In 1986, when Monty Reed was a member of the Army Rangers (黑鹰突击 队), he had an accident. "It was a night jump, and we were jumping low," he recalls. "We were training. Somebody got too close to my parachute (降落伞)."The parachute below blocked Reed’s air and his parachute failed to open. Reed crashed a hundred feet to the ground, breaking his back in five places.
The next morning, Reed could not move. "Doctors said it was likely that I would never walk again." Reed stared out of his hospital window, wondering what the future would be like. It was the saddest moment of his life. "The experts are telling me my body doesn’t work! What am I supposed to do?" he thought.
To distract (转移注意力) himself, he picked up a book: Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. The science-fiction describes a set of man-made muscles that would allow people to carry 2,000 pounds. He thought that if he could build something like that, it might be able to lift him out of his wheelchair. So he began his project and finally succeeded in building a set of robot legs. Several years later, he made an amazing recovery and was able to get up and walk away from his wheelchair. He even jumped out of an airplane again to celebrate.
Reed wanted to do something for others with the second chance that life had given him. He has now perfected the robot legs that can get the injured, the elderly and the paralyzed (瘫痪的) out of their wheelchairs. Now he has started his own company to make the legs. "I’ve seen them compete in marathons and go swimming and mountain climbing," he said. "So never give up!"
1.Monty had an accident in 1986 because_______.
A．his feet hit the ground too hard
B．his parachute was under another person’s
C．another person’s parachute stopped his from opening
D．he was training to jump at night
2.Monty started to read Starship Troopers to ______.
A．create a new kind of wheelchair for himself
B．discover how to make man-made muscles
C．learn how to jump out of an airplane
D．stop himself from thinking about his pain
3.Which of the following is TRUE about Monty?
A．He didn’t lose heart in the face of difficulty.
B．He is fond of reading science fiction.
C．He spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
D．He didn’t believe what the doctors said.
4.We can learn from the passage that Monty’s goal is to ______.
A．become a famous writer like Robert Heinlein
B．return to the Army Rangers and continue with his jumps
C．compete in games and marathons and go swimming
D．help more patients in wheelchairs to recover
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题
In 1986, when Monty Reed was a member of the Army Rangers (黑鹰突击 队), he had an accident. "It was a night jump, and we were jumping low," he recalls. "We were training. Somebody got too close to my parachute (降落伞)."The parachute below blocked Reed’s air and his parachute failed to open. Reed crashed a hundred feet to the ground, breaking his back in five places.
The next morning, Reed could not move. "Doctors said it was likely that I would never walk again." Reed stared out of his hospital window, wondering what the future would be like. It was the saddest moment of his life. "The experts are telling me my body doesn’t work! What am I supposed to do?" he thought.
To distract (转移注意力) himself, he picked up a book: Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. The science-fiction describes a set of man-made muscles that would allow people to carry 2,000 pounds. He thought that if he could build something like that, it might be able to lift him out of his wheelchair. So he began his project and finally succeeded in building a set of robot legs. Several years later, he made an amazing recovery and was able to get up and walk away from his wheelchair. He even jumped out of an airplane again to celebrate.
Reed wanted to do something for others with the second chance that life had given him. He has now perfected the robot legs that can get the injured, the elderly and the paralyzed (瘫痪的) out of their wheelchairs. Now he has started his own company to make the legs. "I’ve seen them compete in marathons and go swimming and mountain climbing," he said. "So never give up!"
1.Monty had an accident in 1986 because_______.
A．his feet hit the ground too hard
B．his parachute was under another person’s
C．another person’s parachute stopped his from opening
D．he was training to jump at night
2.Monty started to read Starship Troopers to ______.
A．create a new kind of wheelchair for himself
B．discover how to make man-made muscles
C．learn how to jump out of an airplane
D．stop himself from thinking about his pain
3.Which of the following is TRUE about Monty?
A．He didn’t lose heart in the face of difficulty.
B．He is fond of reading science fiction.
C．He spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
D．He didn’t believe what the doctors said.
4.We can learn from the passage that Monty’s goal is to ______.
A．become a famous writer like Robert Heinlein
B．return to the Army Rangers and continue with his jumps
C．compete in games and marathons and go swimming
D．help more patients in wheelchairs to recover
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Prince Roman was a Polish nobleman, a captain in the army of Czar Nicholas of Russia. When his young wife died, the prince left the army and returned in sorrow to his native Poland.
In time, love for his country and its people took the place of his lost love. He joined a Polish rising against the Russians. The rising was crushed, and Prince Roman was taken prisoner. His relatives and friends begged the military court to have mercy on him.
The president of the court received these appeals kindly. He was a good Russian, but he was also a good-natured man. Russian hatred of Poles was not as fierce at that time as it became later; and the Russian felt sympathetic as soon as he saw the prince's thin, tired, sun-burnt face.
The court of three officers sat in a bare room, behind a long black table. Some clerks sat at the two ends, but no one else was there when the guards brought in the prince.
Those four walls shut out from Prince Roman all sights and sounds of freedom, all hopes of the future, all comforting thoughts. How much love for Poland remained in him then? How much love of life? He stood before his judges alone, having refused their permission to sit. He answered their first formal questions — his name and so on — clearly and politely although he felt too weary to talk.
