Ammie was only 18 months old when she had an ...

Ammie was only 18 months old when she had an accident that scarred her for life. While her mother was away for a moment , the curious baby reached up to a hot kettle in the kitchen and poured boiling water all over her body.

An ambulance was called and rushed the baby to a nearby hospital. About 20 percent of Ammie’s body had been burned and all of her burns were third degree. The doctors could tell immediately that Ammie’s best chance of survival was specialized burns unit some miles away at Glasgow Royal hospital.

There , using tissue taken from unburned areas of Ammie’s body, surgeons performed complex skin grafts（植皮手术）to close her wounds and control her injuries , an operation that took about six hours. Over the next 16 years, Ammie underwent（经历）12 more operations to repair her body.

When she started school at the age of 4, other pupils made cruel comments or simply wouldn’t play with her . “I was the only burned child in the street, the class and the school,” she recalls, “Some children refused to become friends with me because of that.”

Today, age 17, Ammie can only ever remember being a burned person with scars ; pain is a permanent part of her life, she is still awaiting two further operations. Yet she is a confident, outgoing teenager who offers inspiration and hope to other young burnt victims.

Ammie’s parents have been a great support to her. “They told me people had a problem with my burns, the problem with my burns, the problem was theirs not mine,” says Ammie. “They taught me to cope with other people’s reactions and constantly reminded me I was valued and loved.” Ammie’s positive attitude to life means she is often contacted by burns charities（慈善机构）, helping younger patients build their self-respect to live with permanent scars.

Now she is a member the Scottish Burned Children’s Club. “Ammie provides so much encouragement for the younger ones. She is optimistic and outgoing and a perfect role model for them , ” say Donald Todd, chairman of the club.

This month, Ammie will join some younger children on a summer camp. “I’ll show them how to shrug off  unkind stares from others , ” she says. Ammie loves wearing fashionable sleeveless tops（无袖上衣）, and she plans to show the children at the summer camp that they can too. “I don’t go to great lengths to hide my scars,” she says. “I gave up wondering how other people would react years ago.”

1.Ammie was taken to Glasgow Royal hospital because________.71—75 DDABD

2.How many operations will Ammie have to receive altogether?

3.The underlined phrase “shrug off” in the last paragraph is closet in meaning to ________.

4.Which of the following best describes Ammie?

5.What is the main idea of the passage?

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Ammie Reddick from East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, was only 18 months old when she had the accident that had scarred（留下创伤） her for life. The curious child reached up to grab the wire of a hot kettle in the family kitchen and poured boiling water over her tiny infant frame.

Her mother Ruby turned round and, seeing Ammie horribly burnt, called an ambulance which rushed her daughter to a nearby hospital. Twenty percent of Ammie’s body had been burned and all of her burns were third-degree. There, using tissue taken from unburned areas of Ammie’s body, doctors performed complex skin transplants to close her wounds and control her injuries, an operation that took about six hours. Over the next 16 years, Ammie underwent 12 more operations to repair her body.

When she started school at Maxwelton Primary at age 4, other pupils made cruel comments or simply wouldn’t play with her. “I was the only burned child in the street, the class and the school,” she recalled, “some children refused to become friends because of that.”

Today, aged 17, Ammie can only ever remember being a burned person with scars; pain is a permanent part of her body. She still has to have two further skin transplants. Yet she is a confident, outgoing teenager who offers inspiration and hope to other young burns victims.

She is a member of the Scottish Burned Children’s Club, a charity set up last year. This month, Ammie will be joining the younger children at the Graffham Water Center in Cambridgeshire for the charity’s first summer camp. “I’ll show them how to get rid of unkind stares from others,” she says. Ammie loves wearing fashionable sleeveless tops, and she plans to show the youngsters at the summer camp that they can too. “I do not go to great lengths to hide my burns scars,” she says, “I gave up wondering how other people would react years ago.”

1.How many operations has Ammie already had?

