I must have been asked a hundred times about ...

I must have been asked a hundred times about my messed-up timing for my two-month journey back to Canada， and then ______ back to China just as the weather is turning nice in Toronto.

Well it was not for the weather, I could have satisfied any ______ for winter scenery with a quick trip to Harbin. I must ______ I did enjoy getting out snowshoeing with my siblings but the real reason was to ______ my Mom’s 90th birthday in early March. I also ______a brother’s 60thbirthday as well as several______ with friends and family.

Why did I ______? Simply put stubborn determination, good friends and a ______ desire to enjoy more of the sights and culture of China. ______ I still cannot have a conversation in Chinese, I am ______ to continue with my studies until such time that I can. While that is a long way off I do ______ continued improvement in both the way I study and the progress that I make.

May 10, I ______ out in a gym for the first time in China. It is a small place but we had a(n) ______ enjoyable visit including the use of enough exercise ______. It feels good to be back into a ______ again. At my age working out is designed to ______ good health and maintain the ______ to travel and enjoy life. I already have two social ______ on my schedule, plus I am excited about the ______ to watch part of the Xiamen Dragon Boat Race on May 25 & 26. Life in China is good to me ______, what can I say.

1.A.passing B.dating C.bringing D.heading

2.A.requirement B.desire C.curiosity D.need

3.A.claim B.declare C.admit D.announce

4.A.celebrate B.bless C.wish D.congratulate

5.A.attended B.participated C.joined D.prepared

6.A.ceremonies B.visits C.discussions D.conferences

7.A.go B.come C.return D.arrive

8.A.little B.new C.simple D.burning

9.A.Above all B.Now that C.As though D.Even though

10.A.scared B.determined C.worried D.exhausted

11.A.see B.expect C.predict D.show

12.A.broke B.ran C.worked D.figured

13.A.suddenly B.abruptly C.nearly D.amazingly

14.A.machine B.equipment C.device D.load

15.A.routine B.schedule C.timetable D.plan

16.A.serve B.reserve C.observe D.preserve

17.A.approach B.mystery C.ability D.competition

18.A.appointments B.settlements C.documents D.assessments

19.A.bonus B.idea C.opportunity D.imagination

20.A.in addition B.in general C.on average D.after all

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I must have been about fourteen then, and I put away the incident from my mind with the easy carelessness of youth. But the words, Carl Walter spoke that day, came back to me years later, and ever since have been of great value to me.

Carl Walter was my piano teacher. During one of my lessons he asked how much practicing I was doing. I said three or four hours a day.

"Do you practice in long stretches（一段时间）, an hour at a time?"

"I try to.”

"Well, don't,” he exclaimed. “When you grow up, time won't come in long stretches. Practice in minutes, whenever you can find them five or ten before school, after lunch, between household tasks. Spread the practice through the day, and piano-playing will become a part of your life."

When I was teaching at Columbia, I wanted to write, but class periods, theme-reading, and committee meetings filled my days and evenings. For two years I got practically nothing down on paper, and my excuse was that I had no time. Then I remembered what Carl Walter had said. During the next week I conducted an experiment. Whenever I had five minutes unoccupied, I sat down and wrote a hundred words or so. To my astonishment, at the end of the week I had a rather large manuscript（手稿）ready for revision, later on I wrote novels by the same piecemeal（零碎的） method. Though my teaching schedule had become heavier than ever, in every day there were idle moments which could be caught and put to use. I even took up piano--playing again, finding that the small intervals of the day provided sufficient time for both writing and piano practice.

There is an important trick in this time--using formula: you must get into your work quickly. If you have but five minutes for writing, you can't afford to waste it in chewing your pencil. You must make your mental preparations beforehand, and concentrate on your task almost instantly when the time comes. Fortunately, rapid concentration is easier than most of us realize.

I admit I have never learnt how to let go easily at the end of the five or ten minutes. But life can be counted on to supply interruptions. Carl Walter has had a tremendous influence on my life. To him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I plunge in without delay.

