My sister and I were taught at a very early age to write thank-you letters for birthday and Christmas gifts. We carefully copied addresses from our mom’s address book into our own pretty little books, and a new box of stationery（信箋，信封）was always among my gifts under the tree. We wrote our letters on December 26 at the latest every year. It was an important tradition in our home, and it has turned me into an avid（热情）thank-you-letter writer as an adult.
I still send a great deal of personal mail, and I am extremely interested in all of the trappings of letter writing: unique stamps, beautiful stationery, fountain pens（自来水笔）. I feel a mad rush of satisfaction sticking a stamp on a carefully penned thank-you letter and sending it off in the mail.
Several years ago, I even sent my mom a thank-you letter to thank her for teaching me to count my blessings on paper. Sending letters of thanks out into the world has made me more grateful for the love, support and kindness I receive daily.
My father died when I was twenty-seven. Even then, I found comfort in writing letters of thanks for the gifts of words I received. At a time when all I wanted to do was retreat（退缩）into my own sadness, the act of giving thanks forced me to stay connected to the world and to the lives of the living.
And while it may seem unimportant, my belief in well-written thank-you letters has protected my popularity. Since real thank-you letters are extremely few and far between, my social graces（风度）are considered as a charming difference from other people, and my friends and family always seem truly moved by my efforts.
1.What can we learn about the author’s family?
A.Her family liked to collect stationery.
B.Her family had a thank-you-letter writing tradition.
C.She often copied addresses for her mother.
D.They wrote thank-you letters on Dec 26.
2.How did the author feel when writing thank-you letters?
A.Satisfied. B.Tired. C.Excited. D.Bored.
3.What can we infer from the fourth paragraph?
A.The author felt happy to receive gifts from others.
B.The author’s father died when she was very young.
C.Writing thank-you letters made the author lead an active life.
D.Writing thank-you letters forced the author to talk with others.
4.What does the author intend to tell us?
A.Expressing thanks can protect what we have.
B.Receiving thank-you letters is truly moving.
C.Writing thank-you letters is difficult work.
D.Being grateful can help gain the respect.
高三英语阅读理解困难题
My sister and I were taught at a very early age to write thank-you letters for birthday and Christmas gifts. We carefully copied addresses from our mom’s address book into our own pretty little books, and a new box of stationery（信箋，信封）was always among my gifts under the tree. We wrote our letters on December 26 at the latest every year. It was an important tradition in our home, and it has turned me into an avid（热情）thank-you-letter writer as an adult.
I still send a great deal of personal mail, and I am extremely interested in all of the trappings of letter writing: unique stamps, beautiful stationery, fountain pens（自来水笔）. I feel a mad rush of satisfaction sticking a stamp on a carefully penned thank-you letter and sending it off in the mail.
Several years ago, I even sent my mom a thank-you letter to thank her for teaching me to count my blessings on paper. Sending letters of thanks out into the world has made me more grateful for the love, support and kindness I receive daily.
My father died when I was twenty-seven. Even then, I found comfort in writing letters of thanks for the gifts of words I received. At a time when all I wanted to do was retreat（退缩）into my own sadness, the act of giving thanks forced me to stay connected to the world and to the lives of the living.
And while it may seem unimportant, my belief in well-written thank-you letters has protected my popularity. Since real thank-you letters are extremely few and far between, my social graces（风度）are considered as a charming difference from other people, and my friends and family always seem truly moved by my efforts.
1.What can we learn about the author’s family?
A.Her family liked to collect stationery.
B.Her family had a thank-you-letter writing tradition.
C.She often copied addresses for her mother.
D.They wrote thank-you letters on Dec 26.
2.How did the author feel when writing thank-you letters?
A.Satisfied. B.Tired. C.Excited. D.Bored.
3.What can we infer from the fourth paragraph?
A.The author felt happy to receive gifts from others.
B.The author’s father died when she was very young.
C.Writing thank-you letters made the author lead an active life.
D.Writing thank-you letters forced the author to talk with others.
