Several weeks ago I got a call from a good fr...

Several weeks ago I got a call from a good friend whose husband had just been diagnosed with cancer. “Do we tell the kids?” she asked. “_______.” I answered “The boys deserve to know the_______,however heartbreaking it is,” I continued. Adults always insist that children be honest, _______ how many of us are honest with our kids, particularly about the_______ stuff: death, disease, corruption, our own failings?

I believe in telling children the truth. I believe this is vital for their understanding of the world, their confidence, and the _______ of their morals and values. This doesn’t mean kids need to be unnecessarily frightened or told more than they can_______.

Many people think they’re protecting children when they spare them the truth. I _______. I believe children _______ an enviable ability to cope with and _______ what even adults find annoying; they can accept the unacceptable in a way that __________ me. Kids also have an unusual sense when something is __________. They know a fake smile when they see one, they realize when we’re uneasy, and they can __________ when we’re lying.

One night I was in the car with our two oldest daughters. It was dark and cozy — the __________ time for a heart-to-heart conversation. One of our girls said, “Mom, have you ever smoked cigarettes?” I stalled (故意拖延) a little, but the girls __________. They had me and they knew it .　 __________ I told them the truth. What happened next was an honest and direct__________ about the lure and danger of cigarettes, well worth any discomfort. I believe my honesty was much more__________ than warnings or platitudes (老生常谈).

Time marches on, and so do__________. While I’ve made mistakes as a parent, I do have clear and__________ relationships with each of our children. I believe my being truthful with our children has__________, because I’m pretty sure that now they are honest with me.

1.A.Quickly B.Especially C.Finally D.Absolutely

2.A.truth B.answer C.way D.cause

3.A.and B.but C.or D.for

4.A.new B.dangerous C.tough D.original

5.A.arrangement B.development C.commitment D.assessment

6.A.prevent B.enjoy C.handle D.skip

7.A.survive B.hesitate C.admit D.disagree

8.A.possess B.seek C.balance D.skip

9.A.make notes of B.make use of C.make sense of D.make mention of

10.A.scares B.astonishes C.discourages D.embarrasses

11.A.over B.important C.wrong D.impossible

12.A.tell B.pretend C.monitor D.interrupt

13.A.local B.perfect C.long D.last

14.A.quarreled B.laughed C.insisted D.sighed

15.A.Again B.Instead C.Otherwise D.Therefore

16.A.concern B.discussion C.defense D.complaint

17.A.effective B.careful C.emotional D.gentle

18.A.parents B.dreams C.grades D.children

19.A.special B.proper C.open D.personal

20.A.fell off B.went off C.set off D.paid off

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A few days ago I got a call from my old college friend whom I haven’t seen for a very long time. The topic, which was about all the good old times that we had changed to a touching story when he started talking about his father.　　

His father’s declining health made him stay at the hospital. Because of his illness, his father suffered from insomnia (失眠) and often talked to himself. My friend, who had not been able to sleep for a few days as he had to keep watching his father’s condition, became irritated and told his father to keep silent and try to get some sleep. His father said that he really wanted to sleep well because he was very tired and told my friend to leave him alone in the hospital if he did not want to keep him company.　　

After his father finished talking, he fell unconscious (失去知觉). My friend was very sorry for speaking the ill words towards his father. My friend, whom I knew as a tough person, cried as a baby on the other end of the telephone. He said that from that moment on, he prayed every day, asking God to let his father wake up from his coma. He promised himself that whatever words came out from his father’s mouth after he regained his consciousness, he would gladly take them. His only hope for God was to give him a chance to rectify his past mistake.　　

Often, we complain when we have to accompany or watch over our parents for years, months, days, hours or even minutes. But do we realize that our parents keep us company and watch over us for as long as we (or they) live? From the day we were born to our adulthood, and even when deaths come to us, they are always at our side.

