“Mom, can I bake some bread?” We were 15; my best friend, Hanna, and I, determined to try our hands at creating some beautiful bread.
“It’s not worth the trouble,” my mother said. “It takes lots of time and makes a big mess. Our bakery bread is delicious without all that effort.”
Begging was useless. Mom’s “no” meant “No!”
But several weeks later, opportunity knocked. My parents were going out for the evening. I immediately invited Hanna to be my partner in bread-baking crime.
We studied the recipe. That was easy. “Mix oil into flour then beat in four eggs, one at a time, with remaining sugar and salt.”
We were not good at breaking eggs. I tried to learn from my mother.
“Gradually add eight cups of flour. When dough (面团) holds together, squeeze it.”
We took turns working like that. “Is the dough ‘holding together’?” we asked each other.
I remembered my neighbor’s instructions: “If it’s too sticky, add some flour; if too dry, add water.”
We added water. Then more flour. Then more water. By then, the mass of our dough had grown very much.
“Place dough on floured surface and squeeze till smooth,” the recipe instructed.
We took turns burying our hands in the damp dough, pinching, squeezing, and feeling it leak between fingers. “Clean and oil bowl, and then return dough to bowl. Cover and let dough rise in a warm place for one hour.”
This was good news—we’d have a break. On the dirty kitchen chairs, we dreamed about our beautiful bread. “See?” we would tell my mom. “Isn’t it worth the work?”
Hanna and I couldn’t help glancing at the rising process every few minutes. But nothing happened.
“Maybe something will happen in the hot oven,” I said.
Unfortunately, when we removed the loaves from the oven, they were like hard stones.
Mom was right; it takes time and effort. It sometimes makes a mess. But still it feels good, somehow, to be part of that long, ongoing chain of bread bakers. Since that night, both Hanna and I have learned to do it right.
高三英语阅读理解简单题
“Mom, can I bake some bread?” We were 15; my best friend, Hanna, and I, determined to try our hands at creating some beautiful bread.
“It’s not worth the trouble,” my mother said. “It takes lots of time and makes a big mess. Our bakery bread is delicious without all that effort.”
Begging was useless. Mom’s “no” meant “No!”
But several weeks later, opportunity knocked. My parents were going out for the evening. I immediately invited Hanna to be my partner in bread-baking crime.
We studied the recipe. That was easy. “Mix oil into flour then beat in four eggs, one at a time, with remaining sugar and salt.”
We were not good at breaking eggs. I tried to learn from my mother.
“Gradually add eight cups of flour. When dough (面团) holds together, squeeze it.”
We took turns working like that. “Is the dough ‘holding together’?” we asked each other.
I remembered my neighbor’s instructions: “If it’s too sticky, add some flour; if too dry, add water.”
We added water. Then more flour. Then more water. By then, the mass of our dough had grown very much.
“Place dough on floured surface and squeeze till smooth,” the recipe instructed.
We took turns burying our hands in the damp dough, pinching, squeezing, and feeling it leak between fingers. “Clean and oil bowl, and then return dough to bowl. Cover and let dough rise in a warm place for one hour.”
This was good news—we’d have a break. On the dirty kitchen chairs, we dreamed about our beautiful bread. “See?” we would tell my mom. “Isn’t it worth the work?”
Hanna and I couldn’t help glancing at the rising process every few minutes. But nothing happened.
“Maybe something will happen in the hot oven,” I said.
Unfortunately, when we removed the loaves from the oven, they were like hard stones.
Mom was right; it takes time and effort. It sometimes makes a mess. But still it feels good, somehow, to be part of that long, ongoing chain of bread bakers. Since that night, both Hanna and I have learned to do it right.
高三英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
The most delicious bread in the world ______ by Mom. Please wait an hour to enjoy it.
A.bakes | B.is baked | C.is baking | D.is being baked |
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
The most delicious bread in the world ______ by Mom. Please wait an hour to enjoy it.
A.bakes | B.is baked | C.is baking | D.is being baked |
高三英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析
One day when I was 15 years old, I had some friends over to hang out. While we were making food in the kitchen, my brother came in. He placed his beef next to my ______ one and said, “Courtney, your beef is bigger than mine. You don’t need to ______; you’re already fat enough.” Then he walked out laughing.
Unpleasant ______ on my physical appearance were nothing new. Something inside me gave in to his idea that my legs were ______, and that became the last day that I ever willingly wore ______ until I was 30 years old. For the next 15 years, I spent summer after summer ______ in long pants.
