____________________________
It is obvious that it has nothing to do with success. For Sir Henry Steward was certainly successful. It is twenty years ago since he came down to our village from London, and bought a couple of old cottages, which he had knocked into one. He used his house as a weekend refuge. He was a lawyer. And the village followed his brilliant career with something almost amounting to paternal pride.
I remember some ten years ago when he was made a King’s Counsel, Amos and I, seeing him get off the London train, went to congratulate him. We grinned with pleasure; he merely looked as miserable as though he’d received a penal sentence. It was the same when he was knighted; he never smiled a bit.And not one of his achievements brought even a ghost of a smile to his tired eyes.
I asked him one day,soon after he’d retired to work with his garden,what it was like to achieve all one’s ambitions. He looked down at his roses and went on watering them. Then he said, “The only value in achieving one’s ambition is that you then realize that they are not worth achieving.’Quickly he moved the conversation on to a more practical level,and within a moment we were back to a safe discussion on the weather. That was two years ago.
I recall this incident, for yesterday, I was passing his house, and had drawn up my cart just outside his garden wall to let a bus pass me. As I sat there filling my pipe.I suddenly heard a shout of joy come from the other side of the wall.
I peered over.There stood Sir Henry doing nothing less than a tribal war dance of sheer unashamed ecstasy. Even when he observed my bewildered face staring over the wall he did not seem put out or embarrassed,but shouted for me to climb over.
“Come and see,Jack,Look! I have done it at last!I have done it at last!”
There he was,holding a small box of earth in his hand.I observed three tiny shoots out of it.
“And there were only three!’ he said,his eye laughing to heaven.
“Three what?’ I asked.
Peach stones, he replied. ‘I’ve always wanted to make peach stones grow,ever since I was a child,when I used to take them home after a party,or as a man after a banquet. And I used to plant them. But now at last I have done it, and what’s more, I had only three stones, and there you are, one, two, three shoots,’ he counted.
And Sir Henry ran off, calling for his wife to come and see his achievement-his achievement of simplicity.
1.Which of the following statement is correct about Sir Henry Steward?
A.He was regarded as an example of being successful by the villagers.
B.He used to bury himself in his lawyer job,which he was very proud of.
C.He participated in parties or banquets with the intention of finding peach stones.
D.He is more a capable gardener in a small village than a brilliant lawyer in London.
2.According to Sir Henry,the underlined word’ they’ in Paragraph 4 possibly means the following EXCEPT
A.being appointed as a King’s Counsel B.being knighted
C.being a respectable lawyer D.being able to plant peach stones
3.Which of the following best serves as an opening paragraph of this passage?
A.However successful we maybe we can never find enough hours to do everything we want.
B.So seldom do people smile that we do not recognize their faces when they do.
C.It would seem that happiness has something to do with simplicity,and that it is the ability to extract pleasure from the simplest things.
D.Look at a man and you will notice that every day is greeted with only resignation,and endured with polite indifference.
4.What can be a suitable title for this passage?
A.Three peach stones B.Smile like a kid
C.Unashamed excitement D.Never too old to learn
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题
It is obvious that John is unhappy. _________, it comes as no surprise that she has decided to change her job.
| A．However | B．Otherwise | C．Moreover | D．Therefore |
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Though technology has considerable wonderful benefits, it is becoming increasingly obvious that our addiction to technology and overall cell phone addiction is becoming too common. However powerful it is, it does have a power-off button.1.
● Powering-down prevents the fear of missing out.
Scientifically speaking, the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) has been recognized as a recently rising psychological disorder brought on by the huge increase in technology addiction. The premise(假定) is simple.2.Within this constant stream of information, our fear of being left out continues to grow. Turning off social media and learning how to live in the moment are both important skills in this modern world.
● Powering-down promotes creation over consumption.
Essentially, most of our time is spent in one of the two categories: consuming or creating. Certainly, technology can contribute to creating. For example, this article was written (created) on a computer. But most of the time we spend in front of technology is spent consuming (playing video games, browsing the Internet, watching movies, listening to music).3. It needs more creating. It needs your passion, your solution, and your unique contribution.
Power down and begin contributing to a better world because of it.
●4.
If we power down for a while, we can learn something about ourselves. We will learn we are far more addicted to technology than we would have guessed. But that is the nature of addiction, isn’t it? We can never fully realize our level of addiction until the item is out of sight. The only way to truly discover technology’s controlling influence on our life is to turn it off, walk away, and sense how strong the pull is to turn it back on.
● Life, at its best, is happening right in front of you.
Our world may be changing, but the true nature of life is not. Life, at its best, is happening right in front of you.5.The conversations are natural and authentic. And the love is real. But if we are too busy staring down at our screen, we’re going to miss all of it.
A.It has a negative effect on our creativity.
B.Our world doesn’t need more consuming.
C.The experiences in life will never repeat themselves.
D.The following are some important reasons to unplug.
E.Our social media are filled with everything happening all around us.
