At 12 years old, Braeden Mannering is already...

At 12 years old, Braeden Mannering is already well on his way to running an empire! A 2016 win of Delaware's Healthy Lunchtime Challenge brought Braeden to the White House, where the president asked the children at the event to think about how they could pay the experience forward.

A few days later, on the drive back home, Braeden saw a homeless man in the rain. He had his parents stop so that he cold give the man a bag of snacks. Braeden knew at that moment that this was how he wanted to pay it forward. He knew what he wanted to do in the future. He felt that it was his duty to help people in trouble.

Since that day in July,2016,Braeden has handed out over 8,000 bags to the homeless through his organization Brae's Brown Bags, also known as 3B.These bags vary (各不相同) in contents, and include food, toiletries (化妆品) and even books for the kids 'bags.

In addition to packing and distributing (分发) bags, Braeden travels the country, giving talks in schools to inspire other young people to help their communities. On his travel, he's raised$60,000 to expand his program. He also is a leader at the annual Delaware Hunger Conference, where he encourages kids to write to lawmakers and help pack bags, showing them how to make a difference.

This is a huge accomplishment, especially for someone of his age. But, as he says, “Anyone can change the world, as long as you dream big."

1.What does the underlined word "it" in Para.2 refer to?

A.The bag. B.The experience.

C.The event. D.The moment.

2.What does the boy's organization try to do?

A.Provide children with clothes.

B.Help homeless women with make-up.

C.Hand out bags for people to do shopping.

D.Donate things in bags to people losing their homes.

3.Which of the following is NOT the reason why Braeden travels the country?

A.To raise some money.

B.To give talks in schools.

C.To pay a visit to some lawmakers.

D.To inspire young people to help their communities.

4.How does the author like the boy's career?

A.It is great considering his young age.

B.It is not a little boy's task to do so.

C.The government should give him more help.

D.He sets a good example for other children.

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12-year-old John Thomas Robertson is a born train fan. "I’ve liked trains probably from the day I was born," he told Good Morning America. "When I was very little," he said, "my grandpa got me a train model. I would just watch it go round for hours and hours."

When Robertson finally had the opportunity to ride on a train, he felt great. His journey was so mind-blowing that he couldn’t keep it to himself: he decided to take all his classmates to go on a ride with him. When he found that some of his classmates couldn’t pay the fare, he collected cans (罐子) and bottles and raised more than $1,000 for them.

That trip was such a happy one that he made it a yearly action. "It never gets boring for some reason; it’s just fun," he said. "It really lets people get away from their busy life and have fun.

Every October, Robertson takes a new group of children to ride on the train —but now, he has a problem. Several disabled children were refused because the train was not accessible (可用的) to disabled people. "He was angry to think that children of his own age couldn’t ride a train," his mother said.

But he wouldn’t say no: he recently sent a letter to the train office for help. To his surprise, the leader, Ty Pennington, accepted the letter in person. He said that he and his workers would work on making a train accessible to disabled people.

1.The first time John Thomas Robertson took a train, ________.

A．he was frightened by it

B．he acted as a driver

C．he watched it for hours

D．he fell in love with it

2.The author says John Thomas Robertson is a born train fan, because he ________.

A．was greatly attracted to trains since early childhood

B．said so in Good Morning America

C．took a group of disabled children to travel by train

D．was taken to a train the day he was born

3.The underlined words "mind-blowing" can be replaced by ________.

A．important         B．terrible           C．amazing           D．disappointing

4.The disabled children were refused to get on the train because _________.

A．the trains then weren’t accessible to the disabled

B．Robertson had not saved enough money for the tickets

C．they couldn’t afford the train tickets

D．the driver would not allow them to do so

5.According to the last paragraph, we can see that Robertson is a ________ child.

A．helpful and crazy                       B．kind and clever

C．kind but boring                         D．lazy but kind

高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

12-year-old John Thomas Robertson is a born train fan. “I’ve liked trains probably from the day I was born,” he told Good Morning America. “When I was very little,” he said, “my grandpa got me a train model. I would just watch it go round for hours and hours.”

When Robertson finally had the opportunity to ride on a train, he felt great. His journey was so mind-blowing that he couldn’t keep it to himself: he decided to take all his classmates to go on a ride with him. When he found that some of his classmates couldn’t pay the fares, he spent money he had saved by collecting cans（罐子）and bottles and raised more than ＄1,000 for them.

That train was such a happy one that he made it yearly action. “It never gets boring for some reason; it’s just very fun,” he said. “It really lets people get away from their busy life and have fun.”

Every October, Robertson takes a new group of disabled children to ride the train — but now, he has a problem. Several disabled children were refused because the train was not accessible（可用的）to disabled people. “He was angry to think that children of his own age couldn’t ride a train,” his mother said.

