2019届高考英语一轮复习话题阅读素材105 Scientists Look Forward to the Past
Can time travel really be done? Physicists think that travel into future is possible. Einstein's special theory of relativity，published in 1905，predicted that time should be elastic，stretching or shrinking as an observer moves. To get a really big time leap it is necessary to travel at near the speed of light -- 300，000 km per second. At 99% of this speed，a rocket trip to a distant star and back would take 15 months，but travelers would return home to find that nearly nine years had elapsed on Earth. In effect，you would have leapt several years into Earth's future.
Gravity offers another way to slow time. On the earth's surface，clocks tick a little slower than on the moon，for example. Near a neutron star or black hole，gravity is so intense that time is slowed to a crawl relative to us. These facts are accepted by almost all scientists. Traveling forwards in time has been demonstrated convincingly in experiments. But the possibility f traveling backwards in time is far more controversial. The first hint that it might be possible came in 1932，when a physicist named Stockhum investigated what might happen to an observer who orbits a rapidly spinning cylinder. He showed it was possible to travel in a closed loop and return to your starting point before you left.
Worm holes are like black holes，with a key difference. Whereas black holes offer a one-way journey to nowhere -- fall in and you never
get out -- worm holes have an exit as well as an entrance. To find whether such an idea can be taken seriously，scientists at California Institute of Technology investigated what it would take for such a short cut though space to exist. They found that if you tried to make a worm hole out of any normal form of matter，it would collapse under its own gravity and turn into a black hole. For a worm hole remain stable，it would have to be made of exotic material that would create an anti-gravity force. Physicists know of peculiar states of matter that generate anti-gravity，and a worm hole is not physically impossible. It dawned on them that such a structure could be adapted to make a time machine that would allow an astronaut to leap instantaneously into both the past and the future. Go through the worm hole one way，and you reach the future. Go through the other way and you come out in the past.
Making a worm hole presents formidable engineering challenges，but suppose it could be done，and time travel became a reality? Thorny paradoxes loom. What happens to the time traveler who goes back and murders his mother as a girl? If so，who murdered the mother? Does that mean he was never born? Because the present is linked to the past，you cannot change the past without unleashing causal disorder. Since the purpose of science is to give a rational account of reality，any theory that permits paradoxical consequences is suspect. Does this mean Einstein's theory of relativity is wrong，or that worm holes could never form?
Although theoretical investigations of time travel are a popular topic among physicists，there is no consensus on how to handle the ensuing paradoxes. But one thing is agreed. Once a time machine is made，you could visit the year 2100，check out the stock prices，and then pop back and make the right investments to repay the loan.
2019届高考英语一轮复习话题阅读素材29 Friends Bring Happiness We sit around the rough wooden table in the summer cabin for a class reunion. About 15 men and women who have one thing in common: we all went to elementary school together. A classmate sums it up. "What's most important in life is friendship. I don't know what I'd do without my friends." The room full of gray hair applauds in agreement. Decades of research have documented that friendship is good for your health. People with friends have lower death rates. They recover faster from illness. Just why friendship is a healing force is the focus of much research. As scientists try to unravel the DNA code book of life，I look around the table at my classmates. There are old memories of the gray-haired music teacher. There are turning points of weddings，births，funerals. Laughter and gossip. Crises of illness，despair，and loss. At its most basic level，friendship is a human connection that involve affection and intimacy. In the inner circle，there is a continual sharing of the most important details of your life. Whom do you confide in on a regular basis? Whom can you call upon if you need help? Whom do you call if you want celebrate? The inner circle today may include spouses，lovers，college roommates and cousins，children and grandchildren，colleagues，and children of friends.
