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Greenberg was a lucky guy to enter Columbia University on full scholarship. But just before junior year, Greenberg's_________ changed. One day his vision "steamed up" and later he was diagnosed with glaucoma(青光眼). Then doctors operated on Greenberg's eyes._________, the surgery didn't work. Greenberg was going blind. He was so_________ that he refused to see anyone.
As Greenberg' s best friend, Arthur persuaded Greenberg to go back to Columbia and_________ to be his reader. Arthur read _________ to him every day, taking time out from his own study, and Greenberg_________ scoring straight A's. Still, he was tentative about getting around alone and relied on his friend.
Then, one afternoon, Greenberg and Arthur went to Midtown Manhattan. When it was time to go back to campus, Arthur said he couldn’t _________ him because of an appointment. Greenberg_________. They argued, and Arthur walked off, leaving Greenberg alone in Grand Central Terminal.
Greenberg, who was completely_________, stumbled(蹒珊) through the rush-hour crowd. He took a shuttle train west to Times Square, and then transferred to an uptown train. Four miles later, he __________ at the Columbia University stop.
At the university's gates, someone knocked into him. "Oops, excuse me, sir." Greenberg__________ the voice. It was Arthur's, Greenberg's first reaction was __________, but in the next second, he realized what he had just__________ —and realized, too who had made it possible. __________, Arthur had been with him the whole way, using one of the most brilliant strategies.
Blindness doesn't make Greenberg fail to appreciate the__________ of life. He always says he is the luckiest man in the world.
1.A.faith B.attitude C.fortune D.reputation
2.A.Otherwise B.Moreover C.Therefore D.However
3.A.shy B.desperate C.selfish D.nervous
4.A.offered B.pretended C.happened D.learned
5.A.letters B.newspapers C.textbooks D.magazines
6.A.ended up B.carried on C.imagined D.considered
7.A.abandon B.rescue C.comfort D.accompany
8.A.compromised B.panicked C.explained D.apologized
9.A.tired B.amused C.confused D.satisfied
10.A.got off B.pulled over C.looked around D.ran away
11.A.raised B.lost C.controlled D.recognized
12.A.anger B.pleasure C.relief D.sorrow
13.A.missed B.questioned C.ignored D.achieved
14.A.Gradually B.Finally C.Obviously D.Strangely
15.A.magic B.beauty C.wisdom D.truth
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
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Sanford Greenberg was once a lucky guy. A poor kid from Buffalo, New York, he was ____ into Columbia University on a full scholarship and had a great ____, Arthur Garfunkel. But in his third year of college, Greenberg’s ____changed—he was going blind. He was so ____ that he refused to see anyone from college. But Garfunkel went up to Buffalo, ____ Greenberg to go back to Columbia and offered to be his _____
Greenberg returned to campus. Garfunkel and two other roommates read textbooks to him, taking time out form their own studies, and Greenberg ____ scoring straight A’s. ____ , he was afraid of getting around alone and relied on his friends to help him.
Then, one afternoon, Greenberg and Garfunkel went to Midtown Manhattan. When it was time for Greenberg to ____, Garfunkel said he had an appointment and couldn’t ____ him. Greenberg panicked. They argued, and Garfunkel walked off, leaving Greenberg ____in Grand Central Terminal. Greenberg stumbled (跌跌撞撞地走)through the rush-hour crowd. He ____ a shuttle train west to Times Square, then changed to an uptown train. Four miles later, he ____at the Columbia University stop. At the university’s gate, someone ____him.
“Oops, excuse me, sir” Greenberg ____the voice. It was Garfunkel’s. Greenberg’s first ____was anger, but in the next second, he realized what he had just _____ -- and realized, too, who had made it possible. “It was one of the most brilliant ____” Greenberg says. “Arthur had been with me the whole way.”
After graduation, Greenberg got his doctor’s degree from Harvard and became a successful inventor and businessman. _______blind, Greenberg sees everything. “You are talking,” he always says, “to the_____ man in the world.”
1.A. transported B. admitted C. introduced D. forced
2.A. teacher B. father C. roommate D. doctor
3.A. fortune B. attitude C. plan D. career
4.A. busy B. ashamed C. shy D. upset
5.A. promised B. persuaded C. allowed D. reminded
6.A. guard B. recorder C. reader D. cook
7.A. put off B. ended up C. thought of D. felt like
8.A. Still B. So C. Instead D. Besides
9.A. pay B. start C. perform D. return
10.A. recommend B. instruct C. accompany D. replace
11.A. crying B. working C. hungry D. alone
12.A. took B. left C. heard D. saw
13.A. caught up B. gave up C. set off D. got off
14.A. noticed B. ran into C. waited for D. welcomed
15.A. remembered B. liked C. knew D. followed
16.A. impression B. decision C. suggestion D. reaction
17.A. predicted B. accomplished C. demanded D. witnessed
18.A. ideas B. goals C. inventions D. stories
19.A. When B. Until C. Though D. Unless
20.A. luckiest B. cleverest C. warmest D. richest
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
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It was _________ he entered university _________ he got on well with his parents.