A．Twelve           B．Thirteen          C．fourteen          D．Fifteen

2.What did other children do when Ammie first went to school?

A．They were friendly to her.                 B．They showed sympathy to her.

C．They were afraid of her.                  D．They looked down upon her.

3.Ammie will teach the younger children at the Graffham Water Center to___________.

A．face others’ unkindness bravely          B．hide their scars by proper dressing

C．live a normal life                        D．recover quickly

4.Which of the following words can’t properly describe Ammie?

A．Courageous        B．Confident         C．sensitive          D．Outgoing

5.What can be the best title of the passage?

A．A Seriously Burned Girl Survives            B．Ways to Get Rid of Unkind Stares

C．Permanent Scars And Pain For a Girl         D．A seriously burned angel of Hope

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When I was eight years old, I had a big accident. I get scared even now when I think about that time. There were many people skating near my house, and seeing them skate so wonderfully, I couldn’t wait to have a try, just a piece of cake, I thought .

I went with a friend who was very skillful. He spent a long time teaching me how to skate , but I still didn’t learn much , which made him very angry. Finally , he left me and skated all around. I skated alone and soon got bored because I kept falling down so I took off my skates and just walked around on the ice in my shoes. It was cold and my feet were frozen.

Suddenly, I stepped on something that was not hard. What was it ? It was a weak place in the ice . When I stepped there, I sank under the ice. I thought that I was going to die, but I did my best to grab something to get out from under the ice. I would have climbed out myself by grabbing the edge of the ice, but at that time I was only a child of eight . I cried out.

Fortunately, someone helped me. He grabbed my arms and pulled me up. Those several minutes seemed a year to me. I thanked him. At that time, my friend came back. I was annoyed at him because he was supposed to take care of me, but he didn’t. He was embarrassed. When I took a taxi home, the taxi driver was surprised and asked what had happened. I didn’t want to say anything because I was tired and scared. Since then, I have never touched skating.

1.At first the writer thought that skating _________________.

A．was hard to learn

B．was only suitable to watch

C．was easy to learn

D．can only be done with support

2. Why did the writer’s friend leave and skate alone? ___________

A．He wanted to show off his skating skill before the writer.

B．He was disappointed at the writer’s performance.

C．He was too tired to go on teaching the writer.

D．He found he had no gift for teaching others to skate.

3. According to the writer, if an adult sank under the ice, he would _____________.

A．grab the edge of the ice and get out.

B．have courage to call for help

C．wait until people came to help

D．not like to accept others’ help

4.What effect did the accident have on the writer?

A．He broke away from his irresponsible friend.

B．He didn’t dare to skate any longer

C．He fell ill because of staying under ice too longer.

D．He lost interest in all kinds of sports.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Only when he almost knocked her down ______ an old woman was in front of his car.

A.he had found B.had he found

C.he found D.did he find

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完形填空 （共20小题；每小题l分，满分20分）

When Andra Rush started her trucking company, all she had was an old van，two used pick-up trucks and the simple certainty of a 23-year-old girl. But she planned to make her fortune in about four years to  36  her true goal: dealing with poverty on Native American reservations across North America. "I thought I could retire by the time I was 27," says Rush, "At that age, you don't know37  you don't know."

Rush is 49 now and 38  working hard. Her tiny start-up just outside Detroit has39  to a $400 million North American business. Today Rush is a(an) 40  not only for Native Americans but also for women in the male-controlled world of trucking.

Rush was 41 30 miles outside Detroit. When the teenage Rush visited the reservation for the first time, she was 42  by the poverty and lack of hope. "I really wanted to 43  " she says.

She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1982. She took a nursing job with a 44 pay and then practiced at an air goods company, 45 the speed of package pickups and deliveries made a little more a little more profits. "I thought I could do that 46 ," Rush says.

Within six months, Rush had ten employees, and clients(客户)47 Ford and GM were paying her to 48 small packages from the airport. Ford was the first to offer her a job trucking parts between its plants and supplier.

