I'm seventeen. I had worked as a box boy at a supermarket in Los Angeles. People came to the counter and you put things in their bags for them and carried things to their cars. It was hard work.
While working, you wear a plate with your name on it. I once met someone I knew years ago. I remembered his name and said, "Mr Castle, how are you?" We talked about this and that. As he left, he said, "It was nice talking to you, Brett." I felt great, he remembered me. Then I looked down at my name plate. Oh, no. He didn't remember me at all, he just read the name plate. I wish I had put "Irving" down on my name plate. If he'd have said, "Oh yes, Irving, how could I forget you?" I'd have been ready for him. There's nothing personal here.
The manager and everyone else who were a step above the box boys often shouted orders. One of these was: you couldn't accept tips. Okay, I'm outside and I put the bags in the car. For a lot of people, the natural reaction is to take a quarter and give it to me. I'd say, "I'm sorry, I can't." They'd get angry. When you give someone a tip, you're sort of being polite. You take a quarter and you put it in their hand and you expect them to say, "Oh, thanks a lot." When you say, "I'm sorry, I can't." They feel a little put down. They say, "No one will know." And they put it in your pocket. You say, "I really can't." It gets to a point where you almost have to hurt a person physically to prevent him from tipping you. It was not in agreement with the store's belief in being friendly. Accepting tips was a friendlything and made the customer feel good. I just couldn't understand the strangeness of some people's ideas.
One lady actually put it in my pocket, got in the car, and drove away. I would have had to throw the quarter at her or eaten it or something.
I had decided that one year was enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive and fed. I guess I had the means and could afford to hate it and give it up.
1.What can be the best title for this text?
A. How Hard Life Is for Box Boys B. Getting along with Customers
C. Why I Gave up My Job D. The Art of Taking Tips
2.From the second paragraph, we can infer that ________.
A. the writer didn't like the impersonal part of his job
B. with a name plate, people can easily start talking
C. Mr Castle mistook Irving for Brett
D. Irving was the writer's real name
3.The box boy refused to accept tips because ________.
A. customers only gave small tips
B. some customers had strange ideas about tipping
C. the store didn't allow the box boys to take tips
D. he didn't want to fight with the customers
4.The underlined phrase "put down" in the third paragraph probably means_______.
A. misunderstood B. defeated
C. hateful D. hurt
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I'm seventeen. I had worked as a box boy at a supermarket in Los Angeles. People came to the counter and you put things in their bags for them and carried things to their cars. It was hard work.
While working, you wear a plate with your name on it. I once met someone I knew years ago. I remembered his name and said, "Mr Castle, how are you?" We talked about this and that. As he left, he said, "It was nice talking to you, Brett." I felt great, he remembered me. Then I looked down at my name plate. Oh, no. He didn't remember me at all, he just read the name plate. I wish I had put "Irving" down on my name plate. If he'd have said, "Oh yes, Irving, how could I forget you?" I'd have been ready for him. There's nothing personal here.
The manager and everyone else who were a step above the box boys often shouted orders. One of these was: you couldn't accept tips. Okay, I'm outside and I put the bags in the car. For a lot of people, the natural reaction is to take a quarter and give it to me. I'd say, "I'm sorry, I can't." They'd get angry. When you give someone a tip, you're sort of being polite. You take a quarter and you put it in their hand and you expect them to say, "Oh, thanks a lot." When you say, "I'm sorry, I can't." They feel a little put down. They say, "No one will know." And they put it in your pocket. You say, "I really can't." It gets to a point where you almost have to hurt a person physically to prevent him from tipping you. It was not in agreement with the store's belief in being friendly. Accepting tips was a friendlything and made the customer feel good. I just couldn't understand the strangeness of some people's ideas.
One lady actually put it in my pocket, got in the car, and drove away. I would have had to throw the quarter at her or eaten it or something.
I had decided that one year was enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive and fed. I guess I had the means and could afford to hate it and give it up.
1.What can be the best title for this text?
A. How Hard Life Is for Box Boys B. Getting along with Customers
C. Why I Gave up My Job D. The Art of Taking Tips
2.From the second paragraph, we can infer that ________.
A. the writer didn't like the impersonal part of his job
B. with a name plate, people can easily start talking
C. Mr Castle mistook Irving for Brett
D. Irving was the writer's real name
3.The box boy refused to accept tips because ________.
A. customers only gave small tips
B. some customers had strange ideas about tipping
C. the store didn't allow the box boys to take tips
D. he didn't want to fight with the customers
4.The underlined phrase "put down" in the third paragraph probably means_______.
A. misunderstood B. defeated
C. hateful D. hurt
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I’m seventeen. I had worked as a box boy at a supermarket in Los Angeles. People came to the counter and you put things in their bags for them and carried things to their cars. It was hard work.
