Few buildings on earth can compete with the legendary beauty of the Taj Mahal. Towering over the ancient Indian city of Agra, the Taj Mahal is the grandest monument (紀念碑) to love ever created.
The lovers in this story are the 17th century Indian emperor Shah Jehan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal. She took a leading role in advising him, which is something unusual for a woman to do for a husband who’s an emperor. Over the course of their nineteen-year marriage she gave birth to 14 children. But in 1631 while trying to deliver their fifteenth — she tragically died. He was heartbroken when she died. And after her death, he decided to build the world’s greatest monument ever built, for love.
He ordered the royal architects to design the most beautiful building the world had known and decided to name it after his beloved, Mumtaz Mahal. He called on twenty thousand workers and sent many more people to all corners of his country in search of valuable metals and jewels. And after seventeen years of hard work, Shah Jehan’s monument was completed and his beloved empress was moved to her final resting place.
Everything had gone according to plan, but Shah Jehan’s luck was about to change ... In 1658, just four years after the completion of the Taj Mahal, he was thrown out of power. Unfortunately, his son, Aran Azibe imprisoned him, his own father. And he spent the last seven years of his life in prison. And he was allowed to look at the Taj Mahal through a window. His life was in ruins, but when he died his last wish was promised. He was buried beside his beloved wife in the Taj Mahal.
The Taj Mahal was built for ______.
A. Mumtaz B. Shah C. Mumtaz or Shah D. Mumtaz and Shah
The Taj Mahal was completed in ______.
A. 1658 B. 1662 C. 1665 D. 1654
What was unusual for Mumtaz Mahal according to the passage?
A. She gave birth to 14 children for her husband. B. She gave important advice to her husband.
C. She asked her son to imprison his father. D. She planned to build the world’s greatest monument.
Which of the following is TRUE about Shah Jehan?
A. He was killed by his own son. B. He lost his power as a result of the Taj Mahal.
C. He put his own son into prison. D. He hoped to be buried together with his wife.
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Gossip moves so quickly that few people have time to cover their ears, even if they want to.
“I hate it when others gossip about me,” said Mandy Miraglia, 16, a high school student from California, “but to be honest, gossip about my friends makes me feel I am trusted and belong to the group.” Miraglia is not the only person feeling like that.
Gossip has long been looked down on as little more than nonsense and bad manners. But recent research has shown that gossip has many positive effects on your social life.
“There has been a trend among people to dislike gossip,” said David Sloan Wilson, Professor from the State University of New York in Binghamton, US, “but gossip appears to be a very important form of behavior in a group of friends, defining their group membership.”
For 18 months, Kevin Kniffin, from the University of Wisconsin, US, researched the behavior of 50 people. He found that gossip levels peaked when a sports team included a slacker, someone who regularly missed practices or showed up late. Other members of the team would soon start to joke about the slacker’s shortcomings behind his back, because they thought they were bad for the whole team.
Gossip about the mistakes of senior members helps newcomers rebuild their confidence after a failure.
It also helps relieve social and professional anxiety. Long-term studies show that people around the world devote from a fifth to two-thirds or more of their daily conversation to gossip, and men appear to be just as eager for gossip as women.
It is hard to judge gossip, but it is more powerful than you think.
The author would probably agree that______________.
A. gossip is bad manners
B. gossip has many good effects
C. gossip is somewhat like nonsense
D. gossip is more powerful than advice
What does the underlined word “slacker” mean according to the context?
A. Someone who values the team benefit much.
B. Someone who does not do what they should well.
C. Someone who is active in sports.
D. Someone who shows no much interest in sports.
Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Gossip is a useful way of building group membership.
B. Gossip can possibly make someone confident.
C. Generally, women are fonder of gossip than men.
D. Actually, everyone gossips to some degree in their daily conversation.
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科目：高中英語 來源：2015屆山東省濟寧市高一12月質量檢測英語試卷（解析版） 題型：短文改錯
以下每個句子均有一處錯誤，請找出，并按下列情況改正；
此行多一個詞，把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞，并也用斜線劃掉。
此行缺一個詞，在缺詞處加一個漏字符號（∧），在該行右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞。
此行錯一個詞，在錯的詞下劃一橫線，在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。
注意：請在答題卡上作答。
1.His grandpa died three years before. ________
2.I’m sorry. I know only a few English. ________
3.She plays piano every day. ________
4.His father has never been to Europe. He hasn’t been there, too. ________
5.If you will study hard, you will pass the exam. ________
6.This is the tallest building which I have ever seen. ________
7.The new school is now three times as bigger as the old one. ________
8.The traffic accident was happened at the corner of the street. ________
9.The flowers in the field smell sweetly. ________
10.The manager asked his men not waste any more time. ________
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科目：高中英語 來源：2015屆四川攀枝花米易縣米易中學高一上第一次段考英語試卷（解析版） 題型：閱讀理解
As prices and building costs keep rising, the “do-it-yourself” (DIY) trend (趨勢) in the U.S. continues to grow.
