I was born and raised in Minnesota,the USA,but as an adult I have mostly lived in Europe and Africa.I teach cross-cultural management at the International Business School near Paris.For the last 15 years,I’ve studied how people in different parts of the world build trust,communicate,and make decisions especially in the workplace.
While traveling in Tokyo recently with Japanese colleague,I gave a short talk to a group of 20 managers.At the end,I asked whether there were any questions or comments.No hands went up,so I went to sit down.My colleague whispered to me,“I think there actually were some comments,Erin.Do you mind if I try?”I agreed,but I guessed it a waste of breath.He asked the group again,“Any comments or questions?”
Still,no one raised a hand,but this time he looked very carefully at each person in the silent audience.Gesturing to one of them,he said,“Do you have something to add?”To my amazement,she responded “Yes,thank you.”and asked me a very interesting question.My colleague repeated this several times,looking directly at the audience and asking for more questions or comments.
After the session,I asked my colleague,“how do you know that those people had questions?”He hesitated,not sure how to explain it,and then said,“It has to do with how bright their eyes are.”
He continued,“In Japan,we don’t make as much direct eye contact as you do in the West.So when you asked if there were any comments,most people were not looking directly at you.But a few people in the group were looking right at you,and their eyes were bright.That indicates that they would be happy to have you call on them.”
I thought to myself I would never have learned from my upbringing in Minnesota.Since then,I try to focus on understanding behavior in other cultures I encounter,and keep finding the bright eyes in the room.
1.What can we conclude from the first paragraph?
A. Life in Minnesota has made the author worn out.
B. The author enjoys traveling around the world.
C. Different cultures are kind of familiar to the author.
D. The author may start his own business in the future.
2.Hearing the colleague whispering,the author________.
A. went back to his seat and got seated
B. knew his colleague had some questions
C. owed a big debt of gratitude to his colleague
D. thought his colleague would get nowhere
3.Where does the author’s colleague probably come from?
A. America. B. Africa.
C. Japan. D. France
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题
I was born and raised in Minnesota,the USA,but as an adult I have mostly lived in Europe and Africa.I teach cross-cultural management at the International Business School near Paris.For the last 15 years,I’ve studied how people in different parts of the world build trust,communicate,and make decisions especially in the workplace.
While traveling in Tokyo recently with Japanese colleague,I gave a short talk to a group of 20 managers.At the end,I asked whether there were any questions or comments.No hands went up,so I went to sit down.My colleague whispered to me,“I think there actually were some comments,Erin.Do you mind if I try?”I agreed,but I guessed it a waste of breath.He asked the group again,“Any comments or questions?”
Still,no one raised a hand,but this time he looked very carefully at each person in the silent audience.Gesturing to one of them,he said,“Do you have something to add?”To my amazement,she responded “Yes,thank you.”and asked me a very interesting question.My colleague repeated this several times,looking directly at the audience and asking for more questions or comments.
After the session,I asked my colleague,“how do you know that those people had questions?”He hesitated,not sure how to explain it,and then said,“It has to do with how bright their eyes are.”
He continued,“In Japan,we don’t make as much direct eye contact as you do in the West.So when you asked if there were any comments,most people were not looking directly at you.But a few people in the group were looking right at you,and their eyes were bright.That indicates that they would be happy to have you call on them.”
I thought to myself I would never have learned from my upbringing in Minnesota.Since then,I try to focus on understanding behavior in other cultures I encounter,and keep finding the bright eyes in the room.
1.What can we conclude from the first paragraph?
A. Life in Minnesota has made the author worn out.
B. The author enjoys traveling around the world.
C. Different cultures are kind of familiar to the author.
D. The author may start his own business in the future.
2.Hearing the colleague whispering,the author________.
A. went back to his seat and got seated
B. knew his colleague had some questions
C. owed a big debt of gratitude to his colleague
D. thought his colleague would get nowhere
3.Where does the author’s colleague probably come from?
A. America. B. Africa.
C. Japan. D. France
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
I am _____ first cloned monkey and I was born at _____ research center in the USA.
