It is that time of the year when the warm, late Summer days meet the cold, early Autumn nights. The skies on days like these are bright and clear. The air is cool, fresh, and full of the smell of wild flowers. The leaves on the trees are dark green but with splashes of red appearing here and there. It is a really beautiful time of the year. Every where and in everything you can see change.
Birds are starting to migrate. Children are getting ready for another school year. People are looking back on the fun days of Summer and forward to the busy days of Fall.
It is days like these that remind me that while seasons, weather, and nature's colors may change it is all beautiful and it is all joyful. And I am changing too.
My thick wavy hair is now pretty thin on top. Its dark brown color is now getting some gray sprinkled(散落)in it. The smile lines around my eyes and mouth are deeper now and stay with me even when I stop smiling. My glasses continue to get thicker with each new pair and the music I love is now referred to as "oldies". Still, I feel so happy and joyful in my life. I am grateful for my younger years because they taught me so much.
What I have learned and experienced has gotten me to where I am today. I am grateful for my present because now is where I live and now is where I love. I feel happiness in every moment that God has given me, and I take great delight in all the changes life brings. Life is a never ending journey of change and growth. Life's changes never stop but neither does life's joy.
1.The author describes the sceneryin the first paragraph in order to ______ .
A.tell the time of story’s taking place |
B.tell the joy of season’s changing |
C.show the impressive beauty of nature |
D.set off the author’s delighted feeling |
2.From this passage we can learn _____.
A.the author is not young any longer at present |
B.the season the author describes is the meet of late autumn and early winter |
C.the author is a person who used to love music |
D.the author doesn’t hope life has changed so much |
3.The underlined part in the last paragraph probably means ______.
A.present life is well worth treasuring |
B.he is satisfied with where he lives now |
C.present life isn’t changing |
D.the world is filled with love everywhere |
4.From the passage we can see the author’s attitude to life is full of ______.
A.excitement | B.appreciation | C.compassion | D.complaint |
5.The best title of this passage is ______.
A.My life | B.My past | C.I love life | D.Life's changes |
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题
It is that time of the year when the warm, late Summer days meet the cold, early Autumn nights. The skies on days like these are bright and clear. The air is cool, fresh, and full of the smell of wild flowers. The leaves on the trees are dark green but with splashes of red appearing here and there. It is a really beautiful time of the year. Every where and in everything you can see change.
Birds are starting to migrate. Children are getting ready for another school year. People are looking back on the fun days of Summer and forward to the busy days of Fall.
It is days like these that remind me that while seasons, weather, and nature's colors may change it is all beautiful and it is all joyful. And I am changing too.
My thick wavy hair is now pretty thin on top. Its dark brown color is now getting some gray sprinkled(散落)in it. The smile lines around my eyes and mouth are deeper now and stay with me even when I stop smiling. My glasses continue to get thicker with each new pair and the music I love is now referred to as "oldies". Still, I feel so happy and joyful in my life. I am grateful for my younger years because they taught me so much.
What I have learned and experienced has gotten me to where I am today. I am grateful for my present because now is where I live and now is where I love. I feel happiness in every moment that God has given me, and I take great delight in all the changes life brings. Life is a never ending journey of change and growth. Life's changes never stop but neither does life's joy.
1.The author describes the sceneryin the first paragraph in order to ______ .
A.tell the time of story’s taking place |
B.tell the joy of season’s changing |
C.show the impressive beauty of nature |
D.set off the author’s delighted feeling |
2.From this passage we can learn _____.
A.the author is not young any longer at present |
B.the season the author describes is the meet of late autumn and early winter |
C.the author is a person who used to love music |
D.the author doesn’t hope life has changed so much |
3.The underlined part in the last paragraph probably means ______.
A.present life is well worth treasuring |
B.he is satisfied with where he lives now |
C.present life isn’t changing |
D.the world is filled with love everywhere |
4.From the passage we can see the author’s attitude to life is full of ______.
