Earlier this year, my family experienced an unexpected tragedy. The kind of tragedy which knocks you out of yourself and turns your whole world upside down. A tragedy which also caused me to be out of work for three months. It was completely unforeseen and I had no time to put together an out-of-office plan.
I’ve worked at previous companies where this kind of tragedy would have been handled professionally; I would have been given the legally—required money and asked to leave. But at SAS Institute (an American developer of analytics software), my team stepped in and filled in with no questions or hesitations. My work was not left undone. My clients (客户) were patient when those picking up the pieces of projects unrelated to them needed some time to get familiar with the work. My management and colleagues checked on my family regularly. At last, my manager, my entire team and Human Resources Department helped me back to work at my own pace. They even changed my workspace over a weekend to better suit my personal needs before I even came back to work.
You see, SAS—creates—a—family. The special attention to employee happiness and work/life balance makes that family possible. The flexible work environment enables most employees to create a schedule that best suits their personal needs—whether it’s attending a school play or taking an aging parent to the doctor. The Work/Life Office has a wealth of resources for college planning, anger management, sorrow, etc. But, as you can see, it doesn’t stop there. Most employees believe that SAS is their family. We rely on each other. We help each other succeed. We celebrate team successes. We hang out after work. Our kids play together. We laugh together and cry together.
Sure, we have a lot of convenience benefits at SAS. But, what really makes a difference to me is the SAS culture that the outside world doesn’t always see: The balance. The companionship. The management support. The family it allows me to have.
I’m so eager for others to see the side of SAS that I see every day.
1.After the tragedy, the author .
A. changed his job B. felt very hopeless
C. was sick for three months D. turned to his colleagues for help
2.What did the author’s colleagues do for him during his absence?
A. They raised money to help him.
B. They visited his family every weekend.
C. They asked his clients to wait for him to return.
D. They moved his office desk to a convenient place.
3.By saying the underlined words “SAS creates a family” in Paragraph 3, the author means .
A. the employees feel at home at SAS
B. SAS often organizes family get-togethers
C. many SAS employees have become couples
D. the offices at SAS are decorated like families
4.The author writes the text mainly to .
A. tell his life experience B. introduce SAS culture
C. encourage people to join SAS D. explain the importance of family
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题
Earlier this year, my family experienced an unexpected tragedy. The kind of tragedy which knocks you out of yourself and turns your whole world upside down. A tragedy which also caused me to be out of work for three months. It was completely unforeseen and I had no time to put together an out-of-office plan.
I’ve worked at previous companies where this kind of tragedy would have been handled professionally; I would have been given the legally—required money and asked to leave. But at SAS Institute (an American developer of analytics software), my team stepped in and filled in with no questions or hesitations. My work was not left undone. My clients (客户) were patient when those picking up the pieces of projects unrelated to them needed some time to get familiar with the work. My management and colleagues checked on my family regularly. At last, my manager, my entire team and Human Resources Department helped me back to work at my own pace. They even changed my workspace over a weekend to better suit my personal needs before I even came back to work.
You see, SAS—creates—a—family. The special attention to employee happiness and work/life balance makes that family possible. The flexible work environment enables most employees to create a schedule that best suits their personal needs—whether it’s attending a school play or taking an aging parent to the doctor. The Work/Life Office has a wealth of resources for college planning, anger management, sorrow, etc. But, as you can see, it doesn’t stop there. Most employees believe that SAS is their family. We rely on each other. We help each other succeed. We celebrate team successes. We hang out after work. Our kids play together. We laugh together and cry together.
Sure, we have a lot of convenience benefits at SAS. But, what really makes a difference to me is the SAS culture that the outside world doesn’t always see: The balance. The companionship. The management support. The family it allows me to have.
I’m so eager for others to see the side of SAS that I see every day.
1.After the tragedy, the author .
A. changed his job B. felt very hopeless
C. was sick for three months D. turned to his colleagues for help
2.What did the author’s colleagues do for him during his absence?
