It was an autumn day, and 1 was standing in the kitchen, hanging my head over the counter and trying to figure out how many calories were in a bowl of homemade yogurt and fruit. And I felt annoyed.
I was 16, and my best friend and I had gone to our first Weight Watchers meeting. It was the trend in the mid-1980s,and even though I was an athlete, like many teen girls, I didn't necessarily like what I saw in the mirror. But after a week or so of recording every meal and snack and calculating the calories, I had had enough. I went back to my routine of chowing whatever I wanted, running and skiing, and let that be that. And it's still pretty much what I do; as long as the workouts are regular and the food is whole and balanced, my body's set point hasn't varied for years.
The weight loss trend of three decades ago−full of scales and counting calories−has fallen away. Now fasting is popular. The ways to keep fit vary: on the 5:2 diet a person eats for five days and fasts for two days each week, while the 18:6 refers 10 fasting for 18 hours and then eating within a six-hour window each day.
In this issue, Associate Editor Mark Barna tries to understand the science behind the fasting plans. Researchers have found that animals like monkeys age more slowly after years of eating less, and in the lab in humans, they saw improvements in a number of signs that indicate risk of some hard to cure diseases. The hope for healthy weight loss isn’t over yet, but at least now the calculators don’t have to be out at every meal.
1.What made the author annoyed?
A.Her body was not as strong as an athlete’s.
B.There were too many calories in the yogurt and fruit.
C.The Weight Watches meeting was not necessary for her.
D.She had to work out the calories in every meal and snack.
2.Which of the following can replace the underlined word “chowing”?
A.Eating. B.Doing C.Cooking. D.Choosing.
3.How do people keep fit now?
A.They limit the calories they take in.
B.They lose weight only.
C.They fast daily or weekly.
D.They eat enough every day.
4.What do we know about the researchers’ finding in this passage?
A.People grow more slowly if they eat less.
B.People are healthier if they eat less.
C.People have stopped losing weight now.
D.People calculate their food for every meal.
高二英语阅读选择困难题查看答案及解析
听下面一段独白,回答以下小题。
1.How old was Dave when his father passed away?
A.15. B.10. C.5.
2.What did Dave do in the evenings?
A.He earned some money. B.He did housework for the family.
C.He drove his brother to some places.
3.Who introduced Andrew at the graduation ceremony?
A.His soccer coach. B.The school headmaster. C.The head of the school district.
4.What happened during Andrew’s speech?
A.His mother started crying. B.Andrew thanked his father.
C.Dave realized his hard work had paid off.
高二英语短文困难题查看答案及解析
阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。
When I walked into the George Washington University Hospital with my therapy dog Willow on a late February evening, I had no idea that we were about to meet a young man, not even 25, fighting for his life in the ICU that night. Sam almost died when he was involved in an accident on his way home from work one day. He got numerous surgeries, among them two below knee amputations (截肢).
The ICU room was dark and cool when we entered. I could see Sam’s father sitting in a chair in a dark corner of the room, gazing down to the busy street below. He nodded hello, but did not speak. Sam’s mother was quickly pacing to and fro, trying to keep Sam comfortable and speaking encouraging words.
Sam was quiet. He was unaware at the time that he had lost his legs. But he just was not responding to the people in his room. Then something amazing happened; he saw Willow. I saw his hand slip from his lap to down below his bed rail and his fingers start to make a scratching motion. Willow ran right up to his bedside, expertly sliding her head right beneath his awaiting fingers.
I walked out of the ICU room completely overwhelmed with grief and a feeling of complete inadequacy in my ability to bring any kind of healing to this family. Just then I felt a strong grip on my forearm. I turned around and saw Sam’s mom.
“Will you come back tomorrow?” she asked.
I wanted to turn and run away, but I looked down at Willow, who had none of those feelings and whose eyes showed nothing but love and compassion, and before I knew it, the words “Yes, we will” had left my lips. I cried my whole drive home that night.
注意:1. 写作词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
I did come with Willow the next day, and so did the day after the next.
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The night before Sam left hospital was a happy occasion for all us.
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高二英语读后续写困难题查看答案及解析
Sometimes fishing ships disappear: Captains turn off the radios that broadcast their locations, leaving regulators wondering whether the ships are fishing illegally. Now, researchers have shown that albatrosses(信天翁)bearing small detectors can find these doubtful ships, even in the middle of the open ocean. After a 6-month study with the large seabirds, the researchers say that more than one-third of ships in the southern Indian Ocean are fishing illegally.
