高中英语填空题

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Festivals and celebrations of all kinds       (hold) everywhere since ancient times. Most ancient festivals would celebrate the end of cold weather,        (plant) in spring and harvest in autumn. At that time people would starve if food was difficult to find, especially during the cold winter months.
Today's festivals have many origins, some   _ ( religion) , some seasonal, and some for special people or events. Some festivals are held to honor the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm. For example, the Japanese festival Obon is honored in __(memorize) of their ancestors. People then should go to clean graves, light lamps and play music  __   they think that this will lead the ancestors back to earth. In Mexico, people celebrate the Day of the Dead in early November.    _ this important feast day, people eat food in    shape of skulls and cakes with "bones" on them. They offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead. The Western holiday Halloween also had   _   origin in old beliefs about the return of the spirits of dead people. It is now a children's festival, __   they can dress up and go to their neighbors' homes to ask for sweets. The Dragon Boat Festival in China honors the famous ancient poet, Qu Yuan. India has a national festival on October 2 to honor Mohandas Gandhi, the leader who helped gain India's   ____（depend) from Britain.

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Scientists have discovered that___(stay) in the cold could help us lose weight. Researchers at the University of California found that exposure to the cold increases levels of a protein that helps form brown fat-the type of fat that produces heat and keeps us warm. Brown fat burns energy, _____ helps us lose weight. White fat stores extra energy, which results    weight gain. The researchers said that because air conditioning and heating give us constant, ___(comfort) temperatures, our body's need for brown fat has decreased. They found that:“Outdoor workers in northern Finland who_____(expose) to cold temperature have___ significant amount of brown fat when_____(compare) to same - aged indoor workers.”
The research was conducted on two different control groups of mice.__ __group was injected with the protein that helps create brown fat. This group later gained 30% less weight after both groups were fed high - fat diets. The researchers say this could be good news in the fight against obesity. People who are obese have _____(low) levels of brown fat than thinner people. Head researcher Hei Sook Sul said: "This protein could become an important target for research into the treatment and prevention of obesity and obesity - related diseases.” She added: "If you can somehow increase levels of this protein, you could____(possible) lose more weight even if eating the same amount of food.”

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A 24-year-old Long Island man was charged early Thursday morning after crashing his car and killing his girlfriend while driving over the speed limit. Kevin Daly       (sentence) to nearly three years in prison after losing control of    partner Alice Hicks’ car on a country road    80mph. She was a passenger in the Mini-cooper and was thrown from the car    he crashed into another vehicle    (move) in the opposite direction. Daly, 24, denied causing    (die) by dangerous driving and was found guilty by a jury (陪审团) at Taunton Crown Court. The court heard that neither Daly  Miss Hicks, 22, was wearing seatbelts at the time of the collision that happened on November 17, 2011. NBC New York reports Kevin Daly, was driving on County Road 83, when the road was blocked by a truck that was waiting    (turn) right. Witnesses described    Daly had little or no chance of stopping behind the still traffic and he turned to avoid the van    hit a Mazda on the other side of the road.

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A CCTV journalist succeeded in arousing a heated discussion among netizens by asking people whether they were happy. The responses to the question were various, even some quite funny ones     ___ (include). Although people played jokes    the answers, it did not take long     __ they began to figure out the true meanings of happiness.
It is certain that people’s views on happiness     ___(affect) greatly by their own life experience. Unfortunately, too many people refer to being rich as happiness and there is no sign of       decrease in the number of those who are voluntarily at the mercy of wealth. Some people whose      ____(intend) is to make big money appreciate being given any chance to multiply their income, believing that is ______ their happiness lies. Some are eager to inherit their parents’ property, especially those who     __(be) known as silver-spoon kids. Even worse, some would rather break the law to satisfy their financial desire or seek their fortune ______(legal).
In my opinion, happiness is not about pursuing wealth merely but about admiring the beautiful things in life. Therefore, live your life _______the fullest and be happy.