F.Powering-down helps remove unhealthy feelings of envy and loneliness.
G.Technology addiction can only be understood when the object is taken away.
高三英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析
Jack has been working hard these days．It's obvious that there is ________he is eager for but didn't mention to us．
A．anything B．something
C．nothing D．everything
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Jack has been working hard these days．It's obvious that there is ________he is eager for but didn't mention to us．
A．anything B．something C．nothing D．everything
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Jack has been working hard these days.It's obvious that there is ________he is eager for but didn't mention to us.
A．anything B．something C．nothing D．everything
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
It is obvious that on no account _____ to the teacher that he has done the homework on his own.
| A．this is the first time he is lying | B．this is the first time he has lied |
| C．is this the first time has he lied | D．is this the first time he has lied |
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____________________________
It is obvious that it has nothing to do with success. For Sir Henry Steward was certainly successful. It is twenty years ago since he came down to our village from London, and bought a couple of old cottages, which he had knocked into one. He used his house as a weekend refuge. He was a lawyer. And the village followed his brilliant career with something almost amounting to paternal pride.
I remember some ten years ago when he was made a King’s Counsel, Amos and I, seeing him get off the London train, went to congratulate him. We grinned with pleasure; he merely looked as miserable as though he’d received a penal sentence. It was the same when he was knighted; he never smiled a bit.And not one of his achievements brought even a ghost of a smile to his tired eyes.
I asked him one day,soon after he’d retired to work with his garden,what it was like to achieve all one’s ambitions. He looked down at his roses and went on watering them. Then he said, “The only value in achieving one’s ambition is that you then realize that they are not worth achieving.’Quickly he moved the conversation on to a more practical level,and within a moment we were back to a safe discussion on the weather. That was two years ago.
I recall this incident, for yesterday, I was passing his house, and had drawn up my cart just outside his garden wall to let a bus pass me. As I sat there filling my pipe.I suddenly heard a shout of joy come from the other side of the wall.
I peered over.There stood Sir Henry doing nothing less than a tribal war dance of sheer unashamed ecstasy. Even when he observed my bewildered face staring over the wall he did not seem put out or embarrassed,but shouted for me to climb over.
“Come and see,Jack,Look! I have done it at last!I have done it at last!”
There he was,holding a small box of earth in his hand.I observed three tiny shoots out of it.
“And there were only three!’ he said,his eye laughing to heaven.
“Three what?’ I asked.
Peach stones, he replied. ‘I’ve always wanted to make peach stones grow,ever since I was a child,when I used to take them home after a party,or as a man after a banquet. And I used to plant them. But now at last I have done it, and what’s more, I had only three stones, and there you are, one, two, three shoots,’ he counted.
And Sir Henry ran off, calling for his wife to come and see his achievement-his achievement of simplicity.
1.Which of the following statement is correct about Sir Henry Steward?
A.He was regarded as an example of being successful by the villagers.
B.He used to bury himself in his lawyer job,which he was very proud of.
C.He participated in parties or banquets with the intention of finding peach stones.
D.He is more a capable gardener in a small village than a brilliant lawyer in London.
2.According to Sir Henry,the underlined word’ they’ in Paragraph 4 possibly means the following EXCEPT
A.being appointed as a King’s Counsel B.being knighted
C.being a respectable lawyer D.being able to plant peach stones
3.Which of the following best serves as an opening paragraph of this passage?
A.However successful we maybe we can never find enough hours to do everything we want.
B.So seldom do people smile that we do not recognize their faces when they do.
C.It would seem that happiness has something to do with simplicity,and that it is the ability to extract pleasure from the simplest things.
D.Look at a man and you will notice that every day is greeted with only resignation,and endured with polite indifference.
4.What can be a suitable title for this passage?
A.Three peach stones B.Smile like a kid
C.Unashamed excitement D.Never too old to learn
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
I don’t understand how he can say that everything is fine _____ it’s so obvious that it’s not.
A. unless B. in case C. so that D. when
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
It is obvious that doctors recognize obesity as a health problem. So why is it so hard for them to talk to their patients about it?
The results of two surveys, one of primary care physicians and the other of patients, found that while most doctors want to help patients lose weight and think it is their responsibility to do so, they often don’t know what to say.
“So while doctors may tell patients they are overweight, the conversation often ends there,” said Christine C. Ferguson, director of the Stop Obesity Alliance. “Patients are not told about the possibility of diabetes (糖尿病),” she said. “And doctors don’t feel they have good information to give. They felt that they didn’t have adequate tools to address this problem.
The lack of dialogue hurts patients, too. The patient survey, of over 1,000 adults, found that most overweight patients don’t even know that they’re too heavy. Only 39 percent of overweight people surveyed had ever been told by a health care provider that they were overweight.
Of those who were told they were obese, 90 percent were also told by their doctors to lose weight, the survey found. In fact most have tried to lose weight and may have been successful in the past—and many are still trying, the survey found. And many understand that losing even a small amount of weight can have a positive impact on their health and reduce their risk of obesityrelated diseases like hypertension and diabetes.
