After 21 years of marriage,my wife wanted me to take another woman,my widowed mother, out to dinner and a movie.Due to the 31 of my work and my three children,I visited her only 32 .That night I called inviting her to go out.Though a bit 33,she accepted it happily.
That Friday after work,I drove over to 34her up.On reaching her house,I noticed that she seemed to be nervous about our35.Wearing the dress she had worn to 36 her last wedding anniversary,she smiled like an angel.
We went to a37 that,although not elegant,was very comfortable.After we sat down,I 38my eyes and saw Mom sitting there staring at me.A smile was on her lips.“I used to have to 39 the menu when you were smal1,”she said.“Then it’s time you relaxed and let me return the 40,”I responded.During the dinner,we had such a 41conversation-all about each other’s life—that we42the movie.When back home, she said, “Pity we didn’t see the film.Yet I’ll go out with you again, but only if you let me 43you.” I agreed.
A few days later,Mother died of a massive heart attack.It 44so suddenly that I had no45 to do anything for her.some time later,I 46 an envelope of a copy of a restaurant receipt from where mother and I had 47 .An attached note said,“I paid this 48 in advance.I wasn‘t sure whether I could be there;but nevertheless,I paid for two—one for you and the other for your wife.You’ll never know 49 that night meant for me.I love you, son.”
At that moment.I understood the importance of giving our loved ones the time they 50 because these things can never be put off till “some other time”.
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高二英语完型填空困难题查看答案及解析
On the bank of the river, we found him _______on a bench, with his eyes_______ on a kite in the sky.
A.seating; fixed | B.sitting; fixing |
C.seated; fixing | D.sitting; fixed |
高二英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析
It is the fact ______he doesn’t know his own birthday ______surprises us all.
A.which; which | B.that; that |
C.which; that | D.that; which |
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After a thorough search, the rescue team finally brought the mountain climbers back, __________.
A.safely and soundly | B.safe and sound |
C.safely and sound | D.safe and soundly |
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___ the phenomenon of "bystander effect" in the Yueyue event, most Chinese Strongly believe that there still exist love and warmth in people's hearts.
A.In addition to | B.In spite of | C.Because of | D.In terms of |
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About 15 years ago, I taught A Problem from Hell, a book on genocides (大屠杀), to a group of 18- and 19-year-olds in a mid-west university in the US. In my class there was a young man who had spent his boyhood in Bosnia as NATO bombed his hometown. My other students, amazed by his connection to the genocide in the textbook, asked him what it was like to grow up in a war-zone. “A pretty normal childhood as you had here,” he said. “We played cards inside a lot, and when there was no bombing we kicked a ball in the street.”
In the past few years, the world has seen a rapid increase in refugees (难民), with the number hitting 60 million. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s story collection The Refugees reminds us that literature is news that stays news. Set in the Vietnamese communities in California as well as in Vietnam, the stories do not aim to surprise us with new twists or shock us with wonderful details, as war and refugee stories could easily choose to do. Rather, like the young man from Bosnia, Nguyen’s characters tell these stories because they are the only ones known to them.
Included in the collection are two of the most touching pieces, both about siblings (兄弟或姊妹) separated by geography and history. In “Black-Eyed Women”, the narrator (讲述人), a young Vietnamese woman, is visited by the ghost of her elder brother, who died young on the boat when the family took flight from the war. The tale of love and loss, violence and violation, may not be unfamiliar to the reader, but the determination of the brother’s ghost (he has taken decades to swim across the Pacific to reach America) and the sister’s abandoning herself to a half death make the story lasting.
As an echo, the closing story, “Fatherland”, explores a more complex situation between two siblings. The narrator, a young Vietnamese woman, meets her half-sister, visiting from the US for the first time. Adding to the tension is the fact that her father has named the narrator and her siblings after his first set of children. Two sisters, one American and one Vietnamese, yet named the same by the father – it may sound strange, but isn’t it the fate many refugees have to face: a life left behind, that could have been theirs; and a life in an adopted country.
The theme of doubleness – choice and inevitability (不可避免性), home and homelessness, starting afresh and being stuck – is present not only in the stories of Vietnamese refugees, but also of those who have become refugees from their own homes and loved ones. “Smiling at your relatives never got you very far, but smiling at strangers and acquaintances sometimes did.” So a pilot, who fought in the Vietnam war and is now revisiting the country for the first time, thinks while waving at the locals from a tour bus. He’s distant from his daughter, just as a Mexican American in the collection is distant from his wife, or a young man from Hong Kong is distant from his father.
The collection is full of refugees, whether from external or from a deeper, more internal conflict between even those who are closest to each other. With anger but not despair, with reconciliation (和解) but not unrealistic hope, and with genuine humour that is not used to insult anyone, Nguyen has breathed life into many unforgettable characters.
1.The first paragraph is intended to .
A. describe the boring life of war victims
B. appeal to the readers to help war victims
C. criticize NATO’s killing of innocent people
D. introduce the story collection The Refugees
2.Which of the following about The Refugees is True?
A. It tells the news in a literary form.
B. It is full of surprising twists and plots.
C. The author experiences the stories himself.
D. Its characters narrate their own stories.
3.How are Black-Eyed Women and Fatherland mainly developed?
A. By giving examples.
B. Bymaking contrasts.
C. By providing evidence.
D. By making classifications.
4.We can infer from Paragraph 5 that .
A. relatives hate their loved ones for being left behind
B. separation from loved ones tends to make them distant
C. people become refugees due to their double character
D. smiling is a good way to keep loved ones together
5.Which of the following is the theme of The Refugees?
A. Despair, suffering, and regret.
B. Anger, humour and hope.
C. Sympathy, regret, and reconciliation.
D. Dream, hope, and expectation.
6.The Refugees mainly focuses on .