1. What is the best title of this passage?

A. Concentrate on Your Work                           B. A Little at a Time

C. How I Became a Writer                                        D. Good Advice

2. Which of the following statements is true?

A. The writer owes great thanks to his teacher for teaching him to work in long stretches.

B. Carl Walter has had a great influence on the writer’s life since he became a student.

C. The writer didn't take the teacher's words to heart at first.

D. Rapid concentration is actually more difficult than most people imagine.

3. The underlined part "counted on" can he replaced by____.

A. enriched                B. concentrated              C. valued                   D. expected

4. We can infer that the writer           .

A. has new books published each year however busy his teaching is

B. is always tired of interruptions in life because his teaching schedule is always heavy

C. has formed a bad habit of chewing a pencil while writing his novels

D. makes mental preparations beforehand, so he’s devoted to work instantly

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I must have been about fourteen then, and I put away the incident from my mind with the easy carelessness of youth. But the words, Carl Walter spoke that day, came back to me years later, and ever since have been of great value to me.

Carl Walter was my piano teacher. During one of my lessons he asked how much practicing I was doing. I said three or four hours a day.

“Do you practice in long stretches, an hour at a time?”

“I try to.”

“Well, don’t, ” he said loudly. “When you grow up, time won’t come in long stretches. Practice in minutes, whenever you can find them five or ten before school, after lunch, between household tasks. Spread the practice through the day, and piano-playing will become a part of your life.”

When I was teaching at Columbia, I wanted to write, but class periods, theme-reading, and committee meetings filled my days and evenings. For two years I got practically nothing down on paper, and my excuse was that I had no time. Then I remembered what Carl Walter had said. During the next week I conducted an experiment. Whenever I had five minutes unoccupied, I sat down and wrote a hundred words or so. To my astonishment, at the end of the week I had a rather large manuscript(手稿) ready for revision. Later on I wrote novels by the same piecemeal （零碎的）method. Though my teaching schedule had become heavier than ever, in every day there were moments which could be caught and put to use.

There is an important trick in this time-using principle: you must get into your work quickly. If you have but five minutes for writing, you can’t afford to waste it in chewing your pencil. You must make your mental preparations beforehand, and concentrate on your task almost instantly when the time comes. Fortunately, rapid concentration is easier than most of us realize.

I admit I have never learnt how to let go easily at the end of the five or ten minutes. But life can be counted on to supply interruptions. Carl Walter has had a significant influence on my life. To him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I throw myself into it without delay.

1.The meaning of “stretch” in the underlined part is the same as that in the sentence “_______”

A. The dog woke up, had a good stretch and wandered off.

B. Bob worked as a government official for a stretch of over twenty years.

C. My family wasn’t wealthy by any stretch of the imagination.

D. This material has a lot of stretch in it.

2.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The author didn’t take the teacher’s words to heart at first.

B. Rapid concentration is more difficult than people imagine.

C. The author thanked his teacher for teaching him to work in long stretches.

D. Carl Walter has influenced the writer greatly since he was a student.

3.We can infer that the author______.

A. had new books published each year however busy his teaching is

B. is tired of interruptions in life because he always has much work

C. has formed a bad habit of chewing a pencil while writing his novels

D. makes mental preparations beforehand so as to focus on work quickly

4.What is probably the best title for this text?

A. Concentrate on Your Work            B. A Little at a Time

C. How I Became a Writer                            D. Good Advice

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Small talk is stressful for even the most easy-going people. 1. Below, small-talk experts share their best advice on developing good chatting skills.

Ask questions.

The key to good small talk is asking the other person a lot of questions. But avoid rapid-fire questions. 2. Be sure to express your own feelings in response to what they share.

Avoid conversation starters like “How have you been?”

You could not ask a more awkward question. A better way to produce meaningful conversation is to add “What is new in your life since the last time I saw you?

Avoid one-word answers.

3. When someone asks you a question, give them something to talk about with you, not a word or two. Fine said, if someone asks you, “How was your summer?”, you can answer, for instance. My summer was great. I’m excited about my vegetable garden. That will give the person something else to ask you about.

4.

Your facial expression and body language should let the other person know you’re truly listening to them. A recent study showed that people who used hand or head gestures received responses to their questions faster than those who didn’t.

Small talk may help you connect with someone new with whom you want to have a more serious talk. 5.

A.You don’t have to be a reporter.

B.Don’t worry about it too much, though.

C.You could not ask a more inconvenient question.

D.It’s the first step to any meaningful relationship.

E.Use your hands to keep the conversation flowing.

F.Don’t be a disappointing person in a conversation.

G.You should make a conversation with people you like.

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For hundreds of years, people have been wondering about the strange places that they seem to visit in their sleep.1.However, they have been valued as necessary to a person’s health and happiness. Historically people thought dreams contained messages from God. It was only in the twentieth century that people started to study dreams scientifically believing that they tell about a person's character.2.He believed that dreams allow a person to express fantasies or fears, which would be socially unacceptable in real life.

