I admired my classmate Lisa very much. ______ her prettiness, she was smart and helpful.
A．Except for B．But for C．Apart from D．In spite of
高二英语单项填空中等难度题
I admired my classmate Lisa very much.___ her prettiness, she was smart and helpful.
A. Except B. But for C. Apart from D. In spite of
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I admired my classmate Lisa very much. ______ her prettiness, she was smart and helpful.
A．Except for B．But for C．Apart from D．In spite of
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
I admire my classmate Lisa very much， _______ her prettiness， she was smart and helpful.
A Except for B But for C Apart from D In spite of
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We all admired Linda very much. ______ her prettiness, she was smart and helpful.
A. Rather than B. Aside from
C. Due to D. Except that
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My timing has always been a little off with Elizabeth Strout. I’ve read and pretty much admired everything she’s written, but, for whatever reason, the books of hers I’ve picked to review have been the good ones, like Amy and Isabelle and The Burgess Boys, rather than the extraordinary ones, like Olive Kitteridge, which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. Anything Is Possible is Strout’s latest book and it’s gorgeous. Like Olive Kitteridge, Anything Is Possible reads like a novel constructed out of linked stories. In fact, it’s hard to know exactly what to call this — a novel or a short story collection. In any case, these stories are animated (栩栩如生) by Strout’s signature themes: class humiliation, loneliness, spiritual and, sometimes, reawakening. When Strout is really on her game, as she is here, you feel like you’ve been carefully lowered into the unquiet depths of quiet lives.
Strout began working on Anything Is Possible at the same time she was writing her novel My Name Is Lucy Barton, which was published last year. Lucy, a dirt-poor child who grows up to become a celebrated writer, floats in and out of these interlocking stories. Some characters catch a glimpse of her being interviewed on TV; one travels to see her at a bookstore. An older Lucy even appears “in the flesh” in one story when she returns home to the small town in rural Illinois where most of these tales are set to visit her troubled brother; but Anything Is Possible also stands on its own. Indeed, a few of the characters here would be ticked off if they thought their stories depended in any way on that Barton girl. Strout’s writerly eye works like a 360 degree camera, so that a character or place that’s on the margins of one tale takes center stage in a later one. This technique sounds contrived, but Strout carries it off lightly.
①__ One of the most powerful stories here is called “Dottie’s Bed & Breakfast,” which is an establishment we readers glimpse earlier in the book. Dottie desires to be middle-class and she harbors a grudge (怨恨) against life because she’s had to rent out rooms to make a living. Dottie also possesses a sensitive nose for sniffing out the lower-class origins of some of her guests.
②__ “Shoes always gave you away,” comments a woman in a story called “Cracked” about a houseguest’s too-high cork wedges(坡跟鞋). And, in the final story here, called “Gift,” a once-poor man made good says, “The sense of apology did not go away, it was a tiring thing to carry.”
③__ But, back to Dottie. When an elderly doctor and his wife come to stay at her guesthouse, Dottie bonds over tea with the wife, Shelley, who shares a story about a long-ago social humiliation.
④__ At breakfast the next morning, however, Shelley obviously regrets that confidence and becomes the Doctor’s wife again. She freezes Dottie out and puts her back in her place as the inn-keep.
There’s comic satisfaction in seeing Dottie secretly spitting into the breakfast jam, but the more profound rewards of this story have to do with its recognition of the many varieties of human insecurity — or, as Lucy Barton herself more bluntly puts it, the many ways “people are always looking to feel superior to someone else.”
Other stories have to do with sexual shame, or with the tragic ways close neighbors or family members misread each other; but I’m making Anything Is Possible sound too grim when, in fact, so many of these stories end in an understated (低调的) gesture of forgiveness. Strout is in that special company of writers like Richard Ford, Stewart O’Nan and Richard Russo, who write simply about ordinary lives and, in so doing, make us readers see the beauty of both their worn and rough surfaces and what lies beneath.
1.The author of the article may have reviewed these books EXCEPT_______.
A. Amy and Isabelle B. The Burgess Boys
C. Anything Is Possible D. Olive Kitteridge
2.What can be inferred according to the second paragraph?
A. The book Anything Is Possible depends wholly on that Barton girl.
B. The character Lucy floats in and out of these disconnected stories.
C. An ordinary character in one story can be a leading role in another.
D. Elizabeth Strout isn’t skillful at describing small characters in life.
3.Shelley freezes Dottie out the next morning because _______.
A. she feels she is superior to Dottie
B. Dottie spits into the breakfast jam
C. Dottie desires to be middle-class
D. she regrets the confidence in Dottie
4.The sentence “Indeed almost all of Strout’s characters have sharp eyes and even sharper observations to make when it comes to that great American subject: class.” should be put in ______.
A. ① B. ②
C. ③ D. ④
5.The tone of the article can be described as _______.
A. depressing B. critical
C. appreciative D. indifferent
6.What might be the best title for the passage?
