For most people, retirement is the time durin...

For most people, retirement is the time during which they will spend the rest of their lives at home, bored to death. But being an active individual, I ______to sit at home and live a dull life.

That is why I came to China soon after I retired in 2010 and taught ______at a high school in Xingtai, Hebei province. As Mother’s Day approached that year, I decided to hold a party for the students and their ______.

With the help of the Chinese teachers, I ______to hold a competition for the most ______and original gift that a student can create for his or her mom. To be honest, I was ______of persuading my students to inform their parents about the party. However, I was pleasantly ______that most of the parents took time off their busy schedule to come.

My plan included ______each student to stand up in front of the class and ______express his or her feeling toward his or her mother. Some of my students were ______enough to make their speeches in both English and Chinese. My shy students ______their timidity(胆怯) to stand elegantly and expressed their ______for their mothers! The mothers could not ______their tears from being overjoyed by the tender(温柔的)words of their children.

I felt extremely proud of my students. I was again surprised ______I asked the students to present their handmade ______to their mothers. I was deeply moved by their ______. At the end of the ______most parents expressed their gratitude(感激)to all of us.

That night strengthened my attitude toward life and ______. I realized that I don’t have to ______. I can share my knowledge of English with my students through ______at schools and make a positive difference in their lives. Age is not a limit.

1.A. decide　　 B. want　　 C. hate　　 D. fail

2.A. history　　 B. English　　 C. art　　 D. Chinese

3.A. parents　　 B. teachers　　 C. friends　　 D. schoolmates

4.A. continued　　 B. refused　　 C. planned　　 D. hesitated

5.A. thoughtful　　 B. expensive　　 C. common　　 D. shabby

6.A. proud　　 B. fond　　 C. guilty　　 D. skeptical

7.A. disappointed　　 B. confident　　 C. surprised　　 D. anxious

8.A. forcing　　 B. begging　　 C. forbidding　　 D. permitting

9.A. silently　　 B. freely　　 C. quickly　　 D. merely

10.A. considerate　　 B. selfless　　 C. honest　　 D. mild

11.A. took part in　　 B. caught up with　　 C. gave way to　　 D. got rid of

12.A. forgiveness　　 B. support　　 C. regret　　 D. love

13.A. hold back　　 B. give up　　 C. note down　　 D. put out

14.A. if　　 B. although　　 C. when　　 D. because

15.A. tools　　 B. foods　　 C. gifts　　 D. clothes

16.A. generosity　　 B. creativity　　 C. determination　　 D. contribution

17.A. class　　 B. party　　 C. conference　　 D. feast

18.A. entertainment　　 B. childhood　　 C. money　　 D. retirement

19.A. hang out　　 B. stay home　　 C. go abroad　　 D. hold on

20.A. teaching　　 B. wandering　　 C. touring　　 D. studying

高三英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Travel is one of the activities people carry out most often during their spare time. Although travel may cost a lot of money, most people like to travel. Maybe, for them, to broaden their horizons and to be happy and healthy, are more important than money. 1. The following tips on travel may help you if you plan to travel later on.

2. If you want to enjoy a wonderful trip, you should think carefully about where to go. Before making a decision, you should seek others advice and try to know more about the place that you are going to, including how to get there, the cost, the sights you plan to visit, and so on.

You should consider travel insurance. 3. Once such injury or accident happens to you, you may not have to suffer both physically and financially as long as you have travel insurance.

4. Here’s an example: Nine friends ate at a restaurant when on a school trip overseas, eight had diarrhea(腹泻)the next day. The one who didn’t get sick was the only one who had ordered a dish that didn’t need to be touched by human hands right before serving.

Mind your basic safety. It’s easy to let your guard down when you travel. After all, you’re more relaxed and there are so many new sights to focus on.　 5. So, watch out for your personal safety at all times.

A. Know more about the place you plan to visit.

B. However, nothing is more important than your life.

C. You may easily get into trouble if you don’t obey the rules.

D. Make sure to take things that you need during the travel.

E. Travel can be a wonderful experience and a sweet memory.

F. Be careful about what to eat when you are far away from home.

G. Especially if you plan to take part in adventure activities, you may get injured.

高三英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析

Travel is one of the activities people carry out most often during their spare time. Although travel may cost a lot of money, most people like to travel. Maybe, for them, to broaden their horizons and to be happy and healthy, are more important than money. 1.The following tips on travel may help you if you plan to travel later on.2. If you want to enjoy a wonderful trip, you should think carefully about where to go. After making a decision, you should seek others' advice and try to know more about the place that you are going to, including how to get there, the cost, the sights you plan to visit, and so on.

Consider travel insurance. 3. Once such injury or accident happens to you, you may not have to suffer both physically and financially as long as you have travel insurance.

Do not forget medicines. Always remember to carry your first aid box and necessary medicines for a cold, infection, stomach upset, injuries, etc. Since you are travelling away from home, you may not have family members to care for you when you fall ill. 4.