By 2001, many of Rush's 1,000 employees were Native Americans, working alongside people of every 49  But she felt she hadn't done enough. 50  she joined forces with a Canadian parts maker to design and gather auto components.

She located the plants near reservations, 51 opportunities where they were needed most. By 2009, her auto parts business was earning $370 million 52 .

She's come a long way from the 53   23-year-old who thought "the cash would just roll in." But Rush wouldn't change a thing: "I love my job," she says. "I 54 the fact that you can start to get some motivation and keep 55  yourself—and then suddenly you lift your head and it's been 25 years"

1.A．make            B. accomplish        C.  receive      D．arrive

2.A．what            B．which             C．why           D．who

3. A．so             B．somehow           C．still         D．anyhow

4. A.  grown         B．become            C．got           D．gone

5.A．able housewife  B．ordinary woman    C．role model    D．truck driver

6. A．brought        B．lived             C．risen         D．raised

7. A．moved          B．interested        C．struck        D．encouraged

8. A have an influence                    B．make a difference  C．set an example   D．make a decision

9. A．low            B．high              C．cheap         D．expensive

10.A．which          B．that              C．when          D．where

11.A．well           B．badly             C．worse         D．better

12.A．like           B．besides           C．for           D．except

13.A．take           B．fetch             C．bring         D．lift

14.A．education      B．family            C．background    D．city

15.A．Because        B．For               C．But           D．So

16.A．seizing        B．creating          C．grasping      D．losing

17..A．in case       B．in turn           C．in return     D．in need

18.A．inexperienced  B．experienced       C．expert        D．skilled

19.A．enjoy          B．hate              C．doubt         D．refuse

20.A．fighting       B．forcing           C．challenging   D．amusing

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I was 20 years old when my mother passed away. It was the first real blow that life had dealt me, and I thought I would never recover. Then, by the time the following spring came, the pain was almost bearable and again I could find pleasure in the miraculous reward of nature.

At first, I went to the cemetery with trepidation. But then, amazingly, by tending her grave and decorating it with flowers, I was ridding myself of the painful memories.

The years passed. I moved from Kaposvar, Hungary, the town where I had been born and had spent my youth. So did my siblings. We only came together on feast days, especially on All Souls’ Day in the cemetery.

Father lived with me for many years, to a ripe old age. Now that he, too, rests beneath the white marble stone, I go even more eagerly to the cemetery. While I tend my parents’ grave site, again I am with them in thought.

One day I noticed a modest grave site behind my parents’ plot. It lay among the magnificent granite and marble markers of the other graves, its very simplicity calling attention to itself. Ivy(长春藤) had covered the site and its only decoration was a simple wooden cross on which was written in copper letters a name, and that she lived 22 years. Whenever I went by, the plot and its surroundings looked cared for and neat, and each time I felt curious about this mysterious woman who had lived all of 22 years.

Once I saw an elderly man leaving from there. I concluded that perhaps he had come to visit his wife. In 1996 I was preparing for All Souls’ Day in the cemetery when again I caught sight of him, tending the grave. Tall, somewhat bent, he was well passed middle age. We nodded to each other and continued our work. Occasionally I stole a glance at my neighbor. When I noticed that he hadn’t got the tools for a proper cleanup, I offered him mine, which he gratefully accepted. After this, it seemed only natural to engage him in conversation. I asked him whose grave it was. This was his answer:

“My mother’s. She died young, in 1912 when I was only a year-and-a half old. I really never knew her. I made her that cross and the copper letters.”

Then he went on:“No one comes to visit this grave but me because I was her only child. She died of pneumonia. My father remarried and my stepmother only cared for her own children. So then I always came here to my mother, whether in sadness or in joy. Later, life took me far afield, but I never forgot this grave. For me it was the same as the family home is for others. I always came home here.”

