Some years ago I was offered a writing assign...

Some years ago I was offered a writing assignment that would require three months of travel through Europe．I had been abroad a couple of times， 36I could hardly claim to know my way around the continent．Moreover， my37of foreign languages was38to a little college French．

I39．How would I，unable to speak the language and totally40with local geography or transportation systems，41interviews and do research? It seemed42，and with much regret I sat down to write a letter begging43．Halfway through，a thought ran through my mind：you can’t learn if you don’t44．So I accepted the assignment.

There were some bad news. But by the time I had45the trip I was an experienced 46．And ever since，I have never hesitated to47for even the most remote places，without guides or even48bookings，confident that somehow I will49.

The point is that the new，the50，is almost by definition scary．But each time you try 51，you learn，and as the learning piles up，the world52to you.

I’ve53to ski at 40，and flown up the Rhine River in a balloon．And I know I’ll go on doing such things．It’s not because I’m54or more daring than others. I’m not. But I’ll accept anxiety as another name for55and I believe I can accomplish wonders．

5.A. occupied     B. unfamiliar    C: mixed    D. popular

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Some years ago I was offered a writing assignment that would require three months of travel through Europe. I had been __36__ a couple of times, but I could hardly __37__ to know my ways around the continent. __38__, my knowledge of foreign languages was __39__ to a little college French.

I __40__. How would I, unable to speak the language, __41__ familiar with local geography or transportation systems, conduct interviews and do __42__? It seemed impossible, and with considerable __43__ I sat down to write a letter rejecting the __44__. Halfway through, a __45__ ran through my mind: you can’t learn if you don't try. So I __46__ the assignment.

There were some bad __47__. But by the time I had finished the trip, I was an experienced traveler. And ever since, I have never hesitated to head for even the most __48__ places, without guides or __49__ advanced bookings, confident that somehow I will __50__.

The point is that the new, the different, is almost by definition __51__. But each time you try something, you learn, and as the learning __52__, the world opens to you.

I've learned to ski at 40, and flown up the Rhine River in a (n) __53__. And I know I'll go on doing such things. It's not because I'm braver or more daring than others. I'm not. But I'll accept worry as another name for __54 __ and I believe I can __55__ wonders.

高二英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Some years ago I was offered a writing assignment that would require three months of travel through Europe．I had been abroad a couple of times， 36I could hardly claim to know my way around the continent．Moreover， my37of foreign languages was38to a little college French．

I39．How would I，unable to speak the language and totally40with local geography or transportation systems，41interviews and do research? It seemed42，and with much regret I sat down to write a letter begging43．Halfway through，a thought ran through my mind：you can’t learn if you don’t44．So I accepted the assignment.

There were some bad news. But by the time I had45the trip I was an experienced 46．And ever since，I have never hesitated to47for even the most remote places，without guides or even48bookings，confident that somehow I will49.

The point is that the new，the50，is almost by definition scary．But each time you try  51，you learn，and as the learning piles up，the world52to you.

I’ve53to ski at 40，and flown up the Rhine River in a balloon．And I know I’ll go on doing such things．It’s not because I’m54or more daring than others. I’m not. But I’ll accept anxiety as another name for55and I believe I can accomplish wonders．

5.A. occupied     B. unfamiliar    C: mixed    D. popular

高二英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Years ago there was a group of kids who would hang around at some local ponds（池塘） in the woods near their houses in Warwick, Rhode Island. In summer they caught frogs and fish. When winter arrived they couldn’t wait to go skating. Time passed, and the ponds became the only open space for the kids to enjoy themselves in that neighborhood.

One day a thirteen-year-old boy from this group of kids read in the local newspaper that a developer wanted to fill in the ponds and build over a hundred small houses called apartments. So the boy went door to door and gathered more than two hundred signatures to stop the development. A group of citizens met and decided to support him.

At the meeting of the town planning organization，the boy was quite nervous at first and spoke very softly. But when he saw the faces of his friends and neighbors in the crowd and thought about what was happening to their favorite ponds，his voice grew louder. He told the town officials that they should speak for the citizens. He also insisted that they should leave enough space for children. A few days later，the developer stopped his plan.