A.excitement | B.appreciation | C.compassion | D.complaint |
5.The best title of this passage is ______.
A.My life | B.My past | C.I love life | D.Life's changes |
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Valentine’s Day is the time of the year when couples show their love for each other by sending cards,flowers and chocolates. Its origins are1.________(clear) and hidden in the river of time. Nobody knows exactly 2.________St.Valentine was,although some historians suggest he was 3.______Roman killed in the third century AD by a Roman Emperor. It is said that the first4._______(record) Valentine’s card was sent by the imprisoned Duke of Orleans in 1415. 5._______is believed that he tried to find comfort from his imprisonment by writing love poems to his wife.
Now,Valentine’s Day 6._______(celebrate) in many countries around the world. However, the traditions often differ from place to place. In Japan,for example,it is normal 7._______the woman to send chocolates to the man, 8._______in South Korea April 14th is known as “Black Day” and is when the unfortunate men who received nothing on Valentine’s Day gather to eat noodles and show sympathy for each other.
Technological 9._______(develop) have also played their part 10.______ keeping Valentine’s Day relevant in the 21st century. Valentine’s ecards have been very popular in recent years.
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Have you heard about Leap year? Leap year is a year that has 366 days instead of the usual 365. It normally occurs every four years, always on an even-numbered year. The extra day is added to our shortest month. That is the second month of the year, which in non-leap years has 28 days, two fewer than any other month. 1.
We also call Leap year the bissextile year (闰年). 2. In our calendar system there is a need for a leap year because the solar year (the time it takes the earth to go around the sun once)is actually slightly more than 365 days long. That extra day—Feb 29 every four years—helps correct the difference between our calendar and the solar calendar.
It is said that Leap year was first made part of the calendar by the ancient Roman leader Julius Caesar. His astronomers had calculated the length of the solar year to be 365 days and six hours. So Caesar declared that an extra day be added to the calendar.3.
However, Caesar’s adjustment was not completely accurate because his astronomers’ year exceeded the true solar year by eleven minutes and fourteen seconds. By 1582, a difference of ten days had developed between the calendar year and the true solar year. To correct this error, Pope Gregory XIII ruled that every fourth year would continue to be a leap year except for century years that could not be divided evenly by 400. By this system, century years such as 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but the year 2000 was a leap year. 4.
People born on Feb 29 celebrate their growing up a little differently from the rest of us.
5. But if they go strictly by the calendar, they have only one-fourth as many birthday celebrations as most people.
A. They acknowledge that they get older each year.
B. When you see Feb 29 on a calendar, you know that year is a leap year.
C. This is its formal, or scientific title.
D. This may seem complicated, but it works.
E. This is done every four years.
F. The leap year was introduced in the Julian calendar in 46 BC.
G. In a leap year, the extra day is added to the second month, giving it 29 instead of the usual 28 days.
高二英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析
Father was diagnosed with brain cancer during the second half of my senior year. It is a time when all the big events in a girl’s life are happening. However, though in poor condition, father managed to be present at every occasion. His doctor said that by focusing on all my future events, it helped my dad live longer. I guess so because nine days after my high school graduation, my father died.
For the next week after his funeral, I didn’t leave my room or even to shower. Finally, my mom stormed in and said, “Megan, get up. I have something for you to read.” My father’s doctor had sent my mother a letter. It contained the typical “I am sorry for your loss” sentences. But this letter was far from typical. I could physically see the pain this loss had caused him. In his letter, he wrote about how my father inspired him to change his life and the way he worked. He expressed his desire to become a person like my father, who cared more for the people around him and put everyone else first.
After I finished reading it, I decided to live my life. I went outside and got a job as a summer camp advisor. I worked from dawn to dark every day that summer. I gave everything I had to the kids and slowly they helped to heal(治愈) me without even realizing what they were doing.
