Moments before I could lift my case to put it in the plane’s overhead locker ahead of our recent holiday to Europe, my father gently urged me to stop. He held the thick handles of the case and lifted it with his thin arms, pushing it into place with a sigh. “You should relax and be the lady, and let me do the heavy tasks,” he said seriously. “In the future, someone special will come into your life and take over such tasks from me, but that will never happen if you do everything yourself.”
I was stunned into silence. This was not the father I remembered from childhood, who trained me to study hard at school, asked me to earn my own pocket money as a teenager at a local coffee shop, and even taught me household chores so that my life alone in London wouldn’t turn into a mess. But then, eight years after I left home and started a new life in the UK, I realized for the first time that my dad still has expectations for me to be like a princess and to stay dependent and delicate, which were considered necessary qualities of women in traditional China.
Well, that came a little late, Little did Dad know that over the three years of my university life, I moved flats five times all by myself, dragging suitcases of books and clothes, and waiting for the taxi in the rain while holding tight onto cardboard boxes. Meanwhile, living in the UK – a country currently led by a female prime minister – I have never thought there is anything girls cannot do. Most of my female friends are professionals working in the City of London, and after work, we frequently go down to the pub for a drink, just like the guys do – something my mother never did.
I wondered how I might make Dad understand the new world his little girl has entered. Perhaps one day, he will realize the “someone special” in my life will appreciate my confidence and independence above dependence, and admit that times have changed.
1.What does the underlined word “stunned” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Annoyed. B. Embarrassed.
C. Surprised D. Excited.
2.What qualities of women did traditional China appreciate according to Paragraph 2?
A. Dependent and gentle. B. Hardworking and tough.
C. Beautiful and confident. D. Independent and ambitious.
3.What’s the author’s purpose by mentioning her stay in London?
A. To complain how strict her father was.
B. To describe how hard her life in the UK was.
C. To regret not working hard enough at school.
D. To show she was used to living independently.
4.What can we infer about the author according to the last paragraph?
A. She has a misunderstanding of her father.
B. She thinks women should be independent.
C. She longs to meet her life partner in the UK.
D. She is thankful for her father’s strict training.
高二英语阅读理解困难题
Moments before I could lift my case to put it in the plane’s overhead locker ahead of our recent holiday to Europe, my father gently urged me to stop. He held the thick handles of the case and lifted it with his thin arms, pushing it into place with a sigh. “You should relax and be the lady, and let me do the heavy tasks,” he said seriously. “In the future, someone special will come into your life and take over such tasks from me, but that will never happen if you do everything yourself.”
I was stunned into silence. This was not the father I remembered from childhood, who trained me to study hard at school, asked me to earn my own pocket money as a teenager at a local coffee shop, and even taught me household chores so that my life alone in London wouldn’t turn into a mess. But then, eight years after I left home and started a new life in the UK, I realized for the first time that my dad still has expectations for me to be like a princess and to stay dependent and delicate, which were considered necessary qualities of women in traditional China.
Well, that came a little late, Little did Dad know that over the three years of my university life, I moved flats five times all by myself, dragging suitcases of books and clothes, and waiting for the taxi in the rain while holding tight onto cardboard boxes. Meanwhile, living in the UK – a country currently led by a female prime minister – I have never thought there is anything girls cannot do. Most of my female friends are professionals working in the City of London, and after work, we frequently go down to the pub for a drink, just like the guys do – something my mother never did.
I wondered how I might make Dad understand the new world his little girl has entered. Perhaps one day, he will realize the “someone special” in my life will appreciate my confidence and independence above dependence, and admit that times have changed.
1.What does the underlined word “stunned” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Annoyed. B. Embarrassed.
C. Surprised D. Excited.
2.What qualities of women did traditional China appreciate according to Paragraph 2?
A. Dependent and gentle. B. Hardworking and tough.
C. Beautiful and confident. D. Independent and ambitious.
3.What’s the author’s purpose by mentioning her stay in London?
A. To complain how strict her father was.
B. To describe how hard her life in the UK was.
C. To regret not working hard enough at school.
D. To show she was used to living independently.
4.What can we infer about the author according to the last paragraph?
A. She has a misunderstanding of her father.
B. She thinks women should be independent.
C. She longs to meet her life partner in the UK.
D. She is thankful for her father’s strict training.
高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
I would always _______ my essay before I handed it in, in case it contained any obvious
spelling mistakes.