A. They raised money to help him.
B. They visited his family every weekend.
C. They asked his clients to wait for him to return.
D. They moved his office desk to a convenient place.
3.By saying the underlined words “SAS creates a family” in Paragraph 3, the author means .
A. the employees feel at home at SAS
B. SAS often organizes family get-togethers
C. many SAS employees have become couples
D. the offices at SAS are decorated like families
4.The author writes the text mainly to .
A. tell his life experience B. introduce SAS culture
C. encourage people to join SAS D. explain the importance of family
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Earlier this month, 6-year-old Isaac went on vacation to Fort Walton, Florida, with his family. While there, his mother Garrett learned about LuLu, a restaurant that offers food to customers with food allergies (过敏症).
At LuLu, Isaac could eat a salad and roast chicken with rice. ''Isaac looked at me as if he was asking me, 'Is this OK? ''' Garrett said. Once his mom gave the OK, Isaac enjoyed for the first time the experience of ordering and eating at a restaurant. ''That look on his face seemed to show that this was the coolest thing he had ever done. '' Garrett said.
Garrett and her family hardly go out to restaurants because of Isaac's food allergies. When they go out, she cooks something for Isaac at home before they leave and brings it with her to the restaurant. ''It's not fun and it feels unfair.'' Isaac said.
Their night at LuLu marked a celebration for Isaac. Isaac felt terribly fulfilled because of eating at the restaurant. Garrett shared the moment on the restaurant's Facebook page to thank them for helping her son. ''Thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving him this experience.'' she wrote in her post.
Barnett, the restaurant's manager said, ''When customers tell the staff that someone in their group has a food allergy, I help with the order by passing it to the kitchen, ensuring it's cooked in a separate station and offering the finished food to the guests. We have been improving this process over the last 10 years since our allergy program was started.''
On Garrett’s Facebook post, LuLu thanked Garrett for sharing her story. ''Thank you for sharing your experience with us. '' the restaurant wrote in a comment. ''We are excited to see your son so happy!''
Garrett is hoping her post's popularity will make other restaurants, especially the places near her family's home about 30 minutes away from Mashville, provide such a service. ''LuLu offers quality services to the guests with food allergies. Nothing would make us happier than that.'' She said.
1.Why do Garrett and her family hardly eat out at restaurants?
A.Because they are on a low income.
B.Because Garrett likes cooking herself.
C.Because Isaac easily suffers from food allergies.
D.Because they consider the food in restaurants unhealthy.
2.What does Garrett usually do when her family go to eat at a restaurant?
A.She leaves her son alone at home.
B.She orders some special food for her son.
C.She lets her son choose his favorite dishes.
D.She prepares some food for her son ahead of time.
3.What does the underlined word ''fulfilled'' in Paragraph 4 most probably mean?
A.Satisfied. B.Disappointed.
C.Moved. D.Embarrassed.
4.What will Barnett do when guests with allergies come to dinner?
A.He will help them order food.
B.He will offer services to them first.
C.He will provide private room for them.
D.He will introduce their allergy program.
5.What moved Garrett deeply?
A.LuLu's response to her post.
B.Her son's experience at LuLu.
C.LuLu's concern for the guests with allergies.
D.More restaurants' following in LuLu's steps.
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Earlier this month, 6-year-old Isaac went on vacation to Fort Walton, Florida, with his family. While they were there, his mother Garrett learned about LuLu, a restaurant that offers food to customers with food allergies(过敏).
At LuLu, Isaac could eat a salad and a bowl of chicken soup with rice. “Isaac looked at me as if asking, ‘Is this OK?’ ” Garrett said. Once his mom gave the OK, Isaac enjoyed for the first time the experience of eating at a restaurant. “That look on his face was like, ‘This is the coolest thing I’ve ever done,’ ” Garrett added.
Garrett and her family rarely eat out because of Isaac’s food allergies. When they do, she cooks something for Isaac at home before they leave and brings it with her to the restaurant. “It’s not fun and it feels unfair,” she said.
