My heroes are the Singapore Women’s Everest T...

My heroes are the Singapore Women’s Everest Team．In 2009，they became the first all-women team to climb Mount Everest．The team of six young women trained for seven years before they climbed the mountain．It was difficult for them to train because Singapore doesn’t have any snow or any mountains．But they didn’t stop，and in the end they made it．They Worked hard every day for their dream so I really admire them．

——Lance Reed, 16, from Britain

My mum，Mary Evans，is a real hero．I have a very big family, with two brothers and three sisters．My mum works very hard every day to look after us, and she is very busy．She always makes time for everyone and she always listens to me if I have a problem．I really respect my mum because she always looks after my family and makes sure we have everything we need．

　　　　　　　　　 ——Mark Sterling，l7，from America

I admire the Salwen family from Atlanta，USA．In 2006, they made a very unusual choice．They decided to sell their house and give half of the money to charity(慈善)．They moved into a smaller house and gave $800,000 to charities in Ghana. I really respect them because they gave their money to people in need．

——William Kloster, 17, from Canada

I really admire Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple．He invented a new kind of technology．Apple technology is very intelligent(智能的)．The products that he made are also really beautiful．Steve Jobs created a successful business in IT．I was very sad when he died in October 2011．I respect him because he changed the way people use technology all over the world．

——Richard Hale, 18，from Australia

1.What do we know about the Singapore Women’s Everest Team?

A．They thought of giving up during training．

B．They trained very hard outside Singapore．

C．They made history as mountaineers．

D．They never expected to make it．

2.William admires the Salwen family’s______．

A．wealth　　　　　 B．courage　　　　 C．success　　　　　 D．kindness

3.Who is closest to his hero?

A．Mark．　　　　 B．William．　　　 C．Richard．　　　 D. Lance．

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

The Chinese women’s volleyball team won the gold medal at the Rio Olympics, which is the third time the team 　 　　 Olympic gold.

A. claimed　　 B. has claimed

C. has been claiming　　 D. had claimed

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

A team of UK researchers recently compared the performances of 120 women and 120 men in a computer test involving switching between tasks of counting and shape recognition.

Men and women were equally capable when tasks were handled one at a time. But when the tasks were mixed up, there was a clear difference. According to the paper published in the journal BMC Psychology, both women and men slowed down and made more mistakes as the switching became more rapid. But the men were slower, taking 77 percent longer to answer, whereas women took 69 percent longer.

To make the experiment more relevant to day-to-day life, researchers tried a second test. A group of women and men were given eight minutes to complete a series of everyday tasks, such as finding restaurants on a map, doing simple math problems, answering a phone call, or deciding how they would search for a lost key in a field. Once again, women outperformed men in the test, particularly in the key-searching task.

“It suggests that in a stressed and complex situation women are more able to stop and think about what’s going on in front of them,” researcher Keith Laws of the University of Hertfordshire, UK, told BBC News. “In contrast, men had a slight impulsiveness（冲动）, answering without giving much thought to their responses.”

So where do women get the ability to keep organized under pressure better than men? Researchers believe that it has its roots in evolution. In early human communities, women had to keep an eye on children while cooking meals. Meanwhile, men only needed to focus on hunting.

1.What did the UK researchers find in the first experiment?

A. Men were better at counting and shape recognition than women.

B. Women made more mistakes than men when multitasking.

C. Women were better at switching between tasks than men.

D. Men and women had equal multitasking abilities.

2.Why did the researchers carry out the second test?

A. To compare the results from different age groups.

B. To check the results with more difficult tasks.

C. To make the results more connected to people’s lives.

D. To check the results over a shorter period of time.

3.What is the main purpose of Paragraph 4 and 5?

A. To show how men and women think differently.

B. To give advice on how to multitask.

C. To compare the roles of men and women in human communities.

D. To explain why men and women perform differently.

4.What can we learn from this passage?

A. Men tend to give more thought to their responses when facing complex situations.

B. Every woman is born to be good at multitasking.

C. Men only need to focus on hunting.

D. Evolution leads to women’s outperforming men in multitasking.

高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

The Chinese women volleyball team returned with honors after winning 11 championships in a __________.

A.row B.question C.state D.voyage

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Every country has its heroes.The heroes are the people the nation and especially the young people admire. If you get a list of the heroes of a nation, it will tell you the potential(潜力) of that nation.

