The best graduation speech I’ve ever heard wa...

The best graduation speech I’ve ever heard was only five minutes long. It got a standing ovation (热烈鼓掌)---something I never saw before at a __ ceremony. Most surprising of all, the speaker was an eighth grader. It was my daughter Abridlle.

Sure, I’d given her __ ----“Make them laugh, make them think, and make them cry”---and she let me read and __ on her text, but she stressed that this was to be her __, not mine. And it was. It was unique, not just in __ but in a charming delivery.

She told funny stories, making fun of herself, her classmates, and __ her teachers. Then she __ the teachers and led the audience to give a big cheer for them, only to conclude, “Okey, teachers are __, but let’s not get carried away. Getting an __ is a side benefit. The real purpose of middle school is to make friends and have fun----am I right?”

Then she changed the mood, __ her classmates to think about the three years of __ adolescent emotion----conversations, fights, __ deepest thoughts, and crying on each others’ __.

Summing up, she said, “__ we think back to these years, we will think about what __ to us and around us. But what was __ the most important was what happened __ us.”

“When all is said and done,” she __, “the crucial years we spent in middle school were really about __ ...and you know what? That’s what high school is going to be like. And, in fact, the __ of our lives.”

1.A. marriage　　 B. graduation　　 C. closing　　 D. opening

2.A. money　　 B. love　　 C. advice　　 D. respect

3.A. work　　 B. take　　 C. comment　　 D. depend

4.A. practice　　 B. performance　　 C. lecture　　 D. speech

5.A. content　　 B. form　　 C. style　　 D. fact

6.A. absolutely　　 B. exactly　　 C. specially　　 D. especially

7.A. scolded　　 B. blamed　　 C. mentioned　　 D. praised

8.A. strict　　 B. important　　 C. serious　　 D. available

9.A. award　　 B. honor　　 C. education　　 D. academy

10.A. reminding　　 B. wanting　　 C. persuading　　 D. convincing

11.A. tender　　 B. intense　　 C. personal　　 D. natural

12.A. sharing　　 B. giving away　　 C. telling　　 D. speaking of

13.A. sides　　 B. backs　　 C. shoulders　　 D. desks

14.A. If　　 B. When　　 C. Since　　 D. While

15.A. contributed　　 B. referred　　 C. led　　 D. happened

16.A. really　　 B. rarely　　 C. hardly　　 D. merely

17.A. to　　 B. in　　 C. around　　 D. with

18.A. said　　 B. cried　　 C. shouted　　 D. added

19.A. growing up　　 B. bringing up　　 C. breaking up　　 D. taking up

20.A. focus　　 B. value　　 C. rest　　 D. part

高三英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Your speech was heard by a group of  judges,  all of  _______  agreed that it was the best one this  year..

高三英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析

You may be familiar with the following famous people, but have you heard of their graduation speeches, in which they either share their unforgotten experiences or give you some great inspiration.

Michael Dell, University of Texas at Austin

And now you’ve accomplished something great and important here, and it’s time for you to move on to what’s next. And you must not let anything prevent you from taking those first steps. … You must also commit to the adventure. Just have faith in the skills and the knowledge you’ve been blessed（赐予）with and go.

J.K. Rowling, Harvard University

Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between my ambition and the expectation from my parents who were not rich…But what I feared most of myself at your age was not poverty, but failure. The fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you know little about failure, you might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success.

Steve Jobs, Stanford University

Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith…Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle.

Bill Gates, Harvard University

We need as many people as possible to have access to the advanced technology to lead to a revolution in what human beings can do for one another. They are making it possible not just for national governments, but for universities, smaller organizations, and even individuals to see problems, see approaches and deal with the world’s inequities（不公平）like hunger, poverty, and so on.

1.What Michael Dell said is to urge us to ________.

A. listen to our heart　　 B. learn from our mistakes

C. follow others’ example　　 D. pursue our dreams

2.What did J.K. Rowling fear most when she was studying in university?

A. Failure.　　 B. Hunger.

C. Poverty.　　 D. Appearance.

3.What does Bill Gates suggest people do?

A. Master as much advanced technology as possible.

B. Work together to rid some global problems.

C. Make contributions to the environment.

D. Take responsibility for their own behavior.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

34. ---I heard you almost missed the train.

---Yes. I got to the railway station with only five minutes to_______.

高三英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

Mr Wan was ________ to his son’s graduating ceremony, and he was asked to deliver a speech in the presence of all the graduates

高三英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

Such an inspiring speech ________ at the graduation ceremony that every one of us was deeply moved and strongly encouraged.

A．did he make　     B．he made

C．had he made　     D．he had made

高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Jenny was practicing her speech in the hall when she heard her name ________.

A. calling            B. called            C. to call            D. having called

高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

短文改错

It is five years now since I graduate from No.3 High

School．Last Saturday，the class that I was on held a

get-together，which took us a long time prepare．It

was indeed not easy to get in the touch with everybody

and set a well time for all of us．We all enjoyed

this precious day greatly，remember the time we spent

together and the people they were familiar with．It was

a pity which some of us were not present as they had

gone abroad for further studies，but they called back

or sent greeting card from different places．

高三英语短文改错困难题查看答案及解析

His speech at the meeting was really wonderful, and it could never be any.

A. best          B. better        C. worse     D. worst

高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Have you ever heard the story of the four-minute mile? Many years ago, people believed that it was impossible for a human being to run a mile in less than four minutes until Roger Banister proved it wrong in1954.

What happens if you put an animal in a pond? Any animal, big or small, will swim its way through. What happens when someone, who does not know how to swim, falls in deep waters? They drown. If an animal who has not learned swimming could escape by swimming, why not you? Because you believe you will drown while the animal does not.

Have you ever wondered why the letters are organized in a particular order on hour keyboard? You might have thought it is to increase the typing speed. Most people never question it. But the fact is that this system was developed to reduce the typing speed at a time when typewriter parts would jam if the operator typed too fast.

These three cases show the power of our beliefs. There is no other more powerful directing force in human behavior than belief. Your beliefs have the power to create and to destroy. A belief delivers a direct command to your nervous system.

I used a snake in my workshops for children to show them how unrealistic some of their beliefs are. Students of a school in India, said snakes were slippery, slimy (黏糊糊的) and poisonous. After doing an exercise for changing beliefs, they handled my snake and found it to be dry and clean. They also remembered that only three types of poisonous snakes exist in India.

Did this story end the way you thought? Review your beliefs now and find out which ones you need to change.

1.In the author’s opinion, if a person in deep water doesn’t know how to swim he will drown because _________.

A. he is afraid of water               B. he doesn’t want to live in the world

C. he hasn’t learned to swim before     D. he believes he will drown

2.The author thinks that the letters are organized in a particular order on your keyboard in order to _________.

A. reduce one’s typing speed          B. satisfy the operator

C. save more space                  D. increase one’s typing speed

3.The author’s experiment shows that __________.

A. snakes in India aren’t poisonous       B. snakes can be caught easily

C. snakes are slimy and poisonous       D. snakes are dry and clean

4.According to the passage, we know that ________.

A. students from India have unrealistic beliefs on how to live a better life

B. an animal who has not learned to swim will drown if you put it in a pond.

C. Roger Banister was the first person who ran a mile in less than four minutes.

D. most people don’t like the order the letters are arranged on your keyboard

5.The main idea of this passage should be that _______.

A. beliefs make us seem stupid           B. beliefs are very powerful

C. changing your beliefs now if necessary  D. people should always believe in themselves

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析