The space shuttle Discovery has had a long and busy career. For 27 years, it has worked for NASA, carrying astronauts to space and back on 39 missions. On March 9, 2011, after returning from its final voyage, the world’s most traveled spaceship was retired.
A crowd of shuttle workers, reporters and schoolchildren waited to greet Discovery at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Three minutes before noon, they watched as the shuttle appeared in the sky and made one last touchdown. “For the final time: wheels stop,” Discovery’s commander Steven Lindsey said when the shuttle rolled to a stop.
Discovery’s final trip was to the International Space Station (ISS), a giant space lab in the sky. Discovery’s crew took care of the last U.S. construction project at ISS. They delivered 10 tons of supplies for the ISS. The six-person crew also dropped off an unusual companion for ISS’s researchers: a human-like robot named Robonaut 2. Astronauts will assemble（组装）R2 at the ISS over several months.
Now, NASA is winding down its shuttle programme. NASA is to begin work on new spaceships that can travel longer distances. Discovery’s retirement is the first of three. Endeavor, another shuttle, is scheduled to make its final voyage soon. And Atlantis’s last trip is planned for the end of June.
Museums across the country have requested the retired shuttles. The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum, in Washington, D.C., was the lucky recipient（接收者）of Discovery. The museum’s collection contains hundreds of NASA artifacts.
Where will the other shuttles go? You’ll have to wait to find out. NASA will announce its decision on April 12, the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launching. Stay tuned!
1.As part of the final mission, Discovery’s crew___________.
A. carried researches to space
B. assembled the Robonaut 2 at the ISS
C. brought supplies to the ISS
D. went on a spacewalk
2.The underlined phrase “winding down” in Paragraph 4 probably means _________.
A. improving B. ending C. changing D. testing
3.What can we infer from the text?
A. Discovery completed 39 missions during its two decades of space travel.
B. The ISS is a big project and six researchers live on the station.
C. American space exploration will focus on longer missions.
D. The shuttles Endeavor and Atlantis will make their last missions next month.
4.According to the text, we can learn about ___________.
A. people’s opinions of Discovery’s retirement
B. the government’s concern about the shuttles’ future
C. the shuttles’ final homes after retirement
D. museums’ great interest in the retired shuttles
假如你班要就“如何为高考做准备”开一个班会，请写一篇发言稿，谈谈你对高考备考过程中要注意的事项及建议理由：
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1. 保持良好的心态 2. 目标明确 3. 与父母、老师或同学沟通 4. 作息合理，饮食均衡 5. …… |
1. 有助于减轻焦虑，还能增强克服困难的勇气 2. 正确评价自己 3. …… 4. …… 5. …… |
注意： 1. 词数100-120 ，开头已为你写好（不计入总词数）；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3. 参考词汇：明确的 (definite) 评价(estimation)
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下面文中共有10处语言错误，要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（/\），并在该句下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
A Frenchman was once visiting London．He wished to take a walk to see a city．But he was afraid he might get lost because he knew no words of English．So before he left his hotel, he stopped in the first corner and carefully copied in his notebook the names of the street that he was staying．Then he walked on．At last, he got being lost．After several hours he found a policeman．The Frenchman tried his best to explain the policeman that he didn’t know the name of his hotel, and he knew the name of the street．He then showed the policeman that he copied in his notebook．It was read: “One-way street”．
下面文章中有五处（第81-85题）需要添加小标题。请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中选出符合各段意思的小标题。选项中有一项是多余选项。
A. Use business recordings
B. Speak slowly and clearly
C. Learn telephone manners
D. Practice often with a friend
E. Always be considerate of your friends
F. Make sure you understand the other speaker
Telephone tips
If the phone rings and someone speaks in English, don’t be afraid to answer it! The fear of talking on the phone in a second language will disappear if you practice often. Here are a few tips for helping you improve your ability to answer a call in English.
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Listening to someone speaking in a second language over the telephone can be very challenging because you cannot see the person you are trying to hear. However, it may be even more difficult for the person you are talking with to understand you. You may not realize that your pronunciation isn’t clear because your teacher and fellow students know and understand you. Pay special attention to your weak areas of your pronunciation when you are on the phone.
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Don’t pretend to understand everything you hear over the telephone. Even native speakers ask each other to repeat and confirm information from time to time. This is especially important if you are taking a message for someone else. Learn the appropriate expressions that English speakers use when they don’t hear something properly. Don’t be afraid to remind the person to slow down more than once. Keep your telephone in an area that is away from other noise distractions such as a radio or television.
83._______________.
