“Football is a very short-term career. Football really prepares you for almost nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard.” says Gales Sayers. So what do you do after your glory days on the field are over? Here’s what one of the top players, Gales Sayers did after he put down the pigskin.
Gales Sayers: #40, Chicago Bears, Running Back.
Gales Sayers became famous in 1965. After recovering from a serious knee injury in 1968, Sayers returned to the Bears in 1969 and was awarded the George Halas Award as “the most courageous player in professional football.” At the award ceremony, he owed his prize to his friend and teammate Brian Piccolo, who was dying of cancer.
Sayers couldn’t get away from the injuries, though, and another blow to his knee put an end to his football career in 1971. His personal life was unfortunate as well, as he and his wife, Linda, split up that year. Shortly after that, Sayers started a new life and career as an assistant athletic director in the University of Kansas. By 1976 he was moving up the ladder at Southern Illinois University, becoming the first African-American athletic director at a major university.
Sayers started a computer supplies company in 1984 with his second wife, Ardie, whom he married in 1973. The couple was looking for a field with a future, and computers seemed to have it all. Seventeen years later, the company that bears his name is a national provider of technology solutions, with 10 locations and over 350 employees across the country. Just like in the old days the honors started rolling in. Sayers was listed into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship(企业家) Hall of Fame in 1999.
1. What does the underlined sentence “he put down the pigskin” mean?
A. Sayers ended his football career.
B. Sayers was too tired to go on playing.
C. Sayers intended to start a new career.
D. Sayers only wanted to rest for some time.
2. How many times was Sayers honored in his life?
A. Only once as a football star.
B. Only once as a businessman.
C. Twice in all.
D. We are not quite sure.
3. Sayers started his new career mainly because of _______ .
A. the first knee injury in l 968
B. his unfortunate personal life
C. another more serious knee injury
D. a friend’s being deadly ill
4. What can be learned from this passage?
A. Football players are not successful all the time.
B. A successful businessman should be a ball player first.
C. A retired football player can easily make money.
D. Whatever you do, working hard is the most important.
高二英语阅读理解简单题
“Football is a very short-term career. Football really prepares you for almost nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard.” says Gales Sayers. So what do you do after your glory days on the field are over? Here’s what one of the top players, Gales Sayers did after he put down the pigskin.
Gales Sayers: #40, Chicago Bears, Running Back.
Gales Sayers became famous in 1965. After recovering from a serious knee injury in 1968, Sayers returned to the Bears in 1969 and was awarded the George Halas Award as “the most courageous player in professional football.” At the award ceremony, he owed his prize to his friend and teammate Brian Piccolo, who was dying of cancer.
Sayers couldn’t get away from the injuries, though, and another blow to his knee put an end to his football career in 1971. His personal life was unfortunate as well, as he and his wife, Linda, split up that year. Shortly after that, Sayers started a new life and career as an assistant athletic director in the University of Kansas. By 1976 he was moving up the ladder at Southern Illinois University, becoming the first African-American athletic director at a major university.
Sayers started a computer supplies company in 1984 with his second wife, Ardie, whom he married in 1973. The couple was looking for a field with a future, and computers seemed to have it all. Seventeen years later, the company that bears his name is a national provider of technology solutions, with 10 locations and over 350 employees across the country. Just like in the old days the honors started rolling in. Sayers was listed into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship(企业家) Hall of Fame in 1999.
1. What does the underlined sentence “he put down the pigskin” mean?
A. Sayers ended his football career.
B. Sayers was too tired to go on playing.
C. Sayers intended to start a new career.
D. Sayers only wanted to rest for some time.
2. How many times was Sayers honored in his life?
A. Only once as a football star.
B. Only once as a businessman.
C. Twice in all.
D. We are not quite sure.
3. Sayers started his new career mainly because of _______ .
A. the first knee injury in l 968
B. his unfortunate personal life
C. another more serious knee injury
D. a friend’s being deadly ill
4. What can be learned from this passage?
A. Football players are not successful all the time.
B. A successful businessman should be a ball player first.
C. A retired football player can easily make money.
D. Whatever you do, working hard is the most important.
高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
Football is very important to me, but _____ is our friendship.
A. as B. so C. also D. too
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
Duncan, ______ NBA star, is one of _______ few football players who are very popular to many of his Chinese fans.
A. an; the B. an; a C. the; the D. the; a
高二英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析
Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to 31 in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me. They don’t act in the 32 ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is too 33 for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentine’s Day is even more out of 34.
One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I sat down beside her. “Mom, I have a question to ask you. Is there _35 between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice. She didn’t answer immediately. She 36 her head and continued to sew the quilt.
I was very worried because I thought I had _37_ her. I was 38_ and I didn’t know what I should do. But at last I heard my mother say the following words:
“Susan,” she said thoughtfully, “Look at this thread.Sometimes it __39_, but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt _40__. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread.It can hardly be seen _41 , but it’s really there. Love is 42_.”
I listened carefully but I __43_ her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly _44 seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked __45_. It seemed both of them had had a serious illness. After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother helped my father 46__ on the country road.
“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.
“Susan, don’t _47 me.” he said gently. “To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom.”_48_ his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.
Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and 49 . But from this experience, I understand that love is just _50_ in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.
