Once my mother told me a story that in Africa, when an antelope (羚羊) wakes up every morning, the first thing it thinks about is, “I must be 36 to run faster than the fastest lion, or I will be killed.” 37 , a lion wakes from his dream. The first thing the lion thinks about is, “I must be able to catch the 38 antelope, or I will starve to 39 .” So almost simultaneously(同时地), the antelope and the lion get up and start running toward the 40 sun.
This is 41 : full of chances and challenges. Whether you are an antelope or a lion, you must go 42 when the sun rises. For students, it is just the same. If we don’t study hard, sooner or later, we will 43 the other students. At first I didn’t know what the word “exam” 44 . Later, I knew an exam was a kind of 45 . In competitions, there are always winners and 46 . As I grew up, I got to know competition well. In one’s life, there must be competitions, so people can 47 .
Each time I saw children playing games and heard their 48 , I wished I were that age again. 49 , I remembered my parents’ words: You must work very hard for a good future. So I 50 my pen and began to study hard again.
I was still not sure what competition 51 meant. One day, I was 52_in an English-speaking competition. When I went to the stage, I saw other students looking at me kindly. Suddenly I 53 what competition was. It is not as cruel as my teacher and parents told me. In fact, competition is the 54 : it is kind and necessary.
I learned a lot from realizing this 55 . Now I understand better about the world. Competition is important for us all.
1. A．able B．willing C．ready D．eager
2. A．On the contrary B．At the same time C．In other words D．In the first place
3. A．fastest B．weakest C．slowest D．strongest
4. A．death B．survival C．disease D．suffering
5. A．sinking B．setting C．shining D．rising
6. A．rule B．life C．study D．exam
7. A．over B．through C．ahead D．beyond
8. A．fall behind B．pass by C．catch up D．hold back
9. A．felt B．meant C．referred D．doubted
10. A．victory B．defeat C．process D．competition
11. A．competitor B．players C．losers D．failures
12. A．improve B．conclude C．acquire D．handle
13. A．crying B．laughter C．whisper D．delight
14. A．However B．Therefore C．Besides D．Otherwise
15. A．put up B．brought up C．made up D．picked up
16. A．commonly B．simply C．obviously D．really
17. A．succeeding B．participating C．taking D．getting
18. A．doubted B．acknowledged C．knew D．admitted
19. A．tough B．important C．content D．opposite
20. A．experience B．knowledge C．fact D．consequence
高二英语完型填空中等难度题
Once my mother told me a story that in Africa, when an antelope (羚羊) wakes up every morning, the first thing it thinks about is, “I must be 36 to run faster than the fastest lion, or I will be killed.” 37 , a lion wakes from his dream. The first thing the lion thinks about is, “I must be able to catch the 38 antelope, or I will starve to 39 .” So almost simultaneously(同时地), the antelope and the lion get up and start running toward the 40 sun.
This is 41 : full of chances and challenges. Whether you are an antelope or a lion, you must go 42 when the sun rises. For students, it is just the same. If we don’t study hard, sooner or later, we will 43 the other students. At first I didn’t know what the word “exam” 44 . Later, I knew an exam was a kind of 45 . In competitions, there are always winners and 46 . As I grew up, I got to know competition well. In one’s life, there must be competitions, so people can 47 .
Each time I saw children playing games and heard their 48 , I wished I were that age again. 49 , I remembered my parents’ words: You must work very hard for a good future. So I 50 my pen and began to study hard again.
I was still not sure what competition 51 meant. One day, I was 52_in an English-speaking competition. When I went to the stage, I saw other students looking at me kindly. Suddenly I 53 what competition was. It is not as cruel as my teacher and parents told me. In fact, competition is the 54 : it is kind and necessary.
I learned a lot from realizing this 55 . Now I understand better about the world. Competition is important for us all.
