Sheryl dropped the heart-painted rock into my...

Sheryl dropped the heart-painted rock into my bag, 1. (say), “There’s no charge for this. I want to give it you! ”

Her loving energy had attracted me 2. her display at the artisan’s PopLocal party like a bee to a flower. We had 3. heart-to-heart chat about 4. she began painting rocks because of the white feather symbolism shared as 5. (inspire) between her and an uncle and how it 6. (eventual) developed into her “bee kind” mission.

From her pocket she pulled a sweet little rock. 7. (paint) like a bee, with the words “bee kind” on the back. “I paint and give these! ” she shared. “They are in so many 8. (country) now, even one at the Great Wall of China! ”

I asked if I could take some photos. I saw Sheryl’s smile, and it just lit 9. (she) whole fact. It just occurred to me that earlier in the day I gave away a heart-shaped “worry stone” and now I 10. (give) a rock with a heart painted lovingly on it.

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Tens of thousands of ancient pictures carved into the rocks at one of France’s most important tourist sites are being gradually destroyed. Scientists and researchers fear that the 36,000 drawings on rocks in Mont Bego in the French Alps are being damaged so rapidly that they will not survive for future generations.

The mountain, believed to have once been a site for prayer, is scattered (散布) with 4,000-year-old drawings cut into bare rock. They include pictures of cows with horns, cultivated fields and various gods and goddesses. But as the popularity of the site increases, the pictures are being ruined by thoughtless graffiti (涂鸦).

Jean Clottes is the chairman of the International Committee on Rock Art. He says, “People think that because the pictures have been there so long they will always continue to be there. But if the damage continues at this rate there will be nothing left in 50 years.”

He describes seeing tourists stamping on the drawings, wearing away the rock and definition (清晰) of the artwork as they do so. Some visitors, he says, even cut off parts to take home as souvenirs. “When people think they can’t take a good enough photograph, they rub the drawings to get a clearer picture,” he said. “The drawings are polished by the weather, and if the sun is shining and the visitors can’t see them properly they simply rub them to make them look fresher.” Other researchers describe how people arrive carrying long sticks with sharp ends to scratch (刮) their own drawings, or even their names, in the rocks.

But experts are divided over the best way to preserve the drawings. Henry de Lumley, director of the Museum of Natural History in Paris, believes that the only way to save the site is to turn the whole mountain into a “no-go” area, preventing the public from going there except on guided tours. Otherwise, he says, not only will the site be completely destroyed but important research work will be reduced.

Clottes disagrees, “The measure suggested by Henry de Lumley is the most severe, and while it is the most effective, it is also certain to bring about protests from people who live there,” he said. “The site was classified as a historic monument years ago by the Ministry of Culture, and we must do as much as possible to save what is there.”

David Lavergne, the regional architect, also wants to avoid closing the site. “Henry de Lumley’s idea isn’t ideal,” he said. “Our department feels that the best solution is to let people look at the site, but because the area is very big it is difficult to prevent visitors from damaging it. I would prefer that everyone was able to look at it, but the main problem is money. We do not have the funds to employ the necessary number of guards. We may have to consider charging a fee. It doesn’t seem to be possible to get the government support.”

1.Jean Clottes says that people who visit the mountain____.

A. do not believe the drawings are old. B. believe they are allowed to paint there

C. think the drawings should be left alone D. think the drawings will not disappear

2.According to Jean Clottes, some of the visitors to the area have____.

A. helped to clean the drawings B. taken bits of the rock home

C. been unable to take photographs D. misunderstood what the pictures mean

3.Henry de Lumley is eager to ____.

A. set up research projects B. protect public rights

C. keep out individual visitors D. ban traffic in the area

4.This passage has been written about Mont Bego to ____.

A. advertise the closing of the site

B. warn visitors about the dangers of the site

C. encourage scientists to visit the site

D. describe fears for the future of the site

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Dropping into hopelessness completely, Jack wandered on the streets, knowing he came to the end of life. In his mid-fifties, Jack had never been　 ____ , experienced the joy of having children or spent holidays with his family. On this miserable rainy night, he felt as if there was _____in the entire world who cared whether he lived or died.

Meanwhile, I was sitting in my room watching the rain _____ my window. When I heard the doorbell ring, I　 ____　 from my chair and raced out. But my mother was already at the door. Opening it, she found herself face-to-face with a very dirty-looking man with tears streaming down his face. My mother, overcome by　 _____ , invited the man inside, and he sat with my parents in our living room.

