—Mom, today I received a message telling me t...

—Mom, today I received a message telling me to send money to the account.

—Delete it. It’s a trick. Many a person ________ by such tricks.

A. have been cheated　　              B. were cheated

C. has been cheated　　                D. was cheated

高二英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析

—Look! Here is a message on my mobile phone, asking me to send money to....

—Don’t believe it! It’s a trick. More than one person _____ by such tricks so far.

A．had been cheated   B．was cheated       C．have been cheated  D．has been cheated

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Text messaging, or simply “texting”, which allows people to send and receive messages on mobile phones, becomes very popular today.

The advantages of texting are obvious. Texting helps to save money. If you have a few words to greet your families and friends on their birthdays or on some important festivals, sending messages can be cheaper than phone calling. Texting helps to save time. Even if you want to send a message to 100 people, you can do it one second. Texting helps you to “talk” to someone when he is too busy to answer the phone. Texting can also help you to “talk” to someone secretly if you don’t want others to hear what you are talking on the phone. These advantages are so amazing that many people are crazy about it. They hold mobile phones in hands all day long, send dozens of messages each day, and even text while driving or walking.

However, texting has its disadvantages. Junk（垃圾）messages may come into your mobile phone box now and then. When your phone box gets too full, you can’t receive any more messages. You may therefore miss some important information.

What’s more, if you don’t do texting properly, for example texting while driving or walking, it can be dangerous. It can cause injuries and even death. It is reported that about 6,000 people are killed and half a million were injured for this reason each year. In Fort Lee, a small town in New Jersey, USA, three people died because they walked into traffic while texting in 2011. Two researchers at Stony Brook University, New York found that texters are 60% more probably to have an accident than others. When people are texting, they don’t notice other people or things around them. To reduce traffic accidents, no drivers of the USA are now allowed to text while driving. About 32 countries have passed laws forbidding the use of mobile phones while driving.

Texting is a wonderful way of communication. However, only when we use it properly, can we fully enjoy the fun it brings.

1.How many advantages of texting are mentioned in the passage?

A. Three.　　　　　　　　　　 B. Four.　　　　　　　 C. Five.　　　　　　　　 D. Six.

2.When your phone box gets full because of junk messages, what will happen?

A. Your phone will break down.

B. Your phone can’t get through.

C. Your phone can’t get messages any more.

D. You lose contact with others.

3.What did the researchers at Stony Brook University find?

A. Texting can cause accidents more easily.

B. Texting while walking can cause death.

C. Calling while driving is easier to have accidents.

D. Many people were killed and injured.

4.According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

A. Drivers are allowed to text in the USA.

B. Text while walking is dangerous.

C. Junk texting cannot prevent you receiving messages.

D. The advantages of texting are not obvious.

5.This passage is written to tell us that _______.

A. we should do less texting

B. texting has many advantages

C. texting has many disadvantages

D. we should do texting properly

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

When I was young, my mother didn't have the money to send me to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with education. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself. But because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4：30 in the morning.

We need every one of you to develop your talents and your skills so that you can help us old folks solve our most difficult problems. If you quit(离开,放弃) on school-you' re not just quitting on yourself , you 're quitting on your country. No one's written your destiny(命运) for you ,because you write your own destiny. You make your own future. That's why today I 'm calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education and do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time reading a book.

But whatever you decide to do , I want you to commit to(使致力于) it. I want you to really work at it. I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work-that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star. No one's born being good at all things. You become good at things through hard work. You're not a good athlete the first time you play a new sport. You don't hit every note the first time you sing a song. You've got to practice.

1.What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A.The writer's home was very rich.

B.The writer was born in a poor family.

C.The writer didn't like reading books.

D.The writer's mother was a teacher.

2.Why does the writer call on everyone to set his/her own goal?

A.Because everyone's future is to do simple work.

B.Because everyone's future is determined by themselves.

C.Because everyone should do their homework.

D.Because everyone should pay attention in class.

3.How can people realize their great dream?

A.By rapping. B.By playing basketball.

C.By working hard. D.By being a reality star.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Dear Judy,

I’m glad to receive your email telling me your arrival time

and I’m really eto see you! I’m sorry that I will not     1____________

be able to meet you at the ________(机场) in person. I will be     2____________

________(参加) a biology exam at that time. Don’t be worried.  3 ____________

I will a for a taxi to pick you up and send you to my      4_____________

house, _________you can have a good rest before I come back. I      5_____________

guess you may feel t after such a long journey. In the    6____________

evening, I’ll show you ________ the city square and have a look   7____________

at one of the most beautiful ___________(塔) in the world. The    8____________

next day, we’ll _________ a visit to the newly-built museum, in    9____________

which you can see a fine c of art treasures on show.  10___________

Yours

Jorge

高二英语单词拼写困难题查看答案及解析

When I talked to some businessmen earlier today, one fellow asked me, “Would you give money to a homeless person, even when you know he’s going to use it to buy alcohol?” I replied, “If all I was giving was money, it’ll be one thing. But for me, whenever I do give money, that’s just the wrapping (包装纸) . The real gift is hidden inside—it’s love. And I haven’t ever found any reason to limit gifts of love.”

　　　 By the end of the night, I decided to get some pizza. In front of me in line was a homeless-looking man. He was counting the few dollars bills in his hand, over and over again, until it was his turn to order. Just then, he told the young woman behind the counter, “I’ll have the full cheese pizza.” “Full?” she asked. “It’s really big,” she added, although what she really meant to say was that it’d be too expensive for him. “Yeah, the full” “$18.65,” she submitted. The bills he was counting weren’t going to make it. I wasn’t intending to get the whole pizza for him. But thinking back to my conversation with the business man, I realized that money was really just the wrapping.