Nine years later, when that teen was a senior in college, he was informed that the developer was back with his proposal to build apartments. Now twenty-two years old, he was studying wetlands ecology. He again appeared before the town planning organization. This time as an expert, he used environmental protection laws to explain restrictions on development in and around wetlands and the knowledge of wetlands ecology to help to improve the development. Finally some apartments were built, but less than half the number the developer wanted. The ponds where those kids used to hang around were protected by a piece of natural land, and are still there today.

1.The kids liked to ___________ at the local ponds in winter.

A. make a snowman　　　　　　　　　　 B. throw snowballs

C. go skating　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. go skiing

2.The boy thought that the town officials should be ___________ for the citizens.

A. responsible　　　　 B. modest　　　　 C. anxious　　　　　　 D. thankful

3.Which statement is true according to the passage?

A. The apartments were built as the developer had planned.

B. The grown-up boy helped to protect the wetlands as an expert.

C. The developer stopped the boy’s plan at the meeting years ago.

D. The ponds were filled in and some apartments were built on them.

4.The underlined word “restrictions” in the last paragraph probably means________.

A. rules　　　　　　　 B. plans

C. advantages　　　　 D. limitations

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Several years ago, I quit my job to chase my dream of writing a book, but that book was ______ repeatedly. Everybody was asking, “How’s the book coming?” I was so ______.

My friend got together one day and I blurted out(脱口而出), “I don’t know my purpose in life.” The outburst was met with ______ and stares. Finally, Pam said, “I don’t know, either.” She was in a job she ______. Teresa said, “Me either.” I was sure that Bette would have a(n) ______. She was suffering from cancer and, surely she had figured things out since she was facing a likely terminal outcome. ______, she shook her head.

Two years passed and, during that time, I sold my ______, Teresa went back to school, Pam switched ______, and Bette kept on living as best as she could.

Actually, for those two years, Bette lived a ______ life than any of us. She built a butterfly garden in her neighborhood. She spent time with her family, went hiking, ______ and lived.

My book was finally ______and Bette made it to my first big signing. A day or two later, she was back in the ______ as she was seriously ill. I left on tour for several weeks, and when I______, she was close to ______.

The day came when her brother called to let me know Bette had ______. He asked me to write her obituary(讣告). I thought about how she’d filled every moment with as much joy as she could find. That obituary wasn’t a list of ______. It was the story of a woman who lived ______ what life threw at her, she lived.

That was when I ______ what I’d learned through her passing. She defined her purpose in life by simply living her life. That’s all any of us are here to do. In the end, the only thing that ______ is that we breathe in our time here and fill it with ______

1.A. read B. printed C. rejected D. written

2.A. excited B. confident C. envious D. embarrassed

3.A. darkness B. smoke C. danger D. silence

4.A. hated B. lost C. found D. created

5.A. present B. answer C. dream D. excuse

6.A. Therefore B. However C. Besides D. otherwise

7.A. house B. car C. paper D. book

8.A. jobs B. methods C. topics D. channels.

9.A. fuller B. poorer C. sadder D. simpler

10.A. complained B. shouted C. laughed D. learned

11.A. revised B. published C. reviewed D. translated

12.A. hospital B. school C. garden D. company

13.A. hollowed B. returned C. escaped D. recovered

14.A. success B. death C. trouble D. wealth

15.A. given up B. shown off C. turned down D. passed away

16.A. requirements B. suggestions C. achievements D. agreements

17.A. Other than B. Rather than C. Regardless of D. In case of

18.A. guessed B. decided C. expected D. realized

19.A. works B. matters C. exists D. changes

20.A. life B. trust C. luck D. nature

高二英语完形填空困难题查看答案及解析

A year after graduation, I was offered a position teaching a writing class. Teaching was a profession I had never seriously considered, though several of my stories had been published. I accepted the job without hesitation, as it would allow me to wear a tie and go by the name of Mr. Davis. My father went by the same name, and I liked to imagine people getting the two of us confused. “Wait a minute” someone might say, “are you talking about Mr. Davis the retired man, or Mr. Davis the respectable scholar?”

