A young boy was sitting in the back seat of t...

A young boy was sitting in the back seat of the car eating an apple. He asked his father, “Why does my apple turn brown?” His father answered, “When the skin is removed, air reaches the flesh of the apple causes oxidation. This changes the apple’s molecular structure and results in a brownish color.”The boy asked,“Dad，what are you talking about?”

I know how that boy feels. Sometimes I want answers to some of those confusing questions that we all meet with, such as how to get through difficult times or what to do in a tough situation. I just want to get it right.

The problem is that I don’t always have the answer I need. Nobody else seems to have them, either. So I go on making mistakes and think that I’ll never get it right.

Often I didn’t know what to do. I often made poor choices, but I gradually improved. Then I realized that I don’t HAVE TO always get it right. I don’t have to always know what to do all the time. All I really need to do is try my best, learn from my mistakes and go on.

Dr. Leo Buscaglia once said, “No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate and love is now. That would be pretty hard to do when you’re waiting for all the answers first.”

So you got it wrong. You made a mistake. So what should you do next? Forgive yourself and try again. You may not get out of this world alive, but you can get plenty of life out of this world if you are not too worried about always getting it right.

1.In the beginning, the author tells the story of a boy and his father to ____.

A. show that the father is very knowledgeable

B. say something interesting about apples

C. show that children nowadays ask more questions

D. introduce the topic of the passage

2.How did the boy feel when he heard his father’s explanation?

A. He admired his father very much.

B. He knew what his father meant.

C. He felt it was difficult to understand.

D. He thought that he had learned a lot from his father.

3.What do Dr. Leo Buscaglia’s words mean?

A. We can search the answers when enjoying life itself.

B. We must make right choices as often as possible.

C. People have many desires when they enter the world.

D. It is hard to lead a happy and satisfying life.

4.What can be concluded from the passage?

A. We should try to learn and understand the answers to questions.

B. We should learn from our mistakes and try again.

C. It is very important to try to avoid (避免) mistakes.

D. It is our duty to make the world a better place.

5.What is the style of the passage?

A. novel　　　　 B. news　　 C. poem　　　 D. essay

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

How you open your car door matters to cyclists

Typically, a person sitting in the driver's seat of a car opens the door with the hand closest to it.1.Pull the handle, and the door is open. but if you do that at the wrong time, you may create a barrier for a passing cyclist. The cyclist will be knocked off the bike, and the car door is likely to be damaged by the fast-moving bicycle.

Luckily, there's a simple way to solve the problem: open your car door with your other hand, using the Dutch reach.2.This will force you to turn your body. At least, you'll look into your side view mirror to check for any traffic. This way, you can prevent harm to cyclists.3.

The Dutch reach is just what Dutch people do. They are used to opening their car doors this way. All Dutch are taught it.4. The technique dates back about 60 years in the Netherlands, but it didn’t really become known as the Dutch reach until a retired American physician named Michael Charney started the Dutch Reach Project in 2016 in an effort to popularize the practice in the United States and other countries. He was motivated by the death of a 27-year-old who rode into an open car door and died just five blocks from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

5. When people do it, it works. To make it a habit, Charney recommends attaching a ribbon to the door handle as a visual reminder to use your other hand.

A. It's part of regular driver education.

B. The Dutch reach is a simple behavioral solution.

C. Every child is taught about the danger of careless driving.

D. And you might also keep your car door safe in the process.

E. It makes sense since doors are designed to be opened that way.

F. Cyclists usually don't pay much attention to the cars around them.

G. That is, instead of using your left hand, reach for the door with your right.

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If you have a little child, who hates sitting in a child car seat, then the FreedomRide is the answer to your problem.

Would you want to be ____in an unchangeable position every time you’re in the car. No.

You Wouldn’t!

When a ____sits in a car for any length of time, we stretch, we change the position, we move our legs, and shift ____. We do this automatically, and without ____. But kids in a traditional car seat can’t do this. They are stuck in one position, and they ____move. We move because the  ____of blood needs to be restored in our legs as we sit in the ____position for any extended length of time.

In a traditional car seat, the child can’t move to ____the pain, so it ____them in a bad mood.

The Freedom Ride lets them have a little ____, and still be safe. The 5-point Harness gives them additional safety ____a traditional child car seat.

I am the Webmaster for islandbreeze.com, and ____Joey Safe asked us to redo their web site, I was ____by this system. That is because I have two small children, and we obviously ____car seats. I live in Southern California, and every ____of months, my wife, the girls and I, go to see grandma who lives in Nevada. It’s a 5-hour drive, so the Freedom Ride ____well. Our trips are so much better now, especially, since there is ____room in the car without the car seats.

