英语15选10练习题word版本
英语15选10练习题
（一）A Nepali teenager has designed a ￡23 solar panel using human hair.
Milan Karki, who is 18 years old and lives in a village in rural Nepal, ud human hair to replace silicon, which is a common but ( 1) component of solar panels.
By using hair as a ( 2) , Karki said that solar panels can be produced for around ￡23, a price tag that could be (3) if they were mass-produced.
The solar panel works becau melanin, the pigment (色素) that gives hair its color, is light (4) and can act as an electrical conductor. Karki was inspired to follow this 5 by a Stephen Hawking book, which ( 6) how to create static energy from hair. The device that Karki has (7 ) is capable of producing 9V or 18W of energy----plenty to ( 8 ) a mobile phone.
toward“Half a kilo of hair can be bought for only 16p in Nepal and whereas a pack of batteries would cost 50p and last a few nights,” according to The Daily Mail.
Milan and his four classmates ( 9) made the solar panel as an experiment but the teens are ( 10) it has wide applicability and commercial viability.
Karki has now nt out veral devices to other districts near his home for testing. He said, “First I wanted to provide elec tricity for my home, then my village. Now I am thinking for the whole world.”
qvdA)route B) charge C) important D) expensivecreat
E) declined F) replacement G) explained H) nsitive
I) convinced J) initially K) demonstrated L) simply
M) produced N) halved O) nsible
D F N H A G K B J I
(二)
Women’s Day marks the role of women in both the past and the prent. It was started to 1 the importance of working women and bring their problems to 2 . However, 3 the day is not a one-day agenda. The real challenge lies in the natural flow of feelings----honoring and celebrating womanhood on a particular March 8 only to forget its importance the next day is 4 . In countries like South Africa, the people celebrate the national Women’s day on August 9 every year with a variety of events. Women’s Day on August 9 marks the day, in 1956, when 20,000 women 5 on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against one of the cornerstones of apartheid (种族隔离) -----the pasd laws. The countries will nowadays celebrate the month
of August, by a ceremony 6 women in politics and decision-making positions, and 7 them certificates of honor. International Women’s Day was commemorated in the United States during the 1910s and 1920s, but then 8 . It was revived during the women’s movement in the 1960s, but without its socialist associations. In 1981, the U. S. Congress pasd a 9 establishing National Women’s History Week. Since its founding, the National Women’s History Project has recognized and celebrated the rich and 10 contributions of women to t
he history and culture of the United States.
declined B) celebrating C) paraded D) awarding
E) light F) resolution G) marched H) increasingly
I) esntially J) highlight K) disrespectful L) diminished
otoscopeM) varied N) promoting O) determination
J E I K G N D A F M
（三）
Personality is to a large extent inherent----A type parents usually bring about A type 1 . But the environment must also have a profound effect, since if competition is important to the parents, it is likely to become a major factor in the lives of their children. One place where children soak up A characteristics is school, which is, by its very 2 , a highly competitive institution. Too many schools adopt the win at all costs moral standard and m
easure their success by sporting achievements. The 3 passion for making children compete against their classmates or against the clock produces a two-layer system, in which competitive A types em in some way better than their B type fellows. Being too keen to win can have dangerous conquences: remember that Pheidippides, the first marathon runner, dropped dead conds after saying: “Rejoice, we conquer!”
By far the worst form of competition in schools is the disproportionate emphasis on examinations. It is a rare school that allows pupils to concentrate on tho things they do well. The merits of competition by examination are somewhat 4 , but competition in the certain knowledge of failure is 5 harmful.
Obviously, it is neither practical nor 6 that all A youngsters change into B’s. The world needs types, and schools have an important duty to try to fit a child’s personality to his possible future employment. It is top management.
If the preoccupation of schools with academic work was 7 , more time might be spent teaching children surer values. Perhaps lection for the caring professions, especially m
edicine, could be made less by good grades in chemistry and more by such considerations as 8 and sympathy. It is surely a mistake to choo our doctors 9 from A type stock. B’s are important and should be 10 .
if a song could get me youA)encouraged B) education C) positively D) questionable
百万美元宝贝E) disadvantageous F) lesned G) exclusively H) incread
sicongI) nsitivity J) specialty K) offspring L) nature
spectatingM) desirable N) current O) possible
K L N D C M F I G A
(四)
格莱美2014获奖名单Low levels of literacy and numeracy have a damaging impact on almost every aspect of adult life, according to a survey published yesterday, which offers evidence of a developing underclass. Tests and interviews with hundreds of people born in a single wee
k in 1958 1 illustrated the handicap of educational underachievement. The effects were en in unemployment, low incomes, depression and social 2 .
Tho who left school at 16 with poor basic skills had been employed for up to four years less than good readers at the time they reached 37. Professor John Bynner of City University, who 3 out the rearch, said that today’s 4 people would face even greater problems becau the supply of manual jobs had 5 up. Poor readers were twice as likely to be on a low 6 and four times as likely to live in a houhold where neither partner worked. Women in this position were five times as likely to be classified as 7 , while both xes tended to feel they had no control over their lives, and to be 8 of others. Tho with low literacy and numeracy skills were ldom involved in any 9 organization and much less likely than others to have 10 in a general election. There had been no improvement in the level of interviewees since the sample was surveyed at the age of 21. A) activity B) carried C) wage D) dried
