Chinese has overtaken French ， Spanish and Ge...

Chinese has overtaken French ， Spanish and German to become one of the most promising foreign languages for job seekers in the UK． Research shows graduates in Chinese earn an average yearly salary of 31 ，000 pounds or more．

Chinese students set themselves up for a different university experience from others who take traditional subjects． While an English student may have as little as six hours of a week ， those studying Chinese are in class for most of the day． "I had a lot of friends on other courses who didn't do much in first or second year． You can't play at Chinese． You have to spend hours and hours writing characters ， " says Hannah ， who graduated in Chinese Studies from Sheffield University． "The first year was really difficult． Most of my friends admitted at one point to crying because of the pressure． I was almost told at one point that I might want to reconsider and drop out． "

So are the evenings in learning characters while your friends are at the student bar really worth its Despite the painful studying experience ， most of the graduates think so． They use Chinese in their chosen careers ， and would not have been in the jobs they do now without their knowledge of the language．

Liberty now works for the civil service in Beijing． She earned a place on the Department for International Development graduate scheme with a salary of over 30， 000 pounds within two years． "The degree was absolutely worth it． Looking around at people I know who have studied French or Spanish at university ， there 's not such a chance to use it in the workplace． "

Hannah has set her apart in the workplace ， but she warns ambitious students to think about whether they would really want to live in China in the future．" Some people think they are going to learn Chinese and then be a big success ， but I think it 's important to be quite realistic about that． "

1.What does the underlined phrase " play at" probably mean in Paragraph 2　　　 　．

A. Treat　 seriously

B. Learn lazily

C. Talk amusingly

D. Cheat cleverly

2.What can you learn from Liberty 's and Hannah 's career experience　　　 　．

A. Chinese degree helped them to find satisfying jobs．

B. There are students learning characters at the student bar．

C. Graduates with French or Spanish degree have no chance to find jobs．

D. By learning　 Chinese ，　 people　 are　 to have a successful career．

3.What's　 Hannah 's　 attitude　 to choosing　 Chinese　 as a possible careers　　　 　．

A. Doubtful．

B. Positive．

C. Puzzled．

D. Objective．

4.What is the main idea of the texts　　　 　．

A. Many foreign college students come to China to seek jobs．

B. A degree in Chinese means big success for its learners．

C. Graduates in Chinese are more likely to get high﹣paying jobs．

D. Chinese degree is harder to earn but worthwhile in workplace．

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

What class does the woman want to sign up for?

A. German.　　 B. Spanish.　　 C. French.

高二英语短对话简单题查看答案及解析

1. Ms Robson’s students are studying French and German. She would like them to speak both the languages at some point while they’re away.

2.Hilary’s students are fourteen years old. Some of them learn French, so she wants to find a holiday course which can offer personal language lessons for those who would like to improve their French.

3.Rose has a small group of students. They all want to sail but unfortunately some of them are unable to swim, although they’re eager to learn.

4. Mr. Pearson’s class have just started to learn German and he wants a holiday which mixes studying the language with plenty of free time to explore the foreign country.

5. John has a class of eleven-year-olds who are crazy about sports. He’d like a course which organizes a complete program including all kinds of sports, meals and entertainments.

高二英语信息匹配困难题查看答案及解析

With the price of pork and eggs _______ quickly, CPI has become a hot phrase among Chinese.

A．raising            B．going up           C．to raise           D．to go up

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

The French are followed by the Americans and the Spanish, with both nations sleeping around eight and a half hours per day. However, with an hour fewer than the French, Japanese and Korean people sleep the least among the 30 member countries of the OECD, around seven hours and 50 minutes a day.

“The French, who are known worldwide for their cooking skills, also spend more time eating than anyone else and it nearly doubles that of Americans, Canadians or Mexicans，” the OECD, a club of many developed countries, says. They spend more than two hours a day eating, followed by the New Zealanders and Japanese, who also spend close to two hours daily at the table. In Italy, which is another country with a worldwide cooking reputation (名声), and Belgium, people spend around one hour and 50 minutes a day eating. Spaniards, Germans and Swedes also spend more than an hour and a half a day eating, while Finns, Norwegians and Britons spend the least time at the table (around one hour and 20 minutes)．

Their way of life seems to have a big effect on French people's life time, since they are among the top three nations living the longest, together with the Japanese and Spaniards. An average Japanese woman lives to almost 86 years, while a man lives to 79. French and Spanish women live up to 84.4 years, and men 77.3 and 77.7 years. Hungarians are the European OECD nation living the shortest lives, with women's life time at 77.4 years and men's at 69.