1. A．able B．willing C．ready D．eager
2. A．On the contrary B．At the same time C．In other words D．In the first place
3. A．fastest B．weakest C．slowest D．strongest
4. A．death B．survival C．disease D．suffering
5. A．sinking B．setting C．shining D．rising
6. A．rule B．life C．study D．exam
7. A．over B．through C．ahead D．beyond
8. A．fall behind B．pass by C．catch up D．hold back
9. A．felt B．meant C．referred D．doubted
10. A．victory B．defeat C．process D．competition
11. A．competitor B．players C．losers D．failures
12. A．improve B．conclude C．acquire D．handle
13. A．crying B．laughter C．whisper D．delight
14. A．However B．Therefore C．Besides D．Otherwise
15. A．put up B．brought up C．made up D．picked up
16. A．commonly B．simply C．obviously D．really
17. A．succeeding B．participating C．taking D．getting
18. A．doubted B．acknowledged C．knew D．admitted
19. A．tough B．important C．content D．opposite
20. A．experience B．knowledge C．fact D．consequence
高二英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
My father told me a story that ________ European woman helped him a lot when he was in America in ________ 1970s.
| A．a; the | B．an; / | C．the; the | D．an; the |
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
This is a family story my father told me about his mother, my grandmother.
In 1949, my father had just returned home from the war. On every American highway you could see soldiers in uniform hitchhiking home to their families, as was the custom at that time in America.
Sadly, the thrill of his reunion with his family was soon overshadowed. My grandmother became very ill and had to be hospitalized. It was her kidneys, and the doctors told my father that she needed a blood transfusion immediately or she would not live through the night. The problem was that grandmother’s blood type was AB-, a very rare type even today, but even harder to get then because there were no blood banks or air flights to ship blood. All the family members were typed, but not one member was a match. So the doctors gave the family no hope; my grandmother was dying.
My father left the hospital in tears to gather up all the family members, so that everyone would get a chance to tell grandmother goodbye. As my father was driving down the highway, he passed a soldier in uniform hitchhiking home to his family. Deep in grief, my father had no inclination at that moment to do a good deed. Yet it was almost as if something outside himself pulled him to a stop, and he waited as the stranger climbed into the car.
My father was too upset to even ask the soldier his name, but the soldier noticed my father’s tears right away and inquired about them. Through his tears, my father told this total stranger that his mother was lying in a hospital dying because the doctors had been unable to locate her blood type, AB-, and if they did not do it before nightfall, she would surely die.
It got very quiet in the car. Then this unidentified soldier extended his hand out to my father, palm up. Resting in the palm of his hand were the dog tags from around his neck. The blood type on the tags was AB-. The soldier told my father to turn the car around and get him to the hospital.
My grandmother lived until 1996, 47 years later, and to this day no one in our family knows the soldier’s name. But he is always remembered by us.
1.The author’s father left the hospital .
A. to purchase basic necessities that grandmother needed
B. to ask the family members to have their blood tested
C. to pick up a solider whose blood type was the same as grandmother’s
D. to gather the family members to pay their last respects to grandmother
2.The word “inclination” in Paragraph 4 most probably means .
A. determination B. willingness
C. compromise D. motivation
3.What may be the best title for the passage?
A. A Friend in Need B. A Soldier in Hospital
C. An Angel in Uniform D. A Gift in Disguise
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
When I was nine years old my greatest desire in life was to own a pogo stick(蹦蹦跷). My mother told me they were too _______ and that we simply couldn't _______ one. One day before Christmas, my _______ and I went to the department store to pay our credit bill. While my mother and I were at the counter paying the _______, my dad said he needed to see something in the tool department. Soon he _______ with a long thin box. I remembered _______ at the very moment if it was a pogo stick in that box.
When we got home my dad put the box in the barn (谷仓). While my parents were _______ with their housework, I _______ out to the barn and found the box. I was so _______ and I knew that as soon as I opened that ________ box, my bright shiny pogo stick would ________.
No such ________！Inside the box was a silly old ________. And so Christmas morning was both great and ________. I got some nice gifts but I didn't get the present that I ________ wanted.
After all the packing paper was cleaned up my dad said he needed to tend to something in the barn. When he came back in, he was ________ my beautiful pogo stick. I couldn't believe it, how they were able to ________ the money for it and how they ________ me with the broom.
