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I received a letter from a grandmother who told me about her four-year-old granddaughter Skylar. Ever since Skylar 31 of Disneyland from TV, she 32 her nickels and dimes (零钱) in a piggy bank in 33  of visiting there someday. Her parents 34 her with a trip when she was four, however, and didn't even 35 her to use her own money!

When Skylar returned. It was 36. She decided to buy presents with her 37. But she also learned from announcements on TV about a local 38 shelter called "The Road House". She 39 asked her mother what "homeless" meant and why those children 40 coats and warm clothes. She couldn't seem to get the homeless off her mind.

Her mother took her to the store to buy 41. Instead of buying for herself or her family, however, she 42 to purchase a warm coat, socks and gloves for a little girl in the 43 .She also wanted to buy a doll, but when she 44 she didn't have enough money, she left the doll 45 .

When Skylar got home, she chose one of her 46 dolls and put it into the box with the other items she bought that day. She could hardly wait for Christmas! Skylar was thinking about going to the shelter and giving her carefully 47 gifts to a homeless child. She was much filled with joy at 48 helping someone else.

"Perhaps it's good to have a beautiful mind, 49 an even greater gift is to have a beautiful heart," says Nobel Laureate John Hash. Young Skylar has a beautiful heart. It is one 50 , above all else, which makes beautiful people.

1.                A．learned        B．cared          C．thought   D．reminded

2.                A．saved          B．gathered        C．took D．spent

3.                A．honor          B．favor           C．hopes    D．search

4.                A．disappointed    B．annoyed        C．helped   D．surprised

5.                A．order          B．require         C．persuade D．force

6.                A．Christmastime    B．payday         C．birthday  D．school time

7.                A．expenses       B．earnings        C．savings   D．debts

8.                A．poor           B．homeless       C．big  D．famous

9.                A．generally       B．curiously        C．strangely  D．seriously

10.               A．used           B．took           C．needed   D．liked

11.               A．presents        B．dolls           C．socks D．gloves

12.               A．refused        B．decided        C．hesitated  D．wished

13.               A．shelter         B．nursery        C．house D．hospital

14.               A．predicted       B．promised       C．explained  D．discovered

15.               A．out            B．behind         C．aside D．alone

16.               A．expensive      B．cheap          C．favorite   D．useless

17.               A．collected       B．bought         C．selected   D．demanded

18.               A．deeply         B．quickly         C．truly  D．exactly

19.               A．but            B．and            C．if D．or

20.               A．quality         B．expensive       C．sense D．expression

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“There’s a mother in PICU(儿童重症监护病房)who wants to talk about a kit she received,” the nurse told me. “Something about it made her cry.”

I’ve been a child-1ife specialist at the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital since 2000. I help families understand diagnoses and treatment plans and manage the ups and downs that come with caring for a sick child. Tough talks with parents are part of the job, which still makes me feel nervous.

The kits the nurse was talking about were something I had recently introduced to the hospital: Comfort Kits from Guideposts. They were supposed to make a child’s experience here easier, not upsetting.

When I came across the kits at a conference. I fell in love with them. A treasure box of items designed not only to entertain kids, but to comfort and inspire them. There’s a coloring book, a stress ball, a CD of relaxing music, a hairy star named Sparkle, a journal and much more. I really believed these kits would help kids. I wished I hadn’t been mistaken.

At the patient’s room in PICU I saw a little girl, sleeping soundly, surrounded by tubes and machines. My eyes met her mother's. The kit was open on her lap and tears were running down her cheeks.

“I'm Shannon. I manage the Child Life Department.” I said. “I'm sorry if the kit upset you .It’s a new item…”

The mother shook her head. “This has been one of the worst days of my life .I felt so scared and alone. Then I was handed this box. I know it’s for my daughter, but it's just the comfort I needed. I wanted to say thank you.”

With that I knew Comfort Kits belonged here. We’ve been using them for almost three years now. Each child who’s admitted to the hospital receives one. Every day I see kids coloring, journaling, playing with Sparkle.

