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When I was 11, I threw a glance into Dad’s lunch box and made the unexpected discovery that my mother still showed her love towards my father. The evidence, a napkin resting on top of the sandwiches packed in wax paper, was certain “Love you!” she had written on the napkin. “ Meat loaf for supper!”
Mom penned all kinds of messages to Dad on those paper napkins, and he saved a whole pile of them. What embarrassed me as a kid has become a precious memory of my parents.
It also started my own brand of lunch box notes. When my kids were young, I’d glue little drawings on their lunches. Lots of sketches(素描) of our dog, Max, along with smiling flowers. When they were teenagers, I’d copy words of wisdom from great people, Einstein, for example, or Bruce Springsteen. Then, my kids grew up making their own handwritten notes. And my husband writes me love notes on recycled paper, because he’s all about being green.
Friends who know about my lunch box notes eagerly share stories of their own family traditions. So many focus on food. Maura’s mom always drew hearts on the shells of hard-boiled eggs. Melinda wrote messages on her kids’ bananas.
We’re into the third generation of lunch box notes in our home. Whenever my 3-year-old grandson, Clayton, spends the night, he knows his lunch is going to have a napkin note from Grandma in the morning. Last week, I drew a picture of me, waving widely and shouting his name. He took one look at it and screamed, “ Where’s Grandpa?” I added a man in a clean shirt. “ You forgot his tie,” he said. I quickly drew a line of stripes(条纹) down the front of the shirt. Clayton smiled. “Grandpa,” he whispered, running his fingers across the napkin. “It’s you!”
1.When the author first saw Dad’s lunch box notes, she felt ______.
A. moved B. awkward
C. proud D. nervous
2.What did the author put in the lunch boxes when her kids were in their teens?
A. Words of love.
B. Pictures of flowers.
C. Drawings of their favorite animals.
D. Famous words of wisdom
3.It can be inferred that ________.
A. the author’s grandson likes drawing pictures on napkins.
B. the author’s children dislike making lunch box notes.
C. the author’s husband is an environmentalist.
D. the author’s friends all had their brand of lunch box notes.
4.What’s the best title for the text?
A. Old generation’s way of expressing love.
B. Different brands of lunch box notes.
C. Lunches packed with love.
D. Some interesting family traditions.
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When I was 11, I threw a glance into Dad’s lunch box and made the unexpected discovery that my mother still showed her love towards my father. The evidence, a napkin resting on top of the sandwiches packed in wax paper, was certain “Love you!” she had written on the napkin. “Meat loaf for supper!”
Mom penned all kinds of messages to Dad on those paper napkins, and he saved a whole pile of them. What embarrassed me as a kid has become a precious memory of my parents.
It also started my own brand of lunch box notes. When my kids were young, I’d glue little drawings on their lunches. Lots of sketches (素描) of our dog, Max, along with smiling flowers. When they were teenagers, I’d copy words of wisdom from great people, Einstein, for example, or Bruce Springsteen. Then, my kids grew up making their own handwritten notes. And my husband writes me love notes on recycled paper, because he’s all about being green.
Friends who know about my lunch box notes eagerly share stories of their own family traditions. So many focus on food. Maura’s mom always drew hearts on the shells of hard-boiled eggs. Melinda wrote messages on her kids’ bananas.
We’re into the third generation of lunch box notes in our home. Whenever my 3-year-old grandson, Clayton, spends the night, he knows his lunch is going to have a napkin note from Grandma in the morning. Last week, I drew a picture of me, waving widely and shouting his name. He took one look at it and screamed, “Where’s Grandpa?” I added a man in a clean shirt. “You forgot his tie,” he said. I quickly drew a line of stripes (条纹) down the front of the shirt. Clayton smiled. “Grandpa,” he whispered, running his fingers across the napkin. “It’s you!”
1.When the author first saw Dad’s lunch box notes, she felt ______.
A. moved B. nervous
C. awkward D. proud
2.What did the author put in the lunch boxes when her kids were in their teens?
A. Words of love.
B. Famous words of wisdom.
C. Pictures of their pet and flowers.
D. Eggs painted with hearts.
3.It can be inferred that ________.