Mind your basic safety. It's easy to let your guard down when you travel. After all, you're more relaxed and there are so many new sights to focus on. 5. So, watch out for your personal safety at all times.

A. Being a money-saving traveller has never been easy.

B. Know more about the place you plan to visit.

C. However, nothing is more important than your life.

D. Ask your friends for opinions about where to go.

E. Travel can be a wonderful experience and a sweet memory.

F. So, take extra care of yourself and be ready for everything.

G. Especially if you plan to take part in adventure activities, you may get injured.

高三英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析

Most of the time, people are well aware of the circumstances of exchange: they exchange this for that. But in the rare circumstances when they’ve not prepared with gift-giving in return, they can be _________ with feelings of guilt. Receiving a gift, Jacques Derrida, a French thinker, thought, could make one feel like a _________ trapped in a cycle of economic exchange. People don’t like the feeling of being under obligation (人情债) , and try to dismiss the _________ they can feel as quickly as possible.

Private gift-giving, as the Frankfurt school theorist Theodor Adorno worried, has become an empty procedure. There’s no denying that in at least some cases, people give gifts _________. This has less to do with gift-giving itself, and more to do with the choosing of gifts. Gift-giving looks like an obligation, and a fairly _________one at that. Sure, there is giving gifts to lovers, friends and family. But then there is also the world of gift-giving like Secret Santa Claus, practices that keep gift-giving routines going well _________ the circles of people we know well enough to make choosing presents _________.

For these forced occasions, for, say, the coworker we’ve never spoken to, there are pre-printed cards and commercial guides. Even when the receiver is well-known, people want to _________ the effort needed for gifting. A relative once sent me a gift basket of dried fruit, nuts and cured meats; both the offending party and I are vegetarians.

If gift-giving has become more transaction (交易的), with the give-and-take a(n) _________ itself, so has complimenting.

This ____________ choice — fulfill your obligation to return the ____________ or resign yourself to guilt — comes from belonging to a society structured around commodities and their ____________.The trouble is, if compliments are transactions, feeling that we’re under obligation is a natural state of affairs. To imagine that we could completely overcome our ways of thinking about compliments, ____________, requires ____________ our social and economic forms of life. ____________ a difficult demand, this could be the true gift Adorno and Derrida were hoping for.

1.A.proud B.troubled C.happy D. exchange

2.A.owner B.loaner C.donor D. debtor

3.A.prejudice B.inferiority C.inequality D.priority

4.A.reluctantly B.quickly C.carefully D.gladly

5.A.affordable B.widespread C.influential D.commercial

6.A.within B.behind C.against D.beyond

7.A.unpleasant B.enjoyable C.adequate D.fashionable

8.A.minimize B.maximize C.complicate D.formalize

9.A.means B.reason C.end D.process

10.A.agreed B.limited C.forced D.suited

11.A.praise B.offence C.greeting D.favour

12.A.application B.promotion C.interaction D.exchange

13.A.therefore B.however C.moreover D.meanwhile

14.A.following B.restoring C.rethinking D.proceeding

15.A.Unless B.While C.Since D.Whether

高三英语完形填空困难题查看答案及解析

Time is the most valuable thing that mankind has. __1.__.Many people try to manage their time. They arrange information and tips in order to effectively do so.

__2.__.Time can be managed easily by finding out what is important and arranging these things in the order of importance. In this way you know your direction before making any plans and do not waste time and energy unnecessarily.

Now comes the next question. _3.__.The answer is that you need to find out what steps you need to take to do and what you want to do. Then you know how much time to spend for each thing. These steps are like goals.

__4.__.Not having them is like walking blindly in a dark room, trying to find the door.

Time management also demands a set schedule that works best for you. In this way you will be able to arrange your tasks based on their importance and finish them. In this way you will not waste your time in beating around the bush.（做事情绕圈子）

__5.__.There are a lot of things that we need to do in a short time. Therefore, having good time management skills is at the top of the list of things we all need.

A.We all live in a fast-paced world now.

B.Using every passing second effectively can benefit us.

C.Could you divide your time equally while doing your work?

D.How do you manage time and what type of information is needed to do so?

E.Setting goals is the most important part of tome management.

F.Managing time is not that hard.

G.The aim of time management is to give us a feeling of satisfaction.

高三英语信息匹配中等难度题查看答案及解析

Is it necessary to learn when we are 50s, 60s or even 70s?Most people consider when they get retired, they are supposed to be completely laidback, do something fun, or hang around.1. It’s particularly important to the elderly.

Through learning, we know how to think, how to memorize, how to ask questions and even how to interact with others. According to a study, while we are learning, “the brain creates neural(神经)pathways” that make us smarter. 2. The more we learn, the mote new  neural pathways develop in our brains.

When it comes to learning, it doesn’t mean we must load ourselves with lots of knowledge. What we need to do is just learn something we like day in and day out. 3. Everyone learns from bottom to up. If we have an interest to learn, that desire will naturally push us to move forward.

