I had dressed quite nicely for my first day as a student at St. Anne's College of Further Education. In celebration of this new beginning, I had changed my unusual clothes to formal clothing.
Like many young people my age, I was under the impression that the best way to show your personality was by wearing the kind of clothing that my mother considered was not fit to be seen in public. But for my first day as a student I had made an effort to look what my mother called ‘respectable’.
There were fifteen of us, sitting in the theatre hall, while the head of the drama department, Mr. Wilson, gave us a warm welcoming speech. To my horror (恐惧), he then invited us to say why we had decided to do a drama course. I had no idea what I would say. The truth was that although I had a taste for unusual clothing, I was painfully shy.
My worry grew as it came closer to my turn. One by one, the new students excitedly explained their reasons. Then it was the turn of a girl who I hadn't really noticed until that moment because I was too busy thinking about what I would say. ‘My name’s Tracy and I'm from Blackburn’, she said, and then added no further information.
Everyone smiled politely in silence but I was impressed at her bravery in saying almost nothing even under pressure (压力). I relaxed, knowing that you could get away with saying so little about yourself. It gave me confidence.
After Mr. Wilson at long last let us out of the hall to go to lunch, I managed to find the courage to go up to Tracy. She looked very unfriendly. Taking a deep breath, I introduced myself. To my surprise, she looked up at me and gave me a very bright, sweet smile. That was twenty-seven years ago, and although we never did become famous stars, we're still best friends.
1.Why did the author dress nicely for her first day at college?
A. She felt a need to dress properly.
B. She wanted to fit in with the other students.
C. She was under pressure from her mother.
D. She wanted to look like a great star.
2.Why did the author feel nervous?
A. Because she had never spoken in public
B. Because it was her turn to start first
C. Because she didn't know what to talk about
D. Because the other students were so excited
3.What does the underlined word "It" in Paragraph 5 refer to?
A. Tracy also seemed extremely worried.
B. Tracy hadn't said very much.
C. The other students reacted politely to Tracy.
D. All attention was on Tracy.
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题
I had dressed quite nicely for my first day as a student at St. Anne's College of Further Education. In celebration of this new beginning, I had changed my unusual clothes to formal clothing.
Like many young people my age, I was under the impression that the best way to show your personality was by wearing the kind of clothing that my mother considered was not fit to be seen in public. But for my first day as a student I had made an effort to look what my mother called ‘respectable’.
There were fifteen of us, sitting in the theatre hall, while the head of the drama department, Mr. Wilson, gave us a warm welcoming speech. To my horror (恐惧), he then invited us to say why we had decided to do a drama course. I had no idea what I would say. The truth was that although I had a taste for unusual clothing, I was painfully shy.
My worry grew as it came closer to my turn. One by one, the new students excitedly explained their reasons. Then it was the turn of a girl who I hadn't really noticed until that moment because I was too busy thinking about what I would say. ‘My name’s Tracy and I'm from Blackburn’, she said, and then added no further information.
Everyone smiled politely in silence but I was impressed at her bravery in saying almost nothing even under pressure (压力). I relaxed, knowing that you could get away with saying so little about yourself. It gave me confidence.
After Mr. Wilson at long last let us out of the hall to go to lunch, I managed to find the courage to go up to Tracy. She looked very unfriendly. Taking a deep breath, I introduced myself. To my surprise, she looked up at me and gave me a very bright, sweet smile. That was twenty-seven years ago, and although we never did become famous stars, we're still best friends.
1.Why did the author dress nicely for her first day at college?
A. She felt a need to dress properly.
B. She wanted to fit in with the other students.
C. She was under pressure from her mother.
D. She wanted to look like a great star.
2.Why did the author feel nervous?
A. Because she had never spoken in public
B. Because it was her turn to start first
C. Because she didn't know what to talk about
D. Because the other students were so excited
3.What does the underlined word "It" in Paragraph 5 refer to?