A. the author’s husband is an environmentalist.
B. the author’s children dislike making lunch box notes.
C. the author’s grandson likes drawing pictures on napkins.
D. the author’s friends all had their brand of lunch box notes.
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When I walked into the house after school, the first thing I noticed was a box with items I recognized from my dad’s office.
“What are you doing at home?” I asked casually.
“Andrew, I wastoday,” he answered quietly.
I was sure he was joking. “No, you weren't. Why are you at home?”
Then I noticed hisand realized he was telling me the truth. My father has always been a hard worker and prided himself on his career. ________our family has been his joy, and I guess I havehis work for granted.
My father’s unemploymentmany changes in our lives. For starters, he was at home all the time, which meant my bed had to be, my room cleaned up, and mydone right after school. I would come home every day to find him at the computerjobs. I began to notice howhe seemed, and how losing his job affected his self-esteem, though he tried to be. For the first time, Imy dad as vulnerable (易受伤的). He asked my brother and me toless. I gave up my pocket money, ________it wasn’t much. I felt I was doing the right. I also found a part-time job.
After several difficult months of searching, my dadto go in a totally different direction. Hethat he never wanted to be laid off again, so he was going to start his own business. Day by day, I watched him it, and I admired how much time and he expended. Iknew he was a hard worker, but watching him in action really affected me.
Although this was one of theexperiences for our family, it taught me a lot about dealing with adversity (逆境), and will be my foundations for success.
1.A. taken off B. put off C. laid off D. called off
2.A. finally B. really C. frequently D. especially
3.A. happiness B. kindness C. loneliness D. seriousness
4.A. Supporting B. Providing C. Offering D. Shooting
5.A. regarded B. taken C. viewed D. looked
6.A. came out B. brought about C. gave off D. let out
7.A. made B. sold C. banned D. applied
8.A. job B. homework C. fun D. time
9.A. falling into B. putting up C. keeping on D. searching for
10.A. depressed B. patient C. smart D. honest
11.A. disappointed B. optimistic C. anxious D. appropriate
12.A. considered B. remembered C. refused D. predicted
13.A. earn B. enjoy C. spend D. find
14.A. even so B. if only C. even though D. as if
15.A. hoped B. decided C. dreamed D. expected
16.A. advised B. informed C. explained D. insisted
17.A. form B. open C. set D. build
18.A. strength B. power C. force D. energy
19.A. never B. seldom C. always D. hardly
20.A. worst B. best C. most D. least
高三英语完型填空简单题查看答案及解析
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In 1931, I was born disabled. I couldn’t 1.(straight) my legs. Dad would carry me when we went into town. Once 2.he was holding me, I told him I wanted to be a football player. He said, “I don’t think you are going to be much of3.unique athlete.” This was my motivation for years4. (come). I had outgrown(因长大而不再)my disability by the time I was 9, 5.I weighed only 40 pounds and needed to build muscle and strength.
I knew that a bicycle would help. I bought6.at the local shop and started riding it to school. By the time I was 13, I7.(become) the fastest runner in grade school, and at 15, I was the fastest runner in high school.
I made farmwork a part of my recovering routine. I 8.work in the fields at 7:30 p. m. and then run two miles. Picking up wheat was a big thing but I did it all by hand. Finally, all the trainings9.off and now I am working as a public speech maker giving courses10.disability recovering.
高三英语短文填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
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The pea incident happened when I was eight. My grandmother, my mother and I were having lunch at a restaurant. I __ a Salisbury steak. When served，it was __ accompanied by a plate of peas.
I have always __ peas. It is a complete __ to me why anyone would voluntarily eat peas.
“Eat your peas,” my grandmother said.
“Mother,” said my mother in her __ voice. “He doesn’t like peas. Leave him alone.”