A. the problems of identity, love, and family for refugees
B. the miserable lives of refugees in the adopted countries
C. the refugees’ reunion with their families after separation
D. the various reasons for people’s being reduced to refugees
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A person’s chances of falling ill from a new strain (菌株) of flu are at least partly determined by the first strain they ever met with, a study suggests.
Research in Science Journal looked at the 18 strains of influenza A ( 甲型流感) and the hemagglutinin protein (红血球凝集素蛋白) on its surface. They say there are only two types of this protein and people are protected from the one their body meets first, but at risk from the other one. A UK expert said that could explain different patterns in flu pandemics (流行病).The researchers, from University of Arizona in Tucson and the University of California, Los Angeles, suggest their findings could explain why some flu outbreaks cause more deaths and serious illnesses in younger people. The first time a person's immune system meets a flu virus, it makes antibodies targeting hemagglutinin protein that sticks out of the surface of the virus — like a lollipop (棒棒糖).
Even though there are 18 types of influenza A, there are only two versions of hemagglutinin. The researchers, led by Dr Michael Worobey, classed them as “blue” and “orange” lollipops. They said people born before the late 1960s were exposed to “blue lollipop” flu viruses — H1 or H2 — as children. In later life they rarely fell ill from another “blue lollipop” flu — H5N1 bird flu, but they died from “orange” H7N9. Those born in the late 1960s and exposed to “orange lollipop” flu — H3 — have the opposite pattern.
His team looked at cases of H5N1 and H7N9 — two kinds of bird flu which have affected hundreds of people, but have not developed into pandemics. The researchers found a 75% protection rate against severe disease and 80% protection rate against death if patients had been exposed to a virus with the same protein version when they were children.
Dr Worobey said the finding could explain the unusual effect of the 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic, which was more deadly among young adults. “Those young adults were killed by an H1 virus and from blood analysed many decades later there is a pretty strong indication that those individuals had been exposed to a mismatched H3 as children and were therefore not protected against H1. The fact that we are seeing exactly the same pattern with current H5N1 and H7N9 cases suggests that the same fundamental processes may govern both the historic 1918 pandemic and today’s contenders (斗争者) for the next big flu pandemic.”
Jonathan Ball, professor of University of Nottingham, said, “This is a really neat piece of work and provides a reason why human populations have been sensitive to different strains of bird influenza over the past 100 years or so. The findings are based on analysis of patient records and they certainly need further proof in the laboratory, but nonetheless the results are pretty amazing and inspiring.”
1.The findings, if proved, will help people .
A. protect themselves from flu attacks
B. analyze more clearly the records of a patient infected with a bird flu
C. find out who are easier to get infected with a bird flu than others
D. find new drugs to cure patients of flu infections
2.The researchers use “blue lollipop” and “orange lollipop” for two versions of hemagglutinin in order to produce .
A. a good visual effect B. a good logic effect
C. an effect of being abstract D. an effect of being clear
3.While what Dr Worobey said is focused on the facts, Jonathan Ball’s remarks on the research are focused on .
A. the popularity of the research B. challenges and current situation
C. summary and future plans D. evaluation and influences
4.What can serve as the best title of this passage?
A. Cure for Bird Flu Not Far Away
B. First Flu Affects Lifetime Risk
C. New Classification of Flu Pandemics
D. How Bird Flu Affects People
高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
Oh, the places you’ll go!
When it comes to habitat, human beings are creatures of habit. It has been known for a long time that, whether his habitat is a village, a city or, for real globe-trotters (周游世界者), the planet itself, an individual person generally visits the same places regularly. The details, though, have been surprisingly obscure. Now, thanks to an analysis of data collected from 40,000 smartphone users around the world, a new property of humanity’s locomotive (移动的) habits has been revealed.
It turns out that someone’s “location capacity”, the number of places which he or she visits regularly, remains constant over periods of months and years. What constitutes a “place” depends on what distance between two places makes them separate. But analyzing movement patterns helps illuminate the distinction and the researchers found that the average location capacity was 25. If a new location does make its way into the set of places an individual tends to visit, an old one drops out in response. People do not, in other words, gather places like collector cards. Rather, they cycle through them. Their geographical behavior is limited and predictable, not fancy-free.
The study demonstrating this, just published in Nature Human Behavior, does not offer any explanation for the limited location capacity it measures. But a statistical analysis carried out by the authors shows that it cannot be explained solely by constraints on time. Some other factor is at work. One of the researchers draws an analogy. He suggests that people’s cognitive capacity limits the number of places they can visit routinely, just as it limits the number of other people an individual can routinely socialize with. That socialization figure, about 150 for most people, is known as the Dunbar number, after its discoverer, Robin Dunbar.
Lehmann says his group is now in search of similar data from other primates (灵长目动物), in an attempt to work out where human patterns of mobility have their roots. For those, though, they will have to rely on old-fashioned methods of zoological observation unless they can work out a way to get chimpanzees to carry smartphones.
1.The underlined word “obscure” in paragraph 1 can be replaced by .
A. clear B. little known
C. accurate D. long forgotten
2.How can the researchers get similar data from other primates?
A. Observe the primates or let them carry smartphones.
B. Work together with Robin Dunbar.
C. Carry out statistical analysis.
D. Publish essays in Nature Human Behavior.
高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
On hearing the news, she rushed out without hesitation, her handbag on the sofa and in the distance.
A. left; lied; disappeared B. leaving; lying; disappeared
C. leaving; laying; disappearing D. left; lying; disappearing
高二英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析
If you my advice, you how to solve the problem now.
A. had taken; would have known B. had taken; would know
C. took; would have known D. took; would know
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