C
It is hardly surprising that clothing manufacturers(生產商) follow certain uniform standards for various features(特征) of clothes. What seems strange, however, is that the standard adopted for women is the opposite of the one for men. Take a look at the way your clothes button. Men’s clothes tend to button from the right, and women’s form the left. Considering most of the word’s population----men and women----are right-handed, the men’s standard would appear to make more sense for women. So why do women’s clothes button from the left?
History really seems to matter here. Buttons first appeared only on the clothes of the rich in the 17th century, when rich women were dressed by servants. For the mostly right-handed servants, having women’s shirts button from the left would be easier. On the other hand, having men’s shirts button form the right made sense, too. Most men dressed themselves, and a sword drawn from the left with the right hand would be less likely to get caught in the shirt.
Today women are seldom dressed by servants, but buttoning form the left is still the standard for them. Is it interesting? Actually, a standard, once set, resists change. At a time when all women’s shirts buttoned form the left, it would have been risky for any single manufacturer to offer women’s shirts that buttoned from the right. After all, women had grown so used to shirts which buttoned from the left and would have to develop new habits and skills to switch. Besides, some women might have found it socially awkward to appear in public wearing shirts that buttoned from the right, since anyone who noticed that would believe they were wearing men’s shirts.
64. What is surprising about the standard of the clothing industry?
A. It has been followed by the industry for over 400 years.
B. It is different for men’s clothing and women’s.
C. It woks better with men than with women.
D. It fails to consider right-handed people.
65. What do we know about the rich men in the 17th century?
A. They tended to wear clothes without buttons.
B. They were interested in the historical matters.
C. They were mostly dressed by servants.
D. They drew their swords from the left.
66. Women’s clothes still button from the left today because .
A. adopting men’s style is improper for women
B. manufacturers should follow standards
C. modern women dress themselves
D. customs are hard to change
67. The passage is mainly developed by .
A. analyzing causes B. making comparisons
C. examining differences D. following the time order
教學練新同步練習系列答案科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：閱讀理解
It was a beautiful day at the beach—blue sky, gentle wind, calm sea．I knew these things because a man sitting five feet from me was shouting them into his mobile phone, like a play-by-play announcer （實況解說員）.
“IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY,” he shouted．“THE SKY IS BLUE, AND THERE’S A GENTLE WIND, AND THE WATER IS CALM, AND…”
Behind me, a woman, her mobile phone pressed to her ear was walking back and forth.
“She DIDN’T,” she was saying．“No．She DIDN’T．She DID? Really? Are you SERIOUS? She did NOT．She DID? No she…”
And so on．This woman had two children, who were playing in the sea．I found myself watching them, because the woman surely was not．A huge squid could have caught and snatched the children, and this woman would not have noticed．Or, if she had noticed, she’d have said, “Listen．I have to go, because a huge squid just……No! She didn’t ! She DID? No! She……”
And next to me, the play-by-play man would have said: “…AND A HUGE SQUID JUST ATE TWO CHILDREN, AND I’M GETTING A LITTLE SUNBURNED, AND …”
It used to be that the major trouble at the beach was the fellow who brought a boom box （便攜式錄音機） and turned it up so loud that the bass notes caused seagulls to explode．But at least you knew where these fellows were; you never know which beachgoers have mobile phones．You’ll settle next to what appears to be a sleeping sunbather, or even （you hope） a corpse , and you’ll lie happily on your towel, and you’ll get all the way to the second sentence of your 467-page book before you fall asleep to the hypnotic surge of the surf （催人入夢的潮聲）, and …
BREEP! BREEP! The corpse sits up, feels urgently for its mobile phone, and shouts “Hello! I’m at the beach! Yes! It’s nice! Very peaceful! What? She did? No, she didn’t! She DID? No, she…”
Loud mobile-phoners never seem to get urgent calls．Just once, I’d like to hear one of them say, “Hello? Yes, this is Dr．Johnson．Oh, Dr．Smith．You’ve opened the abdominal cavity （腹腔）? Good! Now the appendix should be right under the … What? No, that’s the liver．Don’t take THAT out, ha ha! Oh, you did? My God! OK, now listen carefully…”
From the passage we can know that the writer of the passage _____.
