As a child, Emily Blunt had a stutter(结巴) that made it difficult for her to even say her own name. “I started noticing it at 6 or 7,” the London-born actress says. “My grandfather, my uncle and my cousin all stutter. It feels like you’ve got this pretender living in your body.” After a teacher noticed her stutter disappeared whenever she would start to play energetically, he suggested she try performing for the school play. She found that the more she lost herself in characters, the less uncomfortably nervous she felt and the less she would stutter.
Now the star aims to help kids going through the same thing by working with the American Institute for Stuttering. “They understand that how these kids relate to their stutter is usually the issue,” says Blunt. “You’ve got to fall in love with the fact that you’ve got a stutter to accept it. But it’s not all of you. Everyone’s got something－and this is just your thing.”
Blunt’s personal experience has inspired her to help girls everywhere, regardless of the trouble they may face. The A Quiet Place Part II and Jungle Cruise star also supports Malala Fund, created by Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai to break down the barriers preventing more than 130 million girls worldwide from receiving an education. “She’s the most moving, impressive person I’ve ever met,” Blunt says. “What she says is true: When women are given more power in communities, those communities develop quickly and successfully. I want to support Malala until the day I die.”
Giving back is a quality Blunt and husband John Krasinski also hope to pass on to their daughters Hazel, 6, and Violet, 3. “Empathy is highly thought of in our house,” Blunt says. “We tell them all the time, ‘Be brave, be kind.’ ”
1.What challenge did Emily Blunt have to take when young?
A.Learning at school. B.Performing in a play.
C.Speaking fluently. D.Working with others.
2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.People need to accept who they are. B.Everyone’s got something in the body.
C.It’s a fact that many kids have got a stutter. D.Blunt admitted the fact that she had a stutter.
3.Why did Blunt aim to help girls worldwide?
A.She starred in two films successfully. B.Her husband inspired her to give back.
C.Her daughter suffered from the same disease. D.Her own experience encouraged her to do so.
4.What’s the best title for the text?
A.A London-born Actress B.Passing on the Tradition
C.Giving Girls a Voice D.Living with a Stutter
高一英语阅读选择中等难度题
As a child, Emily Blunt had a stutter(结巴) that made it difficult for her to even say her own name. “I started noticing it at 6 or 7,” the London-born actress says. “My grandfather, my uncle and my cousin all stutter. It feels like you’ve got this pretender living in your body.” After a teacher noticed her stutter disappeared whenever she would start to play energetically, he suggested she try performing for the school play. She found that the more she lost herself in characters, the less uncomfortably nervous she felt and the less she would stutter.
Now the star aims to help kids going through the same thing by working with the American Institute for Stuttering. “They understand that how these kids relate to their stutter is usually the issue,” says Blunt. “You’ve got to fall in love with the fact that you’ve got a stutter to accept it. But it’s not all of you. Everyone’s got something－and this is just your thing.”
Blunt’s personal experience has inspired her to help girls everywhere, regardless of the trouble they may face. The A Quiet Place Part II and Jungle Cruise star also supports Malala Fund, created by Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai to break down the barriers preventing more than 130 million girls worldwide from receiving an education. “She’s the most moving, impressive person I’ve ever met,” Blunt says. “What she says is true: When women are given more power in communities, those communities develop quickly and successfully. I want to support Malala until the day I die.”
Giving back is a quality Blunt and husband John Krasinski also hope to pass on to their daughters Hazel, 6, and Violet, 3. “Empathy is highly thought of in our house,” Blunt says. “We tell them all the time, ‘Be brave, be kind.’ ”
1.What challenge did Emily Blunt have to take when young?
A.Learning at school. B.Performing in a play.
C.Speaking fluently. D.Working with others.
2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.People need to accept who they are. B.Everyone’s got something in the body.
C.It’s a fact that many kids have got a stutter. D.Blunt admitted the fact that she had a stutter.
3.Why did Blunt aim to help girls worldwide?
A.She starred in two films successfully. B.Her husband inspired her to give back.
C.Her daughter suffered from the same disease. D.Her own experience encouraged her to do so.
4.What’s the best title for the text?