But he wouldn’t say no: he recently sent a letter to the train office for help. To his surprise, the leader, Ty Pennington, took the letter seriously. He said that he and his workers would work on making a train accessible to disabled people.

1.The first time John Thomas Robertson took a train, he_______

A．felt extremely happy.　　 B．was frightened by it.

C．watched it for hours.　　 D．acted as a driver.

2.John Thomas Robertson is a born train fan, because he _______.

A．was taken on a train the day he was born.

B．his grandpa once worked on the train.

C．took a　 group of disabled children on board a train.

D．was greatly attracted to trains since early childhood.

3.The underlined word “mind-blowing” can be replaced by “_______”.

A．exciting　　　　　　　 B．frightening

C．surprising　　　　　　　 D．disappointing

4.The disabled children were refused to get on the train because _______.

A．they couldn’t afford the train tickets

B．Robertson had not saved enough money for tickets

C．the train didn’t have special services for them

D．the workers there would not allow them to do so

5.According to the passage, we can see that Robertson is a（n）_______ child.

A．honest and crazy　　　　　　 　 B．kind and helpful

C．clever but boring　　　 　　 　 D．lazy but kind

高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Muhammad Ali was born in 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. 1. When Cassius Clay was 12 years old, one day, his new bike was stolen. In tears, he told Officer Joe Martin, “I’m going to hit the person who stole my bike!” Joe said, “Well, then I’d better teach you how to fight. ”Joe Martin was the boxing（拳击） coach at the Columbia Gym. 2.

When he was fifteen, he wore heavy boots on the street. He ran after school buses and drank milk with raw eggs. He loved boxing. In 1958, he planned to go to the Olympic Games in San Francisco. 3. So, he bought a parachute（降落伞），wore it on the plane. At the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Cassius won the gold medal. In 1964, he became the world heavyweight champion（冠军）. 4. Ali was against Vietnam War and did not want to go to war in Vietnam. He said his belief taught him to be against all wars. Then his title was taken away. He did not fight again for nearly four years. He won his title back in 1974 when he fought George Foreman in Zaire, Africa.

5. Ali has been in a lot of books, films and other creative works. He has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated 37 times, second only to Michael Jordan. He still has that power to inspire people- without even opening his mouth.

A.Cassius Clay went there to learn to fight.

B.He changed his name to Muhammad Ali.

C.Ali is famous as a world champion boxer.

D.But, there was a problem:Cassius was afraid to fly.

E.His parents named him Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.

F.After school, he worked in the Nazareth College library.

G.When the boxing team went to other towns, Cassius always stayed in his hotel.

高一英语七选五简单题查看答案及解析

A 3-year-old boy who was lost in the woods for two days is now safe at home with his family. But Casey Hathaway told his rescuers　 that he was not alone in the rainy, freezing cold woods. He said he was with a friend — a bear.

The child went missing on January 22 while playing with friends near his grandmother's house in North Carolina. When the other children returned but Casey did not, the family searched the area for almost an hour before calling the police.

Police formed a search team to look for the young boy in the nearby woods. But two days went by and—no Casey.

Then on January 24, someone called the police saying he heard a child crying in the woods. Police followed up on the information and found Casey at about 9:30 that night. He was in good health.

Casey told the rescuers he had hung out with a black bear for two days, a bear he called his "friend".

The police officer Chip Hughes spoke with reporters from several news agencies. He said Casey did not say how he could survive in the woods for two days in the cold, rainy weather. "However," the police officer said, "he did say he had a friend in the woods that was a bear with him."

Hundreds of people helped in the search and rescue efforts, including some 600 volunteers, police and members of the army. Doctors at the medical center gave Casey some examination. He was then sent to his family on January 25.

His mother talked with reporters and thanked everyone who joined the search for her son. "We just want to tell everybody that we're very thankful that you took the time out to search for Casey," said his mother. "He is up and talking He's already asked to watch cartoons."

1.When did Caseyget lost?

A.On　 January24.

B.After a 911 call.

C.Before his playmates returned home.

D.After he left his grandmother's house.

2.What can we know about the boy?

A.He survived with the help of a bear.

B.The rescuers rescued him from a bear.

C.Someone offered key information to find him.

D.He was eventually found by officer Hughes.

3.Why did the mother say that in the last paragraph?

A.To report the detailed situation.

B.To show her gratitude and relief.

C.To invite everyone to watch her child.

D.To appreciate searchers and the bear.

4.Where is this text most likely from?

A.A newsreport B.A　 guidebook.

C.A diary. D.An adverisement

高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Would you BET on the future of this man? He is 53 years old. Most of his adult life has been a losing struggle against debt and misfortune. A war injury has made his left hand stop functioning, and he has often been in prison. Driven by heaven-knows-what motives, he determines to write a book.