A．had a wonderful holiday at the beach
B．must have suffered a lot because of the terrible weather
C．is only interested in talks by doctors about operation
D．experienced an unhappy holiday at the beach
According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A．The writer often spends his holidays at the beach.
B．A huge squid ate two children while their mother was not watching.
C．Some people used to play boom box while spending their holidays at the beach.
D．Some people often make loud mobile phone calls without caring for others.
The underlined word“ corpse”in this passage has the closest meaning to________.
A．a dead body B．a loud mobile phone
C．a sound sleeper D．a sleep lover
In the past the fellow who brought a boom box_________.
A．turned it up to make the seagulls happy
B．turned it up to cause the seagulls to explode
C．might cause less trouble than the beachgoers with mobile phones
D．might cause more trouble than the beachgoers with mobile phones
We can infer from the passage that _______.
A．the writer is interested in mobile phone.
B．the writer hates people using mobile phone
C．the writer hates to be disturbed while enjoying holidays on the beach.
D．the writer seldom finishes reading a book before going to sleep.
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科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：閱讀理解
When asked about happiness, we usually think of someth.ng extraordinary, an absolute delight, which seems to get rarer the older we get.
For kids, happiness has a magical quality. Their delight at winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved (毫無掩飾的).
In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it's conditional on such things as excitement, love and popularity. I can still recall the excitement of being invited to dance with the most attractive boy at the school party.
In adulthood the things that bring deep joy—love, marriage, birth—also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. For adults, happiness is complicated(復雜的).
My definition of happiness is "the capacity for enjoyment". The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It's easy to overlook the pleasure we get from the company of friends, the freedom to live where we please, and even good health.
I experienced my little moments of pleasure yesterday. First I was overjoyed when I shut the last lunch-box and had the house to myself. Then I spent an uninterrupted morning writing, which 1 love. When the kids and my husband came home, 1 enjoyed their noise after the quiet of the day.
Psychologists tell us that to be happy we need a mix of enjoyable leisure time and satisfying work. I don't think that my grandmother, who raised 14 children, had much of either. She did have a network of close friends and family, and maybe this is what satisfied her.
We, however, with so many choices and such pressure to succeed in every area, have turned happiness into one more thing we've got to have. We're so self-conscious about our "right" to it that it's making us miserable. So we chase it and equal it with wealth and success, without noticing that the people who have those things aren't necessarily happier.
Happiness isn't about what happens to us―it's about how we see what happens to us. It's the skillful way of finding a positive for every negative. It's not wishing for what we don't have, but enjoying what we do possess.
51. As people grow older, they ______.
A. feel it harder to experience happiness
B. associate their happiness less with others
C. will take fewer risks in pursuing happiness
D. tend to believe responsibility means happiness
53. What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 5 and 6?
A. She cans little about ha own health
B. She enjoys the freedom of trawling
C. She is easily pleased by things in daily life.
D. She prefers getting pleasure from housework
53. What can be inferred from Paragraph 7?
A. Psychologists think satisfying work is key to happiness
B. Psychologists* opinion is well proved by Grandma's case.
C. Grandma often found time for social gatherings
D. Grandma's happiness came from modest expectations of life,
54. People who equal happiness with wealth and success
A. consider pressure something blocking their way
B. stress their right to happiness too much
C. arc at a loss to make correct choices
D. arc more likely to be happy
55. What can be concluded from the passage?
A. Happiness lies between the positive and the negative.
B. Each nun is the master of his own fate
C. Success leads to happiness.
D. Hippy is he who is content.
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科目：高中英語 來源：2010-2011學年江西省德興一中高一下學期第一次月考英語卷 題型：完型填空
完形填空(共20小題，每小題1.5分，滿分30分)閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從36-55各小題所給的四個選項A、B、C和D中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。
Life is not always smooth. There was a man who had 36 numerous failures in his li
fe. But he said, "One success is 37 for me!"
