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Not long ago, Linda was sting by a hospital bed in Houston, Beside her _______ her 88-yearold father. His heart was _______ It needed surgery. What _______ her as much as his heath was that all day the two of them bad _______ in nothing but depressing small talks. They had always had good _______. But now he seemed to be _______ with the hospital, talking about the disappointing food, the _______ tests, and the demanding doctors. His once wide-ranging _______ seemed to have been limited to the size of the room. “It is really _______　 to sit with a person in a hospital” Linda said. One day, something __________ the eye. It was a book that some friend had __________ as a gift. Her father had always been a __________ but lately he didn't have the energy or focus to read. She __________ the book and started to read it out loud. “ __________ it changed the atmosphere and __________”she said. That afternoon, Linda read to her father for an hour. It was a __________ and a pleasure for both of them. Reading gave the daughter away to __________ with her father and help him in a situation that was otherwise out of her __________. Listening allowed the father to __________ on the sound of her voice out of the hospital and back to the intellectual engagement.

“When I was a kid, he would read to me, it became opportunities to repay a debt of __________ “Linda said.

1.A.lay B.followed C.stood D.waited

2.A.breaking B.beating C.weakening D.recovering

3.A.troubled B.attracted C.astonished D.moved

4.A.believed B.taken C.joined D.engaged

5.A.relationship B.conversations C.friends D.manners

6.A.dissatisfied B.careful C.popular D.generous

7.A.impressive B.simple C.practical D.endless

8.A.collections B.interests C.diets D.visitors

9.A.traditional B.enjoyable C.hard D.worthwhile

10.A.covered B.met C.blinded D.rolled

11.A.accepted B.held C.read D.brought

12.A.patient B.reader C.listener D.doctor

13.A.picked up B.looked up C.put up D.made up

14.A.Usually B.Generally C.Immediately D.Occasionally

15.A.habit B.idea C.surroundings D.mood

16.A.challenge B.relief C.talent D.pity

17.A.connect B.agree C.chat D.live

18.A.mind B.sight C.hands D.heart

19.A.travel B.reflect C.call D.put

20.A.honor B.money C.service D.gratitude

高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

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I was in Houston a few weeks ago, and needed to be back home in Austin by the early morning the next day. So I ______ to leave that morning. ______ my tire blew out on the way. I ______ a small parking lot. Then I ______ the doors and picked up my phone to call a tow truck (拖车). Soon a man ______ on my driver’s side window and asked if he could help me. From his ______ and behavior, I knew he was far more ______ to rob (抢劫) than help me, so I ______refused and told him the tow truck was due any minute. He asked again, but again I gently shook my head. He finally said, “ Ma’am, you need ______. A tow truck in Houston will arrive anywhere between 45 minutes and approximately ______(which I knew was true), and you are not going anywhere until you have that tire______.”

I looked hard, straight into his _____, and instinctively (凭直觉) saw someone different from the ______ person he appeared to be at first glance. So, against all reasonable ______, but trusting my instincts, I got out. He looked______, but got right to work, trying to find the ______ tire. It took a while since it was stored under the van (车厢).

He changed the tire, ______ the seat to its place and said, “Thank you for letting me help you. You gave me a ______ when most people would never open the door to someone like me. Would it be okay if I gave you a hug?” When I______, I gave him a giant hug. I left with a new tire and a renewed ______ in human nature.