A. the; a B. an; the C. /; a D. the; the
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
She was born to wealth and power in an era when money and politics were left to the men. Later, as The Washington Post’s publisher, Katharine Graham became one of America’s most powerful women.
Despite a privileged background, Katharine had to deal, while growing up, with the high demands her mother placed on her children. Katharine’s love of journalism, which she shared with her father, led to her career after college at The Washington Post, the newspaper her father bought in 1933. At the Post, Katharine met Phil Graham, a young, charming lawyer who became her husband. When, in 1945, Katharine’s father chose Phil over her to take over his struggling paper, Katharine didn’t object and stayed at home as a wife and mother of four.
While Phil’s successful efforts to restore the Post to prominence (显著) made the Grahams popular members of the Washington social scene, Katharine privately suffered tremendous pain from her husband’s increasingly abusive behavior and wild mood swings caused by severe depression. When Phil committed suicide (自杀), the 46-year-old Katharine found herself thrown into a new job, that of newspaper publisher. But determined to save the family paper for her children, Katharine rose to the challenge of running the Post, attending meetings in every department, working endlessly to prove herself to her critics, and becoming the toast of Washington.
In 1971, Katharine ordered the Post to print a copy of the Pentagon Papers, the top-secret documents disclosing the truth about the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. What’s more, her courageous decision and support for her journalists prepared the Post to break the most important political story in modern history: Watergate, one of the greatest scandals (丑闻) in American political history. Katharine managed to keep control over the most chaotic (disorder) of situations when it was reported, all the time insisting the news stories be accurate and fair. Watergate made the Washington Post an internationally known Paper and Katharine was considered as the most powerful woman in America.
1.
Katharine Graham was born in a time when women were not ________.
A. given the chance to receive education B. considered as intelligent as men
C. permitted to achieve their goals D. allowed to enter every field
2.
When her husband was chosen to take charge of the newspaper, Katharine Graham ________.
A. was strongly against the idea
B. was not happy to be rejected
C. was willing to take her share of responsibility
D. didn’t believe her husband would do a good job
3.
Which of the following statements is true?
A. It was Katharine Graham’s husband who made the greatest contributions to the Post.
B. When Katharine Graham first took over the Post, her critics doubted her ability.
C. Katharine Graham was successful in her career but suffered severe depression.
D. Katharine Graham was free to do whatever she liked in her early life.
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Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Ups and downs of The Washington Post.
B. Katharine Graham’s family life and career.
C. Katharine Graham: from housewife to successful publisher.
D. Katharine Graham: a woman who shaped American journalism.
高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
Karen Bystedt was born in Israel, but lived in London and California as a child. In 1982, as a photography (摄影) student at New York University, she was photographing male models for a book when she came across an ad featuring Andy Warhol, a very famous artist. She thought it would be really great to put him in her book.
So she called Andy Warhol at his studio in Union Square and asked if she could photograph him.
Two weeks later, Bystedt took a rented Hasselblad camera and lights to Warhol’s famed “Factory” on 14th street. She ended up taking 36 pictures, and published two in her book, Not Just Another Pretty Face, published in 1983. Warhol came to its launch (发行) party---and that was the last time she saw him.
A few years later, she packed the portraits in a box and moved to Los Angeles. But after she’d gotten settled, she couldn’t find them. She couldn’t remember whether she had given the photos away or just left them in some forgotten storage unit. Either way, she thought they were lost forever.
In 2011, Bystedt became determined to find the missing films(底片). She spent two weeks going through two old garages, where she had put a bunch of belongings decades before. In a cardboard box, she found ten of the original films, covered in dust. She and a friend spent four months digitizing and cleaning the images up, pixel(像素) by pixel.
Bystedt was not content to merely publish the unseen photos. She invited contemporary artists to paint over and around her Warhol pictures, breathing new life into her old work. So she began reaching out to artists, seeing if they would be interested in putting their own stamp on the pictures.
The responses was overwhelming. Bystedt’s new exhibit, “The Lost Warhols,” opened on May 1, 2018 at 178 Sixth Avenue in Soho, New York, included 66 different interpretations of her portraits from 34 artists.