The second theory to become popular was Carl Jung's compensation theory. Jung, a former student of Freud, said that the purpose of a dream is not to hide something, but rather to communicate it to the dreamer.3.Thus, people who think too highly of themselves may dream about falling; those who think too little of themselves dream of being heroes.

Using more recent research, William Domhoff from the University of California found that dreaming is a mental skill that needs time to develop in humans. 4.Until they reach age five, they cannot express very well what their dreams are about. Once people become adults, there is little or no change in their dreams. The dreams of men and women differ. For instance, the characters that appear in the dreams of men are often other men, and often involve physical aggression.

The meaning of dreams continues to be difficult to understand.5.If you dream that a loved one is going to die, do not panic. The dream may have meaning, but it does not mean that your loved one is going to die.

A. Dreams make up for what is lacking in waking life.

B. However, people should not take their dreams as reality.

C. They have been considered as meaningless nighttime journeys.

D. It gives scientists chances to better understand human mind.

E. Children do not dream as much as adults.

F. They think their mind is trying to tell them something.

G. First, there was Sigmund Freud’s theory.

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Mary’s QQ number must have been stolen by someone else yesterday, _____? Because she asked me to lend her ￥5,000, _____ had never happened before.

A. didn’t it; that　　　　　　 B. haven’t it; which

C. wasn’t it; which　　　　　　 D. wasn’t it; it

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At the office that day, Martha was left to keep her eyes open until after the lunch hour. Then Mr Max Cohen brought her a document to copy. She was so anxious she had to start afresh three times. And when he came to fetch it, all that had been achieved were the words “Memorandum of an Agreement of Sale” typed across the top of the sheet. She shrank under his impatient assurance that it did not matter in the least, and she must take her time. Her fingers were heavy and trembling, and her head was thick. To type two pages of his small neat writing into something clean and pleasant to look at seemed to her, just then, an impossibly difficult task. He went home without coming to her desk again, and she decided she would come early next morning and do it before anyone else arrived.

Mrs Buss, on her way out, asked, “Have you got any certificates?” Martha said no. She had learned to type at home. Mrs Buss said nothing, but merely nodded absent-mindedly, for her eyes were on the elegant Mrs Jasper Cohen. Martha could barely see where she was going as she left the office. What she said to herself was, “I won’t spend the rest of my life typing this stupid jargon”.

She then went into the building of the ZambesiNews. She was going to see if Mr Spur, an old journalist whom she had known as a child, could offer her any kind of position. She was in the building about half an hour, and when she came out, her face was hot with embarrassment. It had been so painful she could not bear to remember what had happened. What she must remember was that she had no qualifications at all.

1.Why did Martha find her first day at the office difficult?

A.She was too nervous to think. B.Mr Cohen was not easy to please.

C.The task given to her was very difficult. D.She was not used to working under pressure.

2.By the end of the day, which of the following was true of Martha?

A.She had decided to work overtime. B.She hadn't finished her typing work.

C.She hadn't thought she would be blamed. D.She knew Mr Cohen was disappointed in her.

3.What might be Mrs Buss's attitude towards Martha?

A.She seemed eager to help her.

B.She seemed uninterested in her.

C.She seemed to have taken a dislike to her.

D.She seemed concerned about her lack of qualifications.

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When It’s Time to Give Up I’m sure you have been told that in order to become successful, you must persevere (坚持), fight, stand up whenever you fall, and march forward until the end. I say those things to people all the time, so why am I telling you now that sometimes it is actually better to quit? The reason is that in certain cases, you could only go forward if you go back.

Sometimes you will be putting a lot of time and effort in achieving a goal to find out one day that your strategy is totally wrong. You could be achieving the same results in half the time had you been focusing on doing the more important things.

Let’s say your goal was to lose weight. You then set a goal to do 1000 sit-ups a day. After about 1 month of doing this, you realize that you have been disciplined enough to hit your goal of 1000 sit-ups a day, however, you aren’t getting any closer to your main goal of losing weight. This is called focusing on a secondary goal, which sometimes is the wrong strategy.

We sometimes get so focused on a secondary goal that we lose focus on the primary goal. I see this with sales people all the time. Their main goal is to make money but they often find their focus on hitting some new position within the sales department and when that doesn’t happen, they feel like a big failure. The goal never was to hit some position; the goal was to make money whether with this company or another company.