Then the president of the court seemed to suggest how the young man could best help himself. He asked questions in a way that almost put the right answers in the prisoner's mouth.
“Didn't your wife's death drive you to despair? Wasn't your mind unbalanced by that sad event ?”
Prince Roman was silent.
"You were not fully responsible for you conduct, were you?"
Prince Roman was silent.
"You made a sudden blind decision to join the rising. You didn't realize that your actions were dangerous and dishonourable. Isn't that the truth of this unfortunate matter?"
The judges looked at the prisoner hopefully. In silence the prince reached for a pen and some paper. He wrote, "I joined the rising because I believe it was just." He pushed the paper towards the president, who took it and read it in silence.
Prince Roman was sentenced to hard work for life in the Siberian salt mines. It was a sentence of delayed death.
When Czar Nicholas read the report and sentence, he added in his own handwriting, "Make sure that this prisoner walks in chains every step of the way to Siberia."
1.What does the passage tell us of Poland at the time?
A．Polish officers in the Russian army had to return to Poland.
B．Russia was at war with Poland, so the Poles were enemies.
C．The Russians were very cruel rulers of Poland.
D．It was ruled by Russia, and Poles served in the Russian army.
2.How much love for Poland remained in the prince when he stood trial?
A．Not much, probably, after the failure of the rising.
B． More than he had ever felt before.
C．As much as he had ever felt.
D．The passage doesn't suggest an answer to the question.
3.The questions which the president asked show that ______.
A．he was trying to find excuse for the prince's conduct
B．the court wanted the prince to admit his own guilt
C．he wanted to learn the truth about the Polish rising
D．Prince Roman was a weak person
4.In the trial, Prince Roman ______.
A．was afraid to be responsible for his actions
B．blamed others for his actions
C．accepted responsibility for his actions
D．admitted his guilt
5.According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
A．The judges were less sympathetic than Czar Nicholas.
B．Czar Nicholas was as kind as the judges.
C．Czar Nicholas was not as sympathetic as the judges.
D．The judges were as cruel as Czar Nicholas.
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
My House
My mother moved a lot when she was growing up on account of Grandpa being in the army. She hated having to adjust to new schools and make new friends. That’s why I thought she was joking when she put forward the idea of moving. But she was completely serious. “For just the two of us,” my mother said, “an apartment in the city will suit our needs much better.” Personally, I think she’s lost her mind. I guess I can understand why she would want to move, but what about me and what this house means to me?
I suppose if you looked at my house, you might think it was just another country house. But to me it is anything but standard. I moved into this house with my parents ten years ago. I can still remember that first day like it was yesterday. The first thing I noticed was the big front yard. To me it seemed like an ocean of grass—I couldn’t wait to dive in. The backyard was full of gnarled (扭曲的, 粗糙的) and scary trees that talk on windy nights. But I grew to like them and the shadows they cast in my room. My father and I even built a small tree house, where I often go to remember all the wonderful times we had before Father’s death.
This house is special—maybe only to me—but special nevertheless. It’s the little seemingly insignificant things that make this house so special to me: the ice-cold tile floors that make me tremble on midnight snack runs; the smell of my father’s pipe that still exists; the towering bookcases of my mother; the view outside my bedroom window.
This house holds too many memories, memories which would be lost if we gave it up.
1.Why did the author’s mother decide to move?
A. Because she hated the countryside.
B. Because Grandpa was on constant move.
C. Because Dad’s death made her lose her mind.
D. Because she thought a city flat more fit for them.
2.What impressed the author when she first moved into the house?
A. The tree house. B. The big trees. C. The cold floors. D. The green grass.
3.How did the author let us feel that the house was special to her?
A. By arguing whether the house was standard.
B. By explaining why the house suited their needs.
C. By describing the small things related to her house.
D. By comparing the differences between country and city life.
4. My mother moved a lot when she was growing up because of ________.
A. Grandpa being in the army. B.their family’s liking moving
C. the life’s need D. Mother’s work
高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
My father served in the army in ________when he was in ________.
A. 1950s; twenties B. the 1950s; his twenties
C. the 1950s; the twenties D. 1950s; the twenties
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
What is intelligence anyway? When I was in the army I______ an intelligence test that all soldiers took, and, against_______ of 100, scored 160.
I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not______ have scored more than 80. ______, when anything went wrong with my car I hurried to him and he always ________it.
Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man______ questions for some intelligence tests. By every one of them I’d prove myself a______. In a world where I have to work with my______. I’d do poorly.
Consider my auto-repair man______. He had a habit of telling______. One time he said, “Doc, a deaf-and-dumb man______some nails. Having entered a store, he put two fingers together on the counter and made ______ movements with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He______ his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk______ him some nails. He picked out the right size and left. Well, Doc, the______ man who came in was blind. He wanted scissors (剪刀). ______ do you suppose he asked for them?” I lifted my right hand and made scissoring movements with my first two fingers. He burst out laughing and said, “Why, you fool, he used his ______ and asked for them. I’ve been______ that on all my customers today, but I knew ______ I’d catch you.” “Why is that?” I asked. “Because you are so goddamned educated, Doc. I knew you couldn’t be very ______.”
