A bunch of strangers showed up at the gym in the early morning of the last Sunday of April. A few athletes were already stretching their arms, but most of us could barely focus. As I was burning off last night’s wrong decision-a big meal, I spotted a poster about a gym’s 21-day workout challenge, and I immediately signed up. I always wanted to train for a marathon, so I considered this as my warm-up. Besides, I needed to stop being lazy and this was my chance to make a change.
It was easy to promise on paper, but three weeks of recommended exercise routines and diet restrictions wouldn’t be easy, I stuck to working out 30 minutes a day, and I didn’t disturb my normal routine. Instead, I had to be faced with the tough work of being more creative in my spare time, thus breaking some bad habits.
Overcoming weaknesses with willpower was my goal for the next part of the journey. But the difficult part about making a challenge is realizing that “wanting” and “doing” are two very different things. Just like a career, you have to physically work for it rather than just wait for it to happen. But that’s hard. Throughout the 22 days, I often told myself that the challenge was meaningless and tried to sabotage myself from exercising. However, finally I overcame that negative thought and kept working out.
At the end of the challenge, I learned something even more important: Feeling the results is better than seeing them. I had fewer headaches and more energy, and was simply happier. I even felt a little smarter as I researched which foods were better for my body, and learned how to make healthier meals. I felt a sense of accomplishment, too, because even though I wanted to give up dozens of times, I didn’t. I felt my waist got smaller and my arms got stronger, and I no longer felt guilty after having a piece of cake or a drink.
1.What is paragraph 2 mainly about?
A.Some of the author’s bad habits.
B.Some ways of the author’s killing his spare time.
C.The importance of sticking to the normal daily routine.
D.The difficulty of the author’s keeping on with the workout plan.
2.What does the underlined word“sabotage”in paragraph 3 probably mean?
A.prevent B.hear
C.improve D.distinguish
3.What did the author learn from the workout challenge?
A.Eating healthy food is more important than exercising.
B.Overcoming a challenge could bring good feelings to him.
C.It’s more important to see what he likes than just feel it.
D.There was no need to feel guilty about things he disliked to do.
高二英语阅读选择中等难度题
A bunch of strangers showed up at the gym in the early morning of the last Sunday of April. A few athletes were already stretching their arms, but most of us could barely focus. As I was burning off last night’s wrong decision-a big meal, I spotted a poster about a gym’s 21-day workout challenge, and I immediately signed up. I always wanted to train for a marathon, so I considered this as my warm-up. Besides, I needed to stop being lazy and this was my chance to make a change.
It was easy to promise on paper, but three weeks of recommended exercise routines and diet restrictions wouldn’t be easy, I stuck to working out 30 minutes a day, and I didn’t disturb my normal routine. Instead, I had to be faced with the tough work of being more creative in my spare time, thus breaking some bad habits.
Overcoming weaknesses with willpower was my goal for the next part of the journey. But the difficult part about making a challenge is realizing that “wanting” and “doing” are two very different things. Just like a career, you have to physically work for it rather than just wait for it to happen. But that’s hard. Throughout the 22 days, I often told myself that the challenge was meaningless and tried to sabotage myself from exercising. However, finally I overcame that negative thought and kept working out.
At the end of the challenge, I learned something even more important: Feeling the results is better than seeing them. I had fewer headaches and more energy, and was simply happier. I even felt a little smarter as I researched which foods were better for my body, and learned how to make healthier meals. I felt a sense of accomplishment, too, because even though I wanted to give up dozens of times, I didn’t. I felt my waist got smaller and my arms got stronger, and I no longer felt guilty after having a piece of cake or a drink.
1.What is paragraph 2 mainly about?
A.Some of the author’s bad habits.
B.Some ways of the author’s killing his spare time.
C.The importance of sticking to the normal daily routine.
D.The difficulty of the author’s keeping on with the workout plan.
2.What does the underlined word“sabotage”in paragraph 3 probably mean?
A.prevent B.hear
C.improve D.distinguish
3.What did the author learn from the workout challenge?
A.Eating healthy food is more important than exercising.