4.What does the author intend to tell us?
A.Expressing thanks can protect what we have.
B.Receiving thank-you letters is truly moving.
C.Writing thank-you letters is difficult work.
D.Being grateful can help gain the respect.
高三英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
Frederick learned how to read and write at an early age. He also worked hard in the Baltimore Shipyards and saw how horrible slavery could be. He was beaten on several occasions,by his masters and other shipyard workers. He finally decided to escape, dressed as a sailor, and made it to the North.
In New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1838, Frederick married Anna Murray. The couple soon met up with a black man named Nathan Johnson, who invited them to stay with him and his family. At that time, Johnson was reading Sir Walter Scott's book The Lady of the Lake. . Eager to leave his old identity behind, Frederick. changed his last name to Douglass, after a character in the book.
His first exposure to the Anti-Slavery Society was through reading the newspaper, The Liberator. He soon met William Lloyd Garrison, the newspaper' s editor and one of the leaders of the Anti-Slavery Society. Douglass gave a speech at a Society meeting, and many people were very much impressed. Douglass then went to work for the Society. And he worked for it for many years.
After a time, people began to doubt the sincerity of his stories. How could this man who spoke with such big words and such high- minded concepts have been a slave just a short time ago? To answer these charges，Douglass published his life story, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
Douglass then went to England, where he made important friends in England, who helped him buy his freedom. Frederick Douglass returned to the United States in 1847 as a free man. He moved to Rochester, New York, and began publishing a newspaper, The North Star. The newspaper’s motto was this: “Right is of no sex, truth is of no color and we are all fellow citizens.”
After Lincoln's election and the outbreak of the Civil War, Douglass continued to press for the freedom of slaves and a new cause, the introduction of black soldiers into the Union Army. In 1863，both the things happened. Lincoln issued The Emanci pation Proclamation, and Congress passed a law approving black soldiers in the army.
Frederick Douglass died in 1895 after a long illness. His voice continued to be heard long after his death.
1.Why did Frederick change his name to Douglass?
A.To forget his terrible past. B.To stay with Nathan Johnson's family.
C.To get a job in the Anti -Slavery Society. D.To make the name easy to remember.
2.How did Douglass begin to know the Antir-Slavery Society?
A.By giving a speech at a Society meeting. B.By working for the Anti-Slavery Society.
C.By meeting William Lloyd Garrison. D.By reading the Society' s newspaper.
3.For what purpose did Douglass publish his life story?
A.To get the money to travel to England.
B.To tell others his own terrible experience.
C.To clarify some people' s doubt about his stories.
D.To continue his struggle for the freedom of slaves.
4.When did Douglass become a free man?
A.Before he went to England. B.After he met Nathan Johnson.
C.In 1847 when he returned from the UK. D.After Lincoln's election as president of the US.
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Even then my only friends were made of paper and ink. At school I had learned to read and write long before the other children. Where my school friends saw notches of ink on incomprehensible pages, I saw light, streets and people. Words and the mystery of their hidden science fascinated me, and I saw in them a key with which I could unlock a boundless world, a haven from that home, those streets, and those troubled days in which even I could sense that only a limited fortune awaited me. My father didn’t like to see books in the house. There was something about them---apart from the letters he could not recognize---that offended him. He used to tell me that as soon as I was ten he would send me off to work and that I’d better get rid of all my scatterbrained ideas if I didn’t want to end up a loser, a nobody. I used to hide my books under the mattress and wait for him to go out or fall asleep so that I could read. Once he caught me reading at night and flew into a rage. He tore the book from my hands and flung it out of the window.
“If I catch you wasting electricity again, reading all this nonsense, you’ll be sorry.”
My father was not a miser and, despite the hardships we suffered, whenever he could he gave me a few coins so that I could buy myself some treats like the other children. He was convinced that I spent them on sunflower seeds, or sweets, but I would keep them in a coffee tin under the bed, and when I’d collected enough coins I’d secretly rush out to buy myself a book.