And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there.
1.A. received B. wrote C. failed D. chose
2.A. an exam B. a total C. an average D. a number
3.A. always B. possibly C. certainly D. frequently
4.A. Then B. Thus C. Therefore D. Yet
5.A. drove B. checked C. fixed D. changed
6.A. designed B. answered C. practised D. tried
7.A. teacher B. doctor C. winner D. fool
8.A. brains B. effort C. hands D. attention
9.A. too B. as usual C. again D. as well
10.A. lies B. jokes C. news D. tales
11.A. bought B. needed C. found D. tested
12.A. hammering B. cutting C. waving D. circling
13.A. nodded B. raised C. shook D. turned
14.A. brought B. packed C. sent D. sold
15.A. clever B. other C. right D. next
16.A. What B. Which C. Who D. How
17.A. imagination B. voice C. hand D. information
18.A. trying B. proving C. practising D. examining
19.A. at once B. right now C. in fact D. for sure
20.A. smart B. clear C. slow D. silly
高二英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析
What is intelligence anyway? When I was in the army I______ an intelligence test that all soldiers took, and, against_______ of 100, scored 160.
I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not______ have scored more than 80. ______, when anything went wrong with my car I hurried to him and he always ________it.
Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man______ questions for some intelligence tests. By every one of them I’d prove myself a______. In a world where I have to work with my______. I’d do poorly.
Consider my auto-repair man______. He had a habit of telling______. One time he said, “Doc, a deaf-and-dumb man______some nails. Having entered a store, he put two fingers together on the counter and made ______ movements with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He______ his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk______ him some nails. He picked out the right size and left. Well, Doc, the______ man who came in was blind. He wanted scissors (剪刀). ______ do you suppose he asked for them?” I lifted my right hand and made scissoring movements with my first two fingers. He burst out laughing and said, “Why, you fool, he used his ______ and asked for them. I’ve been______ that on all my customers today, but I knew ______ I’d catch you.” “Why is that?” I asked. “Because you are so goddamned educated, Doc. I knew you couldn’t be very ______.”
And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there.
1.A.received B.wrote C.failed D.chose
2.A.an exam B.a total C.an average D.a number
3.A.always B.possibly C.certainly D.frequently
4.A.Then B.Thus C.Therefore D.Yet
5.A.drove B.checked C.fixed D.changed
6.A.designed B.answered C.practised D.tried
7.A.teacher B.doctor C.winner D.fool
8.A.brains B.effort C.hands D.attention
9.A.too B.as usual C.again D.as well
10.A.lies B.jokes C.news D.tales
11.A.bought B.needed C.found D.tested
12.A.hammering B.cutting C.waving D.circling
13.A.nodded B.raised C.shook D.turned
14.A.brought B.packed C.sent D.sold
15.A.clever B.other C.right D.next
16.A.What B.Which C.Who D.How
17.A.imagination B.voice C.hand D.information
18.A.trying B.proving C.practising D.examining
19.A.at once B.right now C.in fact D.for sure
20.A.smart B.clear C.slow D.silly
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
The Slow Food Movement started in Rome, Italy in 1986. When a new McDonalds was opening near a beautiful historic place, some people stood outside the restaurant and shouted, “We do not want fast food, we want slow food!”
1. One day Carlo Petrini went to a restaurant to eat a traditional meal. But the food didn’t taste the same as he remembered. He learned that the peppers were shipped from abroad because the prices were low. This deeply concerned Carlo.
Carlo wanted people to care about where their foods came from and how their foods made their culture special. So he started a group to encourage this idea. It soon became the Slow Food Movement. 2.
First, what is good food? Good food is fresh. The vegetables are eaten close to the place where they are grown. The fish hasn’t been sitting for days before it is eaten. Good food is seasonable. 3.
Good food satisfies the senses. It should look good, smell good and taste good. And finally, good food is cultural food. Each country has special foods that make it different.
Second, food should be clean. Today, there are great concerns about the way people grow and produce food. Farmers use chemicals to kill insects and feed plants. But the chemicals can also harm the natural environment around farms. 4.Clean food means food that does not harm our bodies or the environment.
And third, food should be fair. 5.All people should be able to purchase healthy food. The people who grow and make food should be paid fairly for their work. They should work in safe, healthy conditions.
A.Food should not cost too much money.
B.Its goal is to have good, clean, fair food for all people.
C.Over time, they can cause health problems in people too.
D.That was how the Slow Food Movement came into being.
E.It should be grown at the best time of the year for that food.
F.Today the Slow Food Movement has already expanded out of Italy.
G.This event wasn’t the only thing that started the Slow Food Movement.
高二英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析
The band was very successful in the seventies, most of _____ members were in their twenties．
A．its B．whose C．whom D．Which
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
When the news came ___ the war broke out , he decided to serve in the army.
A.since B.which C.that D.because
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Since 2012, when he _______, the soldier has been in the army.
A. had married B. has married
C. is married D. got married
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析