When I visit Merle, I always head straight to...

When I visit Merle, I always head straight to the kitchen. I play with her dog, and get settled at the table while Merle makes cups of tea for us.

We talk about anything we can think of: politics, dogs, the weather, and work. It’s a ritual that I look forward to days in advance.

To an outsider, my visit appears to be simply the typical act of a granddaughter visiting her grandmother. But Merle and I are not related. She is my surrogate grandmother(代理外祖母）.

I didn’t even realize I was in the market for a new grandparent until I gradually found that the relationship between Merle and I was exactly what I had with my maternal(母性的） grandparents—safe and comfortable.

While our relationship developed organically, there are plenty of people who have gone out searching for a grandparent-grandchild relationship.

Sydney-based Cate Kloos started “Find a Grandparent” in May 2012, after moving to Australia from Germany. While she enjoyed a close relationship with her grandparents in her native country, she realized her own children would be without their extended family(大家庭). She wanted them to benefit in the same way that she had. Grandparents, she says, offer a different but essential kind of support.

“Find a Grandparent” works much like a match-mating service, where young families or individuals can ask for someone to act as a grandparent figure in their life. So far, several hundred families have made connections and spend time doing typical activities—lunch, going to movies and sharing stories.

“It is very important to have another person to turn to when they have problems; often grandparents have a different approach to life,” said Kloos.

1.How does the author feel about her visit to Merle?

A. It is very formal.

B. It makes her nervous.

C. It gives her great pleasure.

D. It is a source of inspiration for her.

2.Why did Kloos decide to start “Find a Parent”?

A. To honor her grandparents.

B. To make people closer to each other.

C. To bring warmth to elderly people.

D. To enable her kids to get more emotional support.

3.What does Kloos stress in the last paragraph?

A. The qualities of grandparents.

B. The important role of grandparents.

C. We should have a positive attitude to life.

D. We should spend more time with our family.

4.What’s the best title for the text?

A. Merle and I

B. My role-model

C. Biological or surrogate?

D. Finding surrogate grandparents

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

He always brings me a pretty gift 　　　 he comes to visit me.

高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

While visiting the robot exhibition, the professor kept nodding his head to express his _______ with his students’ work.

A. description           B. congratulation       C. ambition             D. satisfaction

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

When baby turtles first come out of eggs, they head to the sea by nature. The beach surface goes down, which is one directional clue they follow. Another is light: The horizon (地平线) over the sea is brighter than the horizon over land.

But lights from towns and beach developments can confuse the baby turtles. The sky shining above a city can mislead them to wander. And particularly bright lights can draw them away from the sea.

You’d think the extra time crawling (爬行) might wear out baby turtles, which need energy　 once they get in the water to swim for about a day to get to their destination in the sea. In a normal trip from nests to waves, the babies build up chemicals that show they have been pushing themselves.

Some researchers took the baby turtles to a lab, where they ran on a treadmill and swam in a tank while their blood and breathing were monitored. The finding is surprising: even after hours of crawling, the turtles were fine by all measures and swam as well as turtles that didn't have an extra crawling period.

The reason is that they often stop while crawling if they are doing U for a long time, unlike the disturbed trip they make when heading straight to the water. So misled turtles are not worn out.

But the misleading lights are still a problem for the babies. The longer they spend on the beach wandering, the more they are exposed to natural enemies. They can also end up losing their lives in the heat of the sun.

1.What attracts the baby turtles away from the sea?

A.Bright lights. B.Vast beaches.

C.Buildings in cities. D.Noises from towns.

2.What does the underlined word “they” refer to in paragraph 3?

A.Chemicals. B.Nests.

C.Waves. D.Baby turtles.

3.Why don’t the baby turtles feel exhausted after long crawling?

A.They travel by night. B.Their trip is undisturbed.

C.They take frequent breaks. D.They are refreshed by city lights.

4.What may happen to the baby turtles exposed to misleading lights?