A. when; then B. not; until
C. not until; that D. only; when
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
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On a cold winter Sunday, the little man came up to me as I was about to enter the telephone box and asked me whether I had a match.
“I'm sorry,”I said.“I don't smoke, so I haven't any. You'd better ask someone else.”
He looked rather disappointed, hesitated, and then turned away. I watched him walk slowly down the street bef
ore I picked up the telephone directory to look up the number I meant to dial. I'm not used to a public call box, so, at my first attempt to get through, the warning pips( 嘟嘟声) had stopped before I realized I had to insert a coin. When I was at last able to speak, I was told that the person whom I urgently wanted to give a message to had just gone out. Swearing slightly under my breath, I got out of the box and came face to face with the little man. As he raised his hat again, I could see he was quite bald, and a thin line, resembling a dueling( 决斗) scar, crossed one cheek.“Excuse my troubling you again.” he said nervously.“May I walk along with you a little way? I must tell you the truth. I need help desperately. ”
He had an unusually deep voice which suggested a strange combination of shyness and self-confidence. I was conscious of a fairly strong foreign accent and I wondered what country he had actually come from. I said that I had to catch a train in twenty minutes’ time, but that he might accompany me to the station.
“I'm going to shock you，”he said suddenly, after a moment's silence.“Can you lend me five pounds? I have no money at all.”I have come across many strange characters during my life and plenty of people have tried to borrow money from me. I have generally managed to avoid lending them any. But, perhaps because of the very directness of his appeal, I somehow had the impression that his need might be desperately urgent.
“I'm sorry,” I replied,“I'm afraid I can't lend you anything, as I'm not in the habit of carrying much money about with me. Don't you think the police might be the best people to ask for help?”
He hesitated,“I dare not go to the police,” he said quietly. “If I do go, they will have to send me home. That's what I'm afraid of. I don't know what to do. ” He shook his head rather sadly, raised his hat and left me. I caught my train and soon forgot the incident.
It was three weeks later that I happened to glance at an old evening paper and caught sight of a small paragraph at the bottom of the front page: “The unidentified body of a short bald man, with a deep scar across one cheek, was recovered from the River Thames yesterday. The police believed he had committed suicide.” I then noticed the date: just two and a half weeks before.
It was
I who might have been the final cause of his terrible tragedy. For days afterwards the cruelty of my refusal made me suffer continual shame and regret. I swore that I would never again refuse any appeal for help.1.At the beginning of the story, the little man approached the author to _______.
A. invite him to watch a football match together
B. ask him to show the direction to railway station
C. inquire where there was a department store
D. request to see if he might use his lighter
2.The author failed to get through in the phone box at his first attempt because_______.
A. he didn't have any change with him
B. he didn't realize it was a pay phone
C. the number he had dialed was wrong
D. the person he wanted to speak to was out
3.The main reason why the author hadn't lent the little man any money was that _______.
A. he never lent others any money
B. he happened not to carry any money
C. he did not trust the little man
D. he was afraid he mightn't get it back
4.What's the best title for the passage?
A. Pity for a stranger. B. Never trust a stranger.
C. Life is but a dream. D. The death
of a beggar.高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
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When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks (挫折) to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”, shown in late April.
Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.
Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.
She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time.”
Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.
1.The main idea of the passage is ________.
A.how Liz managed to enter Harvard University
B.how Liz struggled to change her life
C.why Liz loved her parents so much
D.the hard time Liz had in her childhood
2.In which order did the following things happen to Liz?
a. Her mother died of AIDS.
b. She worked at a petrol station.
c. She got admitted into Harvard.
d. The movie about her life was put on.
e. She had trouble finding a place to sleep.
A.b, e, a, d, c B.a, b, c, e, d C.e, d, b, a, c D.b, a, e, c, d
3.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A.Both Liz’s father and mother are AIDS-infected patients.
B.Liz lived a hard time in her childhood.
C.Liz’s story is an inspiration to many people.
D.Liz hated her father because he got addicted to drugs.
4.What actually made her go towards her goal?
A.Envy and encouragement. B.Willpower and determination.
C.Decisions and understanding. D.Love and respect for her parents.
高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
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Entering a university is an important part of a person’s life. Today, many people go to a university to study and train for a future job in subjects like law, medicine or education. 1.. An important one started in Egypt over one thousand years ago.