When he was five years old, his father died of illness without leaving him any 38 . Since then, his mother worked outside 39 he had to stay at home and take care of his siblings, He learnt cooking since then.
When he was fourteen, he dropped 40 and began his life of roving.
When he was eighteen, he married a girl, who, 41 , sold out all his properties and went back to her home several months after their marriage.
When he was twenty, he 42 his job from electrician to ferry staff to railway worker. All his jobs were 43 for him.
When he was thirty-five, misfortune again 44 on him. When he was driving across a huge bridge, the steel ropes along the edge of the bridge were broken and he fell into the river with his car. He suffered such severe injuries that he could no longer continue his 45 .
When he was 46 , he opened a gas station in a town. However, he 47 dispute(爭端)because he beat his competitors 48 the billboard hanging problems.
When he was forty-seven, he 49 his second wife, which had 50 stricken his three children.
When he was sixty-six, he made a living by 51 his chicken-frying techniques to various restaurants in different places.
When he was seventy-five, he felt 52 to maintain his company, so he transferred his brand and patent to others. The new owner suggested giving him ten thousand stock shares as part of the purchasing price. But he 53 the suggestion. Later the price of the stocks of the company soared and he lost the chance of being a billionaire.
When he was eighty-eight, he achieved great success and became well-known to the whole world.
He was exactly the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ha Lunde Sandoz. He often said, "People always complain about the bad 54 . Actually it is not bad at all. As long as you are 55 and confident all the time, you will have a good weather every day."
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科目：高中英語 來源：2010-2011學年山東省高三第一次質量檢測英語卷 題型：閱讀理解
It was a beautiful day at the beach—blue sky, gentle wind, calm sea．I knew these things because a man sitting five feet from me was shouting them into his mobile phone, like a play-by-play announcer （實況解說員）.
“IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY,” he shouted．“THE SKY IS BLUE, AND THERE’S A GENTLE WIND, AND THE WATER IS CALM, AND…”
Behind me, a woman, her mobile phone pressed to her ear was walking back and forth.
“She DIDN’T,” she was saying．“No．She DIDN’T．She DID? Really? Are you SERIOUS? She did NOT．She DID? No she…”
And so on．This woman had two children, who were playing in the sea．I found myself watching them, because the woman surely was not．A huge squid could have caught and snatched the children, and this woman would not have noticed．Or, if she had noticed, she’d have said, “Listen．I have to go, because a huge squid just……No! She didn’t ! She DID? No! She……”
And next to me, the play-by-play man would have said: “…AND A HUGE SQUID JUST ATE TWO CHILDREN, AND I’M GETTING A LITTLE SUNBURNED, AND …”
It used to be that the major trouble at the beach was the fellow who brought a boom box （便攜式錄音機） and turned it up so loud that the bass notes caused seagulls to explode．But at least you knew where these fellows were; you never know which beachgoers have mobile phones．You’ll settle next to what appears to be a sleeping sunbather, or even （you hope） a corpse , and you’ll lie happily on your towel, and you’ll get all the way to the second sentence of your 467-page book before you fall asleep to the hypnotic surge of the surf （催人入夢的潮聲）, and …
BREEP! BREEP! The corpse sits up, feels urgently for its mobile phone, and shouts “Hello! I’m at the beach! Yes! It’s nice! Very peaceful! What? She did? No, she didn’t! She DID? No, she…”
Loud mobile-phoners never seem to get urgent calls．Just once, I’d like to hear one of them say, “Hello? Yes, this is Dr．Johnson．Oh, Dr．Smith．You’ve opened the abdominal cavity （腹腔）? Good! Now the appendix should be right under the … What? No, that’s the liver．Don’t take THAT out, ha ha! Oh, you did? My God! OK, now listen carefully…”
1.From the passage we can know that the writer of the passage _____.