While working, you wear a plate with your name on it. I once met someone I knew years ago. I remembered his name and said, "Mr. Castle, how are you?" We talked about this and that. As he left, he said, "It was nice talking to you, Brett." I felt great, he remembered me. Then I looked down at my name plate. Oh, no. He didn’t remember me at all. He just read the name plate. I wish I had put "Irving" down on my name plate. If he’d have said, "Oh yes, Irving, how could I forget you?" I’d have been ready for him. There’s nothing personal here.
The manager and everyone else who were a step above the box boys often shouted orders. One of these was: you couldn’t accept tips. Okay, I’m outside and I put the bags in the car. For a lot of people, the natural reaction is to take a quarter and give it to me. I’d say, "I’m sorry, I can’t." They’d get angry. When you give someone a tip, you’re sort of being polite. You take a quarter and you put it in their hand and you expect them to say, "Oh, thanks a lot." When you say, "I’m sorry, I can’t." they feel a little put down. They say, "No one will know." And they put it in your pocket. You say, "I really can’t."
It gets to a point where you almost have to hurt a person physically to prevent him from tipping you. It was not in agreement with the store’s belief in being friendly. Accepting tips was a friendly thing and made the customer feel good. I just couldn’t understand the strangeness of some people’s ideas. One lady actually put it in my pocket, got in the car, and drove away. I would have had to throw the quarter at her or eaten it or something.
I had decided that one year was enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive and fed. I guess I had the means and could afford to hate it and give it up.
1.What can be the best title for this text?
A. The Art of Taking Tips
B. Why I Gave up My Job
C. How Hard Life Is for Box Boys
D. Getting along with Customers
2.From the second paragraph, we can infer that ________.
A. the writer didn’t like the impersonal part of his job
B. Mr. Castle mistook Irving for Brett
C. with a name plate, people can easily start talking
D. Irving was the writer’s real name
3.The box boy refused to accept tips because ________.
A. customers only gave small tips
B. he didn’t want to fight with the customers
C. the store didn’t allow the box boys to take tips
D. some customers had strange ideas about tipping
4.The underlined phrase "put down" in the third paragraph probably means ________.
A. misunderstood B. defeated
C. hateful D. hurt
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They had a dozen children, six boys and six girls, in seventeen years. One reason Dad had so many children was that he was confident anything he and Mother teamed upon was sure to be a success.
Our house at Montclair, New Jersey, was a sort of school for scientific management and the removal of wasted motions — or “motion study,” as Dad and Mother named it.
Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could determine how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through the task. Each child who wanted extra pocket money put forward an offer saying what he would do the job for. The lowest bidder got the contract(合约).
Dad put process and work charts in the bathrooms. Every child old enough to write — and Dad expected his children to start writing at a young age — was required to sign their names on the charts in the morning after he had brushed his teeth, taken a bath, combed his hair, and made his bed. At night, each child had to weigh himself, mark the figure on a graph, and sign the process charts again after he had done his homework, washed his hands and face, and brushed his teeth. Mother wanted to have a place on the charts for saying prayers, but Dad said as far as he was concerned prayers were voluntary.
It was strict management, all right. Yes, at home or on the job, Dad was always the efficiency expert. He buttoned his vest from the bottom up, instead of from the top down, because the bottom-to-top process took him only three seconds, while the top-to-bottom took seven. He even used two shaving brushes to make his face smooth enough, because he found that by so doing he could cut seventeen seconds off his shaving time. For a while he tried shaving with two razors, but he finally gave that up.
“I can save forty-four seconds,” he complained, “but I wasted two minutes this morning putting this bandage on my throat.” It wasn’t the injured throat that really bothered him. It was the two minutes.
1.Why was the author’s house considered a sort of school?
A. It had a team of twelve children there.
B. The children were taught how to work well in it.
C. The parents could teach their children better at home.
D. The parents could have the children’s daily activities recorded.
2.What is the purpose of signing the charts?
A. To help to do things efficiently. B. To manage the big family effectively.
C. To look after the children better. D. To remind the children to obey the rules.
3.What did the father complain about one morning?
A. He should have given up shaving. B. His bleeding throat bothered him.
C. He couldn’t shave with two razors. D. He failed to cut short his shaving time.
4.We can we infer from the text?
A. The kids had to bid for everything they wanted.
B. The author took pride in his father’s management.
C. The couple were always troubled by their children.
D. The father’s work was to teach the children at home.
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Janelle was running late for work, so she just had time for a quick look at herself in the mirror as she was going out. What she saw there made her stop dead in her tracks.
Being a busy college student just one year removed from her teenage years, she wasn’t exactly obsessive-compulsive(有强迫观念和行为的) about the neatness of her clothes. But her boss at the restaurant where she works saw things a little differently. He had recently lectured the entire staff on the importance of appearance, and had specifically mentioned the need for servers to wear clean, unwrinkled blouses. As an assistant manager, Janelle felt it was important to set an example for the other employees. But if she stopped to iron the blouse normally, she would be late —and work without delay was an area of even greater concern to her boss.
So she grabbed her iron and plugged it in and set it for low heat. Carefully holding her blouse away from her body, she continued to iron it while she was wearing it. It seemed like a logical answer to an urgent problem.