“These are animal police,” says Boris Worm of Dalhousie University. “You’re empowering animals to survey their own environment, ”Worm says. “That’s pretty cool.” The method could also help albatrosses themselves, which can be killed when they get caught or accidentally eat fishing hooks. The researchers will be there on time.
Illegal fishing is a major concern for environment biologists, especially in remote areas. Over the past decade, scientists have studied the problem with data from automatic identification systems (AISs) on ships, which send their identity, location, speed, and direction to satellites. But AlSs can be turned off. Researchers suspect that fishing ships turn off AISs when they are fishing illegally or want to prevent competitors from knowing where they are getting a good catch.
Albatrosses make good spies. The birds, which live on fish, can spot a fishing ship from as far away as 30 kilometers. Some species fly hundreds or thousands of kilometers while hunting. Between December 2018 and June 2019, the birds met 353 ships. Those locations were sent to the lab in less than 2 hours. If they did not match the locations of ships with an active AIS, the team knew the ships had switched it off. In international waters, 37% of detected ships had their AlS switched off and fished illegally.
Although the albatrosses can detect ships, they cannot track them over longer distances, one scientist says. He says, “What you need to do is to look for patterns to take pictures as evidence.” More albatrosses will be arranged in March and April around the Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean to reveal the illegal fishing.
1.What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
A.Fishing ships disappear sometimes.
B.Illegal fishing is very serious in the open ocean.
C.Some seabirds are used to monitor the illegal fishing.
D.One-third of ships in the southern Indian Ocean are fishing illegally.
2.What benefit will the method do for the albatrosses?
A.They can get enough food.
B.They can get saved when in danger.
C.They can protect their own rights of fishing.
D.They can avoid being killed or eating fishing hooks.
3.How do the seabirds offer help?
A.By sending locations of ships.
B.By turning off AISs of the ships.
C.By following the ships as far as possible.
D.By taking the pictures of ships fishing illegally.
4.In which column of a newspaper can this text be read?
A.Education. B.Politics. C.Science. D.Health
高二英语阅读选择困难题查看答案及解析
假定你是李华,你的英国笔友Terry在邮件中提到他首次尝试使用筷子,感觉很新奇,希望了解更多筷子知识与文化。请你给他回信。包括以下要点:筷子文化参考:筷子谐音快乐;筷子可传递合作、和谐、平等、和平等内涵 注意:词数:80左右,可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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高二英语提纲类作文困难题查看答案及解析
A couple of months ago, I was texting a friend in Australia during their widespread bushfires, begging her to come back to New York. “It’s just not _________” I said. “You can’t even breathe!”
She simply replied, “No. I need to bear witness (见证),” _________ the way her government poorly handled the problem, ignoring scientists’ _________ about global warming. Her need to “see” was _________ in her deep love for her people and country.
Now here I am, _________ my own city on “fire”. A fire that should have taken no one by surprise. This isn’t just about Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd or any black citizen. This is about a _________ that exists within this country that makes our lives seemingly less valuable to the people in power who _________ most times, to be white.
In all this good trouble, we can’t keep looking away. We can’t keep _________. If we don’t bear witness to these moments of unfairness, they have the chance to _________ themselves.
If we’re afraid and confused, that’s __________, because we are only human. But on the other side of fear is __________. On the other side of __________ is knowledge and power. Maybe we are unsure what to do or really what we can do in this moment __________ there are so many confusing suggestions. But the only thing we __________ have to do is keep being our unique selves.
I’m Black. My father, mother, brother, and everyone in between are Black. I __________ being Black. Friends and family from all over have asked me to leave. And I say no.
I, too, need to bear witness.
1.A.harmful B.important C.safe D.beautiful
2.A.referring to B.cheering up C.defending against D.carrying on
3.A.limits B.warnings C.manners D.wishes
4.A.absorbed B.filled C.rooted D.buried
5.A.setting B.putting C.making D.watching
6.A.support B.statement C.schedule D.system
7.A.happen B.promise C.manage D.intend
8.A.alive B.balanced C.silent D.bored
9.A.hurt B.repeat C.beat D.win
10.A.unbelievable B.enjoyable C.reliable D.understandable
11.A.interest B.bravery C.luck D.sadness
12.A.confusion B.fool C.loss D.news
13.A.when B.where C.what D.that
14.A.nearly B.gently C.hardly D.truly
15.A.regret B.avoid C.love D.try
高二英语完形填空困难题查看答案及解析
Think “art”. What comes to your mind? Is it sculptures in the Louvre, or Chinese painting in the Palace Museum? Or maybe, just maybe, it’s a dancing pattern of lights?