1.The French spend about ________ hours in sleeping and eating every day.

A. 8　　 B. 9

C. 10　　 D. 7

2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the report?

A. Sleeping time.　　 B. Eating time.

C. Life time.　　 D. Cooking time.

3.The report mainly wants to tell us that ________.

A. men spend more time in sleeping than women

B. governments need to do more to care for the ordinary people

C. differences in lifestyle are wide across OECD countries

D. why women always live longer than men

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Tu Youyou has become the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize, for her work in helping to create an anti-malaria(疟疾) medicine. The 84-year-old’s route to the honour has been anything but traditional. In China, she is being called the "three nos" winner: no medical degree, no doctorate, and she’s never worked overseas.

In 1967, malaria, a then deadly disease, spread by mosquitoes was decimating Chinese soldiers fighting Americans in the jungles of northern Vietnam. A secret research unit “Mission 523 “was formed to find a cure for the illness. Two years later, Tu Youyou was instructed to become the new head of “Mission 523”.

“Mission523” read ancient books carefully for a long time to find historical methods of fighting malaria. When she started her search for an anti-malarial drug, more than 240,000 compounds(化合物) around　 the　 world　 had　 already been　 tested,　 without any success.　 Finally,　 the　 team found　 a　 brief reference to one substance, sweet wormwood(青蒿), which had been used to treat malaria in China around 400 AD. The team took out one active compound in wormwood, and then tested it. But nothingwas effective until Tu Youyou returned to the original ancient text. After another careful reading, she changed the drug recipe one final time, heating the compound without allowing it to reach boiling point.

After the drug showed promising results in mice and monkeys, Tu Youyou volunteered to be the first human recipient of the new drug. “In any case, Tu Youyou is consistently praised for her drive and passion. One former colleague, Lianda Li, says Ms Tu is “unsociable and quite straightforward”, adding that “if she disagrees with something, she will say it.”

Another colleague, Fuming　 Liao, who has worked with Tu Youyou for　 more　 than 40　 years, describes her as a “tough and stubborn woman”. Stubborn enough to spend decades piecing together ancient texts, she applies them to modern scientific practices. The result has saved millions of lives.

1.According to Para. I, we can learn that　　　　　　　　　 .

A. Tu is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize

B. Tu has a medical degree

C. Tu’s road to success is not traditional

D. Tu discovered a cure for malaria

2.The underlined word “decimating” in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by　　　　　　　　　 .

A. encouraging　　 B. killing　　 C. annoying　　 D. benefiting

3.Which of the following statements is true?

A. Tu first invented the idea of using sweet wormwood as a cure.

B. Tu was inspired by medical textbooks published in northern Vietnam.

C. The compound needs to be heated to the boiling point to be effective.

D. Over 240,000 compounds were proved ineffective before Tu’s search.

4.Tu Youyou can be best described as a 　　　　　　　　　 person.

A. devoted and stubborn　　 B. straightforward and mean

C. considerate and tough　　 D. sociable and generous

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.Which language does the man want to learn?

A. German.　　 B. Spanish.　　 C. Russian.

2.What can the man do if he takes the course?

A. Go to school by bike.

B. Get a chance to travel abroad.

C. Attend classes in different places.

3.What is the man’s plan for Thursday afternoon?

A. To play the piano.　　 B. To go to a museum.　　 C. To attend an art class.

高二英语长对话中等难度题查看答案及解析

It was December 25, 1914, only 5 months into World War I. German, British, and French soldiers, already sick and tired of the senseless killing, disobeyed their superiors and started socializing with “the enemy” along two-thirds of the Western Front.

German troops held up Christmas trees with signs “Merry Christmas”. Thousands of troops ran across the battlefields covered with dead bodies. They sang Christmas songs, exchanged photographs of loved ones back home, shared food and even played football. Soldiers hugged men they had been trying to kill a few short hours before. They agreed to warn each other if their officers forced them to fire their weapons, and to aim high.