1.A. wanted　　　　　 B. happened　　 　　 C. hoped　　 　　　 D. had

2.A. Expectedly　 B. Unfortunately　　 C. Strangely　　 D. Undoubtedly

3.A. pulled into　　 B. walked around C. broke into　　 D. looked around

4.A. opened　　　　 B. fixed　 　　　　 　　 C. locked　　 　　 D. broke

5.A. hit　　　　 　　 B. knocked　　 　　　 C. climbed　 　　 　 D. checked

6.A. words　　 　　　 B. personality　 　 C. height　　 　　 D. appearance

7.A. willing　　　　 B. anxious　　 　　　 C. likely　　 　　 D. pleased

8.A. politely　　 　　 B. stubbornly　　 　 C. repeatedly　　 D. hurriedly

9.A. money　 　　　　 B. water　　　 　　　　 C. gas　　 　　　　 D. help

10.A. forever　　 　　 B. now　　 　　　　　 C. never　　 　　 D. already

11.A. balanced　　 　 B. changed　　 　　　 C. moved　　 　　　 D. sold

12.A. mind　 　　　 　 B. eyes　　 　　　　 C. head　　　 　　　 D. heart

13.A. violent　　 　 B. intelligent　　 C. cold-hearted D. hurriedly

14.A. arguments　 B. judgments　　 　　 C. decisions　　 D. expectations

15.A. surprised　 B. disappointed　 C. touched　　 　　 D. depressed

16.A. flat　　　　 B. free　　　 　　　　 C. spare　　　 　　 D. worn

17.A. showed　　　　 B. left　　 　　　　 C. held　　 　　　 D. returned

18.A. lesson　　 　　 B. job　　　 　　　　　 C. gift　　 　　　 D. chance

19.A. recovered　　 B. discovered　　 　 C. awoke　　 　　　 D. wondered

20.A. pride　　 　　 B. delight　　 　　　 C. faith　　 　　 D. interest

高二英语完形填空困难题查看答案及解析

Have you ever been to hospital? Did you notice that it was very clean? Were you looked after by a nurse?

Hospitals have not always been clean, quiet places. Long ago they were dirty and overcrowded. Nurses were never taught how to look after their patients and many people died. Thanks to Florence Nightingale, who changed all this.

Florence was born in 1820. She spent a lot of time playing with her dolls. She would pretend that the dolls were sick and she was their nurse. People would bring sick or hurt animals to her to look after. She even mended a dog’s broken leg when she was a young girl. She often went with her mother to visit the poor people. They took food and medicine to the sick. It was these visits that first gave her the idea of becoming a nurse.

Florence really wanted to be a doctor but she couldn’t because in those days only men were allowed to become doctors. She decided that she wanted to become a nurse. Her parents were very angry; the daughters of rich people did not work at all and they certainly did not become nurses. But Florence had made up her mind.

Her chance came in 1854 when Britain went to war with Russia in a place called the Crimea. Florence was asked to take a group of nurses to look after the sick and wounded soldiers. The hospitals were dirty, and there was not enough medicine. There were not enough beds, so some people were just lying on rags in the mud. There was so much sickness that the doctors could not treat all the soldiers.

Florence and her team cleaned the hospital rooms and beds. They made sure that the bandages were clean and that the soldiers get enough medicine. The army was unhappy because there were women so close to the fighting. They gave the nurses a lot of trouble. Florence and her team worked hard. Consequently, Florence became famous as “The Lady of the Lamp”.

After the war, Florence returned to London a national hero. A great welcome was prepared for her, but she slipped into the country unnoticed. She opened a school to teach nurses how to look after their patients properly. She never really got better from the illness that she had in the Crimea and she died in 1910.

1.What’s the purpose of Para.1?

A.To arouse readers’interest. B.To tell the history of hospitals.

C.To ask some questions to readers. D.To recall our memories as patients.

2.Florence had the idea of becoming a nurse when______.

A.she played with her dolls

B.she visited the poor people

C.she mended a dog’s broken leg

D.she looked after sick or hurt animals

3.What can you infer from the passage?

A.Women were not willing to become doctors at that time.

B.Florence received professional training before the war.

C.Hospitals were dirty and had no patients before.

D.Florence was brought up in a wealthy family.

4.How did the army react to the presence of women nurses?

A.Satisfied. B.Angry. C.Disappointed. D.Worried.

5.What kind of woman do you think Florence Nightingale is?

A.Wealthy and outgoing. B.Beautiful and creative.

C.Determined and modest. D.Clever and considerate.

高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

I’ve been teaching college for many years, long enough to note the gradual relaxation of attention in matters of student dress. And I’ve long been used to the worn jeans, flip-flops and shorts. Still, I took note recently when one of my students showed up in pajama bottoms. I couldn’t help asking, “Did you just roll out of bed?” “Five minutes ago.” he responded.

I’m familiar with the school of thought that says that how students dress is not important, so long as they’re learning. This is much the same when they say “Grammar and spelling don’t matter, so long as they’re expressing themselves.” Perhaps. But I also wonder about the wisdom of blurring(模糊)the line between bed and desk. I should think that a careful consideration of clothes before entering a formal environment is a sort of visible reminder to oneself (and one’s teachers) that impressions are important and that we have come together to get down to business.

I suppose that I come from a time when there were “school clothes” and “play clothes,” and never did the two sorts meet. I grew up in a working-class family, to whom “looking sharp” was important. Personal appearance might have made the difference between getting and losing a job. So yes, I’m all for freedom of choice in matters of dress, and yes, I do want my students to be comfortable. But I also want to pay my respects to those students who believe that appearances matter.

I think of this lady I had in class a few years back. She was someone to whom science was never easy: She worked hard for respectable grades on every task. But I was impressed by how tastefully she dressed, day after day. When the course ended, I mentioned this to her. “You always looked so nice,” I remarked，“as if you were ready to take on the world.”

