Abby and Ally are my dear daughters. Last wee...

Abby and Ally are my dear daughters. Last week, we had an outing and we were really tired later that day. After enjoying good food, we headed back. Abby pushed the button as we awaited the elevator and suddenly Ally let out a sigh of disappointment.

“Oh wait, we can’t use the elevator,” Ally said, pointing to a sign near the elevator. Too tired to challenge her, both Abby and I followed her without looking around the corner to another set of elevators. “Oh, my god,” Ally said, visibly upset. “we can’t use the elevators either！They’re also reserved for the firefighters.” Abby looked at me. I looked at Abby. We both looked at the sign and then we stared at Ally to see if she was serious. She was. .

“Ally, the sign doesn’t say the elevators are reserved for firefighters,” Abby explained. “It says not to use the elevators in case of fire！With that, Ally took a longer look at the sign and actually read it instead of skimming it this time.

What’s the lesson here? You have to spend time reading signs, maps or recipes instead of just assuming you know what they say, or you might go through life climbing many flights of stairs when you could be taking the elevator.

It also got me thinking about how often we do this with reading. I wonder how many people just assume they know what a book says instead of actually spending time reading it, thus making wrong assumptions. How often have I neglected a book simply because I think I “know” what it says when I really just need to slow down, open the book, and focus on the reading?

1.Why did Abby believe what Ally said about the first elevator? (No more than12 words)

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2.What did the sign really say?　 (No more than 9 words)

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3.How did Ally read the sign at first?　 (No more than5 words)

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4.How should we read a book according to the author?　 (No more than 8 words)

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高三英语其他题中等难度题查看答案及解析

Dear Florence,

We arrived in India last week, and the voyage was the worst experience of my entire life. I’m lucky to be alive!

The first part of the journey was terrible, because the ship hit bad weather almost as soon as we left Liverpool. But much, much worse was to come. Later, we were involved in a collision with another boat and we had to abandon ship!

We had been at sea for about two weeks and we were in the Mediterranean. There is now a canal between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea called the Suez Canal, which opened last year. Our boat stopped at Port Said, the Egyptian port at the entrance to the canal. I remember looking through the porthole of my cabin and wishing that I could go ashore and visit this fascinating place, but mummy had ordered that I was to stay in the cabin because I was feeling ill. “you must stay here for at least another two days.” I remember her saying. How wrong she would turn out to be! The ship left the port and headed towards the canal . I was alone in the cabin and I watched the port disappear into the distance. Suddenly there was a loud bang, followed by the most awful crunching（嘎吱的）sound, and the ship shook and turned slightly on its side.

There was an eerie silence for a moment, then people started shouting. Mummy came running into the cabin and told me that we had collided with another boat. She took my hand and we ran along the deck towards the lifeboats. There was a lot of shouting and people were running everywhere, but the crew were all acting calmly, helping people into the lifeboats and telling people not to panic.

Well, clearly we survived, as did all the passengers and crew of the ship. The other boat wasn’t so lucky. It sank and several lives were lost.

I will write about the rest of the journey soon. Please give my love to Aunt Claire and Uncle Eric.

Your loving cousin,

Jane

56．1.When was the letter written?

57．2.Why was the journey to India such a bad experience for the author?

58．3.The author’s mother didn’t allow her to go ashore and visit the port city, Said because________.

59．4.The underlined phrase “eerie silence” in the sixth paragraph means________.

高三英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

My school appeared on the news last week because we had made an important change in our local area. Our class had planted a large garden in what was once only a vacant lot. It was a lot of work but it was all worth it. I got blisters(水泡) from digging, and we all got insect bites, too.

I learned a lot about gardening and collaboration(合作), and then I learned about the media. Our teacher telephoned the TV station and informed them of what we had accomplished. She spoke with the producer. The producer checked with the directors, but they said there were plenty of stories similar to ours. They wanted to know what was special about our particular garden, since many schools plant them.