Ask another student to practice talking on the phone with you. You might choose one night a week and take turns phoning each other at a certain time. Try to talk for at least fifteen minutes. You can talk socially, or role play different scenarios in a business environment. The most important thing about practicing telephone English is that you are not able to see each other’s mouths.
84. _______________.
There are many ways to get free telephone English practice. After business hours, you can call and listen to recorded messages. Write down what you hear the first time, and then call back and check if your notes are accurate. Make sure you have a pen handy so that you can repeat the information and check your comprehension.
85._______________.
The way that you speak to your best friend on the phone is very different from the way you should speak to someone in a business setting. Many speakers make the mistake of being too direct on the telephone. It is possible that the person on the other line will think that you are being rude on purpose if you don’t use formal language in certain situations. Sometimes just one word such as could or may is necessary in order to sound polite. Take the time to learn how to answer the phone and say goodbye in a polite manner, as well as all the various ways one can start and end a conversation casually.
Listening to someone on the telephone is like listening to a taped recording in class. The only difference is that you have to talk back! Follow the tips above and remember that practice makes perfect!
Sport is not only physically challenging, but it can also be mentally challenging. Criticism from coaches, parents, and other teammates, as well as pressure to win can create an excessive amount of anxiety or stress for young athletes(运动员). Stress can be physical, emotional, or psychological and research has indicated that it can lead to burnout. Burnout has been described as dropping or quitting of an activity that was at one time enjoyable.
The early years of development are critical years for learning about oneself. The sport setting is one where valuable experiences can take place. Young athletes can, for example, learn how to cooperate with others, make friends, and gain other social skills that will be used throughout their lives. Coaches and parents should be aware, at all times, that their feedback to youngsters can greatly affect their children. Youngsters may take their parents' and coaches' criticisms to heart and find a flaw (缺陷) in themselves.
Coaches and parents should also be cautious that youth sport participation does not become work for children. The outcome of the game should not be more important than the process of learning the sport and other life lessons. In today's youth sport setting, young athletes may be worrying more about who will win instead of enjoying themselves and the sport. Following a game many parents and coaches focus on the outcome and find fault with youngsters' performances. Positive reinforcement should be provided regardless of the outcome. Research indicates that positive reinforcement motivates and has a greater effect on learning than criticism. Again, criticism can create high levels of stress, which can lead to burnout.
1.An effective way to prevent the burnout of young athletes is ______
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A．to reduce their mental stress |
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B．to increase their sense of success |
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C．to make sports less competitive |
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D．to make sports more challenging |
2.According to the passage sport is positive for young people in that ____ .
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A．it can help them learn more about society |
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B．it enables them to find flaws in themselves |
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C．it can provide them with valuable experiences |
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D．it teaches them how to set realistic goals for themselves |
3.Many coaches and parents are in the habit of criticizing young athletes ______ .
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A．believing that criticism is beneficial for their early development |
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B．without realizing criticism may destroy their self confidence |
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C．in order to make them remember life's lessons |
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D．so as to put more pressure on them |
4.According to the passage parents and coaches should _____________ .
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A．pay more attention to letting children enjoy sports |
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B．help children to win every game |
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C．train children to cope with stress |
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D．enable children to understand the positive aspect of sports |
5.The author's purpose in writing the passage is ____________ .
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A．to teach young athletes how to avoid burnout |
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B．to persuade young children not to worry about criticism |
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C．to stress the importance of positive reinforcement to children |
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D．to discuss the skill of combining criticism with encouragement |
Driving to a friend’s house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftop. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it is that most city people --- myself included --- usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fiber-glass. We have television, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought, “Before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains. And perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touched the moon.”
1.The best title for the passage would be _________.
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A．Touched by the Moon |
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B．The Pleasures of Modern Life |
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C．A Bottomless well of Silence |
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D．Break away from Modern life |
2.The writer felt sorry for himself because __________.
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A．there was too much pollution. |
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B．he failed to see the fullest moon. |
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C．he didn’t adapt to modern inventions |
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D．there were too many accidents on the road. |
3.What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?
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A．No modern equipment. |
B．Complete silence. |
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C．The nice moon. |
D．The high mountain. |
4.Modern things are mentioned mainly to ___________.
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A．show that the writer likes city life very much. |
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B．tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life. |
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C．explain that people have less chances to enjoy nature. |
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D．show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them. |
5.The author wrote the passage to __________.
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A．express the feeling of returning to nature. |
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B．show the love for the moonlight. |
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C．advise modern people to learn to live. |
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D．want to communicate longing for modern life. |