Their night at LuLu marked a celebration for Isaac. Garrett shared the moment on the restaurant’s Facebook page. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving Isaac this wonderful experience,” she wrote in her post.
Barnett, the restaurant’s manager, said, “When customers tell the staff that someone in their group has a food allergy, I assist with the order by passing it to the kitchen, ensuring it’s cooked in a separate station and delivering the finished food to the guests. We have been improving this process over the past ten years since our allergy program was started.”
On Garrett’s Facebook post, LuLu thanked Garrett for sharing her story. “Thank you for sharing your experience with us,” the restaurant wrote in a comment, “We are excited to see your son so happy!” Garrett is hoping her post’s popularity will persuade other restaurants to be more considerate. “LuLu takes it seriously as we take it – nothing could make us happier than that,” she said.
1.What does the underlined word “This” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A.Eating chicken soup with rice.
B.Eating at a restaurant.
C.Eating with her mom.
D.Being on vacation with her family.
2.What will Barnett do when guests with allergies come to dinner?
A.He will personally assist with the order.
B.He will deliver the menu to them.
C.He will introduce the allergy program.
D.He will cook dinner in a separate station.
3.What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A.The popularity of her post made Garrett excited.
B.Garrett is unsatisfied with other restaurants.
C.LuLu thanks Garrett for eating in the restaurant.
D.Garrett hopes more restaurants will follow LuLu’s steps.
4.From which is the text probably taken?
A.A biology textbook. B.A health magazine.
C.A research paper. D.A travel brochure.
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When I was twelve years old, my family were the first black people to move into an all white part of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Many of our new neighbors weren’t very welcoming. Some of them said angrily that we should return to where we came from. The children sometimes threw stones at me .
Most of my teachers simply took no notice of me, but not Dorothy Bean, my history teacher. Miss Bean was angry at how badly I was being treated, but she didn’t say this to me. Miss Bean showed her respect for me by teaching me just like anyone else. Instead of being unnoticed, I was given a chance to show that I was clever. Miss Bean was the first teacher who ever made me think for myself. She always wanted to know what I thought about different questions. She expected me to have my own idea. Miss Bean was teaching me that thinking for oneself was the real key to education.
One day, when I was not paying attention in class, Miss Bean suddenly threw an eraser(黑板擦) at me. The eraser hit me right on the hand and sent my pencil flying. The whole class were very surprised at first, then started laughing. This event became famous in the school and, because it happened to me, the students wanted to get to know me. So that’s the story of how Dorothy Bean made me her target(靶子). However, what I want to do is express my thanks to her.
56. The author and his family were not welcomed by the local people because ____________.
A. they returned from another country B. they have different skin color
C. they spoke a different language D. they moved to a wrong place
57. From the end of the first paragraph we know that _____________.
A. children were more friendly to strangers
B. American schools were not safe for kids
C. children often follow their parents’ behavior
D. fighting each other is part of children’s nature
58. Miss Bean respected the author by ____________.
A. giving him special attention.
B. hitting him with an eraser.
C. giving him extra lessons.
D. treating him as one of her students.
59. To Miss Bean the most important thing for a student is to _________.
A. pay close attention to what the teacher says.
B. learn to think and have one’s own idea.
C. keep silent and unnoticed in class.
D. get special attention from the teacher.
60. Which is the writer’s attitude to Miss Bean?
A. Grateful. B. Hateful. C. Negative. D. Supportive.
高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
Some parts in South China have experienced ______ this year as they did last year.
A. twice as much rain B. rain twice as much
C. as twice much rain D. twice rain as much
高一英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
A class teacher, in my opinion, plays an important role in a child’s development. 1. This year, she is moving to Class Three and I can’t wait to see how things are going on.
Last year, my daughter did not like her teacher at all. It was so bad that she did not look forward to school. It was a year full of trouble and that worries.
This year, Miss Purity is gentle and humorous. It’s hard not to like her.2..