The teacher explained that, after going on the Internet to learn about the prairie(大草原), we had made a prairie garden. We had gone to a prairie and gotten seeds from the plants, and then we planted them. We did not water the garden, but we did weed it. We decided to let nature water it with rain, since that was how prairies grew in the past. We sent a picture of the garden to the news station. In the picture, the grass was so high that it stood taller than the fourth grade students.

As a result, the producer sent a reporter to our school. He interviewed the headmaster and asked him many questions about the garden. After that, they interviewed us, and we explained to them what we had learned through this project.

That night, we watched the news, and there we were. The news reporter told our story. It was only two minutes long, but it was us. We were famous. All that work, all those blisters, it was worth it. We knew that when we saw the garden every day, but now we knew that the whole city thought so, too.

1.What seemed to be the TV directors’ initial reaction to the garden?

A.They were excited. B.They were surprised.

C.They were worried. D.They were uninterested.

2.What is special about the garden?

A.Weeds were allowed to spread naturally.

B.The grass grew faster than common grass.

C.The seeds came from the plants of a prairie.

D.Underground water was used for the plants.

3.What does the underlined word “that” refer to in the last paragraph?

A.We got blisters on our hands. B.Our hard work was worthwhile.

C.The garden would be famous. D.The project would be finished.

4.How did the author feel about the project?

A.Annoyed. B.Curious. C.Proud. D.Regretful.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Last week, while visiting my dad with my daughter, we went to a restaurant for dinner. When we were seated, my dad asked the waitress if there were any soldiers eating at the restaurant. Then waitress said there was a soldier having dinner with his friend. My dad told the waitress to tell the soldier and his friend that their dinner was paid for! He also said that he did not want to be known as the benefactor(施主).

Then waitress later commented on my dad’s thoughtful behavior saying that she had never seen anything like this before. At a local college, she had studied opera and so she used this to thank my dad by performing a piece from The Pearl Fisherman. Her voice brought me to tears because it sounded perfect!

After a while, the soldier appeared at our table (I don’t know how he knew my dad paid the bill for him.) and said that he would be sent to the front the next morning and that he could not leave this country without saying “thanks” to my dad. My dad replied that it was he who wanted to say “thanks”. They shook hands as the soldier left.

Before we left, the waitress came by again. She did a magic show as another way to show her “thanks” to my dad. Her show was really great. My dad left her a note with email address asking for her next performance time in addition to a $ 50 tip.

Everyone witnessed something exemplary(可作榜样的) in the human spirit that night. I can only hope to see more of this in the future.

1. What did the soldier do in response to the author’s father’s kindness?

A. He gave something to author’s dad.

B. He gave a big tip to the waitress.

C. He said thanks to the author’s dad in person.

D. He did a magic show for the author and her father.

2. The author considered her father’s action to be ____.

A. funny　 　　 　 B. understandable

C. worthless　　 D. honorable

3.Their passage mainly tells us that we should ____.

A. learn to be grateful to others

B. find ways to thank others

C. try to learn from each other

D. respect soldiers and waitresses

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第二节 读写任务 (共1小题,满分25分)

阅读下面的一封信，然后按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的回信。

Dear Abby,

Last month my son was told that he no longer has to attend weekend classes at his school.  Since then he spends his weekends going out with his friends to play sports or watch movies.  When he is at home all he seems to do is surf the Internet or play silly computer games. I really think he is just wasting his time having fun when he should be studying. I sometimes ask him if he has homework or extra study to do, but he always says that he has already completed it all. This change makes me very worried. I feel that this free time is encouraging him to be lazy. He isn’t studying long enough and this will reduce his chances of getting into university. I also think it will cause problems when he begins to work because he will not be able to concentrate well and will think more of having fun than his job. I have considered going to the school principal and asking him to change their decision but my son says if I do so his classmates will laugh at him. I don’t want to embarrass my child but I don’t want him to fall behind either.

Please help.