____ ,　 I walked secretly downstairs so that I could get a better look. I couldn't understand what they were saying, but the sight of the man, _____　 his head in his hands and crying, made my chest ache. I raced back upstairs to my room and　 ____　 my hand into my money jar. Pulling out my only half-dollar coin, I ran back downstairs.

When I reached the door of the living room, I walked right in. The three ______ looked at me in　 _____as I quickly made my way over the stranger. I put the half-dollar in his hand and told him that I wanted him to have it. Then I gave him a　 ____ , turned and ran as fast as I could out of the room and back upstairs. I felt excited but happy.

Downstairs, Jack sat quietly with his head ______.Tears streamed down his face as he ______held that coin. Finally looking up at my parents, he said, “It’s just that I thought nobody cared. For the last twenty years, I have been so ____. That is the first hug I have ever got. It’s hard to believe that somebody ___ .”

Jack's life changed that night. When he left our house, he was　 ____　 to live instead of die. Although we never saw Jack again, we received letters from him　 ____ , letting us know that he was doing fine.

My life changed that night, too, as I　 ____　 the huge healing power of giving, even if it’s only a gift of fifty cents. Before Jack left, my parents asked　 him why he had knocked on our door. Jack said that　 ______he was walking along the streets that rainy night, ____ and ready to die, he noticed a sticker on the car. It read: SOMEBODY LOVES YOU.

1.A. married　　 B. employed　　 C. managed　　 D. understood

2.A. somebody　　 B. everybody　　 C. nobody　　 D. anybody

3.A. break　　 B. cover　　 C. approach　　 D. beat

4.A. looked　　 B. settled　　 C. jumped　　 D. ran

5.A. pity　　 B. anxiety　　 C. guilty　　 D. fear

6.A. Annoyed　　 B. Curious　　 C. Worried　　 D. Excited

7.A. holding　　 B. nodding　　 C. shaking　　 D. resting

8.A. presented　　 B. adjusted　　 C. pushed　　 D. reached

9.A. strangers　　 B. adults　　 C. neighbors　　 D. visitors

10.A. anger　　 B. delight　　 C. fun　　 D. surprise

11.A. hug　　 B. smile　　 C. kiss　　 D. handshake

12.A. raised　　 B. bowed　　 C. ignored　　 D. turned

13.A. calmly　　 B. privately　　 C. tightly　　 D. impatiently

14.A. anxious　　 B. lonely　　 C. stressed　　 D. bored

15.A. makes　　 B. deserves　　 C. cares　　 D. figures

16.A. disappointed　　 B. flexible　　 C. likely　　 D. ready

17.A. hardly　　 B. immediately　　 C. occasionally　　 D. never

18.A. saw　　 B. informed　　 C. hid　　 D. assisted

19.A. before　　 B. until　　 C. unless　　 D. when

20.A. weak　　 B. hopeless　　 C. ashamed　　 D. regretful

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In the story of “The crow and the Pitcher” from Aesop’s Fables, a thisty crow (乌鸦)drops stones into a narrow jar to raise the low level of water inside so he can take a drink.

Now scientists have evidence to back up that story. Crows actually do understand how to make water displacement (移位) work to their advantage, experiments show. The results suggest that the birds are, at least in some aspects, as smart as first-graders.

Researchers, led by Sarah Jelbert at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, presented six crows with tubes filled with water. Inside the tubes, a worm or piece of meat on a piece of wood was floating, just out of reach of the crow. In front of the tubes, the researchers arranged several rubber erasers that would sink, and some plastic objects that would float. The crows found out that they could drop the erasers into the tubes in order to raise the water level and get their snack.

However, the birds handled awkwardly in experiments in which they could choose to drop objects in either a wide tube or a narrow one to get a snack, the researchers said. Dropping objects into narrow tube would lift the water level by a greater amount and put the treat within reach after just two drops; while it took around seven drops to raise the snack to the same level in the wide tube. The crows obviously didn’t realize this, and most of them went for the wide tube first.

Previous studies showed that chimps and human children can solve similar tasks. In a 2011 study, chimps and kids found out that they could put water into a tube to reach a peanut that was floating in a small amount of water at the bottom.

1.How did the crows get the snack in Sarah’s experiment?

A.By breaking the tube.

B.By dropping in erasers.

C.By standing on the wood.

D.By removing the wood.