“With the years passing, it is getting more difficult for me to come, but as long as my legs will carry me, at least twice a year I visit my mother. I’m in my 80s. so who knows how long I can still make it.“

In stunned silence I listened. Tears clouded my eyes as I realized that I had never seen such boundless love. How much easier is my lot, I thought, for at any moment I can reach into my storehouse of memories and draw out the joyful or sad vignettes(小插图) that bind me to my parents with a thousand threads. What memories might this kindly old gentleman harbor? Perhaps a face from an ancient faded photograph of his mother.

What a great attachment throughout his long life must have led him back again and again to the resting place of that young woman whose motherly love he could never truly savor(尝到), only forever feels its enormous lack.

We said good-bye. I was deeply moved because I knew that I had been given a great gift. I had been allowed a glimpse of the royal and long-lasting affection that bound a simple and noble-hearted man to his mother. I decided I would tend the grave together with that of my parents, where, finally, the aged child will have met his youthful mother.

1.All Souls’ Day is a feast day ________.

A. to visit the cemetery and memorize the dead

B. for families to get together in the cemetery

C. to give gifts to family members

D. for daughters and sons to memorize their parents

2.From the passage, we know ________.

A. the author’s mother died young and her father, too

B. the author’s mother is dead while her father enjoys a long life

C. the man’s mother died very young before he was born

D. the author’s father lived long while the man’s mother died very young

3.The underlined words “calling attention to itself” in the 5th paragraph means ________.

A. desiring to be paid attention to

B. making it easily noticed

C. too modest to be noticed

D. calling itself to draw others’ attention

4.The author stole a glance at her neighbor because ________.

A. they were living in the same neighborhood

B. the man was tall and straight, well passed middle age

C. she was wondering about the dead young lady’s story

D. she knew the dead in the grave was the man’s mother

5.From Paragraph 10 we can conclude that ________.

A. the author lived near the cemetery and can visit her parents at any time

B. the poor gentleman had hardly any memory of his dear mother’s love

C. the author is bound to her parents with threads

D. the gentleman comes back “home” whenever he wants to

6.What message is conveyed in the passage?

A. Love is a length of thread to bind mother and children together.

B. Mother needs love from her children even if she is dead.

C. Parents’ love is always royal and long-lasting to children.

D. Mother’s love can be a boundless gift to their children.

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When the old woman died, it___ that she was actually very rich.

A. came to an end  B. went to light

C. came to life   D. came to light

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After my brother died in an accident，my mother was very sad．I was only 4 years old at the time，but I still understood the 　　 in my mom’s attitude toward safety．　　　 　 ，everything around us was potentially 　　　 　 ．

I grew up with a lot of 　　　 　　 and rules that were meant to 　　　 　　 me．For example，I was not 　　　 　 to walk home from school by myself，even though everyone I knew already did．I couldn’t 　 　　　 　 evening parties or go to summer camp，　 　　　 　 what if something happened to me?

As I got older，the list of things to 　　　 　　 got longer．I became a natural 　　　 　　 ．I was concerned about things like getting cancer，losing my wallet，being caught in car accidents and earthquakes —　　　 　　 big and small，real and 　　　 　　 ．The funny part is that you’d never know it by looking at my life，because I’m constantly 　 　　　 　　 myself to do the things that frighten or worry me．In fact，I’ve developed a 　　　 　　 for myself: If it scares me，then I have to do it 　　　 　　 once．I’ve done lots of things that would have 　　　 　　 my mom: I’ve ridden a motorcycle，I’ve traveled alone，and I’ve performed stand-up comedy．

Courage isn’t a natural attribute（品质）of human beings．I believe that we have to practice being courageous．The more　　　 　　 I do things that scare me or that make me 　　　 　　 ，the more I realize that I can do a lot more than I originally thought I could do．

Even though I inherited（经遗传获得）my mother’s cautious　　　 　 ，I’ve also come to believe that fear can be a good thing，if we 　　　 　　 it．Believing that has made my world a less scary place．