Fear ran through the military leaders on both sides. They felt that their power was being challenged: soldiers declaring their brotherhood with each other and refusing to fight. Generals declared this unexpected peacemaking illegal and said that participating soldiers would face a military court. Those found guilty would be imprisoned or even shot. By March 1915 the socializing movement had been destroyed and the killing machine was back in full operation. Over the next three years more than fifteen million people died in the war.

Not many people have heard the story of the Christmas Truce(休战). On Christmas Day, 1988, a local radio host in Boston played “ Christmas in the Trenches”, a song about the Christmas Truce, several times and was stunned by his listeners’ response. Thousands of people called in, praising the song, with many moved to tears by the amazing events it describes.

You can probably guess why the callers were in tears. The Christmas Truce story goes against most of what we have been taught about people. It lets us see the world as it can be and says, “This really happened once.” It shows us the potential we have as humans, and contradicts all of those TV and newspaper stories that tell us how mean and heartless people are. It is like hearing that our deepest wishes really are true: the world really can be different.

1.The soldiers began socializing with the enemy because ______.

A. they couldn’t bear the meaningless killing.

B. it was the best way to avoid being killed.

B. they feared that they would be caught.

D. their enemies were from similar backgrounds.

2.How did the generals finally put an end to the soldiers’ socializing?

A. They sent the soldiers’ loved ones to prison.

B. They moved the two groups of soldiers further apart.

C. They increased the number of officers to control the soldiers.

D. They warned the soldiers that they would face severe punishment.

3.The underlined word “stunned” in Paragraph 4 most probably means “____”.

A. satisfied　　　　　　 B. shocked　　　　 C. amused　　　　　　 D. confused

4.The author uses the story of the soldiers to imply that human beings ____.

A. are not trustworthy under stress.

B.　 are naturally aggressive and warlike

C. are basically caring and kind-hearted

D. will always do what is in their own self-interest

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

It was December 25, 1914, only 5 months into World War I. German, British, and French soldiers, already sick and tired of the senseless killing, disobeyed their superiors and started socializing with “the enemy” along two-thirds of the Western Front.

German troops held up Christmas trees with signs, “Merry Christmas”. Thousands of troops ran across the battlefields covered with dead bodies. They sang Christmas songs, exchanged photographs of loved ones back home, shared food and even played football. Soldiers hugged men they had been trying to kill a few short hours before. They agreed to warn each other if their officers forced them to fire their weapons, and to aim high.

Fear ran through the military leaders on both sides. They felt that their power was being challenged: soldiers declaring their brotherhood with each other and refusing to fight. Generals declared this unexpected peacemaking illegal and said that participating soldiers would face a military court. Those found guilty would be imprisoned or even shot.　 By March 1915 the socializing movement had been destroyed and the killing machine was back in full operation. Over the next three years more than fifteen million people died in the war.

Not many people have heard the story of the Christmas Truce (休战). On Christmas Day, 1988, a local radio host in Boston played “Christmas in the Trenches”, a song about the Christmas Truce, several times and was stunned by his listeners’ response. Thousands of people called in, praising the song, with many moved to tears by the amazing events it described.

You can probably guess why the callers were in tears. The Christmas Truce story goes against most of what we have been taught about people. It lets us see the world as it can be and says, “This really happened once.” It shows us the potential we have as humans, and contradicts all of those TV and newspaper stories that tell us how mean and heartless people are. It is like hearing that our deepest wishes really are true: the world really can be different.

1.The soldiers began socializing with the enemy because ________.

A. they couldn't bear the meaningless killing

B. it was the best way to avoid being killed

C. they feared that they would be caught

D. their enemies were from similar backgrounds

2.How did the generals finally put an end to the soldiers’ socializing?

A. They sent the soldiers’ loved ones to prison.

B. They moved the two groups of soldiers further apart.

C. They increased the number of officers to control the soldiers.

D. They warned the soldiers that they would face severe punishment.

3.The underlined word “stunned” in Paragraph 4 most probably means ________.

A. satisfied　　 B. shocked　　 C. amused　　 D. confused

4.The author uses the story of the soldiers to imply that human beings ________.

A. are not trustworthy under stress

B. are naturally aggressive and war-like

C. are basically caring and kindhearted

D. will always do what is in their own self-interest

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

In that school, German is compulsory for all students, but English and French are_______.

A. special　　　　　　　　 B. regional　　　　　 C. optional　　　　 D. original　　

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析