________ we didn't have much money, my parents gave me the most important ________ of all, an abundance of love.
1.A.heavy B.expensive C.ugly D.dangerous
2.A.afford B.order C.handle D.make
3.A.mother B.father C.parents D.friend
4.A.fine B.price C.bill D.fee
5.A.came back B.went away C.passed by D.walked around
6.A.asking B.checking C.examining D.wondering
7.A.tired B.familiar C.busy D.satisfied
8.A.helped B.slipped C.jumped D.escaped
9.A.upset B.worried C.anxious D.excited
10.A.magical B.strange C.broken D.delicate
11.A.arrive B.leave C.change D.appear
12.A.luck B.fun C.hope D.joy
13.A.stick B.book C.broom D.toy
14.A.annoying B.disappointing C.frightening D.disturbing
15.A.usually B.shortly C.secretly D.really
16.A.cutting B.decorating C.carrying D.repairing
17.A.save B.lose C.donate D.offer
18.A.cheated B.tricked C.taught D.hurt
19.A.If B.Since C.Unless D.Although
20.A.tool B.gift C.advice D.promise
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Molly, my mother once gave me a special number to call I run into an emergency.
A.as if B.so that C.in case D.even though
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
I keep a two dollar bill in my wallet that was given to me by my mother when I was six years old.
The 31 goes with me wherever I go. My mother gave it to me so that 32 would follow me. She looked at me and said, “I want you to carry this two dollar bill for extra good luck.”
“Thanks, mom,” I replied, “I will keep it 33 to me always.”
My mother passed away when I was seven years old. I remember I took out my two dollar bill and held it in my hand for the longest time, knowing that she would 34 me the rest of my life.
Each time I felt I had a crisis, I would 35 for my two dollar bill and set it on the table. I would 36 at it for several hours and could always 37 a solution. When I applied for my first job, I was thirty years old and very shy. The thought of being interviewed for a job was 38 but I had to work. I saw one of the interviewers well dressed with 39 purse and shoes. I also knew the chance of being chosen was 40 when looking at the length of others’ resumes.
“What makes you feel you are 41 for this job?” The well－dressed woman asked. “I really need this job and there is nothing I can not do” I responded. She then asked me a series of questions and the interview was over. As I left, I 42 and said “Please give me a chance. I learn quickly and can be a very 43 member of your team.”
I went home, 44 . That evening I received a phone call. “Gina” she said, “we decided to give you a chance to 45 yourself.” “Thank you, you will not regret this decision.” I 46 the phone and yelled. At that instant, I remember my mom once said to us “You are 47 in my mind. Don’t 48 failure. It is a way to get us to try harder.”
How 49 this gift from Mom! It had built up 50 in me.
1. A．money B．check C．bill D．paper
2. A．luck B．happiness C．wealth D．wisdom
3. A．close B．near C．hard D．firm
4. A．look out for B．watch over C．see to D．come across
5. A．get B．stretch C．hold D．reach
6. A．stare B．glance C．observe D．glare
7. A．come up with B．put forward C．set up D．pull through
8. A．exciting B．amazing C．nervous D．scary
9. A．suitable B．matching C．fancy D．exaggerating（夸张的）
10. A．slim B．terrible C．few D．abundant
11. A．born B．qualified C．stable D．grateful
12. A．turned around B．turned back C．put up D．raise up
13. A．productive B．additional C．concise（简洁） D．effective
14. A．terrified B．exhausted C．sound D．cautious
15. A．test B．challenge C．prove D．strengthen
16. A．hung up B．got through C．set aside D．got off
17. A．brilliant B．awesome C．careful D．unbelievable
18. A．stand B．bend C．fear D．ruin
19. A．rare B．special C．relative D．primary
20. A．confidence B．perseverance C．model D．intelligence
高二英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
When I was learning calligraphy (书法), my teacher told me a story.
A calligrapher taught handwriting. One of his students who often practiced handwriting with old sheets of newspaper complained that he made very little progress though he had learned it with the calligrapher for a long time. His teacher said to him, “Try to use the best paper. Maybe you'll write better.”
The student did as he was told. It really worked. He made headway not long afterwards and felt curious. He asked his teacher about the reason. The calligrapher answered，“When you used old newspaper to practice handwriting, you would think you were writing a draft. It didn't matter if you wrote badly as old newspaper was plenty in supply. In that case you wouldn't pay much attention to it. Now you use the best paper and you'll treasure it. Each time you write you feel strongly about the rarity of chances and you'll devote to it with all your heart and soul; you'll do the handwriting much more attentively than practicing. Of course you've made rapid progress.”
