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
Directions: Read the following passage．Answer the questions according to the information
given in the passage.
Why should you keep exercising even when cold temperatures make you want to hide under the covers? With the temperatures dropping at this time of year, many of us tend to hibernate (冬眠) inside our homes. But, hibernating is for bears. As humans it’s important to stay active through all four seasons. Yet, a poll of 5,000 people found that 30 percent get no exercise at all during the winter months.
Just because it is cold outside it is no excuse not to exercise. There are many exercise choices one can choose to take part in regardless of the cold weather. Depending on your location and likes, you can choose to exercise inside or outside.
All that is required for winter-time exercise is some planning and the following of some safety tips. If you prefer to exercise outside, keep the following tips in mind.
Get warm first. A proper warm-up is critical. Cold temperatures can make your muscles tight and therefore they are easier to be injured. So, it’s important to get them warm-up before intense (激烈的) physical activity.
No sweat. Don’t assume that you have to sweat in order to get a good workout. You should avoid sweating that causes the clothing layer closest to your skin to get wet and cause you to be cold.
Don’t undress when you get inside. While you may want to immediately remove your layers when returning inside, you should give your body time to adjust.
Drink up. It’s just as important to stay hydrated (含水的) when exercising in winter as it is in summer, even though you might not feel as thirsty.
Be seen. If possible, it’s best to exercise outdoors during daylight areas. If you exercise outdoors when it is dark, wear reflective (反光的) materials to ensure that you can be seen.
By staying fit during winter, you’ll be able to avoid gaining weight and losing strength caused from inactivity.
1. Why is it important to get your muscles warmed-up before intense physical activity? (no more than 16 words)
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2.What are needed for exercising in winter? (no more than 6 words)
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3.What are the advantages of staying fit during winter? (no more than 9 words)
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4.What’s the main idea of the text? (no more than 4 words)
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高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
SECTION B (10 points )
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.
The average college student in America spent an estimated 700 dollars on textbooks last year. The National Association of College Stores reported more than five billion dollars in sales of textbooks and course materials.
Association spokesman Charles Schmidt says electronic textbooks now represent just two to three percent of sales. But he says that is expected to reach 10 to 15 percent by 2012.
Online versions are now available for many of the most popular college textbooks. E-textbooks can cost half the price of a new print textbook. But students usually lose access after the end of the term. And the books cannot be placed on more than one device, so they are not easy to share.
So what do students think of e-textbooks? Administrators at Northwest Missouri State University wanted to find out. Earlier this year they tested them with 500 students in 20 classes.
The students in the survey reported that downloading the books from the Internet was easy. They liked the idea of carrying lighter backpacks. And 56 percent said they were better able to find information.
But most found that using e-textbooks did not change their study habits. And 60 percent felt they read more when they were reading on paper. In all, almost half the students said they still liked physical textbooks better.
But the survey found that cost could be a big influence. 55 percent said they would choose e-textbooks if using them meant their textbook rental fee would not increase.
Roger Von Holzen heads the Center for Information Technology in Education at Northwest Missouri State. He tells us that administrators are disappointed with the e-textbooks now available because the majority are not interactive.
He thinks growth will come when more digital books include video, activities, games and other ways to interact with the information. The technology is improving. But for now, most of the books are just words on a screen.
81. How much do the average college student in America spend on textbooks last year? （no more than 4 words）
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82. What is the percentage of the e-textbook sales now according to Charles Schmidt? （no more than 4 words）
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83. What do students think of downloading the books from the Internet in the survey? （no more than 2 words）
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84. Why are administrators disappointed with the e-textbooks now available? （no more than 6 words）
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高二英语其他题简单题查看答案及解析
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）
______________________________________________________________________________
2.Who loaded the old man’s shotgun? （no more than 2 words）
______________________________________________________________________________
3.What was the safety net put up at the eighth floor used for? （no more than 8 words）
______________________________________________________________________________
4.What was the old man’s long-term habit? （no more than 8 words）
______________________________________________________________________________
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
Section C (8 marks)
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.
If there were a literary award bigger than the Nobel Prize， Alice Munro would probably win that， too. Munro,82， was awarded literature’s highest honor， respected by the Nobel committee as a thorough but forgiving chronicler(事件的记录者) of the human spirit.
Among her best-known is The Bear Came Over the Mountain， about a woman who agrees with her husband that she should be put in a nursing home. The narrative begins in a relatively tender， traditional mood. But we soon learn that the husband has been unfaithful and doesn’t always regret it. The wife， meanwhile， has fallen for a man at the nursing home. Munro won a National Book Critics Circle prize in 1998 for The Love of a Good Woman and she is also a three-time winner of the Governor General’s prize， Canada’s highest literary honor.