A.A London-born Actress B.Passing on the Tradition
C.Giving Girls a Voice D.Living with a Stutter
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Elizabeth Blackwell is a British-born woman physician (医师). She was born in 1821 in England. Her father decided to move the family to the United States in 1832 after his factory was destroyed by fire. It is said that she turned to studying medicine after a close friend who was dying said she wouldn’t have suffered so much if her physician had been a woman. Elizabeth knew that no woman had ever been permitted to study in a medical school. But she began to think about the idea seriously after the friend who had suggested it died.
Elizabeth discussed it with her family. Her family supported her. However, all the medical colleges refused her except Geneva Medical College in New York. When she graduated from Geneva Medical College in 1849, she became the first woman in America to earn the M. D. degree. She was not offered many opportunities as a young female physician, she opened her own office 2 years later. Her younger sister Dr. Emily Blackwell, joined her in 1856. Together with Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, they opened the New York Infirmary (医院) for Women and Children in 1857. After establishing the infirmary. Elizabeth Blackwell went on a year-long lecture tour of Great Britain. Her lectures and personal example inspired more women to take up medicine as a profession.
When the American Civil War broke out, the Blackwell sisters aided in nursing efforts. After the end of the war, Elizabeth Blackwell carried out a plan that she had developed together with her friend Florence Nightingale while in England. She opened the Women’s Medical College with her sister. This college was operated under her sister’s management. She moved to England the next year. There, she helped to organize the National Health Society and she founded the London School of Medicine for Women.
As her health declined, Blackwell gave up the practice of medicine in the late 1870s, though she still campaigned for reform (改革). On 31 May 1910, she died at home in England.
1.What probably made Elizabeth determine to learn medicine?
A.Her family’s expectation.
B.Her interest in medicine.
C.Her friend’s suggestion.
D.Her friend’s medical talent.
2.How old was Elizabeth when she opened the hospital for women and children?
A.28. B.30. C.36. D.37.
3.Who was in charge of the Women’s Medical College?
A.Marie Zakrzewska. B.Emily Blackwell.
C.Elizabeth Blackwell. D.Florence Nightingale.
4.Which of the following can best describe Elizabeth?
A.Simple and hardworking. B.Determined and caring.
C.Curious and patient. D.Gentle and peace-loving.
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After attending another parent meeting regarding my 7-year-old child’s behaviour, I didn’t know what to do. It was the second school we had tried for Nathan and, as always, everything was being done for my child’s needs. It was also having bad effects on Nathan. He would come home and say, “ Mom , I hate my life. I do not want to live anymore.” I was afraid that my son was beginning to suffer from depression and that I was losing him. We needed help.
By the age of seven, Nathan had already had three surgeries for his ears. He was in great pain, regardless of pain medication, which made it difficult for him to learn or pay attention. Despite Nathan’s bad condition, staff at two previous schools seemed as though they didn’t care. They often forgot to deal with his medication. As a result of many times of ear infections, Nathan had hearing loss. To make things worse, Nathan’s speech was not very good. Children would play a trick on him and Nathan began to fall behind in study.
When I first set foot into Ripley House Charter School, I knew this was the school for my son. It felt positive from the moment I entered. From the start, Mrs. Elsen and her staff heard my concern over Nathan. Mrs. Elsen addressed my concern, not with empty words but with action.
That day, Nathan came home from his first day of school saying, “ Mom, I love school !” By the end of the week he was saying “ Mom, I like my life. I have a good life.” Ripley House Charter School gave me my son back and saved our lives. Thank you for giving me back what we had lost ----HOPE.
1.From the beginning, we can learn that ___________.
A.the author felt helpless about his son
B.B. the author often attended the class meeting
C.Nathan had been in great depression
D.no school would like to accept Nathan
2.The second paragraph mainly talks about___________.
A.Nathan’s lessons
B.what Nathan suffered
C.Nathan’s performance in study
D.Nathan’s two previous schools
3.What attitude did the author hold towards Ripley House Charter School?
A.Thankful B.Concerned.
C.Doubtful D.Negative.
4.The underlined word “addressed” in Paragraph 3 probably means “___________”.
A.spoke out B.dealt with
C.listened to D.believed in
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As a child, I was really afraid of the dark and of getting lost. These fears were very real and caused me some uncomfortable moments. Maybe it was the strange way things looked and sounded in my own room at night that scared me so much. There was never complete darkness, but always a streetlight or passing car lights, which made clothes on the back of a chair take on the shape of a wild animal. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the curtains seem to move when there was no wind. A very low sound in the floor would seem a hundred times louder than in the day. My imagination would run wild, and my heart would beat fast. I would lie very still so that the “enemy” would not discover me.
