I love secondhand books far more than new ones! I especially like books that someone else has gone through first. It’s a kind of connection — and an experience of wondering exactly who has been there before…I don’t mind god-eared (折角的)corners;I don’t mind the coffee stain—who cares? Indeed, I don’t even mind the comments at the edge.
If it were an orginal classic, then the book would be of some importance. But the fact that its pages have been read and probably loved by dozens of people since it was produced is incredible, fascinating and wonderful. Just think — you can find old books that were touched by people in the nineteen fifties. That is interesting, as those people would probably have just come through World War Ⅱ.
But books from the 20s and 30s are even more wonderful to touch. Was it an old lady who poured over my aging Dodi Smith paperback that I found in a secondhand bookshop?
I once sat in the British Library reading books published in the 17th century, touching them, and the excitement was considerable. Imagine — these are books that people read, touched , and wrote comments about hundreds of years ago. Who have touched these books? What were they wearing? What was their work? How did the books make them think?
Now you see— I am just a woman who likes to explore the past. I like anything except the new. Who wants new things? The smell of the chemicals, the sense of being mass-produced…
No! No!
46. We can know that when the writer reads a second-hand book, she usually__________.
A. cleans the coffee stain B. writes comments at the edge
C. wonders who has read it before D. only reads the comments written by others
47. According to Paragraph 2, what does the writer find fascinating?
A. The economic value of an original classic.
B. The fact that many old books are about World War Ⅱ.
C. The fact that many people like reading what she likes reading.
D. The fact that a book has been read and loved by many people.
48. The underlined part “Dodi Smith paperback” in Paragraph 3 refers to “ ______”.
A. an old lady B. a book by Dodi Smith
C. a famous writer D. a secondhand bookshop
49. After reading the passage, we know that the writer __________.
A. only buys books with dog-eared corners
B. seldom looks back on her past
C. likes the smell of new books
D. doesn’t like things mass-produced today
50. What is this passage mainly about?
A. The advantages of reading old books.
B. Some of the writer’s strange hobbies.
C. The writer’s love for secondhand books.
D. What the writer does in her spare time.
高二英语阅读理解简单题
I love secondhand books far more than new ones! I especially like books that someone else has gone through first. It’s a kind of connection — and an experience of wondering exactly who has been there before…I don’t mind god-eared (折角的)corners;I don’t mind the coffee stain—who cares? Indeed, I don’t even mind the comments at the edge.
If it were an orginal classic, then the book would be of some importance. But the fact that its pages have been read and probably loved by dozens of people since it was produced is incredible, fascinating and wonderful. Just think — you can find old books that were touched by people in the nineteen fifties. That is interesting, as those people would probably have just come through World War Ⅱ.
But books from the 20s and 30s are even more wonderful to touch. Was it an old lady who poured over my aging Dodi Smith paperback that I found in a secondhand bookshop?
I once sat in the British Library reading books published in the 17th century, touching them, and the excitement was considerable. Imagine — these are books that people read, touched , and wrote comments about hundreds of years ago. Who have touched these books? What were they wearing? What was their work? How did the books make them think?
Now you see— I am just a woman who likes to explore the past. I like anything except the new. Who wants new things? The smell of the chemicals, the sense of being mass-produced…
No! No!
46. We can know that when the writer reads a second-hand book, she usually__________.
A. cleans the coffee stain B. writes comments at the edge
C. wonders who has read it before D. only reads the comments written by others
47. According to Paragraph 2, what does the writer find fascinating?
A. The economic value of an original classic.
B. The fact that many old books are about World War Ⅱ.
C. The fact that many people like reading what she likes reading.
D. The fact that a book has been read and loved by many people.
48. The underlined part “Dodi Smith paperback” in Paragraph 3 refers to “ ______”.
A. an old lady B. a book by Dodi Smith
C. a famous writer D. a secondhand bookshop
49. After reading the passage, we know that the writer __________.
A. only buys books with dog-eared corners
B. seldom looks back on her past
C. likes the smell of new books
D. doesn’t like things mass-produced today
50. What is this passage mainly about?
A. The advantages of reading old books.
B. Some of the writer’s strange hobbies.
C. The writer’s love for secondhand books.
D. What the writer does in her spare time.
高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
No one loves me more than my parents, especially my father. My father is stout and strong, severe look on his face and keen expressive eyes. At first sight you may feel him hard 1. (approach). In fact, he is very kind and considerate. I believe my father is a 2. (talent) man. He is decisive and efficient in doing things. By his own talents and years of efforts, he 3. (provide) the family with a good social position and a 4. (relative) rich life. Besides, he lives in harmony 5. others and never quarrels with anyone, so people from all walks of life come to my house, from 6. I’ve gained lots of social experience. But at home he is a strict parent who is hard on me and has high 7. (expectation) of me. I can see that my idling away time 8. (hurt) him deeply, while if I have done something great and meaningful, such as 9. (write) a book, he will be more excited than me. I always remind myself I must go on and on, and never 10. I give up halfway.
高二英语语法填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
No one loves me more than my parents, especially my father. My father is stout and strong, 1. a serious look on his face and keen expressive eyes. At first sight you may feel him hard 2. (approach). In fact he is very kind and considerate. I believe my father is a 3. (gift) man. He is decisive and efficient in doing things. By his own talents and years of efforts, he 4. (provide) his children with good education and a 5. (relative) rich life. Besides, he lives in harmony with others and never quarrels with anyone, so people from all walks of life come to my house, from 6. I’ve gained lots of social experiences. But at home he is a strict parent who is hard on me and has a high7. (expect) of me. I can see that my idling away time hurts him deeply, while 8. I have done something great and meaningful, such as 9. (write) a book, he will be more excited than me. I always remind 10.(I) I must go on and on, and never shall I give up halfway.
