Courtney Holmes offers his young customers a little something extra with their haircut.
“HEY,HOW YOU DOIN’? I’m Courtney. What _______are you in? Third? What’s your favorite book? Elephant and Piggy? Yeah, I got it.” If you thought you’d walked into a_______with a greeting like that,you wouldn’t be too far off._______, you’ve entered the _______of Courtney Holmes,also known as the Storybook Barber.
Two years ago,Holmes began to donate his time and give _______ haircuts to kids from poor families so they’d look _______ on that first day of classes,although Saturday was his _______haircutting day. “The kids should earn their free haircut by having to read a book to me,”Holmes said.The idea was so _______that he continued it the first. Saturday of every month for the next two years. Five-to-ten-year-old boys would _______a favorite book,settle into the barber chair,and read aloud ________Holmes cut hair.After the haircut,they’d review the book-just like in school,but more________Holmes,who has two sons,________ that not every parent has the time to read with their kids.” I get it. You have four ________ to look after,and you’re working two jobs.You have to clean the house or cook dinner.Sitting down and listening to them read is the ________ thing you have time to do.________ I say bring your kids in and let them read to me.”Holmes admits he,too,________ from the free cut-and-reads.
“There was a seven-year-old who had difficulty reading________ through his book,” said Holmes. He had the boy take the book home and ________When the child came back a few days later. He read it with________problems. That inspires me.”
“The world today is one with guns and ________,”he says, “it’s a safe place for the kids to come to the barbershop and read books.”
1.A.school B.grade C.class D.group
2.A.library B.museum C.park D.supermarket
3.A.On the contrary B.On the whole C.In brief D.In fact
4.A.studio B.bedroom C.workplace D.office
5.A.unusual B.fashionable C.different D.free
6.A.sharp B.secure C.pleased D.academic
7.A.cheapest B.earliest C.busiest D.happiest
8.A.amazing B.fancy C.unique D.popular
9.A.design B.buy C.choose D.pack
10.A.while B.until C.since D.after
11.A.serious B.fun C.difficult D.formal
12.A.announces B.comments C.recognizes D.urges
13.A.tasks B.kids C.houses D.problems
14.A.last B.interesting C.first D.dull
15.A.Or B.And C.So D.But
16.A.learns B.escapes C.evolves D.benefits
17.A.struggling B.glancing C.complaining D.whispering
18.A.quit B.practice C.stare D.play:
19.A.true . B.other C.some D.no
20.A.weakness B.violence C.darkness D.distance
高一英语完形填空中等难度题
Courtney Holmes offers his young customers a little something extra with their haircut.
“HEY,HOW YOU DOIN’? I’m Courtney. What _______are you in? Third? What’s your favorite book? Elephant and Piggy? Yeah, I got it.” If you thought you’d walked into a_______with a greeting like that,you wouldn’t be too far off._______, you’ve entered the _______of Courtney Holmes,also known as the Storybook Barber.
Two years ago,Holmes began to donate his time and give _______ haircuts to kids from poor families so they’d look _______ on that first day of classes,although Saturday was his _______haircutting day. “The kids should earn their free haircut by having to read a book to me,”Holmes said.The idea was so _______that he continued it the first. Saturday of every month for the next two years. Five-to-ten-year-old boys would _______a favorite book,settle into the barber chair,and read aloud ________Holmes cut hair.After the haircut,they’d review the book-just like in school,but more________Holmes,who has two sons,________ that not every parent has the time to read with their kids.” I get it. You have four ________ to look after,and you’re working two jobs.You have to clean the house or cook dinner.Sitting down and listening to them read is the ________ thing you have time to do.________ I say bring your kids in and let them read to me.”Holmes admits he,too,________ from the free cut-and-reads.
“There was a seven-year-old who had difficulty reading________ through his book,” said Holmes. He had the boy take the book home and ________When the child came back a few days later. He read it with________problems. That inspires me.”
“The world today is one with guns and ________,”he says, “it’s a safe place for the kids to come to the barbershop and read books.”
1.A.school B.grade C.class D.group
2.A.library B.museum C.park D.supermarket
3.A.On the contrary B.On the whole C.In brief D.In fact
4.A.studio B.bedroom C.workplace D.office
5.A.unusual B.fashionable C.different D.free
6.A.sharp B.secure C.pleased D.academic
7.A.cheapest B.earliest C.busiest D.happiest
8.A.amazing B.fancy C.unique D.popular
9.A.design B.buy C.choose D.pack
10.A.while B.until C.since D.after
11.A.serious B.fun C.difficult D.formal
12.A.announces B.comments C.recognizes D.urges
13.A.tasks B.kids C.houses D.problems
14.A.last B.interesting C.first D.dull
15.A.Or B.And C.So D.But
16.A.learns B.escapes C.evolves D.benefits
17.A.struggling B.glancing C.complaining D.whispering
18.A.quit B.practice C.stare D.play:
19.A.true . B.other C.some D.no
20.A.weakness B.violence C.darkness D.distance
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Mike had many bookmarks (书签). He had _________ them over the years. He was _________ and weak and would celebrate his 80th birthday.