But as this mom showed me Comfort Kits aren’t just for kids. The hope they bring, which can be in short supply in hospitals sometimes, is felt by the whole family.

1.The author introduced Comfort Kits to the hospital to_________.

A. relax nurses　　 B. benefit sick kids

C. comfort parents　　 D. cure kids of diseases

2.Why was the girl’s mother crying?

A. She was moved to tears.　　 B. She felt alone and scared.

C. She couldn’t wake her kid.　　 D. She worried about her kid’s illness.

3.The closest in meaning to “which can be in short supply in hospitals sometimes” is_______.

A. kits are in great need in hospitals

B. there may be lack of hope in hospitals

C. parents are often in low spirits in hospitals

D. medical supplies are not enough in hospitals

4.What’s the author's attitude towards Comfort Kits?

A. Disappointed.　　 B. Excited.

C. Nervous.　　 D. Confident.

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____ a letter from her parents, Lily is now looking forward to ___ from them.

A Having not received; hear         B. Not received; hear

C. Not having received; hearing      D. Receiving not; hearing

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短文改错题。

Yesterday my husband received a letter from a lady who had been her

student in middle school. She wrote it so she wanted to thank him for the greatly

influence he had on her life. She wrote, “You were the teacher who helped me

discovering my talent for maths. Before you taught us, I had never thought I

will love it. To my surprise, you magically showed the beauty of maths for me.

Gradually my interest in it was increased. Thanks to your teaching, I made

continuous progresses in maths, and finally made my mind to study it as my

major in university. Now I am an accountant of the big company. You played

an important part. Thank you!”

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This is a family story my father told me about his mother, my grandmother.

In 1949, my father had just returned home from the war. On every American highway you could see soldiers in uniform hitchhiking home to their families, as was the custom at that time in America.

Sadly, the thrill of his reunion with his family was soon overshadowed. My grandmother became very ill and had to be hospitalized. It was her kidneys, and the doctors told my father that she needed a blood transfusion immediately or she would not live through the night. The problem was that grandmother’s blood type was AB-, a very rare type even today, but even harder to get then because there were no blood banks or air flights to ship blood. All the family members were typed, but not one member was a match. So the doctors gave the family no hope; my grandmother was dying.

My father left the hospital in tears to gather up all the family members, so that everyone would get a chance to tell grandmother goodbye. As my father was driving down the highway, he passed a soldier in uniform hitchhiking home to his family. Deep in grief, my father had no inclination　 at that moment to do a good deed. Yet it was almost as if something outside himself pulled him to a stop, and he waited as the stranger climbed into the car.

My father was too upset to even ask the soldier his name, but the soldier noticed my father’s tears right away and inquired about them. Through his tears, my father told this total stranger that his mother was lying in a hospital dying because the doctors had been unable to locate her blood type, AB-, and if they did not do it before nightfall, she would surely die.

It got very quiet in the car. Then this unidentified soldier extended his hand out to my father, palm up. Resting in the palm of his hand were the dog tags from around his neck. The blood type on the tags was AB-. The soldier told my father to turn the car around and get him to the hospital.

My grandmother lived until 1996, 47 years later, and to this day no one in our family knows the soldier’s name. But he is always remembered by us.

1.The author’s father left the hospital　　 .

A. to purchase basic necessities that grandmother needed

B. to ask the family members to have their blood tested

C. to pick up a solider whose blood type was the same as grandmother’s

D. to gather the family members to pay their last respects to grandmother

2.The word “inclination” in Paragraph 4 most probably means　 .

A. determination B. willingness

C. compromise D. motivation

3.What may be the best title for the passage?

A. A Friend in Need B. A Soldier in Hospital

C. An Angel in Uniform D. A Gift in Disguise

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During the Second World War, I met a housewife from Chicago who told me how she discovered for herself that “the cure for worry is to get completely occupied by doing something constructive.” I met this woman and her husband in the dining car while I was traveling from New York to my farm in Missouri.

