I stood up from the bench. Then I ______ my a...

I stood up from the bench. Then I ______ my army uniform, while studying the crowd of people _______their way through Grand Central Station. I was looking for the girl whose heart I knew but whose ______ I didn’t, the girl with the rose.

My interest in her had begun thirteen months ______ in a Florida library. Taking a book off the _____, I found myself intrigued（着迷的）, not with the words of the book, _____ with the notes penciled in the margin (页边空白). The soft ______ reflected a thoughtful soul and a insightful mind. In the front of the ______, I discovered the previous owner’s______, Miss May Nell.

With time and ______ I discovered her address. She lived in New York City. I ______ her a letter introducing myself and inviting her to correspond（通信）. The next day I was ______ overseas for ______ in World War II. During the next year and one month we two _______ to know each other ______ the mail. Each letter was a _______falling on a fertile（肥沃的）heart. Then, I______ a photograph, but she refused. She said that if I really ______, it wouldn’t ______ what she looked like.

When the day finally came for me to return from Europe, we arranged for our first meeting—7:00 pm at the Grand Central Station in New York. “ You will ______ me,” she wrote, “by the red rose I’ll be wearing in my lapel(翻领).” So at 7:00 I was in the station looking for the girl whose heart I loved, but whose looks I’d never seen.

1.A. appreciated　　 B. put on　　 C. cleaned　　 D. straightened

2.A. making　　 B. taking　　 C. losing　　 D. finding

3.A. mouth　　 B. face　　 C. legs　　 D. hands[

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

5.A. bench　　 B. chair　　 C. desk　　 D. shelf

6.A. however　　 B. so　　 C. but　　 D. therefore

7.A. cover　　 B. notebook　　 C. handwriting　　 D. pencil[

8.A. book　　 B. notes　　 C. library　　 D. station

9.A. friend　　 B. name　　 C. sister　　 D. neighbor

10.A. money　　 B. effort　　 C. excitement　　 D. enjoyment

11.A. got　　 B. received　　 C. read　　 D. wrote

12.A. shipped　　 B. brought　　 C. killed　　 D. wounded

13.A. pleasure　　 B. travel　　 C. service　　 D. further education

14.A. had　　 B. grew　　 C. were　　 D. wanted

15.A. in　　 B. with　　 C. across　　 D. through

16.A. plant　　 B. seed　　 C. fire　　 D. greeting

17.A. asked　　 B. sent　　 C. took　　 D. requested

18.A. helped　　 B. cared　　 C. refused　　 D. hated[

19.A. matter　　 B. occur　　 C. last　　 D. continue

20.A. know　　 B. understand　　 C. see　　 D. recognize

高二英语完形填空困难题查看答案及解析

I watch from the wooden bench in my backyard as the water from the pipe quietly flows out onto the tomato plants. I watch the plants and rest easy, knowing the pipe is taking care of the plants. The drops soon seem to become rivers on the ground.

I see these red-brown ants, crawling(爬行) along around their home. What will happen when the water reaches the ants? Smelling the danger, these poor tiny creatures all run away from the water and rush back to their home. They spend their whole lives working together to create and make better things, but now they are facing the end of it all. I think this is just a reflection of the world. I keep watching as the water first attacks and then surrounds two ants. They struggle to stay floating as the water closes in on them, getting deeper and deeper. I try to get these two to come on my finger, but they refuse to let me save them. The water soon flows over them, as I remain helpless. Only then do they decide to climb onto my dirt-covered finger. Not until facing the moment of death would they trust one like me.

I check to see if they are alive, and both can move fine. Then I go to save other ants. However, the water washes everything away. How much I wish I could turn off this machine of death, but I cannot. I must complete my job.

It knocks me how much these little lives mean to me. When I was a small child, I would make a sport of killing them. Now, I can't hurt an insect, always thinking about what it would be like to be so small.

1.What is the ants' first reaction as the water approaches them?

A. They attempt to stop it.

B. They seek help at once.

C. They ignore it and continue to work.

D. They try to avoid the danger caused by it.

2.What can we infer from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2?

A. Behind bad luck comes good luck.

B. Where there is a will, there is a way.

C. God helps those who help themselves.

D. Life is likely to be affected by setbacks.

3.How does the author help save the two ants?

A. He turns off the water pipe. B. He helps them float on the water.

C. He lets them climb onto his finger. D. He changes the direction of the water.

4.What's the author's attitude towards those ants now?