A.They are in great danger.

B.They avoid their natural enemies.

C.They will wander on the beach for a while.

D.They are more likely to find the destination.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

The pretty girl is always busy helping her mother with the housework _________ I go to visit her family.

高二英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析

It was a cold night in Washington, D.C. and I was heading back to the hotel when a beggar walked up to me. He asked if I would give him some money so he could get something to eat. After a short hesitation, I shook my head and kept walking. With helplessness, he said, “I really am homeless and I really am hungry! You can come with me and watch me eat!” But still, I kept on walking.

The incident bothered me for the rest of the week. In fact, I had money in my pocket and it wouldn’t have killed me to hand over a dollar or two even if he had been lying. On a freezing cold night, I wondered what would happen to a hungry man.

Flying back to my hometown, Anchorage, I couldn’t help thinking of him. I tried to find excuses for my failure to help. After all, government agencies, churches and charities were there to feed him. Besides, you’re not supposed to give money to beggars.

But I just couldn’t forget the incident and began to think I must do something. At that time, I was writing a garden column(专栏) for the local Daily News. Suddenly, I came up with an idea. Why not try to get all my readers to plant one row in their gardens donated to Bean’s? Bean’s Cafe, the soup kitchen which has volunteered to feed hundreds of hungry people every day for many years.

The idea began to take off. I began to receive more e-mails and calls from kind people. They tried their best to show their concerns about the hungry. Food was sent by different warm-hearted people and even those who only grew flowers sent their flowers. They are food for the spirit, which comforted me a lot.

Next year, the Garden Writers Association of America held their annual conference in Anchorage and after learning of Anchorage’s program, Plant a Row for Bean’s became Plant a Row for the Hungry. You can imagine how happy I was then.

1. According to the passage, the reason why the author refused to give some money to the beggar probably is that ________.

A. he happened not to take money then

B. he wasn’t fond of beggars

C. he thought that the beggar was lying

D. he didn’t like being bothered

2.Why did the author can’t help thinking of the beggar ?

A. Because he felt he had done wrong for his failure to help him.

B. Because he wanted to know whether the beggar had lied to him.

C. Because he was worried that the beggar might die from hunger.

D. Because some agencies, churches and charities should help the beggar.

3. What does the underlined phrase “take off” in Paragraph 5 mean?

A. remove clothes. 　　　　　　　　 B. leave suddenly.

C. become successful. 　　　　　　 D. come into being.

4. What’s the correct order to record the author’s launch of the program “Plant a Row for the Hungry?”

① He ran into a beggar.

② He was regretful.

③ He came up with the idea of planting a row for Bean’s.

④ The Plant a Row for Bean's became Plant a Row for the Hungry.

⑤ He went back home.

⑥ Writers gathered in Anchorage.

A. ①②③④⑤⑥.　　 　　 　 B. ①⑤②③④⑥.

C. ①②⑤③④⑥.　　 　　 D. ①②⑤③⑥④.

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The sun was just coming up when I headed out to work last May at 6 a.m. Not quite dark but dark enough to need my headlights. I turned onto one of the lonely rural country roads.

Maybe it was because I was listening to the radio, maybe it was because I was already thinking about some projects at work, that I didn’t spot the dark object on the road until I was too late. I ran over it and felt the back left tire pull, and then sink. I stopped and got out of the car.

No mystery here---- my back left tyre was cut like a loaf of bread. Back 50 yards was a piece of sharp iron I had run over. I had never changed a tyre. I looked up the road. Not a car in either direction. The nearest service station was miles away. I threw up my hands. Then I remembered---- my cell phone! I powered it up before realizing, I didn’t know who to call.

Wouldn’t you know it, I spotted a car coming from the opposite direction. The driver slowed as he approached. I guessed he could see I was in trouble. He stopped his car, got out and immediately saw the trouble. “Madam, would you like me to change that tyre for you?” he asked. The man couldn’t have been more friendly. I was frightened out there and he put me completely at ease. “There,” he said, after putting on the spare, “you are all set to go.”