Indeed, we spend our ordinary days just as they are worthless “old newspaper”．We don't care if we scrawl and waste it, thinking that it will come endlessly—the “old newspaper” is inexhaustible. In such a mood we may each day pass by opportunities but fail to catch any of them.
Life is not a military exercise but an actual war in which real weapons are used. In everyday life there's no chance for us to draft. That's because what we call “draft” actually is the answer sheet we write that cannot be changed.
Every day of our life is something new. Let us take every day as a sheet of the best paper.
1.The calligrapher in the story told the student to write on the best paper because he thought ________.
A．the student would practice more carefully on the best paper
B．it was comfortable to write on the best paper
C．the student had enough money to buy the best paper
D．the student could write more on the best paper
2.The student didn't make much progress at first because ________.
A．he didn't follow his teacher's advice
B．he was too poor to buy better paper to write on
C．he regarded his writing on old newspaper just as a draft
D．he was not used to the calligrapher's teaching manner
3.We learn from the passage that ________.
A．the student finally gave up
B．the student made rapid progress by practicing more carefully
C．the calligrapher was strict with his students
D．old newspaper is not useful
4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A．What teachers say is always true.
B．Success calls for attentiveness.
C．Handwriting is easy to practice.
D．New things are always better than old ones.
5.The writer wants to tell us that ________.
A．there are some good ways to practice handwriting
B．life is like old newspaper
C．we should learn from the student in the story
D．life will not give us a chance to draw a draft
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
When I was learning calligraphy my teacher told me a story.
A calligrapher taught handwriting. One of his students who often practised handwriting with old sheets of newspapers complained that he made very little progress though he had learned it with the calligrapher for a long time. His teacher said to him, “Try to use the best paper. Maybe you’ll write better. ”
The student did as he was told. It really worked. He made headway not long afterwards and felt curious. He asked his teacher about the reason. The calligrapher answered, “When you used old newspapers to practice handwriting，you would think you were writing a draft（草稿）. It didn’t matter if you wrote badly as old newspapers were plenty in supply. In that case you wouldn’t pay much attention to it. Now you use the best paper you’ll treasure it. Each time you write you feel strongly about the rarity (稀少) of chances and you’ll devote to it with all your heart and soul; you’ll do the handwriting much more attentively than otherwise practising it. Of course you’ve made rapid progress.”
Indeed，we spend our ordinary days just as they are worthless “old newspapers”. We don’t care if we scrawl and waste them, thinking that they will come endlessly --- those “old newspapers” are inexhaustible. In such a mood we may each day pass by opportunities but fail to catch any of them.
Life is not a military exercise but an actual war in which real weapons are used. In everyday life there’s no chance for us to draw a draft. That’s because what we call “draft” actually is the answer sheet we write that cannot be changed. Every day of our life is something new. Let us take every day as a sheet of best paper.
1.The calligrapher in the story told the student to write on the best paper because he thought _______.
A．the student would practice more carefully on the best paper
B．it was comfortable to write on the bet paper
C．the student had enough money to buy the best paper.
D．the student could write more on the best paper.
2.The student didn’t make much progress at first because _________.
A．he regarded his writing on old newspaper just as a draft
B．he was too poor to buy better paper to write
C．he didn’t follow his teacher’s advice
D．he was not used to the calligrapher’s teaching manner
3.We learn from the passage that _________.
A．the student finally gave up
B．the student made rapid progress by persisting more carefully
C．the calligrapher was strict with his students
D．old newspaper is not useful
4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A．What teachers say is always true.
B．Success calls for attentiveness.
C．Handwriting is easy to practice.
D．New things are always better than old ones.
5.The writer wants to tell us that _________.
A．there are some good ways to practice handwriting
B．life is like old newspaper
C．we should learn from the student in the story
D．life will not give us a chance to draw a draft
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
完形填空
I’d like to tell you a story my grandmother told me when I was six or seven years old. We had to go to her home for Thanksgiving dinner and the _______ was rather a long one. I had filled the time with making a _______of all the things that I wanted for Christmas that year.
Later I showed the list to my grandmother. After she read it, she said, “That _______is a long list!” Then she told me this story:
“Once there was a little girl who came to live in an orphanage(孤儿院). As Christmas time _______ , all of the other children began _______the little girl about the beautiful Christmas tree that would appear in the huge downstairs _______ on Christmas morning. Each child would be given their one and only Christmas gift, a small, single _______ .”
