One morning, a blind boy sat on the steps of ...

One morning, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, “I am blind. Please help me.” There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote something on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words. Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, “Are you the one who changed my sign this morning? May I know what you wrote?” The man said, “I only wrote the truth, I said what you said but in a different way.” What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it.”

Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was a blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. It reminded you to be thankful for what you have. When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1,000 reasons to smile. Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear. The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling.

1.We can learn from the text that the man helped the blind boy by __________.

2. Why did the man come back that afternoon?

3.It can be inferred that the boy was ________ after he found out what the man had written.

4.What is the main idea of the text?

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It was the last day of the final examination in a famous university.On the steps of one building,a group of engineering seniors gathered,discussing the exam due to begin in a few____.On their faces was confidence.This was their last exam before____and jobs.

Some talked of jobs they already had; others talked of jobs they____get.With the certainty of four years of college,they felt ready and able to take____of the world. The coming exam,they knew,would be a(n)____task.The professor had said they could bring____books or notes they wanted, requesting only that they shouldn’t____each other during the test.____they came into the classroom.The professor passed out the papers.And smiles____on the student’s faces as they noted there were only five easy questions.

Three hours had passed____the professor began to get the papers.The students no longer looked confident.On their faces was an expression of uncertainty.Papers in hand,no one spoke as the professor faced the class.

He looked at the____faces before him,and then asked,“How many completed all the five questions?”____a hand was raised.

“How many answered four?”Still no hands.

“Three? Two?”The students moved restlessly in their seats.

“One,then? Certainly somebody finished____.”But the class remained silent.

The professor put down the papers.“That’s exactly what I____,”he said,“I just want to impress upon you that____you have completed four years of engineering,there are still many things about the____you don’t know.These questions you couldn’t answer are very____in everyday practice.” Then,smiling,he added,“You will all____this course,but remember—even though you are now college graduate,your education has just____.”

With years passing by,people are beginning to____the name of this professor,but not the lesson he taught.

1.A. days　　 B. hours　　 C. minutes　　 D. seconds

2.A. education　　 B. discussion　　 C. interview　　 D. graduation

3.A. used to　　 B. had to　　 C. must　　 D. would

4.A. control　　 B. hold　　 C. charge　　 D. place

5.A. unusual　　 B. easy　　 C. interesting　　 D. necessary

6.A. all　　 B. either　　 C. any　　 D. no

7.A. look at　　 B. listen to　　 C. refer to　　 D. talk with

8.A. Nervously　　 B. Quickly　　 C. Curiously　　 D. Joyfully

9.A. appeared　　 B. changed　　 C. froze　　 D. stopped

10.A. when　　 B. as　　 C. before　　 D. after

11.A. surprised　　 B. worried　　 C. moved　　 D. pleased

12.A. Even　　 B. Only　　 C. But　　 D. Not

13.A. one　　 B. none　　 C. it　　 D. all

14.A. hated　　 B. enjoyed　　 C. expected　　 D. wondered

15.A. now that　　 B. even though　　 C. as though　　 D. right now

16.A. project　　 B. examination　　 C. question　　 D. subject

17.A. difficult　　 B. strange　　 C. common　　 D. valuable

18.A. fail　　 B. take　　 C. pass　　 D. start

19.A. completed　　 B. succeeded　　 C. failed　　 D. begun

20.A. remember　　 B. forget　　 C. record　　 D. remind

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As I sat motionless on the steps of the pool, watching everyone else swim back and forth, I realized that I had spent most of my life watching others enjoy themselves. It was then that I _______ a little girl staring at me with a look of confusion. I smiled at her, hoping to _______ the ice by talking to her. Unfortunately, my _______ failed and she just kept on staring. My _______ increased as a little boy swam up to me and said, “I feel sorry for you.”

After the _______, a thought struck me, I had to change _______ the world viewed me. Because it was children who stared at me the most, I decided to write a children’s book that taught them about _______ in a fun way. This is when KatGirl, a super hero in a _______ who helps children that are being bullied, came into my mind.

I quickly _______ inside my apartment and began creating the story. As I wrote each word, I could ________ my future as a world-renowned author and public speaker. My excitement ________ like wildfire. Over the next two years, the story ________ many changes before it saw the world in the spring of 2011. My perseverance ________ paid off.

One day I was invited to speak to the students at a neighboring school. I confidently wheeled into a classroom filled with students who ________ at me just like the little girl in the pool. “How do you feel when you see me?” I asked them. The kids bravely ________ “ I feel sorry for you.”

I opened my book and started reading. Immediately I noticed the children’s stares turned to ________. “ How do you feel when you see me?” I asked again. Without ________ they replied, “You are so cool! Does your ________ fly too?” I just smiled, “No, not yet, but maybe some day.” I knew in my heart that this was ________. The past two years had proven to me that with ________ anything is possible.