She becomes an early bird. Last year, mornings were like a fight because I had to force Tasha to hurry up when she was preparing for school. I had to pull her out of bed, tell her to take breakfast and then drove her to school. But now, our mornings are like a party. She wakes up early, prepares everything at a high speed and then rushes to school to be with Miss Purity.
She’s happy. She enjoys school and school work and keeps talking about what they did at school when she comes home.
She’s responsible. 3. But now she never forgets even her water bottle at school. She makes her bed and helps in the kitchen.
Her diary is full of praises. The diary is the tool of communication between the teacher and the parents. Last year, her diary was always full of negative reports. One time, she poured water in a child’s lunchbox, another time she threw another kid’s textbook in the toilet. 4. She’s always volunteering to clean the blackboard, the teacher’s chair and desk.
5. Finishing her classwork was such a big problem. She had to do it at home. But now, she finished both the classwork and homework at school.
A. Here are the changes in my daughter.
B. Now she began to share her snacks with those who did not have anything.
C. Every year when my daughter moves to a new class, I have a usual big worry—her new class teacher.
D. Her diary was good.
E. She has a good class teacher.
F. She used to be careless and forgetful.
G. She does well in school.
高一英语七选五简单题查看答案及解析
Our city has experienced _______ this year as it did last year.
A. twice as much rain B. rain twice as much
C. as twice much rain D. twice rain as much
高一英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
It was August in the US，and the school year had just started，when one parent received an unexpected phone call.
Stacie Dunn had been called to Woodford County High School because her teenage daughter had been caught going against the dress rules. But the offense left Dunn shocked.
She arrived to find her daughter in a set of pretty ordinary clothes：a cardigan，a tank top and jeans. The trouble，administrators indicated，lay with her daughter's exposed collarbone (锁骨)．Bare shoulders and naked collarbones are illegal under Woodford County High School's dress rules. Students who break these rules can receive detention (the punishment of being kept at school for a time after school)—or after multiple violations (违纪)，be prevented from going to school entirely.
Dunn was very shocked and angry.“Parents are being called away from their important jobs，and students are missing important class time because they are showing their collarbones，” she wrote on the social media site Facebook，attaching a picture of her daughter in the offending clothes.“Something needs to change！”
Dress rules vary by school districts and are often decided by teachers and school administrators. Yoga pants and skinny jeans are banned. Certain dress rules also require kneelength pants and skirts.
Some school administrators argue they are simply supporting having a professional standard of dress to prepare their students for their future careers. But others have told students that their clothes present a “distraction” to others.
Certain schools have chosen to reevaluate their dress rules，with input from parents and students. Even Woodford County High School—home of the “collarbone” ban—is reconsidering its policies this month. But，at_least_for_now，the_dress_rule_debate_is_far_from_over.
1.Why was Stacie Dunn called to Woodford County High School?
A. Her daughter went to school with bare shoulders.
B. Her daughter broke her collarbone.
C. Her daughter broke the dress rules of the school.
D. Her daughter received detention.
2.Under the dress rules，which of the following clothes are acceptable?
A. Skinny jeans B. Long skirts.
C. Yoga pants. D. Short pants.
3.How did Stacie Dunn respond to being called to school?
A. She wasn't in favor of what the school did.
B. She turned to Facebook for help.
C. She bought a standard dress for her daughter.
D. She accused the school of wasting her time.
4.The underlined sentence in the last paragraph indicates that ________．
A. the debate between parents and students will never be over
B. few schools will take measures to change their policy
C. the problem of “clothes distractions” will last
D. the argument on what to wear and how to dress will continue
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
I was now in my twenty-third year of residence in this island and was so naturalized to the place and to the manner of living that I finally enjoyed the certainty that no savagesc(野人) would come to the place to disturb me, and that I could have been content to spend the rest of my time there, even to the last moment, till I had laid me down and died, like the old goat in the cave.
I had also arrived to some little recreations and amusements, which made the time pass more pleasantly with me a great deal than it did before.