高考英语作文素材：精选文20篇 议论文观点辩论 （1） 2005年10月12日，举世瞩目的神舟六号载人飞船成功发射；10月18日，飞船顺利返航，举国上下为之欢呼雀跃，世界各国媒体给予了极大的关注。请就此事写一篇英语短文，表达自己的高兴和骄傲之情。 1. 字数100左右。 2. 可适当增加细节，使容连贯。 3. 生词提示： 载人的adj. manned 发射v. / n. launch 神舟六号Shenzhou VI 航空n. aviation （2） 某英文报社正在举办有关“英雄”问题的讨论话题，请你根据以下提示用英文写一篇100词左右的文章以便寄到该报社参加讨论。 1. 英雄（见义勇为的人）具有什么样的品质？ 2. 为什么现在英雄越来越少？ 如果让你选择，你愿意做英雄还是普通人？ （3） 假如你叫华，你和笔友Jane互寄了全家的合影。Jane看了合影后来信问为什么你没有兄弟姐妹。请用英语写封100字左右的回信说明情况。容 注意： 2．字数100左右； 3．开头已给出，不计人总字数； 4．参考词汇；计划生育family program独生子女the only child （4） 请以“Reading Newspapers Is A Good Habit” 为题写一篇80—100单词的短文。提示如下： 1．报纸是重要传媒。看报能获得国外最新消息…… 2．报纸能丰富我们的生活，上面有…… 3．对我们学英语的人来说，看类似《中国日报》这样的英文报纸，……
（5） 目前，越来越多的中学生利用周末上各种各样的培训班或请家教。对于这一现象，存在两种不同观点。请你根据下表提示，以Is a Training Class or Family Teacher Necessary?为题，写一篇短文，反映表中容，并简要阐述 （2）词数：120 词左右（文章开头已给出，不计入总词数）； （3）参考词汇：巩固strengthen vt. (6) “神六”返回以后，人们就“普通人去太空旅游”的话题展开了热烈讨论。请你根据下列提示以“The advantages and disadvantages of Space 2、不要逐字逐句翻译。 3、词数110 左右。 (7) 周笔畅宣布退出“超女”演唱会的巡演，重返校园。对此你和同学们展开了激烈的讨论。一部分同学不赞成“超女”重返学校。认为这是对她的一次锻炼，可以获得更多的演出机会，而且可以更早地实现当歌星的梦想。但也有一部分同学赞同“超女”的做法。认为学校的学习比演出更重要，这样可以使声乐基础更加牢固，而且，频繁的演出也是一件很劳累的事情。如果你是她，你会选择退出还是留下？说明你的理由。 注意： 1. 词数：100左右； 2. 参考词汇：过多的excessive； 3. 容要点可用不同方式表达； 4. 对紧扣主题的适当发挥不予扣分。 (8)
云南省曲靖市2014高考英语（阅读理解）一轮训练题（6）及答案阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项. A Here's a familiar version of the boy-meets-girl situation. A young man has at last plucked up courage to invite a dazzling young lady out to dinner. She has accepted his invitation and he is overjoyed. He is determined to take her to the best restaurant in town, even if it means that he will have to live on memories and hopes during the month to come. When they get to the restaurant, he discovers that this beautiful creature is on a diet. She mustn’t eat this and she mustn't drink that. Oh, but of course, she doesn't want to spoil his enjoyment. Let him by all means eat as much fattening food as he wants: it’s the surest way to an early grave. They spend a truly memorable evening together and never see each other again. What a miserable lot dieters are! You can always recognize them from the sour expression on their faces. They spend most of their time turning their noses up at food. They are forever consulting calorie charts; gazing at themselves in mirrors; and leaping on to weighing-machines in the bathroom. They spend a lifetime fighting a losing battle against spreading hips, bigger tummies（肚子） and double chins. Some declare all-out war on FAT. Mere dieting is not enough. They exhaust themselves doing exercises, sweating in sauna baths, being massaged by weird machines. The really wealthy pay vast sums for “health cures”. For two weeks they can enter a nature clinic and be starved to death for a hundred dollars a week. Don’t think it’s o nly the middle-aged who go in for these fashions either. Many of these bright young things you see are living on nothing but air, water and the goodwill of God. Dieters undertake to starve themselves of their own free will; so why are they so miserable? We ll, for one thing, they’re always hungry. You can't be hungry and happy at the same time. All the horrible foods they eat leave them permanently dissatisfied. “Wonderfood is a complete food”, the advertisement says. “Just dissolve(溶解) a teaspoonful in wate r…”. A complete food it may be, but not quite as complete as a juicy steak. And, of course, they’re always miserable because they
话题一： 莫言获诺贝尔文学奖 (1)我国作家莫言获诺贝尔文学奖。 (2)此次获奖的重大意义。 范文： Several months ago, a good news swept on China that Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature. After this big event, Mo Yan, the first Chinese resident to win the prize, has been the crispy fried chicken among China. Gaomi County in Shandong Province becomes a tourist attraction because of his popularity. For his award, Chinese media overwhelming report this exciting news. People are rushing to the bookstores to buy his famous book and some are even out of stock。 Generally speaking, his award means a lot to China, especially Chinese literature. The Nobel Prize for literature is a dream of Chinese literary field and all Chinese people. However, as a large cultural country that owns countless classic works, China had no winner of the Nobel Prize for literature which had become a great pity. Therefore, this prize finishes a pile wish of Chinese people. In addition, although we have a great number of great works, very few people can read a book carefully and tranquilly in the impetuous society. I think this exciting news will inspire people’s enthusiasm towards literature, which is a great motivation to the development of literature. This is what we are happy to see。（来源：文都教育） 话题二： 1. 现在许多大学生放弃学业去参加“选秀”节目； 2. 有人认为“选秀”节目为这些大学生提供了展示自我的平台，他们应该抓住机会“秀出自己”；但也有人认为这种选秀节目会养成大学生“急功近利”的心态； 3. 那么作为一个大学生，你是怎么看待这件事情的？ [思路点拨]：1)对选秀节目的看法。2)理性对待选秀现象。一方面它满足了观众普遍参与的愿望，另一方面需要我们从正确的角度来理解它，用正确的心态来对待它。3)对产生“选秀”热现象原因的分析。比如选秀所带来的是前所未有的视觉冲击和心灵体验，偶像们和粉丝们似乎在这里找到了价值认同等。4)重在
