The old-fashioned birthday card is out of dat...

The old-fashioned birthday card is out of date.1. Sometimes, simple well-wishes on Facebook or a birthday email is enough. But sometimes we want a more creative way.

2. Online greeting cards are available at a variety of websites. They will allow you to customize(定制) the card with a personal message before sending it to your friend.

3. In New York, Mrs.Fields offers delicious cookies of various sizes with custom-printed message on the label.　 4. You can also print out your own label. This idea could also work with a great bottle of wine.

If you only have time to stop by a store, you could send your friend a “Happy Birthday” balloon. It’s also popular NYC tradition to greet a friend at work with a Happy Birthday.

The possibilities for wishing someone a Happy Birthday are endless. There are many more original ways to share your birthday wishes. 5.

A. You can send an online greeting card.

B. You can also send a greeting message with a mobile phone.

C. Another more creative way is through writing on baked goods.

D. New ways to wish your friend a Happy Birthday are replacing it.

E. Your friend gets both a nice bottle of champagne(香槟) and your personal message.

F. What a great pleasure to enjoy the champagne at your friend’s birthday party.

G. A friend’s birthday is a chance to be creative and to show that you think of them.

高二英语七选五简单题查看答案及解析

The computer software is old, 　　　　　　　　 ，very out of date．

A. or rather　　　　 B. rather than

C. other than　　　 D. more than

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

As an old-fashioned explorer, Paul Salopek sets out on foot to circle around the world. He is also a modern-day explorer. On top of a few clothes, a small first-aid kit and notebooks, he is carrying a recorder, a video camera, a small computer and a satellite phone — a telephone that connects to a satellite and can be used in many places where cell-phones don’t work.

The journey is long: 21,000 miles! It will take seven years to complete it.

Salopek was born in California and spent his childhood in Mexico. He says he has always liked to travel and doesn’t like to rush. At the age of fourteen, he climbed Mount Whitney in California and crossed the state’s Sierra Nevada Mountains alone. When he was fifteen years old, he walked the length of Death Valley. He once rode a mule 2,000 miles through mountains in Mexico.

As a longtime reporter, Salopek has reported from Africa, Asia and Mexico. Now 51 years old, he plans to keep writing. As he travels around the world, he is writing stories about the people he meets and the way they live. He looks for how people find local solutions to big problems such as lack of food and water. He also records the sounds he hears and takes photos of the sky and the Earth’s surface.

The long walk started in the Rife Valley in Ethiopia in East Africa. Many consider East Africa to be home to the first humans, who lived 160,000 years ago.

Salopek is retracing the paths our ancestors took as they left Africa and settled in parts of　 the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the Americas. As Salopek is walking, he is learning more about himself and all of humankind.

1.The underlined phrase “on top of” in the first paragraph can be replaced by ______________.

A. at the top of　 B. in contrast to

C. in addition to　 D. on the basis of

2. The author develops the third paragraph mainly by ______________.

A. providing examples

B. making comparisons

C. making a careful analysis

D. following the order of time

3. According to the passage, Paul Salopek is a ______________.

A. doctor who likes carrying the small first-aid kit

B. journalist who likes traveling, exploring, writing and studying

C. writer who likes traveling, exploring and studying

D. photographer who is good at using satellite communication equipment

4.What’s the best title for the passage?

A. Paul Salopek: Following Man’s First Footsteps

B. Paul Salopek: Reflecting People’s Real Lives

C. Paul Salopek: Going for a Seven-year Study

D. Paul Salopek: Looking back upon the Childhood

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Teamwork is all about working together to achieve a common goal or purpose. Is teamwork out of date? Why is it so hard to effectively conduct teamwork in those things?

One way we employ teamwork in everyday lives is by becoming a parent. It is a parent’s job to teach their children the fundamental skills and give them the knowledge they need to be successful in life. So why is teamwork disappearing in this aspect of our lives? Well in today’s society, we find that more and more parents are experiencing that the teamwork is a one-sided thing. According to a 2009 report from the US, there are 13.7 million single parents raising their children in the US and this amount could be due to the fact that parents are not stepping up and taking responsibility for their children or they don’t have the means to, so they leave one parent to do it by themselves. This is a saddening fact, but it reflects that effective teamwork is losing ground in the parenting aspect of our everyday lives.

