Reading books and looking at pictures is grea...

Reading books and looking at pictures is great, but nothing facilitates learning like travel, especially for teenagers. Not only do they get to see a world beyond their neighborhood, they also get to experience it — feel it, taste it, hear it, and better understand the world around them.

After nearly four decades in the classroom and traveling the world, Phyllis Duvall Bailey knew this perhaps better than anyone else. Becoming involved with the work in AKA Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. In US, she worked to educate children about the United Nations. There was no doubt in Bailey’s mind that the lesson would mean so much if the students could see things for themselves.

Starting in 2015, Bailey, 82, set out to take her students to the UN Headquarters in New York City to give them a “Window Seat to the World”, and thus transform them into global citizens. Indeed, it is a great opportunity to give students national and international exposure. Since Bailey saw the students as future leaders, she was desperate to expose them to the UN, its mission, its agendas and its supporting organizations. She decided to give $ 10,000 (70,720 yuan) of her own money to pay for the late June trip, enough to take 10 students ages 14-17 on a four-night stay in New York. There, they had guided tours of the UN Headquarters and the New York City harbor.

It was Quenyaun Payne’s first trip to the city and Taylor Sappington’s second. Payne, 17, is a senior at McEachern High School in the state of Georgia, US. Sappington, 15, is a junior at Therrell High School in Atlanta, Georgia, US. Both said their visit to the UN was inspiring.

“I liked how countries are not only working together, but also they’re focused on common goals like global warming and keeping the peace.” Sappington said.

Payne commented, “The trip was amazing. I’m so thankful Mrs. Bailey made it possible.”

Actually, there are a lot of people grateful for the retired teacher’s effort. The United Nations Association of Atlanta recently gave Bailey its Humanitarian Award, and the United Nations Association of the US awarded her with the National Education Award. But Bailey didn’t looking for recognition or even gratitude. Over those four days in New York, we’d already felt it, seen it in the eyes of those IQ teenagers. Payne and Sappinton felt grateful to him, who made the trip.

Bailey said, “It was a real joy to get to see and watch their reaction to new experiences.”

1.What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A.The benefit of traveling.

B.The good reading habit.

C.The new teaching method.

D.The thing teenagers like.

2.How did Bailey help students?

A.She paid for trips that helped students see the world.

B.She offered students volunteer opportunities at the UN.

C.She taught students life-long learning skills.

D.She paid for them to go to school.

3.What can we know from Sappington’s words?

A.He wants to visit New York City again.

B.He found the trip to the UN beneficial.

C.He would like to contribute to global affairs.

D.He is determined to work for the UN in the future.

4.What would Bailey probably agree with?

A.Winning an award motivates her to work hard.

B.Classroom teaching is better for students’ development.

C.Students today are not willing to sock new experiences.

D.Students’ gains are more important than the recognition of her efforts.

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They say that ''a picture is worth a thousand words'', but the briefest look at books and the movies based on them would have anyone questioning this common saying. All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic ''turkeys''.

Good movies need good stories. If so, why has one of the earliest and greatest works in Western storytelling, Homer's The Odyssey, never had an equally great movie based on it? Movies need strong characters. So why have the movies based on The Great Gatsby never been praised as ''great''? Movies of course need impressive images, so why has Alice in Wonderland only resulted in movies best described as ''interesting''?

One of the key reasons behind this is that while a book usually takes a few days to read, a movie typically lasts under two hours. This means that great books can lose plot details and characters when they move to the big screen. This is something that even the highly successful Harry Potter movies can't escape from, with fans of the books disappointed not to see some of their favorite characters in the movie versions.

Movies also disappoint us when things don't look the way we imagined them in the books. Take, for example, the epic movie Troy, which is in part based on Homer's The Iliad and was met with mixed reviews from the audience. The most questionable issue was the actress chosen to play the part of Helen. Many people thought she didn't live up to Helen's title of ''the most beautiful woman in the world'', influencing opinions of the movie to some extent.

There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes. Furthermore, books and movies are two different forms of media and therefore have different rules. With this in mind, perhaps we should judge a movie in its own right, and not against its original source. Interestingly, audiences have in recent years turned to television series such as Sherlock or Mad Men, which can have many characters and gradual plot development. Perhaps, one day, readers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most admired work will find themselves glued to their screens by episodes of The Great Gatsby.

1.Which of the following statements about the movie adaptation is true?

A.The characters in The Odyssey do not stand out.

B.The movie Troy doesn't look the way we visualized while reading the book.

C.The visual images are not as striking as the descriptions in the book The Great Gatsby.

D.Some parts of the story and characters are missing in the movie Alice in Wonderland.

2.One of the reasons why adaptations disappoint the audience is that ________.

A.they lack good storytelling

B.the images are not impressive enough

C.the characters in the movies are not strong and interesting

D.there is not enough time for movies to fully present the whole story

3.What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?

A.Every shoe fits not every foot.

B.Birds of a feather flock together.

C.Reading is a matter of personal taste.

D.Different people have different ideas about the books and movies.

4.What does the text mainly talk about?

A.People are dissatisfied with the current movies.

B.Reading books is better than watching movies.

C.Good books may not be adapted for great movies.

D.People are expressing their preference to reading books.

高三英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

His first book is of great use for our course. But his latest one is ____ worth reading.

A. better                 B more                         C. much                       D. very

高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

The emergency center is in great need of O-type blood，but there is__________ at hand.

A．nothing　　　 B．none　　　　 C．any　　　　　　 D．much

高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

All over my garden I’ve planted nothing but roses, sweet and — if looked at far away — bright with color like sunset clouds, I’d be very happy if anyone of my visiting friends should desire to pick and take some for their homes. I trust that any friend of mine carrying the rose would disappear into the distance feeling that his emotions had been rekindled (重燃).