A. Sympathetic. B. Indifferent.

C. Favorable. D. Cruel.

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My House

My mother moved a lot when she was growing up on account of Grandpa being in the army. She hated having to adjust to new schools and make new friends. That’s why I thought she was joking when she put forward the idea of moving. But she was completely serious. “For just the two of us,” my mother said, “an apartment in the city will suit our needs much better.” Personally, I think she’s lost her mind. I guess I can understand why she would want to move, but what about me and what this house means to me?

I suppose if you looked at my house, you might think it was just another country house. But to me it is anything but standard. I moved into this house with my parents ten years ago. I can still remember that first day like it was yesterday. The first thing I noticed was the big front yard. To me it seemed like an ocean of grass—I couldn’t wait to dive in. The backyard was full of gnarled (扭曲的, 粗糙的) and scary trees that talk on windy nights. But I grew to like them and the shadows they cast in my room. My father and I even built a small tree house, where I often go to remember all the wonderful times we had before Father’s death.

This house is special—maybe only to me—but special nevertheless. It’s the little seemingly insignificant things that make this house so special to me: the ice-cold tile floors that make me tremble on midnight snack runs; the smell of my father’s pipe that still exists; the towering bookcases of my mother; the view outside my bedroom window.

This house holds too many memories, memories which would be lost if we gave it up.

1.Why did the author’s mother decide to move?

A. Because she hated the countryside.

B. Because Grandpa was on constant move.

C. Because Dad’s death made her lose her mind.

D. Because she thought a city flat more fit for them.

2.What impressed the author when she first moved into the house?

A. The tree house.  B. The big trees.    C. The cold floors.        D. The green grass.

3.How did the author let us feel that the house was special to her?

A. By arguing whether the house was standard.

B. By explaining why the house suited their needs.

C. By describing the small things related to her house.

D. By comparing the differences between country and city life.

4. My mother moved a lot when she was growing up because of   ________.

A. Grandpa being in the army.  B.their family’s liking moving

C. the life’s need             D. Mother’s work

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

I must have been about fourteen then, and I put away the incident from my mind with the easy carelessness of youth. But the words, Carl Walter spoke that day, came back to me years later, and ever since have been of great value to me.

Carl Walter was my piano teacher. During one of my lessons he asked how much practicing I was doing. I said three or four hours a day.

“Do you practice in long stretches, an hour at a time?”

“I try to.”

“Well, don’t, ” he said loudly. “When you grow up, time won’t come in long stretches. Practice in minutes, whenever you can find them five or ten before school, after lunch, between household tasks. Spread the practice through the day, and piano-playing will become a part of your life.”

When I was teaching at Columbia, I wanted to write, but class periods, theme-reading, and committee meetings filled my days and evenings. For two years I got practically nothing down on paper, and my excuse was that I had no time. Then I remembered what Carl Walter had said. During the next week I conducted an experiment. Whenever I had five minutes unoccupied, I sat down and wrote a hundred words or so. To my astonishment, at the end of the week I had a rather large manuscript(手稿) ready for revision. Later on I wrote novels by the same piecemeal （零碎的）method. Though my teaching schedule had become heavier than ever, in every day there were moments which could be caught and put to use.

There is an important trick in this time-using principle: you must get into your work quickly. If you have but five minutes for writing, you can’t afford to waste it in chewing your pencil. You must make your mental preparations beforehand, and concentrate on your task almost instantly when the time comes. Fortunately, rapid concentration is easier than most of us realize.

I admit I have never learnt how to let go easily at the end of the five or ten minutes. But life can be counted on to supply interruptions. Carl Walter has had a significant influence on my life. To him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I throw myself into it without delay.

1.The meaning of “stretch” in the underlined part is the same as that in the sentence “_______”

A. The dog woke up, had a good stretch and wandered off.

B. Bob worked as a government official for a stretch of over twenty years.

C. My family wasn’t wealthy by any stretch of the imagination.

D. This material has a lot of stretch in it.

2.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The author didn’t take the teacher’s words to heart at first.

B. Rapid concentration is more difficult than people imagine.

C. The author thanked his teacher for teaching him to work in long stretches.

D. Carl Walter has influenced the writer greatly since he was a student.

3.We can infer that the author______.

A. had new books published each year however busy his teaching is

B. is tired of interruptions in life because he always has much work

C. has formed a bad habit of chewing a pencil while writing his novels

D. makes mental preparations beforehand so as to focus on work quickly

4.What is probably the best title for this text?

A. Concentrate on Your Work            B. A Little at a Time

C. How I Became a Writer                            D. Good Advice

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

I must have been about fourteen then, and I put away the incident from my mind with the easy carelessness of youth. But the words, Carl Walter spoke that day, came back to me years later, and ever since have been of great value to me.