Another place where teamwork affects us greatly is in our jobs. It doesn’t matter if you are a small or large company; if you have at least one employee and yourself, then teamwork will be present. I have noticed that with the current economic recession(衰退), people are racing to grab jobs but the quality of people’s work has gone down greatly. It just appears to me that people do not take part in their work any more. They want to get to work and work as fast as they can, just to receive the paycheck, but their quality standards fly right out the window. This type of behavior is where I think teamwork is losing its ground in the workforce. There are too many people who want to work independently and forget they are a part of a team.

As you can see, we run into the aspects of teamwork in just about everything we do. Do you believe teamwork is really losing ground in today’s society? I think it is. What’s your opinion?

1.Why does teamwork disappear in the parenting aspect of our daily lives?

A. Parents have no time to spare with their children.

B. Parents have no chances to teach their children about it.

C. Many children are often brought up by a single parent.

D. Many children are independent to deal with their matters.

2.Teamwork is losing ground in workforce mainly because _______.

A. workers don’t like to work together with others

B. workers’ sense is affected by economic recession

C. workers want to prove they are more capable

D. fewer workers are employed to save money

3.The author wants us to believe his opinion by _______.

A. listing some data

B. making comparisons

C. asking some questions

D. analyzing some cases

4.What does the underlined phrase “fly right out the window” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A. Disappear.　　 B. Improve.

C. Increase.　　 D. Matter.

5.What is the author’s main purpose of writing the passage?

A. To show the importance of housework.

B. To introduce how teamwork works now.

C. To tell us the current economic recession.

D. To show his attitude towards teamwork.

高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Dear Dad,

On this date of your 50th birthday, Mom gave me the letter you wrote me when I was born 18 years ago. In your letter, you 1.(wish) me to be strong-minded and successful. You were looking forward to 2.(see) me fight for my future bravely and do well for 3. and others.

After reading this letter, I feel quite 4.(shock) at your5.(expect) on me. I also feel shamed 6.not having performed well to meet your demand. I still remember when I was in primary school, I failed to apply myself to studying. I was addicted to computer games. As a consequence, I soon became the last one in my class. You didn’t abuse me at all. 7.the contrary, you taught me that studying was the most important object at the moment and encouraged me to study hard. Only 8.I read your letter did I realize that I behaved so badly at that time and you were so sad to see I didn’t do well for myself.

I can’t help expressing my gratitude and sending my best wishes to you. Wish you9.(health) and happy. I promise that I will spare no effort to satisfy your demand of being10.brave and successful person.

高二英语语法填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Britain’s symbolic red phone boxes have become out of date in the age of the mobile, but villages across the country are stepping in to save them, with creative intelligence. Whether as a place to exhibit art, poetry, or even as a tiny library, hundreds of phone boxes have been given a new life by local communities determined to preserve a typical part of British life. In Waterperry, a small village near Oxford, the 120 residents have filled the phone box next to the old house with a pot of flowers, piles of gardening and cooking magazines, and stuck poems on the walls.

They took control of the phone box when telecoms operator BT said it was going to pull it down, an announcement that caused such dissatisfaction that one local woman threatened to chain herself to the box to save it. “I’d have done it, “ insisted Kendall Turner. “It would have been heartbreaking for the village. “ Local councilor Tricia Hallam, who came up with the idea for the phone box’s change, said quite a few people would have joined her, adding, “ We couldn’t let it go because it’s a British symbol.”

Only three feet by three feet wide, and standing 2.51-meter tall, the phone boxes were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1936 for the 25^th anniversary of the reign of King George V. Painted in “Post Office red” to match the post boxes, they were once a typical image of England and the backdrop(背景) to millions of tourist photographs.

Eight years ago there were about 17,000 across Britain, but today, in a country where almost everybody has a mobile phone, 58 percent are no longer profitable and ten percent are only used once a month. “On average, maintaining them costs ￡800 a year per phone box-about ￡44 million annually,” said John Lumb, general manager for BT Payphones.

1.Some red phone boxes in Britain have been used for ____.

a. selling flowers    b. cooking   c. reading  d. exhibiting art or poetry

2.Why do the villagers want to keep the red phone boxes?

3.What is the color of the British post boxes according to the passage?

4.What is John Lumb’s attitude towards pulling down the red phone boxes?