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Born in 1930, Yuan Longping graduated      Southeast Agricultural College in 1953. Since then, finding ways to grow more rice       (be) his life goal. As a young man, he saw the great    for increasing the rice output. At that time, hunger was a         (disturb) problem in many parts of the countryside. Yuan Longping grows       is called super hybrid rice, making        possible to increase rice harvest without       (expand) the area of the field. Yuan Longping has been considered the first agricultural pioneer in the world    (grow) rice that has a high output.    to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world      hunger.

Body and Food
Our body, which has close relations with the food that we eat   our daily life, is the most important thing that we own, so our body    (need) proper treatment and proper nourishment (营养).
The old saying “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” is not as silly as some people think. The body needs fruit   vegetables, such as apples, pears, banana, carrots and cabbages, because they contain vitamin C,    is very necessary and important to us all. It’s clear that a lack of vitamin C can make people ill and weak easily.
In order to get enough needed vitamins, many people take extra vitamins in pill form,(believe) that these will make them(health). But a good diet is made up of nourishing food and this gives all the vitamins that we need. The body doesn’t need or use extra vitamins, so why waste money on them?
Nowadays many people are too busy to bother about eating properly. They throw anything into their   (stomach), eating something carelessly and   (hurry). The list of illnesses   （cause）or made worse by bad eating habits is frightening. It is high time we should realize the importance of having a good diet. If not, it is impossible for (we) to keep fit and strong.

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Many years ago there was such a child with the name Hokey______ father brought home a mirror. Hokey had never seen one before so when he saw it for_____ first time, he didn’t understand ____  it was, but he saw another boy in the mirror, which made him very happy, for he thought the boy had come to play with him. He spoke to the stranger in a very friendly way, but received no reply. He laughed and waved at the boy, who did ____ (exact) the same thing. Then he thought, “I’ll go closer. It may be because he doesn’t hear me.” But when he began to talk, the other boy imitated him.
Hokey stopped______(think) about these strange actions, saying to himself.，“This boy is fooling me. He does everything that I do.” The more he thought about it, the _____(angry)he became and soon he noticed the boy became very angry too. So Hokey _____(strike) the boy in the glass, but he only hurt his own hand and went______(cry) to his father, who said, “The boy you saw was _____ image. This should teach you an important lesson, my son. You should never show your anger to others. Now remember that in real life when you strike_____ cause you will hurt yourself most of all..

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John Snow was a well-known physician in London. At that time, cholera was        deadly disease and thousands of people died of it. People didn’t know its cause or its    . John Snow determined to face the     and solve the problem.       another outbreak hit London in 1854, he gathered information and made a map,       (mark) the exact places where all the dead people had lived. Through further investigations, he discovered that the water was to    , because it was polluted by the dirty water from London.       supporting evidence, John Snow announced that polluted water carried the germs. To prevent this from        again, John suggested that the source of all the water supplies        (examine) and new methods of       (处理) polluted water be found. Thus cholera was defeated in the end.

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Tom and Jack are good friends. They have dreamed about _____( take) a great bike trip. It was Tom who first had the idea to cycle ______the entire Mekong River. They _____ (ride) bicycles to travel along the Mekong River, ______source is in Qinghai Province. When it enters Southeast Asia, it travels slowly through low valleys to the plains, _____ rice grows. ______ the difficulties , Tom and Jack were determined to begin their journey at an altitude of _____( much) than 5,000 metres in Qinghai Province. During their journey , they enjoyed the continuous change of the weather. _____(finally), they reached Dali in Yunnan Province , where David and Sam joined____.   ____ four of them  went on with their great bike trip.

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Singles’ Day falls on November 11th every year in China, ________ is recognized as a day for people who have no girlfriend or boyfriend. Couples and lovers have Valentine’s Day in _______ (celebrate) of their love, but how about the singles? There must be a day they can celebrate even without a partner. That’s _______ people created Singles’ Day.
On Singles’ Day many singles choose to say goodbye to their single lives, ________ (attend) blind date parties, and some people even decide to get ________ (marry) to strangers. _______ this day has recently become more of a time for shopping, because many shops online will give customers great discount ________ (promote) their goods.
More and more people are ________ (will) to shop online to get what they want, and I am one of them. I just can’t help buying things ________ I need them or not.________ (honest) speaking, some of the things that I bought have been put aside forever in my closet.