A. Tracy also seemed extremely worried.
B. Tracy hadn't said very much.
C. The other students reacted politely to Tracy.
D. All attention was on Tracy.
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
It was the end of my first day as a waitress in a busy New York restaurant. My cap had gone away, and my feet hurt. The loaded plates I carried seemed to be heavier and heavier. Tired and discouraged, I didn’t seem able to do anything right. As I made out a check for a family with several children who had changed their ice-cream order a dozen times, I was ready to stop. Then the father smiled at me as he handed me my tip. “Well done,” he said, “you’ve looked after us really well.” Suddenly my tiredness disappeared. I smiled back, and later, when the manager asked me how I’d liked my first day, I said, “Fine!” Those few words of praise had changed everything. Praise is like sunlight to human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold criticism(批评), but are unwilling to give our fellows the warm sunshine of praise. Perhaps that is why one word of praise can bring such pleasure.
It’s strange how chary we are about praising. Perhaps it’s because few of us know how to accept it. It’s especially rewarding to give praise in areas in which effort generally goes unnoticed.An artist gets admired for a glorious picture,a cook for a perfect meal.But do you ever tell your laundry (洗衣房)manager how pleased you are when the shirts are done just right? In fact,to give praise costs the giver nothing but a moment’s thought and a moment’s effort.
1.Which of the following can’t describe the writer’s situation before she got her tip?
A. She was tired. B. She was busy.
C. She was sorry. D. She was confident.
2.According to the passage,which of the following is least likely to be given praise?
A.An artist. B.A cook.
C.A waitress. D.A laundry manager.
3. The underlined word “chary” in Paragraph 2 means_________.
A. careless B. cautious
C. unwilling D. greedy
4.What is the best title of the passage?
A.Why Do You Praise Others?
B.Why do You Criticize Others?
C.Be Generous to Give Others Praise!
D.Don’t Criticize Others!
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
It is natural on every student to remember the first day at school. It was my mother who first thought of sending me to school. Of course I was of the school-going age. When my mother told me that , I thought that she was a heartless woman. My mind was disturbed ( 弄乱 ) at first.. Although I had heard about school, I had not visited it earlier.
It gave me a terrible feeling of fear and anxiety as I went to school with my father. My father took me to school which was an unknown place for me.Teachers and students were strangers to me. When I entered the school, I felt nervous. It was a big building and it was calm and quiet.
It was an old and famous school in our area. My father was a student there in his childhood and youth. The headmaster was well known to my father and welcomed him with a smile. My father introduced me to the headmaster and the headmaster allowed me to attend the class. My father left me in the classroom and went away. I was about to cry.
However, the kind behavior of the headmaster and the class teacher calmed me down. The class teacher asked my name and some other questions and he patted me on the back.
After three classes there was a rest for half an hour. I rushed to the playground along with my classmates. That day I met Sandeep who became my best friend later on. The classes came to an end about 4 pm. I was not willing to return from school.
The memory of my first day at school is very pleasant and I won’t forget it forever. I feel proud when I describe it to others.
1.What did the writer think of his mother when she wanted to send her to school? ( no more than 8 words ) (3 marks)
____________________________________________________________________________________
2.How did the writer feel when he went to school with his father ? (No more than 8 words) (2 marks)
____________________________________________________________________________________
3.Why did the headmaster know the writer’s father so well? (No more than 10 words) (2 marks)
____________________________________________________________________________________
4.What did the writer think of his day at school?(No more than 10 words) (3 marks)
____________________________________________________________________________________
高一英语其他题中等难度题查看答案及解析
---What’s wrong with you, Mr. Keller?
--- I’ve had a very bad headache for two days. At first, I ______ I caught a cold, but the medicine ______.
A.thought, hasn’t worked | B.had thought, didn’t work |
C.thought, hadn’t worked | D.have thought, hasn’t worked |
高一英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
My first visit to Angkor Wat was in 1980. The country had been at war for many years and the temple was deserted and falling to pieces. Plants were growing out of the roofs, and trees were growing in the courtyards.
