US student Ariana Levin, 15, has an unusual way of memorizing speeches: She turns the words into lyrics and sings them.
Then she delivers her speech to the local Gavel Club, which launched (成立) this year to help teenagers to practice public speaking.
“I’m very passionate about music,” says Levin, a sophomore (高二学生) at Walt Whitman High School. So forgetting a speech isn’t her main concern. “My main thing is stuttering (口吃),” she says.
But monthly rehearsals (彩排), presentations and competitions have taught her to take a moment to pause, she says. In that way, she avoids “ums” or “uhs”, which are noted by a club member given the task.
Gavel Clubs are a new initiative (方案) of the Jack and Jill organization in the US. The organization provides opportunities such as leadership development, financial literacy (素养) and volunteer service for kids aged between 2 and 19 years.
“We do group activities to build our character and get us ready for the outside world,” says Chandler Perry, 17, a senior at Friends Academy in New York.
“It’s important for children to be able to enjoy public speaking,” says Mondi Kumbula-Fraser, the Eastern regional director overseeing (监督) 59 Jack and Jill chapters (分部). They’ll use the skill in college and job interviews, she says.
The students gain confidence in an “open and caring environment,” says Mecca Baker, a mother of twin daughters.
On March 10, Perry took part in a competition held by the local chapter.
For her speech, Perry talked about pets and what they do for their owners. “The toughest part was the first time I had to get up on the stage,” Perry says. “I told myself this is only three minutes of my life and I only have three minutes to be the best I can be. I feel like this could help me in my future.”
Taylor Fernandez, of North Babylon, says that he puts on a suit and tie to give his speeches and that he’s learned to project (投射) his voice and to move around the stage to emphasize (强调) what he has to say.
1.What can we know about Ariana Levin from the first four Paragraphs?
A.She helps teenagers to practice public speaking.
B.She improves her speaking skills in a local club.
C.She often forgets words when giving a speech.
D.She prefers public speaking to music.
2.When students join Jack and Jill, they ______.
A.are recommended to take part in speaking competitions
B.take one-to-one speech training classes
C.can learn some practical skills
D.get the chance to become the leader of a chapter
3.What is Chandler Perry’s attitude toward the organization?
A.Worried. B.Doubtful. C.Supportive. D.Critical.
高一英语阅读选择中等难度题
US student Ariana Levin, 15, has an unusual way of memorizing speeches: She turns the words into lyrics and sings them.
Then she delivers her speech to the local Gavel Club, which launched (成立) this year to help teenagers to practice public speaking.
“I’m very passionate about music,” says Levin, a sophomore (高二学生) at Walt Whitman High School. So forgetting a speech isn’t her main concern. “My main thing is stuttering (口吃),” she says.
But monthly rehearsals (彩排), presentations and competitions have taught her to take a moment to pause, she says. In that way, she avoids “ums” or “uhs”, which are noted by a club member given the task.
Gavel Clubs are a new initiative (方案) of the Jack and Jill organization in the US. The organization provides opportunities such as leadership development, financial literacy (素养) and volunteer service for kids aged between 2 and 19 years.
“We do group activities to build our character and get us ready for the outside world,” says Chandler Perry, 17, a senior at Friends Academy in New York.
“It’s important for children to be able to enjoy public speaking,” says Mondi Kumbula-Fraser, the Eastern regional director overseeing (监督) 59 Jack and Jill chapters (分部). They’ll use the skill in college and job interviews, she says.
The students gain confidence in an “open and caring environment,” says Mecca Baker, a mother of twin daughters.
On March 10, Perry took part in a competition held by the local chapter.
For her speech, Perry talked about pets and what they do for their owners. “The toughest part was the first time I had to get up on the stage,” Perry says. “I told myself this is only three minutes of my life and I only have three minutes to be the best I can be. I feel like this could help me in my future.”
Taylor Fernandez, of North Babylon, says that he puts on a suit and tie to give his speeches and that he’s learned to project (投射) his voice and to move around the stage to emphasize (强调) what he has to say.
1.What can we know about Ariana Levin from the first four Paragraphs?
A.She helps teenagers to practice public speaking.
B.She improves her speaking skills in a local club.
C.She often forgets words when giving a speech.
D.She prefers public speaking to music.
2.When students join Jack and Jill, they ______.
A.are recommended to take part in speaking competitions
B.take one-to-one speech training classes
C.can learn some practical skills
D.get the chance to become the leader of a chapter
3.What is Chandler Perry’s attitude toward the organization?