Carl Walter was my piano teacher. During one of my lessons he asked how much practicing I was doing. I said three or four hours a day.

"Do you practice in long stretches（一段时间）, an hour at a time?"

"I try to.”

"Well, don't,” he exclaimed. “When you grow up, time won't come in long stretches. Practice in minutes, whenever you can find them five or ten before school, after lunch, between household tasks. Spread the practice through the day, and piano-playing will become a part of your life."

When I was teaching at Columbia, I wanted to write, but class periods, theme-reading, and committee meetings filled my days and evenings. For two years I got practically nothing down on paper, and my excuse was that I had no time. Then I remembered what Carl Walter had said. During the next week I conducted an experiment. Whenever I had five minutes unoccupied, I sat down and wrote a hundred words or so. To my astonishment, at the end of the week I had a rather large manuscript（手稿）ready for revision, later on I wrote novels by the same piecemeal（零碎的） method. Though my teaching schedule had become heavier than ever, in every day there were idle moments which could be caught and put to use. I even took up piano--playing again, finding that the small intervals of the day provided sufficient time for both writing and piano practice.

There is an important trick in this time--using formula: you must get into your work quickly. If you have but five minutes for writing, you can't afford to waste it in chewing your pencil. You must make your mental preparations beforehand, and concentrate on your task almost instantly when the time comes. Fortunately, rapid concentration is easier than most of us realize.

I admit I have never learnt how to let go easily at the end of the five or ten minutes. But life can be counted on to supply interruptions. Carl Walter has had a tremendous influence on my life. To him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I plunge in without delay.

1. What is the best title of this passage?

A. Concentrate on Your Work                           B. A Little at a Time

C. How I Became a Writer                                        D. Good Advice

2. Which of the following statements is true?

A. The writer owes great thanks to his teacher for teaching him to work in long stretches.

B. Carl Walter has had a great influence on the writer’s life since he became a student.

C. The writer didn't take the teacher's words to heart at first.

D. Rapid concentration is actually more difficult than most people imagine.

3. The underlined part "counted on" can he replaced by____.

A. enriched                B. concentrated              C. valued                   D. expected

4. We can infer that the writer           .

A. has new books published each year however busy his teaching is

B. is always tired of interruptions in life because his teaching schedule is always heavy

C. has formed a bad habit of chewing a pencil while writing his novels

D. makes mental preparations beforehand, so he’s devoted to work instantly

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

One day my math teacher asked me to help him save back-up copies of his work in the computer. I then realized I was able to 36 the grades for all of his classes. I showed him how to copy files from one disk to another and he 37 me.

A few days later be asked me to help him again, because he 38 how to do it. When I began to show this to him, some students in my class 39 and began to talk among themselves 40 . Later that day, at lunch time, I was 41 by several of them.

“Hey, could you help us change our grades in math? We’ll 42 you…”

I could not believe what I was hearing．I could get some reward for something very 43 ．" All right．I'll do it．" The next day my math teacher 44 me to help him out．When he was not paying attention, I began to change their grades from F's to A's．

I soon became very 45  among my friends．They began to treat me like a god with a magical 46 ．I began to change the grades of students．Word47  quickly and I became very rich．

Everything was going fine48  I was called into the headmaster's office．When I got there, my teacher was mad, and the headmaster had an angry49  in his eyes．"I have known you for three years now．I don't want to 50 what your teacher said, but I'm afraid that I must．He has too much51 , " he said．" Do you have anything to say 52  yourself?" he asked．

"No．" I said finally．I did not realize how serious my actions had been．I had violated the  53 of my teacher, and the headmaster．And there was no way 54 ．I was forced to leave my school．

That was a good 55 for me．

1.A．access           B．submit         C．change         D．mark

2.A．congratulated                      B．admired        C．thanked    D．accepted

3.A．doubted          B．remembered     C．reminded       D．forgot

4.A．recognised                         B．noticed        C．complained D．identified

5.A．tentatively      B．quietly        C．sincerely      D．angrily

6.A．appointed                          B．approved       C．approached D．appreciated

7.A．pay              B．praise         C．donate         D．inspire

8.A．familiar                           B．simple         C．interesting    D．pleasant