A. look up B. get through
C. look for D. glance through
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
I lifted my wet woollen gloves to my face and wiped the snowflakes from my eyes. I could not feel my nose and my ______ formed a thick fog in the air. The biting wind was making me ____ I was fed up! I didn’t want to be here. I wanted to go home. But Mum and Dad had ____ me to go for a Sunday afternoon walk in the park. I could see my ______ in the snowy path, like a trail of breadcrumbs(一串面包屑) in the forest showing me the way _______. I stopped and listened to my _______. I could ______ the wind crying like a homeless dog hungry for a delicious ______. The once-green tree _______， which used to wave gently in the breeze, had become bare, and the grass was covered with a ________ blanket of fresh snow. Then I saw a broken spider’s web shining golden beneath a pale sun. My breath was like silky soft _____ floating up into the freezing cold air.
Suddenly there was Mum，_______ handing me a big cup of hot chocolate. Her big smile immediately _______ my heart.
“Here you are, Jo. This will keep you _______，”she said as she placed a comforting arm around my shoulders and _______ her cheek against mine.
I slowly took a mouthful of the hot _______ and felt it slowly dripping down my throat like lava(熔岩) ______down a mountainside. My wet woollen gloves were now warm, not ____. My breath warmed, and I was _______fed up or cold. I was happy and ______.
1.A. sweat B. words C. tears D. breath
2.A. cold B. thirsty C. hungry D. tired
3.A. needed B. forbidden C. allowed D. forced
4.A. shadow B. image C. footprints D. shoes
5.A. up B. inside C. there D. home
6.A. whispers B. surrounding C. heartbeat D. mind
7.A. hear B. feel C. see D. smell
8.A. chocolate B. bone C. drink D. snowball
9.A. roots B. leaves C. trunks D. branches
10.A. white B. shabby C. plain D. colorful
11.A. ice B. smoke C. rain D. light
12.A. finally B. unwillingly C. gradually D. cheerfully
13.A. broke B. impressed C. melted D. stopped
14.A. calm B. alive C. awake D. warm
15.A. pressed B. felt C. dropped D. raised
16.A. soup B. meal C. liquid D. cup
17.A. jumping B. walking C. flowin D. squeezing
18.A. frozen B. abandoned C. damaged D. worn
19.A. either B. no longer C. no less D. sometimes
20.A. surprised B. warm-hearted C. determine D. contented
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspapers．“last week, ”said he, “my umbrella was stolen from a London church．As it was a present, I spent twice its worth in advertising, but didn't get it back．”
“How did you write your advertisement?” asked one of the listeners, a merchant．
“Here it is,” said the man, taking out of his pocket a slip cut from a newspaper．The other man took it and read, “Lost from the City Church last Sunday evening, a black silk umbrella．The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No．10 Broad Street．”
“Now, ”Said the merchant, “I often advertise, and find that it pays me well．But the way in which an advertisement is expressed is of extreme importance．Let us try for your umbrella again, and if it </PGN0332.TXT/PGN>fails, I'll buy you a new one．”
The merchant then took a slip of paper out of his pocket and wrote：“If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening doesn't wish to get into trouble, he will return the umbrella to No．10 Broad Street．He is well known．”
This appeared in the paper, and on the following morning, the man was astonished when he opened the front door．In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colors that had been thrown, and his own was among them．Many of them had notes fastened to them saying that they had been taken by mistake, and begging the loser not to say anything about the matter．
1. The man once thought advertising was ________．
A. of little use
B. of some use
C. practical
D. valuable
2.Why did the merchant say “I often advertise and find that it pays me well”?
A. He knew how to advertise．
B. He had more money for advertising．
C. He found it easy to advertise
D. He had a friend in the newspaper where he advertised.
3.Who had probably taken the umbrella?
A. The merchant.
B. The man himself.
C. Someone we don’t know.
D. The merchant’s friend.
4.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. a useless advertisement
B. how to make an effective advertisement
C. how the man lost and found his umbrella
D. what the merchant did for the umbrella owner
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspaper."Last week," he said,"my umbrella was stolen from a London church. As it was a present, I spent twice its worth in advertising, but didn't get it back."
"How did you write your advertisement?" asked one of the listeners, a merchant.