　　　 I made my move. “Can you charge that pizza with my order” I said to the cashier. “Really?” the homeless-looking man said. “Really?” the young woman behind the counter repeated. “Yes, really.” That confused man and I had a sweet silent moment. To his silent question of why I was doing it, I added, “Just pay it forward for someone else.” And he said, “Well, you know what? I was actually treating these five homeless guys out there.” He was actually paying it forward, in the first place. What an unexpected fortune to get a chance to be a part of a man’s act of kindness.

1.What can we learn about the author from the first paragraph?

A. He believes it’s not money but love that matters.

B. He is mean with his money.

C. He cares little about money.

D. He seldom gives money to the poor.

2.What made the author decide to help the man?

A. The request from the homeless-looking man.

B. His sympathy for the homeless-looking man.

C. His recalling the talk with the businessman earlier that day.

D. The urgency from the young woman behind the counter.

3.Why did the homeless-looking man want to buy the whole pizza?

A. Because he was too hungry.

B. Because he wanted to pay it forward.

C. Because he wanted to treat his own five children.

D. Because he wanted to help some homeless people.

4.What is the best title for the passage?

A. Paying it forward　　 B. Helping a homeless man

C. A talk with a businessman　　 D. Money was just the wrapping

高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

A new study from Harvard University revealed that the message parents mean to send to children about the value of sympathy(同情心） is being mistaken by the message they actually send. In fact they value achievement and happiness above all else.

The Making Caring Common Project at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education surveyed 10,000 middle and high school students about which is more important to them—achievement, happiness, or caring about others. Almost 80 percent of students placed achievement or happiness over caring about others. Only 20 percent of students considered caring about others as their top aim.

In the study “The Children We Mean to Raise: The Real Message Adults Are Sending about Values”, the authors refer to a reality gap, an incongruity (不一致) between what adults tell children they should value and the message we grown-ups actually send through our behavior.

Simply talking about sympathy is not enough. While 96 percent of parents say they want to raise caring children, and cite the development of moral character as “very important, if not essential”, 80 percent of the youths surveyed reported that their parents “are more concerned about achievement and happiness than caring about others”. Approximately the same percentage of the students reported that their teachers put their achievement over caring.

As the report shows, simply talking about sympathy is not enough. Children are sensitive creatures, fully capable of telling the true meanings in the blank spaces between well-organised words. If parents really want to let their kids know that they value care and sympathy, the authors suggest, they must make a real effort to help their children learn to care about other people—even when it’s hard, even when it does not make them happy, and yes, even when it is at odds with their personal success.

1.The first paragraph suggests that parents _____.

A. value achievement less

B. fail to make students realize the importance of sympathy

C. don’t intend to value success

D. regard achievement and happiness as the same

2.What can be concluded from the study?

A. 20% of the students are not ambitious.

B. Kids care more about achievement.

C. About 80% of the students are not caring.

D. A majority of the kids are kind students.

3.What may be the cause for the reality gap?

A. Children’s failure to understand parents’ well-organised words.

B. The generation gap between parents and children.

C. Children’s desire for getting individual achievement.

D. Parents’ lack of a real effort to guide children.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

___ a letter, he decided to send a telegram.

A. Not receiving                           B. Receiving not

C. Not having received     D. Having not received

高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

Though sending text messages or writing micro-blogs allows us to exchange thoughts, bits and pieces of online connection can’t ______ for a “real conversation”.

A．change           B．tolerate           C．substitute         D．contribute

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

I was waiting for a phone call from my agent. He had left a message the night before, telling me that my show was to be cancelled. I called him several times, but each time his secretary told me that he was in a meeting and that he would call me later. So I waited and waited, but there was still no call. Three hours passing by, I became more and more impatient. I was certain that my agent didn’t care about my work, and he didn’t care about me. I was overcome with that thought. I started to shout at the phone, “Let me wait, will you? Who do you think you are?”

At that time I didn’t realize my wife was looking on. Without showing her surprise, she rushed in, seized the phone, tore off the wires, and shouted at the phone, “Yeah! Who do you think you are? Bad telephone! Bad telephone!” And she swept it into the wastebasket.

I stood watching her, speechless. What on earth...?

She stepped to the doorway and shouted at the rest of the house, “Now hear this! All objects in this room---if you do anything to upset my husband, out you go!”

Then she turned to me, kissed me and said calmly, “Honey, you just have to learn how to take control.” With that, she left the room.

After watching a crazy woman rushing in and out, shouting at everything in sight , I noticed that something in my mood (情绪) had changed. I was laughing. How could I have trouble with that phone? Her anties helped me realize I had been driven crazy by small things. Twenty minutes later my agent did call. I was able to listen to him and talk to him calmly.

1.Why did the author shout at the telephone?

A. He was mad at the telephone.　　

B. He was angry with his agent.

C. He was anxious about his wife.　

D. He was impatient with the secretary.

2.What made the author laugh?

A. His own behavior.

B. His wife’s suggestion.

C. His changeable feelings.

D. His wife’s sweet kiss.

3.What does the underlined word “anties” in the last paragraph refer to?

A. Angry words　 　　　　　 B. Unusual actions

C. Surprising looks　 　 D. Anxious feelings

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析