Perhaps every older generation since ancient times has complained about young people, and today is no different. Isn’t it obvious that kids these days are self-absorbed social network addicts?
However, this summer, my impression of today’s kids has been restored by the story of Rachel Beckwith. She could teach my generation a great deal about maturity (成熟) and unselfishness — even though she’s just 9 years old, or was when she died on July 23.
At age 5, Rachel had her long hair cut off and sent to Locks of Love, which uses hair donations to make artificial hair for children who have lost their own hair because of cancer or other diseases. After that, Rachel announced that she would grow her hair long again and donate it again. And that’s what she did.
Then when she was 8 years old, her church began raising money to build wells in Africa through an organization called “charity: water”. Rachel was astonished when she learned that other children had no clean water, so she skipped her ninth birthday party. Rachel set up a birthday page on the charity: water website with a target of $300. Instead of presents, she asked her friends to donate $9 each to charity: water. Finally Rachel raised only $220 — which had left her just a bit disappointed.
Then, on July 20, a serious traffic accident left Rachel critically injured. Church members and friends, seeking some way of showing support, began donating on Rachel’s birthday page — charitywater.org/Rachel — and donations reached her $300 goal, and kept rising.
When it was clear that Rachel would never regain consciousness, the family decided to remove the life-support machine. Her parents donated her hair for the final time to Locks of Love, and her organs to other children.
Word spread about Rachel’s last fund-raiser (募捐行动). Contributions poured in, often they donated $9. The total donations soon topped $100,000, then $300,000.
This is a story not just of one girl, but of a young generation of outstanding problem-solvers working creatively.
1.Which of the following is TRUE of Rachel?
A.She died at the age of 8. | B.She was a cancer patient. |
C.She was a warm-hearted girl. | D.She founded Locks of Love. |
2.The underlined word “skipped” in Paragraph 4 probably means “________”.
A.put off | B.gave up | C.expected | D.planned |
3.According to the text, Rachel set up the birthday page to ________.
A.make more new friends |
B.call on people to donate hair |
C.ask her friends to send her gifts |
D.raise money to help African children |
4.How does the author feel about the young generation now?
A.Worried | B.Critical. | C.Appreciative. | D.Doubtful |
5.What would be the best title for the text?
A.Rachel’s last fund-raiser |
B.Rachel and her birthday page |
C.Kids are addicted to social networks. |
D.What’s wrong with the young generation? |
高二英语阅读理解困难题
Perhaps every older generation since ancient times has complained about young people, and today is no different. Isn’t it obvious that kids these days are self-absorbed social network addicts?
However, this summer, my impression of today’s kids has been restored by the story of Rachel Beckwith. She could teach my generation a great deal about maturity (成熟) and unselfishness — even though she’s just 9 years old, or was when she died on July 23.
At age 5, Rachel had her long hair cut off and sent to Locks of Love, which uses hair donations to make artificial hair for children who have lost their own hair because of cancer or other diseases. After that, Rachel announced that she would grow her hair long again and donate it again. And that’s what she did.
Then when she was 8 years old, her church began raising money to build wells in Africa through an organization called “charity: water”. Rachel was astonished when she learned that other children had no clean water, so she skipped her ninth birthday party. Rachel set up a birthday page on the charity: water website with a target of $300. Instead of presents, she asked her friends to donate $9 each to charity: water. Finally Rachel raised only $220 — which had left her just a bit disappointed.
Then, on July 20, a serious traffic accident left Rachel critically injured. Church members and friends, seeking some way of showing support, began donating on Rachel’s birthday page — charitywater.org/Rachel — and donations reached her $300 goal, and kept rising.
When it was clear that Rachel would never regain consciousness, the family decided to remove the life-support machine. Her parents donated her hair for the final time to Locks of Love, and her organs to other children.
Word spread about Rachel’s last fund-raiser (募捐行动). Contributions poured in, often they donated $9. The total donations soon topped $100,000, then $300,000.
This is a story not just of one girl, but of a young generation of outstanding problem-solvers working creatively.
1.Which of the following is TRUE of Rachel?