My grandmother __ at me and said the words that __ ray life, “I’ll pay you five dollars __ you eat those peas. Five dollars! And only one plate of peas stood between __ and the possession of that __ amount of money. I began to __ the awful things down ray throat and finally swallowed the __ one of them. My grand-mother handed me the __. I can do what I want, Ellen, and you can’t stop me,” she __ to my mother. My mother glared at her and also glared at me ___
Several days later, at dinner, my mother offered me some steaming peas and I, of course, __. My mother fixed me with a __eye as she __ more peas onto my plate. “You ate them for money,” she said, “You can eat them for love.”
Oh, despair! Now, too late, I realized that I had been __ in a terrible place from which there was no __. “you ate them for money. You can eat them for love.” Did I eat the peas? You bet I did. I ate them that day and every other time they were served thereafter.
1.A. enjoyed B. ordered C. afforded D. prepared
2.A. unexpectedly B. undoubtedly C. reasonably D. naturally
3.A. preferred B. valued C. hated D. ignored
4.A. joke B. mystery C. tale D. disaster
5.A. trembling B. ringing C. urging D. warning
6.A. aimed B. looked C. laughed D. shouted
7.A. changed B. improved C. controlled D. mixed
8.A. unless B. when C. before D. if
9.A. my grandmother B. my mother C. me D. us
10.A. unimaginable B. believable C. unpredictable D. acceptable
11.A. throw B. place C. force D. bite
12.A. best B. single C. possible D. last
13.A. peas B. steak C. plates D. money
14.A. explained B. announced C. whispered D. screamed
15.A. in excitement B. in relief C. in silence D. in love
16.A. nodded B. declined C. defended D. waved
17.A. mild B. blank C. distant D. cold
18.A. held B. chose C. piled D. dropped
19.A. caught B. left C. beaten D. hidden
20.A. stop B. risk C. escape D. cost
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About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table. I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked, “So, how have you been?” And the boy --- who could not have been more than seven or eight years old ---replied, “Frankly, I’ve been feeling a little depressed lately.”
This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were “depressed” until we were in high school.
The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to. Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it is certainly different. Children as they once were on longer exists. Why?
Human development is based not only on innate biological states, but also on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from one social route to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new status. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages: traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.
In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation machine has been installed in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television. Television passes information indiscriminately to all viewers alike, be they children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures.
Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information to which children have access. Reading and writing involve a complex code of symbols that must be memorized and practiced. Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials.
1.According to the author, feeling depressed is ________.
A. a sure sign of a psychological problem in children’s mental development
B. something rarely expected in children’s mental development
C. an inevitable thing in children’s mental development
D. something usually experienced in children’s mental development
2.What does the underlined word innate in Paragraph 4 mean ?
A. something a person is born with
B. something a person is tired of
C. something a person is expected of
D. something a person is dreaming of
3.What of the following statement is NOT true according to the last paragraph?
A. Communication through print helps children develop their reading skills.
B. Communication through print helps children access more social information.
C. Communication through print helps children command a complex code of symbols.
D. Communication through print helps children read different materials at random.
4.What is the attitude of the author about today’s children?
A. He feels shocked by their premature behavior.
B. He thinks it is a phenomenon unworthy of note.
C. He considers it a positive social development.
D. He seems to be concerned about the tendency.
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
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About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table，I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their conversation．At one point the woman asked，“So，how have you been?" And the boy -who could not have been more than seven or eight years old-replied．“Frankly, I've been feeling a little depressed lately．"
This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing．As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were “depressed”，that is，in low spirits，until we were in high school．
Undoubtedly a change in children has increased steadily in recent years．Children don't seem childlike anymore．Children speak more like adults，dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to．
Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different．Childhood as it once was no longer exists．Why?
Human development is depended not only on born biological states，but also on patterns of gaining social knowledge．Movement from one social role to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new social posifions．Children have always been taught adult secrets，but slowly and in stages；traditionally,we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders．
In the last 30 years，however, a secret-revelation(揭示)machine has been equipped in 98 percent of American homes．It is called television．Television passes information to all viewers allke，whether they are children or adults．Unable to resist the temptation(诱惑)，many children turn their attention from pri
nted texts to the less challenging，more attractive moving pictures．Communication through print，as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information which children will gain．Children must read simple books before they
can read complex materials．1.According to the author, feeling depressed is ．
A．a sure sign of a mental problem in a child
B．a mental state present in all humans, including children
C．something that cannot be avoided in children’s mental development
D．something
hardly to be expected in a young child2.Traditionally, a child is supposed to learn about the adult world ．
A．through connection with society
B．gradually and under guidance
C．naturally without being taught
D．through watching television
3.According to the author’that today’s children seem adultlike results from ．
A．the widespread influence of television
B．the poor arrangement of teaching content
C．the fast pace of human scientific development
D．the rising standard of living
4.What does the anthor think of communication through print for children?