At first, I had taught my Poll to speak. And he did it so familiarly and talked so clearly and plainly that it was very pleasant to me. And he lived with me no less than six years. How long he might live afterwards, I don't know; though 1 know people have an idea in Brazil that they live a hundred years. Perhaps poor Poll may be alive there still, calling Poor Robin Crusoe to this day. I wish no other English man the ill luck to come there and hear him. But if he did, he would certainly believe it was the devil.
My dog was a very pleasant and loving companion to me, for no less than sixteen years of my time, and then died of mere old age.
As for my cats, they multiplied to that degree that I had to shoot several of them at first to keep them from eating up all I had.
Besides these, I had two more parrots which talked pretty well and would all call Robin Crusoe, but neither like my first. Nor indeed did I take the pains with any of them that I had done with him. I had also several tame sea-fowls, whose names I don't know, who I caught upon the shore and cut their wings and the little stakes which 1 had planted before my castle wall being now grown up to a good thick bush; these fowls all lived among these low trees and bred there, which was very agreeable to me; so that as 1 said above, I began to be very well contented with the life I led, if it might have been secured from the threat of the savages.
1.How many kinds of animals except humans are mentioned in this passage?
A. 3. B. 5.
C. 7. D. 9.
2.What does the underlined word "they" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Savages. B. Brazilians.
C. Islanders. D. Parrots.
3.This passage is selected from a novel. The hero of this novel probably comes from
A. Brazil B. Australia
C. Britain D. the U.S.
4.Which of the following can best summarize the passage?
A. Robin Crusoe loved animals and savages very much.
B. Robin Crusoe trained his animals in pleasant ways.
C. The animals raised by Robin Crusoe brought him much pleasure.
D. The savages always spoiled Robin Crusoe's happy life.
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Earlier this year, artist Malik was about to post a selfie (自拍照）from the Brooklyn Bridge when he had the second thought. He wanted to share something different with his friends and the world.
Malik thought that the social media (媒体）had become impersonal and he wanted to connect with people in a more meaningful way. Therefore, the Reading Project was born. He began leaving piles of his books in famous New York City locations with a card containing simple instructions put inside each one: take a book, read it and share your thoughts with the artist by email.
The piles of books themselves can be seen as works of art, and so is the process (过程）of sharing. Unlike many of the things we share today, he likes to keep the project off social media. To keep the project pure (纯的），he doesn’t even turn around as he walks away once he has left a pile of books. When he has left them behind, he prefers email to be the only way that he learns what happens to them. The project has now taken him — and his books — all over the world, including London.
“I hope people pick them up and I also hope they read them and let me know their feelings on them. And even if they don't let me know, I just hope they will read the books，” Malik said.
He has received thousands of messages from people in more than 30 countries all over the world. For Malik, kooks are meaningless and lifeless if they gather dust(灰尘）on a shelf and are never read again. He intends to carry on with the project for some time，with a plan to visit Brazil and then decides whether he will continue it or not.
Most of all, lie loves the connection the books give him with strangers across the world， which is something that oilier posts could never achieve,
1.What hit Malik when he intended to post a selfie?
A.His selfie being not very attractive for a long time.
B.That social media made people close to each other.
C.His thoughts that it should be shared with more people.
D.That a new way could be used to connect with the world,
2.Why does Malik prefer others to connect with him by email?
A.He isn’t good at talking with people face to face.
B.It is a quick way to know what happens.
C.He doesn't want to be troubles by social media.
D.He thinks people needn’t know the process of sharing.
3.What can we infer about Malik's project from the text?
A.It won’t last long for a lack of books.
B.It was first started on Brooklyn Bridge.
C.It has improved the relation among strangers.
D.It has proved to be helpful to connect with others.
4.What is the best title for this text?
A.Read Books Offered by Malik
B.Connecting with Strangers by Sharing Books
C.Change the Relationship with Strangers
D.Make Meaningless Books Meaningful
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析