The book turns out to be one that has appealed to the world for more than 350 years. That former prisoner was Cervantes, and the book was Don Quixote(《堂吉诃德》) . And the story poses an interesting question: why do some people discover new vitality and creativity to the end of their days, while others go to seed long before？

We've all known people who run out of steam before they reach life's halfway mark. I'm not talking about those who fail to get to the top. We can't all get there. I'm talking about people who have stopped learning on growing because they have adopted the fixed attitudes and opinions that all too often come with passing years.

Most of us, in fact, progressively narrow the variety of our lives. We succeed in our field of specialization and then become trapped in it. Nothing surprises us. We lose our sense of wonder. But, if we are willing to learn, the opportunities are everywhere.

The things we learn in maturity seldom involve information and skills. We learn to bear with the things we can't change. We learn to avoid self-pity. We learn that however much we try to please, some people are never going to love us-an idea that troubles at first but is eventually relaxing.

With high motivation and enthusiasm, we can keep on learning. Then we will know how important it is to have meaning in our life. However, we can achieve meaning only if we have made a commitment to something larger than our own little egos(自我) , whether to loved ones, to fellow humans, to work, or to some moral concept.

Many of us equate(将……等同于)　 “commitment” with such “caring” occupations as teaching and nursing. But doing any ordinary job as well as one can is in itself an admirable commitment. People who work toward such excellence-whether they are driving a truck, or running a store-make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They've learned life's most valuable lesson.

1.The passage starts with the story of Cervantes to show that _____________.

A.loss of freedom stimulates one's creativity

B.age is not a barrier to achieving one's goal

C.misery inspires a man to fight against his fate

D.disability cannot stop a man's pursuit of success

2.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A.End one's struggle for liberty.

B.Waste one's energy taking risks.

C.Miss the opportunity to succeed.

D.Lose the interest to continue learning.

3.What could be inferred from Paragraph 4?

A.Those who dare to try often get themselves trapped.

B.Those who tend to think back can hardly go ahead.

C.Opportunity favours those with a curious mind.

D.Opportunity awaits those with a cautious mind.

4.What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?

A.To provide guidance on leading a meaningful adult life.

B.To stress the need of shouldering responsibilities at work.

C.To state the importance of generating motivation for learning.

D.To suggest a way of pursuing excellence in our lifelong career.

高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Matt is now getting on very well with his new job and he earns ______ he did last year．

A. twice as much as                                          B. as twice much as

C. twice as many as                                              D. as twice many as

高一英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

I’d been retired for four years, when a friend suggested university. I thought he was joking—I was rubbish at school and failed my 11-plus. But we love to compete over Mastermind and University challenge, and he thought I’d make it. And he was absolutely right!

I did a foundation course first, which was part time at the University Lifelong Learning Centre(LLC), two nights a week and the odd Saturday. I did quite well, and that gave me the confidence to do a full time, three year degree. I’m passionate about art and I always wanted to be here for the journey and not the destination. That sounds really corny, but it was the truth in my case.

Initially it was a bit strange fitting in with my course mates. They were all 18, straight out of sixth form or college. Over time, though, they’ve all been fine — now, we all get on really well and there is no issue. I’ve made plenty of friends as a member of the mature students society, and I do some volunteering through the LLC, chatting to prospective students about my experience of coming to university. I tell them my story and basically encourage them to give it a go because you’ve got nothing to lose. I like to think I’ve convinced a few of them.

I have no regrets at all. Enrolling in university was the best piece of advice I’ve received in years, especially post-retirement. I needed routine in my life; I needed purpose. I’m not going to spend my day in the bookies or the pub. If you’ve got a passion for something, you should pursue it.

1.What do we learn from Paragraph 1?

A.The author often competed with his friend at university,

B.The author was satisfied with his performance at school,

C.The advice of his friend was a big challenge for the author.

D.The author’s friend told a joke when suggesting university.

2.What was it that made him determined to pursue a full time degree?

A.His long held passion for art.

B.His boring retirement life.

C.His success in the foundation course.

D.His desire to travel to the destination.

3.What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A.How he got along with his course mates

B.How he helped his friends at university.

C.What activities he took part in at school

D.What he experienced as a volunteer.

4.Which of the following can serve as the title of the passage?

A.Knowledge is power.

B.It’s never too old to learn.

C.Failure is the mother of success.

D.A friend in need is a friend indeed.

高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

A 9 year-old boy is called a hero after he rescued his dad when a car fell on him. Brave J.T. Parker’s quick thinking ______his father’s life.

____ dad Stephen Parker said that last July, he and his sons J.T.,9 and Mason, 17, were in the backyard working ______ a Toyota car when the ______ happened.

“ We were______ the engines out of the car and, after we got it jacked（用千斤顶顶起）up, I climbed under there to take the parts off,” he said. “The one part came off pretty ______but the other side was not coming off.