1.A．hint　　 B．change　　 C．scene　　 D．lesson

2.A．Slowly　　　　 B．Logically　　 C．Fortunately　 D．Suddenly

3.A．important　 B．inspiring　　 C．convenient　 D．dangerous

4.A．restrictions　　 B．considerations　　　　 C．judgments　　 　 D．comparisons

5.A．limit　　 B．help　　　 C．protect　　 D．train

6.A．allowed　 B．encouraged　　 C．reminded　　 D．advised

7.A．arrange　　 　　　 B．attend　　　　　　　　 　 C．decorate　　　　 D．support

8.A．but　　 B．though　　 C．or　　 D．because

9.A．hope　　 B．fear　　　 C．count　 　　 D．bear

10.A．worrier　 B．dreamer　　 C．adult　　 D．thinker

11.A．ideas　　 B．affairs　　 　　 C．actions　　 D．disasters

12.A．special　　　 B．common　　　　　　　 C．imaginary　　 D．practical

13.A．expecting　 B．warning　 　　 C．forcing　　 D．promising

14.A．rule　　 B．form　　　 C．case　　 D．hobby

15.A．in all　　 B．at most　　 C．after all　　 D．at least

16.A．threatened　 B．shocked　　　　　　　 C．confused　　　　 D．entertained

17.A．rarely　　　　 B．quickly　　 C．often　　 D．fairly

18.A．confident　 B．uncomfortable　 C．happy　　 D．generous

19.A．nature　　　　 B．duty　　　 C．work　　 D．task

20.A．know　　 B．get　　　 C．avoid　　 D．face

高三英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

I lost my sight when 1 was 4 years old in an accident. Now I'm 32.

It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love 1so much, as I do now, if I hadn't been 2. I don't mean that l would prefer to go with no sight. I simply mean that the 3of it made me 4more what I had left.

Life，I believe，5a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more 6a person is able to make these adjustments，the more 7his life becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I had to 8in myself，or else 1 would have collapsed（崩溃）. When I say belief in myself，I am not talking about simply the kind of 9that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. But I 10something bigger than that：an assurance that I am，despite imperfections，a real， 11person.

It took me years to discover and12this assurance. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was 13. “I can't use this，”I said “Take it with you，”he urged me，“and roll it around.” The word stuck in my head. By 14the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to 15a goal I had thought impossible：playing baseball. At Philadelphia School for the Blind I invented a successful 16of baseball. We call it Ground Ball.

All my life I have set ahead of me a series of  17and then tried to reach them, one at a time. But I had to be aware of my 18. It was no good to try for something that I knew at the start was out of 19because that only invited the bitterness of  20. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.

1.A. darkness       B. life           C. freedom         D. nature

2.A. cured          B. deaf           C. blind           D. brave

3.A. remaining      B. use            C. recovery        D. loss

4.A. appreciate     B. challenge      C. suffer          D. use

5.A. asks           B. causes         C. lacks           D. directs

6.A. abruptly       B. simply         C. cautiously      D. readily

7.A. rich           B. meaningful     C. complex         D. helpful

8.A. believe        B. give           C. take            D. turn

9.A. independence   B. confidence     C. diligence       D. weakness

10.A. mean          B. have           C. produce         D. hide

11.A. disabled      B. reasonable     C. fearless        D. positive

12.A. strengthen    B. prove          C. remove          D. present

13.A. scolded       B. cheated        C. benefited       D. hurt

14.A. taking        B. rolling        C. hitting         D. passing

15.A. shoot         B. describe       C. imagine         D. achieve

16.A. occupation    B. variation      C. competition     D. qualification

17.A. goals         B. games          C. balls           D. examples

18.A. intelligence  B. virtues        C. advantages      D. limitations

19.A. breath        B. reach          C. power           D. sight

20.A. failure                         B. sickness        C. ignorance          D. success

高三英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

When she was in college, Sophia ______ as a teacher in the small town for several months.

A.had volunteered B.volunteered

C.has volunteered D.is volunteering

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