Today, the temple is the scene of a busy repair programme. A team of 15 Indian experts are organizing a workforce of 400 Cambodians, most of them women, who are cleaning, repairing and rebuilding parts of this temple.
As I walked through the courtyards, I noticed the Cambodian women devote hours to cleaning carefully a tiny area of stone. Boards are laid down to protect the precious painted stones while the repair work is going on. There are very few machines and little heavy equipment. Workers carry building materials in buckets at the end of long poles. Piles of stones lie in a corner of the courtyard, waiting to be replaced.
The work of cleaning the stones is watched over by three Indian chemists. It is a very slow task. First they clean the stones with brushes using buckets of a weak chemical. Then gaps between the stones are filled in. Finally another material is painted onto the stones which will protect them from water forever.
Work starts every day at 7 a. m. and goes on until late afternoon six days a week, with a break at midday.
Evening is the best time to visit the temple, after the tour groups have left. As the sun sinks lower, shadows spread across the courtyard. After sunset, the sky turns pink. The grey stone towers take on a golden colour before turning pink. Nowhere else in the world can there be such a quiet, beautiful place.
1.This passage mainly tells__________
A. the poor look of the temple Angkor Wat in 1980.
B. the history of the temple Angkor Wat
C. the repair work being done to the temple Angkor Wat
D. the difficulty in the repair work
2.According to the author, which of the following plays the least important role in the repair work?
A. The women workers. B. The Indian workers
C. Machines D. Skilled workers
3.The underlined sentence “the temple was deserted” possibly means that________
A. there was no one in the temple and it was in a poor state
B. the temple was built on desert and nobody noticed it
C. the temple was very old with a long history
D. the temple was repaired by the Cambodians, most of whom women
4.To clean the stone, how many steps should be followed?
A. Tow B. Three
C. Four D. Five
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
It was graduation day at the university where I work and a beautiful day quite unlike the first graduation I attended as a young professor. On that cold day years ago, as we watched the students walking into the hall, one of my colleagues(同事)turned to me and said, “Graduation will be one of the happiest and one of the saddest time of your life.” At my request, he answered, “Because the students you have got to know have to leave.”
As years went by, my previous confusion about my colleague’s words no longer existed. When I came across naughty students, I had to rethink why I chose to be a teacher. It obviously isn’t the money. Once a former computer science student of mine called me, asking me if I wanted to have a change. He was working at Nintendo Corporation. His salary was higher than my present one, though I have more education and have worked for over 10 years. With my programming skills, he said he could get me hired, I thanked him, but refused his kind offer.
A few days before this graduation, while working on final grades, I found a note a student had slipped in with her homework. She thanked me for being her teacher and said the things she had learned in my class – not about math, but about life – would be things she would remember long after the math skills had faded away. As I finished reading, I remembered why I had become a teacher.
Now, on this sunny graduation day, as I again observed the sea of blue hats and gowns, I did so with a deeper sense of satisfaction – I will always be grateful that I am a teacher.
1.Hearing his colleague’s description of graduation for the first time, the author ______.
A.quite agreed with his colleague | B.was very puzzled |
C.thought it very funny | D.was very sad |
2.The computer science student called the author because he ______.
A.wanted to inform the author of his present job |
B.wanted the author to share his joy and satisfaction |
C.tried to persuade the author to work with him |
D.thought the author wasn’t fit to be a teacher |
3.The underlined phrase blue hats and gowns refers to ______.
A.the new graduates | B.the university colleagues |
C.life memories | D.decorations in the hall |
4.We can learn from the text that the author ______.
A.was only a young professor |
B.didn’t do well in his work |
C.taught his students more about life than math |
D.was content with the job as a teacher |
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
A few days before Christmas, I shared online a picture of my daughter, Michele, dressed up as Ruth Bader Ginsburg for her school’s superhero day. The picture went viral.
I shared the picture because I knew my friends and family would get a kick out of it. They know Michele well and this picture is the essence (本质) of her. I had no expectation that it would be as appealing to strangers as it was to her grandfather. But it was, and the image began to fly through the channels of social media.
