When Joy Warren’s husband of 50 years passed away, her confidence took a knock. Meeting new people and joining in again socially was a frightening thought. Fortunately, just doors away were friendly neighbours Janet and Michael Porter, who knocked on her door and invited her to join them at a local friendship group event.
And it all started from there, explained Joy, 75, “I’ve never been the type to sit still, so despite the fact that I was still sad for Graham, I knew I had to get out and socialise again, but it was difficult to know where to start. That knock on the door was the encouragement I needed.”
From that first neighbourly invitation, Janet and Michael have been there for Joy, inviting her along to take part in regular Oddfellows social events.
She continued, “They made sure I was never alone for too long, and if I didn’t fancy coming with them, there was never any pressure, just a gentle reminder that they were always there. I joined them at all sorts of group meetings and events, from visiting the local dogs’ home to having a catch up at the monthly coffee morning. I signed up to the Oddfellows as a result of the wonderful new friends I made there.”
Joy also found that after losing her husband, she was alone in making decisions about her home and finances, often struggling with what needed to be done.
She added, “Graham used to take care of all that, so it’s been tough for me to figure out what the right thing to do is sometimes. The Oddfellows was a huge help with this as they have a Citizen’s Advice Line for members, which has got me through some complicated times.”
1.How did Joy Warren feel when Graham left her?
A.She was too sad to see anyone.
B.She couldn’t wait to meet new friends.
C.She had no idea how to mix with others.
D.She felt it easy to handle daily affairs by herself.
2.What did Joy Warren do after the first invitation of Janet and Michael Porter?
A.Paying visits to the local nursing home.
B.Making decisions about what needed to be done.
C.Having a get-together at the weekly coffee morning.
D.Participating in Oddfellows activities on a regular basis.
3.How did Joy Warren deal with some complex problems?
A.She worked them out on her own.
B.She relied on her children for advice.
C.She ignored them and escaped from reality.
D.She sought help from Oddfellows’ Citizen’s Advice Line.
4.What is the best title of the passage?
A.Oddfellows, Colorful Social Events
B.Hanging Out With Friendly Neighbors
C.A Neighborly Knock To Cure Loneliness
D.A Friendly Invitation From Lovely Neighbors
高二英语阅读选择中等难度题
When Joy Warren’s husband of 50 years passed away, her confidence took a knock. Meeting new people and joining in again socially was a frightening thought. Fortunately, just doors away were friendly neighbours Janet and Michael Porter, who knocked on her door and invited her to join them at a local friendship group event.
And it all started from there, explained Joy, 75, “I’ve never been the type to sit still, so despite the fact that I was still sad for Graham, I knew I had to get out and socialise again, but it was difficult to know where to start. That knock on the door was the encouragement I needed.”
From that first neighbourly invitation, Janet and Michael have been there for Joy, inviting her along to take part in regular Oddfellows social events.
She continued, “They made sure I was never alone for too long, and if I didn’t fancy coming with them, there was never any pressure, just a gentle reminder that they were always there. I joined them at all sorts of group meetings and events, from visiting the local dogs’ home to having a catch up at the monthly coffee morning. I signed up to the Oddfellows as a result of the wonderful new friends I made there.”
Joy also found that after losing her husband, she was alone in making decisions about her home and finances, often struggling with what needed to be done.
She added, “Graham used to take care of all that, so it’s been tough for me to figure out what the right thing to do is sometimes. The Oddfellows was a huge help with this as they have a Citizen’s Advice Line for members, which has got me through some complicated times.”
1.How did Joy Warren feel when Graham left her?
A.She was too sad to see anyone.
B.She couldn’t wait to meet new friends.
C.She had no idea how to mix with others.
D.She felt it easy to handle daily affairs by herself.
2.What did Joy Warren do after the first invitation of Janet and Michael Porter?
A.Paying visits to the local nursing home.
B.Making decisions about what needed to be done.
C.Having a get-together at the weekly coffee morning.
D.Participating in Oddfellows activities on a regular basis.
3.How did Joy Warren deal with some complex problems?
A.She worked them out on her own.
B.She relied on her children for advice.
C.She ignored them and escaped from reality.
D.She sought help from Oddfellows’ Citizen’s Advice Line.
4.What is the best title of the passage?