My favorite place in the whole city was the Sempere & Sons Bookshop on Calle Santa Ana. It smelled of old paper and dust and it was my refuge. The bookseller would let me sit on a chair in a corner and read any book I liked to my heart’s content. He hardly ever allowed me to pay for the books he placed in my hands, but when he wasn’t looking I’d leave the coins I’d managed to collect on the counter before I left. It was only small change---if I’d had to buy a book with that pittance (极少的报酬), I would probably have been able to afford only a booklet of cigarette papers. When it was time for me to leave, I would do so dragging my feet, a weight on my soul. If it had been up to me, I would have stayed there forever.
One Christmas Sempere gave me that best gift I had ever received. It was an old volume, read and experienced to the full.
“Great expectations, by Charles Dickens,” I read on the cover.
I was aware that Sempere knew a few authors who frequented his establishment and, judging by the care with which he handled the volume, I thought perhaps this Mr. Dickens was one of them.
“A friend of yours?”
“A lifelong friend. And from now on, he’s your friend too.”
That afternoon I took my new friend home, hidden under my clothes so that my father wouldn’t see it. It was a rainy winter, with days as gray as lead, and I read Great Expectations about nine times, partly because I had no other book at hand, partly because I did not think there could be a better one in the whole world and I was beginning to suspect that Mr. Dickens had written it just for me. Soon I was convinced that I didn’t want to do anything else in life but learn to do what Mr. Dickens had done.
1.The underlined word “haven” in Paragraph 1 probably means “______”.
A. favor B. mask C. consultant D. shelter
2.Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ______.
A. the people who played a part in the author’s story
B. the difficulties the author ran into in his childhood
C. the author’s affection for books as a child
D. the author’s dreams before he met Sempere
3.The word “friend” is used twice by Sempere to ______.
A. emphasize the emotional connection Sempere feels to reading
B. imply that Sempere had one close friend in his lifetime
C. underline the importance of the author’s connection to Sempere
D. stress how friendships helped the author deal with difficulties
4.Why does the author consider Great Expectations to be the best gift?
A. Because he wanted to make the acquaintance of the book’s author.
B. Because the gift meant that Sempere regarded him as a special friend.
C. Because reading the book convinced him that he wanted to be a writer.
D. Because he’d only ever been given sweets and snacks as gifts in the past.
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇 60 词左右的内容概要。
Children form opinions about drugs and alcohol at a very early age. Even four and five year olds have definite opinions about alcohol. Preschoolers, because of the commercials(商业广告) they see on TV, often think that alcohol helps people have more fun and be better athletes! Images of alcohol are everywhere in our society—consumption of alcohol is represented twice per hour in daytime shows, and three times in an average evening program. Also, posters about alcohol can be seen on buses, at underground stations, in streets and so on.
Despite the wide spread of alcohol in our society, and the problems that can be connected with it, many parents feel uncomfortable when talking about alcohol with their children, or are not sure when and how to start. Many parents believe that teenage drinking is something that their children would never be involved in.
Unfortunately, teenage drinking is very common in North Dakota. In a statewide survey of adolescents in junior and senior high school, only 24% claimed to have never consumed alcohol. When asked about their drinking in the past 30 days:
•61% adolescents reported drinking
•42% drank five or more drinks in a row
•17% reported binge(大吃大喝) drinking
•4.2% reported driving and drinking
Other research on rural youth in North Dakota has found that about 10% of a sample of fifth and sixth graders were engaged in frequent drinking. Teenagers who reported alcohol use (especially those who began use in late elementary school and junior high school) were more likely to be depressed, feel less positive about both their family and friends, and have poorer grades.
Research has found that children and even teenagers turn to their parents in making decisions about important things in their life. Decisions about using alcohol are undoubtedly something that parents will want to provide guidance about. So it’s high time that parents should talk to children about alcohol seriously.
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高三英语概要写作中等难度题查看答案及解析
In my early childhood, my parents and teachers taught me to be persistent (执着) in every task I devoted myself to. I was ____ that persistence is the only way towards success. But a small ____ made me change my mind.
