Four cinemas in the UKThe Kinema, Lincolnshir...

Four cinemas in the UK

The Kinema, Lincolnshire

It’s a wooden building on the outside and a two-screen cinema on the inside, all nesting among pine trees in a tiny village. The Kinema showed its first film in 1922 and the first six rows were deckchairs(折叠帆布躺椅). Today, it's more richly decorated.

“People come here because it's a fantastic experience,” says manager Philip Jones. “Many rooms in the Kinema are simple and not attractive, but we try to remain everything that makes it special.”

The Cube, Bristol

It's not really a cinema. It is a not-for-profit cooperative run by volunteers, which has been operating for the last 15 years.

They are “unique for what we do, which is to operate seven nights a week and with no funding.” They make many things themselves, such as cola and yogurt.

The Broadway, Nottingham

A cinema has been here since the 1960s, when local fashion designer Paul Smith would come to see arty foreign films, which heavily influenced his career choice. Later, he designed the stripy(条纹的) sofas.

The Broadway was previously used as a church, but locals love it for its independent, art house, and DIY spirit. The Broadway also has a right-on restaurant, with locally sourced vegetables and salads, and even serves its own beer.

The Rex, Hertfordshire

It opened to the public in 1938 and has been named the most beautiful cinema in the UK. There's a varied program with different films every night. Hot dogs and popcorn are banned. And a real person answers the phone when you call.

People speak very highly of the Rex. So do go, if only once, to see just how a cinema should be run.

1.In Philip Jones' opinion, the Kinema may attract people who　　　 .

A. live in the nearby villages　　 B. are fond of rich decorations

C. are interested in wooden structures　　 D. want to experience something special

2.We know from the text that the Broadway　　　 .

A. was built in 1960　　 B. owns a restaurant

C. is next to a church　　 D. was designed by Paul Smith

3.The Cube and the Broadway are similar in the way that they both　　　 .

A. are non-profit cooperatives　　 B. show arty foreign films

C. offer homemade drinks　　 D. use stripy sofas

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

In my opinion, the most famous 　　　 to tourists in the city is the wooden tower.

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

The glass door have taken the place of the wooden ones at the entrance, _____ in the natural light during the day.

A．to let             B．letting            C．let               D．having let

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Many of the stories written by Mark Twain take place in Hannibal, Missouri. The small wooden house where he lived as a boy still stands there. Next to the house is a wooden fence. It is the kind described in Twain's book, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," published in1876.

In that story, Tom has been told to paint the fence. He does not want to do it. But he acts as if the job is great fun. He tricks other boys into believing this. His trick is so successful that they agree to pay him money to let them finish his work. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is considered one of the best books about an American boy's life in THE the1800s.

Tom Sawyer's good friend is Huckleberry, or "Huck," Finn. Mark Twain tells this boy's story in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Huck is a poor child, without a mother or home. His father drinks too much alcohol and beats him.

Huck's situation has freed him from the restrictions of society. He explores in the woods and goes fishing. He stays out all night and does not go to school. He smokes tobacco.

Huck runs away from home. He meets Jim, a black man who has escaped from slavery. They travel together on a raft made of wood down the Mississippi River. Huck describes the trip:  "It was lovely to live on the raft. Other places seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft... Sometimes we'd have that whole river to ourselves for the longest time... We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them---. “

1.From the second paragraph we learn Tom Sawyer is a ______ boy.

A. kind       B. smart     C. clumsy     D. honest

2.The reason why Huck runs away from home is that ______.

A. his family is poor              B. he wants to find a friend live with

C. there’s no warn in his home    D. he loves nature and likes to adventure

3. The underlined word “restrictions” can be replaced by _____.

A. limits    B. prohibition    C. forces    D. rules

4.Why did Huck feel comfortable living in a raft? Because _____.

A. Huck made the raft by himself     B. Huck could eat fresh food here

C. Huck could have the river there    D. Huck likes to be free

5.The stories of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” are probably _____.

A. completely imaginary               B. according Mark Twain’s experiences

C. Mark Twain’s autobiography(自传)   D. records from his last generation

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

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.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

It was a quiet morning during the war. In a small valley, there was a little wooden building, which was an orphanage (孤儿院) that__16__ many young children who had lost their ___17__ in the war. Suddenly, a shell (炮弹) __18__ on the top of the orphanage’s building. Many children were ___19__. One little girl was badly hurt and bleeding. A runner was at once sent to  __20__medical help.