The artworks by American artist Janet Echelman look like colorful floating clouds when lit up at night. Visitors can not only enjoy looking at them, they can also interact with them — literally.
1. Exhibits such as these are certainly new and exciting, but are they really art?
Whatever your opinion, people have been expressing their thoughts through art with various tools and technologies for thousands of years. Yet Michelangelo and others have been labelled as “artists” rather than “technicians”. 2.
Today, however, technological advances have led to a combination of art and technology. As a result, the art world is changing greatly. 3. Take for example one of China’s most famous paintings, Along the River During the Qingming Festival. As this artwork is rarely on display, people have sometimes queued a long time for a chance to see it. Thanks to technology however, millions more people have been able to experience a digital version of it with 3D animation.
4. Not only can we interact with art, but also take part in its creation. With new technological tools at our fingertips, more and more people have created exciting new art forms, such as digital paintings and videos.
However, such developments are making the line between art and technology less distinct. Is the artist the creator of the art itself, or the maker of the technology behind it?
5. But one thing is for sure — with so many artists exploring new possibilities, we can definitely expect the unexpected.
A.Now art is more accessible to us than ever before.
B.Where technology will take art next is anyone’s guess.
C.It’s not important whether they are artists or technicians.
D.They do this by using their phones to change their colors and patterns.
E.They watch as the different scenes change from daylight into nighttime.
F.The art-tech combination is also changing our concepts of “art” and the “artist”.
G.This means that art and technology have always been seen as two very separate things.
高二英语七选五困难题查看答案及解析
Both online learning and distance learning require similar online learning tools, but there the similarity ends.
The key difference between them is location. With online learning, students can be together in the classroom with an instructor while working through their digital lessons and assessments. When using distance learning, students work online at home while the teacher assigns work and checks in digitally.
Next, used as a mixed learning technique along with other teaching strategies, online learning will involve in-person interaction between you and your students on a regular basis. On the contrary, with distance learning you’ll likely rely on digital forms of communication such as messaging apps, video calls, discussion boards, and your school’s learning management system.
Both online learning and distance learning are effective teaching strategies, they do have their own distinct advantages.
To start, online learning can increase student engagement with a variety of instructional resources and teaching methods to deliver content in multiple ways. Second, using online learning tools makes it easier for you to differentiate your instruction. When using tools like digital curriculum, you will have more flexibility and control for differentiating your lessons. Finally, online learning is a time saver. Many digital curriculum tools do the heavy lifting for you by providing ready-to-use lesson plans, instructional materials, and assessments. Many online learning tools also automatically grade those assessments and post them to your teacher dashboard.
Compared to online learning, distance learning can continue without disturbance even in events like snow days or the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, distance learning provides greater flexibility for students to work at their own pace and review work as needed. This also ties in with the fact that students can access your course material at the times that work best for them, which is important for students who may have irregular work schedules.
1.What’s the distinctive feature of the interaction in online learning?
A.Communicating face to face regularly. B.Interacting via digital apps.
C.Communicating with discussion boards. D.Interacting privately irregularly.
2.Complete the diagram. (S-student; T-teacher)
A.① S: highly motivated; ② S: learn at their own pace
B.① T: deliver different lessons easily; ② S: enjoy more flexibility
C.① T: do the heavy lifting; ② T: more accessible
D.① S: enjoy more flexibility; ② T: regular work schedules
3.Whom is the text intended for?
A.Parents. B.Students. C.Technicians. D.Teachers.
4.About the two methods, what will be talked about following the last paragraph?
A.Their advantages. B.Their differences.
C.Their disadvantages. D.Their similarities.
高二英语阅读选择困难题查看答案及解析
Classical music deals with adult emotions and ideas.______, you can still love aspects of it as a kid. If you continue to be attracted to what you have heard, your understanding will only________ as the years pass by. You don’t need to be ________ trained, or incredibly smart, to “get it.”