A close friend came for a visit the other day. I know her to be a lover of flowers and plants. And for that reason I told her at her departure that she should pick a bunch of roses to grace her bedroom. I promised that the smell of the roses would be wafted far, far away.

That girl friend of mine, tiptoeing into the garden in high spirits, smelt here and there, but in the end she didn’t pick a single rose. I said there were so many of them that she would pick as many as she’d like to; I told her that I was not a flower farmer and didn’t make a living out of them. Saying so I raised the scissors for the sacrifice of the flowers, but she stopped me, crying no, no, no!

To cut such beautiful roses would hurt one, she said. With her hands seizing at my sleeves, she told me that by no means should they be cut. Roses are the smiling face of the earth, and who could be so iron-hearted as to destroy a smile so charming?

My mind was thoroughly shocked: the ugly earth, the rough earth, the plain earth—it is for the reason of that smile that it wins the care and pity of people

1.The underlined word “wafted” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to “__________”.

A. moved            B. lost           C. destroyed      D. felt

2.The writer plants nothing but roses in her garden probably because __________.

A. she can make money out of them

B. her friends like them

C. she enjoys the roses very much

D. the roses can rekindle her friends’ emotions

3.Why did the writer’s close friend refuse to pick a single rose?

A. Because the roses were not beautiful

B. Because she did not like this kind of roses

C. Because the writer did not want to give her any

D. Because she loved the roses very much

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. A lovely rose garden.                                B. The smiling face of the earth

C. The pity of people to the roses.   D. A lover of flowers

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

All over my garden I’ve planted nothing but roses, sweet and — if looked at far away — bright with color like sunset clouds, I’d be very happy if anyone of my visiting friends should desire to pick and take some for their homes. I trust that any friend of mine carrying the rose would disappear into the distance feeling that his emotions had been rekindled (重燃).

A close friend came for a visit the other day. I know her to be a lover of flowers and plants. And for that reason I told her at her departure that she should pick a bunch of roses to grace her bedroom. I promised that the smell of the roses would be wafted far, far away.

That girl friend of mine, tiptoeing into the garden in high spirits, smelt here and there, but in the end she didn’t pick a single rose. I said there were so many of them that she would pick as many as she’d like to; I told her that I was not a flower farmer and didn’t make a living out of them. Saying so I raised the scissors for the sacrifice of the flowers, but she stopped me, crying no, no, no!

To cut such beautiful roses would hurt one, she said. With her hands seizing at my sleeves, she told me that by no means should they be cut. Roses are the smiling face of the earth, and who could be so iron-hearted as to destroy a smile so charming?

My mind was thoroughly shocked: the ugly earth, the rough earth, the plain earth—it is for the reason of that smile that it wins the care and pity of people.

1.The underlined word “wafted” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to “__________”.

A. moved        B. lost              destroyed           D. felt

2.The writer plants nothing but roses in her garden probably because ____.

A. she can make money out of them          B. her friends like them

she enjoys the roses very much

D.the roses can rekindle her friends’ emotions

3.Why did the writer’s close friend refuse to pick a single rose?

A. Because the roses were not beautiful.

B. Because she did not like this kind of roses.

 Because the writer did not want to give her any.

D. Because she loved the roses very much.

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. A lovely rose garden.                    B. The smiling face of the earth.

 The pity of people to the roses.    D. A lover of flowers.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

All over my garden I’ve planted nothing but roses, sweet and — if looked at far away — bright with color like sunset clouds, I’d be very happy if anyone of my visiting friends should desire to pick and take some for their homes. I trust that any friend of mine carrying the rose would disappear into the distance feeling that his emotions had been rekindled (重燃).

A close friend came for a visit the other day. I know her to be a lover of flowers and plants. And for that reason I told her at her departure that she should pick a bunch of roses to grace her bedroom. I promised that the smell of the roses would be wafted far, far away.

That girl friend of mine, tiptoeing into the garden in high spirits, smelt here and there, but in the end she didn’t pick a single rose. I said there were so many of them that she would pick as many as she’d like to; I told her that I was not a flower farmer and didn’t make a living out of them. Saying so I raised the scissors for the sacrifice of the flowers, but she stopped me, crying no, no, no!

To cut such beautiful roses would hurt one, she said. With her hands seizing at my sleeves, she told me that by no means should they be cut. Roses are the smiling face of the earth, and who could be so iron-hearted as to destroy a smile so charming?

My mind was thoroughly shocked: the ugly earth, the rough earth, the plain earth—it is for the reason of that smile that it wins the care and pity of people

1. The underlined word “wafted” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to “__________”.

A. moved                    B. lost                      C. destroyed             D. felt

2.    The writer plants nothing but roses in her garden probably because __________.

A. she can make money out of them

B. her friends like them

C. she enjoys the roses very much

D. the roses can rekindle her friends’ emotions

3.Why did the writer’s close friend refuse to pick a single rose?

A. Because the roses were not beautiful

B. Because she did not like this kind of roses

C. Because the writer did not want to give her any

D. Because she loved the roses very much

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. A lovely rose garden.                                B. The smiling face of the earth

C. The pity of people to the roses.                  D. A lover of flowers

高三英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

If you like art and enjoy looking at the pictures, ________ is an interest.

A. which　　　　 B. that　　　　 C. as　　　　 D. what

高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

If you like art and enjoy looking at the pictures, ________ is an interest.

A. which         B. that             C. as               D. what

高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

If you like art and enjoy looking at the pictures, ________ is an interest.

A. which         B. that             C. as               D. what

高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析