A.Worried. B.Doubtful. C.Supportive. D.Critical.
高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
SWEET LOVE
Many scientists believe our love of sugar may actually be an addiction. 1.. Then the good feeling goes away, leaving us wanting more. All tasty foods do this, but sugar has a particularly strong effect. In this way, it is in fact an addictive drug, one that doctors recommend we all cut down on.
“It seems like every time I study an illness and trace a path to the first cause, I find my way back to sugar,” says scientist Richard Johnson. 2.. Why? “Sugar, we believe, is one of the reasons, if not the major reason,” says Johnson.
Our bodies are designed to survive on very little sugar. Early humans often had very little food, so our bodies learned to be very efficient in storing sugar as fat. In this way, we had energy stored for when there was no food. But today, most people have more than enough. 3..
So what is the solution? It’s obvious that we need to eat less sugar. 4.. From breakfast cereals to after-dinner desserts, our foods are increasingly filled with it. Some manufacturers even use sugar to replace taste in foods that are advertised as low in fat. So while the foods appear to be healthier, large amounts of sugar are often added.
5.. Many schools are replacing sugary desserts with healthier options, like fruit. Other schools are trying to encourage exercise by building facilities like walking tracks so students and others in the community can exercise. The battle has not yet been lost.
A.It’s not surprising that a cupcake contains a lot of sugar
B.So the very thing that once saved us may now be killing us
C.The trouble is, in today’s world, that it’s extremely difficult to avoid
D.But some people are fighting back against sugar and trying to create a healthier environment
E.One-third of adults worldwide have high blood pressure, and up to 347 million have diabetes
F.If you have high blood pressure, your heart needs to work harder to pump blood around your body
G.When we eat or drink sugary foods, the sugar enters our blood and affects the parts of our brain that make us feel good
高一英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析
Zhang Ming has an unusual view of Chinese traditions because he was _____ in America.
A. grown up B. brought up C. put up D. picked up
高一英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Zhang Ming has an unusual view of Chinese traditions because he was _____ in America.
| A．grown up | B．brought up | C．put up | D．picked up |
高一英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
His failing in the exam ________ us because he was always an outstanding student.
A．pleased B．astonished C．exited D．frightened
高一英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
World Book Day falls on April 23 every year. It was set up in 1955 to encourage people to discover the pleasure of reading.
Many countries celebrate World Book Day. In the UK, the government has introduced a rule that a book token(购书券)is a passport. Every year 15 million tokens are given out to students in Britain and Ireland. With a token, students can go to any bookshop to choose a free book according to their taste and hobby. It is believed that 15% of the UK children don’t have a book of theirs. This mainly results from the high book prices. A book token will help them realize their dream to have their first book.
Reading helps us become more knowledgeable and more intelligent(智慧的). Reading helps us to follow the latest developments of science and technology. Reading provides us with information about other culture and places of the world. When we read, we may learn many things that are off our beat to us. We would have to use our brain to think about them or do more reading to find out the answers. The more we read, the more we know. The more we know, the smarter we become.
Reading is also one of the most important ways to learn a foreign language like English. we all know that we can’t learn everything at school, for example, the ways English people are speaking and writing today.“Reading makes a full man.”Books, magazines, newspapers and other kinds of reading materials can help to know more about the outside world and perfect us. Therefore, it is necessary to form the habit of reading every day.
1.How does the UK celebrate World Book Day?
A.By writing more books for kids.
B.By building more public libraries.
C.By introducing book token system.
D.By opening free bookshops for kids.
2.What does the underlined phrase“off our beat”in the third paragraph means?
A.Unknown. B.Familiar. C.Difficult. D.Traditional.
3.What can we learn from the third paragraph?
A.Reading helps to develop science.
B.Reading is good for people in many ways.
C.Reading can help to create a new culture.
D.Reading can help find a way to learn well.
4.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A.Suggestions on Reading
B.World Book Day in China
C.World Book Day in the UK
D.World Book Day and Benefits of Reading
高一英语阅读选择简单题查看答案及解析
Our class teacher has a gift for creating an atmosphere for us students ________ allows us to communicate freely with each other.
A. which B. where C. what D. who
高一英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.
Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit still before his class: he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.
The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.
A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to meet the needs of his audience, which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.
I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage-play because they could not keep strictly to what another had written.
1.What is the text about ?
A.How to become a good teacher.