Imagine how sad our parents will be when they hear a seemingly innocent word of “no” come out from our mouths. We can make promises to ourselves that from now on there will be no more complaints that come out from our mouths when we have to watch over or accompany our parents. No more complaints come out from our mouths when we feel that our parents have treated us like little children. There are so many unlucky ones who have neither fathers nor mothers. They long to have the things that we most complain about, but never have them.

Actually, it takes only a second to think and light the lamp that will bring us to a place where peace is dwelling.

1.Which of the following word can be used to describe the writer’s friend?

A. Sad      B. Sorry      C. Regretful        D. Pitiful

2.What does the underlined word “rectify” mean in Para. 3?

A. put…right    B. recite…by heart   C. realize    D. recognize

3.What does the writer want to tell us in the passage?

A. Your parents will keep talking to themselves when they are old.

B. Be good to your parents when you still have the chance.

C. You will regret in your life if you don’t show your kindness to your parents.

D. It is not easy to take good care of sick old parents.

高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

A few days ago I was sitting in a Thai restaurant enjoying a meal when I got a phone call from a friend I hadn’t spoken to for a long time. Full of enthusiasm and excitement I talked slightly louder than usual and in Spanish, my mother tongue.

A few minutes into the call the lady sitting beside me got up, seemingly upset, and asked the restaurant staff to relocate her to a table as far away as possible from “this man who won’t get off his phone”

I sank in my seat out of embarrassment. I ended the call soon afterwards and felt the urge to go over and apologize. Before getting up I looked around to see where she was and I found she was, indeed, at the table furthest away from me. I noticed that the lady was alone and staring out of the window, looking a bit sad.

Right then I quit my plan for a conventional apologetic gesture and decided to conduct an experiment. Seeing those funny smile cards in my wallet, I took one out. When signing my check I asked the waiter to secretly charge the lady’s meal to my credit card instead of her bill.

I left the restaurant, letting the waiter know I would be back in a few hours to pick up my credit card. I returned later as promised, excited to learn the result.

To my pleasant surprise, things turned out the best possible way. A group of restaurant staff approached me with joy, telling me that the lady had dined there many times, but they had never seen her smile and laugh like she did upon receiving the smile card and the $0 check.

1.Why did the lady ask the restaurant staff to relocate her?

A. She didn’t understand Spanish.

B. She preferred to stay on her own.

C. She wanted to sit beside the window.

D. She felt bothered by the author’s phone call.

2.What did the author want to do first after he ended his phone call?

A. Apologize to the lady.

B. Pay for the lady’s meal.

C. Conduct an experiment.

D. Give the lady a smile card.

3.According to the text, the lady_______.

A. was unfriendly to others

B. was too poor to afford a meal

C. was not happy deep in her heart

D. was particular about where she sat

4.What is the best title fir the text?

A. A poor lonely lady

B. A smile card apology

C. An improper phone call

D. An unpleasant experience

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A few days ago, I was sitting in a Thai restaurant enjoying a meal when I got on a phone call from a friend I hadn’t spoken to in a long time. In my enthusiasm and excitement, I talked quite louder than usual voice and in Spanish, my mother tongue.

A few minutes into the call, an old lady sitting at the table beside mine got up, seemingly offended, and asked the restaurant staff to relocate (重新安排) a table as far away as possible from this man who seemed to be impolite.

I sank in my seat out of embarrassment. I ended the call soon afterwards and felt the urge to apologize. Before getting up, I looked around to see where she was and she was at the table farthest away from me. I noticed that the lady was alone and staring out the window. I found a tinge (气息) of sadness or anxiety and perhaps a desire for aloneness and peace. But I had obviously destroyed it minutes earlier.

Right then I abandoned my plan for a conventional apologetic gesture. Seeing those funny smile cards in my wallet, I took one out and wrote some words to express my apology. On signing my restaurant bill, I asked a waiter to secretly charge the lady’s meal to me and hand her the smile card instead of her bill.