A．It enables children to gain more social information．
B．It develops children’s interest in reading and writing．
C．It helps chlldren to read and write well
D．It can control what children are to learn．
5.What does the author think of the change in today’s children?
A．He feels their adultlike behavior is so funny．
B．He thinks the change worthy of note．
C．He considers it a rapid development．
D．He seems to be upset about it．
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Dad and I loved baseball and hated sleep. One midsummer dawn when I was nine, we drove to the local park with our baseballs, gloves, and Yankees caps.
“If you thought night baseball was a thrill, just wait,” Dad told me. “Morning air carries the ball like you’ve never seen.”
He was right. Our fastballs charged faster and landed more lightly. The echoes of our catches popped as the sun rose over the dew-sprinkled fields.
The park was all ours for about two hours. Then a young mother pushed her stroller toward us. When she neared, dad politely leaned-over the stroller, waved, and gave the baby his best smile.
The mother stared at him for a second, and then rushed away.
Dad covered his mouth with his hand and walked to the car. “Let’s go,” he said. “I’m not feeling well.”
A month earlier, Bell’s palsy(贝尔氏神经麻痹）had struck Dad, paralyzing the right side of his face. His smile, which once eased the pain of playground cuts and burst forth was gone.
As I slumped in the car, I began suspecting that our sunrise, park visit wasn’t about watching daylight lift around us. This was his effort to avoid stares.
After that day, Dad spent more time indoors and no longer wanted to play catch.
For Bell’s palsy suffers, most recover in several weeks. Other cases take a few months to heal. But after nine weeks of therapy, the doctor admitted she couldn’t help Dad.
Dad coped through humor. He occasionally grabbed erasable markers and drew an even-sided wide smile across his face. Other times, he practiced his Elvis impersonation, joking that his curled lips allowed him to perfect his performance of “Hound Dog”.
By the time I entered fourth grade that September, dad could blink his right eye and speak clearly again.But his smile still hadn’t returned.So I made a secret vow I would abstain from smiles of any kind.
Nothing about fourth grade made this easy. Classmates were both old enough to laugh about pop culture and young enough to appreciate jokes. Kids called me Frowny the Dwarf.(I was three foot ten.) Teachers accompanied me into hallways, asking what was wrong. Breaking the promise I had made myself was tempting, but I couldn’t let Dad not smile alone.
When I asked my PE coach, “What’s so great about smiling?” He made me do push-ups while the rest of the class played ball game. Then he called Dad.
I never learned what they discussed. But when I got off the school bus that afternoon, I saw Dad waiting for me, holding our gloves and ball. For the first time in months, we got in the family car and went to the park for a catch.
“It’s been too long,” he said.
Roughly a half-dozen fathers and sons lined the field with gloved arms in the air.
Dad couldn’t smile, but he beamed, and so did I. Sundown came quickly. The field’s white lights glowed, and everyone else left. But dad and I threw everything from curve balls to folly floaters into the night. We had catching up to do.
1.Why did Dad choose to play baseballs one summer dawn?
A.They could perform better in the morning.
B.Morning air was more suitable for playing baseball.
C.He tried to escape others attention to his face.
D.The park was empty and they could enjoy themselves
2.The underlined phrase “abstain from” in Paragraph 12 means_______.
A.seek for B.give up
C.recover from D.break into
3.What can we infer from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 13?
A.The boy lost his ability to smile.
B.The boy couldn’t appreciate pop culture
C.The boy must have suffered many wrongs.
D.The boy tried his best to make Father smile.
4.Why did the father accompany his son to the park for a catch that night?