One day my twoyearold son, ___ at a dozen of “stood” color markerpens, cheered excitedly，“Mummy, look! I did it.” Afterwards, he collected some ballpens, ____ to do the same. Hard though he tried, the ballpens just lay ____. He turned to me for help. Noticing they had either sharp or round ends, I said ____， “Mummy can't help you.” To my surprise, he wouldn't listen and continued trying... I was dumbfounded by his persistence.
My son's behaviour reminded me of George who was always ____ in his work and rarely talked to anyone. To him, ____， there was no such thing called weekends or holidays. Our boss praised __ about him and ___ us to look up to him as a role model.
One day I met George. “Gonna work late again tonight？”
“Probably can't leave till midnight，” he said.
“How many hours have you put in here each week, eighty or ninety？”
“____.”
“Don't you have time to be with your family at all？”
He shook his head slowly and ____ a sigh. “It's not what I wanted. But I have worked on it for so long. It's much too ____ to even think about letting go.”
A year later I resigned. The ____ thing I heard about him was that his wife divorced him. Since then I've never seen him. But occasionally his aged ____ would come to my mind.
Until that day, ____ knowing why the ballpens couldn't stand up, the twoyearold had ____ the impossibility after many failures. He put aside all the ballpens and kept only those water markers for his “game”. ___， he already learned to let go of his previous ____ attempts.
In our daily life, many headaches can be avoided if we know how to ____ them and then decisively let go of them immediately.
1.A.confident B．consistent
C．conscious D．convinced
2.A.event B．incident
C．accident D．affair
3.A.pointing B．shouting
C．screaming D．laughing
4.A.insisting B．requiring
C．intending D．urging
5.A.flat B．silent
C．still D．quiet
6.A.deliberately B．casually
C．unintentionally D．enthusiastically
7.A.interested B．busy
C．devoted D．buried
8.A.therefore B．however
C．otherwise D．though
9.A.high B．highly
C．well D．much
10.A.promised B．demanded
C．inspired D．appealed
11.A.At random B．At times
C．At most D．At least
12.A.let off B．let out
C．sent off D．sent out
13.A.encouraging B．comfortable
C．painful D．ashamed
14.A.latter B．later
C．last D．lately
15.A.picture B．figure
C．reflection D．image
16.A.for B．with
C．without D．besides
17.A.received B．accepted
C．refused D．rejected
18.A.Generally B．Eventually
C．Additionally D．Obviously
19.A.useless B．endless
C．hopeful D．meaningful
20.A.clarify B．distinguish
C．identify D．acknowledge
高三英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
When English as a foreign language is taught to children at the primary and early secondary levels of education, it is generally taught with a general education aim in mind--that is, it is regarded as a “good thing” for them to learn a foreign language as a part of a broad education. There is usually, however, no immediate and specific requirement for such children to make use of the language in any communicative situation. The purpose of learning the language is essentially a “deferred” (延缓的) purpose, deferred till the tertiary (第三的) level of education, normally at university, where, it is agreed, a knowledge of English would be helpful in their academic studies. Immediate aims of learning English are defined by the requirements of examinations. Inevitably what is taught to primary and secondary level children is not a communicative knowledge of English language use, but a knowledge of how the rules of English operate.
The language system is taught by means of systematic audio-lingual (听说的) drill and exercise techniques based on habit formation theory of learning and a structural description of English. This may be an effective manner of teaching English usage, but it is less certain that an understanding of how these rules are related to language in use for communicative purpose is an automatic result of this instruction.
What the thousands of children succeed in learning in this way is what is necessary in order to pass examinations. Whether such examinations accurately reflect the uses to which English will be put at the tertiary level is another matter altogether. Adults, on the other hand, unless they are learning a foreign language for “pleasure” at evening institutes, as a “cultural” and social experience, are generally highly conscious of the use to which they intend to put it. That use is frequently associated with an academic or professional requirement; without a knowledge of the foreign language, their development in their chosen sphere of work could be restricted or at least adversely affected.