B.Overcoming a challenge could bring good feelings to him.
C.It’s more important to see what he likes than just feel it.
D.There was no need to feel guilty about things he disliked to do.
高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
Smiling can infect everyone and light up our day. Well, it was at the market at 5 pm — the worst time of day to shop. I had to pick up a few essentials after work: cream for coffee, eggs for breakfast and Advil for my headache.
I’d been rushing all day doing jobs for people. I did not want to be shopping, to say the least. But I told myself it was my last stop before going home to put my feet up.
So I scored (得到) a parking place, grabbed a bag from the trunk and found a shopping cart.
The market wasn’t as crowded as I had expected. I grabbed a package of linguini (意粉) and some pesto.
That’s when I saw her. She was sitting in a shopping cart. She looked to be maybe 9 months old. Short blond curls, blue eyes. A white lace dress and shiny black shoes.
I couldn’t take my eyes off her. Then I did what I always do with children: I gave her my best smile. I may have looked a bit mad, but it came from my heart.
That is a habit I formed long ago when I became a mother. It started with my first child, in that unforgettable, life-changing moment.
At times my smile would fade to a look of fear or worry, but it never left my face for long. It always came back, even through tears.
I’ve learned that everyone needs a smile sometimes, young and old, friends and strangers, even strangers at the market in a rush to get home.
She took her time deciding just what to make of my smile. But finally, she lit up.
I laughed and waved goodbye. And she blew me a kiss.
That put a smile on my face and I got a smile in return from every shopper I passed.
I was still smiling when I got home and realized I’d forgotten to get Advil. Luckily, I didn’t need it. My headache was gone.
Somehow, in that simple exchange of smiles, this weary (使人厌烦的) old world became a better place. Want to change the world? Try smiling. Someone will smile back at you. I guarantee it.
If you’re lucky, maybe they’ll even blow you a kiss and make your headache go away.
1.What can we know about the author from the first four paragraphs?
A.She couldn’t wait to go shopping.
B.She didn’t know what to buy at the market.
C.She wasn’t satisfied with the goods in the market.
D.She didn’t want to go to the market at that time.
2.What does the underlined word “That” refer to?
A.Shopping in the afternoon. B.Suffering from a headache.
C.Smiling at kids she meets. D.Observing different people.
3.What happened to the author after meeting the girl?
A.She thought about her childhood. B.She got blank looks from others.
C.She began to feel better. D.She wanted to kiss the girl.
4.What is the main purpose of this article?
A.To show how to find joy in shopping. B.To share her thoughts on smiling in a story.
C.To advise on how to cure headaches. D.To show how to communicate with children.
高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
If you are traveling abroad, whether for business or pleasure, sooner or later you will find yourself in a local restaurant. The following dos and don’ts may help you behave properly in different countries.
France
“People don’t only insist on outstanding food and fine wine--they also set great store by good manners for eating at least in up-market restaurants,”. says Stephane Calmeyn. The French are old-fashioned about paying the bill to. “Women are often given a menu with no topics.” says Calmeyn.
Brazil
“In many restaurants, the bill is already equally divided by the number of people in your party.” Brazilian people traditionally keep track of how much they owe. “You collect your empty bottles under or next to the table, so that you can simply count them up at the end of the night” says Zampil.
Norway
In Norway it is perfectly acceptable to lean across someone to get the salt, pepper or butter “We call it Norwegian arms. The custom means you aren’t constantly troubling other guests to pass you this or that.” explains Carina Mælen. Another thing you are allowed to do is toast with an empty glass. “Because a toast is considered a symbolic action, and there is no need to always wait until every last person has filled their glass.” says Mælen.
Argentina
You won’t catch people sharing a table with strangers in an Argentinian restaurant, “They expect to be free from strangers’ attention.” says Daniel Weigandt. Invited to a friend’s home for dinner? “Whatever you do, don’t be early or even punctual. Ideally you should get there 10 to 15 minutes late!”
1.What is traditional about dining in France?
A.The bill is often equally divided. B.Gentlemen usually settle the bill.
C.Customers collet their empty bottles. D.People make a toast with empty glasses.
