The squirrel, Bella, had a rough start to lif...

The squirrel, Bella, had a rough start to life. At the age of four weeks old, an owl (猫头鹰) had _________and badly wounded her.

Bella stood no _________ of surviving her wounds in the wild. _________ , Ruby Harrison took her home. Ruby not only gave Bella a home, but a　 _______　 with three other adopted squirrels. They grew strong, but Ruby didn't domesticate (驯养) any of the squirrels. "They are part of the _______ rather than a pet," she said.

It was time to say goodbye in April 2009. Ruby saw them _________ into the trees and never expected to see them often. Then, initially, the other three came back for a ___________once and stopped coming by, but Bella was _________ . She seemed to have a strong _________ with the Harrisons that kept her visiting almost daily.

In the past ten years since her release, it's not just Ruby herself who gets Bella's __________. "Bella sits right at the front door to look in for someone's __________." Ruby described, "My husband rushes out of the door to be ________and happily runs back inside to the big bowl of nuts for her.”

More amazingly, this spring came with a(n) __________. Bella came round again with her ________family, with her three babies__________someone to notice.

1.A.approached B.attacked C.followed D.advanced

2.A.risk B.test C.chance D.use

3.A.Suddenly B.Clearly C.Strangely D.Luckily

4.A.family B.series C.hospital D.location

5.A.park B.wild C.yard D.earth

6.A.look B.break C.escape D.disappear

7.A.treat B.pity C.praise D.rest

8.A.normal B.traditional C.different D.extraordinary

9.A.taste B.connection C.touch D.smell

10.A.sight B.reach C.company D.observation

11.A.attention B.permission C.respect D.interest

12.A.found B.greeted C.passed D.lifted

13.A.surprise B.event C.group D.story

14.A.amusing B.invited C.interesting D.extended

15.A.afraid of B.forcing C.waiting for D.applying for

高三英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

At the age of 14, Father had to leave school and start working. There would be no one to support the family _______ he not worked.

A. did　　　　　　　　　　 B. has　　　　　　　　　　 C. had　　　　　　　　　 D. was

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At the age of 14, Father had to leave school and start working. There would be no one to support the family _______ he not worked.

A.did B.has C.had D.was

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Sally had anxiety disorder trouble that made her fail to speak in social situations. I’m a nurse and use Bella to help children in my community, to bring them comfort and confidence the way only a dog can. I thought back to the day when I’d first brought Bella to the school.

That morning in January, her teacher led us to a room. “Sally hasn’t spoken outside her home in two years,” she told me. “Her parents have taken her to doctors, but nothing has worked.” A little girl stood shyly just inside the doorway. Her eyes brightened when she noticed my dog.

“This is Bella.” I said. “She does tricks. Would you like to see?”

Sally nodded. I motioned with my hand. Bella lay down and then rolled over. Sally’s eyes lit up. I showed Sally the hand signals for various commands. She was a natural with Bella, maybe because she couldn’t rely on the spoken word herself. Bella sensed that and responded. Soon Sally was able to put Bella through her paces all on her own. I could see her standing taller, more sure of herself each time we met.

One morning in March when she was working with Bella, I heard a tiny voice, barely a whisper, “Good dog.” Sally didn't take her eyes off Bella, but I wanted to jump for joy. Sally spoke a little more each week, only to Bella at first, but then to me. Later, she started giving voice commands with her hand signals and her confidence rose.

Now, five-year-old Sally stood nervously in front of her kindergarten class, with Bella, my trained dog, sitting calmly by her side. All the eyes of her classmates were focused on Sally. They were waiting for her to speak. It was June—only one week of school left—but they had never heard her voice. Not once.

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“This has gone as well as I could have dreamed, and I can fly in the near future!” Yes, Alyssa Carson, a now-18-year-old astronaut from Baton Rouge, Louisiana is capable. For her, riding the most aggressive roller coaster in the park is not a big deal. If all goes according to her plans, NASA will send her to Mars in 2033, making her the first human to step foot on the planet. She will spend two to three years living there, growing food, performing science experiments and searching for signs of life. “The Martian is actually very accurate,” she said. “A lot of things that happened in the movie are similar to what is going to happen.” She has devoted her entire life to preparing for her journey.