A.Oddfellows, Colorful Social Events
B.Hanging Out With Friendly Neighbors
C.A Neighborly Knock To Cure Loneliness
D.A Friendly Invitation From Lovely Neighbors
高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
Mr. Liang worked in a factory. As a driver, he was busy but he was paid much. His wife was an able woman and did all the housework. When he came back, she took good care of him and he never did anything at home. So he had enough time when he had a holiday. A few friends of his liked gambling （赌博） and he learned it soon. So he was interested in it and forgot anything except gambling. He lost all his money and later he began to sell the television, watches and so on. His wife told him not to do it but he didn’t listen to her. She had to tell the police. He and his friends were punished for it. After he came out of lockup （拘留所）, he hated her very much and the woman had to leave him.
It was New Year’s Day. Mr. Liang didn’t go to work. He felt lonely and wanted to gamble again. He called his friends and they came soon. But they were afraid the police would come. He told his five-year-old son to go to find out if there were the policemen outside. They waited for a long time and thought the police would not come and began to gamble. Suddenly opened the door and in came a few policemen.
“I saw there weren’t any policemen outside, Daddy,” said the boy, “so I went to the crossing and asked some to come.”
1.Mr. Liang was paid much because ________.
A.he worked in a factory B.he was a driver
C.he had a lot of work to do D.he had worked there for a long time
2.Mrs. Liang did all the housework because ________.
A.she couldn’t find any work
B.she wouldn’t stop her husband gambling
C.her husband spent all the time in gambling
D.she thought her husband was tired
3.The woman had to leave Mr. Liang because ________.
A.he wouldn’t stop gambling B.he didn’t love her any longer
C.he had been put into lockup D.he was hardly sent away by the factory
4.Which of the following is true?
A.The boy thought his father needed some policemen.
B.The boy wished his father to be put into lockup again.
C.The boy wished his father to stop gambling soon.
D.The boy wished his mother to come back.
高二英语阅读选择简单题查看答案及解析
My mother used to ask me what is the most important part of the body. Through the years I would guess at what I thought was the correct answer.
When I was younger, I thought sound was very important to us as humans, so I said, “My ears, Mommy.” She said, “No. Many people are deaf. But you keep thinking about it and I will ask you again soon.”
Several years passed before she asked me again. Since making my first attempt, I had contemplated (仔细考虑) the correct answer. So this time I told her, “Mommy, sight is very important to everybody, so it must be our eyes.” She looked at me and told me, “You are learning fast, but the answer is not correct because there are many people who are blind.”
Over the years, Mother asked me a couple more times and always her answer was, “No, but you are getting smarter every year, my child.”
Then last year, my Grandpa died. Everybody was hurt. Everybody was crying. My Mom looked at me when it was our turn to say our final good-bye to Grandpa. She asked me, “Do you know the most important body part yet, my dear?”
I was shocked when she asked me this now. I always thought this was a game between her and me. She saw the confusion on my face and told me, “This question is very important. It shows that you have really lived your life.” I saw her eyes well up with tears. She said, “My dear, the most important body part is your shoulder.”
I asked, “Is it because it holds up your head?”
She replied, “No, it is because it can hold the head of a friend or loved one when they cry. Everybody needs a shoulder to cry on sometimes in life, my dear. I only hope that you have enough love and friends that you will have a shoulder to cry on when you need it.”
Then and there I knew the most important body part is not a selfish one. It is sympathetic to the pain of others.
1.Why did the writer first think “ears” were the most important part of body?
A.Because he thought that the sound was sweet to hear.
B.Because he thought that the sound was essential to humans.
C.Because he thought that the sound can be heard by people.
D.Because he thought that the sound can pass through quickly.
2.What happened to the writer’s family last year in the passage?
A.His house was burnt.
B.His mother left home.
C.His grandpa passed away.
D.His father was hurt in an accident.
3.Where did the writer get the correct answer from his mother?
A.At home. B.At the school.
C.At the station. D.At the funeral.
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A.We should learn to understand others’ pain.
B.We should listen to our mothers’ words.
C.We should hold up our head high.
D.We should often cry in life.
高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
My husband and I had tried for many years to have children, but it just never happened. So we applied to be foster parents(养父母). We decided we should start with an older child for a number of reasons. Since we both worked, child care might be a problem. Our dog Corby might be a bit too energetic for a young child.1.We sat back and prepared to wait for the few months they thought it might take to get a school-age child to pass——which was why we were at a loss when the agency called us within weeks, just before Christmas, and asked if we would take Kaleb, a two-and-a-half-year-old boy, for a few months.
This wasn't what we had discussed a few weeks before.2.It was such short notice. We had made holiday plans and most of all, the boy was toddler(初学走路的孩子)! We went back and forth, and in the end, we just couldn't say no.