Another of my childhood fears was that I would get lost, especially on the way home from school. Every morning I got on the school bus right near my home. That was no problem. After school, though, when all the buses were lined up along the street, I was afraid that I would get in the wrong one and be taken to some other strange places. On school or family trips to a park or a museum, I wouldn’t let the leaders out of my sight.
Perhaps one of the worst fears of all I had as a child was that of not being liked or accepted by others. Being popular was so important to me then, and the fear of not being liked was a serious one.
One of the processes growing up is being able to realize and overcome our fears. Understanding the things that scared us as children helps us achieve greater success later in life.
1.The author had _______ kind(s) of fears when she was a child.
A.One B.two C.three D.none
2._______ would scare the author at night.
A.Streetlight and car lights B.Wild animals and enemies
C.Moving curtains and wind D.Clothes and walls
3.When she went to some other places, she would _______.
A.walk away without others B.take a bus by herself
C.follow others closely D.make sure not to take a wrong bus
4.Which of the following would be possibly true when she was a child______.
A.She thought being popular among people was important.
B.She was always the leader of the others.
C.She always got poor grades.
D.She was not liked by others at all.
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Mo Yan had been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature made us very proud.
A. As B. That C. Which D. What
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Tess still stood hesitating like a swimmer about to make his dive, hardly knowing whether to return or move forward, when a figure came out from the dark door of the tent.It was a tall young man, smoking.
He had an almost black face, though red and smooth. His moustache was black with curled points, though he could not be more than twenty-three or-four. There was an unusual force in his face, and in his daring rolling eyes.
“Well, my beauty, what can I do for you?” said he, coming forward. And seeing that she was quite at a loss: “Never mind me, I am Mr. D’ Urberville. Have you come to see me or my mother?”
This differed greatly from what Tess had expected. She had dreamed of an aged and dignified face. She tried to keep calm and answered—“I came to see your mother, sir.”
“I am afraid you cannot see her—she is ill in bed,” replied the representative of the house; for this was Mr. Alec, the only son of the noble family. “What is the business you wish to see her about?”
“It isn’t business—it is—I can hardly say what!”
“Pleasure?”
“Oh no. Why, sir, if I tell you, it will seem…”
Tess’s sense of a certain ridicule was now so strong that, despite her general discomfort at being here, her rosy lips curved (弯曲) towards a smile, much to the attraction of the young man.
“It is so foolish,” she stammered(结结巴巴地说); “I fear I can’t tell you!”
“Never mind; I like foolish things. Try again, my dear, “ said he kindly.
“Mother asked me to come.” Tess continued; “and, indeed, I was in the mind to do so myself. But I did not think it would be like this. I came, sir, to tell you that we are of the same family as you.”
“Ho! Poor relations?”
“Yes.”
“Stokes？”
“No; d’Urbervilles.”
“Ay, ay; I mean d’Urbervilles.”
“Our names are worn away to Durbeyfield; but we have several proofs that we are d’Urbervilles. The local scholars hold the view that we are, and…and we have an old seal and a silver spoon marked with the same castle as yours. So mother said we ought to make ourselves known to you, as we’ve lost our horse by a bad accident; we can hardly make a living.”
“Very kind of your mother, I’m sure.” Alec looked at Tess as he spoke, in a way that made her uneasy.” And so, my pretty girl, you’ve come on a friendly visit to us, as relations?”
“I Suppose I have,” looking less confident and uncomfortable again.
“Well— there’s no harm in it. Where do you live? What are you?”
——Tess of the d’Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
1.How does Tess feel in the whole course of the meeting with Alec？
A.Excited and hopeful B.Nervous and uncomfortable
C.Surprised but comfortable D.Pleased but embarrassed
2.In the eyes of Tess, Alec is ________.
A.forceful and daring B.unfriendly and talkative
C.a gentle and reliable man D.older than she had expected
3.Why does Tess pay the visit to the D’Urbervilles？
A.To see Alec himself. B.To see Alec’s mother.
C.To confirm that they are of the same family. D.To make known their relationship and seek help.
4.Alec appears quite friendly to Tess mainly because ________.
