According to the information from the airline...

According to the information from the airline, a small sinking part of the runway of the airport is _____________ for the accident.

A. to blame          B. to be blamed       C. to blaming        D. to be blaming

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

According to the information from the airline, a small sinking part of the runway of the airport is _______ for the accident.

A. to blame　　　　　　 B. to be blamed　　　　 C. to blaming　　　　　 D. to be blaming

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Here are Important Travel Notices from United Airlines, March 20, 2016 7:12 AM. Information is updated as it is received.

1. Travel and the Zika virus

If you have a ticket for travel to a country affected by the Zika virus(as listed on the CDC website) and have concerns, please contact the United Customer Contact Center with any questions or changes to your reservation. Customers advised to avoid the affected regions based on CDC guidance may change their destination or travel date without a fee or may choose to receive a refund(退款) if their tickets were booked before February 29,2016. The new travel date must be within the validity of the ticket. Additional charges may apply if there is a difference in fare for the new travel route.

2. Longer lines at security checkpoints

Procedural changes at TSA checkpoints throughout the United States may result in longer lines at security checkpoints. Please plan accordingly and allow for extra time at the airport. The TSA advises arriving at the airport two hours before your flight for US travel and three hours before for international travel. To save time at security, we encourage you to visit www.tsa.gov.com and apply for TSA pre-check.

3. Notice for flight departing the European Union, Norway and Switzerland

EU Regulation 261/2004 requires airlines to provide the following notice: If you are not allowed to board or if your flight is canceled or delayed for at least two hours, ask at the check-in counter or boarding gate for the form, stating your rights, particularly about compensation assistance.

1.Travelers have to pay additional fees when they want to _____.

A. change their reservation

B. change travel date

C. receive their refund

D. change to a dearer route

2.What do we know from Notice 2?

A. Security check possibly takes time in the USA.

B. Security checkpoints are not available.

C. Security check wastes a long time.

D. Pre-check can easily be done online.

3.Compensation can be asked for when _____.

A. passengers refuse to board the plane

B. passengers trips canceled in advance

C. passengers' flight is delayed at least two hours

D. passengers miss their flight due to traffic jam

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage.

Energy drinks are now available (可购得的) in nearly every store and they promise to make people feel more energetic and think more clearly. these products have names like Red Bull , Monster, 5-Hour Energy and so on, which appeal mainly to young adults and teenagers.

Chad is a medical researcher who got interested in studying energy drinks because of the explosion (猛增) in their popularing in the last few years.He says he and his research team have found three major things about energy drinks. One: there are huandreds of brands of energy drinks in most major countries. Two: the drinks are not clearly labeled (用标签标明) with enough information such as what are contained in the drink, the date and even t names of their makers. And three: the amount of caffeine ( 加啡因) varies greatly. Some contain as little as fifty milligrams, others as much as five hundred.

Some energy drinks contain a mixture of ingredients (配料) listed as an “energy blend”. But scientists do not know a lot about them and how they interact with each other. These ingredients may be dangerous for people who drink them. What is worse , he says, there is no listing of the amount of each ingredient. Some makers of energy drinks do provide warnings. For example, a popular energy drink warns against use by people who are nursing a baby or under the age of twelve.

Chad and his team suggest labeling energy drinks with the amount of caffeine and other ingredients clearly in order to protect the health of the public. And the government officials are considering their suggestions now.

1. What do the energy drinks promise to do? (no more than 10 words)

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2. Why did Chad get interested in studying energy drinks? (no more than12 words)

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3. Who are the main users of energy drinks? (no more than5 words)

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4. Please explain the underlined word “interact” in English. (no more than8 words)

高二英语其他题中等难度题查看答案及解析

Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage.

I’m not a fast reader and I don’t read as much as many other people, but reading is something I enjoy. It opens new worlds to me and widens my perspective(洞察力,眼力).

Recently I found Kobo，an online book store that allows me to buy e-books and read them on a device of my choice. I’m a girl living in Indonesia, where e-books are not available and I had to buy physical books from Amazon in the past. There are two problems with it:

Shipping cost. Since I live far away from the United States, it costs a lot to ship a book. Shipping costs almost as much as the book itself.

Shipping time. It takes about three weeks for the books to arrive through postal mail.