But then I met Ragen Chastain, and she ______ everything. I couldn’t believe that this woman who, like myself, weighed almost 300 pounds was so ______ and happy in her own skin. I ______ as she shared her own journey to recovery and self-love. She talked about how amazing our ______ are, simply because of the things they do every day—like breathing, ______ blood to every cell, blinking and walking.
Walking! I was suddenly ______ how foolish I’d been for so long. There’re people who are born without legs, or who lack ______ working legs, or who lose their legs, and I’d been hiding my perfectly strong, healthy, beautiful legs ______ because I had ______ someone to convince me that they weren’t good enough. The next day, I bought three pairs of shorts and a sundress and spent the entire summer letting my legs ______ the sun and feel the breeze.
The next time anyone comments on your body in a ______ way, look them straight in the eye, smile and say, “If what you see ______ you so much, feel free to practice the ancient art of looking ______ else.” That’s Ragen’s own ______, but I don’t think she’ll mind if you use it.
1.A. small B. plain C. thick D. slim
2.A. walk B. eat C. talk D. cry
3.A. reports B. suggestion C. reflections D. comments
4.A. unnecessary B. unacceptable C. unique D. pants
5.A. shorts B. T-shirts C. socks D. pants
6.A. sleeping B. roasting C. driving D. running
7.A. changed B. solved C. believed D. explained
8.A. sensitive B. generous C. tiresome D. energetic
9.A. laughed B. expected C. waited D. listened
10.A. legs B. weights C. bodies D. images
11.A. pulling B. putting C. preventing D. pumping
12.A. afraid of B. absorbed in C. aware of D. anxious about
13.A. properly B. regularly C. accidentally D. possibly
14.A. in shame B. in panic C. in pride D. in delight
15.A. begged B. allowed C. refused D. invited
16.A. avoid B. see C. cover D. kick
17.A. normal B. special C. different D. negative
18.A. amuses B. excites C. bothers D. hurts
19.A. somewhere B. anywhere C. nowhere D. everywhere
20.A. decision B. question C. creation D. requirement
高三英语完形填空简单题查看答案及解析
The story goes that two best friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had a(n)1, and one friend slapped(打耳光)the other one in the _2.
The one who got slapped was _3, but without saying anything, wrote in the _4: “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.”
They keep on walking _5they found an oasis(绿洲),_6they decided to take a bath, The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire(泥沼)and started _7, but the friend saved him.
After he _8from the near drowning, he _9on a stone: “Today my best friend _10my life.”
The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend 11him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now you write on a stone. 12?”
The other friend replied: “When someone hurts us we should write 13down in the sand where winds of 14can erase it. But when someone does something 15for us, we must carve it in stone where no wind can 16erase it.”
What does the story 17us? — Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your 18in stone.
Send this sentence to the people you’ll never 19. It’s a 20message to let them know that you’ll never forget them.
1.A. stop B. argument C. rest D. agreement
2.A. face B. hand C. head D. back
3.A. defeated B. injured C. hurt D. refused
4.A. stone B. desert C. diary D. sand
5.A. while B. before C. when D. until
6.A. which B. where C. when D. that
7.A. crying B. drowning C. falling D. dying
8.A. came B. returned C. recovered D. took
9.A. wrote B. drew C. recorded D. stood
10.A. protected B. changed C. supported D. saved
11.A. questioned B. told C. asked D. answered
12.A. How B. Why C. When D. Where
13.A. them B. these C. it D. those
14.A. forgiveness B. love C. peace D. kindness
15.A. hard B. bad C. friendly D. good
16.A. ever B. never C. still D. even
17.A. remind B. tell C. prove D. inform
18.A. benefits B. profits C. advantages D. memories
19.A. remember B. leave C. forget D. miss
20.A. useless B. long C. traditional D. short
高三英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
As I was thinking about language learning the other day, the image of baking bread came into my mind. I compared some of the exercises and drills that we put ourselves through in order to learn a language to the various ingredients (原料) that go into baking a loaf of fresh bread.
Real language learning takes place in human relationships. No one sits down and eats a cup of flour, even if he is hungry and in a hurry. You don' t become bilingual (双语的) by learning lists of vocabulary. You don' t become a speaker of a language by memorizing grammatical rules. You become bilingual by entering a community that uses that other language as its basic means of communication.
I am not suggesting that we can make bread without ingredients. Flour is necessary, as are yeast (酵母), salt, water and other ingredients. Vocabulary is part of any language and will have to be learned. Grammatical rules exist in every language and cannot be ignored. But merely combining the appropriate ingredients in the recommended proportions does not result in bread. At best, you only end up with a ball of dough (面团).