Trying to find out what to buy Mike was a(n) _________ task as he always asked for little. He love to _________, and had many books. But, to buy him a book seemed impossible _________ I did not know what books he had. So, when I found a special custom bookmark, I thought it was _________; it might be different from what he had collected.
The custom bookmark had the following _________ written on it: To live is to function (起作用). When Mike opened the _________, he smiled. Then he told me it was _________ by Oliver Wendell Holmes. It was just part of Mr. Holmes’ __________. He then went and got a newspaper clipping (剪报) that had Mr. Holmes’ words written in his nineties.
I felt __________. At 80, he immediately __________ the author of the saying on the bookmark. To my greater __________, he even had the newspaper clipping. Mike then told me he read these __________ words by Mr. Holmes every year on his birthday. He said, “The words __________ me that no matter how old you are, there is a reason why you are here. And, you need to have __________ no matter what your age.”
As I __________ Mike’s house, I thought how true those words are. I __________ some people who were much __________ than Mike but achieved so little. Mike was at 80, still setting his goals, still aiming to __________ himself and to help others! What a great man!
1.A.sold B.collected C.examined D.made
2.A.humorous B.successful C.busy D.old
3.A.difficult B.pleasant C.simple D.important
4.A.swim B.write C.read D.talk
5.A.though B.and C.but D.as
6.A.cheap B.perfect C.useful D.real
7.A.joke B.story C.saying D.note
8.A.present B.pocket C.door D.book
9.A.discovered B.passed C.appreciated D.written
10.A.life B.roles C.words D.advice
11.A.excited B.happy C.worried D.amazed
12.A.liked B.recognized C.guessed D.affected
13.A.surprise B.knowledge C.delight D.mind
14.A.soft B.great C.secret D.foreign
15.A.warm B.promise C.tell D.ask
16.A.goals B.friends C.ideas D.abilities
17.A.found B.entered C.left D.built
18.A.thought of B.depended on C.picked up D.played with
19.A.more active B.younger C.richer D.more outgoing
20.A.express B.help C.follow D.improve
高一英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
The young man，determined to carry out his plan，cares little about ________others might say about it.
| A．what | B．when | C．which | D．why |
高一英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Jose Adolfo is a banker from Peru. He encourages children to save money and offers his customers cash for recycling plastic wastes. But the remarkable thing is that he is still a child himself.
By the age of 7, he decided to create a bank for children. He was motivated by seeing his classmates skipping lunch because they had spent the little money they had on sweets or football cards. What drove him even more was the poverty he saw among children.
With the support of a local company, the 14-year-old founded the Bartselana student bank which now has more than 2,000 customers between the ages of 10 and 18. Children can withdraw (提取) money from several cashpoints of the bank. They can also monitor their balances online. What makes it different from traditional banks is that it sets savings goals for children. They have to reach those goals in order to withdraw their money.
The student bank really took off when he came up with the “Recycle Plan”, a new way for the children to earn money by collecting recyclable plastic or paper waste. Students can bring recyclable plastic bottles, used school books and old newspapers to the schools and put them into the collecting boxes. The recycling is weighed and the money goes to their bank accounts.
The bank recycles 4.4 tons of material a month and has collecting boxes in seven schools in Arequipa. More are on a waiting list. Increasingly the model is in demand in the rest of Peru and abroad.
His efforts have been noticed by Peru’s environment ministry. “He’s making an amazing change in financial (理财的) education that perhaps many adults could not come up with,” said the Peru’s environment minister, Lucia Ruiz. “He’s achieving a double goal because he’s not just designing a financial opportunity for children and teenagers but also helping to reduce waste in the country.”
1.Why did Jose create a bank for children?
A.To help poor children. B.To provide free lunch.
C.To offer outdoor activities. D.To improve school condition.
2.What is special about the student bank ?
A.It makes saving goals. B.It monitors the balance.
C.It has several cashpoints. D.It serves customers online.
3.According to paragraph 4, students can earn money by _______ .
A.using less plastic bottles B.using old school books
C.collecting plastic wastes D.cleaning collecting boxes
4.What can we know about the “Recycle Plan” ?
A.It’s typical. B.It’s successful.
C.It’s risky. D.It’s well-organized .