Her love for space started when she watched a cartoon called The Backyardigans at the age of 3. Five animal pals on imaginary adventures in their backyard, including one part-a mission to Mars. “I thought ‘This red planet is so cool!’” she said. “I started watching videos of rovers’ landing on Mars. I had a large map of Mars in my room which I would look at every day. I started getting telescopes so I could look at space.

At 7, her father took her to space camp in Huntsville, Alabama. “That was the weekend of my life.” she said. I got to learn everything I had been wanting to know and I got to see a life-size rocket.” She cherished the rocket so much that she returned 18 times. At 12, she became the first person in history to attend all three NASA space camps in Huntsville, Alabama; Quebec, Canada and Izmir, Turkey.

At first she mastered the basics of space and how humans have explored it throughout time. As she got older she simulated (模拟) missions, trying to reach a destination in gravity-free, weightless zones.

When she was 9, she met NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus. The experienced explorer told her she was her age when she decided to go to space. At that moment Alyssa knew her love of space was not a hobby. “I did the same thing as other kids, like switching my mind about careers, wanting to be a teacher or the president one day,” she said. “But the way I always thought about it was I would become an astronaut, go to Mars, come back, and then be a teacher or the president.”

1.Which of the following about Alyssa Carson is right?

A.She has created model missions to Mars.

B.She is the youngest one who has completed astronaut training.

C.She is likely to be the first human to perform different tasks on Mars.

D.She has visited the space camp in Huntsville,Alabama for nearly 30 times.

2.What’s supposed to be stressed by referring to NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus?

A.The power of space dreams.

B.The popularity of space travel.

C.The importance of career choices

D.The excitement of her space experiences.

3.What can’t be inferred from the article?

A.The Backyardigans is a cartoon for kids.

B.Alyssa will have many tasks to complete if she lands on Mars successfully.

C.Alyssa was forced to learn the basics of space science by her father.

D.Alyssa enjoys riding roller coasters like many other young people.

4.What does the author intend to do in writing the passage?

A.To introduce American space industry.

B.To promote the values of American teens.

C.To encourage tours to Mars.

D.To present a rising American space star.

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Chances are you have heard about the “marshmallow test.” Put a marshmallow in front of a child and give them two choices: eat it now or wait 15 minutes and get two. According to a classic study, children able to delay gratification (满足) and wait for the second marshmallow have better academic, social and health outcomes years later. Since these early experiments, researchers have shown that a wide range of childhood traits from social and emotional skills to motivation and self-control can predict better life outcomes.

Now a new study has found another link between behavior in childhood and success later in life. Published in the medical journal JAMA Psychiatry, my colleagues and I report that children who were rated as “inattentive” by kindergarten teachers had lower earnings at ages 33 to 35, and those

rated as prosocial--such as being kind, helpful and considerate--earned more.

This study shows that inattention may be among the most powerful early behavioral predictors of future earnings. It also demonstrates that it is possible to identify children at risk of lower future earnings based on a single teacher assessment made in kindergarten, which has important practical implications. If these children can be identified, then it may be possible to intervene--for example, by flagging them for further assessment or by providing support or prevention programs--and thus improve their life chances.

The classic marshmallow study failed to account for intelligence and family background, which are known to influence future life success. Recent efforts to replicate that experiment using a larger and more diverse sample found that the effect was roughly half of that seen in the classic study. When the researchers controlled for the children’s IQ and family background, the effect virtually disappeared.

In another influential study, published in 2011, children aged three to 11 with good self-control were reported to have more wealth, better health and fewer criminal conviction in early adulthood. But the paper failed to consider the role of antisocial traits, such as aggression and opposition. When these were adjusted for in a replication study, the effects were considerably weakened. One problem with self-control studies such as these is that they lump many traits--such as attention, delayed gratification and conscientiousness--together to create a single composite self-control score, often combining traits assessed across multiple years. This approach makes it hard to identify the “active ingredients” that are linked with the outcome of interest, a crucial step if you plan to develop targeted intervention programs designed to improve life outcomes by promoting “good” traits and reducing “bad” ones.

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Sorry to say,our brains naturally start slowing down at the Cruelty young age of 30.It used to be thought that this couldn’t be helped,but new studies show that people of any age can train their brains to work faster.“Your brain is a learning machine,”saying University of California scientist Dr. Michael Merzenich.Given the right tools,we can train our brains to act like they did when we were younger.All that’s required is the practice designed just for the purpose:a few exercises for the mind.