B.What a good teacher should do outside the classroom.
C.What teachers and actors could learn from each other.
D.The similarities and differences between a teacher’s work and an actor’s.
2.A good teacher ____ .
A.knows how to hold the interest of his students B.must have a good voice
C.knows how to act on the stage D.stands or sits still while teaching
3.In what way is a teacher’s work different from an actor’s ?
A.The teacher must learn everything by heart .
B.He knows how to control his voice better than an actor .
C.He has to deal with unexpected situations .
D.He has to use more facial expressions .
4.The main difference between students in class and a theatre audience is that ____.
A.students can move around in the classroom
B.students must keep silent while theatre audience needn’t
C.no memory work is needed for the students
D.the students must take part in their teachers’ plays
5.Which of the following is true?
A.Teachers have to learn by heart what they are going to stay in class.
B.A teacher cannot decide beforehand what exactly he is going to stay in class.
C.A teacher must speak louder than an actor.
D.A teacher must have a better memory than an actor.
高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
Everyone needs friends. As the saying goes, “Friends are God’s way of taking care of us .”
The American writer, Sally Seamans, tells young students some smart ways to make friends .Sally says finding friendship is just like planting a tree. You plant the seed and take care of it to make it grow .
First you should choose a friend. What makes a good friend? It is not because a person has money or good looks. A good friend should be kind and patient. For example, if you have a bad day, a good friend should listen to your complaints and do his best to help. To make friends, you cannot be too shy. You should make each other happy and share your lives .
But things cannot always be happy. Even the best friends have fights. What should you do when you have a fight with your friend? You have to talk to him or her. When there is no one around, have an honest talk. If he or she doesn’t want to talk, you could write a letter .
There are three steps to be friends again:
Tell him or her how you are feeling; say what your friend has done wrong; explain why you did this or that. Remember that friendship is the most important thing in your life .
1.Sally wants to tell students the way to .
A.make friends B.plant trees C.get happy D.keep fit
2.According to the passage, a good friend should .
A.be lovely and cool B.be kind and patient
C.have lots of money D.have good looks
3.According to the passage, you can your friend after a fight .
A.buy a present for B.never say a word to
C.have dinner with D.write a letter to
4.Which of the following is TRUE?
A.Friends are God’s son.
B.People like fighting with their friends.
C.To make friends, we need to plant the seed and take care of it.
D.To make friends, we should be kind and beautiful.
高一英语阅读选择简单题查看答案及解析
Everyone needs friends. There is an old saying: Friends are God's way of taking care of us. But do you find real friendship and keep it?"
The Care and Keeping of Friends American author Sally Seamans tells young students some smart ways to find friends.
Sally says finding friendship is just like a tree. You plant the seed and take care of it to make it grow.
First, you should a friend. What a good friend? It is not a person has money or good looks. A good friend should be and patient. For example, if you have a bad day, a good friend should your complaints (抱怨) and do their to help. To make a friend, you cannot be too shy. You should make each other happy and your lives.
But things cannot always be . Even the best friends have fights. What should you do when you have a with your friend? You have to talk to them. When there is no one around, have an honest talk.
If he or she doesn't want to , you could write a letter.
Sally says there are three steps to being again: Tell him or her how you are ___ ; say what your friend has done wrong, and why you did this or that. The book also has on some small but things like celebrating your friends' success. you haven't had a real friend before, you will start to think of having one if you this book. because the book tells that friendship is the most important thing in your life.
1.A. How B. Why C. where D. when
2.A. for B. in C. with D. by
3.A. Watering B. planting C. cutting D. burning
4.A. Hunt B. Communicate C. choose D. exchange
5.A. gets B. Makes C. Takes D. changes
6.A. unless B. what C. while D. because
7.A. handsome B. kind C. smart D. rich
8.A. listen to B. get away from C. care about D. watch out
9.A. Work B. task C. best D. service
10.A. share B. Live C. discover D. cheer
11.A. sad B. sorry C. worried D. happy
12.A. tour B. fight C. talk D. agreement
13.A. say B. tell C. speaks D. talk
14.A. friends B. Students C. teachers D. e-friends
15.A. think B. feeling C. doing D. consider
16.A. Correct B. understand C. explain D . describe
17.A. advice B. experience C. expression D. exercise
18.A. Basic B. Particular C. important D. simple
19.A. Even though B. As if C. In case D. Only if
20.A. buy B. read C. Hear D. know
高一英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析