Did she take it the wrong way, I wondered? Did she get confused? Did she refuse the anonymous (匿名的) offer? And so on. I just waited and felt nervous to learn the outcome. To my pleasant surprise, things turned out the best possible way.

The waiter approached me in a joy, telling me, “In the many times she had dined here before, I had never seen the old lady smile as she did when receiving the smile card and the $0 bill. She thanked me even though I explained that someone else did the job.”

1.The old lady changed her seat mainly because of __________.

A. her private phone call

B. the author’s loud voice

C. the views out of the window

D. the restaurant staff’s mistake

2.What can we infer from Paragraph 3?

A. The author didn’t stop talking though he felt embarrassed.

B. The author went up to the old lady and apologized to her.

C. The old lady just moved to the farthest table to see outside.

D. The lady didn’t have a nice mood and liked to stay alone.

3.Feeling sorry, the author offered the old lady the following EXCEPT __________.

A. an apologetic gesture

B. a smile card

C. a free meal

D. some written words to apologize

4.Which of the following is the best title of this passage?

A. A Misunderstanding Caused by Different Cultures

B. An Unpleasant Experience in Thailand

C. A Smile Card for a Sincere Apology

D. An Old Lady Who Never Smiles

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

A few days ago, I was sitting in a Thai restaurant enjoying a meal when I got on a phone call from a friend I hadn’t spoken to in a long time. In my enthusiasm and excitement, I talked quite louder than usual voice and in Spanish, my mother tongue.

A few minutes into the call, an old lady sitting at the table beside mine got up, seemingly offended, and asked the restaurant staff to relocate (重新安排) a table as far away as possible from this man who seemed to be impolite.

I sank in my seat out of embarrassment. I ended the call soon afterwards and felt the urge to apologize. Before getting up, I looked around to see where she was and she was at the table farthest away from me. I noticed that the lady was alone and staring out the window. I found a tinge (气息) of sadness or anxiety and perhaps a desire for aloneness and peace. But I had obviously destroyed it minutes earlier.

Right then I abandoned my plan for a conventional apologetic gesture. Seeing those funny smile cards in my wallet, I took one out and wrote some words to express my apology. On signing my restaurant bill, I asked a waiter to secretly charge the lady’s meal to me and hand her the smile card instead of her bill.

Did she take it the wrong way, I wondered? Did she get confused? Did she refuse the anonymous (匿名的) offer? And so on. I just waited and felt nervous to learn the outcome. To my pleasant surprise, things turned out the best possible way.

The waiter approached me in a joy, telling me, “In the many times she had dined here before, I had never seen the old lady smile as she did when receiving the smile card and the $0 bill. She thanked me even though I explained that someone else did the job.”

1.The old lady changed her seat mainly because of __________.

A. her private phone call

B. the author’s loud voice

C. the views out of the window

D. the restaurant staff’s mistake

2.What can we infer from Paragraph 3?

A. The author didn’t stop talking though he felt embarrassed.

B. The author went up to the old lady and apologized to her.

C. The old lady just moved to the farthest table to see outside.

D. The lady didn’t have a nice mood and liked to stay alone.

3.Feeling sorry, the author offered the old lady the following EXCEPT __________.

A. an apologetic gesture

B. a smile card

C. a free meal

D. some written words to apologize

4.Which of the following is the best title of this passage?

A. A Misunderstanding Caused by Different Cultures

B. An Unpleasant Experience in Thailand

C. A Smile Card for a Sincere Apology

D. An Old Lady Who Never Smiles

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

When I first got an email account ten years ago, I received communications only from family, friends, and colleagues. Now it seems that every time I check my e-mail, I have an endless series of advertisement and other correspondence that do not interest the at all. If we want e-mail to continue to be useful, we need special laws that make spamming(发送垃圾邮件) a crime.

If lawmakers do not do something soon to prohibit spam, the problem will certainly get much worse. Computer programs allow spammers to spend hundreds of millions of e-mails almost instantly. As more and more advertisers turn to spam to sell their products, individual e-mail boxes are often flooded with spam e-mails. Would people continue to use e-mail if they had to deal with an annoying amount of spam each time?