Dr. William Bestermann Jr., medical director of Holston Medical Group, in Kingsport, Tenn. , which ranks the 10th in obesity among metropolitan areas in the United States, said the dialogue had to be an ongoing one and could not be dropped after just one mention of the problem. “If you’re to be successful with helping your patients lose weight, you have to talk to them at actually every visit about their progress, and find something to encourage them and coach them,” he said.
He acknowledged that many doctors tend to be not optimistic.
“Part of this is that there's this common belief, and doctors are burdened by it, too, that overweight people are weak-willed and just don’t have any willpower and are selfindulgent and all that business,” he said. “If you think that way, you’re not going to spend time having a productive conversation.”
1.What is the Stop Obesity Alliance most probably in Paragraph 3?
A. An organization of doctors suffering from obesity.
B. An organization of patients suffering from obesity.
C. A research group that conducts special surveys about overweight people.
D. A research group dealing with doctor-patient relationship.
2.How many of the patients surveyed have been advised by their doctors to lose weight?
A. About 350. B. About 390.
C. About 900. D. About 1,000.
3.What can be inferred about obesity patients in Paragraph 5?
A. They are not as hopeless as doctors think they are.
B. Most of them have tried hard to lose weight, but in vain.
C. Without their doctors’ constant coaching, there is little chance of their succeeding in losing weight.
D. Most of them have just given up their hope of becoming less heavy.
4. According to the passage, which factor contributes to the lack of dialogue between doctors and patients?
A. Most doctors never think of warning their patients about their weight problem.
B. Many doctors find it difficult to persuade overweight people to lose weight.
C. Most patients are too weak-willed to do anything about their weight.
D. Many patients tend not to trust their doctors about their weight problem.
5.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. Obesity in the U. S.
B. Trouble of overweight Americans.
C. Talk more, help better.
D. Doctors or patients---who to bear more blame?[
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
It is obvious that doctors recognize obesity as a health problem. So why is it so hard for them to talk to their patients about it?
The results of two surveys, one of primary care physicians and the other of patients, found that while most doctors want to help patients lose weight and think it is their responsibility to do so, they often don’t know what to say.
“So while doctors may tell patients they are overweight, the conversation often ends there,” said Christine C. Ferguson, director of the Stop Obesity Alliance. “Patients are not told about the possibility of diabetes (糖尿病),” she said. “And doctors don’t feel they have good information to give. They felt that they didn’t have adequate tools to address this problem.
The lack of dialogue hurts patients, too. The patient survey, of over 1,000 adults, found that most overweight patients don’t even know that they’re too heavy. Only 39 percent of overweight people surveyed had ever been told by a health care provider that they were overweight.
Of those who were told they were obese, 90 percent were also told by their doctors to lose weight, the survey found. In fact most have tried to lose weight and may have been successful in the past—and many are still trying, the survey found. And many understand that losing even a small amount of weight can have a positive impact on their health and reduce their risk of obesityrelated diseases like hypertension and diabetes.
Dr. William Bestermann Jr., medical director of Holston Medical Group, in Kingsport, Tenn. , which ranks the 10th in obesity among metropolitan areas in the United States, said the dialogue had to be an ongoing one and could not be dropped after just one mention of the problem. “If you’re to be successful with helping your patients lose weight, you have to talk to them at actually every visit about their progress, and find something to encourage them and coach them,” he said.
He acknowledged that many doctors tend to be not optimistic.
“Part of this is that there's this common belief, and doctors are burdened by it, too, that overweight people are weak-willed and just don’t have any willpower and are selfindulgent and all that business,” he said. “If you think that way, you’re not going to spend time having a productive conversation.”
1.What is the Stop Obesity Alliance most probably in Paragraph 3?
A. An organization of doctors suffering from obesity.
B. An organization of patients suffering from obesity.
C. A research group that conducts special surveys about overweight people.
D. A research group dealing with doctor-patient relationship.
2.How many of the patients surveyed have been advised by their doctors to lose weight?
A. About 350. B. About 390.
C. About 900. D. About 1,000.
3.What can be inferred about obesity patients in Paragraph 5?
A. They are not as hopeless as doctors think they are.
B. Most of them have tried hard to lose weight, but in vain.
C. Without their doctors’ constant coaching, there is little chance of their succeeding in losing weight.
D. Most of them have just given up their hope of becoming less heavy.
4.According to the passage, which factor contributes to the lack of dialogue between doctors and patients?
A. Most doctors never think of warning their patients about their weight problem.
B. Many doctors find it difficult to persuade overweight people to lose weight.
C. Most patients are too weak-willed to do anything about their weight.
D. Many patients tend not to trust their doctors about their weight problem.
5.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. Obesity in the U. S.
B. Trouble of overweight Americans.
C. Talk more, help better.
D. Doctors or patients---who to bear more blame?[
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析