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Sometimes people call each other　 " scared cat" , but have you ever thought about this expression? When a cat is frightened, its heart starts beating faster, its muscles get tense, and there are changes in the chemicals in its blood-stream.　 If the danger continues, this animal will do one of the two things. It will defend itself, or it will run away as fast as it can.

Something like this also happens to people. When we are excited, angry, scared, or aroused by other emotions, our bodies go through many physical changes. Our hearts beat faster, and our muscles get tense. All of these changes make us more alert and ready to react. We, too, get ready to defend ourselves or run. Human beings, however, have a problem. If we give way to our feelings and let them take over, we can get into trouble. Have you ever said something in anger - and regretted later? Have you ever shouted at a teacher or told somebody you were lonely and then wished later you had kept your mouth shut? It isn't always wise to express your feelings freely.

Does this mean that it's always smarter to hide our feelings? No! If you keep feelings like anger hidden away or bottled up inside, your body stays tense. Physical illnesses can develop, and you can feel disturbed badly inside. It can actually be bad for your health. Feelings that you keep all bottled up inside don't just go away. It's as if you bought some bananas and stuck them in a cupboard. You might not be able to see them, but before long you'd smell them. And if you opened the cupboard, chances are you'd see little fruit flies hovering(盘旋) all over them. They'd be rotten. You can try to treat emotions as if they were bananas in the cupboard. You can hide them and you can pretend they don't exit, but they'll still be around. And at last you'll have to deal with them, just like those bananas.

1.The best title for this article is

A. What Happens to An Excited Person

B. What Happens to A Frightened Cat

C. Emotions Affect Our Bodies

D. Feelings That People Have

2.According to the passage, human beings get into trouble because ______.

A. they are not as alert as animals

B. they always do something wrong to other people

C. they sometimes can't control their feelings

D. they don't pay attention to their physical changes

3.The underlined word "it" in paragraph 3 refers to________.

A. bad emotion　　　　 　　　 B.　 a bottle

C. physical illness　　　　 D. a rotten banana

4.The author mainly intends to tell us to _______ .

A. make us face the problem that we have to deal with feelings

B. give us some advice on how to express our feelings

C. tell us that it isn't good to keep feelings inside

D. make us know that it isn't always wise to express our feelings freely

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Young people and older people do not always agree with each other. They sometimes have different ideas about living, working and playing. But in one special program in New York State, adults and teenagers live together in a friendly way.

Each summer 200 teenagers and 50 adults live together for eight weeks as members of a special work group. Everyone works several hours each day. They do so not just to keep busy but to find meaning and enjoyment in work. Some teenagers work in the woods or on the farms near the village. Some learn to make things like tables and chairs and to build houses. The adults teach them these skills.

There are several free hours each day. Weekends are free, too. During the free hours some of the teenagers learn photo-taking or painting. Others sit around and talk to sing. Each teenager chooses his own way to spend his free time.

When people live together, rules are necessary. In this program the teenagers and the adults make the rules together. If someone breaks a rule, the problem goes before the whole group. They talk about it and ask, “Why did it happen? What should we do about it?”

One of the teenagers has this to say about the experience: “You stop thinking only about yourself. You learn how to think about the group.”

1.In one special program in New York State, young and older people_______.

2.Living together, _________.

3.The last paragraph shows that the teenager thinks his experience in the program is _________.

4.The best title for the passage is ________.

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Young people and older people do not always agree with each other. They sometimes have different ideas about living, working and playing. But in one special program in New York State, adults (成年人) and teenagers live together in a friendly way.

Each summer 200 teenagers and 50 adults live together for eight weeks as members of a special work group. Everyone works several hours each day. They do so not just to keep busy but to find meaning and enjoyment in work. Some teenagers work in the woods or on the farms near the village. Some learn to make things like tables and chairs and to build houses. The adults teach them these skills.

There are several free hours each day. Weekends are free, too. During the free hours some of the teenagers learn photo-taking or painting. Others sit around and talk or sing. Each teenager chooses his own way to spend his free time.

When people live together, rules are necessary. In this program, the teenagers and the adults make the rules together. If someone breaks a rule, the problem goes before the whole group. They talk about it and ask, “Why did it happen? What should we do about it?”

One of the teenagers has something to say about the experience, “You stop thinking only about yourself. You learn how to think about the group.”