As I looked through all the shares and comments, the reason for the picture’s popularity became clear — people were inspired by the idea of a strong little girl with a mind of her own. I read dozens, if not hundreds, of comments that ran along these lines: “Your daughter gives me hope for the future. I wish all little girls were like her.”
There is no doubt that my daughter is a strong little girl with a mind of her own. I bought her the book I Dissent because the title summarizes (概括) what she has been doing in her entire life: dissenting disagreeing, and making her voice heard. I believe she will grow up to be someone who fights for what she believes in.
And if one little girl like her gives people hope, then I have good news for the world: She is not the only one out there. Michele is surrounded by little girls who are ready to grab (抓住) the world with both hands and shape it to fit their vision of how things should be. For example, she has a cousin who, for both her last birthday and Christmas, asked people to give her gifts to less fortunate children. And when her little sister was 4, she told me that she “was put on the earth to make people laugh” — because when people laugh they are happy and she was “born to make people happy.”
The problem isn’t that there aren’t more tough little girls who think for themselves and stand up for what they believe in. The problem is that there are millions of girls who go unnoticed because we don’t expect girls to be that way.
When I first found out I was having a daughter, I had this thought in the back of my mind that, if I wanted her to go as far as her potential (潜力) could take her, I would have to teach her to think for herself and to use her voice to get where she wanted to go. I would have to teach her to be a strong woman.
What I didn’t realize was that she came to me pre-programmed. She, her sister and every other little girl I know have that strong woman in their DNA. It’s taken me years to understand this, but my job isn’t to teach my daughters to be something they already are — my job is to make sure they never listen to the message that they shouldn’t be that way.
If our goal is to raise strong women, the best thing we, as parents, can do is to understand that little girls come to us strong. That they are born mighty (强大), with voices they are ready to use.
1.The underlined words “went viral” in Paragraph 1 mean “________”.
A. went mad B. spread quickly
C. caused disagreement D. disappeared soon
2.On seeing so many shares and comments, the author felt ________.
A. embarrassed B. worried
C. excited D. surprised
3.Which word can best describe Michele?
A. Optimistic. B. Imaginative.
C. Strong-minded. D. Self-centred.
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A. I Dissent is a book about Michele.
B. There are many little girls like Michele.
C. Michele’s picture inspired many little girls.
D. Michele was taught to be strong by the author.
5.Which would be the best title for the passage?
A. Little girls have a big voice
B. Little girls with big dreams
C. Little girls become popular online
D. Little girls as hope for the future
6.The author’s purpose in writing the passage is to ________.
A. persuade B. inform
C. educate D. entertain
高一英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
I had a job interview this morning at 10:30 in a place which was quite far from my house.
I had asked my brother to_ ___me at the bus stop. But he was running late and it was already 9:45 before I reached the bus stop.__ __, I caught my first bus and had to wait at another stop for the second one.
Then, in front of my__ __, a little girl (who may have been a beggar) was hit by a car! The car drove off without__ __. The girl was badly hurt in her hands and legs. She was _ ____heavily and was screaming in pain. After a few seconds she fainted(昏厥).
People standing nearby didn’t seem to know_ ___ to do. I ran over and called for an auto. A_ ____, who seemed to be the girl’s grandpa, ran towards us with _ ____steaming down his cheeks. I took them both to ______ in the auto. They admitted the girl and _ ___ to start her treatment. Happily, she was well__ ___ and soon came back to consciousness. She smiled at me and hugged her grandpa. I _ ____ the bill, gave them a little money, then I __ ___ for my interview.
It was 1:30p.m. Before I got home. I was __ __hours late! The one interview who was still there asked what had__ __ me. I told him, and then gave him one of our Smile cards and _ ____ about the project. He was very impressed!
It would be __ ___ to say I got the job. ___, because I was so late he could not pass me on to the next level.
Getting the job might have made me happy, but helping that young girl and her grandpa made me even __ ____! I really thank God for giving me that__ ___ to help.