The day was set for Kaleb to arrive. We went outside to greet our little guest. But before we could even reach the child, I heard a noise from behind me.3.I gasped(因惊异吸气). Corby would frighten Kaleb——probably even knock him down.
Corby reached Kaleb before either of us could grab her. She hounded up to the boy and immediately began licking his face with joy.4.. His face light up with excitement, he cried, "Can this be my dog?
Kaleb came to stay those few months.5.Yes, we’adopted Kaleb. He became our son, and Corby…well, she couldn’t have been happier. She turned out to be Kaleb’s dog, after all.
A.Privately, I was full of doubts.
B.There were so many difficulties,
C.Eight and a half years later, he is still with us.
D.Turning, I saw Corby heading straight for the little boy.
E.In our hurry, we must not have closed the door completely.
F.And honestly,we were a little nervous about taking on a baby.
G.In response, this little boy threw his arms around the dog’s neck and turned toward us.
高二英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析
Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had “seven fathers,” because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated(躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.
In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university’s Writers’ Workshop, however, she felt lonely----a Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her “Creative voice.”
“It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn’t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That’s when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn’t write about.”
Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book tells about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school through graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children’s book, and a short-story collection.
1.Which of the following is TRUE about Cisneros in her childhood?
A.She had seven brothers. B.She felt herself a nobody.
C.She was too shy to go to school. D.She did not have any good teachers.
2.The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to _____.
A.work for a school magazine B.run away from her family
C.make a lot of friends D.develop her writing style
3.According to Cisneros, what played the decisive role in her success?
A.Her early years in college. B.Her training in the Workshop.
C.Her feeling of being different. D.Her childhood experience.
4.What do we learn about The House on Mango Street?
A.It is quite popular among students.
B.It is the only book ever written by Cisneros.
C.It wasn’t success as it was written in Spanish.
D.It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine.
高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析
She _____ her husband after years of unhappiness and married again soon.
A. divorced B. divorced from
C. divorced with D. was divorced
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Jeri Solomon is a morning person but Jim, her husband of 11 years, is not. Early in their life, it caused a problem. “When we were planning our wedding, I wanted to have these big discussions at 8 a. m.，when I had been up for two hours and was fresh, but Jim would just be getting out of bed,” says the 46-year-old designer from Melrose, Mass. “We ended up getting into many arguments because I thought he had no interest, when really he was just still half-asleep.”
The couple learned to work around their differences over the years, but their situation isn’t uncommon, says Katherine Sharkey, professor at BrownUniversity. “More women tend to be larks, while men are like night owls(猫头鹰),” she says.
The question is：Why? The answer lies in each person’s body clock. “The body clock is about 24 hours, thanks to Earth’s 24-hour light-dark cycle,” Sharkey says. “But some people have a longer natural cycle, and some are shorter.” If yours is on the long side, you’re more likely to be a night owl. If it runs short, you’re probably an early riser. But your body clock can change over your lifetime. There’s a developmental piece-school-age children are generally early birds, while teenagers tend to be night owls, and then as they age, adults gradually turn back into morning people,” Sharkey says.
Besides the clear problems with being a night owl if you have fl day job, “night owls tend to be more low-spirited, and have a higher dependence on coffee,” Sharkey says. But the news isn’t all bad. A recent study in Belgium found that night owls can stay more focused as the day goes on, compared with early risers.
Morning people, however, also have advantages. “Larks generally sleep better, have more regular sleep, and have more flexible characters,” Sharkey says. They also tend to be happier and feel healthier than night owls, according to a recent study from the University of Toronto.
1.Jeri Solomon and her husband ______.
A．tried to change each other’s sleeping habits
B．often argued about small things
C．could not understand each other
D．got up at different times
2.The underlined word “larks” in Paragraph 2 refers to birds which ______.
A．are sleepy at noon
B．stay awake all night
C．search for food at night
D．are active in the morning
3.Compared with morning people, night owls ______.
A．work more flexibly
B．feel happy more easily
C．sleep more soundly at night
D．get more and more focused during the day
4.What is the purpose of the text?
A．To explain why we get up early or late.
B．To advise every one of us to get up early.
C．To tell us how to change our body clock.
D．To point out morning people’s advantages.
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
It was anniversary（周年纪念）and Ria was waiting for her husband Manoj to show up. After some years of marriage things changed between them. The once cute couple who couldn’t live without each other were now fighting over every little thing, but both didn’t like changes that came into their marriage.
Ria was waiting to see if Manoj remembered that it was their wedding anniversary. As the doorbell rang she ran toward the door and opened it with a bunch of flowers to greet him. Both started to celebrate. They wanted to make up for fights.