A. Anything Is Possible — unquietness depths of ordinary lives
B. Elizabeth Strout — an outstanding Pulitzer Prize Winner
C. Anything Is Possible — a collection of grim short stories
D. Elizabeth Strout — a writer with clever writing techniques
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My deskmate admires my fluent English very much and I usually feel _1.___(encourage) by his compliments。
One day, _2._ we learned the new word “eccentric” in class, we __3.__(ask) to make a sentence with it. I volunteered to do it by saying “My deskmate is an eccentric boy __4.__ clothes never fit him。” _5.__(Hear) this, the whole class burst into __6._(laugh) and my deskmate’s face turned red. __7.__ class, I learned from the teacher that my deskmate would have dropped out of school if he hadn’t been helped by others. My mindless words must__8._(hurt) him deeply。
Not until then did I realize words could be powerful in_9.__positive and negative ways. We should avoid hurting _10.__(other) if we can’t always be encouraging when we speak。
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My deskmate admires my fluent English very much and I usually feel ____1.___(encourage) by his compliments。
One day, when we learned the new word “eccentric” __2.___ class, we ___3.____(ask) to make a sentence with it. I volunteered to do it by saying “My deskmate is an eccentric boy ___4.___ clothes never fit him。” ____5.____(Hear) this, the whole class burst out ____6.___(laugh) and my deskmate’s face turned red. After class, I learned from the teacher that my deskmate would have dropped out of school ___7.____ he hadn’t been helped by others. My mindless words must____8.____(hurt) him deeply。
Not until then did I realize words could be powerful in___9.___positive and negative ways. We should avoid __10.____(hurt) others if we can’t always be encouraging when we speak。
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My legs don’t do much because I have a serious disease. They just sit there and look pretty. When people look at me, they only see the chair — my wheelchair. I’ve been in one since I was 3 years old. And it doesn’t matter if I graduate at the top of my class and go to law school. To some, I’ll always be the girl in the chair.
But I don’t think of myself as the kid who can’t walk. Most of my friends don’t even notice the chair anymore. I’m just the girl they’ve been friends with. My friends are good at lifting me in and out of my small car when we go to the movies. We even took the car to the dance. One of the boys helped me out of the car and all the girls helped me to fix my dress. Even in the crowded school elevator, there’s always someone around to carry me.
There are a lot of things I can’t do for myself, such as lifting my arms, dressing myself, and feeding myself. Even so, I do very well at school and I always tell myself that I’m just like any other kid in my school.
The truth is that my parents raised me to be proud of my disability(残疾). There are plenty of things I wish I could do differently. I wanted to be a doctor. But that’s not going to work out. So I’ll be a lawyer(律师) instead. I also wanted to dance and play soccer. My parents taught me that I’m like this for a reason — to educate people and show them that this disease affects(侵袭) my bones — not my brain. My friends Erica once said to me, “Kennedy, you’re not disabled. You just can’t walk.”
1.What does the underlined word “They” in the first paragraph refer to?
A. The author’s legs B. The author’s chairs
C. The author’s friends D. The author’s diseases
2.We can learn from the second paragraph that the author .
A. is the dancing queen of her school
B. is afraid of taking the school elevator
C. often gets lots of help from her friends
D. can’t be understood by her schoolmates
3.Kennedy’s story mainly tells us that we should .
A. work hard B. smile at life
C. have dreams D. thank our parents
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完形填空。
My mom cooked for my classmates in my elementary school.Although she loved me so much,I still hated her.I was ______ to accept the fact that she was different and ______ talking with her in my school.
One day my mom accidentally met me and greeted me with ______.To her surprise,I ______ her on purpose,threw her a hateful look and ran away.Later,one of my classmates said,“Your mom is very ______ with only one eye.”Just then,I did nothing but my face burned with ______ .On reaching home,I complained to her that she made me embarrassed.I barely noticed her ______ because of anger,much ______ stopped to think for a second about my rude ______ .I must have hurt her feelings.
Being eager to escape from my home,I studied hard,hoping for a chance to live far away.Years later,my ______ eventually paid off and was admitted to a university.After graduation,I settled in another city,devoted to my family and ______ came home.One day,I received a call regarding a school reunion. ______ ,I returned to attend our reunion where I chatted with my teacher.She told me a ______ ,which shocked me and made a ______ .She said she ______ to do this because she had promised my mother not to say it.Then she said she was ______ of my mother,who couldn’t ______ watching me growing up with ______ .When I was very little,I was involved in an accident,and lost one eye.As a mother,she gave me hers.
At that moment,I burst into tears and rushed out to my home with great ______ .I came to know that our mother loved us ______ and never expected any reward.
1.A.hopeless B.determinedC.pleased D.unwilling
2.A.avoided B.started C.risked D.enjoyed
3.A.anxiety B.pleasure C.appreciation D.curiosity
4.A.resisted B.refused C.ignored D.scared
5.A.special B.typical C.annoyed D.disappointed
6.A.sorrow B.shame C.guilt D.dissatisfaction
7.A.attitude B.wisdom C.misunderstanding D.response
8.A.later B.worse C.less D.further
9.A.thought B.behavior C.courage D.reaction
10.A.enthusiasm B.confidence C.effort D.determination
11.A.hardly B.occasionally C.frequently D.immediately
12.A.Instead B.However C.Otherwise D.Therefore
13.A.lie B.story C.secret D.joke
14.A.fortune B.difference C.decision D.contribution
15.A.hesitated B.attempted C.failed D.pretended
16.A.tired B.frightened C.ashamed D.proud
17.A.insist B.deny C.admit D.stand
18.A.disability B.shortcoming C.doubt D.protection
19.A.devotion B.admiration C.regret D.relief
20.A.violently B.unconditionally C.faithfully D.automatically
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
My teacher as well as my classmates _____ very kind to me.
A. are B. is
C. do D. does.
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