1. In one special program in New York, young and older people ______.

2.Living together, ________.

3.The last paragraph shows that the teenager thinks his experience in the program is _______.

4.The best title for the passage is _______.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

The faces of the elderly, happily-married people sometimes look like each other. Dr. Aiken studied a number of couples who had been married for at least twenty-five years. Each couple provided four photographs—one photo of each partner at the time of their marriage and another photo to remove any clues. The photos were then displayed in groups: a random（随意的）grouping of the persons at the time of their marriage and another random grouping of the same persons who took photographs later. Some judges were asked to pick out the partners. They failed totally with the first group. Their judgments were no better than chance. But with the photos taken twenty-five or more years after the marriage, the judges were quite successful at deciding who was married to whom. They were particularly successful with the most happily-married couples.

Dr. Aiken believes there are several reasons why couples grow alike. One reason has something to do with imitation. One person tends to copy or do the same as someone else without knowing it. He says human beings copy the expressions of the faces of their loved ones. Another possible reason, he says, is the common experience of the couples. There is a tendency for people who have the same life experience to change their faces in similar ways. For example, if a couple suffered a lot of sad experiences, their faces are likely to change in a similar way.

56. The main purpose of the passage is to         .

tell how couples look like each other

show the life experience of husband and wife

explain why couples grow alike

describe the study on a number of married people

57. The judges failed to           .

tell couples by looking at their photos taken when they got married

tell happily-married couples from sadly-married couples

discover the difference of each partner

understand Dr. Aiken’s study

58. The underlined sentence “Their judgments were         .

59. From the passage we can draw a conclusion that         .

happily-married couples are often richer than other couples

couples who look alike can live longer

the influence between couples can be quite strong

all couples have been proved to grow alike

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

Great changes have been taken place in the way people communicate with each other. In the past people write letters to share informations and later they talked with each other in the telephone. Now more and more people use our own mobile phones to communicating. And instead writing on the paper, they e-mail to each other on the computer. As a result, people find that quicker and easier to communicate, and at the same time some people feel that they become poorer in writing. They worry about whether people can be as closely as before

高二英语短文改错中等难度题查看答案及解析

Sometimes we should ________roles so that we can understand each other’s difficulties, thus promoting our cooperation.

A．occupy           B．imitate            C．assess            D．switch

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Sharks and dolphins often leave each other alone. However, _______ do happen. Sometimes dolphins actually win, usually _______ by their companions. But more often than not, the dolphin winds up on the _________ side. Not this time.

When the dolphin was _______ off the coast of Pone Vedra Beach, a(n)___________rescue operation was conducted: Teams from the Georgia Aquarium Conservation Field Station and Sea World Orlando's rescue team were called to the _______ by state officials to rescue her, whose _________ were endangering her life.

''When she hit the beach she was _______ assessed by the Georgia Aquarium Conservation Field Station. Their vet found this dolphin was very thin and also had _________ shark bite wounds all over her body, '' said Lara Croft of the Sea World Orlando. The dolphin had to be __________ on the spot roughly because she was injured so seriously. Then she was quickly __________ to Sea World Orlando's rescue center, when she was able to ______________ on her own in a rescue tank. Vets gave her some __________ to protect her muscle after the stress of grounding on the beach.

Croft said it is not __________ to see shark bite wounds on dolphins, but it was unusual for this dolphin to __________ and strand(使搁浅) herself __________.

''She's a fighter, '' Croft said. ''She grounded where she was able to be __________.''

Vets at Sea World Orlando will continue to __________the dolphin until she has made a full __________. After that, the rescuers hope she can __________ to her natural environment.