The Freedom Ride really did ____it easier to go on trips. The only thing you need when you use the Joey Safe ____your old child seat is a pillow. ____, my kids want to take a pillow anyway! As a dad, I feel safe driving with the kids in the Freedom Ride.

1.A. stricken　　 B. driven　　 C. stuck　　 D. hidden

2.A. woman　　 B. grown-up　　 C. kid　　 D. man

3.A. suddenly　　 B. constantly　　 C. smoothly　　 D. strongly

4.A. saying　　 B. stopping　　 C. thinking　　 D. moving

5.A. can’t　　 B. daren’t　　 C. needn’t　　 D. mustn’t

6.A. supply　　 B. transport　　 C. circulation　　 D. pressure

7.A. same　　 B. soft　　 C. old　　 D. hard

8.A. sharpen　　 B. remove　　 C. suffer　　 D. reduce

9.A. takes　　 B. holds　　 C. puts　　 D. gets

10.A. rest　　 B. activity　　 C. time　　 D. freedom

11.A. above　　 B. over　　 C. under　　 D. around

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

13.A. puzzled　　 B. astonished　　 C. attracted　　 D. satisfied

14.A. like　　 B. ate　　 C. refuse　　 D. use

15.A. second　　 B. other　　 C. couple　　 D. several

16.A. works　　 B. runs　　 C. sells　　 D. washes

17.A. much　　 B. many　　 C. more　　 D. some

18.A. find　　 B. feel　　 C. let　　 D. make

19.A. apart from　　 B. instead of　　 C. as well as　　 D. no longer

20.A. However　　 B. Though　　 C. Besides　　 D. Therefore

高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Some people were eating and drinking in a coffee house. A young woman was sitting alone at a table. She was wearing a beautiful diamond necklace. There was an ugly man at a table not far from her. He was looking at her necklace all the time.

Suddenly the lights went out. The coffee house was in darkness. The woman started to shout. She was very frightened. A few minutes later the lights came on again. The woman was crying. Her necklace was missing.

The manager quickly closed all the doors. He telephoned the police. No one could get out of the coffee house. The policemen soon came. The police inspector told his men to search everyone. The necklace was not on anyone. They then searched the whole coffee house. The necklace couldn’t be found.

The police inspector then looked at the faces of all the people in the coffee house. He saw the ugly man and looked at the man carefully. He went up to the man and picked up the bowl of soup that was on his table. He then poured the soup into a glass. The necklace fell out. The policemen caught hold of the man and took him away. The young woman was happy to get back her necklace.

1. A young woman lost her necklace in ______________.

A. a hospital      B. a shop    C. a coffee house    D. a restaurant

2.The manager closed all the doors and _______________.

A. searched everyone in the coffee house

B. searched the whole coffee house

C. telephoned the police

D. looked at all the people in the coffee house

3.The police inspector found the necklace in __________.

A. a cup of coffee                   B. a bowl of rice

C. a glass of milk                   D. a bowl of soup

4.The necklace was stolen by ___________.

A. a beautiful girl                   B. an old woman

C. a young student                 D. an ugly man

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Kids always have to sit in the back seat these days for security reasons.

This would have taken a lot of joy away from my childhood. How many 1. (time) did my brother and I fight over who got to sit in the front? I'm 2. (surprise) my mom never implemented (执行) a policy 3. (real). She kind of let it up to us. Once in a while, she would put her foot down and make us take turns. I recall that at times, the front seat would go to whoever 4. (yell) “I call the front!” first. But it had to be 5. we were outside of the store or the house. We couldn’t “call it” while we were still inside.

Sometimes we would determine who got to sit in the front by whoever touched the car first. I certainly lost because my brother was more athletic, and therefore 6. (quick). So, he would tag the car first.

And 7. other way we would decide who got the front was by 8. (argue) over whose turn it was. Of course, we always thought it was our own turn. So, we’d argue about it until one of us gave in, or my mum got frustrated enough 9. (make) one of us sit in the back.

For my brother and me, fighting over the front seat 10. (be) an important part of our sibling（兄弟）bonding.

高二英语语法填空困难题查看答案及解析

The boy at the back is the only one of the students who _____ from Africa in our school.

A.was　　 B.were　　 C.is　　 D.are

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table. I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked: “So, how have you been?” And the boy—who could not have been more than seven or eight years old—replied, “Frankly, I’ve been feeling a little depressed lately.”

This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were “depressed”, that is, in low sprits, until we were in high school.

Undoubtedly a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to.

Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists. Why?

Human development is based not only on born biological states, but also on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from one social role to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new status. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages: traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.