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When I was young, I read many kinds of books,         (include) fairy tales. Most of the books described heroes who were handsome and heroines who were beautiful. So, I believed I had to be beautiful if I wanted to become a great person.
I grew up, I began to realize outer beauty was not so important          ( make ) someone good. I remember a friend of        (I). She believed that she could do everything          she wanted because she was so beautiful, but she lost friends one by one. My poor friend! She learned a good lesson: inner beauty is        (important) than outer beauty.
Whenever I see TV advertisements, I feel that these things make us          (believe) beauty is very important---especially physical attractiveness. Although we say that inner beauty is more           (value), we often look for plastic surgery to make us more beautiful. There seems to be a boom in plastic surgery. It is        (surprise) to realize the number of people who try it         increasing day     by day.
So, what is real beauty? I want to say that inner beauty is       real one because if someone has beauty in his soul, he looks like a really beautiful person.

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Just now，I entered the website “Topic for Today”. I feel ________ (interest) in the report  on middle school students’ using cell-phones on campus. In fact，more students now come to school________ cell-phones. My schoolmates have different opinions. Some think________ is convenient to get in touch with others with the cell-phone，________also makes them feel safe  especially in time of trouble. Besides，it is nice to enjoy ________ (variety) functions of different
cell-phones.
Others think differently. First，the cell-phone is not________ must in school，as there are some IC phones there，________ (make) it easy to call others. Second， many students often  play e-games and send________ (message) with their cell-phones，even in class， which will surely have bad effects on their study. What’s more， a large amount of time and money will________ (waste).In my opinion，the cell-phone is a  useful tool in our daily life. But it doesn’t  mean we can use it________ (free) in school.

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When I was in elementary school, I always argued with a boy in my class. I have forgotten what the ______ (argue) was about, but I have never forgotten the lesson I learnt that day.
I was convinced that “I” was right and “he” was wrong but he argued that “I” was wrong and “he” was right. The teacher decided to teach us ____ very important lesson. She____ (bring) us up to the front of the class and placed the boy on the side of her desk and me on the other. In the middle of her desk, there was a large ______ round object. She asked the boy what color the object was. “White”, he answered. I couldn’t believe ______he said, because it was _____(obvious) black! Another conflict started ____ him and me, but this time it was about color of the object. The teacher told me to stand in the place _____the boy had been standing. We changed the place and now she asked me what the color of the object was. I had to answer, “White”. It was an object with two differently colored sides. From ____viewpoint it was white, but from my side it was black. Sometimes____ (look) at a problem from the other person’s view, we will come to a totally different conclusion.

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A few years ago, SARS ________ out in the mainland of China, _______(cause) some people to be killed. And some nearly got close to death. The situation was so severe ______there was no time to debate who is to blame. The most important thing for the government to do is to find out the causes of this ______(dead) disease. They invited all the most __________ （experience） experts in this field to discuss and quite a few suggestions were put forward. Some of the top experts then tested them to see _______ they were available or not. Doctor Zhong Nan shan chose one patient who was seriously ill and had little hope of picking up and had the new medicine _____(test) on him. ______ his great joy, this patient recovered! He made his way to his office and telephoned the top official ,telling him this exciting news. For __(convenient), he moved to live in his office. His method ___（work）. Not soon after that, the other hospitals also controlled this terrible disease and kicked it out finally.

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Animals have been killed for their fur and feathers, and        (thousand) of kinds of animals have disappeared from the world forever. About 170 kinds in the US alone    (consider) in danger.
Why should people care?       we need animals, and if they are gone, there will never be any more. Every animal has its place in the balance of nature.         (destroy) one kind of animal can create many problems. For example, when farmers killed large numbers of hawks (老鹰), the farmers’ stores of corn and grain were destroyed         rats and mice. With no hawks to keep down their numbers, the rats and mice multiplied (繁殖)         (quick).
Luckily, some people are working       (help) save the animals. Some groups raise money to let people know about         problem. And they try to get the governments to pass laws protecting animals in danger. Quite a few        (country) have passed laws. These laws forbid the killing of any animals on the danger list. Slowly, the number of some animals in danger       (be) growing.