Would it make sense, in this case, for a sales person to quit the job if his goal of making a certain amount of money just wasn’t happening? His managers would probably call him a quitter, but his goal is to make money. If he can obtain that goal through a different source, then quitting would actually be the smart thing to do.

So when is it time to give up? When what you are doing no longer makes sense in respects to achieving your main goal. Sometimes it will make more sense to give up what you are doing and start on a different path towards the same goal.

Some people will spend their entire lives on a path to a certain goal only to find out in the end that the path they took was the wrong one. There is no shame in giving up on a path you are taking to your goal as long as you always aim to reach your goal. There’s no point in staying on a path that will lead you to nowhere.

1.Why does the author advocate giving up?

A. Because giving up halfway will save half the time.

B. Because perseverance does not work in most cases.

C. Because sometimes people adopt wrong strategies.

D. Because no one can achieve success without hard work.

2.Which of the following is a secondary goal in the case of sales people?

A. To gain recognition from their boss.

B. To make money in the present company.

C. To work for other better companies.

D. To get promoted in the sales department.

3.What is the author’s attitude towards giving up?

A. One should devote his whole life to one goal rather than give up.

B. One should not regret giving up if he finds he is on a wrong path.

C. One always needs to stick to the same strategy to achieve his goal.

D. One should focus on primary and secondary goals before he quits.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文，文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

During my last summer holiday, I go to France with my father to do some sightseeing. On third day, our bus pulled into a motorway service station. Our guide told us we wouldn’t stop again that day, so we had to eat a meal in the only restaurant here. There was a problem. When I asked about fish, in my terrible French, the assistant thought I wanted chickens. Anyway, ten minutes late, I got my meal. I thought the food would be dull, what wasn't the case at all. Wonderfully cooking, it tasted delicious and had been nothing in common with my motorway food elsewhere. Maybe I shouldn’t have been so surprising as this, after all, was France.

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My father loves his garden. He planted some seeds in it. But at that time, I didn’t understand why working in the dirt excited him so much.

Unfortunately, in early May, my father was seriously injured in an accident. He had to stay in bed for a while. My mother had several business trips, so she couldn’t take care of the garden. I didn’t want my father to worry, so I said that I would take care of his garden until he recovered. I assumed that the little plants would continue to grow as long as they had water, and luckily it rained fairly often, so I didn’t think much about the garden.

One Saturday morning, my father said to me, “Christine, the vegetables should be about ready to be picked. Let’s have a salad today!” I went out to the garden and was upset to see that many of the lettuce leaves and carrots had been half eaten by bugs. There were hundreds of bugs all over them!

I panicked for a moment but then I quietly went to the nearest store to buy some vegetables.

When I gave the salad to him, he said, “Oh, Christine, what a beautiful salad! I can’t believe the carrots are this big already. You must be taking very good care of my garden.” I felt a little bit guilty.

Coming home, my mother saw the bag from the supermarket in the kitchen. I was embarrassed and I admitted, “Dad wanted a salad, but the garden was a disaster. I didn’t want to disappoint him, so I went to the store.” She laughed but promised to help me in the garden and weeks later I was finally able to pick some.

I carefully made a salad and took it to my father. He looked at it with a hint of a smile. “Christine, the carrots are smaller in this salad, but they taste better.”

Now, I better understand how putting a lot of effort into caring for something can help you appreciate the results more, however small they may be. Perhaps this was one of the reasons for my father’s love of gardening.

1.Why did Christine originally promise she would do the gardening?

A.She was asked by her father to do it.

B.She was interested in growing vegetables.

C.She knew it was important to her father.

D.She wanted to improve her gardening skills.

2.Which of the following was a problem in the garden?

A.Insects destroyed the lettuce and carrots.

B.Animals often dug holes in the garden.

C.The plants were given too much water.

D.The vegetables were marked incorrectly.

3.Why could Christine secretly make the salad from store-bought vegetables?

A.Her mother helped her to buy the vegetables.

B.Her mother regularly helped her to make a spray.

C.Her father couldn’t see the garden’s progress.

D.Her father went on a business trip at that time.

4.What did Christine learn through her experience of gardening?

A.Always get ready for a rainy day.

B.Don’t be disappointed by bugs.

C.Working alone produces results.

D.Hard work can often be rewarding.

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