9.A．forced           B．advised        C．encouraged     D．got

10.A．optimistic                        B．popular        C．sensitive  D．grateful

11.A．energy          B．strength       C．right          D．power

12.A．escaped                           B．slipped        C．spread     D．enlarged

13.A．until           B．since          C．as             D．after

14.A．sight                             B．look           C．light      D．feeling

15.A．believe         B．ignore         C．oppose         D．influence

16.A．experience                        B．pressure       C．confidence D．evidence

17.A．to              B．by             C．for            D．of

18.A．intention                         B．honor          C．promise    D．trust

19.A．away            B．off            C．back           D．down

20.A．lesson    B．skill    C．story    D．example

高二英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

My family and I lived across the street from Southway Park since I was four years old. Then just last year the city put a chain link fence around the park and started bulldozing(用推土机推平)the trees and grass to make way for a new apartment complex. When I saw the fence and bulldozers, I asked myself，“Why don't they just leave it alone？”

Looking back, I think what sentenced the park to oblivion(被遗忘)was the drought(旱灾)we had about four years ago. Up until then, Southway Park was a nice green park with plenty of trees and a public swimming pool. My friends and I rollerskated on the sidewalks, climbed the trees, and swam in the pool all the years I was growing up. The park was almost like my own yard. Then the summer I was fifteen the drought came and things changed.

There had been almost no rain at all that year. The city stopped watering the park grass. Within a few weeks I found myself living across the street from a huge brown desert. Leaves fell off the park trees, and pretty soon the trees started dying, too. Next, the park swimming pool was closed. The city cut down on the work force that kept the park, and pretty soon it just got too ugly and dirty to enjoy anymore.

As the drought lasted into the fall, the park got worse every month. The rubbish piled up or blew across the brown grass. Soon the only people in the park were beggars and other people down on their luck. People said drugs were being sold or traded there now. The park had gotten scary, and my mother told us kids not to go there anymore.

The drought finally ended and things seemed to get back to normal, that is, everything but the park. It had gotten into such bad shape that the city just let it stay that way. Then about six months ago I heard that the city was going to“redevelop”certain worn­out areas of the city. It turned out that the city had planned to get rid of the park, sell the land and let someone build rows of apartment buildings on it.

The chain­link fencing and the bulldozers did their work. Now we live across the street from six rows of apartment buildings. Each of them is three units high and stretches a block in each direction. The neighborhood has changed without the park. The streets I used to play in are jammed with cars now. Things will never be the same again. Sometimes_I_wonder,_though,_what_changes_another_drought_would_make_in_the_way_things_are_today.

1.How did the writer feel when he saw the fence and bulldozers?

2.Why was the writer told not to go to the park by his mother?

3.According to the writer, what eventually brought about the disappearance of the park?

4.The last sentence of the passage implies that if another drought came，________.

高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

Penicillin was then produced ________ in order to meet the demands of the armies.

A．in large amounts                        B． in large plenty

C．in large quantities                       D． in large number

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

How I wish I _____ the army then. I would have become a soldier.

A. attended　　　　　　 B. had attended　　　　 C. would have attended　　　　 D. have attended

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

“Wake up. Alicia is waiting for you outside,” my mother called from the kitchen. My mother didn’t like me going for this weekend to my friend’s house in the mountains. “I trust you, but I don’t trust the people out there,” she said seriously. “I’m going to be fine,” were my last words before closing the door of the Jeep. The vehicle went along the dusty road and my mother grew smaller in the distance.

The trip over the rough road was uncomfortable. It was scary to climb the steep hills surrounded by great pines. After a long trip we finally arrived at the house. From the moment I got there I knew I would forever love the house. It was decorated like an old country home. My room was small, yet set up nicely. That night I went to sleep early, not because I didn’t want to continue my search, but because I was tired after the long trip.

In the morning, the singing of the birds woke me up. The light was just getting through the window. A strong smell of baking and fresh coffee came from the kitchen. I wandered around looking for a living soul, but the house was empty. I had the whole day to myself; my friend had gone hiking. I didn’t want to go with her. The main reason for this trip was to spend some time alone to think about the events happening in my life.

After an icy shower, my energies were at their fullest. With basket in hand, I started my hunt. I did not mind walking alone; it was a wonderful feeling to be in contact with nature for the first time. The sound of the water running through the rocks gave me great peace. I never felt such independence in my soul before.

1. According to the first paragraph, we can know that________.

A. the author took a cold attitude towards her mother

B. the author had an argument with her mother

C. the author preferred to live in the mountains

D. the author’s mother was worried about her safety

2.How did the author find the trip to her friend’s house?

A. Interesting and impressive.

B. Interesting and comfortable.

C. Easy and exciting.

D. Rough but very exciting.

3.The purpose of the trip for the author is to________.

A. enjoy the quiet and beautiful nature

B. continue her search for special things

C. give herself a chance to think alone

D. go hiking in the mountains with her friend

4.What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Her close friend.

B. The peaceful life.

C. A favorite trip.

D. The distant village.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析