1.A.coincidences B.contradictions C.communications D.attacks

2.A.abandoned B.followed C.approved D.backed

3.A.losing B.opposite C.upper D.amazing

4.A.put B.thrown C.spotted D.dragged

5.A.accompanied B.joint C.voluntary D.autonomous

6.A.scene B.aquarium C.reserve D.harbour

7.A.disabilities B.scars C.injuries D.actions

8.A.finally B.immediately C.completely D.hurriedly

9.A.potential B.diverse C.slight D.multiple

10.A.sewed B.protected C.cured D.vaccinated(接种疫苗)

11.A.transported B.distributed C.mailed D.pushed

12.A.survive B.swim C.play D.breathe

13.A.food B.training C.medicine D.strength

14.A.possible B.common C.frequent D.rare

15.A.get along B.get away C.get through D.get up

16.A.alive B.safe C.alone D.awake

17.A.guided B.defended C.nursed D.saved

18.A.care for B.search for C.stand for D.call for

19.A.use B.recovery C.reunion D.preparation

20.A.adapt B.head C.return D.flee

高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

As long as people have been telling stories, crones(丑陋的老太婆) have been scaring the wits out of children. “Nags(怨妇), witches, evil stepmothers, cannibals(食人妇). It’s quite dreadful,” says Maria Tatar, who teaches a course on folklore and mythology at Harvard. "But old women are also powerful—they're often the ones who can work magic.” In the Disney film Snow White, there’s a scene in which the beautiful, charming, wicked queen turns into an old hag and poisons Snow White so she'll sleep forever. The old lady in Hansel and Gretel wants to roast children in her oven and the witch in The Little Mermaid cuts out Ariel’s tongue.

Tatar says old women villains(恶人) are especially scary because, historically, the most powerful person in a child’s life was the mother. “Children do have a way of splitting the mother figure into...the evil mother—who’s always making rules and regulations, policing your behavior, getting angry at you—and then the kind mother—the one who is giving and protects you, makes sure that you survive.”

Veronique Tadjo, a writer who grew up in the Ivory Coast, thinks there’s a fear of female power in general. She says a common figure in African folk tales is the old witch who destroys people’s souls. Still, they're not all bitter and evil hags. Elderly women in folk tales often use their knowledge and experience of the world to guide the troubled protagonist(主人公). Tadjo points to the Kenyan story Marwe In The Underworld about a girl who commits suicide by drowning herself and enters the Land of the Dead where she meets an old woman. “That old woman teaches her quite a lot of things,” Tadjo says. “And also, when Marwe starts longing for the world of the living, she helps her go back to the surface with a lot of riches. And we understand that Marwe has been rewarded for her goodness.” In other words: Do your chores and you’ll be rewarded. The point of these ancient tales, no matter what continent they come from, may have been to scare children into behaving.

Perhaps the scariest old woman character—the ugly Baba Yaga—comes from Russia. She’s bony with a hooked nose and long, iron teeth. Her hut(小屋) stands on chicken legs and she kidnaps children and eats them. Safe to say Baba Yaga has been making Eastern European children sleepless for centuries. In one interpretation, a mean stepmother sends the young girl Vasilisa to Baba Yaga's hut in the woods to get a candle. The girl is sure she’s being sent to her death. Baba Yaga forces her to cook and clean, and Vasilisa does everything she's told. In the end, the old crone gives her what she needs and sends her home. “You see this kind of double face of the hag,”Maria Tatar says. “On the one hand: aggressive, threatening. And on the other hand: sometimes to make sure that there is a happily ever after.”

There's that power again. In Japanese folklore, the Yama Uba(山姥) is an equally ambiguous old woman. She’s a mountain witch who, like Baba Yaga, lures people into her hut and eats them. But she'll also help a lost traveler. Noriko Reider is a professor at Miami University of Ohio who's done extensive research on Yama Uba stories. “She brings fortune and happiness,” Reider says. “She can also bring death and destruction for those who are not very good.”

According to Cuban-American writer Alma Flor Ada, in Hispanic(拉美地区的) culture old women are multi-talented. Ada is co-author of Tales Our Grandmas Told, which includes a story about Caliph’s son who becomes seriously ill. After “all of the best physicians in the land” fail to cure him, Caliph sends his messengers searching for help. Then one morning, an old woman arrives with this advice: To get well, the prince must wear the overcoat of a man who is truly happy. And of course it works.

1.What does the underlined phrase in Para 1 “scaring the wits out of children” mean？

A. making children frightened B. making children stupid

C. making children interested D. making children confused

2.Among all the characters mentioned, ________ is terribly treated by an old woman.

A. Caliph B. Marwe C. Ariel D. Vasilisa

3.The images of ________ show double faces of a hag by doing both good and evil things.

A. Snow White and The Little Mermaid B. Hansel and Gretel

C. Veronique Tadjo and Noriko Reider D. Baba Yaga and Yama Uba

4.About the cultural images of an old woman, ________ has a different view from others.