【篇一】高考英语话题作文素材 When people are not in the mood, they will become angry and when their families or friends talk to them, they will bring their bad mood, saying the bad words to the dearest person. It is not the wise choice for people let out their bad mood, because when they calm down, they will be very regretful for what they have done to their families and friends. Sometimes mean words are just like the sharp knives, stabbing into people’s hearts. So when we get angry, we should learn to control our emotion. We are easily to say out the hurting words, which makes the one we love suffering. Even if we apologize, but the pain still exists, like the broken mirror which can’t be fixed totally. So when we are angry, the best way to be silent and don’t do st upid things. 【篇二】高考英语话题作文素材 Since we go to school, my friend and I are fighting for our future college, we want to go to our dreaming college, so we work so hard. After three years’ fighting, we finally come to the graduate season, I get my college’s reception, I am so happy, my friend also gets what she wants, all of us have realized our dreams. As her best friend, I am so happy for her, so I want to show my congratulation to her. I decide to buy her a present, so I go to shopping. I have no idea what to buy, my mother suggests me to buy her a pen, I think it is a good idea. I buy a pen with the picture that she loves, I give this present to her, she is very happy and she says she likes it very much. I wish her the best in her college life. 打从我们上学起，我的朋友和我就为了我们将来的大学在奋斗，我们想要个梦想中的大学，因此我们很努力学习。经过了年的学习，我们最终来到了毕业季，我接到了大学的录取通知，很开心，我的朋友也得到了她想要的，我们都实现了自己的梦想。作为她的朋友，我为她感到高兴，所以我想要向她展示我的祝贺。我决定给她买礼物，我去购物，但是不知道买什么，我的妈妈建议我给她买一只笔，我觉得这是个好主意。我买了一只带有她喜欢的图案的笔，我把礼物给了她，她很高兴，并且说很喜欢。我祝愿她的大学生活一切顺利。 【篇三】高考英语话题作文素材 High school students are in the sensitive age. On the one hand, their bodies grow fast and on the other hand, their minds start to know more about the sexual difference. So the teenagers are eager to have someone to love, while not only the teachers but also the parents try to stop teenagers to have puppy love. In my opinion, teenagers are so young, they are na?ve and don’t know the meaning of love. What’s more, having the love relationship will distract their attention from the study. So it is
【2019-2020】高考英语一轮阅读理解巩固练（1）（含解析）） 李仕才 A If you want to slow aging, you might want to eat less. This finding is good news---if you were a mouse. The researchers studied mice, not people. John Price and other researchers studied two groups of mice. One group was able to eat as much as it wanted. The researchers limited what the mice in the other group ate. Their diet had 35 percent fewer calories than the first group of mice. Price says the mice with the diet restrictions were “more energetic and suffered few er disease.” They were not just living longer but seemed to stay younger for a longer period of time. The researchers found that fewer calories slow down a natural mechanism in cells called ribosomes. Price explains that ribosomes are responsible for making important proteins in the cells. But with fewer calories, they slow down. This gives the cells more time to repair themselves. The researchers say ribosomes use from 10 to 20 percent of the cell’s energy to make those proteins. Price wrote that “because of this, it is impractical to destroy an entire ribosome” when it starts to break down. However, “repairing individual parts of the ribosome on a regular basis enables ribosomes to continue producing high quality proteins for longer than they would otherwise. This top quality production, in turn, keeps cells and the entire body functioning well.” “Food,” he said, “isn’t just material to be burned---it’s a signal that tells our body and cells how to respond.” Price said the findings help to explain how exac tly our bodies age. And this may “help us make more educated decisions about what we eat.” 1.What can we know about the mice with limited calories from the study? A. They can keep healthy easily B. They need more energy to be active C. They can look younger than they are D. They will live a longer life like humans