As we feel worn out from learning, don’t be discouraged.4. An old saying goes, “Birds of a feather fly together.” As long as we have partners to learn all together, our learning excitement will come alive again. On the contrary, if we don’t learn, and choose to distance ourselves from other, we might be getting dumb, and slow; eventually, we lose energy, and life passion. Instead of being bored, dumb, why don’t we keep learning?

5. More importantly, learning explores our life horizon, helps us build up our confidence; gradually, it leads us to a way of finding a sense of value and ach.

A. It’s never too old to learn.

B. Don’t worry if we cannot learn well.

C. You should set a high learning target.

D. Learning makes us understand how potential we are.

E. Look for a partner who has the same common interest as you do.

F. In other words, our brains are active as we learn something new.

G. However, the truth is that learning makes us energetic, and self-fulfilled.

高三英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析

For most people, Christmas is a time to relax in the company of family and friends. But for Santa Claus, and the thousands of fake Santas who impersonate（模仿） him every year, the Christmas season is time to get to work.

Although　 Santa Claus waits until Christmas Eve to take his famous sleigh (雪橇) ride, Santa impersonators can be found at shopping malls around America throughout the six weeks leading up to December 25. "When you see Santa talking with kids at your local mall, that's when you know Christmas really is on the way," says Mary Lewine of New York City.

With the excitement of Christmas, people often forget about the real people behind the red robes （长袍) and white beards, but being a mall Santa. is a tough job. "There is more to it than just sitting in a chair. There is more to it than just a red suit," said Timothy Connaghan, who has worked as a Santa for.38 years. "Children can really put the wear and tear on you.”

A recent survey showed some of the challenges that mall Santas face every year. About 90 percent of Santas claimed that children pulled their beards to see if they were real, and 60 percent said that up to ten kids cough or sneeze on them every day. Even more disturbing, one-third of the Santas admit to having children wet themselves while sitting on their laps.

So why would anyone take this job? For Ben Brauch, a retired high school teacher who has worked as a Santa for the last six years, the answer is simple-the children. "I see maybe 12,000 kids in a six-week period.

It's hard work, but it's worth it because you get to play with kids." In fact, Brauch loves his job so much that he keeps his white beard long all year.

1.According to Timothy Connaghan, we can conclude that _　　　　　　　　　　

A. all children are moved to tears when seeing Santa

B. a mall Santa is always sitting in a chair

C. a mall Santa tolerates a lot during Christmas

D. Santa impersonators are greatly admired

2.The underlined word "claimed" in the 4th paragraph probably means “　　　　　　　　　　 ”

A.hesitated　　　　　　 B. stated　　　　　 C. worried　　　　　　 D. insisted

3.Why does Ben Brauch love his job of Santa impersonator?

A. Because he can keep his white beard long all year.

B. Because he　　 as nothing else to do after retiring.

C. Because he can earn a large sum of money.

D. Because he enjoys playing with children.

4.What is the best title of the text?

A. Santa impersonators during Christmas

B. The coming Christmas

C. Shopping malls in America

D. A disturbing job

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Alaskan black bears hibernate for up to seven months a year, during which time they do not eat or drink, before waking up in virtually the same physical state they fell asleep in．

Now experts hope to develop methods of putting humans into a similar state which could help astronauts survive long missions and lead to new ways of treating severely ill patients．

While many studies have examined hibernation in mice and hedgehogs, little research has been done into the same condition in larger mammals such as bears．

But new research conducted at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska monitored the animals' body temperature, heart rate and muscle movements while they slept.

The research results showed that during a five-month hibernation the bears’ body temeratures varied between 30℃ and 36℃ in cycles that lasted between two and seven days—a pattern that was previously unknown in hibernating animals.

The research project leader said, "If our research could help by showing how to reduce metabolic(新陈代谢的) rates and oxygen demands in human tissues, one could possibly save severely ill patients. We simply need to know how to turn things on and off to take advantage of the different levels of hibernation."

Craig Heller, of Stanford University, who contributed to the study, added: "There has always been a thought that, if there is ever long-distance space travel, it would be good to be able to put people into a state of lower metabolism or a state of hibernation. That's almost science fiction but you can see the logical basis."

1.We know from the text that ________.

A．during winter Alaskan black bears sleep for more than half a year

B．researchers have examined hibernation in humans

C．experts have got no results from their research

D．Craig Heller is a leader from the Institute of Arctic Biology

2.The best topic of the text should be ________．

．  A．The Latest Research Results

B．New Methods of Putting Humans into Hibernation

C．Alaskan Black Bears Hibernate

D．Astronauts Could Hibernate Like Bears

3.According to the text, we can infer that________.

A．many studies have examined hibernation in mice and bears as well

B．humans' body temperatures vary between 30℃ and 36℃ while they sleep

C．research into hibernation in animals may help deadly patients stay longer

D．scientists have already take advantage of the different levels of hibernation in space missions

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

They stayed with me three weeks, ______ they drank all the wine I had.

高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

He spoke with Clare,        the telephone rang three times.

A、to which     B、during which     C、on which     D、for which

高三英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析