In order to get bread, you have to apply heat to the dough. And in language learning, that heat comes from the community. Anyone who has learned a second language has experienced that heat. It creeps up your neck when you ask the babysitter, “Have you already been eaten?” when you meant to say, ‘‘Have you already eaten?” When you try to say something quite innocent and the whole room bursts into laughter, you are experiencing the heat that turns raw dough into good bread.
Remember the old saying, “If you can’ t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen". This is where language learning often breaks down because we find the heat uncomfortable and we stop the baking process. In other words, we can' t stand the heat, so we get out of the kitchen.
However, the language learner who stays in the kitchen—in the heat—until the combined
ingredients are thoroughly transformed will enjoy the richness of a quality loaf of bread. He is glad that he did not "get out of the kitchen” at the important moment when the oven seemed too hot.
Now the baker enjoys good bread, seated at the table with family members and guests. However, he does not focus on "bread" but rather on enjoying the whole feast: fine salads, pastas, fresh vegetables, rich desserts and so on. And the language learner has arrived when he no longer needs to focus on language. Language merely becomes one element in the "feast" of membership in his chosen community.
高三英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
My mom and dad got divorced when we were young kids, so we lived at different families. After we grew up, my three siblings and I could go years ______ speaking. And that is where this story ______.
My sister Jeanne and I were born only 14 months ______, but by the time we were teenagers we had lost ______. By age 19, I had moved away from our home in Wisconsin to live on my father’s horse farm in Virginia. We lived separate and our connection somehow ended.
Fast-forward about five years, I was 24 and on a ______ with my fiancé(未婚夫) to New York City, a place I had never been to.
During a day of sightseeing, we were crossing a very ______ street loaded with people. I had laughed at something my fiancé said, and I ______ heard my name yelled from somewhere around me: “Cheryl!” I ______ in x my steps in the middle of the road. Tears ______ in my eyes. I knew without a ______ that it was my k sister Jeanne. I yelled back before even turning to look. “Jeanne?” It was her.
I later asked how w she’d known it was me---she had ______ seen me since we lost in touch! She said it was my ______. I wouldn’t say my laugh is all that ______, but I guess to a family member it’s infectious. It ______ your heart and resonates(共鸣) in your mind.
Since that time, my sister and I have never been ______. We both moved back to Wisconsin. We ______ daily. Many years have passed, and we are now in our 50s. But our reunion ______ wasn’t just a sign. I see it as more of a ______, a reminder not to lose touch with loved ones. It is so easy to remain ______. After our ______ of gathering, I don’t plan to let that happen again.
1.A.by B.after C.without D.beyond
2.A.ends B.begins C.twists D.spreads
3.A.ago B.later C.ahead D.apart
4.A.heart B.home C.touch D.interest
5.A.team B.trip C.date D.picnic
6.A.busy B.dark C.empty D.quiet
7.A.readily B.finally C.suddenly D.naturally
8.A.fell B.froze C.struggled D.hesitated
9.A.came about B.welled up C.ran away D.streamed back
10.A.word B.break C.care D.doubt
11.A.never B.often C.seldom D.already
12.A.shape B.clothing C.look D.laugh
13.A.clear B.pleasant C.bright D.unusual
14.A.hits B.lifts C.breaks D.cures
15.A.separated B.bothered C.suspected D.united
16.A.work B.travel C.play D.talk
17.A.by mistake B.by chance C.on schedule D.on purpose
18.A.change B.result C.lesson D.coincidence
19.A.lost B.touched C.broken D.loved
20.A.behavior B.act C.miracle D.deed
高三英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
I lived in Dallas, Texas nearly all my life with my mom, dad and older sister. We were 41 to respect others, value education, and get all that we could out of life. My parents always say, “42 hard and the world is yours.” They are never without a 43 word of advice or a bit of encouragement when life gets tough.
My parents always 44 me to go to college. However, when I 45 at 16 years old that I’d rather get married to a man than go to college, they 46 stopped telling me they loved me and I could anything I wanted to. 47, they persuaded me. I graduated from high school and currently 48 the University of Oklahoma studying medicine. I want to make the 49 a better place to live in.
Every time I call home to tell them about a 50 I received in Chemistry Lab or Microeconomics or whichever 51 it is that I’m working hardest for at the moment, they tell me how 52 of me they are. I know there are college kids out there that have no one to call home when they an “A” on a project and I feel incredibly 53 to have my parents.