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A．had a wonderful holiday at the beach |
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B．must have suffered a lot because of the terrible weather |
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C．is only interested in talks by doctors about operation |
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D．experienced an unhappy holiday at the beach |
2.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
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A．The writer often spends his holidays at the beach. |
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B．A huge squid ate two children while their mother was not watching. |
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C．Some people used to play boom box while spending their holidays at the beach. |
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D．Some people often make loud mobile phone calls without caring for others. |
3.The underlined word“ corpse”in this passage has the closest meaning to________.
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A．a dead body |
B．a loud mobile phone |
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C．a sound sleeper |
D．a sleep lover |
4.In the past the fellow who brought a boom box_________.
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A．turned it up to make the seagulls happy |
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B．turned it up to cause the seagulls to explode |
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C．might cause less trouble than the beachgoers with mobile phones |
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D．might cause more trouble than the beachgoers with mobile phones |
5.We can infer from the passage that _______.
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A．the writer is interested in mobile phone. |
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B．the writer hates people using mobile phone |
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C．the writer hates to be disturbed while enjoying holidays on the beach. |
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D．the writer seldom finishes reading a book before going to sleep. |
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科目：高中英語 來源：20102011學年江西省高一下學期第一次月考英語卷 題型：完型填空
完形填空(共20小題，每小題1.5分，滿分30分)閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從36-55各小題所給的四個選項A、B、C和D中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。
Life is not always smooth. There was a man who had 36 numerous failures in his life. But he said, "One success is 37 for me!"
When he was five years old, his father died of illness without leaving him any 38 . Since then, his mother worked outside 39 he had to stay at home and take care of his siblings, He learnt cooking since then.
When he was fourteen, he dropped 40 and began his life of roving.
When he was eighteen, he married a girl, who, 41 , sold out all his properties and went back to her home several months after their marriage.
When he was twenty, he 42 his job from electrician to ferry staff to railway worker. All his jobs were 43 for him.
When he was thirty-five, misfortune again 44 on him. When he was driving across a huge bridge, the steel ropes along the edge of the bridge were broken and he fell into the river with his car. He suffered such severe injuries that he could no longer continue his 45 .
When he was 46 , he opened a gas station in a town. However, he 47 dispute(爭端)because he beat his competitors 48 the billboard hanging problems.
When he was forty-seven, he 49 his second wife, which had 50 stricken his three children.
When he was sixty-six, he made a living by 51 his chicken-frying techniques to various restaurants in different places.
When he was seventy-five, he felt 52 to maintain his company, so he transferred his brand and patent to others. The new owner suggested giving him ten thousand stock shares as part of the purchasing price. But he 53 the suggestion. Later the price of the stocks of the company soared and he lost the chance of being a billionaire.
When he was eighty-eight, he achieved great success and became well-known to the whole world.
He was exactly the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ha Lunde Sandoz. He often said, "People always complain about the bad 54 . Actually it is not bad at all. As long as you are 55 and confident all the time, you will have a good weather every day."
1.A. achieved B. undergone C. tried D. undertook
2. A. great B. important C. valuable D. enough
3. A. words B. money C. property D. families
4.A. while B. but C. when D. so
5. A. in B. out C. down D. up
6. A. meanwhile B. moreover C. however D. therefore
7.A. started B. took C. lost D. changed
8. A. fit B. tough C. unusual D. adequate
9.A. fell B. hit C. put D. rested
10.A. life B. major C. job D. education
11. A. forty B. thirty-five C. fifty-three D. seventy
12.. A. went through B. came into C. came about D. went against
13.A. contributing to B. judging from C. owing to D. leading to
14.A. changed B. married C. missed D. divorced
15.A. deeply B. highly C. generally D. thickly
16. A. learning B. promoting C. developing D. teaching
17.A. powerless B. depressed C. disappointed D. hopeless
18.. A. turned up B. turned to C. turned down D. turned in
19.. A. difficulties B. misfortune C. life D. weather
20.. A. hard-working B. brave C. cautious D. optimistic
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