高二英语语法填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Cars do cause us some health problems——in fact far more serious ______ than mobile phones do.
A.one B.ones C.it D.those
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Cars do cause us some health problems—in fact far more serious ________ than mobile phones do.
A. one B. ones C. it D. those
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
In any family with more than one child, chidren seem to naturally compete for their parents’ love and attention. Parents say they love every child equally. But is that true?
Susan, founder of a consulting firm in Chicago, interviewed 216 women and found that even though none of her questions asked directly about a parent favoring one child over another, about two-thirds of the women said there was a favored child. And they also remembered their experience when they were young. One of the women said, “My mother always liked my brother better, and he got to go to summer camp in 1968 and I didn’t.”
Plumez, who interviewed parents with both biological children and adoptive children for an adoption book in 2008, found that what matters most is whether your temperaments(性情) are pleasing. “In some cases, parents would say they felt closer to their adopted children,” she says, “Some parents like the children with characters similar to theirs. Two people who are shy and withdrawn might get along well, unless the shy parent doesn’t like that aspect of themselves and they try to push the naturally withdrawn child to be more extroverted.”
It could be a result of gender, birth order or how easy or difficult a child’s temperament may be, but a parent’s different treatment has far-reaching effects. Students have found that less-favored children may suffer emotionally, with decreased self-esteem and behavioral problems in childhood. Favoritism is a reason for the next generation not to like each other.
Experts say it is not realistic to say everyone should be treated equally, because no two people are the same and they relate differently to others.
“It does not mean that parent loves or likes one child more. It has to do with which one of them is independent,” says psychologist Laurie Kramer of the University of Illinois.
1.The study carried out by Susan shows that ______.
A. showing favoritism is common in many families
B. most mothers like their sons better than their daughters
C. only two-thirds of the women interviewed have more than a child
D. it is a favoritism that leads to absence of harmony in most families
2.The underlined word “extroverted” in the third paragraph means _______.
A. independent B. outgoing C. clever D. brave
3.What can we infer from the passage?
A. Favoritism is not beneficial to the development of children
B. Parents’ favoritism to a certain child can’t be avoided in families
C. Parents may be favoring one of their children and don’t realize it
D. People are very much shaped by how they were treated by their parents
4.What is the best title for the passage?
A. Parents’ favoritism can affect children deeply
B. Why do parents show favoritism to children?
C. Parents should give attention to all their children
D. Building a harmonious family is important to children
高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
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
---Will you lend me some books on Chinese poems?
----Yes, of course, but now there’s no more than one book for you____.
A.to be chosen from | B.to choose |
C.to choose from | D.for choosing |
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
My feelings about science have 1.(complete) changed. More than one science teachers at my new school 2. excellent and 3.(friend). The science4.(facility) are very good with laboratories that have all the5.(late) equipment. Our chemistry teacher takes us to public science lectures about four times6. term, 7. are always interesting, because the lecturers are famous at their area of science. In the last 20 years, seven Canadian scientists8.(win) the Nobel Prize. Now9.I’m becoming more and more interested in is physics and I want to study it at university. But my parents are 10.(astonish), as they always thought I would become an English teacher.
高二英语短文填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Our families lived more than 450 miles away. So a few weeks before New Year’s Day one year, my husband and I decided to _______someone for the holiday. I called a senior center and they _______Ilse, a 78-year-old lady, a woman I guessed would be _______and soft-spoken.
That day, Ilse came to our house, talkative and loud-spoken. My _______was wrong. By the end of the evening, we felt as if this _______woman were an old friend. We had kept a _______relationship for years since then. One evening, she phoned me and I _______it. The following day, I returned her call but couldn’t _______what she was saying. I drove her to the _______room, where the doctor confirmed a serious stroke (中风) __________her. At the end of the week, I __________an early-morning call from her caregiver, “She’s passed away.”
The morning after Ilse’s __________, I opened my drawer and read through her __________she’d insisted I take a year earlier. I stopped when seeing my name. She left me $50,000! But I couldn’t __________what she had left me on myself. Ilse was a friend I’d helped out of sincerity and __________, not with the expectation of being __________. I opened an investment account in __________of her. Over the next 20 years, Ilse’s gift grew, __________giving me opportunities to donate money in her name to a cause she __________deeply: children. Meeting Ilse made my life __________absolutely.
1.A.visit B.invite C.sponsor D.tend
2.A.employed B.recognized C.convinced D.suggested
3.A.quiet B.brilliant C.lovely D.dynamic
4.A.intention B.worry C.assumption D.attitude
5.A.stubborn B.lonely C.strange D.unfortunate
6.A.temporary B.close C.rare D.loose
7.A.ignored B.answered C.regretted D.missed
8.A.remember B.forget C.catch D.repeat
9.A.emergency B.waiting C.conference D.living
10.A.hurt B.attacked C.faced D.fought
11.A.refused B.expected C.postponed D.received
12.A.death B.call C.recovery D.arrival
13.A.novel B.article C.will D.newspaper
14.A.spend B.focus C.impress D.base
15.A.interest B.hope C.curiosity D.respect
16.A.recorded B.paid C.admitted D.praised
17.A.advance B.charge C.honor D.search
18.A.instantly B.constantly C.occasionally D.obviously
19.A.took on B.gave up C.set off D.cared about
20.A.richer B.busier C.safer D.simpler
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析