高三英语阅读理解专项训练及答案含解析 一、高中英语阅读理解 1．阅读理解 Average humans can consume 15 or more drinks in plastic bottles a month. If you were born after 1978, and live until 80 years old, you will leave behind a minimum of 14,400 plastic bottles on this planet. These bottles take hundreds of years to break down into tiny pieces of plastic, never to completely disappear. Most of the waste is consumed by fish and birds, which has shortened their lifetime greatly. The Plastic Bottle Village is just a great idea that might finally save us from being buried in plastic. It's a community in Panama that is going to be made of used bottles. The design process begins with building steel frames, which are then filled with these bottles. Once this step is complete, and electrical and plumbing (管道装置) lines are put inside, the plastic walls are covered by concrete—both inside and outside. So no one will actually be able to tell that the walls are made of plastic. Besides, the material will keep the house 17°C cooler than the outside, which is the biggest benefit to people living inside. The village is the brainchild (主意) of Robert Bezeau with the intention of setting up several environmental projects. Having started a recycling program four years ago, during which a number of plastic bottles were collected, he started to think of how they could be put to use. Soon enough, he decided to use them to build houses, and came up with a basic idea for the construction process. The project hopes to make people conscious of the waste that these bottles create so that they can do more to protect the environment. The village will also create an education center that will teach individuals from the world how to reuse plastic bottles as construction materials for shelter. Recycled bottles could neutralize the negative effect of your passage on this planet, and move closer to leaving only your “footprints”. （1）What does Paragraph 1 intend to tell us? A. The reason for buying fewer drinks. B. The difficult situation of wildlife. C. The amount of plastic waste. D. The seriousness of plastic pollution. （2）What is the biggest benefit to people living in the Plastic Bottle Village? A. The house will be much cooler than normal ones. B. The material of construction will be reduced a lot. C. The newly-made house can save a lot of electricity. D. The waste of the house can be consumed by fish and birds. （3）Which of the following words can best describe Robert? A. Creative. B. Courageous. C. Enthusiastic. D. Sensitive.（4）The main purpose of Robert's projects is to A. provide shelter for locals B. reuse all deserted plastic bottles C. popularize the use of plastic bottles D. raise people's environmental awareness 【答案】（1）D （2）A
For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Attend Your Classes Regularly。You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese. 1. 现在大学校园里，迟到、早退、旷课是常见的现象 2. 保证学生的出勤率对大学教育的重要性 3. 作为一个大学生应该怎样做 Attend Your Classes Regularly Nowadays it is a very common phenomenon that some university students are late for or even absent from classes. And still there are some students who slip out of the classroom before the class is over. Class attendance has become a thorny problem to both the students and teachers. In fact, it is very important for the students to attend their classes regularly. First, it will ensure you to catch up with the teachers in your learning. That is very helpful to you if you want to do a good job in your study. Second, attending classes regularly is a way of showing respect to your teachers ,too. Your teachers will feel bad if the students do not attend their classes, which, in turn, will affect their teaching and be no good for the students. Third, attending classes regularly will help to form a good habit of punctuality, which is of great importance for the students to do a good job in the future. Therefore, we university students should form the good habit of attending our classes regularly from now on. And some day we’ll benefit from it. 