My grandmother often said to me, “You can count the number of your true friends on the fingers of one hand.” For a long time I thought this was true. However, I’ve now discovered my grandmother was only half right. Maybe we do only make a few best friends in our lifetime, but those aren’t the only people that we can call friends. There are many different types. Let me tell you about a few of them.
One type of friends is the type I call the “football mom friend”. My neighbor Sally is a good example. We both have kids who play football in a football club, and someone has to take them to practice and pick them up. Sally and I and two other mothers take turns to do this. We meet sometimes and have tea and talk about what our kids are doing, but those are the only times that we meet each other. I enjoy being with these women, but we don’t do anything else together.
Another type is called the “hobby friend”. That’s the person you share an interest or a hobby with. Michael and Cater, who are brothers, are a good example of this type. We’re all in a bird watching club. Every few weekends the members of the club go on a trip to watch different kinds of birds. There’s nothing romantic about my relationship with Michael and Cater, of course. We just share interest in birds.
Then there’s the “other half of the couple” type of friends. Jim is married to Rose, a friend that I’ve known since college. When Rose married Jim, I realized that I would have to be Jim’s friend if I want to continue to be Rose’s. Jim and I don’t share so many interests, but we do have a friendly relationship.
1.What does the first paragraph tell us about?
A. We should make new friends.
B. We need true friends in our lifetime.
C. We must be friendly to all our friends.
D. We have rarely best friends in our lifetime.
2.Who is the writer’s true friend according to this passage?
A. Sally. B. Rose.
C. Jim. D. Michael.
3.What can we learn from the text?
A. The writer herself sometimes takes her kid to the football club.
B. Michael and Cater both fall in love with the writer.
C. Finally the writer agrees with her grandmother.
D. Sally and the writer are close friends.
4.From the last paragraph we learn that .
A. the writer made friends with Jim only because of Rose
B. Jim was the writer’s good friend at college
C. Rose didn’t want the writer to be a friend of her husband
D. the writer made friends with Rose because of Jim
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题
My grandmother often said to me, “You can count the number of your true friends on the fingers of one hand.” For a long time I thought this was true. However, I’ve now discovered my grandmother was only half right. Maybe we do only make a few best friends in our lifetime, but those aren’t the only people that we can call friends. There are many different types. Let me tell you about a few of them.
One type of friends is the type I call the “football mom friend”. My neighbor Sally is a good example. We both have kids who play football in a football club, and someone has to take them to practice and pick them up. Sally and I and two other mothers take turns to do this. We meet sometimes and have tea and talk about what our kids are doing, but those are the only times that we meet each other. I enjoy being with these women, but we don’t do anything else together.
Another type is called the “hobby friend”. That’s the person you share an interest or a hobby with. Michael and Cater, who are brothers, are a good example of this type. We’re all in a bird watching club. Every few weekends the members of the club go on a trip to watch different kinds of birds. There’s nothing romantic about my relationship with Michael and Cater, of course. We just share interest in birds.
Then there’s the “other half of the couple” type of friends. Jim is married to Rose, a friend that I’ve known since college. When Rose married Jim, I realized that I would have to be Jim’s friend if I want to continue to be Rose’s. Jim and I don’t share so many interests, but we do have a friendly relationship.
1.What does the first paragraph tell us about?
A. We should make new friends.
B. We need true friends in our lifetime.
C. We must be friendly to all our friends.
D. We have rarely best friends in our lifetime.
2.Who is the writer’s true friend according to this passage?
A. Sally. B. Rose.
C. Jim. D. Michael.
3.What can we learn from the text?
A. The writer herself sometimes takes her kid to the football club.
B. Michael and Cater both fall in love with the writer.
C. Finally the writer agrees with her grandmother.
D. Sally and the writer are close friends.
4.From the last paragraph we learn that .
A. the writer made friends with Jim only because of Rose
B. Jim was the writer’s good friend at college
C. Rose didn’t want the writer to be a friend of her husband
D. the writer made friends with Rose because of Jim
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
I often go to France to visit my grandmother who is very dear to me. She's now 76 years old, so every time I go to ______, the two of us are very aware that it might be the ______time we see each other for she has cancer.
