中考英语高阶集训1
（剑桥雅思11Test 4 Passage 3）Of all mankind's manifold creations, language must take pride of place. Other inventions - the wheel, agriculture, sliced bread - may have transformed our material existence, but the advent of language is what made us human. Compared to language, all other inventions pale in significance, since everything we have ever achieved depends on language and originates from it. Without language, we could never have embarked on our ascent to unparalleled power over all other animals, and even over nature itself.
(2018 全国I-- C)Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going. When the the world was still populated by hunter-gatherers,small, tightly knit (联系)groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other.Some language experts believe that 10,000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 12,000 languages between them.
春天的故事歌曲视频
(2018 全国III-B) Cities usually have a good reason for being where they are, like a nearby port or river. People settle in these places because they are easy to get to and naturally suited to communications and trade. New York City, for example, is near a large harbour at the mouth of the Hudson River. Over 300 years its population grew gradually from 800 people to 8 million. But not all cities develop slowly over a long period of time. Boom towns grow from nothing almost overnight. In 1896, Dawson, Canada, was unmapped wilderness(荒野). But gold was discovered there in 1897, and two years later, it was one of the largest cities in the West, with a population of 30,000.
英语考试 阅读为王的时代
一、读懂句子的能力
1.Laughter gets your blood circulating, given your heart a workout, supplies your lungs with oxygen, stimulates your brain, activates your immune system, and suppresses stress hormones.
2.在一个满大街都飘着帝都味道的都市北京，一个没有钱没有房没有车没有老婆没有工作没有文凭但有一个好爹的年轻人以我说的这种方式也能实现他们心中的那些邪恶不可告人的梦想。
二、单词短语曾经歌词快速扩充
【短语专项1 】
1. — It’s a good idea. but who’s going to ______the plan?
    —I think Tom and Greg will.
A. set aside    B. carry out    C. take in    D. get through
2. Happily for John’s mother, he is working harder to _______ his lost time.
我是歌手总冠军是谁
A. make up for    B. keep up with    C. catch up with    D. make use of
3. If you had _____ your test paper carefully before handing it in, you would have made fewer mistakes.
A. looked up    B. thought about    C. gone over    D. gone round
4. Would you slow down a bit, please? I can’t _______ you.
A. keep up with    B. put up with    C. make up to    D. hold on to
5. You’d better ______ some money for special use.
A. pick up    B. give away    C. put off    D. set aside
罗时丰6. In order to ________ with the advanced countries, we must keep learning.
A. get along    B. put up    C. catch up    D. go on
7. We didn’t plan our art exhibition like that but it ______ very well.
stay with me 朴灿烈A. worked out    B. tried out    C. went on    D. carried on
8. I’m planning to hold a party in the open air, but I can make no guarantees because it ______ the weather.
A. links with    B. depends on    C. connects to    D. decides on
9. — Smoking is bad for your health.  —Yes, I know. But I simply can’t _____.
A. give it up    B. give it in    C. give it out    D. give it away
10. If you ______ any problems when you arrive at the airport, give me a ring．
A. come up with    B. set about    C. run into    D. put aside
11. We thought of selling this old furniture, but we’ve decided to ______ it. it might be valuable.  A. hold on to B. keep up with  C. turn to D. look after
12. His mother had thought it would be good for his character to _______ from home and earn some money on his own.
A. run away    B. take away    C. keep away    D. get away
13. Can you make a sentence to _________ the meaning of the phrase?
A. show off    B. turn out    C. bring out    D. take in
14. News reports say peace talks between the two countries           潘之琳内衣 with no agreement reached.
A. have broken down    B. have broken out 
C. have broken in    D. have broken up
15. Don’t mention that at the beginning of the story, or it may ___ the shocking ending.
A. give away    B. give out    C. give up    D. give off
16. The idea puzzled me so much that I stopped for a few seconds to try to_______.
A. make it out    B. make it off    C. make it up    D. make it over
17. He _____ some French while he was away on a business trip in Paris.
A. made out    B. picked up    C. gave up    D. took in
18. The engine of the ship was out of order and the bad weather____ the helplessness of the crew at sea.