1. A.keep fit B.rise early C.collect money D.earn money
2. A.romantic B.magic C.fantastic D.attractive
3. A.simple B.luxurious C.relaxing D.easy
4. A.question B.the question C.reach D.control
5. A.feeling B.quarrel C.love D.smile
6. A.bowed B.shook C.nodded D.raised
7. A.hurt B.injured C.wounded D.harmed
8. A.in great surprise B.with deep depression
C.in a great embarrassment D.at extreme sorrow
9. A.happens B.comes about C.occurs D.appears
10. A.warm and soft B.hot and hard C.thin and cool D.strong and durable
11. A.more or less B.here and there
C.somewhere and sometime D.anywhere or anytime
12. A.inside B.outside C.faraway D.nearby
13. A.could believe B.wouldn’t recognize C.couldn’t understand D.might know
14. A.got stuck B.got sick C.threw up D.became disabled
15. A.quite healthy B.fairly red C.very pale D.much surprised
16. A.walk slowly B.go hurriedly C.run fast D.jump high
17. A.think about B.worry about C.talk with D.laugh at
18. A.Saying B.Seeing C.Reading D.Writing
19. A.fresh roses B.gold ring C.beautiful jewelry D.sweet kisses
20. A.a needle B.a thread C.the cloth D.the cotton
高二英语完型填空简单题查看答案及解析
Alex is a very special boy who really likes trees. He always feels completely at home in nature and loves going camping in the forest. Alex has a little sister called Julia, who likes playing with dolls. Julia also likes being outdoors, and most of all, she loves going on trips to the snowy mountains with her parents.
One day, their parents decided to take them on holiday and let them choose between camping in the forest and going skiing in the snow. Alex quickly shouted out, “Camping in the forest!” while Julia cried, “Snow! Snow! Snow!” Julia added that the year before they had gone camping and hadn’t gone skiing.
So Alex’s mum and dad asked him, “What do you think is the fairest thing to do?” And Alex shouted, “Camping! Camping! Camping!” His parents insisted he think more about it. This made Alex a little unhappy.
Hearing this, Julia said to her brother, “Alex, we could go to the mountains to see the snow, but make sure it’s somewhere with a forest. What about that?”
The idea seemed good for Alex and he understood that he had to make compromises to get what he had wanted. And in the end, the whole family went to a spot in the mountains where there was a forest.
【写作内容】
1. 以约30个词概括阅读材料的主要内容;
2. 然后以约120个词谈谈你对“分歧中学会妥协”的看法,内容包括:
(1) 与他人发生分歧时为什么需要妥协;
(2) 什么情况下与他人发生分歧时不能妥协;
(3) 介绍一次你或你的同学与他人发生分歧时的经历,以及你由此得出的感悟。
【写作要求】
1. 作文中可以使用自己亲身的经历或虚构的故事,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不得直接引用原文中的句子;
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
【评分标准】
概括准确,语言规范,内容合适,篇章连贯。
高二英语书面表达中等难度题查看答案及解析
He has called several times this morning. _______, there is something very urgent.
A.Really | B.Especially | C.Obviously | D.Terribly |
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
—Your school is really wonderful.
—Yes, it’s very modern. And every student has free ________ to the school library.
A. access B. chance C. privilege D. right
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
---Now, children begin to learn English at a very early age. It is really a good thing?
---_________.
A.Yes, just in case B.Well, it depends
C.Don’t mention it D.Believe it or not
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
---David said he could fix my computer, but I really doubt it.
---________. He is very good at such sort of thing.
A. Don’t worry B. Of course
C. A piece of cake D. Never mind
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest thinkers in the world, began his career as an artist. Very little is known about Leonardo’s early life. He was born in 1452 in the town of Vinci. As a boy, Leonardo showed a great interest in drawing, sculpting and observing nature.
However, because Leonardo was born to parents who were not married to each other, he was barred from some studies and professions. He trained as an artist after moving to Florence with his father in the 1460s. It was an exciting time to be in Florence, one of the cultural capitals of Europe. Leonardo trained with one of the city’s very successful artists, Andrea del Verrocchio. He was a painter, sculptor and gold worker. Verrocchio told his students that they needed to understand the body’s bones and muscles when drawing people.
Leonardo took the teacher’s advice very seriously. He spent several periods of his life studying the human body by taking apart and examining dead bodies. While training as an artist, Leonardo also learned about and improved on relatively new painting methods at the time. One was the use of perspective(透视) to show depth. A method called “sfumato” helped to create a cloudy effect to suggest distance. “Chiaroscuro” is a method using light and shade as a painterly effect.
Leonardo’s first known portrait now hangs in the National Gallery in Washington, D. C. He made this painting of a young woman named Ginevra de’ Benci around 1474. The woman has a pale face with dark hair. In the distance, Leonardo painted the Italian countryside.
He soon received attention for his extraordinary artistic skills. Around 1475 he was asked to draw an angel in Verrocchio’s painting “Baptism of Christ.” One story says that when Verrocchio saw Leonardo’s addition to the painting, he was so amazed by his student’s skill that he said he would never paint again.
1.Which of the following words can be used to describe Leonardo according to the third paragraph?
A. Stubborn. B. Creative.
C. Pessimistic. D. Determined.
2.What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. Verrocchio felt shame at his own work.
B. Verrocchio thought Leonardo’s work terrible.
C. Verrocchio thought highly of Leonardo’s work.
D. Verrocchio didn’t believe Leonardo could paint well.
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Leonardo was prevented from some studies because of his parents.
B. Leonardo thought his teacher’s advice was unreasonable.
C. “Sfumato” is a method to show depth by using light and shade.
D. “Baptism of Christ” made Leonardo known across the world.
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析