Last time I visited her in December of 2012. I did a series of short video_____about her life. I asked her about her greatest memories and life learning so far, her _____books, food and stories. I learned a large quantity of amazing new things about her I _____ knew before.
This year, I did not really have _____, only a great urge for her to know how much she is loved. I cooked for her and read her stories.
Before leaving, I was_____a way to leave something ______behind besides the memory of our _____together. So I wrote her five different ______and gratitude notes to let her know how much she ______to me, and hid them in different places where I knew she would ______find them. One under her pillow. Another one _____from the lamp cover by which she reads in the evening. Another one by her toothbrush. One in her_____which she eagerly checks every day. And the last one on her car's steering wheel.
I left ______knowing that these cards would surely ______her up after I left. She called me as I was departing for Paris to catch my plane back to the US and said, “I ______your three cards! By the time I discovered the third card, I was laughing out loud!______, they did me so much good. Thank you so much!” I _____to myself, knowing she still has two more to go! It was Sunday, so my ______was that she had not checked her mailbox and had not yet driven her car!
1.A. visit B. inspect C. search D. expect
2.A. hard B. next C. first D. last
3.A. appointments B. speeches C. interviews D. discussions
4.A. valuable B. favorite C. rare D. cherished
5.A. even B. also C. still D. never
6.A. interests B. reasons C. questions D. topics
7.A. looking for B. dealing with C. making up D. picking out
8.A. normal B. special C. valuable D. healthy
9.A. sleep B. meal C. work D. time
10.A. love B. freedom C. wisdom D. encouragement
11.A. responds B. lies C. means D. owes
12.A. usually B. finally C. carelessly D. properly
13.A. showing B. hiding C. dropping D. hanging
14.A. mailbox B. bag C. office D. garden
15.A. peacefully B. sadly C. joyfully D. quickly
16.A. wake B. cheer C. pick D. take
17.A. searched B. witnessed C. harvested D. found
18.A. Obviously B. Luckily C. Firstly D. Personally
19.A. said B. added C. smiled D. turned
20.A. news B. guess C. idea D. plan
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
I can’t count the times I called my sister and said, “____2____” She would gasp and stammer(结结巴巴): “I can’t. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday. I had a late breakfast. It looks like rain.” And my personal favorite response: “It’s just Monday.” She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together. From then on, I’ve tried to be a little more flexible.
___3__The days get shorter, and the list of promise made to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we are awoken, and all having to show for our lives is repetition of “ I’m going to”, “ I plan on” and “someday, when things are settled down a bit.”
When anyone calls my “seize the moment” friend, she is open to adventure and available for trip. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious.___4___My lips have not touched ice cream for 10 years. I love ice cream. The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.
___5___Do something you want to….., not something on your SHOULD DO LIST.
A．Now go on and have a nice day.
B．Just possible, she may be the wisest woman on this planet.
C．Life has a way of going faster as we get older.
D．So I won’t feel sorry because I have changed my attitude to life.
E. How about going to lunch in half an hour?
F. She used to promise to do something instead of doing it right away.
G. You talk with her for a while and you’re ready to change your attitude to life.
高二英语信息匹配中等难度题查看答案及解析
Jack threw the papers on my desk. “Next time you want to change anything, ask me first,” he said. I had changed a long sentence and corrected its grammar — something I thought I was paid to do.
Several days later, he made me angry again. I went to his office, prepared to lose my job if need be, but not before I let the man know how I felt. “What?” he said nervously.
Suddenly I knew what I had to do. “Jack, the way you’ve been treating me is wrong. And it’s wrong for me to allow it to continue,” I said. “I want to make you a promise. I will be a friend.” The next day I brought some cakes to Jack’s office. Every time I saw Jack in the hall, I smiled at him. After all, that’s what friends do.
One year after our talk, I was told that I had breast cancer . When I was in hospital, my friends tried to find the right words to say, but no one could. The last day of my hospital stay, the door opened and Jack walked over to my bed. “Tulips (郁金香),” he placed some bulbs beside me and said, “If you plant them when you get home, you’ll be there to see them when they come up.” Tears filled my eyes.