She received a scholarship to study at the University of Western Ontario， majoring in journalism， and was still an undergraduate when she sold a story to CBC radio in Canada. She dropped out to marry a fellow student， James Munro， had three children and became a full-time housewife. By her early 30s， she was so frightened and depressed that she could barely write a full sentence.
Her good fortune was to open a bookstore， in 1963. Inspired by everything from the conversation of adults to simply filling out invoices(发票)， she saw her narrative talents resurface. Her first collection， Dance of the Happy Shades， came out in 1968 and won the Governor General’s prize.
Her books having been sold more than 1 million copies in the U.S. alone， she has long been an international ambassador for the short story. Critics and peers have praised her in every way a writer can be praised： the precision of her language； the perfection of detail； the surprise and logic of her storytelling； the graceful shifts of moods. So， she is the kind of writer about whom it is often said－no matter how well known she becomes—that she ought to be better known.
1.What do we know about the woman’s husband in The Bear Came Over the Mountain？ (No more than 10 words) (2 marks)
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2.Why did Munro stop her study at the University of Western Ontario？ (No more than 4 words) (2 marks)
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3. What happened to Munro in 1963？ (No more than 10 words) (2 marks)
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4.What is the main idea of the passage？ (No more than 10 words) (2 marks)
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高二英语其他题困难题查看答案及解析
Section B (10points)
Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and required words limit.
The word addiction(上瘾) usually makes you think of alcohol or drugs(酒精或毒品), but in modern society we are seeing some new kinds of addictions. Some people are compulsive（难以自制的）shopper. Others find it impossible to keep themselves away from their work. Still others spend many hours watching TV or playing computer games.
Over the years, shopping has become a very common activity. Many people enjoy going to the stores more and more every day. They have turned into shopaholics. They are people who simply enjoy shopping and walking around spending money without being able to stop doing it. They are crazy about shopping and usually buy things that they don’t need. Even though they don’t have enough money, they buy everything they want.
The question is: why do they have this addiction? There isn’t a good answer. Some people go shopping when they are sad, worried, upset or lonely and they want to feel better. They use this activity as a way to forget their problems. Shopaholics say they feel more important and better after they buy something. They also tend to have this activity when they feel guilty（负罪感的）.
Shopaholism seems to be a harmless addiction, but it can cause many problems. People addicted to shopping should go to a support group to help them break this habit.
81. List three activities that might develop into addictions based on the text. (within 8 words)
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82. Can experts (专家) exactly explain why people are addicted to shopping? (within 3 words)
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83. What should the people addicted to shopping do according to the passage? ( within 9 words)
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84. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 into Chinese.
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高二英语其他题简单题查看答案及解析
Directions：Read the following three passages．Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements．For each of them there are 4 choices marked A，B，C and D．Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage．
A
Hi, dear boys and girls! Do you know how to be a healthy kid? Here are some rules you should follow.
First, eat different foods, especially fruit and vegetables. You may have a favorite food, but you'd better eat something different, if you eat different foods, you will probably get more nutrients your body needs.
Second, drink water and milk as often as possible. When you're really thirsty, cold water is the No.l choice. Milk is a great drink that can give you more calcium your body needs to grow strong bones.
Third, listen to your body. How do you feel when you are full? When you are eating, notice how your body feels and when your stomach feels comfortably full. Eating too much will not make you feel comfortable and make you fat.
Fourth, limit screen time. Screen time is the time you watch TV, DVDs and videos, or using computers. It is good to take more exercise such as basketball, bike riding and swimming. You can't watch TV for more than two hours a day.
Fifth, be active. One thing you'd like to do as a kid is to find out which activity you like best. Find ways to be active every day.
Follow these rules and you can be a healthy kid.
1. You should eat different foods especially ___.
A. meat B. hamburgers C. sweets D. fruit and vegetables
2. Which kind of drinks can give you more calcium?
A. Juice B. Milk C. Cold water D. Tea
3. According to the passage, you should follow ＿＿rules if you want to be healthy.
A. five B. nine C. fifteen D. thirteen
4. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A. When you're eating, you don't have to notice how your body feels.
B. You can eat your favorite food as much as possible.
C. You can watch TV whenever you like to get more information.
D. We should try to live in an active way in our life.
5. Which is the best title of the passage?
A. How to make yourself important
B. How to be a healthy kid
C. How to be a popular kid
D. How to make your parents healthy
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析