Merzenich has developed a computer-based training method to speed up the process(过程) in which the brain deals with information (positscience.com).Since much of the data we receive comes through speech,the Brain Fitness Program works with language and hearing to better speed and accuracy(准确性).

Over the course of training,the program starts asking you to distinguish(辨别) sounds (between“dog”and“bog”,for example) at an increasingly faster speed.It’s a bit like tennis instructor,says Merzenich,hitting balls at you—faster and faster to keep you challenged(受到挑战).You may start out slow,but before long you’re pretty quick.

The biggest finding in brain research in the last ten years is that the brain at any age is highly plastic.If you ask your brain to learn,it will learn.And it may even speed up while in the process.

To keep your brain young and plastic you can do one of a million new activities that challenge and excite you:playing table tennis or bridge,doing crossword puzzles,learning a language...“When it comes to preventing ageing,you really do ‘use it or lose it’,”says Barbara Sahakian,professor at Cambridge University.

1.Dr.Merzenich’s training method mainly depends on ______.

A.speech training

B.computer languages

C.the activities one joins in

D.the information being dealt with

2.By saying “the brain at any age is highly plastic”,the writer probably means the brain can be ______.

A.used                                  B.mastered

C.developed                             D.researched

3.What can we learn from the text?

A.Practice makes a quick mind.

B.Brain research started ten years ago.

C.Dr. Merzenich is a scientist in computer.

D.People believed nothing could stop the brain slowing down.

4.Which of the following agrees with the writer’s idea?

A.The training methods work better for the old.

B.People should use the brain to stop it from ageing.

C.The training of the brain should start at an early age.

D.It’s necessary to take part in as many activities as possible.

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At the age of five, Shizuka Arakawa started to take skating lessons. Her motivation was ________:wearing pretty outfits! Very quickly, she  a passion for skating, and she decided to ________ all her free time to training. At the age of eight, she was already ________  to perform a triple salchow (三周跳). The young girl from  ________  won five national championships, three times as a junior and twice as a senior.

In 1998 in Nagano, Shizuka Arakawa ________  for the first time in the Olympic Games, at the tender age of 16. Japan had high ________  for her.  ________  the Emperor and Empress of Japan came to see her performance. She finished thirteenth in the  ________  rankings. Four years ________ , she was not present at the Salt Lake City Games. The skater finished second in the Japanese national championships and was not ________in the Japanese Olympic team. In ________ of this, Shizuka Arakawa was successful in ________championships, such as the Four Continents and NHK(日本广播协会)Trophy. In 2004 in Dortmund, she became women’s world ________skating champion.

In 2006, after a year-long period in which she almost ________  her career, Shizuka Arakawa took ________  in the Turin Olympic Games. A new coach and a new programme had ________ a new, invigorated(充满活力的)Shizuka. The short programme was a real challenge ________  the Japanese skater. She performed a noteworthy sequence to Chopin’s “Fantasie Impromptu”, finishing third. On 23 February, 2006, she performed a perfect long programme. ________  by Puccini’s “Fantasy for Violin”, she performed splendidly and she obtained a  ________ of 191.34, which won her the top step of the winner’s podium(领奖台) in Turin.

1.A. complex      B. bright                 C. simple              D. stupid

2.A. developed   B. became               C. interested    D. realized

3.A. occupy        B. spend                 C. refer        D. devote

4.A. ready                    B. able           C. willing      D. used

5.A. China                    B. Japan                   C. America          D. Russia

6.A. attended             B. prepared C. entered         D. participated

7.A. hopes        B. ambition     C. chances           D. help

8.A. Ever             B. Already              C. Even            D. Still

9.A. middle                  B. final                     C. general           D. beginning

10.A. after                    B. before                 C. ago                 D. later

11.A. contained          B.win        C. held                 D. included

12.A. spite                   B. charge                C. honor               D. possession

13.A. others                 B. another              C. other               D. else

14.A. character           B. figure    C. creature       D. portrait

15.A. ruined              B. ended             C. left             D. fired

16.A. part                    B. pride                  C. control          D. turns

17.A. resulted              B. caused              C. accessed        D. produced