5.According to Lucia Ruiz, why is Jose’s job meaningful?
A.He gave money to poor children.
B.He taught children how to spend money.
C.He helped adults receive financial education.
D.He contributed to financial education and recycling.
高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
David Holmes 1. ( study ) at our school from 2001 to 2004. He has recently returned 2. his studies in China. He was one of the most 3. ( help ) students that we ever had.
After 4. ( graduate ) from university, he went to China at Peking University. Two years 5. ( late ), he was able to speak Chinese 6.
(fluent). 7.finishing his studies, he started travelling in China. Some of the cities 8. he likes most are Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing. In China he developed 9.interest in teaching English to Chinese students. He taught many students and most of 10.( they) have become his friends.
高一英语短文填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Apple is known for offering the best customer service in the consumer technology market, such as Lenovo, Google and Nokia, in customer satisfaction surveys every year .
A particular story tells of how an Apple store manager broke a rule to earn a new, 10-year-old customer for life.
Matt tells us this touching story:
My daughter has been saving her birthday money and allowance for almost 9 months so that she could afford an iPod touch with a camera in it.
As of this morning, she had saved the amount needed and headed to an Apple store in Utah with my wife. They arrived at 10:30 am, not realizing that the store would be closed from 11 am to 2 am that day. As they approach the store, two friendly Apple employees greeted them and said they were sorry, but they were closed.
My wife pointed to my daughter who had a mason jar full of cash in her arms and explained why they were there and also pointed out that it was not quite 11 am yet. They again said they were sorry, but could not let them in. My wife and daughter were sad and regretful, but understood and made their way to another store in the mall.
About three stores down, an Apple employee raced after them and explained that the manager was going to make an exception and let them in. Every one of the employees stopped what they were doing as my daughter approached the register.
As she took all of the cash out of the mason jar, one employee stepped forward and said, “I don’t mean to bother you, but I have to tell you that this made my day wonderful.”
After the transaction(交易), my daughter and wife were on their way out, the store manager raised his voice and said to all of the employees, “Everyone, please give a round of applause for saving her money and buying an iPod today.”
1.What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A. Apple doesn’t do well in the customer service.
B. Consumers are more satisfied with Apple
C. Nokia did better than Apple in the past.
D. Customer satisfaction surveys are made every two years.
2.According to the text, Matt’s daughter would like to have________.
A. a computer B. an iPhone
C. an iPod D. an iPod touch
3.According the passage, what is “a mason jar” ?
A. a money box B. a pot for cooking
C. a coffee cup D. a candy box
4.What is the text mainly about ?
A. A good example on how to bargain with an Apple employee.
B. How a girl and her mother tried to buy what they wanted.
C. A touching story about how Apple earned a new customer for life.
D. The reason why a girl wanted to buy an Apple product.
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Next time a customer comes to your office, offer him a cup of coffee. And when you’re doing your holiday shopping online, make sure you’re holding a large glass of iced tea. The physical sensation（感觉）of warmth encourages emotional warmth, while a cold drink in hand prevents you from making unwise decisions—those are the practical lesson being drawn from recent research by psychologist John A. Bargh.
Psychologists have known that one person’s perception（感知）of another’s “warmth” is a powerful determiner in social relationships. Judging someone to be either “warm” or “cold” is a primary consideration, even trumping evidence that a “cold” person may be more capable. Much of this is rooted in very early childhood experiences, Bargh argues, when babies’ conceptual sense of the world around them is shaped by physical sensations, particularly warmth and coldness. Classic studies by Harry Harlow, published in 1958, showed monkeys preferred to stay close to a cloth “mother” rather than one made of wire, even when the wire “mother” carried a food bottle. Harlow’s work and later studies have led psychologists to stress the need for warm physical contact from caregivers to help young children grow into healthy adults with normal social skills.
Feelings of “warmth” and “coldness” in social judgments appear to be universal. Although no worldwide study has been done, Bargh says that describing people as “warm” or “cold” is common to many cultures, and studies have found those perceptions influence judgment in dozens of countries.
To test the relationship between physical and psychological warmth, Bargh conducted an experiment which involved 41 college students. A research assistant who was unaware of the study’s hypotheses（假设）, handed the students either a hot cup of coffee, or a cold drink, to hold while the researcher filled out a short information form: The drink was then handed back. After that, the students were asked to rate the personality of “Person A” based on a particular description. Those who had briefly held the warm drink regarded Person A as warmer than those who had held the iced drink.
“We are grounded in our physical experiences even when we think abstractly,” says Bargh.
1.The author mentions Harlow’s experiment to show that ______.
