Some people succeed in unbelievable ways.
Roussel was orphaned at the age of eight and went to live with his grandfather. He built on the music he had learned from his mother, entertaining himself by reading through the family music collection and playing his favorite songs on the piano.
Three years later, Roussel’s grandfather died, and his aunt adopted him. Her husband arranged for young Albert to take regular piano lessons. Summer vacations at a Belgian seaside resort added a second love to his life -- the sea. He studied to be a naval cadet (海军学员), but still made time to study music.
In the French Navy, while he served on a warship based at Cherbourg, he and two friends found the time to play the music of Beethoven and other composes (作曲家). Roussel also began composing. At the Church of the Trinity in Cherbourg on Christmas Day 1892, he had his first performance as a composer.
That success encouraged Roussel to write a wedding march, and one of his fellow offices offered to show it to a well-known conductor (指挥家), Edouard Colonne. When Roussel’s friend returned with the manuscript (手稿), he reported that Colonne had advised Roussel to give up his naval career and devote his life to music.
Not long afterwards, at the age of 25, Roussel did just that. He applied characters that he had developed in the navy to his composing and became a major force in twentieth century French music. As for Eduoard Colonne’s inspiring advice that Roussel devote his life to music, Roussel's navy friend later admitted that he had made it up and that he had never even shown Roussel's manuscript to the conductor.
1.Which of the following shows the right order of the story?
a. Roussel gave up his naval career.
b. Roussel was adopted by his aunt.
c. Roussel read through the family music collection.
d. Roussel had his first performance as a composer in Cherbourg.
A. c, b, d, a B. b. c, d, a C. b, c, a. d D. c, b, a, d
2.What ______ did played the most important part in Roussel's final success.
A. his mother B. the husband of his aunt
C. his navy friend D. Edouard Colonne
3.We can infer from the article that______.
A. Roussel's aunt adopted him after his grandfather died.
B. Roussel read through the family music collection in his grandfather's.
C. Colonne advised Roussel to give up his naval career and devote his life to music.
D. If Roussel hadn't joined the navy, he might not have achieved so much.
4.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. A clever musician B. A white lie
C. A helpful conductor D. A great manuscript
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题
Some people succeed in unbelievable ways.
Roussel was orphaned at the age of eight and went to live with his grandfather. He built on the music he had learned from his mother, entertaining himself by reading through the family music collection and playing his favorite songs on the piano.
Three years later, Roussel’s grandfather died, and his aunt adopted him. Her husband arranged for young Albert to take regular piano lessons. Summer vacations at a Belgian seaside resort added a second love to his life -- the sea. He studied to be a naval cadet (海军学员), but still made time to study music.
In the French Navy, while he served on a warship based at Cherbourg, he and two friends found the time to play the music of Beethoven and other composes (作曲家). Roussel also began composing. At the Church of the Trinity in Cherbourg on Christmas Day 1892, he had his first performance as a composer.
That success encouraged Roussel to write a wedding march, and one of his fellow offices offered to show it to a well-known conductor (指挥家), Edouard Colonne. When Roussel’s friend returned with the manuscript (手稿), he reported that Colonne had advised Roussel to give up his naval career and devote his life to music.
Not long afterwards, at the age of 25, Roussel did just that. He applied characters that he had developed in the navy to his composing and became a major force in twentieth century French music. As for Eduoard Colonne’s inspiring advice that Roussel devote his life to music, Roussel's navy friend later admitted that he had made it up and that he had never even shown Roussel's manuscript to the conductor.
1.Which of the following shows the right order of the story?
a. Roussel gave up his naval career.
b. Roussel was adopted by his aunt.
c. Roussel read through the family music collection.
d. Roussel had his first performance as a composer in Cherbourg.
A. c, b, d, a B. b. c, d, a C. b, c, a. d D. c, b, a, d
2.What ______ did played the most important part in Roussel's final success.