A.She died at the age of 8. | B.She was a cancer patient. |
C.She was a warm-hearted girl. | D.She founded Locks of Love. |
2.The underlined word “skipped” in Paragraph 4 probably means “________”.
A.put off | B.gave up | C.expected | D.planned |
3.According to the text, Rachel set up the birthday page to ________.
A.make more new friends |
B.call on people to donate hair |
C.ask her friends to send her gifts |
D.raise money to help African children |
4.How does the author feel about the young generation now?
A.Worried | B.Critical. | C.Appreciative. | D.Doubtful |
5.What would be the best title for the text?
A.Rachel’s last fund-raiser |
B.Rachel and her birthday page |
C.Kids are addicted to social networks. |
D.What’s wrong with the young generation? |
高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
Getting up early has been regarded as a good habit since ancient times. Many years ago, people thought that if we went to bed early and got up early, we would be energetic the whole day. So, getting up early is of great importance to us all.
In fact, morning is the best time of a day. In the morning, the air is the freshest and people are usually in the best conditions. Many of us may have the experiences that we memorize some things more quickly and accurately in the morning than at any other time of the day. If we do some morning exercise or only take a short walk in the morning, we can build our bodies and become much healthier. Also we will have enough time to make a plan and get ready for our work or study of the day if we get up early. However, if we get up late, we'll probably have to do everything in a great hurry.
Let us remember getting up early is a good habit and try our best to keep it. If we stick to getting up early every day, we will certainly benefit a lot from it.
【写作内容】
(1)以约30个词概括短文的要点:
(2)然后以约120个词就“早起还是晚起好”这个主题发表你的看法,并包括以下要点:
①你是喜欢早起还是晚起;
②结合自己学习或生活的例子,说明你喜欢这样做的理;
③你的父母或教师有何建议;
④你如何看待他们的建议?
【写作要求】
(1) 可以使用实例或其它论述方法支持你的论点,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不得直接引用原文中的句子;
(2) 标题自拟。
【评分标准】
概括准确、语言规范、内容合适、篇章连贯。
高二英语书面表达极难题查看答案及解析
Flying like a bird has been the dream of humans since ancient times. Last week a group of modern birdmen put their courage on their wings and challenged gravity in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.
“Yes, you can buy a ticket and fly to another city. But running with your own wings and feeling your feet ready to take off is totally different,” Dong Fang, said in an excited voice. He is one of 41 students from Hangzhou No. 14 Middle School to test their home-made aircrafts in the playground. Inspired by the International Bognor Birdman Competition in the UK, Ni Wangyue, a teacher in high school is holding a similar event. The Bognor Birdman competition started in 1971 in the England coastal city Bognor. People ran off the end of a pier (码头) with their own aircraft in an attempt to “fly” the farthest distance.
“From the very beginning , I didn’t expect my students to create a real plane or break any records. I told them the competition is more for seeing how far your imagination can stretch,” Said Ni. He was surprised to see his students create 10 different aircrafts with all kinds of material available in the past month. Many students said that they learnt much more in the process of creating their planes than in ordinary classes.
Jing Yuchen and his team named their plane “Weiming E”, which means an unknown goose. The 17-year-old boy deeply believes their goose of steel pipe and sailcloth will honour its name by successfully making it fly.
“Our work is much more imaginative than others. With several colourful balloons on its back and a pair of light plastic wings, it surely is the most eye-catching work, if not the best,” said Yu Liang, another student.
“Although most of those home-made aircrafts cannot really take the boys flying, the boys’ braveness and creativity in this project will encourage every one of them to fly high in the future,” Ni said.
1.The purpose of the competition is to ___________.
A. prepare to create more real planes.
B. let students break some records.
C. run off the end of a pier.
D. encourage braveness and creativity.
2.According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. There were 41 students taking part in the competition.
B. A similar kind of competition started in 1971.
C. The teacher didn’t expect his students could create 10 different aircrafts.
D. Most of those home-made aircrafts could take the boys flying.
3. By saying “you can buy a ticket and fly to another city”, the writer actually means ___________.
A. if you want to take part in the competition you have to buy a ticket.
B. people who take part in the competition have to fly to another city.
C. people can pay to get a chance to go to another place by air.
D. the students have to fly to another city in their home-made aircrafts.
4.Why did the teacher organize this activity?