My summer mirrored parts of the life my father led in his last few days. I had spent the summer months giving myself to children. It was not the senior summer I had always imagined. It wasn’t all about me. I had learned the final lesson my father was teaching me, that in order to lead a rich and happy life, you must learn how to give yourself to others. By helping them you really are helping yourself.
1.The doctor sent the author’s mother a letter mainly to ________.
A.encourage the author’s mother to live a happy life
B.appreciate the author’s father’s influence on him
C.mourn the author’s father’s death
D.show typical concern for the family
2.What do we know about the author’s senior summer?
A.She got a job as her father had expected.
B.She gained quite a lot while helping the kids.
C.She worked hard every day to forget her father.
D.She spent it the way she had always wanted.
3.Which word can best describe the author’s father?
A.Fearless. B.Generous C.Cautious. D.Selfless.
4.Which of the following could be the best title for the passage?
A.Dad's Final Lesson B.My Senior Summer
C.My Father's Death D.An Important Letter
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The first time I ________ here, it was the year of 1980; this is the third time that I _________ to Chongqing.
A. came; had visited B. had come; visited
C. came; have visited D. had come; have visited
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The summer of my eleventh year was a wonderful time of joy. My days were ___riding my bike, walking in the bright green_____around my home, swimming in the clear river, and looking up at the clouds. I wished those lazy, ___days would last forever. But then it all____.
It happened in the middle of the night when I heard my grandmother ___.A fire had started in her room and was____spreading through our house. We all ran____with only the clothes on our backs. There was nothing left. That night I went from a happy and carefree child to a ___and scared one. I didn’t know what the____would hold. All I could feel was fear.____, good friends took us into their home, fed and____us. One night around their dinner table my mom thanked them for all they were doing for us. Smiling, her friend said, “Honey, it was the___ we could do.” Later they began to __ old stories and laugh. It was then that I____for the first time in days and felt the ___finally disappearing from my heart.
Looking back on that time thirty five years ago, I now____that it wasn’t the least they could do. The least would have been nothing at all.____, they opened their home and their hearts to us. They shared their food and their____.They helped us to start over when we had ____everything. They helped a scared boy to feel safe, loved, and happy again.
The next time you have a(n)____to help others, then don’t just do the least you can do. Do the most you can do instead.
1.A. spent B. wasted C. minded D. kept
2.A. caves B. air C. town D. woods
3.A. hot B. peaceful C. noisy D. cold
4.A. rose B. fell C. changed D. appeared
5.A. speak B. scream C. wake D. walk
6.A. rapidly B. slowly C. hardly D. seldom
7.A. downstairs B. off C. outside D. around
8.A. old B. hungry C. speechless D. homeless
9.A. family B. future C. work D. fire
10.A. Thankfully B. Badly C. Hopefully D. Similarly
11.A. discouraged B. praised C. clothed D. pitied
12.A. best B. fullest C. greatest D. least
13.A. repeat B. share C. copy D. write
14.A. smiled B. talked C. ate D. slept
15.A. surprise B. joy C. fear D. tiredness
16.A. know B. hope C. expect D. plan
17.A. Therefore B. Then C. Luckily D. Instead
18.A. sadness B. kindness C. stories D. memories
19.A. won B. got C. lost D. forgotten
20.A. opportunity B. house C. place D. reward
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
— When will the new bridge be completed?
— It is said that it _______ by the end of this year.
A.will complete | B.will have been completed | C.is completed | D.will be completing |
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
Pulling heavy suitcases all day in the summer is hard work, especially when you're a thin 14-year-old.That was me in 1940-the youngest and smallest baggage boy at New York City's Pennsyl-vania Railway Station.
After just a few days on the job, I began noticing that the other fellows were overcharging passengers. I'd like to join them, thinking, "Everyone else is doing it."
When I got home that night, I told my dad what I wanted to do." You give an honest day's work," he said, looking at me straight in the eye." They're paying you. If they want to do that, you let them do that."
I followed my dad's advice for the rest of that summer and have lived by his words ever since.