Don’t get me wrong: We’ve had our share of 54. I was the angry teenager and they were the awful 55 that wouldn’t let me stay out all night or let me get my tongue pierced(扎洞).But somehow, we 56 to work through those issues. They never 57 loving in me or believing in me.
I 58 everything I am to my parents. Without their 59love and encouragement, I wouldn’t believe I can change the world. My parents taught me to always 60 for what I believe in. So I’m working toward something really great and can only hope I continue to make them proud.
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高三英语完型填空困难题查看答案及解析
As a young girl growing up in rural Alabama, I never understood why my mom spent so much time baking. And she always made my brother and me36 her. A whole day every other week was devoted to making bread. It always made our small arms tired.
Despite our best efforts, the flour dust always went everywhere. I37 to be outside with my playmates, and never38 my mom’s desire for quality family time with her children, at least when it came to spending it in the39 . Years have gone by, and I have become a mother myself. I prefer to leave most of the cooking to my husband and he loves it. He’s quite40 at doing it, too.
On one occasion my husband was41 dinner, and I was at the kitchen table going through the day’s mail when our little son, Cody, asked if he could help42 . My husband said yes, and I sat there amused, watching them.
“What are you doing?” I asked.
“Helping dad cook.” he replied with a big43 on his face. I thought back to those44 when my mom asked me to help her bake bread, and I was45 , but obeyed. Perhaps she was trying to create something more than just fresh bread—maybe a few lasting46 .
As I watched Cody do it with all his attention, I realized that he had47 a lasting moment for me, a moment filled with a deep sense of family. I wanted to hold the moment and make it longer, and appreciate the memories my mom had given me years ago in her kitchen.
1.A.copy B. help C.notice D.admire
2.A.improved B.encouraged C.longed D.blamed
3.A.wondered B. appreciat C.judged D.challenged
4.A.kitchen B. restaurant C. bedroom D. school
5.A.unhappy B.weak C.astonished D.skilled
6.A.preparing B.choosing C.making D.having
7.A.play B.work C.cook D.make
8.A. get uptear B. surprise C. smile D. mark
9.A. dreams B.time C. mysteries D.accidents
10.A. excited B.regretful C. confident D.unwilling
11.A. memories B.choices C.opportunities D.goals
12.A. continued B.created C.failed D.served
高三英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
I was 11 years old when I asked my mom for piano lessons in 2010. We were in the economic decline. She said a polite “no”.
That didn’t stop me. I Googled the measurements for a keyboard, drew the keys on a piece of paper and stuck it on my desk. I would click notes on an online keyboard and “play” them back on my paper one-keeping the sound they made on the computer in my head. I spent six months playing without touching a real piano. Once my mom saw that I was serious, she borrowed money and bought me 10 lessons.
I still remember the first one. I was struck by how real the sound of the piano was. I sat my grade one after eight lessons. Once I started secondary school, we couldn’t afford lessons again. I passed grade three, then grade five, practicing only on my piece of paper.
One evening, when I was about 13, my mom said she had a surprise for me; it was an electronic keyboard, bought with more borrowed money. It was the first time I’d played for her. She was in shock.
My school didn’t offer music A-level. I found the Purcell School for young musicians. But I had to pass a difficult test. Some of the questions involved an evaluation of the composer or when some piece was written. I felt overwhelmed. To my amazement, I was offered a place.
At Purcell, I spent two years working as hard as I could. I performed to raise money and saved enough to buy my first piano.
When I left Purcell, I was awarded the senior piano prize and senior academic music prize. I am now at the Guildhall School in London. I feel proud: it’s been 10 years since I drew my paper piano, and I’m at one of the world’s leading music schools.
The irony is that I continue to do a lot of my practice away from the piano-what we call mental practice. The paper piano helped arouse my curiosity about how music works, the building blocks that form the pieces.
1.Why did the author’s mom buy him lessons at last?
A.She was shocked by his first performance.
B.She had no doubt of his talent for piano.
C.She realized he meant what he said.
D.She suddenly made a fortune.
2.Which of the following can best describe the author?
A.Honest. B.Determined.
C.Humorous. D.Optimistic.
3.The underlined word “irony” in the last paragraph shows that the author felt .
A.surprised B.proud
C.satisfied D.disappointed
4.What’s the author’s main purpose of writing this article?
A.To introduce the method of mental practice.
B.To share how he convinced his mom to buy a piano.
C.To describe how costly it is to learn an instrument.
D.To encourage people to stick to their dreams.
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析