A. He wanted to develop students’ imagination.
B. He wanted his students to have the feeling of flying.
C. He wanted his students to break records.
D. He wanted to increase his students’ grades.
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
阅读下面的短文,然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
Getting up early has been regarded as a good habit since ancient times. Many years ago, people thought that if we went to bed early and got up early, we would be energetic the whole day. So, getting up early is of great importance to us all.
In fact, morning is the best time of a day. In the morning, the air is the freshest and people are usually in the best conditions. Many of us may have the experiences that we memorize some things more quickly and accurately in the morning than at any other time of the day. If we do some morning exercise or only take a short walk in the morning, we can build our bodies and become much healthier. Also we will have enough time to make a plan and get ready for our work or study of the day if we get up early. However, if we get up late, we'll probably have to do everything in a great hurry.
Let us remember getting up early is a good habit and try our best to keep it. if we stick to getting up early every day, we will certainly benefit a lot from it.
【写作内容】
(1)以约30个词概括短文的要点:
(2)然后以约120个词就“早起还是晚起好”这个主题发表你的看法,并包括以下要点:
①你是喜欢早起还是晚起;
②结合自己学习或生活的例子,说明你喜欢这样做的理由:
⑧你的父母或教师有何建议:
④你如何看待他们的建议?
【写作要求】
(1)可以使用实例或其它论述方法支持你的论点,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不得直接引用原文中的句子:
(2)标题白定。
【评分标准】
概括准确、语言规范、内容合适、篇章连贯。
高二英语读写任务中等难度题查看答案及解析
One of a doctors’ most valuable tools is his nose. Since ancient times, medics have relied on their sense of smell to help them work out what is wrong with their patients. Fruity odors (气味) on the breath, for example, let them monitor the condition of diabetics (糖尿病病人).
But doctors can, as it were, smell only what they can smell—and many compounds characteristic of disease are odorless. To deal with this limitation, Hossam Haick, a chemical engineer at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, has developed a device which, he claims, can do work that the human nose cannot.
The idea behind Dr. Haick’s invention is not new. Many diagnostic “breathalysers” already exist, and sniffer dogs, too, can be trained to detect illnesses such as cancer. Most of these approaches, though, are disease-specific. Dr. Haick wanted to generalize the process.
As he describes in ACS Nano, he and his colleagues created a series of electrodes made of carbon nanotubes (纳米碳管). Each of these had one of 20 organic films laid over it. Each film was sensitive to one of a score of compounds known to be found on the breath of patients suffering from a range of 17 illnesses, including Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and bladder cancer. When a film reacted, its electrical resistance changed in a predictable manner. The combined changes produced an electrical fingerprint that would be diagnostic of the disease a patient was suffering from.
To test their invention, Dr. Haick and his colleagues collected 2,808 breath samples from 1,404 patients who were suffering from at least one of the diseases. Its success varied. It could distinguish between samples from patients suffering from gastric cancer and bladder cancer only 64% of the time. At distinguishing lung cancer from head and neck cancer it was, though, 100% successful. Overall, it got things right 86% of the time. Not perfect, but a useful aid to a doctor planning to conduct further investigations. And this is only the first model. Slightly adjusted, its success rate would be expected to improve.
1.How useful is nose to doctors?
A.They can smell what other people can’t.
B.They could tell which diseases are odorless.
C.They diagnose illness through their sense of smell.
D.They will apply new device to helping with diagnosing illness.
2.What is the most special aspect of the new invention?
A.It can help detect more than one disease.
B.It is made of a series of electrodes.
C.It works through analyzing patients’ electrical fingerprints.
D.It can be used to help diagnose cancers.
3.What can we infer about the device?
A.It’s the first invention by using principle of sense of smell.
B.It will be a useful tool in diagnosing lung cancer.
C.Its success rate differs from patient to patient.
D.It can successfully tell Bladder cancer from other cancers.
4.What is the best title for this passage?