Suddenly the phone in the bedroom rang. Ria went to pick it up. On the call there was a man who said, “Hello, madam. I am calling from the police station. Is this Mr. Manoj Kumar’s number?”
She replied, “Yes, it is!”
“I am sorry, but there has been an accident and man died. We got this number from his wallet. Can you please come and identify the body?” the man replied. Ria was shocked!! “But my husband is with me here!!”, she replied. “Sorry, but the accident took place in the afternoon while he was getting off the bus.”
Ria was about to lose her consciousness（意识）. She had read stories about souls returning to meet their loved ones after their death before it leaves!! Her heart sank. In fear she ran towards the other room to look for her husband. But he was not there. She said to herself, “It’s true!! He left me forever. Oh God, I can die to have another chance to mend for every fight we had. I lost my chance forever.” She fell on the floor in pain.
Suddenly there was noise from the bathroom. The door opened and Manoj came out and said, “Darling, I forgot to tell you today my wallet was stolen.”
Life might not give you a second chance, so never waste any moment while you still have one. Value people and relations in life and have a wonderful life with no regrets. Live today and enjoy every moment of life because no one has promised tomorrow.
1.What can we learn from the passage about Ria and Manoj?
A. They couldn’t live without each other now.
B. They hoped there was a change in their marriage.
C. They didn’t remember their wedding anniversary.
D. They wanted to make up by celebrating their anniversary.
2.What can we infer from the text?
A. Manoj died of an accident. B. Monoj’s soul returned after death.
C. The thief died of an accident. D. The couple wanted to leave each other.
3.What does the underlined word “identify” in Paragraph 5 mean?
A. Recognize. B. Discover.
C. Examine. D. Bury.
4.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. Life Might Give You a Second Chance. B. Value People and Relations in Life.
C. Live Tomorrow and Enjoy Life. D. Everyone Has a Better Tomorrow.
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
She ____ her husband three years ago, and soon ____ a man with a lot of money.
A. divorced; married B. divorced, got married
C. was divorced, was married D. was divorced, married
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
Amid all the poverty and desperation in Los Angeles’s Skid Row (贫民区), one couple is determined to use their own experience with loss to foster (培养) a sense of hope.
In 2012, Mary Davis and her husband, Ari Kadin were _______ their first child when Davis miscarried (流产).They were extremely _______. But the couple, who were volunteering with adults in a Skid Row homeless shelter, refused to let their heartbreak _______ them.
“In 2013, our child would have been one year old,” says Davis.” And we kept seeing these kids at the shelter, and I said to my husband, ‘We couldn’t _______ a birthday party for our child, so let’s do it for these kids.’”
Since then, the couple have held a party each and every month. They _______attract 200 kids and their parents. There are small presents for the kids celebrating their birthdays, but Davis makes sure there are more than enough to _______.
“I remember a mom came with her two kids,” Davis says.” she’s crying. ‘You have no idea what we’ve been through for the last 24 hours,’ she told me. ‘Yesterday was her birthday. I had _______ to give her. We _______ so much suffering. I really didn’t expect a birthday party for my child.’ I had to walk away and wipe away some tears.”
Doing her best to _______these kids’ lives is both ________ and bittersweet, Davis says.” We’re on this rooftop. It’s this beautiful ________. The sky is gorgeous. You’re above everything. But if you look down, you see homeless person after homeless person on the street, and it reminds you that these kids can’t________ that area after the party.” It may be why, after throwing 88 parties, she still cries after each one.
Davis________ a second miscarriage before finally having a child-she and Kadin have two now, ages two and four. But she owes helping her ________ hope to the kids in the shelter. “We didn’t realize how much ________ they were going to bring us,” she told CBS News. “And that was so healing for me.”
1.A.raising B.supporting C.expecting D.adopting
2.A.upset B.shocked C.awkward D.nervous
3.A.challenge B.beat C.cover D.betray
4.A.house B.afford C.throw D.pay
5.A.usually B.secretly C.briefly D.efficiently
6.A.try out B.give out C.pick up D.put away
7.A.something B.nothing C.everything D.anything
8.A.came across B.rode out C.went through D.built up
9.A.better B.affect C.balance D.handle
10.A.heartwarming B.amazing C.exciting D.satisfying
11.A.landscape B.sight C.view D.scenery
12.A.rule B.change C.leave D.approach
13.A.accomplished B.suffered C.solved D.tolerated
14.A.hold on to B.keep up with C.put up with D.make up for
15.A.wealth B.experience C.fame D.joy
高二英语完形填空困难题查看答案及解析