In a moment when I prayed for just the right words, a man with few words said the right thing. After all, that’s what friends do. Now, I have seen those tulips push through the soil every spring for over ten years.
1.Why did Jack throw some papers on the author’s desk?
A. She gave him the wrong papers. B. He thought her report was very bad.
C. He wanted her to check them again. D. He didn’t agree with her correction.
2.What promise did the author make to Jack?
A. She would work harder from then on. B. She would treat him like a friend.
C. She would bring him some cakes. D. She would treat him the same way.
3.The tulip bulbs that Jack gave the author probably suggest ______.
A. love B. honor C. hope D. thanks
4.What did the author mean by saying “that’s what friends do”?
A. Friends must help each other to correct mistakes.
B. Friends should give advice to each other at the right time.
C. Friends should do anything for each other.
D. Friends should treat each other with respect and kindness.
高二英语长对话困难题查看答案及解析
Whenever I felt disappointed I often thought of what my mother had said to me，“Everything happens for the best. If you _______，one day something good will happen. And you'll realize that it wouldn't have happened if not for that previous _______．”As it _______, mother was right.
In 1932，I ended my college life. _______ that，I had decided to try for a job in radio，and then could work my way up to sports _______．I went to Chicago and knocked on the door of every _______,and was turned down every time. In one station，a _______ lady told me that big stations couldn't risk hiring a person who lacked _______．“Go to _______ town and find a little station that'll give you a chance，” she said. I then ________ to Dixon. While there was no radio- announcing jobs in Dixon，my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted an athlete to ________ its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football，I ________．The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn't ________．
My disappointment must have ________．“Everything happens for the best，” Mom ________me. Dad ________ me one car for me to job hunt. I________ WOC Radio in Davenport. The program ________，a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur，told me they had already
________ a contract with another announcer.
I often ________ what direction my life might have taken if I'd gotten the job at Montgomery Ward and if I didn't persist.
1.A. go on B. give up C. look up D. stay up
2.A. disappointments B. successes C. lives D. results
3.A. carried out B. looked out C. turned out D. figured out
4.A. Since B. Before C. After D. During
5.A. announcer B. athlete C. hostess D. performer
6.A. firm B. station C. store D. school
7.A. beautiful B. cruel C. strict D. kind
8.A. money B. knowledge C. appearance D. experience
9.A. bad B. small C. big D. good
10.A. walked B. saw C. turned D. added
11.A. run B. buy C. sell D. show
12.A. refused B. applied C. managed D. yelled
13.A. fired B. satisfied C. fitted D. employed
14.A. disappeared B. fallen C. shown D. responded
15.A. reminded B. asked C. advised D. recited
16.A. lent B. offered C. sold D. promised
17.A. visited B. passed C. tried D. poured
18.A. actor B. singer C. photographer D. director
19.A. designed B. knew C. signed D. resigned
20.A. doubted B. wondered C. intended D. expected
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
______, I lost heart in English learning, but my teacher often said to me, “Keep on working hard; you’ll succeed _______.”
A．At a time; in time B．At a time; on time
C．At one time; in time D．At one time; on time
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
完形填空
I’d like to tell you a story my grandmother told me when I was six or seven years old. We had to go to her home for Thanksgiving dinner and the _______ was rather a long one. I had filled the time with making a _______of all the things that I wanted for Christmas that year.
Later I showed the list to my grandmother. After she read it, she said, “That _______is a long list!” Then she told me this story:
“Once there was a little girl who came to live in an orphanage(孤儿院). As Christmas time _______ , all of the other children began _______the little girl about the beautiful Christmas tree that would appear in the huge downstairs _______ on Christmas morning. Each child would be given their one and only Christmas gift, a small, single _______ .”
“The headmaster of the orphanage was very _______ , so when he caught the little girl climbing down the stairs to look at the Christmas tree in the hall, he sharply _______ that the little girl would not _______ her Christmas orange because she had been to _______ as to disobey the rules. The little girl ran back to her room_______ and crying. The next morning as the other children were going down to breakfast, the little girl stayed in her bed. She couldn’t stand the _______ of seeing the others receive their gift when there would be _______ for her. Later, as the children came back, the little girl was _______5 to be handed a napkin(面巾纸). As she carefully _______ it, there to her disbelief was an orange all peeled and sectioned. “It was then that she imagined _______ each child had taken one section from their orange and given it to her so that she, too, would have a Christmas orange.”