1.After photographing Andy Warhol, Bystedt _____.
A. never met the artist again
B. published a book the following year
C. published all of his pictures in her book
D. decided to photograph some male models for a book
2.According to the passage, the photos of Andy Warhol ____.
A. were found missing soon after they were taken
B. were taken when the artist was 19 years old
C. were found missing after Bystedt moved to Los Angeles
D. were taken by Bystedt without the artist’s permission
3.What did Bystedt do after the missing films were found?
A. she published the unseen photos very quickly.
B. she held a party for some artists to view the photos.
C. she spent months repairing the films.
D. she displayed the pictures to make a profit.
4.What would be a suitable title for the passage?
A. Photos of Andy Warhol Lost Forever
B. A special Exhibit of Andy Warhol’s Works
C. Friendship Between an Artist and a Photographer
D. Unseen Portraits of Andy Warhol Lost and Found
高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
John Snow was born and worked as a __36__ in Great Britain.Exactly, he was an anaesthetist,37means that he put people to sleep during operation.He also began to experiment using the same drugs to help women when they had38.That is why he became the doctor who39Queen victoria to give the birth of her babies.
At the time he lived,cholera was the most40 disease.Neither its cause,nor its41was understood.So many thousands of people died42there was an outbreak.John Snow was 43 to help ordinary people 44 from cholera.He45the disease began in the stomach and the patients died quickly after severe vomiting(呕吐)and diarrhea (腹泄).46,he believed cholera resulted from water.When another47hit London in 1854,John Snow set to work.
John Snow approached the problem in a systematic way.He marked on a map48all the dead people had lived and found many of the 49were near a water pump.It seemed the water was the 50.So he collected information about the 51 habits of the dead people and used them eventually to prove his theory.With the information 52,John Snow was sure that 53 water was the cause.
Then people were required to 54the water company to supply them with clean water.Thanks __55___ John Snow there was no more outbreaks of cholera.
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高二英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Generation Y is known as the generation that was born in the 1980s and 1990s, although experts do not agree on when this time started. The people who make up Generation Y are often the children of baby boomers(生育高峰中出生的人).
The millennium(千禧年)generation, as it is often called, has grown up with new technology and can use it in their jobs much better than the older generation can. 1. They like to communicate via text messaging, Facebook and other online technology. They have high expectations and seek new challenges. 2.
Generation Y youths have a different attitude towards work, which is different from that of their parents or grandparents. 3. They do not live to work but they work to live.
4. They want jobs that are flexible, not always having work from 9 a.m.to 5 p.m.. They prefer working from their homes and taking a day or two off to spend with their family when the weather is fine.
While baby boomers worked hard, grew up with a company and stayed there for the rest of their lives, Generation Y workers do not want to do the same thing during their whole life. 5. That means if you don't like what you do then do something else.
A. They want to spend most of their time at home.
B. They expect to change jobs at least a few times.
C. The new generation can be described as energetic.
D. Besides, they often dare to raise questions when confused.
E. The Internet, cell phones, iPads are normal for this generation.
F. Young people expect a different type of workplace than their parents had.
G. They don’t want to work as hard as their parents but spend their life in a meaningful way.
高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
Born and raised in a digital age, today’s young people are generally tech savvy (技术娴熟的). But when it comes to basic life skills, they’re less capable than the older generation.
According to a recent study, 69 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds in the UK have no idea how to bleed a radiator(暖气片换水). About 35 percent of them don’t know how to sew on a button, while about 11 percent don’t understand how to change a light bulb or iron clothes.
It appears young people are losing the skills older generations took for granted. In fact, the problem is shared by young people in the United States. According to a report by Forbes in 2014, most millennial (千禧一代) drivers don’t know how to check their tire pressure. Cooking is another basic life skill that has been dropped, as millennials are much more likely to order food deliveries than previous generations.
Technology may be to blame for this generational gap. Skills at using phones and computers are the ones valued these days, and the practical skills are now seen as functions that can be easily outsourced (外包). Indeed, improvements in technology have made young people unfamiliar with many basic life skills. For example, with GPS always at hand, young people have had no need to learn how to read physical maps.