In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation（揭示）machine has been installed in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television. Television passes information to all viewers alike, whether they are children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures.

Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information to which children have access. Reading and writing involve a complex code of symbols that must be memorized and practiced. Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials.

1.According to the author, feeling depressed is________.

2.Traditionally, a child is supposed to learn about the adult world________.

3.According to the author, that today’s children seem adultlike results from ________.

4.What does the author think of communication through print for children?

5.What does the author think of the change in today’s children?

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table, I couldn't help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked, “So, how have you been?” And the boy—who could not have been more than seven or eight years old—replied. “Frankly, I've been feeling a little depressed lately.”

This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn't find out we were “depressed”, that is, in low spirits, until we were in high school.

Undoubtedly a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don't seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to.

Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists. Why?

Human development depends not only on born biological states, but also on patterns of gaining social knowledge. Movement from one social role to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new social positions. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages; traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.

In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation（揭示） machine has been equipped in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television. Television passes information to all viewers alike, whether they are children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation （诱惑）,  many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more attractive moving pictures.

Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information which children will gain. Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials.

1. According to the author, feeling depressed is ____________.

A. a sure sign of a mental problem in a child

B. a mental state present in all humans, including children

C. something that cannot be avoided in children's mental development

D. something hardly to be expected in a young child

2.According to the author, that today's children seem adult-like results from ____________.

A. the widespread influence of television

B. the poor arrangement of teaching content

C. the fast pace of human scientific development

D. the rising standard of living

3. What does the author think of communication through print for children?

A. It enables children to gain more social information.

B. It develops children's interest in reading and writing.

C. It helps children to read and write well.

D. It can control what children are to learn.

4. What does the author think of the change in today's children?

A. He feels their adult-like behavior is so funny.

B. He thinks the change worthy of note.

C. He considers it a rapid development.

D. He seems to be upset about it.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table. I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked,“So, how have you been?”And the boy who could not have been more than seven or eight years old replied,“Frankly, I’ve been feeling a little depressed lately.”

This incident stuck in my mind because it strengthened my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were“depressed”until we were in high school.

The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem childlike any more. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to.

Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists. Why?

Human development is based not only on born biological states, but also on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from one social role to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new situation. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages: traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.

In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation machine has been fixed in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television. Television passes information, indiscriminately, to all viewers alike, whether they are children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures.

Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information to which children have access. Reading and writing involve a complex code of symbols that must be memorized and practised. Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials.

1.Traditionally, a child is supposed to learn about the adult world _________ .

A. through touch with society

B. gradually and under guidance

C. naturally and by biological instinct

D. through exposure to social information

2.In the author’s opinion, the phenomenon that today’s children seem adultlike is caused by _____.

A. the widespread influence of television

B. the poor arrangement of teaching content

C. the fast step of human intellectual development

D. the constantly rising standard of living

3. Why is the author in favor of communication through print for children?

A. It enables children to gain more social information.

B. It develops children’s interest in reading and writing.

C. It helps children to memorize and practise more.

D. It can control what children are to learn.

4.What does the author think of the change in today’s children?

A. He feels amused by the children’s adultlike behavior.

B. He thinks it is a phenomenon worthy of note.

C. He considers it a positive development.

D. He seems to be upset about it.

高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table, I couldn't help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked, “So, how have you been?” And the boy—who could not have been more than seven or eight years old—replied. “Frankly, I've been feeling a little depressed lately.”

This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn't find out we were “depressed”, that is, in low spirits, until we were in high school.

Undoubtedly a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don't seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to.

Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists. Why?

Human development depends not only on born biological states, but also on patterns of gaining social knowledge. Movement from one social role to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new social positions. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages; traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.

In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation（揭示） machine has been equipped in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television. Television passes information to all viewers alike, whether they are children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation （诱惑）,　 many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more attractive moving pictures.

Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information which children will gain. Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials.

1.According to the author, feeling depressed is ____________.

A. a sure sign of a mental problem in a child

B. a mental state present in all humans, including children

C. something that cannot be avoided in children's mental development

D. something hardly to be expected in a young child

2.According to the author, that today's children seem adult-like results from ____________.

A. the widespread influence of television

B. the poor arrangement of teaching content

C. the fast pace of human scientific development

D. the rising standard of living

3.What does the author think of communication through print for children?

A. It enables children to gain more social information.

B. It develops children's interest in reading and writing.

C. It helps children to read and write well.

D. It can control what children are to learn.

4.What does the author think of the change in today's children?

A. He feels their adult-like behavior is so funny.

B. He thinks the change worthy of note.

C. He considers it a rapid development.

D. He seems to be upset about it.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析