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

Britain’s symbolic red phone boxes have become out of date in the age of the mobile, but villages across the country are stepping in to save them, with creative intelligence. Whether as a place to exhibit art, poetry, or even as a tiny library, hundreds of phone boxes have been given a new life by local communities determined to preserve a typical part of British life. In Waterperry, a small village near Oxford, the 120 residents have filled the phone box next to the old house with a pot of flowers, piles of gardening and cooking magazines, and stuck poems on the walls.

They took control of the phone box when telecoms operator BT said it was going to pull it down, an announcement that caused such dissatisfaction that one local woman threatened to chain herself to the box to save it. “I’d have done it,”insisted Kendall Turner. “It would have been heartbreaking for the village.”Local councilor Tricia Hallam, who came up with the idea for the phone box’s change, said quite a few people would have joined her, adding, “We couldn’t let it go because it’s a British symbol.”

Only three feet by three feet wide, and standing 2.51-meter tall, the phone boxes were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1936 for the 25^th anniversary of the reign of King George V.Painted in “Post Office red” to match the post boxes, they were once a typical image of England and the backdrop（背景）to millions of tourist photographs.

Eight years ago there were about 17,000 across Britain, but today, in a country where almost everybody has a mobile phone, 58 percent are no longer profitable and ten percent are only used once a month. “On average, maintaining them costs $800 a year per phone box — about ￡44 million annually,” said John Lunb, general manager for BT Payphones.

1..Some red phone boxes in Britain have been used for ______ .

a.selling flowers     b.cooking           c.reading       d.exhibiting art or poetry

A.a,b             B.c,d           C.a,b,c         D.b,c,d

2..Why do the villagers want to keep the red phone boxes ?

A.Because millions of people visit Britain to see the red phone boxes.

B.Because the local people could earn a lot of money from the red phone boxes.

C.Because the red phone boxes have already become a symbol of Britain.

D.Because the red phone boxes may be useful for some people in emergency.

3..What is the color of the British post boxes according to the passage ?

A.Green.          B.Red.          C.Black.            D.Yellow.

4..What is John Lumb’s attitude towards pulling down the red phone boxes ?

A.Supportive.     B.Opposed.      C.Neutral.      D.Indifferent.

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

Among all the birthday gifts ______ a DIY card, which I like best.

A．is included        B．include           C．were included      D．including

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

I wonder if my make-up is ok. What will I say to him? Carefully, I stepped out of my car as my date made his way over to me.

“I’ve got you something,” he greeted me with a huge smile on his face. “Something every girl secretly longs for (渴望).” Standing in front of me, he slid something into my hand. I looked down to find candy — but not just any candy — A Sugar Daddy!

I relaxed immediately. This was the funny man I had been talking to. Little did he know, my secret longing was really to make a good impression on him.

A good first impression is important. So, how do you, when you’re meeting someone for the first time, make certain he or she doesn’t get the wrong image of you?

A study concluded that the first 30 seconds make or break the connection between two people when they meet for the first time. Another study conducted by UCLA found that “people evaluate one another by using the three V’s: visual (appearance), vocal (voice) and verbal (what you say).”

Before you head out on your next date to meet someone new, let’s concentrate on these areas:

●How others will see you. (Visual) Are you dressed well? Do you look like this date is important to you? Did you take some time with your appearance? Watch your manners: people don’t like bad manners.

●How others will hear you. (Vocal) Is your voice too soft? You might come across as insecure. If you speak softly, make an effort to speak clearly — don’t make your date have to work to hear you.

●What others will hear you say. (Verbal) People have a natural desire to connect — let them know you’re interested in what they have to say by repeating it back to them. Don’t say the same thing everyone else is saying.

1.What would be the best title for the text?

A. Good measures to communicate with others

B. How to make friends with others

C. How to enjoy yourself in your life

D. The importance of a good first impression

2.According to the text, when you want to make friends with someone, ______.

A. you should try to master the first few seconds

B. you should talk as much as possible

C. you should wear strange clothes to give him or her a deep impression

D. there is no need for you to treat it seriously

3.Which of the following belongs to the description of “Vocal”?

A. Dress yourself very well.　　 B. Spend some time on your appearance.

C. Speak carefully and clearly.　　 D. Repeat the same thing several times.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

You have been sitting on my hat and now it is badly out of __________.

A. date     B. order      C. shape        D. balance

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析