Today in America, if you ask the high school students to list their heroes, their choices would probably fall into three groups. The first group of heroes would be the rock stars—the people connected with rock music. There is no doubt that such people do have talent(才能). But one wonders if one should treat rock stars as a model. The rock stars too often are mixed with drugs and their personal life is not all that good. The rock stars are rich and wear the latest fashion styles. However, one should seek more in a hero than such things as money and good clothes.

A second type of hero for the American youth is the sports star. Again you have a person who has a great ability in one area—sports. However, too often the personal life of the sports star is a bit of disorder. Too frequently drugs and drinking are a part of life of the sports star.

A third type of hero is the TV or movie star. This person may have lots of acting talent and is quite handsome. However, the personal life of too many actors is quite sad and they should not be held up as a model of young people. Today, the rock star, the athlete and the actor all have become the models of the youth in America. Really, do you hear a young person say that his hero is a doctor, a teacher or a scientist? These people are not rich and do not wear fashionable clothes. However, they are talented people who work hard to make the world a better place for everyone.

What is really sad is that the young try to imitate(模仿) their heroes. They like to wear the same clothes and follow their styles. If the heroes of today for the American young people are limited only to rock stars, athletes and actors, the future does not look too bright.

1.The last sentence of the first paragraph implies that ________.

A. if a nation has a lot of heroes, it will be strong

B. heroes of a nation will make the nation itself

C. what the people admire will make the future of the nation

D. if you want to be a hero, you must admire the hero

2.According to the writer, people should admire those ________.

A. who are rich and wear the latest fashion clothes

B. who can express people’s feelings

C. whose personal life is good

D. who work for the interests of the people

3.What is the writer’s attitude towards American youth’s admiration?

A. He understands it.

B. He criticizes it.

C. He is angry about it.

D. He is uninterested in it.

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Where are the speakers?

A. In Singapore.　　 B. In Canada.　　 C. In America.

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SINGAPORE—It seems the financial crisis isn’t all hopeless: one in four people are glad the world’s economy turned down like it did, because it helped them realize more in life, according to a global survey.

Market research firm Synovate surveyed around 11400 people across the world and found more than half had permanently changed their attitudes toward money over the last 12 months. Another 47 percent, however, said they were looking forward to being able to spend freely again.

“The psychology of global depression has changed the way many people do things,” Jenny Chang, managing director in Taiwan (China), said in a statement. “They are making life-changing decisions based on the current global depression, such as postponing marriage, having children, moving house, changing jobs or pursuing higher education. Even in a relatively effect-free economy like Taiwan’s.”

A quarter of all respondents led by Malaysians said they were glad the world had an economic crisis as it has helped them realize what’s really important in their lives.

Nearly 60 percent said they would try their best to control their spending so that it doesn’t go back to what it used to be before the downturn, and over two-thirds are more interested in increasing their savings than reducing their debt.

The majority of respondents—over 80 percent—believed their generation had a responsibility to leave their country better off for the younger generation, even if it involved dramatically changing their lifestyles.

With the relatively high unemployment in the US, Synovate’s US-based Claire Peerson Braverman said, Americans who had lost one or more incomes in the family, had to make some of the most difficult decisions concerning money each day.

1.What information did Market research firm Synovate want to get by making the survey?

A. The effects of global depression on people’s money and life attitudes.

B. The loss people suffered in the global depression.

C. The number of people who like global depression.

D. The influence of economical crisis on the US.

2.What can be inferred from the article?

A. The global depression had no effects on economy in Taiwan of China at all.

B. Global depression led some people to give up their higher education.

C. More people will spend their money more carefully after the global depression.

D. Some people felt glad about the global depression for the benefits it brought them.

3.What does the underlined world “it” in the fifth paragraph refer to?

A. Habit of spending money.         B. Global depression.

C. Responsibility for the country.      D. Attitude towards life.

4.What is the theme of this article?

A. The economic crisis made more people try to save more money.

B. The situation of unemployment in the US became more serious.

C. Lots of people put off some important events in their life for the economic crisis.

D. Economic crisis helped people change their ideas about money and life.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

In Singapore, people who litter or dirty the streets are most likely 　　 .

A.to fine 　　　　　　 B.fined

C.to be fined　　　 D.being fined

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

In Singapore, people who litter and dirty the streets are more likely ________.

A. to fine    　　　 B. fined　　　　　　　　 C. being fined　　　　 D. to be fined

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

In Singapore, people who litter or dirty the street are most likely ___________.

A. to fine                              B. fined                               C. to be fined                       D. being fined

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