One reason for my ______ for living in the co...

One reason for my ______ for living in the countryside is that it has no air pollution or traffic jams.

A. preference　　 B. attitude　　 C. explanation　　 D. request

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Most British people prefer to live in a house rather than,a flat and one of the reasons for this is that houses usually have gardens.The garden is a place where people can be outside and yet private.

If a house has a front and back garden,the front is likely to be formal and decorative,with a lawn (an area of grass) or fancy paving and flower borders.The back garden usually also has a lawn and flower beds,and sometimes a vegetable land or fruit trees.There is often a bird table (a raised platform on which food is put for birds) and a shed in which garden tools are kept.

Many British people spend quite a lot of money on their gardens and even the smallest may contain many kinds of flowers and plants.For many British people gardening is a hobby and they take great pride in their gardens.Some towns and village have competitions for the best-kept small garden.People with a small garden,or no garden at all can rent a piece of land,on which most people grow vegetables.

There are garden centers near most towns,selling everything a gardener might need,from flowerpots to fish ponds as well as different plants.

The British's interest in gardening affects the appearance of whole towns.Public parks and traffic roundabouts often have bright displays of flowers in summer and public buildings have window boxes（窗口花坛）and hanging baskets.Towns and villages enter for the yearly Britain in Bloom competition.

At weekends many British people like to visit famous gardens,such as that at Stowe near Banbury,built in the 18th century.Every summer the National Gardens Scheme publishes a thin book listing private gardens belonging to enthusiastic gardeners which are open to the public on a particular day.Visitors like to look around and get ideas for their own gardens.

1.What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A. The British love gardening as a hobby.

B. The British spend too much money on touring.

C. Poor British people cannot afford gardening.

D. The British like showing off their gardens.

2.What can we know from Paragraph 5?

A. Gardening improves the appearance of British towns.

B. British parks are full of flowers all year round.

C. The British's interest in gardening is decreasing.

D. Britain in Bloom is a worldwide competition.

3.Why does the National Gardens Scheme offer information on private gardens?　　 .

A. Call on gardeners to compete with each other.

B. Point out the importance of private gardens.

C. Help other gardeners find inspiration.

D. Make the gardeners better-known.

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My parents are ________ to live in the countryside,where the air is clean and the vegetables are fresh．

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I often visit my parents, who live in the countryside whenever_______.

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听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1.What is one reason for children gaining weight in the summer?

A.Hot weather. B.Lack of sleep. C.Watching TV.

2.How many meals do a lot of children have every day in the summer?

A.One. B.Two. C.Three.

3.What do most children choose to do when they are left by themselves?

A.Go outside and play.

B.Read books at home.

C.Play computer games.

4.What does the speaker suggest parents do?

A.Prepare good food for their children.

B.Spend more time with their children.

C.Pay attention to their own habits.

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听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1.What is one reason for children gaining weight in the summer?

A. Hot weather.　　 B. Lack of sleep.　　 C. Watching TV.

2.How many meals do a lot of children have every day in the summer?

A. One.　　 B. Two.　　 C. Three.

3.What do most children choose to do when they are left by themselves?

A. Go outside and play.　　 B. Read books at home.　　 C. Play computer games.

4.What does the speaker suggest parents do?

A. Prepare good food for their children.

B. Spend more time with their children.

C. Pay attention to their own habits.

高二英语短文中等难度题查看答案及解析

Phillida Eves and her husband Tedd Hamilton weren’t unhappy living in the Galway countryside with their sons, Cian and Oisin, and their daughter, Soracha. “We had a lovely home , a car, lots of friends, and weekends sailing our boat”, says Phillida. “But there’s a line from a poem that goes: ‘Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?’ That says it all for me. We felt that there was more to life.”

So they quit their jobs, took their sons, then aged six and nine, out of school and went to southern Spain where they bought a 15-meter yacht (游艇) and headed up the coast to Barcelona. Soracah was not even three. And they brought along Poppy, the family dog. Now, two and a half years and 10,000 km later, they don’t intend to stop. Tedd is a yacht engineer and can find work in ports. But, says Phillida, a supply teacher(代课老师), “Any family could do this”.

The children are home-schooled using a correspondence course（函授课程）. My son had a recent project on the weather. The weather is vital to us. My son knows more than most adults about weather systems, compasses, maps and directions. The weather, for him, means life or death.

Other subjects have become equally vivid. “They’re living geography and history all the time. We’ve sailed round Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, and seen tiny islands we didn’t know. The kids learned about ancient Romans by visiting Rome. One summer off the Italian coast we sailed past a volcano at 2am. We woke the kids. There it was, under the moon, with fire coming out the top―you don’t get that in a textbook.”