A.He had made a complete recovery.
B.He thought night baseball was a thrill.
C.He was instructed by the PE coach to do so."
D.He intended his son to return to normal
5.Which of the following can best describe the author’s father?
A.Selfless and lucky
B.Responsible, and humorous.
C.Sensitive and stubborn.
D.Generous and determined.
6.What is the best title for the passage?
A.Losing My Father’s Smile
B.Making a Hidden Secret
C.Playing Baseball in the Morning
D.Recovering from a Face Illness
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Falling off a box car and landing on my head, I lost my sight when I was four years old. Now I am thirty-two. I can _________ remember the brightness of sunshine. It would be wonderful to see again, _________a tragedy can do strange things to people.
It _________ to me that I might not have come to love life as I do now if I hadn’t been blind. My parents and my teacher saw something _________ me , and they made me want to __________ against blindness.
The hardest _________ I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have ________ down and become a chair rocker for the rest of my life. When I say _________in myself I am not talking about _________ the kind of self-confidence that _________ me down an unfamiliar staircase （楼梯）alone. But I mean something bigger than that : an assurance that I am a real positive person _________ imperfections.
It took me years to obtain this ________ . It had to start with the ________ . Once a man gave me an indoor _________ . “ I can’t use this.” I said. “ Take it with you,” he ________ me , “ and roll it around.” The _________ stuck in my head. “ Roll it around !” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought _________ . At the School for the Blind I ________ a new kind of baseball called ground ball. All my life I have set a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my _________ . I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made _________ .
1.A. randomly B. abruptly C. roughly D. completely
2.A. so B. but C. thus D. and
3.A. occurred B. referred C. brought D. turned
4.A. of B. for C. to D. in
5.A. get B. fight C. find D. drop
6.A. method B. experience C. lesson D. manner
7.A. broken B. put C. settled D. lay
8.A. courage B. ambition C. belief D. power
9.A. firmly B. simply C. fairly D. slightly
10.A. stops B. helps C. finds D. gives
11.A. despite B. besides C. without D. unlike
12.A. description B. existence C. intelligence D. recognition
13.A. intelligence B. incident C. trouble D. determination
14.A. chair B. baseball C. game D. design
15.A. urged B. blamed C. greeted D. teased
16.A. goals B. words C. baseballs D. ideas
17.A. valuable B. reasonable C. impossible D. unbearable
18.A. discovered B. equipped C. formed D. invented
19.A. limitations B. Advantages C. puzzles D. personalities
20.A. sense B. progress C. mistakes D. friends[
高三英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
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I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty two. I can slightly remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is .It would be wonderful to see again , but a calamity (灾难)can do strange things to people .It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind . I believe in life now.I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply , otherwise. I don’t mean that would prefer to go without my eyes . I simply mean that Atlantic the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left .
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me--a potential to live, you might call it--which I didn't see, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate（错综复杂的） pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the simplest things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. "I can't use this." I said. "Take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around." The words stuck in my head. "Roll it around! "By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
1.We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _______
A. the author lost his sight because of a car crash.
B. the author wouldn't love life if the disaster didn't happen.
C. the disaster made the author appreciate what he had.
D. the disaster strengthened the author's desire to see.
2.What's the most difficult thing for the author?
A. How to adjust himself to reality.
B. Building up assurance that he can find his place in life.
C. Learning to manage his life alone.
D. How to invent a successful variation of baseball.
3.According to the context, “a chair rocker on the front porch” in paragraph 3 means that the author __________
A. would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life.
B. would be unable to move and stay in a rocking chair.
C. would lose his will to struggle against difficulties.
D. would sit in a chair and stay at home.
4.According to the passage, the baseball and encouragement offered by the man _____
A. hurt the author's feeling.
B. gave the author a deep impression.
C. directly led to the invention of ground ball.
D. inspired the author.
5.What is the best title for the passage?
A. A Miserable Life
B. Struggle Against Difficulties
C. A Disaster Makes a Strong Person
D. An Unforgettable Experience
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
nted texts to the less challenging，more attractive moving pictures．
can read complex materials．