However, this change has raised concerns among many people. “If you have your master’s degree and you can’t live within your means or go home from your job and feed yourself a nutritious (有营养的) meal, you’re not a complete graduate,” Chris Moore, a professor from Brigham Young University, US, told HuffPost.
That’s why there’s an increasing call for the return of “home ec” in the US, short for home economics, which teaches basic life skills like cooking and how to do laundry. It was very popular in the early 20th century, but was later taken out of schools and universities because of budget(预算) cuts. But recently, home ec was reintroduced in a small number of schools and universities.
“The educational system would work better if every academic class had a practical course that applied the theory to do something regular people do in real life,” Robert Frost, instructor and flight controller at NASA, wrote on Quora, according to Huffpost.
1.Compared with previous generations, today’s young people are ________.
A. more capable in practical skills.
B. more capable in technological skills.
C. take changing light bulls and sewing for granted.
D. less likely to order food deliveries.
2.What is the reason for the gap between the present generation and previous ones?
A. Today’s young people are lazy.
B. Today’s young people are spoiled by their parents.
C. The economic situation of the past was worse than the present one.
D. Improvement in technology is to blame for it.
3.What can we conclude from the last three paragraphs?
A. The educational system would work better if practical courses are included in academic classes.
B. The change caused by improvements of technology raised many problems among people.
C. Home economics has returned in large scale.
D. Home economics teaches basic home technological skills.
4.What is the best title for the passage?
A. The improvements of technology.
B. Differences between the present and previous generations.
C. Young people’s lack of basic home skills.
D. The meaning and function of home economics.
高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
She was born to wealth and power in a time when money and politics were left to the men. Later, as The Washington Post’s publisher, Katharine Graham became one of America’s most powerful women.
Despite a privileged background, Katharine had to deal, while growing up, with the high demands her mother placed on her children. Katharine’s love of journalism, which she shared with her father, led to her career after college at The Washington Post, the newspaper her father bought in 1933.At the Post, Katharine met Phil Graham, a young, charming lawyer who became her husband. When, in 1945, Katharine’s father chose Phil over her to take over his struggling paper, Katharine didn’t object and stayed at home as a wife and mother of four.
While Phil’s successful efforts to restore the Post to fame made the Grahams popular members of the Washington social scene, Katharine privately suffered great pain from her husband’s increasingly harmful behavior caused by severe depression. When Phil committed suicide, the 46-year-old Katharine found herself thrown into a new job, that of newspaper publisher. But determined to save the family paper for her children, Katharine rose to the challenge of running the Post, attending meetings in every department, working endlessly to prove herself to her critics, and becoming the toast of Washington.
In 1971, Katharine ordered the Post to print a copy of the Pentagon Papers, the top-secret documents revealing the truth about the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. What’s more, her courageous decision and support for her journalists prepared the Post to break the most important political story in modern history: Watergate(水门事件), one of the greatest scandals(丑闻)in American political history. Katharine managed to keep control over the most disorganized situation when it was reported, all the time insisting the news stories be accurate and fair. Watergate made the Washington Post an internationally known Paper and Katharine was considered as the most powerful woman in America.
1. Katharine Graham was born in a time when __________.
A. women were not permitted to achieve their goals
B. women were not given the chance to receive education
C. women did not have equal opportunities as men in some ways
D. women could not enter any field despite their privileged backgrounds
2. When her husband was chosen to take charge of the newspaper, Katharine Graham ______.
A. was strongly against the idea
B. was not happy to be rejected
C. didn’t believe her husband would do a good job
D. was willing to take her share of responsibility
3.Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Katharine Graham was free to do whatever she liked in her early life.
B. When Katharine Graham first took over the Post, her critics doubted her ability.
C. Katharine Graham was successful in her career but suffered severe depression.
D. It was Katharine Graham’s husband who made the greatest contributions to the Post.
4. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Ups and downs of The Washington Post
B. Katharine Graham's family life and career
C. Katharine Graham: from housewife to successful publisher
D. Katharine Graham: a woman who controlled American journalism
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Orville Wright was born on August 19, 1871 in Dayton, Ohio, USA and died on January 30, 1948. Together with his brother, Wilbur, he was the first airplane builder. The brothers created the first controlled, powered and heavier-than-air human flight.