"Here it is," said the man, taking out of his pocket a slip cut from a newspaper. The other man took it and read,"Lost from the City Church last Sunday evening, a black silk umbrella.. The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No. 10 Broad Street."
"Now," said the merchant,"I often advertise, and find that it pays me well. But the way in which an advertisement is expressed of extreme importance. Let us try for your umbrella again, and if it fails, I'll buy you a new one."
The merchant then took a slip of paper out of his pocket and wrote: "If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening doesn't wish to get into trouble, he will return the umbrella to No.10 Broad Street. He is well known."
This appeared in the newspaper, and on the following morning, the man was astonished when he opened the front door. In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colors, and his own was among them. Many of them had notes fastened to them saying that they had been taken by mistake, and begging the loser not to say anything about the matter.
1.The result of the first advertisement was that _____.
A. The man got his umbrella back
B. The man wasted some money advertising
C. Nobody found the missing umbrella.
D. The umbrella was found somewhere near the church.
2.The merchant suggested that the man should ________.
A. buy a new umbrella
B. go on looking for his umbrella
C. write another and better advertisement
D. report the police
3."If it fails, I'll buy you a new one," suggested that the merchant ________.
A. was quite sure of success
B. wanted to buy him a new umbrella
C. didn't know what to do
D. was rich enough to buy one
4.The story is mainly about _________.
A. a useless advertisement
B. how to make an effective advertisement
C. how the man lost and found his umbrella
D. what the merchant did for the umbrella owner
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
A(n) ________ to the present project should be put in place in case the present one doesn’t work.
A. barrier B. approach
C. alternative D. access
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
The 13:30 train to Shanghai has been put off __________ the heavy storm.
A. due to B. in case of
C. aside from D. except for
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
The 13:30 train to Shanghai has been put off __________ the heavy storm.
A. due to B. in case of C. aside from D. except for
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
In the clinic, I asked if Michael could be retested, so the specialist tested him again. To my
1, it was the same score.
Later that evening, I 2told Frank what I had learned that day. After talking it over, we agreed that we knew our 3much better than an IQ test. We 4that Michael’s score must have been a 5and we should treat him 6as usual.
We moved to Indiana in 1962, and Michael studied at Concordia High School in the same year. He got 7grades in the school, especially 8biology and chemistry, which was a great comfort.
Michael 9Indiana University in 1965 as a premedical student. Soon afterwards, his teacher permitted him to take more courses than 10. In 1968, he was accepted by the School of medicine, Yale University.
On graduation day in 1972, Frank and I 11the ceremony at Yale. After the ceremony, we told Michael about the 12IQ score he got when he was six. Since that day, Michael sometimes would look at us and say 13. “My dear mom and dad never told me that I couldn’t be a doctor, not until after I graduated from medical school! ” It is his special way of thanking us for the 14we had in him.
Interestingly, Michael then 15another IQ test. We went to the same clinic where he had 16the test eighteen years before. This time Michael scored 126, an increase of 36 points. A result like that was supposed to be 17.
Children often do as 18as what adults, particularly parents and teachers, 19
of them. That is, tell a child he is “20”, and he may play the role of a foolish child.
1.A. joy B. surprise C. dislike D. disappointment
2.A. tearfully B. fearfully C. cheerfully D. hopefully
3.A. student B. son C. friend D. doctor
4.A. argued B. realized C. decided D. understood
5.A. joke B. mistake C. warning D. wonder
6.A. specially B. strictly C. naturally D. carefully
7.A. poor B. good C. average D. standard
8.A. in B. about C. of D. for
9.A. visited B. chose C. passed D. entered
10.A. allowed B. described C. required D. offered
11.A. missed B. held C. delayed D. attended
12.A. high B. same C. low D. different
13.A. curiously B. eagerly C. calmly D. jokingly
14.A. faith B. interest C. pride D. delight
15.A. looked for B. asked for C. waited for D. prepared for
16.A. received B. accepted C. organized D. discussed
17.A. imperfect B. impossible C. uncertain D. unsatisfactory
18.A. honestly B. much C. well D. bravely
19.A. hear B. learn C. expect D. speak
20.A. wise B. rude C. shy D. stupid
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
The weather that day may not be as good as expected, in ________ case we will have to put off the event.
A. what B. that C. this D. which
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析