This couple told me that their son had joined the armed forces the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The woman told me that she had almost ruined her health through worrying over that only son. Where was he? Was he safe? Would he be wounded? Killed?

When I asked her how she overcame her worry, she replied：“I got busy.” She told me that at first she had dismissed her maid and tried to keep busy by doing all her housework herself. But that didnˈt help much. “The trouble was，” she said, “that I could do my housework almost mechanically. So I kept on worrying. Then I realized I needed some new kind of work that would keep me busy both mentally and physically. So I took a job as a saleswoman in a store.”

“That did it，” she said. “I immediately found myself involved in a lot of activities：customers crowding around me, asking for prices, sizes, colors. Never a second to think of anything except my immediate duty. And when night came, I could think of nothing except getting off my aching feet. As soon as I ate dinner, I fell into bed and instantly became unconscious. I had neither the time nor the energy to worry.”

1.Doing housework failed to work on the woman because ________.

A. it was too boring to do housework

B. she didnˈt like doing housework at all

C. there wasnˈt much housework to do

D. she didnˈt need to use her mind to do housework

2.Why did the woman take a job as a saleswoman?

A. She had to work to support her family.

B. She needed a more effective way to defeat her worry.

C. She wanted to make her life more colorful.

D. She enjoyed being surrounded by people.

3.After a dayˈs work as a saleswoman, the woman ________.

A. felt extremely tired

B. fell into unconsciousness because of worries

C. seemed quite disappointed

D. lost her appetite

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How many people have I met who have told me about the book they have been planning to write but have never found the time? Far too many.

This is life, all right, but we do treat it like a rehearsal(排演)and, unhappily, we do miss so many of its best moments.

We take jobs to stay alive and provide homes for our families always making ourselves believe that this style of life is merely a temporary state of affairs along the road to what we really want to do. Then, at 60 or 65, we are suddenly presented with a clock and several grandchildren and we look back and realize that all those years waiting for real life to come along were in fact real life.

In America they have a saying much laughed at by the English: “Have a nice day”. They speak slowly and seriously in their shops, hotels and sandwich bars. I think it is a wonderful phrase, reminding us, in effect, to enjoy the moment: to value this very day .

How often do we say to ourselves  “I’ll take up horse-riding( or golf, or sailing) as soon as I get a higher position,” only to do none of those things when I do get the higher position.

When I first became a reporter I knew a man who gave up a very well paid respectable job at the Daily Telegraph to go and edit a small weekly newspaper. At the time I was astonished by what appeared to me to be completely abnormal(反常的) mental state. How could anyone turn his back on Fleet Street in central London for a small local area? I wanted to know.

Now I am a little older and possibly wiser, I see the sense in it. In Fleet Street the man was under continual pressure. He lived in an unattractive London suburb and he spent much of his life sitting on Southern Region trains.

1. The first paragraph of the passage tells us that ___________.

A. we always try to find some time to write a book

B. we always make plans but seldom fulfill them

C. we always enjoy many of life's best moments

D. we always do what we really want to do

2. The underlined phrase "turn his back on"  most probably means________.

A. leave for        B. return to         C. give up         D. rely on

3. The man left his first job partly because he was _________ .

A. in an abnormal mental state         B. under too much pressure

C. not well paid                    D. not respected

4. What is probably the best title for the passage?

A. Provide Homes For Our Family     B. Take Up Horse-riding

C. Value This Very Day              D. Stay Alive

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

The gentleman ______ you told me yesterday proved to be a thief.

A. who　　　　　 B. about whom

C. whom　　　 D. with whom

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

The gentleman ______ you told me yesterday proved to be a thief.

A. who　　　　　 B. about whom　 C. whom　　　　 D. with whom

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Returning from Guilin, he told me about the scenery ________ interested him there.

A. where     B. what     C. which     D. who

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