D. worried.

2.According to the text, Philae_______________.

A. was damaged when it landed

B. moved around comet 67P/C-G

C. needs light and gas to keep working

D. helps scientists learn about a comet

3.What Stephan says in the text suggests that ____________.

A. Rosetta will move around another comet

B. Philae will continue to work for scientists

C. most comets are as wide as four kilometers

D. he wonders whether Philae is still alive

4.What does the author mainly talk about in the text?

A. A sleeping space vehicle wakes up.

B. It is very dangerous to travel in space.

C. A new comet was discovered recently.

D. Philae was sent into space successfully.

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