2.Why do people have Norwegian arms at table?
A.They prefer not to bother others. B.They consider it as a symbolic action.
C.They can’t wait to fill their gasses. D.They would like someone to pass the sauce.
3.Which of the following countries values privacy most?
A.Brazil. B.France. C.Norway. D.Argentina.
4.What is the purpose of the text?
A.To offer travelling tips to visitors. B.To introduce different table manners.
C.To encourage people to eat heathy food. D.To recommend restaurants in some countries.
高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
Until now, the oldest evidence of human ancestors outside of Africa was in Dmanisi, Georgia. Here fossils of short people thought to be early Homo erectus date back to about 1.85 million years—just after the species appears in Africa. The oldest evidence of early human activity in China can date back to 1.5 million to 1.7 million years ago, which has suggested that they didn’t leave Africa until 2 million years ago or so—and made it to eastern Asia even later.
Now evidence from the site of Shangchen in the Loess Plateau approximately 1,200 kilometers southwest of Beijing is shaking up that view. More than 2 million years ago, our ancestors were already world travelers, which shows that the ancestors of modern humans left Africa at least 250,000 years earlier than thought. It also supports a minority view that a key human ancestors, Homo erectus, may have originated in Asia, not in Africa.
The same team, led by geologist Zhao Yuzhu of the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry at the Chinese Academy of Science found that the stone tools range in age from 1.6 million to 2.1 millions years ago. This indicates humans—the family that includes humans and our ancestors—got out of Africa at least a quarter of a million years earlier than thought, and occupied Shangchen on and off for more than 850,000 years, the team reports today in Nature.
“The dates are convincing,” Zhao Yuezhu says, which suggest humans were already remarkably adaptable to the changeable climate by 2.1 millions ago—even though they had not yet developed the even bigger brains, long legs, or more advanced tools seen in later humans. Although the identity of these early travelers all over the world is unknown, the new dates raise the possibility that H. Erects weren’t the first humans to leave Africa.
1.What’s the main idea of the first paragraph?
A.The early human activity in China.
B.The earliest time of the human ancestor.
C.The oldest evidence of the human ancestor.
D.The time of human ancestor’s arriving at the Eastern Asia.
2.What does the evidence from the site of Shangchen suggest?
A.Human ancestors were found of travelling.
B.Human ancestors lived in Asia not in Africa.
C.Human ancestors left Africa earlier than thought.
D.Human ancestors occupied Shangchen for many years.
3.Why could human ancestors travel through the world?
A.Their identities had been unfamiliar to others.
B.The structures in their body were different from us.
C.They had the same advanced tools as the later human’s.
D.They had abilities to adapt to the changeable environment.
4.What is the best title for the text?
A.The Origin of the Human. B.The New Dates about Africa.
C.The ways of Studying the Human. D.The Latest Discovery about Human Ancestors.
高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
He ran between two defenders, past a third, and a couple of seconds later his team had two more points. At the end of his final game, on April 11, he had scored 30 points.
This was the end of a career for Dwyane Wade, nicknamed “Flash”. It was the 37-year-old’s last game for the Miami Heat and his last appearance on an NBA basketball court. Over his storied career, Wade played in 1,054 regular-season games and 177 post-season games, scored more than 23,000 points, appeared in three NBA championships and earned one Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) award.
Coming from Chicago, Wade’s attitude and style of play moved many people, including former US President Barack Obama. “Whenever you got knocked down, you always showed us how to get back up,” Obama said in a tribute video. “You showed some Chicago spirit... and you did us proud.”
Wade broke down the door to the NBA in 2003 with his outstanding ball-handling skills and jumping ability. He had a strong principle, taking practice as seriously as he took games. He trained in the gym by himself during the off-season and exercised hard to stay in shape.
Wade has also spoken out on social issues. In 2012, 17-year-old Heat fan Trayvon Martin, an African-American, was shot in a racist attack on his way home from watching the NBA All-Star Game. Wade, together with LeBron James, led the Miami Heat squad, pulling up their hoodies (连帽衫) in support of justice for Martin, who had his hoodie up when he was killed. Wade hoped this action would bring attention to racist violence.