Now with Kobo, I can eliminate those two problems. Not only does it cost less time and money to get the books, but also I prefer to read e-books this way than reading physical books. Here are three reasons why:

I can easily bring the books everywhere. Since all the books are in my iPod touch, I can simply put the device into my pocket and bring it everywhere I go.

The size is smaller. The size of the iPod Touch is smaller than a physical book. This makes reading more convenient for me.

I can read in any position I want. The iPod has a light source, so I can read when I am in darkness. This means that I can read in practically any position and condition.

One more advantage I haven’t mentioned is space. Physical books take space, but e-books don’t.

1.Why does the author like reading? (no more than 11 words)

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2.What are the problems with buying physical books from Amazon? (no more than 9 words)

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3.How can the author read when she is in darkness? (no more than 6 words)

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4.What’s the author’s attitude towards e-books? (no more than 1 word)

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高二英语其他题中等难度题查看答案及解析

Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

How we look and how we appear to others probably worry us more when we are in our teens or early twenties than at any other time in our life. Few of us are content to accept ourselves as we are, and few are brave enough to ignore the trends of fashion.

Most fashion magazines or TV advertisements try to persuade us that we should dress in a certain way or behave in a certain manner. If we do, they tell us, we will be able to meet new people with confidence and deal with every situation confidently and without embarrassment.

Changing fashion, of course, does not apply just to dress. A barber today does not cut a boy’s hair in the same way as he used to, and girls do not make up in the same way as their mothers and grandmothers did. The advertisers show us the latest fashionable styles and we are constantly under pressure to follow the fashion in case our friends think we are odd or dull.

What causes fashions to change? Sometimes convenience or practical necessity or just the fancy of an influential person can establish a fashion. Take hats for example. In cold climates, early buildings were cold inside, so people wore hats indoors as well as outside. In recent times, the late President Kennedy caused a depression in the American hat industry by not wearing hats; more American men followed his example.

There is also a cyclical pattern in fashion. In the 1920’s in Europe and America, short skirts became fashionable. After World War II, they dropped to ankle length. Then they got shorter and shorter and the miniskirt was in fashion. After a few more years, skirts became longer again.

Today, society is much freer and easier than it used to be. It is no longer necessary to dress like everyone else. Within reason, you can dress as you like or do your hair the way you like instead of the way you should because it is the fashion. The popularity of jeans and the “unity” look seems to be a reaction against the increasingly expensive fashion of the top fashion houses.

1.What do the fashion magazines or TV advertisements claim to bring us?(No more than 1 word)

2.Why does the writer take President Kennedy as an example?(No more than 12 words)

3.What does the writer try to explain by talking about short skirts? (No more than 7 words)

4.Why are jeans so popular according to the writer? (No more than 10 words)

高二英语其他题中等难度题查看答案及解析

Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

Facts are sometimes more unusual than fiction. The following case makes Agatha Christie’s plot look like children’s literature.

The medical inspection of Ronald Opus’s body showed that he died from a shot gun wound of the head. He had jumped from the top of a ten-storey building intending to commit suicide(自杀). As he fell past the ninth floor, a shotgun blast through a window killed him immediately. Neither the shooter nor Opus knew that a safety net had been put up at the eighth floor level to protect some window washers and that Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide anyway because of this.

In the room on the ninth floor where the shotgun blast went through  an elderly man and his wife were arguing and he was threatening her with the shotgun. He was so upset that when he pulled the trigger（扳机）, he completely missed his wife and the pellets（小子弹） went through the window, striking the falling Opus.

The old man said it was his long-term habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore, the killing of Opus seemed to be an accident. That is, the gun had been accidentally loaded.

The continuing investigation(调查) turned up a witness who saw the old couple’s son loading the shotgun six weeks before the fatal incident. It turned out that the old lady had cut off his son’s financial(经济的) support and the son, knowing the habit of his father to use the shotgun threateningly against his mother, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother.

Further investigation showed that the son had become increasingly depressed over the failure of his attempt to engineer(密谋策划) his mother’s murder. This led him to jump off the ten-storey building, only to be killed by a shotgun blast through a ninth floor window.

The case was closed as a suicide.