The position was offered at the last minute, and I was given two weeks to prepare, a period I spent searching for briefcase (公文包) and standing before my full-length mirror, repeating the words, “Hello, class. I’m Mr. Davis.” Sometimes I would give myself an aggressive voice. Sometimes I would sound experienced. But when the day eventually came, my nerves kicked in and the true Mr. Davis was there. I sounded not like a thoughtful professor, but rather a 12-year-old boy.

I arrived in the classroom with paper cards designed in the shape of maple leaves. I had cut them myself out of orange construction paper. I saw nine students along a long table. I handed out the cards, and the students wrote down their names and fastened them to their breast pockets as I required.

“All right then,” I said. “Okay, here we go.” Then I opened my briefcase and realized that I had never thought beyond this moment. I had been thinking that the students would be the first to talk, offering their thoughts and opinions on the events of the day. I had imagined that I would sit at the edge of the desk, overlooking a forests of hands. Every student would yell. “Calm down, you’ll all get your turn. One at a time, one at a time!”

A terrible silence ruled the room, and seeing no other opinions, I inspected the students to pull out their notebooks and write a brief essay related to the theme of deep disappointment.

1. The author took the job to teach writing because ______.

A. he wanted to be expected

B. he had written some storied

C. he wanted to please his father

D. he had dreamed of being a teacher

2. What can we learn about the author from Paragraph 2?

A. He would be aggressive in his first class.

B. He was well-prepared for his first class.

C. He got nervous upon the arrival of his first class.

D. He waited long for the arrival of his first class.

3.Before he started his class, the author asked the students to ______.

A. write down their suggestions on the paper cards

B. cut maple leaves out of the construction paper

C. cut some cards out of the construction pape

D. write down their names on the paper cards

4. What did the students do when the author started his class?

A. They began to talk.

B. They stayed silent.

C. They raised their hands.

D. They shouted to be heard.

5. The author chose the composition topic probably because ______.

A. he got disappointed with his first class

B. he had prepared the topic before class

C. he wanted to calm down the students

D. he thought it was an easy topic

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Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in her life, she might go home and write in her　 _____　 . Now, a teenager with the same problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog（博客）. In many ways, a diary and a blog are very　　 ____　　 .So, what makes blogging different from writing in a　　 _____　 diary?

The biggest difference is that blogging is much more　　 ____　　 than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats her diary like a book full of　　 _____ that she does not want to　 _______.

It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog　 _____　　 a diary will probably write nearly the same information.

I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her blog. She　 ______　　 about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test.　 ____　　 I was her age, I wrote about the same things, but　　 _____　 in my diary. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was　　 _______ that my sister might read it!

The biggest　 _____　　 with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I were angry with a friend during high school and wrote something　 _____　　 about her in my diary, she would never know.　　 ____　　 , if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend　　 ____　　 read her blog and get angry.

There are also　　 ____　　 to blogging, of course. If I were feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “Nobody cares about me,”　 ______　 w ould know about it. However if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would　　 ______　　 respond and tell her how much they like her. Blogs help people　　 ____　　 in contact with their friends and to hear what the people　　 _______　 them are doing.