A. adults should develop social skills
B. babies need warm physical contact
C. caregivers should be healthy adults
D. monkeys have social relationships
2.In Bargh’s experiment, the students were asked to ______.
A. evaluate someone’s personality
B. write down their hypotheses
C. fill out a personal information form
D. hold coffee and cold drink alternatively
3.We can infer from the passage that ______.
A. abstract thinking does not come from physical experiences
B. feelings of warmth and coldness are studied worldwide
C. physical temperature affects how we see others
D. capable persons are often cold to others
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Drinking for Better Social Relationships.
B. Experiments of Personality Evaluation.
C. Developing Better Drinking Habits.
D. Physical Sensations and Emotions.
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
"I don't like the way you treat your customers." Mr. Young said to Simon.
A. / B. in that
C. which D. of which
高一英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
A cold wind blew and leaves danced around an old man crouched（蹲）in a doorway. His coat offered little_______and he shivered（颤抖）constantly,_______his hand in the hope of a coin or two. Around him, people hurried by, not_______ him.
Just then, a coin fell close to his _______. He picked it up. It was enough for a cup of tea and something to eat. His mouth _______.
He pushed open the door of a tea room and warmth _______over him. Hungrily, he eyed the_______ behind the counter（柜台）.
“A cup of tea please, he said." And a piece of bread too._______ , and as quickly as possible if it's no _______.”
“Takeaway?” the woman asked, but it sounded like an order. "Yes, "he ________ .Then he looked back towards the ________.
There stood a small girl. Even through the window he could see the ________ circles under her eyes and the grey color of her skin.
“That's one pound," the woman said __________ . The old man nodded his head and __________ the money. He looked back again to the window and the little girl, shivering in the cold. Then he __________ to the girl.
“You look cold. Here,” he said, offering out the paper bag. "You __________ this more than me.”
The girl eyed the bag, seemed __________ and grabbed （攫取）it. "Thanks, "she said and ran off. He watched her __________ into the darkness of the night and__________ .
A cold wind blew and leaves danced around an old man crouched in a doorway. His stomach made a low sound with __________ .Around him, people hurried by,…
1.A.help B.warmth C.protection D.comfort
2.A.holding out B.waving C.pulling out D.raising
3.A.discovering B.remembering C.notice D.disturbing
4.A.hands B.coat C.back D.feet
5.A.froze B.opened C.watered D.closed
6.A.washed B.gathered C.passed D.rushed
7.A.money B.food C.woman D.sign
8.A.Fresh B.Large C.Ordinary D.Hot
9.A.trouble B.doubt C.harm D.wonder
10.A.explained B.added C.replied D.commented
11.A.door B.customers C.passers-by D.window
12.A.bright B.dark C.clear D.natural
13.A.unwillingly B.gently C.coldly D.joyfully
14.A.handed over B.set aside C.paid back D.saved
15.A.turned B.headed C.returned D.pointed
16.A.like B.appreciate C.know D.need
17.A.satisfied B.shocked C.disappointed D.frightened
18.A.disappear B.look C.wander D.jump
19.A.wept B.followed C.smiled D.whispered
20.A.cold B.anger C.relief D.hunger
高一英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
The Young Scientists Club was founded in 1999 with a clear and simple goal---to offer young children quality science-related products that will attract them with the wonders of scientific discoveries and increase their interest in science.
All the products are designed by a team of Harvard graduates, scientists, educators and parents with one purpose in mind to combine fun and interest with quality and learning in each product. Of course, no product is put on the market before it has passed the final test.
The Young Scientists Club was created to fill a void(空白) of good-quality science products for young children. They believe that children should know the exciting field of science at any early age with fun and bands-on games, activities and experiments.
All the young scientists in the club are encouraged to continue their scientific adventures by exploring each different topic in more detail by entering online Young Scientists Clubhouse. There the young scientists can not only explore scientific topics and scientific experiments in depth, but can also e-mail Celsius with questions, results and comments. Celsius loves to e-mail all young scientists back.
Those who are at The Young Scientists Club have received many awards for their products. The Young Scientists Club is excited to realize its goal----to take children around the world and take part in an educational scientific adventure that lasts a lifetime.
1.The products of The Young Scientists Club are designed by ________.
A. some scientists from Harvard
B. a group of Harvard graduates, scientists, educators and parents
C. some educators who want to encourage the students
D. some rich people who are interested in science
2.If a product is to be on the market, it_________.
A. must attract the children‘s interest
B. should combine fun with quality
C. should pass the final test
D. must connect fascination with learning
3.The purpose of founding The Young Scientists Club is to________.
A. offer good-quality science products to young children
B. encourage the children to do scientific experiments
C. bring up more scientific for the science
D. improve the children’s interest in sports
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析