At that moment, Mason had gone inside the house ______he cut himself, but the dad ____ working. Suddenly, the car ______on top of him.

He said he _______at J.T. to jack the car up but he didn’t think his young son would______ it.

“ I couldn’t move at all,” Parker said. “I was totally______, and then I passed out. It was all in his hands.”

J.T., who ______ about 50 pounds, said he, too, didn’t think he would be able to ______the car off his father, but he started jumping up and down on the jack right away.

It took him______, but J.T. was to able save his father______. He then ran to get his brother out of the house. They called the ______immediately.

Parker was then sent to the ______ hospital with 13 broken ribs(肋骨). He was released two days later thanks to the _______rescue from his young ______.

1.A. won　　 B. saved　　 C. took　　 D. made

2.A. Fearful　　 B. Considerate　　 C. Proud　　 D. Brave

3.A. for　　 B. out　　 C. in　　 D. on

4.A. incident　　 B. event　　 C. conflict　　 D. disaster

5.A. pushing　　 B. pulling　　 C. fixing　　 D. repairing

6.A. easily　　 B. vividly　　 C. hardly　　 D. unwillingly

7.A. though　　 B. until　　 C. because　　 D. before

8.A. resumed　　 B. suspended　　 C. continued　　 D. stopped

9.A. rose　　 B. fell　　 C. disappeared　　 D. lay

10.A. yelled　　 B. ran　　 C. aimed　　 D. pointed

11.A. put　　 B. get　　 C. make　　 D. find

12.A. buried　　 B. trapped　　 C. kept　　 D. fed

13.A. measures　　 B. weighs　　 C. stands　　 D. balances

14.A. lift　　 B. push　　 C. step　　 D. blow

15.A. seconds　　 B. minutes　　 C. hours　　 D. days

16.A. gradually　　 B. eventually　　 C. absolutely　　 D. simply

17.A. doctor　　 B. police　　 C. neighbor　　 D. manger

18.A. latest　　 B. nearest　　 C. cheapest　　 D. greatest

19.A. lovely　　 B. timely　　 C. friendly　　 D. lively

20.A. hero　　 B. assistant　　 C. guide　　 D. fan

高一英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

It was about the third week in June last year.My 15-year-old son had already settled into his summer routine: Go to____at 2 a.m. and wake up at 1 p.m. only to get back on his computer to play computer games____dinner.

It was the middle of the____when the sound of his computer games woke me up again.I couldn’t____that any more and decided it was time for him to get a summer job.I got on the computer and found a lifeguard certification（证书，执照）class that____the next day,and a company that____teenagers to guard their pools.

From that day I woke him up at 8 a.m.every day for him to ____the class.At first,he continued to complain that I was____his summer.But by the end of the week,he was actually____going.He learned something about first aid, figured he really could____someone from drowning,and got some ideas on how to____work for a living.

Two weeks later,he had a____as a lifeguard.He took his responsibility very____and never went to work late. This summer,he will be working full-time at a pool.He says a lot of his____don't have jobs.And I say that is because their mothers didn't try____enough!Even if your kid is ____with finals and afterschool activities and doesn't have time,you can____job information for him.

Whether it is an ice cream store,a movie____,or a summer camp,you can ask if they hire____for the summer. After your kid gets a job,pay attention to the____to make sure he is never late.

1.A. school　　 B. study　　 C. bed　　 D. work

2.A. around　　 B. until　　 C. after　　 D. during

3.A. night　　 B. noon　　 C. morning　　 D. afternoon

4.A. watch　　 B. appreciate　　 C. notice　　 D. stand

5.A. lasted　　 B. rested　　 C. started　　 D. developed

6.A. hired　　 B. forced　　 C. persuaded　　 D. made

7.A. give　　 B. attend　　 C. observe　　 D. help

8.A. designed　　 B. ruining　　 C. enjoying　　 D. joining

9.A. looking into　　 B. looking out of　　 C. looking down upon　　 D. looking forward to

10.A. recognize　　 B. conduct　　 C. save　　 D. take

11.A. roughly　　 B. luckily　　 C. actually　　 D. suddenly

12.A. job　　 B. problem　　 C. goal　　 D. reward

13.A. slowly　　 B. seriously　　 C. calmly　　 D. quickly

14.A. teachers　　 B. colleagues　　 C. students　　 D. friends

15.A. hard　　 B. fast　　 C. early　　 D. directly

16.A. clear　　 B. excited　　 C. busy　　 D. disappointed

17.A. write down　　 B. think about　　 C. wait for　　 D. search for

18.A. theatre　　 B. square　　 C. park　　 D. factory

19.A. experts　　 B. foreigners　　 C. teenagers　　 D. villagers

20.A. habit　　 B. schedule　　 C. tradition　　 D. determination

高一英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析