1.According to the author, the current examination system ________.
A. reflects the students’ future needs
B. does not offer students opportunities to show their knowledge of English
C. does not enable students to use English for communication
D. prepares students for their future academic requirements
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. English teaching should prepare children for the passing of examination.
B. English should be taught to children at primary and secondary levels.
C. English teaching should help students with their future academic studies.
D. English teaching at primary and secondary levels should focus only on grammar.
3.We know from the passage that ________.
A. audio-lingual techniques are the best way to teach English for communication
B. language usage is the focus of foreign language teaching at primary and secondary levels
C. foreign languages are usually taught to children as the key of a broad education
D. adults usually don’t know why they learn foreign languages
4.What’s the relationship of English learning at different levels?
A. English learning at primary and secondary levels is more important than that at the college stage.
B. English learning at the tertiary level is more important than that at the first two levels.
C. Successful English learning at the first two levels does not necessarily mean success in English learning at college.
D. English learning should not be divided into different levels.
5.What is the main topic of this passage?
A. The importance of English learning.
B. English learning as a part of a general education.
C. English learning and examination.
D. Aims and purposes of foreign language learning.
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Growing up in the 1960s, I was taught from an early age to send a handwritten thank-you note expressing ______ for kindness. My mother used to buy me a box of paper and ______ me in the art and value of saying “thank you”. She ______ to be right.
A study showed that it took most volunteers less than 5 minutes to write the thank-you notes. Just 5 minutes to make ______ person feel “overjoyed”! ______, in our “instant” world, the idea of getting an actual pen and writing an actual note seems to never come to mind. We tend to do what is ______ for us — a quick text or an email.
It’s easy to use the ______ of being busy, but even very busy and ______ businessmen find time to ______ thank-you notes. For example, when Doug Conant became CEO of Campbell’s Soup, the company had ______ half of its market value and morale(士气) was at an all-time low. He ______fixing that by doing some simple things that are probably not ______ in any MBA class. For one thing, Conant wrote to every ______. He gained their confidence and ______, turned the company ______.
In his ten years as CEO, Conant wrote over 30,000 notes to employees. It’s ______ not to ask how he did it. ______, he had many other things to do ______ writing a thank-you note. Conant made time for ______ because he knew the impact(影响) each one would have. An expression of ______ in this crazy world still makes a difference.
1.A. concern B. sympathy C. affection D. appreciation
2.A. consult B. instruct C. answer D. impress
3.A. remained B. proved C. appeared D. claimed
4.A. one B. any C. each D. another
5.A. Yet B. Therefore C. So D. Otherwise
6.A. special B. necessary C. convenient D. important
7.A. case B. excuse C. example D. situation
8.A. humorous B. optimistic C. successful D. experienced
9.A. pen B. receive C. design D. deliver
10.A. lost B. gained C. developed D. damaged
11.A. gave up B. kept up C. set about D. worried about
12.A. permitted B. taught C. checked D. tested
13.A. market B. businessman C. company D. employee
14.A. personally B. frankly C. naturally D. occasionally
15.A. up B. down C. away D. around
16.A. hard B. great C. amazing D. disappointing
17.A. As usual B. In short C. By the way D. After all
18.A. by B. in C. besides D. without
19.A. me B. it C. him D. them
20.A. kindness B. joy C. value D. confidence
高三英语完形填空困难题查看答案及解析
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My mom has eyes in the back of her head. She also taught me from an early age to be suspicious of strange men, especially when they give you presents. One day, a “nice man” bearing flowers managed to steal 20 euros from her purse, while she was holding it in her hands. “He said he was collecting for a church charity so I pulled out a euro,” she explains, “He said ‘no, no, that’s too much’ and offered to look in my purse to find a smaller coin. He must have slid out that 20 euro note at the same time. I did not even notice until an hour later. I felt so stupid.”