But what about social development? Again, Phillida is sanguine. “The children have become much more socially confident since we set out. They play with tones of families of all nationalities on other boats we meet.”

Living for the moment, they believe, is a huge life lesson. “Our children never say they’re bored.” The other day they stopped mid-ocean and the kids swam, 110km from land. “That’s the kind of freedom we want for them,” says Phillida. “That’s the kind of freedom they’ve got.”

1.The couple quit their jobs and took their children traveling because 　　　　　　　 .

A. their children wanted to make friends of all nationalities.

B. they wanted to experience more in their lives.

C. their children wanted completed freedom.

D. they were unhappy with their lives.

2.The underlined word “sanguine” in Para graph 5 is closest in meaning to “　　　　　　　 ”.

A. patient　　　 B. curious　　　 C. excited　　　 D. optimistic

3.The author describes the children’s home schooling by 　　　　　　 .

A. using examples

B. making comparisons

C. following the order of importance

D. describing the changes in space order

4.What can we learn about the family from the text?

A. they plan to stop for a rest.

B. they have toured for more than 3 years

C. they believe any family can do the same thing as they can do

D. They have made several geographical and historical discovers

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My grandma is c 1.Zhu Jinping. She is sixty-one and she lives 2.my grandpa in a flat in the centre of Beijing. She loves children and animals, 3.(尤其是)cats, although she h　 4.their claws! Her 5.(特别喜爱的)thing to eat is yoghurt with honey. She doesn’t like food she has to chew too much ­­­­_6.her teeth aren’t strong! She never 7.TV except for the news. Grandma is very　 p8.with her neighbours, maybe because 9.is so helpful. For e 10., she often looks after children for people in her apartment block. Babies love sitting on her lap! She devotes a lot of her time to caring the neighbours.

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The latest data from the Office for National Statistics shows that one in every 12 kids is living in homes where no one has worked for at least a year. That may be due to unemployment or issues such as sickness or disability that mean they can’t work, and aren’t required to. This is known as being in a “long term workless” family.

The issues faced by children in workless families have very bad influence on their development and education, limiting their future employment prospects, and reducing their opportunities to succeed throughout their lives.

Not only does worklessness reduce family income, it can also damage families’ health and stability, and thus destroy children’s development. This is because many workless families are held back by disadvantages such as debt, drug and alcohol dependency, and by homelessness. Suffering from the family problems, many children face a greater and greater possibility of repeating the poor outcomes of their parents. Government research has shown that children in workless families are almost twice as likely not to reach the expected level at all stages of their education. For example, three-quarters of children from families where no one works failed to reach the expected level at General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), compared to around half of children in lower-income working families.

So attention should be paid to children in out-of-work homes. Having working parents means a child is more likely to do better at school, to have better health, education and development, and also means they are less likely to fall into crime.

But for some families, worklessness, or not employment, is the norm. They just choose not to work. These families often face huge barriers to getting on with their lives but they take the opportunities offered by the society. Parents’ ability to work is frustrated by issues like low skills or poor mental or physical health, or drug and alcohol dependency, leaving children without the stability they need.

We all want to help workless families with complex problems so that their children can take advantage of the opportunities in Britain. We all want parents to have the chance to go out to earn a living and to enjoy the pleasure of work, so that their children can benefit from the good examples of working parents. In doing so, we should know the need to understand the complex issues that some families face and to develop a new approach to deal with poverty. Because the root causes are not financial. It is about helping families overcome the problems they face so that they can go as far as their talents and hard work will take them. We shouldn’t retreat from acting to deal with disadvantages, because we know the costs of inaction to individuals, communities and society.

1.According to the author, children in workless families may _______.

A.have better performance at school

B.take chances to go out to earn a living

C.be more able to deal with their problems

D.live the same lifestyles that their parents had

2.The underlined word “norm” in the fifth paragraph probably means _______.

A.a huge barrier B.a turning point

C.a typical standard D.an unusual event

3.In the last paragraph the author mainly talked about _______.

A.raising of social welfare

B.solutions to the problems

C.development of the society

D.reforming of the government

4.The main purpose of the passage is to _______.

A.introduce a study on children in workless families

B.appeal to the readers to help children in workless families

C.present a new approach to deal with poverty of workless families

D.compare children’s performances in workless families and low-income ones

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My uncle isn't accustomed to ________ in the countryside.

A. live                B. lives                C. living                D. lived

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