A. Maria Tatar B. Veronique Tadjo C. Noriko Reider D. Alma Flor Ada

5.All the following words can be used to describe Baba Yaga EXCEPT ________.

A. aggressive B. sensitive C. dreadful D. merciful

6.According to the passage, why are old women often the face of evil in fairy tales and folklore?

A. Because they are always nags, witches, evil stepmothers and cannibals.

B. Because they are scary by recalling the general fear of female power.

C. Because they are intended to scare children into behaving well.

D. Because they are multi-talented with the ability to work magic.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Sometimes people cheat in daily life. When people cheat, it’s not fair to other people, like the kids who studied for the test or who were the true winners of a game.

Many people like the action of cheating. It makes difficult things seem easy, like getting all the right answers on the test. But it doesn’t solve the problem of not knowing the material and it won’t help on the next test --- unless the person cheats again.

Some people lose respect for cheaters and think less of them. The cheaters themselves may feel bad because they know they are not really earning that good grade. And, if they get caught cheating, they will be in trouble at school, and maybe at home, too.

Some kids cheat because they’re busy or lazy and they want to get good grades without spending the time studying. Other kids might feel like they can’t pass the test without cheating. Even when there seems to be a “good reason” for cheating, cheating isn’t a good idea.

If you were sick or upset about something the night before and couldn’t study, it would be better to talk with the teacher about this. And if you don’t have enough time to study for a test because of swim practice, you need to talk with your parents about how to balance swimming and school.

A kid who thinks cheating is the only way to pass a test needs to talk with the teacher and his or her parents so they can find some solutions(解决办法) together. Talking about these problems and working them out will feel better than cheating.

1.The author thinks that when kids cheat in class, _______.

2.Some students like cheating mainly because_________.

3.The fourth paragraph mainly tells us______.

4.We can learn from the passage______.

高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

Sometimes you’ll hear people say that you can’t love others until you love yourself. Sometimes you’ll hear people say that you can’t expect someone else to love you until you love yourself. Either way, you’ve got to love yourself first and this can be tricky. Surely we all know that we’re the apple of our parents’ eyes, and that our Grandmas think we’re great talents and our Uncle Roberts think that we will go to the Olympics, but sometimes it’s a lot harder to think such nice thoughts about ourselves. If you find that believing in yourself is a challenge, it is time you build a positive self-image and learn to love yourself.

Self-image is your own mind’s picture of yourself. This image includes the way you look, the way you act, the way you talk and the way you think. Interestingly, our self-images are often quite different from the images others hold about us. Unfortunately, most of these images are more negative than they should be. Thus changing the way you think about yourself is the key to changing your self-image and your whole world.

The best way to defeat a passive self-image is to step back and decide to stress your successes. That is, make a list if you need to, but write down all of the great things you do every day. Don’t allow doubts to occur in it.

It very well might be that you are experiencing a negative self-image because you can’t move past one flaw or weakness that you see about yourself. Well, roll up your sleeves and make a change of it as your primary task. If you think you’re silly because you aren’t good at math, find a tutor. If you think you’re weak because you can’t run a mile, get to the track and practice. If you think you’re dull because you don’t wear the latest trends, buy a few new clothes. But remember, just because you think it doesn’t mean it’s true.

The best way to get rid of a negative self-image is to realize that your image is far from objective, and to actively convince yourself of your positive qualities. Changing the way you think and working on those you need to improve will go a long way towards promoting a positive self-image. When you can pat yourself on the back, you’ll know you’re well on your way. Good luck!

1. What is the passage mainly about?

A. How to build a positive self-image.

B. How to face challenges in your life.

C. How to prepare for your success.

D. How to develop you good qualities.

2.You need to build a positive self-image when you 　　　　 .

A. dare to challenge yourself

B. feel it hard to change yourself

C. are unconfident about yourself

D. have a high opinion of yourself

3.How should you change your self-image according to the passage?

A. To keep a different image of others.

B. To understand your own world.

C. To change the way you think.

D. To make your life successful.

4.According to the passage, our self-images 　　　　 .

A. have different function　　　　　　　　　　 B. are probably untrue

C. have positive effects　　　　　　　　　　　 D. are often changeable

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析