2.What does the author mean by “the birds handled awkwardly” in paragraph 4?

A.They were unable to tell different shapes.

B.They dropped objects only into narrow tubes.

C.They were not aware of the snack at first sight.

D.They mostly avoided the easier way to get the snack.

3.What does the text mainly focus on?

A.Stories of Aesop’s Fables.

B.The development of crows.

C.Crows’ intelligence.

D.Human-animal communication.

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A.Crows are almost as clever as first-graders in some respects.

B.Crows understand water displacement completely.

C.Chimps and children are much smarter than crows.

D.The story of “The crow and the Pitcher” lacks evidence.

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Many students stay up late into the night, some of whom 　 　　 during the boring lecture.

A. drop off　　 B. drop in

C. get away　　 D. drop out

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Ben Lecomte, a French long-distance swimmer, dropped into the water Tuesday at Choshi, Japan, and embarked on his attempt to become the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean, BBC News reports.

Six years in the planning, the 5,500-mile effort is expected to take five to six months, with Lecomte swimming eight hours a day and covering an average of 30 miles daily, according to his website.

His route to San Francisco will take him through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area three times the size of France where large amounts of garbage and plastic waste have collected, CNN reports.

Lecomte will be accompanied by a specially outfitted support boat named Discoverer. He will take rest periods on the boat, but it will return him to his stopping point each day to make sure he swims the entire distance.

In addition to accomplishing a first, Lecomte said, he wants to draw attention to the problems of ocean pollution and climate change. A team of scientists plan to conduct research for 12 scientific institutions, including NASA and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, while he is making his swim.

Lecomte is no stranger to feats of long-distance open-water swimming. In 1998, he swam 4,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. On that swim he encountered sharks and stingrays. This time, he said, he will be wearing a shark-repellent bracelet.

One of the challenges will be making sure he has enough energy each day, and Lecomte said he intends to consume 8,000 calories daily.

1.The purpose of Lecomte’s swimming across the Pacific Ocean are the followings except ________.

A. becoming the first to swim across the Pacific Ocean

B. raising people’s awareness of ocean pollution

C. letting people realize the problem of climate change

D. planning to conduct research for scientific institutions

2.How long will it take Lecomte to swim across the Pacific Ocean?

A. about 700 hours.

B. about 1000 hours.

C. about 1400 hours.

D. about 1800 hours.

3.Which of the following statement is true according to the passage?

A. Lecomte is a short-distance swimmer.

B. No one has ever swum across the Pacific Ocean.

C. Lecomte intends to swim across the Pacific Ocean alone.

D. Lecomte was once attacked by sharks when swimming in the Pacific Ocean.

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Zipped into a bag, it looks like a large umbrella. Unfolded, it goes along the street like any other bicycle.

It's the "A-bike", the brainchild (脑力劳动的产物) of British inventor Sir Clive Sinclair, who made history in the 1970s by developing the world's first pocket calculator. He described his new invention as "the world's smallest, lightest foldable bicycle".

"My original thought was that if you could have a bicycle that was dramatically lighter and more firm than the ones that exist today, it would change the way in which bicycles are used,"said Sinclair.

The mini-bike, showed in Singapore last week and set to go on sale worldwide in 2005 at a price of nearly US$300, is built for riders as heavy as 112 kilograms and is height-adjustable（可调整高度的）. It takes about 20 seconds to fold or unfold.

Its wheels are a quarter the size of those on a regular bicycle, but Sinclair promises a smooth ride for most cyclists. "You require no extra energy to ride the A-bike and it can go up to 15 miles per hour (24 kilometers per hour)," he said. Constructed mainly of plastic, the 5.5-kilogram bicycle folds into a package of less than 0.03 cubic meters （立方米）.

Sinclair also invented the first pocket TV in 1984 and the futuristic C5 electric tricycle in 1985. He said he hoped the bicycle would attract common citizens, officials, campers or anyone needing transport for a short trip and he said the next step for the A-bike was to add an electric motor in a few years.

1.The most important character of this kind of bike is its ________ .

2.The wheels of a regular bicycle is ________ the size of this kind of bike.

3.This kind of new bike is mainly made of ________ .

4.The best title of the text is ________ .

5.This kind of new bike hasn't been fixed with ________ .

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Suddenly, a man driving a motor car _______ the girl’s bag and took it away, ______ into the darkness.