18.A. at                         B. towards               C. for                 D. upon

19.A. Danced     B. Accompanied C. Followed            D. Played

20.A. score                  B. level             C. point               D. top

高三英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Some kids start to drink alcohol （酒精） at a young age． They think it is part of becoming an adult．They also think drinking is not that bad because so many people do it．They feel it is not as bad as taking drugs （毒品）． It is easy for kids to get liquor（酒精饮料）by using fake identification （伪造证件）．

Parents may start to notice a change in their child’s behavior if the child starts drinking． Kids who drink sometimes stop doing things they normally liked to do．They may keep telephone calls and meetings a secret and not want anybody to touch their things．They act moody（喜怒无常） and do not have the same eating and sleeping habits．

Parents need to stay involved （牵涉） in their kids’ lives． They should talk to their children about their problems to be aware of any changes．

Parents can be the best protection． Children who get a lot of love can feel good about themselves． It helps them resist（抵抗） doing bad things even when other kids are doing them． Parents can also help set a good example by not drinking and driving． They can have firm rules in the home that everyone follows．

Give the children good ideas on how to say “no” to drinking, even when they are at a party． Try not to overreact or panic （惊慌） if the child tries alcohol． How you handle it can affect their attitude． It may be helpful to talk to other parents about setting up curfews （宵禁令） and rules about parties or other events．

1.Which of the following is NOT the reason why some kids have an early start of drinking?

A．They want to show their maturity （成熟） by drinking alcohol．

B．Drinking alcohol is much cooler than taking drugs．

C．They are affected by many other people around them．

D．They can get liquor easily．

2.According to the passage, what changes may happen to the kids who start drinking?

A．Nothing serious will happen to them．

B．They keep the same eating and sleeping habits．

C．They can control their moods quite well．

D．Sometimes they act secretly．

3.According to the writer, if parents find their children try alcohol, they had better ________．

A．punish them at once

B．ask the police for help

C．ask their children’s friends for help

D．set up curfews and rules about parties or other events with other parents

4.Which is the main subject discussed in the passage?

A．Teen health．                        B． Teen education．

C．Teen drinking                        D． Parents’ worries．

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

To the mom I used to be:

Two years ago, you were happy and whole. You had a plan for life — start a new business, get involved in the Parent-teacher Association, teach your sons how to ride bicycles, spend as much time with your friends and parents as possible, watch your children mature and grow old with your husband. You were a “glass half full” person who often felt so much joy. You always looked forward, smiled and danced.

Two years ago, on December 14, 2012, the world changed and you changed with it. Disturbed young men with access to high-powered guns went to your sons’ school and killed six educators and twenty first-graders. Your eldest son Jake survived, but was changed by the day he discovered some monsters are real. He describes it as the day “when evils came to my school.” Your youngest son, Dylan, whom you thought of as a pure love, with his charming eyes and infectious giggle(微笑)，was killed. Shot multiple times, he died instantly in the arms of his special-education assistant who also died while trying to protect him.

The tragedy changed all your life, not only because of losing your child, but because of the hole inside you that can never be filled. Your eldest son has been forced to grow up too fast because of the loss of his brother. The pain has altered the lines on your husband’s face. The way you look at the world has changed. Your interactions with friends and family seem foreign.

… …

But the things have moved on with hopefulness. You are now someone far more realistic. You control your feelings because you fear if you really let it out, you would never recover. It would destroy you. You know what you should do is try everything to protect more children. You’re fighting a good fight, what the whole society really needs.

With love,

Nicole Hockley, Dylan’s mom

1.Saying a "glass half full" person, the author means she ________.

A. was once an optimistic mom

B. was always a very busy mom

C. was living a life to the fullest

D. got drunk with half a glass of beer

2.The letter tends to indicate that Dylan ________.

A. might have some mental disability

B. has become childish since his teacher died

C. should have been protected from being killed

D. was then studying in the same class as his brother

3.Which can best describe Dylan's mom's attitude towards life today?

A. Negative.        B. Positive.        C. Hopeless.        D. Depressed.

4.The author writes the letter mainly to ________.

A. tell herself not to forget the bitterly painful past

B. praise the educators' brave deeds in time of danger

C. tell the readers how the shooting has changed her family

D. describe the bad effects of school violence on students

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析