“Good thing for me that you were driving this way,” I told him, as I climbed back into my car.

“Funny you should say that,” he said. “Just like you, I was heading to work, but my job is in the opposite direction. I made a wrong turn at some point. I don’t know what I was thinking.”

1.The writer didn’t notice the object on the road because ______.

A. it was rather dark then                 B. she didn’t use her headlights

C. there was much traffic                  D. she was careless when driving

2.From Paragraph 4 we learn that______.

A. the writer felt quite anxious

B. no one would like to help the writer

C. the writer was a new driver

D. the cell phone should be powered up

3.What did the man do when he saw the writer?

A. He stopped and laughed at her.

B. He walked over to frighten her.

C. He helped her without hesitation.

D. He drove away in the opposite direction.

4.The end of the story tells us that the man ______.

A. went a wrong way                       B. felt the writer funny

C. didn’t know what he was doing     D. come specially to help the writer

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Stephen was on campus to register when I first met him.

One summer day ______ I was heading for the administration building, I heard someone call my name. I ______ around and saw Philip, one of my colleagues standing with another young man. As Philip introduced me to the young man, named Stephen, he reminded him that he would be taking one of my ______, Introduction to Literature. With a somewhat ______ expression, Stephen asked if my class was going to be “hard”. Would he be able to pass? I ______ he was concerned about failing before the ______ day of classes. We talked about what the class would ______ and I saw Stephen’s eyes getting big with ______.

Then I remembered a bit of classical dialogue:

Question: “How do you eat an elephant?”

Answer: “One bite at a time.”

I told him to ______ his work that way. Do his assignments, all of them, and get them in on time. I ______ that most successful students I knew made a timetable of all the assignments so they could ______ their workload in advance.

As time went on, I learned more of Stephen’s story. He had ______ in middle school. It had taken him longer to finish than most young people. Family members, including his mother, kept reminding him that he was a ______. Now, in the face of their negative-saying he had been admitted into college. He told me that before coming to our campus no one had believed he had much ______.

Stephen didn’t become an “A” student. He didn’t make any honor rolls. ______, he managed to pass most of his courses by being in class every day, turning in all of his assignments on time and ______ his studying into bite-sized digestible parts. By passing course after course he began to gain a measure of self-respect. He was a great singer and he was ______ the school’s cross-country team.

Every time I saw him on campus, he would brighten up and say, “One bite at a time.” Whenever he introduced me to his friends, he would tell them that he was ______ when he was supposed to be failing. His ______, he said, was that he was ______ what I taught him before classes ever started: “Take it one bite at a time.”

1.A.since B.when C.once D.until

2.A.turned B.sat C.moved D.went

3.A.jobs B.tests C.classes D.projects

4.A.innocent B.angry C.inspired D.pained

5.A.sensed B.imagined C.heard D.admitted

6.A.gathering B.parting C.closing D.opening

7.A.change B.adjust C.cover D.produce

8.A.satisfaction B.anger C.fear D.relaxation

9.A.avoid B.continue C.present D.approach

10.A.warned B.announced C.argued D.added

11.A.plan B.increase C.ease D.share

12.A.fitted B.hesitated C.struggled D.progressed

13.A.cheat B.failure C.winner D.leader

14.A.experience B.information C.potential D.honor

15.A.Still B.Otherwise C.Therefore D.Besides

16.A.taking up B.breaking down C.going over D.getting through

17.A.for B.on C.at D.of

18.A.wondering B.recovering C.concentrating D.succeeding

19.A.secret B.skill C.reply D.theory

20.A.spreading B.considering C.practicing D.expressing

高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

He always brings me a pretty gift ____ he comes to visit me.

A. by the time　　　 B. sometimes

C. every time　　　　 D. at times

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

He always brings me a pretty gift ____ he comes to visit me.

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析