A.Tess is his distant relation B.Tess looks polite to him
C.Tess is a pretty girl D.Tess looks ridiculous
高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
I had the meanest mother in the world. While other kids ate candy for breakfast, I had to have cereal (麦片粥), eggs and toast. Others had cokes and candy for lunch, while we had to eat a sandwich. As you can guess, my supper was different from the other kids’. But at least I was not alone in my suffering. My sister and two brothers had the same mean mother as I did.
My mother insisted on knowing where we were at all times. She had to know who our friends were and what we were doing. We had to wear clean clothes every day. Other kids always wore their clothes for days. We reached the height of disgrace (丢脸) because she made our clothes herself, just to save money.
The worst is yet to come. We had to be in bed by 9:00 each night and up at 7:45 the next morning. So while my friends slept, my mother actually had the courage to break Child Labor Law. She made us work. I believed she lay awake all night thinking up mean things to do to us. Through the years, our friends’ report cards had beautiful colors on them, black for passing, red for failing. My mother, however, would merely be content with black marks. None of us was allowed the pleasure of being a dropout (辍学者).
She forced us to grow up into educated and honest adults. Using this as a background, I’m now trying to bring up my three children. I’m filled with pride when my children think I am mean because now I thank God every day for giving me the meanest mother in the world.
1.From the passage we can learn that the writer’s mother was .
A.not generous at all B.very strict with her children
C.very mean with money matters D.very cruel to her children
2.Which of the following things did the writer hate to do most?
A.Eating differently from other kids.
B.Wearing clean clothes which were made by mother.
C.Going to bed early and getting up early.
D.Letting mother know where they were.
3.It can be inferred from the passage that .
A.the writer worked hard and usually got good grades in studies
B.mother was punished for breaking the Labor Law
C.all the other kids studied better than the writer
D.the writer’s family lived a painful life
4.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A.Mother practised economy in running her home.
B.The writer is very thankful to her mother.
C.The writer is strict with her children when bringing them up.
D.The writer doesn’t love her mother for the past painful life.
高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
As a child, I was told that a wise person is the one who learns from everyone. It is a great way to live by this 1 ----One begins to look at people very 2 and he no longer puts others 3in order to feel good about himself.
Living in China 4 me with many wonderful opportunities to put this theory (理论) into practice, China is quite 5 and as a Westerner, it’s easy for me to consider many of the local habits as “strange” and even “rude”. However, slowly I began to 6 a lot about the culture and about where many of their 7 came from. I decided to make an effort to meet people and 8 from them.
I am living in Harbin now, a city in the Northern part of China, near Russia. Yesterday I9 to get money from the ATM and have a good cup of coffee after lunch. But I can’t speak Chinese yet and there are no signs in English 10 the nearest supermarket or coffee shop. There are signs in Russian. 11“espaciba” which means thanks, I don’t know much else. 12 I decided to smile at my every attempt（尝试) to 13 and ask for information that would 14 me to an ATM and a coffee shop. It turned out that my efforts and my15were met with more smiles. I learned that 16 is to be found everywhere even17 I cannot communicate, and that people will 18depending on what I give.
Look around you for opportunities to learn from the most 19 people. You will be surprised at what they can 20 you!
1. A．principle B．plan C．strength D．reason
2. A．excitedly B．doubtfully C．anxiously D．differently
3. A．up B．down C．away D．out
4. A．helps B．compares C．impresses D．provides
5. A．special B．modern C．beautiful D．powerful
6. A．ignore B．forget C．understand D．create
7. A．names B．habits C．behaviors D．beliefs
8. A．escape B．suffer C．hear D．learn
9. A．needed B．refused C．managed D．failed
10. A．heaving for B．setting up C．looking for D．pointing to
11. A．Except for B．As for C．According to D．Instead of
12. A．Yet B．Or C．So D．Besides
13. A．relax B．command C．explain D．discuss
14. A．force B．lead C．transport D．follow
15. A．thanks B．signs C．questions D．smiles
16. A．illness B．weakness C．kindness D．happiness
17. A．before B．when C．because D．after
18. A．react B．gain C．doubt D．benefit
19. A．famous B．useful C．unexpected D．familiar
20. A．charge B．teach C．lend D．require
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It was _______ you had done _______ made it possible for you to improve your English.
A．that ; that B．that;what C．what; what D．what;that
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It was __________ you had done ________made it possible for you to improve
your English.
A. that/ that B. that / what C. what/ what D. what/ that
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