This problem is troubling for individuals and companies as well. Many spam emails contain computer viruses that can shut down the entire network of a company. Companies rely on e-mail on for their employees to communicate with each other. Spam frequently causes failures in their local communications networks, and their employees are thus unable to communicate effectively. Such a situation results in a loss of productivity and requires companies to repeatedly repair their networks. These computer problems raise production costs of companies, which are, in the end, passed on to the consumer.

For these reasons, I believe that lawmakers need to legislate (立法) against spam. Spammers should be fined, and perhaps sent to prison if they continue to disturb people. E-mail is a tool which helps people all over the world to communicate conveniently, but spam is destroying this convenience.

1.What does the underlined word “correspondence” in the Paragraph 1 probably mean? ________

2.According to the text, what is the major cause of the flooding spam? ________

3.According to Paragraph 3,who is the final victim of spam? ________

4.What is the purpose of the text? ________

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

When I first got an e-mail account ten years ago, I received communications only from family, friends, and colleagues. Now it seems that every time I check my e-mail，I have an endless series of advertisements and other correspondence that do not interest me at all. If we want e-mail to continue to be useful, we need specific laws that make spamming（发送垃圾邮件）a crime.

If lawmakers do not do something soon to prohibit spam, the problem will certainly get much worse. Computer programs allow spammers to send hundreds of millions of e-mails almost instantly. As more and more advertisers turn to spam to sell their products，individual e-mail boxes are often flooded with spam e-mails. Would people continue to use e-mail if they had to deal with an annoying amount of spam each time?

This problem is troubling individuals and companies as well. Many spam e-mails contain computer viruses that can shut down the entire network of a company. Companies rely on e-mail for their employees to communicate with each other. Spam frequently causes failures in their local communications networks, and their employees are thus unable to communicate effectively. Such a situation results in a loss of productivity and requires companies to repeatedly repair their networks. These computer problems raise production costs of companies, which are, in the end, passed on to the consumer.

For these reasons, I believe that lawmakers need to legislate（立法）against spare. Spammers should be fined, and perhaps sent to prison if they continue to disturb people. E-mail is a tool which helps people all over the world to communicate conveniently, but spam is destroying this convenience.

1.What does the underlined word “correspondence” in the Paragraph l probably mean?

2.According to the text, what is the major cause of the flooding spam?

3.According to Paragraph 3, who is the final victim of spam?

4.What is the purpose of the text?

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

When I first got an e-mail account ten years ago, I received communications only from family, friends, and colleagues. Now it seems that every time I check my e-mail, I have an endless series of advertisements and other correspondence that do not interest me at all. If we want e-mail to continue to be useful, we need specific laws that make spamming(发送垃圾邮件) a crime.

If lawmakers do not do something soon to prohibit spam, the problem will certainly get much worse. Computer programs allow spammers to send hundreds of millions of e-mails almost instantly. As more and more advertisers turn to spam to sell their products, individual(个人的) e-mail boxes are often flooded with spam e-mails. Would people continue to use e-mail if they had to deal with an annoying amount of spam each time?

This problem is troubling for individuals and companies as well. Many spam e-mails contain computer viruses that can shut down the entire network of a company. Companies rely on e-mail for their employees to communicate with each other. Spam frequently causes failures in their local communications networks, and their employees are thus unable to communicate effectively. Such a situation results in a loss of productivity and requires companies to repeatedly repair their networks. These computer problems raise production costs of companies, which are, in the end, passes on to the consumer.

For these reasons, I believe that lawmakers need to legislate (立法) against spam. Spammers should be fined, and perhaps sent to prison if they continue to disturb people. E-mail is a tool which helps people all over the world to communicate conveniently, but spam is destroying this convenience.

1.According to the text, what is the major cause of the flooding spam?

2.According to Paragraph 3, who is the final victim of spam?