In 2003, he founded the Wade’s World Foundation, which provides support to various education, health, and family service programs. “Obviously, I’m one person. I can’t change the world, but I can help affect change in communities,” Wade told ESPN. “That’s what I want to continue to do.”
This is not the end of Wade’s story. He wants to continue fighting for economic and social equality in the US.
1.How many games did Wade play in his professional career?
A.1,054. B.177. C.23,000. D.1,231.
2.Wade was thought highly of by Obama because of _____________.
A.his strong willpower B.his flexible playing style
C.his extraordinary skills D.his honourable ambition
3.Why did Wade and his teammates pull up their hoodies?
A.To follow Martin’s heroic behaviour. B.To speak out for Martin.
C.To try on the latest fashion. D.To show racial equality.
4.This passage is mainly about Wade’s _________.
A.outstanding professional career B.legendary life experiences
C.achievements in social equality D.influence in sports and society
高二英语阅读选择简单题查看答案及解析
Most of the new diseases we humans have faced in the past several decades have come from animals. The more we come into contact with wild animals, the more we risk a so-called disease “spillover” from animals to humans.
“As people move and wildlife move in response to a changing environment, humans and wildlife and animals will come in contact more regularly,” said Jeanne Fair from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Fair argues that by shifting animal habitats, climate change will also make the opportunities for disease spillover more frequent. “Everything is sort of shifting and will shift into the future as the environment changes through climate change,” Fair said.
Scientists, including climatologists and epidemiologists (流行病学家) on Fair’s team at Los Alamos, are beginning to model how changes to the climate will impact the spread of infectious diseases. It’s early days for this kind of research, but previous studies suggest that extreme weather has already played a role in at least one outbreak. Scientists say drought and deforestation have combined to force bats out of rain forests and into orchards (果园) in Malaysia to find food. Those bats, a common disease reservoir, then passed the Nipah virus through pigs to humans for the first time in the late 1990s.
“We’re going by the past data to really predict what’s going to happen in the future,” Fair said, “And so, anytime you increase that wildlife-human interface, that’s sort of an emerging disease hot spot. And so, that’s just increasing as we go forward.”
Jeffrey Shaman, head of the climate and health program at Columbia University’s public health school, argues we don’t yet know whether climate change will cause a net increase in infectious disease rates globally. For example, mosquitoes carry disease that affects millions of people across the world every year. As their habitats expand in some parts of the world, they might contract diseases elsewhere. Shaman says what we know for certain about climate change is that it will make it harder to predict where disease outbreaks will pop up.
1.How does climate change affect the spread of disease according to Fair?
A.By breaking animals’habits. B.By increasing animals’varieties.
C.By promoting animals’breeding. D.By changing animals’living environment.
2.What is the example of bats for in paragraph 3?
A.Explaining the influence of Nipah virus.
B.Proving the harm of bats to human beings.
C.Showing the effects of climate change on disease.
D.Presenting scientists’early study about the cause of disease.
3.What can we infer from Fair’s words in paragraph 4?
A.Humans should give up studying animals.
B.Frequent contact with animals can cause disease outbreaks.
C.Disease hot spots will disappear if animals die out.
D.Past data can solve the problems in the future.
4.What could be the best title for the text?
A.Climate Change and Disease Spillover
B.Animals’Interaction with Humans
C.Early Studies about Extreme Weather
D.Scientists’Prediction for Disease Outbreaks
高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
Whether you prefer burning the midnight oil or going to bed early so you can get up at the break of dawn depends on your genes, according to experts.
I jump out of bed each morning, eager to start an active day. But I can hear my neighbor’s alarm clock ringing non-stop every morning and I doubt he gets to work on time.
A lot of noise comes from his flat in the evening. He’s happy to stay up watching TV till after midnight, while I go to bed early and try to sleep.
Well, it might not be his fault after all. I’m called“a lark (百灵鸟)”and my neighbor“an owl (猫头鹰)”
We all have inside “clocks”in the brain to control all kinds of bodily functions and it is reset every day by light. These inside clocks run to a different schedule in “larks” and “owls”. If you have a fast clock, you like to do things early, and if you have a slow clock, you like to do things late.