点评：2008年元月三日，中山大学博士发帖称遭导师虐待；2008年元月四日，中国政法大学爆“杨帆门”事件；近几年，中小学老师或打学生或猥亵学生、体罚学生等各类新闻不断曝光，进而引发了师生关系的大讨论。本范例题为四级考试传统的问题解决型的写作，与校园生活密切相关。 范例二 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Students’Rating of Their Teachers。You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese. 1. 学生给老师打分已经普遍 2. 人们对其持不同态度 3. 我的看法 Students’ Rating of Their Teachers Nowadays, it has become as common in colleges and universities for students to grade teachers as for teachers to grade students. In some universities students’ rating has even become the only source of information on teaching effectiveness.. This, however, has caused great controversy. Some are in favor of the rating system, They hold that since students attend t he teachers’ classes every day, they should have their opinion about their teachers’ effectiveness. Others, on the contrary, are strongly against it. They believe that there is much more to teaching than what is shown on students’ rating forms. Students sh ould not be expected to judge whether the materials they use are up to date or how well the teacher knows about the subject. These judgments require professional knowledge, which is best left for the teachers’ colleagues. I think students’ rating of their teachers is necessary, but it should be conducted in a way that can really shed meaningful light on teachers’ performance. Instead of rating the teachers’ knowledge on the subject, students should be asked to estimate what they have learned in a course, an d to report on such things as a teacher’s ability to communicate with students, his or her relationship with students, and his or her ability to arouse students’ interest in the subject. 点评：越来越多的高校采取让学生给老师打分的形式来了解教学反馈，并以此作为促进教学质量的有效手段。对此做法，管理部门及教学双方褒贬不一，看法迥异。本范例题为校园生活热议话题，值得关注。
高三英语作文练习素材 ----WORD文档，下载后可编辑修改---- 下面是小编收集整理的范本，欢迎借鉴参考阅读下载，侵删。您的努力学习和创新是为了更美好的未来！ 高三英语作文练习素材1 当我们独立了When We Are Independent When I was very small, I was so envious about the adults, because they could do whatever they wanted and did not have to depend on their parents. For me, I did not have money and my parents limited my pocket money, so I couldn’t spend the money to buy whatever I wanted. It seems to me that being an adult is my only wish. Some day, I learned from the movie that being an adult was not that as perfect as I thought. In the movie, the man struggled to earn money to pay his bills, what’s more, he had to stay away from his family. Loneliness was always around him. To be independent means we can live our own way and make our own decision. We have more freedom. But at the same time, it also means more annoyance. So why just we enjoy this moment. 在我很小的时候,我很羡慕成年人,因为他们可以做任何他们想做的,不必依赖他们的父母。对我来说,我没有钱,我的父母限制我的零花钱,所以我无法花钱去买所有我想要的。似乎成为一个成年人是我唯一的愿望。有一天,我从这部电影中了解到，作为一个成年人也没有我想象中的那么完美。在电影中,那个人努力挣钱来支付他的账单,更重要的是,他不得不远离他的家人。寂寞总是是围绕着他。独立意味着我们可以有自己的方式生活,做自己的决定。我们有的自由。但与此同时,这也意味着的烦恼。所以为什么不享受这一刻呢。 高三英语作文练习素材2 分数和能力Score and Ability In China, the students have to take part in many exams, they need to get the high mark, so that they can enter the better school and have more chances to get to the college. Chinese education pays special attention to the score, it occupies important position, it seems that score decides the students’ future.In my opinion, score doesn’t mean everything, the
高考英语作文素材 开头句型 1.As far as ...is concerned 就……而言比如说：就我而言As far as I’m concerned 2 It can be said with certainty that... +从句可以肯定地说...... 3.As the proverb says，正如谚语所说的，可以用来引用名言名句 4 .It has to be noticed that... 它必须注意到，... 5 .It's generally recognized that... 它普遍认为... 6 .It's likely that ... 这可能是因为... 7 .It's hardly that... 这是很难的...... 8 There's no denying the fact that...毫无疑问，无可否认 9 .Nothing is more important than the fact that... 没有什么比这更重要的是… 10 .what's far more important is that... 更重要的是… 引言句型 1. Some people think that ….To be frank, I can not agree with their opinion for the reasons below. 有些人认为…坦率地说，我不能同意他们的意见，理由如下。 2. I believe the title statement is valid because…. 我认为这个论点是正确的，因为… 3. I cannot entirely agree with the idea that ….我无法完全同意….这一观点的说法… 4. Along with the development of…, more and more….随着……的发展，越来越多… 5 It is commonly/generally/widely/ believed /held/accepted/recognized that….它通常是认为… 6. As far as I am concerned, I completely agree with the former/ the latter.就我