Of all the jobs I've had, it was my experience at Pennsylvania Railway Station that has stuck with me. Now I teach my players to have respect for other people and their possessions. Being a member of a team is a totally shared experience. If one person steals, it destroys trust and hurts everyone. I can put up with many things, but not with people who steal. If one of my players were caught stealing, he'd be gone.
Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another, there's going to be trouble.
1.What can be inferred about the baggage boys?
A. They could earn much, but they had to work hard.
B. Many of them earned money in a dishonest way.
C. They were all from poor families.
D. They were all thin, young boys.
2.What does the father's advice imply?
A. It is wrong to give more pay to the passengers.
B. Don't believe them if they are paying you more.
C. Don't follow others to overcharge the passengers.
D. It is difficult to work hard and live as an honest boy.
3.The writer can't put up with stealing because he thinks that ______.
A. it is a totally shared experience
B. it is considered as the most dangerous
C. it does great harm to human relationship
D. it may lead to the loss of his sports team
4.It can be concluded from the text that ______.
A. his father's advice helped him to decide which job to take up
B. working in the sports team was his most important experience
C. he learnt much from his shared experience with his team members
D. his experience as a baggage boy had a great influence on his later life
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
_______ it two days ago when you arrived home late that you came across her?
A.Did | B.Was | C.Does | D.Is |
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
It's that time of year when people need to lock their cars.It's not because there are a lot of criminals running around stealing cars.Rather,it's because of good-hearted neighbors who want to share their harvest.Especially with this year's large crop,leaving a car unlocked in my neighborhood is an invitation for someone to fill it with zucchini(西葫芦).
My sister,Sharon,recently had a good year for tomatoes.She and her family had eaten and canned so many that they had begun to feel their skin turn slightly red.That's when she decided it was time to share her blessings.She started calling everyone she knew.When that failed,she began asking everyone in the neighborhood,eventually finding a neighbor delighted to have the tomatoes."Feel free to take whatever you want,"Sharon told her.Later that day,Sharon found that her garden had indeed been harvested.She felt happy that she could help someone and that the food didn't go to waste.
A few days later,Sharon answered the door.There was the neighbor,holding a hot loaf of bread.The neighbor smiled pleasantly,"I wanted to thank you for all of the tomatoes,and I have to admit that I took a few other things and hoped you wouldn't mind."
Sharon couldn't think of anything else in her garden that had been worth harvesting and said so."Oh,but you did,"the neighbor said."You had some of the prettiest zucchini I've ever seen."
Sharon was confused.They hadn't even planted any zucchini.But her neighbor insisted that there really were bright-green zucchini in her garden.Sharon felt curious and decided to go to see where the zucchini had grown.The two of them walked together into the backyard.When the neighbor pointed at the long green vegetables,Sharon smiled."Well,actually,those are cucumbers(黄瓜)that we never harvested,because they got too big,soft and bitter for eating."
The neighbor looked at Sharon,shock written all over her face.She gulped(哽住)a few times,and then,smiling,held out the bread,part of a batch she had shared all over the neighborhood."I brought you a nice loaf of cucumber bread.I hope you like it."
1.Why does the author warn people in the neighborhood to lock their cars?
A. They might be stolen by thieves at night.
B. They might be moved away by the police.
C. Their neighbors might fill them with their harvest.
D. Their neighbors might throw cucumbers into them.
2.How did Sharon's friends react to the invitation to take her tomatoes?
A. They did not accept her kind offer.
B. They were all delighted to have the tomatoes.
C. They said they would go when they were free.
D. They began to tell everyone they knew about it.
3.What did the neighbor do in Sharon's garden?
A. She only harvested some tomatoes.
B. She took some cucumbers mistakenly.
C. She took something with Sharon's help.
D. She harvested a few zucchini by accident.
4.We can infer that the neighbor's bread would taste _______ .
A. soft and sweet B. hard and sour
C. funny and bitter D. fragrant and delicious.
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