Concerned Mum

[写作内容]

假设你是信中的Abby，准备给这位母亲回信。以下是回信的内容（信的开头和结尾已经为你写好）：

1．以约30个词概括你所阅读的这封信的主要内容；

2．以约120个词提出你的观点和建议，并包括如下要点：

(1) 你读信后的感受；

(2) 你对信中所述现象的个人观点；

(3) 你对这位母亲的建议。

[写作要求]

1．信中可使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2．信中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

[评分标准]

概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

高三英语书面表达简单题查看答案及解析

Dear Michelle:

Why can't my daughter manage her life better? She is 17 and an honor student, but she seems to be wasting her life away with a boyfriend who is holding her back.

He consumes every waking, minute of her precious time and smooth-talks her as well.

His goal is to get her to agree to go to the college of his choice, not her choice, and because his grades are lower, his choice will be limited.

I feel like I want to rescue her, but she pushes me away and shuts me out. She has only brought us pride and joy; and now this! Help!

A worried mother

Dear Mother of a 17-year-old Girl:

Hmmmmm. What's the matter with kids today? Remember that song from "Bye Bye

Birdie"?

Well if you do not, let me fill you in about teenagers and their life-management skills.Do not expect too much too soon because at the ripe age of 17, life-management is not within their reach, not should it be.

Life experience creates both the conditions and the skills for management, and if management went before experiene, there would be tittle of it.

Your daughter is an honor student for good reasons. She is smart, studies with

intelligence and you have given her good Values.

When the time comes for her to apply for college, and she visit the ones that were specifically desigened for student the top of their grade, she will most likely break away from her boyfriend's influenee.

It is rare for an honor student to change the path of their academic career for puppy love. That being said, them might be some adoldscent wisdom in her behavior after all.

Perhaps she is choosing to worry you, her parents, for unconscious reasons. Being such a good girl and being a steady source of joy might have become a bit too much for her.

Let your daughter have her own private moment of 11^th grade rebellion. She deserves a break from perfection.

Michelle

1.From the mother's letter we can learn that her daughter________

A. is being fooled by the boy      B. has fallen behind in her studies

C. doesn't talk much with her mother  D. has chosen which college to attend

2. According to Michelle; 17-year-teenagers________.

A. are too young to manage their life

B. are old enough to live their own life

C. should have managemnent before experience

D. have reached the age of an adult

3. The underlined word"puppy-love"refer to________

A. false love     B. foolish love     C. pure love       D. adolescent love

4.Michelle seems to believe that the daughter will finally________

A. come up with the right decision

B. follow her boyfriend's advice

C. worry her parents for unconscious reasons

D. influence her boyfriend's behavior

5. The best title for the passage would be________

A. College of kids' own choice

B. How can I help my girl?

C. How to manage teenagers' life?

D. A 17-year-old girl and her mother

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Dear Michelle:

Why can't my daughter manage her life better? She is 17 and an honor student, but she seems to be wasting her life away with a boyfriend who is holding her back.

He consumes every waking minute of her precious time and smooth-talks her as well.

His goal is to get her to agree to go to the college of his choice, not her choice, and because his grades are lower, his choice will be limited.

I feel like I want to rescue her, but she pushes me away and shuts me out. She has only brought us pride and joy; and now this! Help!

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 A worried mother

Dear Mother of a 17-year-old Girl:

What's the matter with kids today? Remember that song from "Bye Bye Birdie"?

Well if you do not, let me fill you in about teenagers and their life-management skills. Do not expect too much too soon because at the ripe age of 17, life-management is not within their reach, not should it be.

Life experience creates both the conditions and the skills for management, and if management went before experience, there would be little of it.

Your daughter is an honor student for good reasons. She is smart, studies with

intelligence and you have given her good Values.

When the time comes for her to apply for college, and she visits the ones that were specifically designed for student the top of their grade, she will most likely break away from her boyfriend's influence.

It is rare for an honor student to change the path of their academic career for puppy love. That being said, there might be some adolescent wisdom in her behavior after all.

Perhaps she is choosing to worry you, her parents, for unconscious reasons. Being such a good girl and being a steady source of joy might have become a bit too much for her.