1.A.suggested B.noticed C.watched D.appreciated

2.A.forget B.break C.remove D.deliver

3.A.project B.anger C.advice D.attempt

4.A.relief B.curiosity C.awkwardness D.encouragement

5.A.encounter B.competition C.argument D.interview

6.A.how B.what C.when D.why

7.A.disabilities B.potentials C.paintings D.manners

8.A.pool B.car C.wheelchair D.spaceship

9.A.walked B.wheeled C.rushed D.raced

10.A.regard B.realize C.picture D.consider

11.A.folded B.recovered C.spread D.declined

12.A.turned down B.went through C.looked up D.got around

13.A.generally B.carefully C.separately D.eventually

14.A.called B.stared C.glimpsed D.laughed

15.A.greeted B.agreed C.continued D.responded

16.A.smiles B.doubts C.jokes D.tears

17.A.hesitation B.discussion C.intention D.imagination

18.A.body B.chair C.dream D.book

19.A.funny B.strange C.true D.false

20.A.generosity B.popularity C.harmony D.determination

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As I sat motionless on the steps of the pool, watching everyone else swim back and forth, I realized that I had spent most of my life watching others enjoy themselves. It was then that I ____ a little girl staring at me with a look of confusion. I smiled at her, hoping to ______ the ice by talking to her. Unfortunately, my ______ failed and she just kept on staring. My ______ increased as a little boy swam up to me and said, “I feel sorry for you.”

After the ______ by chance, a thought struck me. I had to change ______ the world viewed me. Because it was children who stared at me the most, I decided to write a children’s book that taught them about ______ in a fun way. This is when KatGirl, a super hero in a ______ who helps children that are being bullied, came into my mind.

I quickly ______ inside my apartment and began creating the story. As I wrote each word, I could ______ my future as a world-famous author and public speaker. My excitement ______ like wildfire. Over the next two years, the story ______ many changes before it saw the world in the spring of 2011. My insistence ______ paid off.

One day I was invited to speak to the students at a neighboring school. I confidently wheeled into a classroom filled with students who ______ at me just like the little girl in the pool. “How do you feel when you see me?” I asked them. The kids bravely ______ , “ I feel sorry for you.”

I opened my book and started reading. Immediately I noticed the children’s stares turned to ____. “ How do you feel when you see me?” I asked again. Without ______ they replied, “ You are so cool! Does your ______ fly too?” I just smiled, “No, not yet, but maybe some day.” I knew in my heart that this was ______. The past two years had proven to me that with ______ anything is possible.

1.A. suggested　　 B. watched　　 C. noticed　　 D. appreciated

2.A. forget　　 B. break　　 C. remove　　 D. deliver

3.A. attempt　　 B. project　　 C. anger　　 D. advice

4.A. relief　　 B. confidence　　 C. encouragement　　 D. awkwardness

5.A. meeting　　 B. competition　　 C. argument　　 D. interview

6.A. what　　 B. when　　 C. why　　 D. how

7.A. potentials　　 B. disabilities　　 C. paintings　　 D. manners

8.A. wheelchair　　 B. pool　　 C. car　　 D. spaceship

9.A. walked　　 B. wheeled　　 C. rushed　　 D. raced

10.A. regard　　 B. realize　　 C. picture　　 D. consider

11.A. spread　　 B. folded　　 C. recovered　　 D. declined

12.A. went through　　 B. turned down　　 C. looked up　　 D. got around

13.A. generally　　 B. carefully　　 C. separately　　 D. eventually

14.A. called　　 B. glimpsed　　 C. laughed　　 D. stared

15.A. greeted　　 B. responded　　 C. agreed　　 D. continued

16.A. doubts　　 B. jokes　　 C. tears　　 D. smiles

17.A. discussion　　 B. hesitation　　 C. intention　　 D. imagination

18.A. body　　 B. dream　　 C. chair　　 D. book

19.A. impossible　　 B. strange　　 C. true　　 D. false

20.A. determination　　 B. generosity　　 C. popularity　　 D. harmony

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We often focus on building relationships with others that we forget the essential first step: being friends of ourselves. That is the important first step if we are to have good relationships with others. 1.

1. Forgive yourself.

You may have made those mistakes in the past, but is there anything you can do about them? I don’t think so, except learning from them. Maybe you are not perfect, but neither is everybody else. 2. So do yourself a favor by giving yourself forgiveness.

2. Focus on your strengths.

3.You always have some strengths which give you a unique combination nobody else have. Recognize your strengths and build your life around them.

3. Write your success stories.

One reason we may not like ourselves is we are so focused on what we don’t have that we forget about what we have. So make a list of your achievements; write your success stories. They do not have to be big things. 4.For example, if you have some good friends, that’s already an achievement. If you have a good family, that is also an achievement.