His parents were Milton Wright and Susan Catherine Koerner and besides the two famous brothers they had five children. One day after a trip his father brought as a gift a small helicopter. The kids loved it and as they played daily with it after a while it broke. The brothers managed to create a new one. Wright even let go his plans of attending Yale. He spent his time helping his ill mother and reading in his father’s library.
In 1884 the family decided to move to Dayton and they remained there until the 1870’s. A printing press was built by the two and Wilbur was an editor. In 1892 they started being fascinated by the aeronautical (航空的) events of that time. Then they started to create an airplane and Wilbur was considered the head of the team. They were the inventors of “three axis-control”, which permitted the pilot to steer the aircraft’s balance.
In 1900 they had their first attempts to make a functional glider(滑翔机)— of course it didn’t have a pilot. After three years they thought of introducing an engine to the glider. At first, their patent(专利) application was refused in 1903, but after one year it was accepted.
Orville’s first flight lasted 12 seconds and had 36.5 meters. He was responsible with the public shows near Washington in the United States. On September 9, 1908 his flight was 62 minutes and 15 seconds long and the success was huge.
1.What might make Wright brothers interested in the plane?
A. The pleasant trip. B. Catherine’s education.
C. The political events. D. Their father’s gift.
2.Wright didn’t go to Yale probably because ________.
A. he had to create a plane
B. he didn’t have enough money
C. he would like to learn by himself
D. his mother asked him to stay at home
3.The underlined word “steer” (in Paragraph 3) probably means ________.
A. keep B. drive C. learn D. enjoy
4.This passage tells us about ________.
A. the plane’s history B. Milton and his children
C. Orville Wright’s life D. the development of science
高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
I was born and raised in New York and I know how much money beggars (乞丐) make a day. I had never given money to beggars. But last night I ___ give one some. Around 3a.m., I____at a McDonald’s in Harlem to use the restroom. I saw a beggar waiting for me to go over so that he could____the door for me and ask for change. I was ___already. “Why can’t I go to the restroom without him asking me for money?” I thought.
I have no problem saying“___” to beggars. I guess being New Yorkers we are_____ to it. But as I____him and he helped open the door, I looked into his eyes and something ____me. When he asked for change, I____ my pocket, but only a cent(美分) was there. I gave it to him.
Sitting in the restroom, I___ some more change in my wallet – about 3 quarters(两角五分) and some cents. I was going to just give him the cents. It was____ for me to part (分开)with quarters. A(n) ____began in my mind.
The dialogue in my____went like this. You didn’t know what he would do with the _____. But I really thought he was cold and wanted something to keep him____. I was not sure why quarters were so hard for me to____.
The___ he opened the door for me I dropped all the change in his hands.
As I drove my car away, I watched the man___ the change and smiling. I might not know____he was really hungry but I knew I won the battle over the change. Helping others always makes you the____.
1.A. do B. had C. did D. have
2.A. pointed B. stopped C. looked D. ate
3.A. repair B. check C. answer D. open
4.A. strict B. selfish C. angry D. patient
5.A. no B. pardon C. goodbye D. thanks
6.A. similar B. limited C. used D. devoted
7.A. approached B. invited C. blamed D. recognized
8.A. touched B. frightened C. bored D. excited
9.A. pulled out B. reached in C. thought of D. depended on
10.A. referred to B. watched out C. looked for D. left out
11.A. common B. safe C. dangerous D. hard
12.A. attempt B. discussion C. story D. battle
13.A. head B. mouth C. dream D. note
14.A. food B. money C. chance D. job
15.A. patient B. calm C. full D. warm
16.A. give up B. hand in C. put away D. pass on
17.A. way B. moment C. place D. condition
18.A. comparing B. spending C. counting D. sparing
19.A. how B. whether C. when D. why
20.A. instructor B. friend C. supporter D. winner
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析