1.Which of the following statements is Not True?

A.“Looking sharp” is helpful in getting a job.

B.It is wise to blur the line between bed and desk.

C.Students are being more and more casually dressed.

D.The author believes we should pay some respects to our appearances.

2.What does the “school of thought” mean in paragraph 2?

A.a college that teaches thoughts B.a group of students and teachers

C.a way of thinking D.a branch of learning

3.What do we know about the lady in the last paragraph?

A.She had a talent for science.

B.The author was impressed by her casual dressing.

C.Her grades were not decent though she studied hard.

D.She was one of the students who believed that appearances matter.

高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

A long time ago, in an Italian city, the people there built a tower which was admired by everyone passing through. A little further down the road, in a neighboring city, they had built a tower of similar beauty. The two towers were equally well known. The people of the second city, envious (妒忌的) and filled with pride, planned to destroy the neighboring tower so it wouldn’t take attention away from their own. One night, they came to the tower and began to quietly undermine its foundations(地基).

The next morning, the tower was leaning(倾斜) slightly ,but nobody noticed. The same happened for the following few days, until a little girl who was passing by pointed up at the tower and said: “ I think the tower is going to fall down.” And everyone around looked closely, and could see that she was right .Nervousness spread through the city. And they tried many methods to try to straighten the tower, but nothing seemed to work. That was, until one day when the same little girl was walking up again, and she put her arm on the side of the tower to rest. She felt the tower shaking slightly. When she took her hand off it, the movement stopped. And when she put it back on again, the same thing happened. The girl spent a while doing this, until she was completely certain of what she had discovered: “ The tower is ticklish ( 怕痒的) ！” She ran to get some plants, and she planted them right next to the tower. Now if the tower leant over any further it would be tickled by the leaves of those plants. Being a ticklish tower, it would then return to where it had been. In this way, the girl managed to make sure that the tower didn’t fall down, but still kept it leaning a little.

The fact that it was leaning made it even more famous, and this taught a fine lesson to the envious people of the neighboring city.

1.Why did the people of the second city plan to destroy the neighboring tower?

2.The underlined word“undermine”（in Paragraph1）probably mean “_________”．

3.When local people heard the news that their tower was going to fall down, they were _________.

4.What lesson can we learn from the practice of the envious people in the neighboring city?

高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

About six years ago, I was on a plane next to a talkative woman. I was tired and wanted to take a nap. But before I could go into “Ignore mode”, she tapped me on the shoulder to introduce herself and I knew she was called Helga.

While talking with Helga, I mentioned that I had started an organization in high school called R.A.K.E (Random Acts of Kindness, Etc.). As I described what we did, Helga got very serious and told me that she thought “there was nothing more important in the world than Kindness.” I was curious why she was so enthusiastic and, as the plane took off, she talked about her last fight to Arizona three years ago. Just as the plane was about to leave for Phoenix, her father’s doctor called to inform her that her dad had suddenly passed away. For the three hour plane ride, she sat in stunned silence around strangers. When she arrived the airport in Arizona, she walked to the nearest wall, sat down, and cried.

And here is the part I’ll never forget about Helga’s story. For two hours she sat and wept while thousands walked to and from at the airport. Helga looked at me and said, “Houston, nobody stopped and asked if I was okay that day. Not a single person. It was that day that I realized Kindness Isn’t Normal.”

Kindness Isn’t Normal. That has stuck with me all these years — especially now that I work in schools nationwide speaking about sympathy, kindness and love. I’m reminded all the time that, we spend so much time worrying about our problems and our lives that we walk by or ignore people in need of kindness every day. I’m often so worried about ME that I’m really bad at taking care of YOU.

So, I’ve made it my duty to do my part in making Kindness Normal. I share stories with students, teachers, and parents about our need for character and compassion. I provide young people with practical ways to exercise Kindness (they don’t always know what it looks like!).

1.If you go into “ignore mode” you ______.

A.pay no attention to others B.introduce yourself voluntarily

C.refuse to answer any questions D.start talking with other people

2.Why did Helga cry at the airport?

A.She knew that her father died. B.She felt sick after a long flight

C.She was surrounded by strangers. D.She arrived at a completely new city.

3.Helga’s story helps the author to_______.

A.teach more people in need B.set up the organization R.A.K.E.

C.pay more attention to his problem D.realize the present situation of kindness

4.What is the best title for the passage?

