A distant relative is not ________ a near nei...

A distant relative is not ________ a near neighbor.

A. so far as　　 B. as well as

C. as good as　　 D. so long as

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

In American the relation between parents and children is usually not so close as _______of the Chinese family.

A.that B.it C.one D.the other

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is so________ that most of us can not understand it.

A．controversial       B．appropriate        C．abstract           D．ridiculous

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is so ________that most of us can not understand it.

A．controversial                          B．abstract

C．appropriate                            D．universal

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.What relation is Jack to the woman?

A. Her neighbor.　　 B. Her colleague.　　 C. Her husband.

2.What can we learn about Jack?

A. He cannot cook at all.　　 B. He does lots of housework.　　 C. His office is far from home.

3.What does the woman help do at home?

A. Do some cleaning.　　 B. Do some washing.　　 C. Do some cooking.

高二英语长对话简单题查看答案及解析

One there were two 1. (mouse), a city mouse and a country mouse. They were distant relatives. One day the city mouse, who lived in a big house wrote a letter to the country mouse inviting him for a visit.

Delighted, the country mouse accepted the 2. (invite) and came to the city mouse’s house. He was greeted by the city mouse cheerfully. The country mouse was 3. (excite) how big the house was. The city mouse was pleased 4. led the country mouse to the kitchen. When 5. climbed up the table, there were a large piece of bread, fruit and cheese 6. it. But just as they began to eat, they heard 7. great noise. The city mouse cried, “Run! Run! The cat is coming!” They 8. (run) away quickly and hid.

9. (breathe) heavily after hiding in the mouse-hole, the country mouse said to the city mouse, “I should go back to my house in the country. Even if I eat nothing but beans, I can live 10. (peace). Why don’t you come with me to the country? It is nicer to be poor and happy than to be rich and afraid.”

高二英语语法填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Once there were two mice, a city mouse and a country mouse. They were distant relatives. One day the city mouse, 　 1.　 lived in a big house wrote a letter to the country mouse inviting him for a visit.

Delighted, the country mouse accepted the 　 2.　 (invite) and came to the city mouse’s house. He was greeted by the city mouse cheerfully. The country mouse was surprised 3. big the house was. The city mouse was pleased 　 4.　 led the country mouse to the kitchen. When 　 65　 climbed up the table, there were a large piece of bread, fruit and cheese 5.　 it. But just as they began to eat, they heard 6.　　 great noise. The city mouse cried, “Run! Run! The cat 　 7.　 (come)!” They ran away quickly and hid.

8. (breath) heavily after hiding in the mouse-hole, the country mouse said to the city mouse, “I should go back to my house in the country. Even if I eat nothing but beans, I can live 　 9.　 (peace). Why don’t you come with me to the country? It is nicer to be poor and happy than to be rich and afraid.”

高二英语其他题中等难度题查看答案及解析

Dorothea Shaw is 71 years old and nearly blind, and she chose to live alone far away from people. She lives in Belize — a county the size of Wales with a population only that of Swansea. Her home is at Gales Point, a tiny village which can be reached only by sea or air; after a 10-mile walk into the hills one finally reaches a piece of land and two small houses so hidden in the thick over-grown forest that only a handful of people know Dorothea is there.

She lives happily and totally alone – growing her vegetables, looking after her trees and dogs, cats and chickens. Once a month or so an old friend passes by with her food supplies and letters-usually including a letter from her sister in Scunthorpe and some bits of clothing from friends in Canada. Sometimes a local man will come and cut wood for her and a group of British soldiers will come across her and be greeted with the offer of a cup of coffee.

At night she lies in her tiny sleeping room with the dogs on the floor, the cats on the table near the typewriter and one of the hens settled down in a corner of the bookshelf, and listens for hours to any Spanish, English, German or French broadcasts she can find on her radio. Sometimes she gets lonely but most of the time the animals and the radio are company enough.

But recently the very things that she had tried to get free from so well have begun to catch up with her. The peace of the forest has been destroyed by the noise of earth-moving machines not many miles away. What she once only heard of distantly on the radio is now on her doorstep. Things began to change three years ago. The new main north-south road in Belize was cut through the forest only four or five miles away. “Now more people know I’m here.” She says. “I feel more and more uneasy each day.”

1.Dorothea’s small houses ________.

2.Dorothea lives in the tiny village because ________.

3. Dorothea doesn’t get lonely since she has _______ with her.

4.Dorothea spends a lot of time __________.

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

The death of languages is not a new phenomenon. Languages usually have a relatively short life span as well as a very high death rate. Only a few, including Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, Latin, have lasted more than 2,000 years.

What is new, however, is the speed at which they are dying out. Europe’s colonial conquests caused a sharp decline in linguistic diversity, eliminating at least 15 percent of all languages spoken at the time. Over the last 300 years, Europe has lost a dozen, and Australia has only 20 left of the 250 spoken at the end of the 18th century.

The rise of nation-states has also been decisive in selecting and consolidating national languages and sidelining others. By making great efforts to establish an official language in education, the media and the civil service, national governments have deliberately tried to eliminate minority languages.

This process of linguistic standardization has been boosted by industrialization and scientific progress, which have imposed new methods of communication that are swift, straightforward and practical. Language diversity came to be seen as an obstacle to trade and the spread of knowledge. Monolingualism became an ideal.

More recently, the internationalization of financial markets, the spread of information by electronic media and other aspects of globalization have intensified the threat to “small” languages. A language not on the Internet is a language that “no longer exists” in the modern world. It is out of the game.

The serious effects of the death of languages are evident. First of all, it is possible that if we all ended up speaking the same language, our brains would lose some of their natural capacity for linguistic inventiveness. We would never be able to figure out the origins of human language or resolve the mystery of “the first language”. As each language dies, a chapter of human history closes.

Multilingualism is the most accurate reflection of multiculturalism. The destruction of the first will inevitably lead to the loss of the second. Imposing a language without any links to a people’s culture and way of life stifles the expression of their collective genius. A language is not only used for the main instrument of human communication. It also expresses the world vision of those who speak it, their ways of using knowledge. To safeguard languages is an urgent matter.

1.Which of the following does not contribute to the death of languages?

A. Colonial conquests of Europe

B. The boom of human population

C. Advances in science and industrialization

D. The rise of nation-states

2.The underlined word “ stifles” in the last paragraph probably means “_____”.

A. boosts　　　　　　　　 B. fuels　　　　　　　　 C. imposes　　　　　　　　　 D. kills

3.The serious effects of the death of languages include all except that_______.

A. People would fail to understand how languages originated

B. Language diversity would become an obstacle to globalization

C. Monolingualism would lead to the loss of multiculturalism

D. Human brains would become less creative linguistically

4.What is the author’s purpose of writing this passage?

A. To explain the reasons why languages are dying out.

B. To warn people of the negative aspects of globalization.

C. To call people’s attention to the urgency of language preservation.

D. To argue how important it is for people to speak more languages.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.How far away is Hill Farm?

A.Nearly a mile. B.Just one mile. C.More than a mile.

2.Which is the route to Hill Farm?

A.Left track → bridge → road. B.Road → left track → bridge.

C.Bridge → road → left track.

3.What would the man like the woman to do towards the end of the conversation?

A.Give him a ride. B.Repeat what she said. C.Walk him to Hill Farm.

高二英语长对话中等难度题查看答案及解析