A. his mother B. the husband of his aunt
C. his navy friend D. Edouard Colonne
3.We can infer from the article that______.
A. Roussel's aunt adopted him after his grandfather died.
B. Roussel read through the family music collection in his grandfather's.
C. Colonne advised Roussel to give up his naval career and devote his life to music.
D. If Roussel hadn't joined the navy, he might not have achieved so much.
4.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. A clever musician B. A white lie
C. A helpful conductor D. A great manuscript
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
On my way back home I was stopped at a traffic light by some people who asked for help. A woman - in her attempt to _______ an ambulance - had driven her car _______ stony obstacles(障碍)that separated the bike line from the street, and had gotten her car _______ as a result. She couldn’t move the car in any _______ without damaging it. A couple of people fried to _______ the car back but the obstacles were too high. Seeing that they couldn’t do much about it, they had no choice but to _______. So the woman in the car tried to call for some service.
While _______ the other people go off, I realized the woman would be on her own and I imagined how _______ that would be if I were in her shoes. After some _______, she invited me to sit inside her car. She called for service and was ________ that it would take about 45 minutes for someone to get there.
I wasn’t ________, so I informed my family about the ________ and that I would get home ________. Then I tried to comfort the woman who seemed to feel ________ about causing others trouble. But ________ it wasn’t too much trouble since they could still ________, and also there wasn’t anything she could do about it anyway. We laughed and ________ that all we needed was some tea for our picnic.
Finally ________ came and helped her hack on the street. She thanked me and asked for my phone number so she could return the ________, but I told her it was okay. She seemed to feel much better when we said our goodbyes. I believe that not having to face a difficult situation ________ can make a great difference.
1.A. fit in with B. give way to C. keep track of D. break away from
2.A. under B. around C. over D. off
3.A. broken B. stuck C. abandoned D. buried
4.A. direction B. chance C. case D. place
5.A. hold B. lead C. direct D. lift
6.A. complain B. leave C. show up D. carry on
7.A. watching B. making C. hearing D. feeling
8.A. dangerous B. shameful C. competitive D. uncomfortable
9.A. bargain B. argument C. talk D. discussion
10.A. told B. asked C. advised D. warned
11.A. on the spot B. out of trouble C. in the way D. in a hurry
12.A. schedule B. adventure C. situation D. appointment
13.A. later B. earlier C. on time D. right away
14.A. stressed B. seared C. confused D. unlucky
15.A. above all B. as usual C. similarly D. actually
16.A. wait B. pass C. relax D. follow
17.A. believed B. wondered C. promised D. joked
18.A. assistance B. the ambulance C. pedestrians D. word
19.A. service B. invitation C. favor D. picnic
20.A. together B. beforehand C. again D. alone
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Different people feel stressed in different ways. Some ways of dealing with stress don’t solve much. 1. other ways can lead you to 2. (solve) your problem or at least feeling better.
Try taking these four steps the next time you are stressed: Get support. When you need help, reach out to the people 3. care about you. Talk to your parents or other 4. (relative). And don’t forget about your friends. They might have had similar problems. Don’t take it out on yourself. Sometimes when kids are stressed and upset they take it out on 5. (they). Oh, dear, that’s not a good idea. Remember that there are always people to help you. Ask for a helping hand to get you through the tough situation. Try to solve the problem. After you’re calm and you have support from adults and friends, it’s time 6. (get) down to business. You need to figure 7. what the problem is. Even if you can’t solve it all, you can solve a piece of it. Be positive. Remember stress 8. (do) go away, 9. (especial) when you start working on solving it. These steps aren’t magic, but they do work. And if you can stay positive as you make your way through a tough time, you’ll help yourself feel 10. (good) even faster.
高二英语短文填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Many people suffer from color blindness in some way. Women are luckier, only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman!
There are different forms of color blindness. In some cases a man can not see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shades of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green — a strange world indeed.
Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones”. These help us to see in a bright light and to tell difference between colors. There are also millions of “rods” but these are used for seeing when it is nearly dark. They show us shape but no color.
Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes (蚊子) like blue but do not like yellow. Red light will not attract insects, but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human beings also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see many beautiful colors by day, and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night. One day we may even learn more about the invisible(看不见的)colors around.
1.Why do some people say it is safer to be driven by women?
A. Women are more careful.
B. There are few color-blind women.
C. Women are fonder of driving than men.
D. Women are weaker but quicker in thinking
2.This passage is mainly about ________.
A. color and its surprising effects
B. women being luckier than men
C. danger caused by color blindness
D. color blindness
3.According to the passage, with the help of the “cones”, we can _____
A. tell orange from yellow
B. see in weak light
C. kill mosquitoes
D. tell different shapes
4.We can attract and kill mosquitoes by using a ________.
A. red light B. yellow light
C. blue light D. green light
高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Different people feel stressed in different ways. Some ways of dealing with stress don’t solve much. 1. other ways can lead you to 2. (solve) your problem or at least feeling better.
Try taking these four steps the next time you are stressed: Get support. When you need help, reach out to the people 3. care about you. Talk to your parents or other 4. (relative). And don’t forget about your friends. They might have had similar problems. Don’t take it out on yourself. Sometimes when kids are stressed and upset they take it out on 5. (they). Oh, dear, that’s not a good idea. Remember that there are always people to help you. Ask for a helping hand to get you through the tough situation. Try to solve the problem. After you’re calm and you have support from adults and friends, it’s time 6. (get) down to business. You need to figure 7. what the problem is. Even if you can’t solve it all, you can solve a piece of it. Be positive. Remember stress 8. (do) go away, 9. (especial) when you start working on solving it. These steps aren’t magic, but they do work. And if you can stay positive as you make your way through a tough time, you’ll help yourself feel 10. (good) even faster.
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own. My mom was one of those people.
My father died when I was nine months old, making my mom a single mother at the age of eighteen. While I was growing up, we lived a very hard life.
We had little money, but my mom gave me a lot of love. Each night, she sat me on her lap and spoke the words that would change my life, “Kemmons, you are certain to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it.”
At fourteen, I was hit by a car and the doctors said I would never walk again. Every day,my mother spoke to me in her gentle,loving voice, telling me that no matter what those doctors said, I would walk again if I want to badly enough. She drove that message so deep into my heart that I finally believed her.A year I returned to school—walking on my own !
When the Great Depression(大萧条)hit, my mom lost her job. Then I left school to support the both of us. At that moment, I was determined never to be poor again.
Over the years, I experienced various levels of business success. But the real turning point occurred on a vacation I took with my wife and five kids in1951. I was dissatisfied with the second-class hotels available for families and was angry that they charged an extra $2 for each child. That was too expensive for the average American family. I told my wife that I was going to open a motel(汽车旅馆)for families that would never charge extra for children. There were plenty of doubters at that time.
Not surprisingly, Mom was one of my strongest supporters. She worked behind the desk and even designed the room style. As in any business,we experienced a lot of challenges. But with my mother’s words deeply rooted in my soul, I never doubted we would succeed.Fifteen years later,we had the largest hotel system in the world—Holiday Inn. In 1979 my company had 1759 inns in more than fifty countries with an income of $1billion a year.
You may not have started out life in the best situations. But if you can find a task in life worth working for and believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.
1.What Kemmons’mom often told him during his childhood was______
A.caring B.moving C.encouraging D.interesting
2.According to the author, who played the most role in making him walk back to school again?
A.Doctors B.Nurses C.Friends D.Mom
3.What caused Kemmons to start a motel by himself?
A.His terrible experience in the hotel
B.His previous business success of various levels
C.His mom’s support
D.His wife’s suggestion
4.Which of the following best describles Kemmons’s mother?
A.Modest,helpful and hard—working
B.loving, supportive and strong—willed(有坚强意志的)
C.careful, helpful and beautiful
D.strict, sensitive and supportive.