When the doctor arrived, he_21_ that the girl’s greatest need at the moment was blood. He immediately checked the records in the__22__ to find someone who had the same blood type as the girl’s. A nurse soon __23__the children that had the same blood type together and asked who would be __24__ to donate blood to the girl. The children looked shocked, and no one said a word. Again with __25____ eyes, the doctor pleaded (恳求). __26__ a boy slowly raised his hand.

When the doctor injected the needle, the boy began to cry. The doctor tried to _27__ him, but in vain. Even when the needle was _28__ , the little boy was still crying. After the blood was given to the wounded girl, her___29__ got better. Then the doctor came to the boy, "Does it hurt?" "No, but I was afraid of dying." The doctor was __30_! "Why did you think you would die? "With __31_ in his eyes the boy replied, "Because I thought you would take all of my __32__ to save her! "The doctor didn’t know what to say! Then he asked, "__33_you thought you were going to die, why did you__34__to give her your blood?" With tears streaming down, he said in a___35__ voice, "Because she is my friend and I love her." There is no greater love in the world!

1.                A．stored         B．hid            C．gained   D．housed

2.                A．neighbors       B．friends         C．parents   D．teachers

3.                A．fell            B．appeared       C．jumped   D．flew

4.                A．ruined         B．wounded       C．harmed   D．lost

5.                A．operate on      B．take over       C．get around    D．ask for

6.                A．introduced      B．realized         C．predicted D．promised

7.                A．orphanage      B．hospital         C．school    D．store

8.                A．recognized      B．turned         C．gathered  D．assumed

9.                A．valuable        B．willing          C．regrettable    D．useful

10.               A．anxious        B．curious         C．delightful  D．surprising

11.               A．immediately     B．happily         C．finally D．probably

12.               A．stop           B．comfort        C．interrupt  D．support

13.               A．disappeared     B．Pulled          C．Removed  D．finished

14.               A．function        B．occasion        C．position   D．condition

15.               A．shocked        B．frightened      C．pleased   D．worried

16.               A．smiles          B．puzzle          C．hope D．tears

17.               A．energy         B．health          C．money    D．blood

18.               A．If             B．Since          C．Though    D．Unless

19.               A．expect         B．wish           C．agree D．permit

20.               A．soft           B．strange         C．tired  D．embarrassed

高二英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

In the kitchen of my mother's houses there has always been a wooden stand with a small notepad and a hole for a pencil.

I'm looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I am recommending to my mother. Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later, the current paper and pencil look the same as they always did. Surely it can't be the same pencil. The pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely the original one.

"I'm just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years." I say to her, walking back into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. "You still use a pencil. Can't you afford a pen?"

My mother replies a little sharply. "It works perfectly well; I've always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew when I might want to note down an idea, and I was always in the kitchen in these days. "

Immediately I can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. My mother smiles and says, "One day I was cooking and watching baby Pauline, and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. One of the children must have taken the paper. So I just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back. It turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem I was working on."

This story, which happened before I was born, reminds me how extraordinary my mother was, and is also a gifted mathematician. I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to work. Later, when my mother is in the bathroom, I go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. Sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks I recognize as mathematics. Those symbols have traveled unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadboard, invisible exhibits at every meal.

1.Why has the author's mother always kept the notepad and pencil in the kitchen?

2.What is the author's original opinion about the wooden stand?

3.The author feels embarrassed for____________.

4.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

Where are the speakers probably?

A.In the classroom. B.In the library. C.In the cinema.

高二英语短对话困难题查看答案及解析

单词拼写

(1)Judging from the long q__________ in front of the cinema’s ticket office, this movie is a great draw.

(2)“Under the weather” is an i__________ meaning “ill”.

(3)He has dreamed of being a general defending his __________(祖国) since he was a child.

(4)I was giving a(n) __________(讲课) to the first-year students when you called.

(5)The boy’s hands were __________(麻木的) after an hour outside on such a cold day.

(6)He sat in the __________(自助餐厅) for a long time, reading a magazine.

(7)At the end of the day, the __________(店主) counted his money.

(8)I was still in New York, trying to get a(n) __________(签证) for Russia.

(9)Jack has obtained a medical __________(资格).

(10)He has enough money so that he can live in __________(舒适).

高二英语单词拼写简单题查看答案及解析

Where does the conversation probably take place?

A.In a shop. B.At the airport. C.In a cinema.

高二英语短对话简单题查看答案及解析