1.A. notebook　　 B. diary　　 C. blog　　 D. book

2.A. familiar　　 B. same　　 C. similar　　 D. different

3.A. old　　 B. real　　 C. daily　　 D. traditional

4.A. convenient　　 B. secret　　 C. public　　 D. cheap

5.A. secrets　　 B. mysteries　　 C. questions　　 D. puzzles

6.A. publish　　 B. share　　 C. solve　　 D. answer

7.A. instead　　 B. as well as　　 C. in favor of　　 D. instead of

8.A. wonders　　 B. learns　　 C. writes　　 D. worries

9.A. Although　　 B. When　　 C. Because　　 D. Since

10.A. only　　 B. never　　 C. also　　 D. still

11.A. surprised　　 B. glad　　 C. interested　　 D. worried

12.A. difficulty　　 B. reason　　 C. problem　　 D. mistake

13.A. good　　 B. mean　　 C. funny　　 D. interesting

14.A. However　　 B. Also　　 C. Then　　 D. Besides

15.A. will　　 B. should　　 C. must　　 D. might

16.A. problems　　 B. goods　　 C. advantages　　 D. mistakes

17.A. everyone　　 B. no one　　 C. someone　　 D. anyone

18.A. happily　　 B. hardly　　 C. seldom　　 D. quickly

19.A. stay　　 B. put　　 C. lose　　 D. find

20.A. besides　　 B. over　　 C. around　　 D. in front of

高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

I could have offered you some help last weekend, but I _______ with my work at that time.

A．would be occupied                      B．was occupying

C．had been occupied                      D．was occupied

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I came to India a year ago to find a village in which I could live and write but it was many months before I settled down happily in this Himalayan community.

I wasted a lot of time looking for the “typical” village. Yet no such thing exists. Conditions are quite different from village to village. But the villages I stayed in had much in common---poor, dirty and backward. Often the villagers themselves were puzzled and doubtful. Why had I come? I had put aside my work as a political journalist because my ideas had changed. I had come to believe that what was happening in the Third World was more important than anything else. But to understand how three—quarters of the world population live, and what effect their future might have on ours, I felt that I first had to try and share their way of life.

In the end I chose a mountain village because it was little cooler than those in the plains. I took the bus from town along a rocky road. Then came a rough walk down a steep path to the river. After this I began the climb into the hills. Whenever I stopped to catch my breath, there was a beautiful scene. After several hours’ walk the village came into sight.

1.After the writer had arrived in India,________.

A.he spent a year writing about the place he lived in

B.he spent quite some time looking for a suitable place to live in

C.he stayed in an Indian village working for the poor

D.he lived in a Himalayan community for many months.

2.While looking for a typical village, the writer found__________.

A.he was searching for the impossible

B.all the villages were exactly the same

C.he was doing something enjoyable

D.the villagers were curious about him

3.Before coming to India, the writer________.

A.had been a successful politician

B.had made a decision to work for India

C.had studied India culture for some months

D.had worked for newspapers and magazines

4.The write decided to change his way of life because__________.

A.he no longer found his work interesting

B.he hoped to live a peaceful life in the countryside

C.he wanted to find out more about the Third World

D.he wanted to try his luck in a foreign country

5.The village the writer finally chose to live in_________.

A.lay at the end of a rocky road

B.had a beautiful sight of the river

C.was a short walk from the river

D.had better weather than those in the plains.

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If anyone had told me three years ago that I would be spending most of my weekends camping. I would have laughed heartily. Campers, in my eyes, were people who enjoyed insect bites, ill-cooked meals, and uncomfortable sleeping bags. They had nothing in common with me.1.

The friends who introduced me to camping thought that it meant to be a pioneer.2.We sleep in a tent, cooked over an open fire, and walked a long distance to take the shower and use the bathroom. This brief visit with Mother Nature cost me two days off from work, recovering from a bad case of sunburn and the doctor’s bill for my son’s food poisoning.

I was, nevertheless, talked into going on another fun-filled holiday in the wilderness.3.Instead, we had a pop-up camper with comfortable beds and an air conditioner. My nature-loving friends had remembered to bring all the necessities of life.

4. We have done a lot of it since. Recently, we bought a twenty-eight-foot travel trailer complete with a bathroom and a built-in TV set. There is a separate bedroom, a modern kitchen with a refrigerator. The trailer even has matching carpet and curtains.

5. It must be true that sooner or later, everyone finds his or her way back to nature. I recommend that you find your way in style.

A.I must say that I have certainly come to enjoy camping.

B.Things are going to be improved.

C.I was to learn a lot about camping since then, however.

D.The trip they took me on was a rough one.

E.After the trip, my family became quite interested in camping.

F. This time there was no tent.

G. There was no shade as the trees were no more than 3 feet tall.

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