5.Which of the following led to Kemmons’ success according to the passage?
A.Self-cofidence, hard work, higher education and a poor family
B.Mom’s encouragement, clear goals. Self—confidence and hard work
C.Clear goals,mom’s encouragemen, a poor family and higher education.
D.Mom’s encouragement, a poor family, higher education and opportunities
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own.My mom was one of those people.
My father died when I was nine months old,making my mom a single mother at the age of eighteen.While I was growing up,we lived a very hard life.We had little money,but my mom gave me a lot of love.Each night,she sat me on her lap and spoke the words that would change my life,“Kemmons,you are certain to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it.”
At fourteen,I was hit by a car and the doctors said I would never walk again. Every day,my mother spoke to me in her gentle,loving voice,telling me that no matter what those doctors said. I could walk again if I wanted it badly enough.She drove that message so deep into my heart that I finally believed her.A year later,I returned to school--walking on my own.
When the Great Depression(大萧条)hit,my mom lost her job.Then I left school to support the both of us.At that moment,I was determined never to be poor again.
Over the years, I experienced various levels of business Success.But the real turning point occurred on a vocation I took with my wife and five kids in 1951.I was dissatisfied with the second-class hotels available for families and was angry that they charged an extra$2 for each child.That was too expensive for the average American family.I told my wife that I was going to open a motel(汽车旅馆)for families that would never charge extra for children.There were plenty of doubters at that time.
Not surprisingly,mom was one of my strongest supporters.She worked behind the desk and even designed the room style.As in any business,we experienced a lot of challenges.But with my mother’s words deeply rooted in my soul,I never doubted we could succeed.Fifteen years later,we had the largest hotel system in the world—Holiday Inn. In 1979,my company had 1759 inns in more than fifty countries with an income of $ 1 billion a year.
You may not have started out life in the best situations.But if you can find a task in life worth working for and believe in yourself,nothing can stop you.
1.What Kemmons' mom often told him during his childhood was________.
A.caring | B.moving | C.encouraging | D.interesting |
2.What caused Kemmons to start a motel by himself?
A.His terrible experience in the hotel. |
B.His previous business success of various levels. |
C.His mom’s support. |
D.His wife’s suggestion. |
3..Which of the following best describes Kemmoms’ mother? 、
A.Modest,helpful,and hard-working. |
B.Loving,supportive,and strong-willed. |
C.Careful,helpful,and beautiful. |
D.Strict,sensitive and supportive. |
4.Which of the following led to Kemmons’ success according to the passage?
A.Self-confidence,hard work,clear goals and a poor family. |
B.Mom's encouragement,clear goals,self-confidence,and hard work. |
C.Clear goals,mom’s encouragement,a poor family,and higher education. |
D.Mom's encouragement,a poor family,higher education and opportunities. |
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own. My mom was one of those people.
My father died when I was nine months old, making my mom a single mother at the age of eighteen. While I was growing up, we lived a very hard life. We had little money, but my mom gave me a lot of love. Each night, she sat me on her lap and spoke the words that would change my life, “Kemmons, you are certain to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it.”
At fourteen, I was hit by a car and the doctors said I would never walk again. Every day, my mother spoke to me in her gentle, loving voice, telling me that no matter what those doctors said, I could walk again if I wanted to badly enough. She drove that message so deep into my heart that I finally believed her. A year later, I returned to school — walking on my own!
When the Great Depression (大萧条) hit, my mom lost her job. Then I left school to support the both of us. At that moment, I was determined never to be poor again.
Over the years, I experienced various levels of business success. But the real turning point occurred on a vacation I took with my wife and five kids in 1951. I was dissatisfied with the second-class hotels available for families and was angry that they charged an extra $2 for each child. That was too expensive for the average American family. I told my wife that I was going to open a motel (汽车旅馆) for families that would never charge extra for children. There were plenty of doubters at that time.