“We needed furniture(家具) for our living room.” Says John Ross, “and we just didn’t have enough money to afford it. So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs.” John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high. The Rosses took a 2-week course for $ 280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.
Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a full-time job at home as well as in a shoe making factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $ 420. “I was deeply upset about it. Now I’ve finished a car repair course, I should be able to fix the car by myself.”
John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything they can to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to become a “do-it-yourself”, you can go to DIY classes. And for those who don’t have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself.
1.We can learn from the text that many newly married people _______.
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A．find it hard to pay for what they need |
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B．have to learn to make their own furniture. |
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C．take DIY courses run by the government. |
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D．seldom go to a department store to buy things |
2.John and his wife went to evening classes to learn how to _____
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A．run a DIY shop |
B．make or repair things |
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C．save time and money |
D．improve the quality of life. |
3. When the writer says Jim has a full-time job at home, he means Jim ____
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A．makes shoes in his home |
B．does extra work at night |
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C．does his own car and home repairs |
D．keeps house and looks after his children |
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科目：高中英語 來源：2014屆山西省大同市高二上學期期中考試英語試卷（解析版） 題型：閱讀理解
Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The building next door was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman who lived there, whom I had never met, yet I could see her seated by her window each afternoon, sewing or reading.
After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself, "I wonder why that woman doesn't wash her window. It really looks terrible."
One bright morning I decided to clean my flat, including washing the window on the inside.
Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible. Her window was clean!
Then it dawned on me. I had been criticizing (????) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.
That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcomings?
Since then, whenever I wanted to judge (????) someone, I asked myself first, "Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?"
Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.
1.The writer couldn't see everything clearly through the window because_____.
A. the woman's window was dirty
B. the writer's window was dirty
C. the woman lived nearby
D. the writer was near-sighted
2.The writer was surprised that_____.
A. the woman was sitting by her window
B. the woman's window was clean
C. the woman did cleaning in the afternoon
D. the woman's window was still terrible
3.The underlined sentence "It dawned on me" probably means "____".
A. I began to understand it B. it cheered me up
C. I knew it grew light D. it began to get dark
4.It's clear that _____.
A. the writer had never met the woman before
B. the writer often washed the window
C. they both worked as cleaner
D. they lived in a small town
5.From the passage, we can learn ______.
A. one shouldn't criticize others very often
B. one should often make his windows clean
C. one must judge himself before he judges others
D. one must look at others through his dirty windows
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科目：高中英語 來源：河北省20092010學年高二下學期期中考試英語試題 題型：其他題
情景對話（每題1分，滿分5分）
Mrs. Hunter: Jack,___61_____
Jack: Next year, we hope, mother, but we can’t be sure about it. Finding a house is a difficulty.
Mrs. Hunter : Have you made any inquiries(咨詢) yet, Jack?
Jack: Yes. __62___ . There are plenty of furnished flats, and furnished houses too, but the rents for these are very high. I couldn’t possibly afford them on my present salary.
Mrs. Hunter: What would it cost to buy a plot of land and build a house?___63___
Jack: No. I haven’t even thought of it . That’ll cost at least four thousand pounds. It’s no use our thinking about building a house.
Mrs. Hunter: And even if you had a house, there’d be the furniture and all sorts of other things.
Jack:___64_____ Anne and I have been saving up. We’ve saved a few hundred pounds between us
and could buy furniture--- enough to start with. But the house is the problem.
Mrs. Hunter : __65____ Jack?
Jack : Oh, quite a small one. A living room and a kitchen. We’d like a dining room of course. Two bedrooms and a bathroom.
Have you any idea
have you and Anne decided when you are going to get married ?
Yes, I know.
It’s almost impossible to find a suitable house to rent , unfurnished.
No, I’m trying to make more money to pay for the rents.
What size of house would you want ?
Excuse me, may I ask a question ?
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