1.Who shot Ronald Opus? （no more than 2 words）

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2.Who loaded the old man’s shotgun? （no more than 2 words）

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3.What was the safety net put up at the eighth floor used for? （no more than 8 words）

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4.What was the old man’s long-term habit? （no more than 8 words）

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高二英语任务型阅读困难题查看答案及解析

Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit.（6 points）

Write your answers on your answer sheet.

As we rush through our busy days accomplishing our tasks-work，kids，shopping，cleaning, eating and so on，we often complain that we don’t feel good．There is a simple，quick，and effective way that you can feel better throughout the day and also be more attractive.

All you have to do is smile more．

Smiling changes your attitude，whether you realize it or not．If you have any doubts，next time you feel down，start smiling and thinking positive thoughts and see what happens．You can’t help but have a better attitude when you smile．

Smiling also raises your confidence．

Smiling affects your emotions because of a brain-body connection．It triggers scientifically measurable activity in the left，frontal cortex-the area of the brain where happiness is registered．

Your face has 44 muscles between the skin，cartilage（软骨），blood and bone that you contort（扭曲）, flex, and move．This lets you make over 5000 different types of expressions．That’s a lot of expressions! And each will have a different effect on your feelings and those looking at you.

Now that you know how good smiling is for you，make a conscious effort to use this smile  exercise a minimum of six times throughout your day．When you smile，remember to breathe in  through your nose and think positive thoughts．This I guarantee will have a positive influence on  your day and in your life．So smile!

76．How can you feel good and be more attractive according to this passage?（within 2 words．）

_______________________________________________________________________________77．Why can we make more than 5，000 different types of expressions?（within 19 words．）

_______________________________________________________________________________78．What are the benefits of smiling?（within 12 words．）

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高二英语填空题简单题查看答案及解析

Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart(购物手推车). They will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know—or even think to ask—who it was that invented them.

Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging(吃力地携带) groceries around in baskets they had to carry.

One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.

On June 4, 1937, Goldman’s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn’t wait to see them using his invention.

But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try.

After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren’t using his carts. “Don’t you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?” one shopper replied.

But Goldman wasn’t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To end this, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony(假冒的)customers.

As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come—those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.

Today’s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman’s original model. Perhaps that’s one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937—before the coming of the shopping cart.

1.What do the underlined words “chrome-plate contraptions” in Paragraph 1 refer to ? ( no more than 3 words)

2.What was the purpose of Goldman’s invention? (no more than 8 words)

3.Why was Goldman disappointed at first? (no more than 6 words)

4.Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? (no more than 10 words)

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

The worst US economic recession (萧条) in 70 years is forcing senior citizens out of retirement, leaving them fighting for jobs in a weak labor market or risking homelessness.

A study by Experience Works, released on Tuesday, showed 46 percent of the 2,000 low income people over 55 years who participated needed to find work to keep their homes. Nearly half of them had been searching for work for more than a year.

“These people are at the age where they understandably thought their job-searching years were behind them,” said Cynthia Metzler, president and CEO of Experience Works.

“But here they are, many in their 60s, 70s and beyond, desperate to find work so they can keep a roof over their heads and food on the table.”

According to the study, many of the participants had no intention of working past their 60th birthday, but had to change plans after being dismissed or following the death of the partner. Over a third of the participants had retired.

Ninety percent of respondents 76 years and older planned to continue working for the next five years.

Huge medical bills due to a personal illness or that of a spouse(配偶) were also reasons for coming out of retirement, the survey found. The longest and deepest economic slump since the 1930s is making finding a job for the low-income elderly workers a difficult challenge.

The Experience Works study found that 46 percent of the elderly jobseekers were sometimes forced to choose between paying rent, buying food or medication. Almost three-quarters believed their age made it harder to compete for jobs with younger workers.

“This study underscores calls for the need to create policies that remove barriers to employment for older workers and provide additional programs and services specifically aimed at helping older people re-enter the work force or remain working,” said Metzler.

1. What has caused the American retired senior citizens back to work?  (No more than 8 words)

2. Why is it hard for the elderly job seekers to find a job?  (No more than 13 words)

3. Use several words to describe the possible feelings of the elderly job seekers? (No more than 4 words)

4. What might be the solution to the problem according to the study?  (No more than 15 words)

高二英语其他题中等难度题查看答案及解析