“The headmaster of the orphanage was very _______ , so when he caught the little girl climbing down the stairs to look at the Christmas tree in the hall, he sharply _______ that the little girl would not _______ her Christmas orange because she had been to _______ as to disobey the rules. The little girl ran back to her room_______ and crying. The next morning as the other children were going down to breakfast, the little girl stayed in her bed. She couldn’t stand the _______ of seeing the others receive their gift when there would be _______ for her. Later, as the children came back, the little girl was _______5 to be handed a napkin(面巾纸). As she carefully _______ it, there to her disbelief was an orange all peeled and sectioned. “It was then that she imagined _______ each child had taken one section from their orange and given it to her so that she, too, would have a Christmas orange.”
How I _______ this story! I would ask my grandmother to tell it to me over and over as I _______. How I wish the world, as a whole world display that same kind of _______ for others, not just at Christmas, but throughout the year.
1.A. story B. drive C. moment D. holiday
2.A. choice B. order C. list D. joke
3.A. hardly B. usually C. specially D. really
4.A. moved B. approached C. linked D. took
5.A. telling B. informing C. warning D. sending
6.A. hall B. kitchen C. bedroom D. reading-room
7.A. apple B. star C. orange D. flower
8.A. serious B. caring C. humorous D. strict
9.A. required B. announced C. asked D. insisted
10.A. deliver B. make C. receive D. reach
11.A. curious B. outgoing C. frightened D. disappointed
12.A. delighted B. blank-minded C. seared D. broken-hearted
13.A. possession B. attraction C. thought D. effect
14.A. few B. none C. everything D. something
15.A. surprised B. happy C. willing D. pleased
16.A. touched B. felt C. smelt D. opened
17.A. whether B. when C. how D. what
18.A. wrote B. loved C. told D. understood
19.A. grew up B. dropped in C. turned up D. hung out
20.A. help B. thankfulness C. happiness D. concern
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
I liked climbing things when I was a baby. My mother remembers and has told me most of those 16moments like this one. When I was one and a half years old, we lived in our first house in Rue St-Louis. On a hot summer day, my father intended to 17the roof of our old house. In order to climb up there, he 18 a ladder front of the house.
In my town, 19could walk outside because the streets were 20 . I was outside watching my father climb on that strange thing. I was curious about why my father disappear at last. So I decided to go up it to 21why it was impossible to see my father after he reached the 22of that thing. At 1.5 years old, still a baby wearing pampers, I climbed that ladder to the roof top and started walking 23 . My father did not notice that-he was on the other side occupied with his repairs. It happened that a nice lady in our 24passed by and 25me. The nice lady came to my house and 26my mother of it, who was fearful and 27ran outside to speak with me.
She really thought I would just 28that roof, for I was just a baby29 . She asked me to sit down and stop moving in a 30way you speak to your babies when they are cute. 31 , I threw myself flat on the 32 and waited.
My mother climbed the ladder to 33me up and there I was enjoying the view laughing at my mother’s shocked face. 34the saying goes, “He who knows nothing 35 nothing.”
1.A．valuable B．unforgettable C．endless D．worthy
2.A．build B．paint C．clean D．mend
3.A．spread B．laid C．stood D．moved
4.A．adults B．children C．babies D．villagers
5.A．smooth B．wide C．clean D．safe
6.A．figure out B．think out C．pick out D．point out
7.A．foot B．top C．step D．body
8.A．out B．up C．down D．around
9.A．house B．neighborhood C．family D．company
10.A．met B．inspected C．heard D．spotted
11.A．asked B．warned C．reminded D．advised
12.A．quietly B．slowly C．immediately D．curiously
13.A．fall off B．climb onto C．repair D．destroy
14.A．after all B．at all C．in all D．all in all
15.A．concerned B．cautious C．nice D．clear
16.A．Therefore B．Instead C．However D．Otherwise
17.A．ladder B．ground C．roof D．street
18.A．bring B．pick C．put D．take
19.A．When B．While C．For D．As
20.A．doubts B．fears C．ignores D．understands
高二英语完型填空困难题查看答案及解析