1.A. drop B. send C. take D. deliver
2.A. Actually B. Luckily C. Surprisingly D. Gradually
3.A. bus B. seat C. eyes D. feet
4.A. noticing B. speeding C. knocking D. stopping
5.A. crying B. bleeding C. sleeping D. trembling
6.A. how B. where C. who D. what
7.A. beggar B. driver C. policeman D. gentleman
8.A. words B. sweat C. tears D. blood
9.A. home B. interview C. bus D. hospital
10.A. prepared B. intended C. rushed D. promised
11.A. cared about B. looked after C. dealt with D. carried out
12.A. bought B. accepted C. paid D. donated
13.A. set about B. set off C. set out D. set up
14.A. two B. three C. four D. five
15.A. delayed B. happened C. hit D. terrified
16.A. complained B. explained C. debated D. introduced
17.A. nice B. shameful C. hopeless D. unbelievable
18.A. and B. so C. but D. or
19.A. prouder B. greater C. happier D. harder
20.A. courage B. opportunity C. position D. situation
高一英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Nancy had just got a job as a secretary in a company. Monday was the first day she went to work, so she was very 36 and arrived early.
She 37 the door open and found nobody there. “I am the 38 to arrive.” She thought and came to her desk. She was surprised to find a bunch of 39on it. They were fresh. She40 them and they were sweet. She looked around for a 41 to put them in. “ Somebody has sent me flowers the very first day!” she thought 42. “ But who could it be?” she began to 43 .
The day passed quickly and Nancy did everything with 44 interest. For the following days of the 45 , the first thing Nancy did was to change water for the followers and then 46her work.
Then came another Monday. 47she came near her desk she was overjoyed to see a(n) 48 bunch of flowers there. She quickly put them in the vase, 49 the old ones.
The same thing happened again the next Monday. Nancy began to think of ways to find out the 50.
On Tuesday afternoon, she was sent to hand in a plan to the51 . She waited for his directives(命令)at his secretary’s 52 . She happened to see on the desk a half-opened notebook, which 53 : “ In order to keep the secretaries 54 , the company has decided that every 55 a bunch of fresh flowers should be put on each secretary’s desk.”
Later, she was told that their general manager was a business management psychologist(心理学家).
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高一英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
It was one of my first lessons as an international student in New York City. My US history teacher had just finished his lesson. He sat back in his armchair comfortably, and asked: “Was there anybody doing anything interesting yesterday?”
“I drew a panda, which was lovely!” a girl beside me shouted.Then, the talk developed rapidly. Someone said he had received his learner’s driving permit, while another mentioned that she had spent the first salary from her part-time job. Everybody seemed to have something to say. Although there was a range of people, from different backgrounds, people seemed to feel at home with each other.
Not me. I stayed aloof from the discussion. I looked through my notes until I looked up to see another teacher come in and share some cookies he had made yesterday. The beautifully baked cookies sent out a good smell, which made it impossible to concentrate on my work any longer. However, my seat was in the back row, and I was too shy to stand up and take a cookie for myself.
“Go ahead and have one!” It was the history teacher: “If you don’t stand up, nobody is going to feed you!”
I was still hesitant, but I got up and took a cookie with some other classmates. Now I felt more at ease. We laughed about how “greedy” we were.
The “cookie crisis” had taught me a lesson. I would have to be less shy in the United States. Here was a mixed and various culture, and if I wanted to get anywhere I would have to brave its newness and difference and make myself heard, just as the teacher had said. Otherwise, “Nobody is going to feed you.” It was something a person new to the US, such as myself, needed to learn.
1.The atmosphere in a US classroom is quite __________.
A. lively B. lonely
C. bad D. quiet
2.What does the underlined phrase “aloof from” mean?
A. in spite of B. instead of
C. apart from D. away from
3.What prevented the writer from getting a cookie for himself at first?
A. His bravery. B. His shyness.
C. His strangeness. D. His weakness.
4.The “cookie crisis” in the last paragraph was __________ to the writer.
A. an important problem B. a kind of valuable food
C. a turning point in his life attitude D. a dream in his school life
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析