Let your daughter have her own private moment of 11th grade rebellion. She deserves a break from perfection.

Michelle

1.From the mother's letter we can learn that her daughter__________.

A. is being fooled by the boy

B. has fallen behind in her studies

C. doesn't talk much with her mother

D. has chosen which college to attend

2.According to Michelle, 17-year-teenagers___________.

A. are too young to manage their life

B. are old enough to live their own life

C. should have management before experience

D. have reached the age of an adult

3.Michelle seems to believe that the daughter will finally __________.

A. come up with the right decision

B. follow her boyfriend's advice

C. worry her parents for unconscious reasons

D. influence her boyfriend's behavior

4.The best title for the passage would be__________.

A. College of kids’ own choice

B. How can I help my girl?

C. How to manage teenagers’ life?

D. A 17-year-old girl and her mother

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Dear Michelle,

Why can't my daughter manage her life better? She is 17 and an honor student, but she seems to be wasting her life away with a boyfriend who is holding her back.

He consumes every waking minute of her precious time and smooth-talks her as well.

His goal is to get her to agree to go to the college of his choice, not her choice, and because his grades are lower, his choice will be limited.

A worried mother

Dear Mother of a 17-year-old Girl,

Hmmmmm. What's the matter with kids today? Remember that song from "Bye Bye Birdie"?

Well if you do not, let me fill you in about teenagers and their life-management skills. Do not expect too much too soon because at the ripe age of 17, life-management is not within their reach, nor should it be.

Life experience creates both the conditions and the skills for management, and if management went before experience, there would be little of it.

Your daughter is an honor student for good reasons. She is smart, studies with intelligence and you have given her good values.

When the time comes for her to apply for college, and she visits the ones that are specifically designed for students at the top of their grade, she will most likely break away from her boyfriend's influence.

It is rare for an honor student to change the path of their academic career for puppy love. That being said, there might be some adolescent wisdom in her behavior after all.

Perhaps she is choosing to worry you, her parents, for unconscious reasons. Being such a good girl and being a steady source of joy might have become a bit too much for her.

Let your daughter have her own private moment of 11th grade rebellion. She deserves a break from perfection.

Michelle

1.From the mother's letter we can learn that her daughter _________ .             .

A. is being fooled by the boy

B. has fallen behind in her studies

C. doesn't talk much with her mother

D. has chosen which college to attend

2. According to Michelle, 17-year-old teenagers _________ .              .

A. are too young to manage their life

B. are old enough to live their own life

C. should have management before experience

D. have reached the age of an adult

3.The underlined word "puppy-love" refer to_________ .          .

A. false love    B. foolish love     C. pure love      D. adolescent love

4.Michelle seems to believe that the daughter will finally_________ .           .

A. come up with the right decision

B. follow her boyfriend's advice

C. worry her parents for unconscious reasons

D. influence her boyfriend's behavior

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

At an airport I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together. They had announced her plane’s ________ and he said, “I love you. I wish you ________.” They kissed good-bye and she left.

He walked over to where I was seated. I could see he wanted to ________.I tried not to ________ him, but he welcomed me in by asking, “Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?” “Yes, I have,” I ________.

Saying that brought back ________ I had of expressing my ________ and appreciation for all my Dad had done for me. Knowing his days were________,I took the time to tell him how much he ________ to me. So I knew what this man was experiencing.

“Forgive me for asking, but why is this a(n) ________ good-bye?” I asked.

“I am old and she lives too far away. I have challenges ahead and her next trip back will be for my ________,” he said ________.

“I heard you say,” I wish you enough. “May I ask what that means?”

He began to smile. “That’s a wish ________ from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone.” He ________ into the air as if trying to remember it in ________.

“When we said ‘I wish you enough’, we ________ the other person to have a life filled with enough good things,” then he shared the following as if he were ________ it from memory.