As a boy growing up in New York City in the 1950s, I first heard the overture(序曲) to Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman as the ________ music for a science-fiction television show called Captain Video. It was absolutely exciting. When I first ____the opera many years later, that childhood memory of the music was still somewhere in the ________ reaches of my mind. Music can be written to bring a(n) ________ sound, mood or scene into mind, yet can be heard differently in different contexts. Wagner’s overture gets our attention with a heroic-sounding ________ from the horns and then a description of a stormy sea. As a kid, I ________ knew the hero was Captain Video. When I grew up, I came to understand that the very first notes were ________ to represent the scream of a ghost seeking redemption(救赎). The notes were the same, but I certainly was not, and yet there was ________ in revisiting something from my childhood with the _______ of an adult’s knowledge.
But does it still happen today? That question was ________ last summer when my two great nephews, ten-year-old twins, finished playing with Legos. One of them ________singing the Magic Flute from Mozart. The other joined in, singing in innocent ________ They kept going, but the words were_______ “What’s that?” I asked. The answer was about a famous cartoon: “Captain Underpants(内裤超人)!”
A time will come when they hear a performance of the Magic Flute and the weak memories of their youth will still be ________ to the classical music they heard from the cartoon, even though the original ________ of the music had nothing to do with it. Still, two boys born in 2010 ________ knew that a composition from Mozart was and ________ to be classical. No one is teaching them “how to love classical music.”
1.A.Besides B.However C.Instead D.Therefore
2.A.increase B.recover C.struggle D.fade
3.A.gradually B.firmly C.originally D.classically
4.A.theme B.rock C.festival D.folk
5.A.ruined B.conducted C.balanced D.opened
6.A.closest B.farthest C.highest D.lowest
7.A.specific B.disgusting C.accurate D.romantic
8.A.word B.figure C.voice D.melody
9.A.hardly B.mostly C.only D.even
10.A.said B.due C.advised D.meant
11.A.loss B.evidence C.comfort D.strength
12.A.example B.benefit C.need D.burden
13.A.raised B.answered C.heard D.predicted
14.A.imagined B.avoided C.began D.admitted
15.A.fun B.sorrow C.anger D.regret
16.A.gone B.long C.different D.similar
17.A.used B.committed C.connected D.contrary
18.A.version B.writer C.impression D.intention
19.A.possibly B.certainly C.particularly D.formally
20.A.continues B.tends C.occurs D.prefers
高二英语完形填空困难题查看答案及解析
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) is one of the most popular of the Post-Impressionist painters. He is famed for the great vitality of his works which are characterized by expressive and emotive use of brilliant color and energetic application of impastoed (厚原料的) paint.
Below are some famous pictures painted by Vincent and the poetic lyrics(歌词) to Don McLean’s hit song Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) in the famous cartoon film 《Loving Vincent》 .
Vincent Starry, starry night, Paint your palette(画板) blue and grey, Look out on a summer’s day, With eyes that know the darkness in my soul. Shadows on the hills, Sketch the trees and the daffodils, Catch the breeze and the winter chill, In colors on the snowy linen land. Now I understand What you tried to say to me How you suffered for your sanity(精神正常) How you tied to set them free. They would not listen They did not know how Perhaps they'll listen now. Starry, starry night. Flaming flowers that brightly blaze, Swirling clouds in violet haze(阴霾,疑惑), Reflect in Vincent’s eyes of china blue. Colors changing hue, morning. field of amber(黄色的) grain, Weathered faces lined in pain, Are soothed(抚慰) beneath the artist’s loving hand. For they could not love you, But still your love was true. And when no hope was left in sight On that starry, starry night, You took your life, as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, This world was never meant for one As beautiful as you. Now I think I know what you tried to say to me, How you suffered for your sanity, How you tried to set them free. They would not listen, They're not listening sill Perhaps they never will… | the sunflowers |
Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear | |
the Yellow House | |
Starry Night | |
Head of a Peasant Woman | |
The Potato Eaters |
1.What attitude does the writer of the song have towards Van Gogh?
A.Prejudiced and changeable. B.Admiring and understanding.
C.Doubtful but respectful. D.Positive but contradictory.
2.According to the song, Van Gogh was__________.
A.good at drawing on starry nights B.murdered by one of his lovers
C.a person full of love and beauty D.popular with people when be was alive
3.Which of the following belong to the four famous pictures of Van Gogh’s mentioned in the underlined parts in 4th paragraph?
A.The sunflowers, the Potato Eaters
B.Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear, Head of a Peasant Woman
C.the Potato Eaters, the Yellow House
D.Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear, Wheat Field with Crows
高二英语阅读选择困难题查看答案及解析