Not surprisingly, mom was one of my strongest supporters. She worked behind the desk and even designed the room style. As in any business, we experienced a lot of challenges. But with my mother’s words deeply rooted in my soul, I never doubted we would succeed. Fifteen years later, we had the largest hotel system in the world — Holiday Inn. In 1979 my company had 1,759 inns in more than fifty countries with an income of $ 1 billion a year.
You may not have started out life in the best situation. But if you can find a task in life worth working for and believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.
1.What Kemmons’ mom often told him during his childhood was ______.
A.caring B.moving C.encouraging D.interesting
2.According to the author, who played the most important role in making him walk back to school again?
A.Doctors. B.Nurses. C.Friends. D.Mom.
3.What caused Kemmons to start a motel by himself?
A.His terrible experience in the hotel.
B.His previous business success of various levels.
C.His mom’s support.
D.His wife’s suggestion.
4.Which of the following best describes Kemmons’ mother?
A.Modest, helpful, and hard-working.
B.Loving, supportive and strong-willed.
C.Careful, helpful and beautiful.
D.Strict, sensitive and supportive.
5.Which of the following led to Kemmons’ success according to the passage?
A.Self-confidence, hard work, higher education and a poor family.
B.Mom’s encouragement, clear goals, self-confidence and hard work.
C.Clear goals, mom’s encouragement, a poor family and higher education.
D.Mom’s encouragement, a poor family, higher education and opportunities.
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died “full of years”, as the Bible would say. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence(吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon.
At the first home, the son of the deceased(亡故的)woman said to me, “If only I sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died. ”At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, “If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take. It’s my fault that she’s dead.”
You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believe that the opposite course keeping Mother at home, putting off the operation would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?
There seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.
The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.
A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to his tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen.
1.The author had to conduct the two women’s funerals probably because____.
A.he was minister of the local church | B.he wanted to comfort the two families |
C.he was an official from the community | D.he had great pity for the deceased |
2.People feel guilty for the death of their loved ones because ____.
A.they couldn’t find a better way to express their sorrow. |
B.they had neglected the natural course of events |
C.they believed that they were responsible |
D.they didn’t know things often turn in the opposite direction |
3.According to the passage, the underlined part in paragraph 4 probably means that _____
A.everything in the world is predetermined |
B.there’s an explanation for everything in the world |
C.the world can be interpreted in different ways |
D.we have to be sensible in order to understand the world |
4. What’s the idea of the message?
A.Life and death is an unsolved mystery |
B.Never feel guilty all the time because not every disaster is our fault |
C.Every story should have a happy ending |
D.In general, the survivors will feel guilty about the people who passed away |
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by themselves. One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died “full of years”, as the Bible would say .Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence(吊唁)calls on the two families on the same afternoon.
At the first home, the son of the deceased woman said to me, ”If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died. ”At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, “If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today .That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate ,was more than she could take.It’s my fault that she’s dead.”
You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believe that the opposite course------keeping mother at home, putting off the operation----would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?
There seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.
The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.
A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs,and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to his tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him,and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we don not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen.
1.The author had to conduct the two women’s funerals probably because_______.
A.he was minister of the local church
B.he wanted to comfort the two families
C.he was an official of the community
D.he had great pity for the deceased
2.People feel guilty for the death of their loved ones because________.
A.they can’t find a better way of express their sorrow
B.they have neglected the natural course of events
C.they believe that they were the reason
D.the don’t know things often turn in the opposite direction
3.According to the main passage, the underlined part in Paragraph 4 probably means that________.
A.everything in the world is predetermined
B.there’s an explanation for everything in the world
C.the world can be interpreted in different ways
D.we have to be sensible in order to understand the world
4.What’s the main idea of the message?
A .Life and death is an unsolved mystery.
B. Never feel guilty all the time because not every disaster is our fault.
C Every story should have a happy ending.
D. In general, the survivors will feel guilty about the people who passed away.
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析