4. Stop comparing yourself with others.

You are unique. You can never be like other people, and neither can other people be like you. The way you measure your success is not determined by other people and what they achieve. Instead, it is determined by your own life purpose. You have everything you need to achieve your life purpose, so it’s useless to compare yourself with others.

5. 5.

You don’t like other people lying to you, right? Similarly, you won’t like yourself if you know that you lie to yourself. Whether you realize it or not, that gives your mind a reason not to like yourself. That’s why it’s important to always be true to yourself. In whatever you do, be honest and follow your conscience.

A. Always be true to yourself.

B. Accept things you can't change.

C. It’s normal to make mistakes.

D. Here are some tips to being friends of ourselves.

E. Instead of focusing on your weaknesses, focus on your strengths.

F. There are a lot of small but important achievements in our life.

G. You might be disappointed with yourself on why you could make such mistakes.

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To many web-building spiders, most of whom are nearly blind, the web is their essential window on the world: their means of communicating, capturing prey（猎物）, meeting mates and protecting themselves. A web-building spider without its web is like a man cast away on an island of solid rock, totally out of touch and destined to starve to death.

So important is the web to an orb-web spider's survival that the animal will continue to construct new webs daily even if it is being starved. For 16 days the starving spider builds completely normal webs. Then, as the animal gets scrawnier（憔悴的）, it constructs a wider-meshed web using fewer strands（线）. Such webs would only trap larger prey, which is more economical from the perspective of a starving spider.

The spider stores energy by recycling web protein. It simply eats its own web each evening and reuses it to produce new silk. In studies with radioactively, labeled materials, it was found that 95 percent of web protein reappears in the next day' web. Most of the energy needed for web-building is used in walking over the strands as they are laid down．

Scientists are impressed by the adaptability of the spider's highly preprogrammed brain, which is larger for its size than the brain of any other invertebrate（无脊推动物）. If web-building is interrupted, or if some of the existing strands are destroyed, the spider simply goes back to see where the web is left off and then finishes building a normal web. One spider will finish building the incomplete web of another.

1.What is probably the best title for the passage?

A. Secrets of Spiders' Adaptability

B. Secrets of the Spiders' Life

C. Importance of Webs to Spiders

D. Spiders' Highly Preprogrammed Brain

2.According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Web-building spiders will probably die without their webs.

B. One Web-building spider usually conducts one web.

C. Most spiders will stop conducting webs when hungry.

D. Web-building spiders have good eyesight.

3.A spider conducts a wider-meshed web when ________.

A. it is 16 days old

B. it is getting weaker

C. it has fewer wends

D. it hunts for food

4.A spider's ability to finish an incomplete web proves that ________.

A. it reuses its web protein to reproduce new silk

B. it is able to rebuild a destroyed web

C. the incomplete web is much more important

D. it has a highly preprogrammed brain

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The boy sat on his chair, with his hand above the keyboard. He thought about what to write.

He recalled that the competition deadline was merely a week away. But he still had not even started on his piece. He looked at the brochure again. “ WRITING COMPETITION!” the title read. His mom had encouraged him to enter the writing competition, and now he was taking it on as his personal task for the holidays.

As the boy reflected on his previous writing efforts, he realized how hopeless his task of winning was. Every story he ever wrote was based on other stories. He had little imagination, and unfortunately, imagination was the key to writing.

Suddenly, he had a brainwave. This time, he came up with an original and imaginative story.

The words shot towards him like a storm of leaves. Words were coming easily, flowing through him, faster than he could type. He typed faster than he ever had before. He continued to type, amazed at how easy writing this story was. The boy could not stop writing. He looked at the word count and saw the number “ 248 ” staring right back at him. He was not even halfway yet.

Then he heard the call of his mother saying time for bed. He continued writing the piece, ignoring her. He had to make up for the time he had lost thinking about a topic to write.

Finally, he finished. The word count now read “498”.

“Perfect,” he thought, “just under the word limit.” He knew this was the story that would win.

He went onto Google and searched for the competition. He found the page but there was no “Enter” button.

1.What caused the boy to take part in the writing competition?

A.A new computer. B.The prize money.

C.His own interest. D.His mom’s advice.

2.How did the boy finish his earlier writing?

A.His mom helped him. B.He copied others’ ideas.

C.His friends assisted him. D.He used his imagination.

3.Why did the boy delay his writing?

A.Because he was terribly lazy. B.Because he didn’t know what to write.

C.Because he wasn’t confident. D.Because he read too many stories.

4.Which might be the maximum word limit for each entry?

A.100. B.250.

C.500. D.1000.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

See the flags on top of the building? That’s ____ we did this morning.

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It was early in the morning, on a lonely road. It's 36heavily. A 9-year-old boy was in the car with his mother, who was 37 him to school. Suddenly, the car went off the road, 38  several times, and came to rest upside down in a ditch (沟渠) filled with water.