“I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude ________. I wish you enough ________ to appreciate the sun more. I wish you enough pain so that the smallest ________ in life appear much bigger. I wish enough ‘Hellos’ to get you through the final ‘Good-bye’.”

He then began to sob and walked away.

1.A.arrival B.departure C.accident D.delay

2.A.enough B.happiness C.luck D.success

3.A.shout B.laugh C.cry D.fly

4.A.interrupt B.meet C.invite D.disturb

5.A.added B.replied C.thought D.promised

6.A.words B.gifts C.memories D.stories

7.A.anger B.regret C.love D.sorrow

8.A.numbered B.wasted C.lost D.spent

9.A.turned B.spoke C.gave D.meant

10.A.instant B.forever C.unforgettable D.disappointing

11.A.funeral B.birthday C.anniversary D.wedding

12.A.loudly B.happily C.sadly D.calmly

13.A.taken up B.taken down C.given away D.handed down

14.A.looked down B.looked up C.looked around D.looked forward

15.A.detail B.surprise. C.trouble D.silence

16.A.forced B.wanted C.encouraged D.persuaded

17.A.reciting B.singing C.reaching D.painting

18.A.different B.right C.negative D.bright

19.A.sky B.storm C.light D.rain

20.A.results B.hardships C.joys D.failures

高三英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

At an airport I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together．They had announced her 54 ’s departure．Standing near the door, he said to his daughter: “I love you, I wish you 55 ．” She said: “Daddy, our life together has been more than enough．Your love is all I ever needed．I wish you enough, too, Daddy．” They kissed good-bye and she left．

He walked  56  toward the window where I was seated．I tried not to intrude （侵犯） on his   57 , but he welcomed me in by asking: “Did you ever say good-bye to 58  knowing it would be forever?” “Yes, I have,” I replied．“59  me for asking, but why is this a forever good-bye?” I asked．“I am old and she lives much too far away．I have 60  ahead and the reality is, her next trip back will be for my funeral,” he said．“When you were saying good-bye I heard you say, ‘I wish you enough．'' May I ask what that means?”

He began to smile．“That is a wish that has been handed down from other 61 ．My parents used to say it to everyone．” He paused for a moment, looking up as if trying to remember it in detail, he 62  even more．“When we said ‘I wish you enough'', we wanted the other person to have a life filled with enough good things to sustain them,” he continued and then 63 toward me, he shared the following 64  he were reciting it from memory．

“I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude 65 ．I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more．I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive．I wish you enough pain so that the 66  joys in life appear much bigger．I wish you enough gain to satisfy your 67 ．I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you 68 ．I wish enough “Hello”s to get you 69  the final “Good-bye．” He then began to sob （哽咽） and walked away．

It is said that “It takes a/an 70 to find a special person, an hour to 71 them, a day to love them, 72  then an entire life to 73  them．”

1.A．train                       B．plane                  C．bus                     D．ship

2.A．good                       B．well                    C．happy                 D．enough

3.A．in                           B．through               C．by                      D．over

4.A．secret                      B．priority               C．privacy               D．walk

5.A．someone                  B．anybody              C．everyone             D．anyone

6.A．Allow                     B．Forgive               C．Thank                D．Pardon

7.A．future                     B．challenges           C．illness                 D．nothing

8.A．parents                    B．families               C．generations          D．airlines

9.A．said                        B．cried                   C．laughed               D．smiled

10.A．running                 B．walking               C．turning                D．going

11.A．even if                   B．as if                    C．even though         D．although

12.A．bright                    B．right                   C．good                   D．warm

13.A．less                       B．least                    C．little                   D．smallest

14.A．expense                 B．life                     C．wanting               D．loss

15.A．like                       B．want                   C．possess                D．need

16.A．over                      B．through               C．across                 D．back

17.A．day                       B．life                     C．hour                   D．minute

18.A．appreciate              B．see                      C．face                    D．understand

19.A．or                         B．but                     C．meanwhile           D．as a result

20.A．forget                    B．remember            C．wish                   D．help

高三英语完型填空简单题查看答案及解析