The world’s oldest surviving university, AL-Azhar, is in Cario, Egypt. It was first built as a mosque for religion (宗教寺院) in A.D.972. A few years later, learners and teachers began meeting in the mosque. They read and talked about the subject of religion and law. 2.. Leaders in the city of Cario decided to create a school for higher learning and soon after that, and AL-Azhar University was founded.
3.. For these teachers at AL-Azhar, they needed to think about what courses to teach and how to teach them. The earliest courses were in law and religion. In a course, students read and studied with the teachers, but there was also free discussion. Often, students and teachers had interesting discussions, and there was no ‘right’ answer. In the years that followed, the new university interested scholars from around the world. 4.. At AL-Azhar, people studied the past, but it was also a place for sharing new ideas.
Over a thousand years later, AL-Azhar is still an important university in the world. 5.. Today, many of the world’s most important universities such as Oxford and Harvard still follow the same traditions as they do at AL-Azhar.
A. However, the university is not a modern invention.
B. There are many reasons to study in Egypt.
C. They came here to teach and do research.
D. Around the year 988, a new decision was made.
E. Its library contains many of the world’s oldest and most valuable books.
F. The cost of university education is increasing year by year.
G. A university was a new idea at that time.
高二英语七选五简单题查看答案及解析
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Will you ever find fun in the competition? Will you experience it?
Now take a photograph, draw or paint a picture, put it on a postcard and you could have the chance to win an iPad.
Your design should be inspired by something that happened to you today.
Complete the entry form once you’ve completed your artwork, then send it with your postcard to:
Freepost RLXL- GYRS ECCL
UCW Art Competition
University for the Creative Works
Falkner Rd
Farnham
Surrey GU9 7DS
The University for the Creative Works (UCW) Art Competition (“the competition”) is open to people aged between thirteen and nineteen years old.
Students who are studying in UCW, employees of the University or their family members or anyone else connected with the competition may not enter the competition.
When sending in your competition entry you must complete the entry form (download the entry form from here) providing your name, age, date of birth, address, telephone number and e-mail address and (if you are under eighteen) the name and telephone number of your parent or teacher.
Only one entry per artist is allowed.
The last date for entries is 5 pm on Nov. 16, 2020.
UCW will pick three judges, at least two of whom will be Senior Lecturers at the University. The judges will shortlist(列入入围名单) up to fifty entries for exhibition and from the shortlist, winners who get the most support will receive prizes as follows:
1st —iPad Air 2 Wi-Fi 128GB
2nd —iPad Air Wi-Fi 16GB
3rd —iPad mini Wi-Fi 16GB
If you have any questions about the competition, please e-mail us at competitions@ucreative.ac.uk with UCW Art Competition 2020 in the subject.
1.What is required to enter the competition?
A.Designing a picture book. B.Sending an inspiring photo or picture.
C.Recording something that happened to you. D.Creating a postcard with a photo or picture on it.
2.Who can take part in the competition?
A.Students in the University. B.People who work for the University.
C.Teenagers with no relation to the competition. D.Family members of the University’s employees.
3.Where might you read the text?
A.On a school’s notice board. B.At an art exhibition.
C.In a newspaper. D.On the Internet.
高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
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Dear Sara，
As we drove off from Columbia，I wanted to write a letter to you to tell you all that is on my mind．First，I want to tell you how proud we are．Getting into Columbia College shows what a great well-rounded student you are．Your academic，artistic，and social skills have truly blossomed in the last few years．Whether it is getting the highest grade in mathematics，completing your elegant fashion design，successfully selling your painted running shoes，or becoming one of the top speakers in Model United Nations，you have become a talented and accomplished young woman．You should be as proud of yourself as we are．
College will be the most important years in your life．It is in college that you will truly discover what learning is about．This will be the period where you go from teacher-taught to master-inspired，after which you must become self-learner．So do take each subject seriously，and even if what you learn isn’t critical for your life，the skills of learning will be important to you forever．
Follow your passion in college．Take courses you think you will enjoy．Don’t be trapped in what others think or say．Do your best in classes，but don’t let pressure get to you．Your mother and I have no expectations for your grades．If you graduate and learn something in your four years，we would feel happy．So please don’t give yourself pressure．
I told your mom I’m writing this letter，and asked what she wanted me to say．She thought and said：“Just ask her to take care of herself．”Please listen to your mother and take care of yourself．
So please treasure your college years，make the best of your free time，and become an independent thinker；learn and grow through your successes and challenges．
Love，
Dad(& Mom)
1.Sara’performance in the last few years makes his parents ____________．
A.annoyed B.proud C.upset D.concerned
2.What did Father mainly write about in Paragraph 2 ？
A.Learning skills． B.College courses．
C.Learning attitude． D.Ways of self-learning．
3.What do we know about Mom and Dad from the letter?