Luckily, both the mother and son were39seatbelts. The mother suffered a blow to her head and was unable to move. The boy was frightened but 40. As water came through broken windows in the car, he41unbuckled (解开) himself, climbed out of the42window, made his way around to the driver's side, and reached inside the43  to free his trapped mother. With great effort, he managed to44her, pull her through the window and up to the road, where they were soon45  .

His mother later recalled her experience of the 46  . Being unable to move or even 47to offer instructions (指导) or encouragement to her son, she was48by her little son's action. She recalled49her boy saying out loud as he pulled her through the water, “I think I can, I think I can!”

It seemed 50  that this little boy's act of courage was from one of his favourite books: The Little Engine that Could. In that51, when everyone else had52hope, the Little Engine carried the heavy load of toys and good things to eat over the hill to the children waiting on the other side. He had53and took action. Obviously this book had left a 54  impression before the accident that rainy 55and motivated (激励) the son to take action if the terrifying moments.

1.                A．snowing        B．smoking        C．raining   D．blowing

2.                A．ordering        B．flying           C．pushing   D．driving

3.                A．moved         B．fell            C．rolled    D．stopped

4.                A．wearing        B．watching        C．making   D．missing

5.                A．afraid          B．dead           C．tired D．unhurt

6.                A．nearly          B．carefully        C．quickly   D．happily

7.                A．student         B．worker         C．family    D．passenger

8.                A．box            B．room           C．car  D．ditch

9.                A．respect         B．free            C．recognize D．introduce

10.               A．accepted       B．rescued        C．welcomed D．fed

11.               A．travel          B．experiment     C．accident   D．fire

12.               A．speak          B．sleep          C．listen D．look

13.               A．excited         B．amazed         C．wounded  D．frightened

14.               A．seeing         B．hearing         C．smelling   D．feeling

15.               A．clear          B．sorry          C．useful D．necessary

16.               A．poem          B．notice          C．story D．dream

17.               A．realized        B．waken         C．kept up   D．given up

18.               A．courage        B．food           C．space D．time

19.               A．bad           B．deep          C．false  D．general

20.               A．afternoon       B．night           C．morning   D．evening

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It was early in the morning, on a lonely road. It's 36  heavily. A 9-year-old boy was in the car with his mother, who was 37  him to school. Suddenly, the car went off the road, 38  several times, and came to rest upside down in a ditch(沟渠) filled with water.

Luckily, both the mother and son were 39  seatbelts. The mother suffered a blow to her head and was unable to move. The boy was frightened but 40 . As water came through broken windows in the car, he 41  unbuckled (解开) himself, climbed out of the 42  window, made his way around to the driver's side, and reached inside the 43  to free his trapped mother. With great effort, he managed to 44  her, pull her through the window and up to the road, where they were soon 45  .

His mother later recalled her experience of the 46  . Being unable to move or even 47  to offer instructions ( 指导) or encouragement to her son, she was 48  by her little son's action. She recalled 49  her boy saying out loud as he pulled her through the water, “I think I can, I think I can!”

It seemed 50  that this little boy's act of courage was from one of his favourite books: The Little Engine that Could. In that 51  , when everyone else had  52  hope, the Little Engine carried the heavy load of toys and good things to eat over the hill to the children waiting on the other side. He had 53  and took action. Obviously this book had left a 54  impression before the accident that rainy 55  and motivated ( 激励) the son to take action if the terrifying moments.

1.A.  snowing               B.  smoking             C.  blowing            D. raining

2.A.  ordering                   B.  driving              C.  pushing              D. flying

3.A.  rolled                    B.  fell                  C.  moved              D. stopped

4.A.  making                   B.  watching          C.  wearing          D. missing

5.A.  afraid                   B.  dead                 C.  tired             D. unhurt

6. A.  quickly                 B.  carefully             C.  nearly        D. happily

7.A.  student                    B.  passenger             C.  family             D. worker

8. A. box                         B.  room                  C.   car           D. ditch

9.A. respect                    B.  introduce                C.  recognize            D. free

10.A. accepted                   B. rescued                   C.  welcomed          D. fed

11.A. accident                     B.  experiment              C.  travel              D. fire

12. A. listen                       B.  sleep                   C.  speak               D. look

13. A. excited                B. frightened              C.  wounded      D. amazed

14.A. seeing                   B.  hearing                 C.  smelling           D. feeling

15.A. clear                     B.  sorry                  C. useful        D. necessary

16.A. poem                       B.  notice                 C.  story               D. dream

17. A. realized                     B.  waken               C.  kept up             D. given up

18.A. courage                     B.  food            C.  space                 D. time

19. A. bad                   B.  deep             C.  false                   D. general

20. A. afternoon                   B.  night             C.  morning                D. evening

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