A.High Tech in diagnosing illness B.A new way in diagnosing illness
C.Diagnosing illness can be easy D.Diagnosing illness by smell
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
_______is known to all ,the Diaoyu Islands have been part of Chinese territory since ancient times.
A.It | B.That | C.This | D.As |
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
_______ is well known is ________ the Diaoyu Islands have been part of China since ancient times.
A.Which; that | B.That; which | C.What; that | D.That; what |
高二英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析
A.American & British Classics
A. classic is a literary work which has stood the test of time. Generations of readers have turned to classics to discover that which is ever-lasting. Through both the works themselves and the people they mirror, we may better be able to see ourselves.
B. World Literature
World Literature examines the common people found in quality literature worldwide, in these worlds, we find not only what is unique to each culture but what is universal,
C. Creative Writing
Creating Writing does not only provide us with an opportunity to express ourselves, but also holds our attention to word choice, paragraph development, and other skills useful in writing.
D. Technical Writing
It's a course which can help you to improve your communication skills in, for arid through technology.
E. Journalism
It's a course for seniors, in which we will cover how 10 gather, write and report the news. We will discuss how information is, or can be organized.
F. Non-fiction
The course is a study of non-fiction through reading many different types of non-fiction. The course will also be about the possible changes in journalistic reporting and the sharing of personal stories of various people on various topics such as travel and adventure.
请阅读以下学生的相关信息,然后匹配和他/她拟要选择的课程:
1.Lucy .wants to become a famous reporter in the world. She is eager to have the course which can help her to realize her dream.
2.Sally's vocabulary is very large, but she can not organize what she write well, which makes her writing illogically. She wants to get some more skill of it.
3.Lily can not know how to communicate with others as a. writer. She needs to improve the skill of it badly.
4.Jenny wants to become a writer of biography. Therefore, she wants to choose a. course connected with it.
5.Mary is interested in Mark Twain, especially his novels which arc full of humors. She really want to know some other writers who were born in the same country as Mark Twain was.
高二英语信息匹配中等难度题查看答案及解析
Traditional Chinese medicine originated in ancient and developed for 1. long time. It has collected various ways to treat 2. (differ) diseases. It pays attention 3. the balance of the body system. It reads, once the body system 4. (balance) , the disease will disappear. The damage of the body system is the source of the disease.
TCM is an important part of Chinese culture. It has made great 5. (contribute) to the prosperity (繁荣) of China. Great success have been made in many areas through TCM cure. As to acute stomachache, there is no need 6. (have) an operation; all you need to do is drink a cup of Chinese herbs,7. the western way takes more time and money. You may even take the risk of being infected after operation.
8. (compare) with the western medicine high fees, TCM has a reasonable price that ordinary people can afford. I think in the future, TCM will be the mainstream in the health services in China. And our country should invest (投入) more money on the 9. (develop) on TCM.
10. (make) sure it is not going to fade away.
高二英语语法填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
阅读下面短文,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。
While proud of its great inventions in ancient times, China has once again shown its ability to change the world with its “four new great inventions”: high-speed rail, mobile payments, bike-sharing and e-commerce.
“The ‘four new great inventions’ are all 1. (relate) to China’s high-tech innovation. 2. improved the quality of people’s lives,” said Wu Hao, executive director of the BRRI. As a huge fan of bicycles, Bernard Schwartlander, World Health Organization Representative in China, 3. (express) his love for China’s shared bicycles, saying that “Shared bikes are bringing cycling back 4. people’s lives and they are making public transport more attractive and convenient.”
Rebecca Fannin, 5. (edit) of Silicon Dragon, noted that China is beginning to lead in innovation in some ways. “This is 6. (part) because China skipped over the PC era and went directly to the mobile. China has the 7. (large) mobile use in the world.”
With regard to the “four new inventions”, Charlie Dai, principal analyst of American market research company Forrester, said these products and services have definitely improved customer experience, developing national and 8. (globe) economy at the same time.
A growing number of foreigners hope 9. (promote) economic development in their home countries by stressing the need for technological achievements like 10. of China.
高二英语语法填空中等难度题查看答案及解析