Because we live in a 24/7 world, scientists believe it’s important to understand a person’s “chronotype?—the time of the day when they function the best. It could help us lead a healthier life.
A US professor has studied sleeping patterns and thinks work times should be changed and made more individual to fit in with our chronotypes.
And he has advice for those who can’t choose their working hours:“If that’s not possible, we should be more careful about light exposure,” says the professor. “You should try to go to work not in a covered vehicle but on a bike. The minute the sun sets we should use things that have no blue light, like computer. . . screens and other electronic devices.”
1.How is the passage mainly developed?
A. By presenting and solving problems.
B. By explaining the cause-effect relationship.
C. By giving examples and drawing a conclusion.
D. By analyzing differences and providing advice.
2.What does the underlined phrase “burning the midnight oil” in Paragraph1probably mean?
A. drilling for oil in the midnight
B. using too much oil in the midnight
C. staying up late
D. getting up late
3.We can learn from the passage that the author’s neighbour
A. almost always gets to work on time
B. has to work deep into the night every day
C. is passive during the day but energetic at night
D. is easily woken up by his alarm clock in the morning
4.Things with blue light are not recommended after sunset because blue light .
A. may cause sleep problems
B. will make you nervous
C. will reduce your work efficiency
D. may make you sleepy
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
At any given time, hundreds of postcards are in transit (运输中) across the world as strangers communicate through a movement called Post-crossing.
Emma Delaney says it’s a sad day when there isn’t a postcard in her mailbox. She doesn’t have a bunch of friends travelling overseas at the moment —— she’s just really active in the underground hobby of Postcrossing.
“I’ve sent over 3,000 postcards, but I’ve been doing it for close to seven years,” she says. “My husband, generally appreciative of my hobby, is sometimes frustrated by the amount of cardboard hanging around the house or in my car.”
Postcrossing is a hobby where strangers send each other postcards across the world. You register on the website, list your interests and preferences for postcards, then receive an address of a stranger on the other side of the world to send a postcard to.
“I tend to send a lot of postcards of the local area because people are interested in where you’re from and what you do,” Emma says.
From Uzbekistan to Belarus and Kazakhstan to Moldova, Emma has a growing collection of photos from around the world. The postcards have helped shape her international travelling too. “I didn’t travel overseas until I was 32 and a lot of the locations we chose for our honeymoon were selected because of the postcards I’d received.”
“Some people see sending mail as being a bit boring and unfashionable, but Postcrossing is popular and lots of people are fascinated that I do it.,”
The Postcrossing project has just celebrated its eighth birthday and has over 400,000 active members in 215 countries. The group says they’ve delivered over 18 million postcards.
And while postal workers aren’t supposed to read people’s postcards, Emma says she’s happy for them to do so at her post office in Shellharbour. She even encourages her correspondents to say hello to the Australia Post staff.
“It’s a hobby that I continue to do because I find it enjoyable and relaxing.”
1.Emma Delaney’s friends .
A．do a lot of travelling.
B．send her lots of postcards.
C．share the same hobby as her.
D．aren’t active in travelling abroad.
2.What’s Emma’s husband’s attitude towards her hobby ?
A．Somewhat annoyed.
B．Totally unconcerned.
C．Deeply disapproving.
D．Strongly supportive.
3.What’s the benefit of being involved in Postcrossing according to Emma Delaney ?
A．Broadening the mind.
B．Deepening the mind.
C．Giving others a helping hand.
D．Bringing her family more happiness.
4.The Postcrossing project .
A．delivers both postcards official letters.
B．was set up a couple of years ago in Australia.
C．has granted membership in 215 countries all over the world.
D．receives more public approval compared with sending mail.
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
—Did you look up the time of trains to Shanghai?
—Yes, the early train is ________ to leave at 5:00 am.
A．likely B．about C．possible D．due
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
—Did you look up the time of trains to Shanghai?
—Yes，the early train is ________ to leave at 5：30 am.
A．likely B．about C．possible D．due
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析