How I _______ this story! I would ask my grandmother to tell it to me over and over as I _______. How I wish the world, as a whole world display that same kind of _______ for others, not just at Christmas, but throughout the year.
1.A. story B. drive C. moment D. holiday
2.A. choice B. order C. list D. joke
3.A. hardly B. usually C. specially D. really
4.A. moved B. approached C. linked D. took
5.A. telling B. informing C. warning D. sending
6.A. hall B. kitchen C. bedroom D. reading-room
7.A. apple B. star C. orange D. flower
8.A. serious B. caring C. humorous D. strict
9.A. required B. announced C. asked D. insisted
10.A. deliver B. make C. receive D. reach
11.A. curious B. outgoing C. frightened D. disappointed
12.A. delighted B. blank-minded C. seared D. broken-hearted
13.A. possession B. attraction C. thought D. effect
14.A. few B. none C. everything D. something
15.A. surprised B. happy C. willing D. pleased
16.A. touched B. felt C. smelt D. opened
17.A. whether B. when C. how D. what
18.A. wrote B. loved C. told D. understood
19.A. grew up B. dropped in C. turned up D. hung out
20.A. help B. thankfulness C. happiness D. concern
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
— ________ your brother said to you?
— He encouraged me to talk to foreigners more often.
| A．What it was that | B．What was it that |
| C．How it was that | D．How was it that |
高二英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析
When I spent the summer with my grandmother, she always set me down to the general store with a list. Behind the counter was a lady like no one I’d ever seen.
“Excuse me,” I said. She looked up and said, “I’m Miss Bee.”
“I need to get these.” I said, holding up my list. “So? Go get them. ” Miss Bee pointed to a sign. “There’s no one here except you and me and I’m not your servant, so get yourself a basket from that pile.”
I visited Miss Bee twice a week that summer. Sometimes she shortcharged me. Other times she overcharged. Going to the store was like going into battle. All summer long she found ways to trick me. No sooner had I learned how to pronounce “bicarbonate of soda” and memorized its location on the shelves than she made me hunt for it all over again. But by summer’s end the shopping trip that had once taken me an hour was done in 15 minutes.
“All right, little girl,” she said. “What did you learn this summer?” “That you’re a meanie!” I replied. Miss Bee just laughed and said, “I know what you think of me. Well, I don’t care! My job is to teach every child I meet life lessons. When you get older you’ll be glad!” Glad I met Miss Bee? Ha! The idea was absurd…
Until one day my daughter came to me with homework troubles. “It’s too hard,” she said. “Could you finish my math problems for me?”
“If I do it for you, how will you ever learn to do it yourself?” I said. Suddenly, I was back at that general store where I had learned the hard way to add up my bill by myself. Had I ever been overcharged since?
1.What did the author’s grandmother always ask her to do during her summer vacation?
A. Make lists for her shopping.
B. Buy something in the general store.
C. Send lists to the lady in the general store.
D. Go to see the lady in a store.
2.What can we infer about Miss Bee?
A. She used to learn to pronounce the names of some goods in the store.
B. She neither shortcharged the author nor overcharged her.
C. Teaching kids lessons was Miss Bee’s job at that time.
D. Her tricks made the author finish shopping in a shorter time.
3.The author mentioned her daughter to __________.
A. show her satisfaction with her kid’s homework
B. inform readers of her irresponsibility for her kid
C. tell readers Miss Bee’s influence on her
D. express her opposition to Miss Bee
4.What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. An unforgettable summer travel
B. Being a responsible mother
C. Mean grandma giving a precious lesson
D. Making a meaningful life list
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
— Can you keep an eye on my bag, Tom? I just want to use the bathroom.
—____. It will be safe with me.
A．Go ahead B．I think so C．Not at all D．You’re welcome
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析