According to neuroscientists, the key requirement for a successful pickpocket is not having nifty (熟练的) fingers, it’s having a working knowledge of the loopholes (漏洞) in our brain. The most important of these loopholes is the fact that our brains are not set up to multi-task. Most of the time that is a good thing — it allows us to filter (过滤) out all but the most important features of the world around us. But a good trickster can use it to against you. This kind of trick involves capturing all of somebody’s attention with other movements. Street pickpockets often use this effect to their advantage by manufacturing a situation that can not help but overload your attention system. Other strategies are more psychological. Pickpockets tend to hang out a “beware of pickpockets” signs, because the first thing people do when they read it is check they still have their valuables, helpfully giving away where they are. And in my mom’s case, the thief’s best trick was not coming across like a pickpocket. “He was a very nice guy and very confident. Not someone that would cause you to suspect,” she says. Apollo Robbins, a stage pickpocket, said smart move, like moving your hand in an arc (弧) motion rather than a straight line, is another popular strategy employed by tricksters.
At last, it should be pointed out that most thefts are opportunistic. The skill level of most thieves is far less than you think. But they are opportunistic enough to keep up with new technology.
1.What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A. People’s brains are not designed to multi-task.
B. People’s brains can filter out all but the most important features.
C. Somebody’s attention can be distracted by a certain trick.
D. Somebody’s overload attention system.
2.According to the passage, all of the following are pickpocket strategies except _________.
A. having nifty fingers
B. hanging out “beware of pickpockets” sign
C. displaying confidence
D. moving hand in an arc motion
3.In the author’s opinion, _________.
A. people’s brains have many loopholes
B. thieves are more skillful than opportunistic
C. his mom’s losing money is nothing but a by-accident experience
D. signs reminding people of pickpockets can play a negative role in protecting valuables
4.What will the author probably talk about next?
A. Mom’s another suffering
B. Pickpockets concerning new technology
C. Pickpockets’ tricks
D. Apollo Robbins’ stage pickpockets
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
I lived in Dallas, Texas nearly all my life with my mom, dad and older sister. We were 41 to respect others, value education, and get all that we could out of life. My parents always say, “42 hard and the world is yours.” They are never without a 43 word of advice or a bit of encouragement when life gets tough.
My parents always 44 me to go to college. However, when I 45 at 16 years old that I’d rather get married to a man than go to college, they 46 stopped telling me they loved me and I could anything I wanted to. 47, they persuaded me. I graduated from high school and currently 48 the University of Oklahoma studying medicine. I want to make the 49 a better place to live in.
Every time I call home to tell them about a 50 I received in Chemistry Lab or Microeconomics or whichever 51 it is that I’m working hardest for at the moment, they tell me how 52 of me they are. I know there are college kids out there that have no one to call home when they an “A” on a project and I feel incredibly 53 to have my parents.
Don’t get me wrong: We’ve had our share of 54. I was the angry teenager and they were the awful 55 that wouldn’t let me stay out all night or let me get my tongue pierced（扎洞）.But somehow, we 56 to work through those issues. They never 57 loving in me or believing in me.
I 58 everything I am to my parents. Without their 59love and encouragement, I wouldn’t believe I can change the world. My parents taught me to always 60 for what I believe in. So I’m working toward something really great and can only hope I continue to make them proud.
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高三英语完型填空困难题查看答案及解析
Experiments have proved that children can 1 (instruct) in swimming at a very early age. At a special swimming pool in Los Angeles, children become expert at 2 (hold) their breath under water even before they can walk. 3 (baby) of two months old do not appear to be reluctant to enter the water. It is not long 4 they are so accustomed to swimming 5 they can pick up weights from the floor of the pool. A game that is very popular with these young 6 (swim) is the underwater tricycle race. Tricycles are lined up on the floor of the pool seven feet under water. The children compete against each other to reach the other end of the pool. Many pedal their tricycles, 7 most of them prefer to push or drag them. Some children 8 cover the whole length of the pool 9 coming up for breath even once. Whether they will ever become future Olympic champions, only time will tell. Meanwhile, they should encourage 10 among us who cannot swim five yards before they are gasping for air.
高三英语填空题简单题查看答案及解析