A.They expect too much of Sara．
B.They put lots of pressure on Sara．
C.They love their daughter very much．
D.They advise Sara to make more friends．
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
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As you enter university, you are likely to be confused by new demands and challenges. You need to decide for yourselves what you want to achieve when you graduate. It is important that you have appropriate and realistic expectations of a university education and know how far you can go towards achieving your personal and academic goals, so that you will have a sense of achievement at the end of your first year as well as when you graduate.
This website aims to be a quick one stop information hub to help you understand more about learning at HKU and make better use of HKU’s support services.
University Life is an adventure that—literally everyone here is a key player.
Your strategic moves at each stage have a direct impact on the outcomes of this adventure. The key to winning is mainly about how you manage your resources, especially your time. Most successful players engage themselves in activities that meet their needs and goals.
First Year Experience
As a new player, you may find yourself standing at the crossroads and wondering which directions you should go. An open mind for handling new challenges and a roadmap or planning and setting priorities during your stay at HKU are what you need to start your journey.
And don’t forget to check out the following to familiarize yourself with the ‘game rules’, ‘support and resources’ and ‘opportunity cards’ on hand:
* HKU Education aims to help to fulfill what you are expected to achieve.
* The key cards that contribute to your academic, professional and social excellence, e. g. Horizons Office, Common Core, Centre for Sports and Exercise (CSE), Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES).
1.What is the purpose of the website?
A. To attract more excellent students to attend HKU.
B. To inspire students to seek adventure at university.
C. To advertise roadmaps and key cards among students.
D. To give students a hand to adapt to their university life.
2.According to the passage, which is the most important for students’ academic success?
A. Turning to teachers.
B. Using their time reasonably.
C. Familiarizing school facilities.
D. Ignoring personal and academic goals.
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A. HKU can help you achieve your expectation.
B. As a freshman, you must be lost in the university.
C. Successful players engage in activities randomly.
D. Your behavior has an indirect effect on the adventure.
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
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Back in April 1939 and armed with $5,000 provided by the Rockefeller Foundation, Columbia University Teachers College professor Frank Cyr took a tour of ten states to make a research about school transportation problems. What he found was that many students had no dependable way to get to school and the ones who did often traveled in unsafe buses in the over 100,000 school areas.
Seeing a need to fix this problem, Cyr organized a meeting- one that would change the future of school buses forever. School officials and transportation experts met to set much-needed standards for buses, including those for color, height and width as well as safety rules that hadn’t been set before or that were different in every state.
There were many different bus colors in the US before this meeting; several areas even planned to have red, white and blue buses as a way of encouraging students to love their country. Cyr presented his new choices to education officials, a reported “50 shades(色度) changing from lemon yellow to deep orange-red”. The matter was settled quickly. Yellow, or “National School Bus Glossy Yellow”, was chosen because it was quite striking, making the school bus easy to be seen. Besides, it made the bold(黑体的), black writing on the side of each bus clear. (The bold, black writing gives information about each school area, telling students which school bus they could take during early morning and late afternoon hours.) Thirty-five states made the changes quickly, and every state was on board by 1974.
Being recognized as the “father of the yellow school bus”, Frank Cyr has surely influenced your life if you ever rode a school bus or saw that noticeable color pulling up to your stop on a dusky morning.
1.What did Frank Cyr find about the school buses in the US?
A.Funny. B.Surprising.
C.Disappointing. D.Reliable.
2.What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?
A.Who attended the meeting. B.Why the meeting was held.
C.What was settled in the meeting. D.What was discussed in the meeting.
3.What does the underlined word “striking” in the Paragraph 3 mean?
A.Soft. B.Bright.
C.Natural. D.Beautiful.
4.What is the main idea of the text?
A.Why school buses in the US are yellow.
B.How school buses developed in the US.
C.How students in the US recognized school buses.
D.Why there are school buses for students in the US.
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
ore I picked up the telephone directory to look up the number I meant to dial. I'm not used to a public call box, so, at my first attempt to get through, the warning pips( 嘟嘟声) had stopped before I realized I had to insert a coin. When I was at last able to speak, I was told that the person whom I urgently wanted to give a message to had just gone out. Swearing slightly under my breath, I got out of the box and came face to face with the little man. As he raised his hat again, I could see he was quite bald, and a thin line, resembling a dueling( 决斗) scar, crossed one cheek.
I who might have been the final cause of his terrible tragedy. For days afterwards the cruelty of my refusal made me suffer continual shame and regret. I swore that I would never again refuse any appeal for help.