A.A Kind Woman B.Ways to Be Kind

C.Welcome to R.A.K.E. D.Make Kindness Normal

高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

Not long ago, the only time you could see a robot was when you were reading a novel or watching a movie such as Star Wars. Today, 1a lot of things in science stories have been science facts. Robots are starting to _2_ in our everyday lives. These robots have different sizes, shapes and colors. But they all have the same _3_ of man-made “_4_”. Leading the robot revolution(革命) are industrial robots that work in factories. Industrial robots can do different kinds of jobs that are often _5_ and sometimes dangerous. Robots are also coming to American homes, though not as quickly asthey are entering _6_. These robots aren’t as friendly and _7_ as those you saw in Star Wars. But, their makers say, today’s home robots “walk” and sense objects in their own way. They even _8_ objects though they may sometimes drop. Well, nobody is _9_.

We may _10_ home robots today, but some day they may see and hear _11_ than humans do. We _12_

can only see certain wave lengths of light and hear certain _13_. That’s because the _14_ of our eyes and ears are _15_.

Robots, however, need not have the same limits _16_ we have. Robots may also be _17_ wit devices(装置) that  _18_ information humans can’t. However, to understand _19_ their sensing devices pick up is a hard job.

Remember, man-made brains _20_ information, including all kinds of data, as zeroes and ones.

Imagine the difficulty in trying to explain to a robot what a football looks like---using only zeroes and ones.

1.A. however        B. whenever         C. on the other hand        D. in other words

2.A. come           B. appear               C. enter                    D. raise

3.A. variety            B. dozen                C. score                    D. type

4.A. muscle         B. body             C. brain                    D. appearance

5.A. surprising     B. boring               C. pleasant             D. exciting

6.A. homes          B. factories            C. schools              D. offices

7.A. certain            B. pleasing         C. bright                   D. foolish

8.A. carry          B. forget               C. remember             D. choose

9.A. wonderful      B. excellent            C. happy                    D. perfect

10.A. play jokes on     B. make fun of          C. laugh at             D. have fun with

11.A. worse         B. faster               C. better                   D. sooner

12.A. fellows           B. humans           C. beings                   D. friends

13.A. noise         B. voice                C. sounds                   D. speeches

14.A. sight         B. length               C. distance             D. ability

15.A. enough            B. endless          C. limited              D. hopeful

16.A. as                B. since                C. for                  D. while

17.A. given         B. equipped         C. sent                 D. applied

18.A. pick out          B. pick up          C. send up              D. send out

19.A. how           B. where                C. what                 D. which

20.A. deal          B. handle               C. seek                     D. provide

高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

My wife and I were at a crowded grocery store not long ago. It was a weekday evening, cold and wet-and tense. People were carelessly blocking aisles, complaining and cutting one another off with their carts.

Things got worse at the checkout line. The cashier scanned a man’s discount card, but he misread the savings on her screen as an additional charge. He decided she was acting deliberately and began to argue.

“She is being spiteful (恶意的) !” he yelled. “This is unbelievable.”

Other customers looked away as the cashier tried to reason with him. She called a manager, who accompanied him to customer service. Shaken, she moved to the next customer in line.

We’ve all witnessed uncomfortable scenes like this in public places. The grocery scene was another example of how our trust in others has eroded. But it was also a teachable moment on how we can rebuild our faith-starting with just one person.

Back at the grocery store, my wife and I reached our uneasy cashier. I grabbed a bottle of water from a nearby cooler and handed it to her. “We felt bad about how that man treated you and wanted to buy this for you.” I said. Her face lit up, and we talked as she scanned our items. She told us she had been working that evening through severe foot pain and would be having surgery later that week. We wished her well in her recovery, and she thanked us as we left.

Those are the balancing acts, the moments of responding social and emotional pain with healing, which will add up to restore trust among people. You can start that pattern in someone else’s life, even in a place as ordinary as the neighborhood grocery store.

1.Why did the man at the checkout line argue with the cashier?

A.The cashier called a manager to help her.

B.Someone jumped the queue waiting to check out.

C.There was something wrong with his discount card.

D.He believed the cashier charged him more on purpose.

2.The underlined word “eroded” in Paragraph 5 probably means ________.

A.changed B.increased

C.faded D.formed

3.The author bought a bottle of water for the cashier because ________.

A.he thought the cashier might feel a little bit thirsty

B.he knew she had gone through much trouble recently

C.he wanted to restore the trust between her and the man

D.he wanted to comfort her after the terrible experience just now

4.The last paragraph in the passage is intended to ________.

A.add a warning B.make a suggestion

C.introduce a topic D.present an argument

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

The hospital has been set up in ______was a wasteland many years ago.

A. which          B. that               C. where             D. what

高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

The hospital has been set up in ________ was a waste land many years ago.

A. which           B. that    C. where          D. what

高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析