A. seizing , disappeared　　 B. seized, disappeared　　

C. seizing, disappearing　　 D. seized, disappearing　　

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

My husband is an engineer. Since we met, he has always  been the rock in my life. I knew he had his feet 36 planted on the ground ,and it seemed that no matter what else went37 , he would be the constant one.

Three years of romance and two years of marriage later, I began to feel38 of him because he never brought me flowers , he never 39 me, and nothing had changed in our marriage.

After40  , I finally told him I wanted to be41 . He just sat there , speechless and didn’t even know________    __42__to say to make me stay . Finally , he spoke ,“What can I do to change your 43 ?”

“I’ll stay if you have a good answer44 this question,” I replied coldly。“If I asked for a 45

growing on a cliff, and getting it for me 46 certain death, would you still do so ?”

His face grew troubled.“Can I give you the answer tomorrow morning ?” With that , my heart47 . He couldn’t even give me an answer48 away.

The next morning , I found he was 49 .However, I found a note under a warm glass of milk . My eyes 50 misty as I was reading it

“Dear, I’ll give you my 51 .

After you do typing for a long time , I need my 52 to do it for you.

Every time you leave the house , you forget your keys . I need my legs to run 53 and open the door for you… that’s why I cannot pick the flower for you….”

With tears 54from my eyes , I opened the door. And there he was , with an extremely worried look on his face, waving the packet he had in his hand in front of me.

Just because someone doesn’t love you55 you want him to, it doesn’t meant that he doesn’t love you heart and soul.

1.A deeply         B  firmly        C   slightly       D  totally

2.A different       B  crazy      C   exciting       D   excited

3.A  liked        B   tried          C   fond          D   tired

4.Afrightened      B  loved          C   surprised      D    lost

5.Asome time      B sometime     C   sometimes     D    some times

6.A  in           B  up            C    down         D    out

7.A what          B  which         C    how          D  when

8.A saying         B comment         C    opinion       D   mind

9.A to             B   of            C     for          D about

10.Atree         B   moon         C     flower       D  butterfly

11.Ameant          B   resulted       C    caused        D  led

12.Asank         B   settled        C    rose          D   worried

13.A soon      B   straight       C    straightly      D   quickly

14.Amissed         B   missing        C    losing        D  lost

15.Afell            B   changed        C    grew         D   got

16.Adscriptions    B   causes       C    lists          D  reasons

17.Aheart          B   fingers        C   mind          D   arms

18.A home         B   at home        C     out         D   in

19.Asteaming       B  sretching     C   streaming     D  spreading

20.Alike it           B    way          C    how        D   the way

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I was on my way home by train. The train’s gentle rocking made me feel sleepy, despite the fact that I was standing with what felt like a building in the bag on my back. I turned slightly to reduce some of the pain in my shoulder and saw the door at the end of the ear.

An obviously homeless man walked through the door. He was dressed in a dirty heavy coat. He dragged a bag that looked thirty times as heavy as mine. He asked people for spare change in the polite, experienced voice of a person who had done this before. I glanced down as I did a quick cheek of my pockets, hoping for spare change to give him that wouldn’t leave me short for the rest of the week. I came up empty and lifted my head just as his path crossed mine. Shrugging apologetically, I told him I had no change, expecting him to move through the door next to me and continue going to the next cars.

However, he stood and stared at me, saying something quietly. Then I realized he was asking me to take him home. Suddenly money didn’t matter that much to this man who lived in poverty without even think of the proper words to say besides “I can’t , I’m sorry.” He asked me , “What’s wrong with my request?” The answer was on my lips before I knew it. I told him that I was not good enough for him.

It was after the man had left that I thought about the answer I had given him and wondered why it felt so right to say so. I realized that I should have requested love over money or food. The fact that he could appreciate something so simple and invisible in more than I could ever have expected of myself.

1.When the author was sleepy and tired, he saw a homeless man on the train__________.

A. looking for his long-lost friend

B. asking people for spare clothes

C. begging passengers for some money

D. talking about his painful experience

2.Which of the following can best describe the author according to Paragraph 2?

A. Self-centered　　 B. Kind-hearted

C. Hard-working　 D. Easy-going

3.To his surprise, the author found that the homeless man wanted________.

A. neither food nor money　　　　 B. not money but love

C. neither money nor love　　　　 D. both shelter and protection

4.What did the author learn from the man?

A. No place is more comfortable than home.

B. Friendship can bring two strangers closer.

C. People should bravely follow their dreams.

D. Love is more precious than money or food..

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