3.What is the purpose of the text?

高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

Pat came over from Ireland to England with his wife one year ago to find work. He got quite a good job with a building company, and as he did not drink or smoke, he saved up quite a lot of money.

His wife’s parents were still in Ireland, and one day she got a telegram saying that her mother was ill, so Pat gave her some money and she went to Ireland to see her mother.

After a week, Pat wanted to write a letter to her, but he could not read or write very well, so he went to his priest and asked him to do it for him. Pat told the priest what he wanted to say, and the priest wrote it down. After a few minutes Pat stopped, and the priest said,” Do you want to say more?”

“Only ,” ‘Please excuse the bad writing and spelling’,” Pat said.

1.Why did Pat come to Ireland?

A. To travel there.　　　　　　　 B. To save money.

C. To see his wife.　　　　　　　 D. To make money

2. Pat’s wife had to go back to Ireland _______.

A. to see her father　　　　　　 B. to see his mother

C.　 to see her mother　　　　　 D. to see her husband

3. At the end of the letter Pat wanted his wife to excuse_______.

A. the priest’s bad writing and spelling

B. his own bad writing and spelling

C. both the priest’s and his own writing and spelling

D. neither the priest’s nor his own writing and spelling

4.Who really made a mistake in the story?

A. Pat.　　　 B. The priest.　　　 C. Pat’s wife.　　 D. None of them.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Several weeks ago, our headmaster, Mr. Gaudi, told us that our school had been chosen to compete on Smart Aleck—a game show which my best friend Carla and I both love. Carla has a good imagination, ______ I know a lot of history. So we thought we’d be good ______ for the team.

A few days later, Mr. Gaudi held a meeting with everyone interested in the ______ . He told us that Smart Aleck uses a five member team. He also said that three more people would be needed as backup (替补). ______ , four times that many students were at the meeting. So Mr. Gaudi said we would have a ______ among all the students present and the top ______ scorers would become the team and the backup. Everybody agreed that this was a ______ way to decide.

Yesterday, all of the hopefuls went to the dining hall after school. We would have to _____ the starting line-up（阵容）. Mr. Gaudi acted as the ______. After a couple of hours, all the ______on the team were set except one. Carla and I ______ for that last position. We had to hold a one-on-one competition ______ the two of us. The winner would be on the team and the loser would be the ______.

Midway through our two-person competition, I was starting to pull ahead. ______ I saw the look on Carla’s face. I waited for a second and knew what I had to do. As much as I wanted to be on Smart Aleck, Carla wanted ______ even more. So, starting with my next question, I held back and let Carla ______, just by a little bit. Her expression as she ______ she would be on the show made up for my not being on the team. And since I will go as backup, I’ll still have the ______ of seeing the show up close.

Was I ______ by not trying as hard as I could? I don’t think so. No one noticed, and Carla and I didn’t ______ it. It won’t hurt the team because Carla will be a very good competitor on the real show. I think that making my best friend happy was the right thing to do.

1.A. but B. or C. so D. and

2.A. pairs B. choices C. leaders D. fans

3.A. course B. work C. play D. show

4.A. Luckily B. Unluckily C. Importantly D. Hopefully

5.A. direction B. discussion C. competition D. conversation

6.A. five B. three C. two D. eight

7.A. special B. hard C. funny D. fair

8.A. decide B. draw C. push D. make

9.A. headmaster B. coach C. host D. headteacher

10.A. places B. rules C. names D. orders

11.A. tied B. clapped C. cried D. returned

12.A. of B. on C. between D. among

13.A. backup B. audience C. cheerleader D. member

14.A. Still B. Never C. Then D. Again

15.A. us B. it C. me D. her

16.A. wait B. turn C. move D. win

17.A. accepted B. realized C. considered D. refused

18.A. laughter B. sadness C. fun D. change

19.A. coming B. refusing C. helping D. cheating

20.A. mean B. plan C. regret D. say

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