And it seemed to be working until Janelle tried to iron the collar and accidentally ironed her neck by mistake. Then it suddenly seemed like a really stupid idea and a really painful one as well. It took more time to treat her burn than it would have taken to iron her shirt properly. And she spent a miserable shift dealing with the pain of the burn.
We’ve all been there, haven’t we? For me it was cutting my own hair. For a former roommate it was trying to pull his own wisdom teeth. For another college acquaintance, it was trying to change the oil in his car while the motor was still running.
“There’s a right way and a wrong way of doing things,” Dad used to tell me whenever I’d spoil the look of our yard by trying out a faster, easier and more creative way of pulling weeds or edging the lawn. “If a thing is worth doing,” he said, “it’s worth doing it right.” There’s a reason why certain things are done in certain ways. Those old, boring, predictable ways work.
1.Jenelle found in the mirror that __________.
A.there were stains on her blouse
B.her blouse was wrinkled
C.she wore heavy makeup
D.she put on a wrong blouse
2.It’s learned from Paragraph 2 that______________.
A.Jenelle had no sense of responsibility at work
B.Jenelle failed to set an example for employees in daily work
C.Jenelle didn’t care about the neatness of her clothes at all
D.Jenelle’s boss put doing something on time above appearance
3.What can we infer from the fifth paragraph?
A.We all have done loads of things like Janelle.
B.We are careful enough in daily life.
C.We all have done something creative.
D.We all have tried to iron clothes while we are wearing them.
4.What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph ?
A.Be creative. B.A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
C.Stick to old ways. D.Do things right.
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I was shopping at my local supermarket, as I normally have for years. One particular day, I had done about 2 weeks worth of shopping and 36 toward the register to pay for my groceries. After the cashier had scanned my items and I had bagged them up, she stated that the 37 was $150.
I 38 into my back right pocket to grab the money to pay and noticed that there was no money there. I started to get 39 . I knew my pocket book was in the car and I was sure I had put the 40 in my back right pocket. I looked at the cashier with wet eyes and a 41 look not knowing what to do. There were people behind me on the line. She told me to speak with the courtesy counter (爱心柜台). I 42 and said, “Really? It's 43 , no one would hand that in!” But she 44 me to. “You never know…” she said.
I decided that there was no 45 in checking so I walked up to a woman behind the counter and said “I have to ask, did anyone 46 cash by any chance?” She asked “How much?" My face then 47 . “$200 in the form of one hundred dollar bills.” I replied. She said, “48 , yes, someone did!" I was so 49 ! “Who? I want to thank her.” She pointed to a young girl about 10 years old and says, “She did.”
I walked over to the mom and hugged her. She said, “It wasn't me, it was my 50 ” . I said “I know, I wanted to thank you both, 51 she found it ... it's because of you that I got this back.” I was so happy, I was almost in tears.
The next day at work, a person in another department 52 me tickets to the circus. He handed me 5 tickets. Almost 53 that young girls face popped (突然出现) in my head. After work I went back to the supermarket and stopped at the courtesy counter and asked if she had any idea who that woman was. She smiled and said, “Yes, She is a friend of mine”. Then I asked her to do me a favor and pass along these 5 tickets to her.
She told me that the family of the little girl who found my money were not rich so they would really 54 this. She also said that they had 3 children, so five was the 55 number of tickets!
1.A. showed B. retired C. hesitated D. headed
2.A. percentage B. product C. total D. luggage
3.A. reached B. searched C. checked D. looked
4.A. particular B. curious C. nervous D. serious
5.A. card B. money C. purse D. grocery
6.A. shocked B. moved C. inspired D. confused
7.A. laughed B. screamed C. cried D. blamed
8.A. reality B. evidence C. cash D. receipt
9.A. postponed B. encouraged C. discouraged D. promised
10.A. doubt B. need C. expense D. harm
11.A. work out B. turn in C. send for D. take away
12.A. broke up B. burst out C. send off D. lit up
13.A. Eventually B. Actually C. Finally D. Unfortunately
14.A. interested B. worried C. surprised D. absorbed
15.A. daughter B. husband C. mother D. friend
16.A. because B. although C. however D. besides
17.A. lent B. borrowed C. produced D. offered
18.A. simple B. constantly C. instantly D. previously
19.A. reject B. purchase C. ignore D. appreciate
20.A. unique B. perfect C. official D. typical
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I first met your sister ten years ago, when she ____at a supermarket as a salesgirl.
A. has worked B. had worked C. was working D. had been working
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Yesterday I go shopping in the supermarket. As I was looking at the goods I noticed a old man who seemed to be following me wherever I went. As I moved, there he was, smiled at me. I wondered that if I had done something wrong. But I didn't think I had. So I believed there must be anything wrong with him. I became a bit scared. At the food section I selecting the chicken when I felt a tap on the shoulders. Turn around, I saw that it was the same man. "Lady," he final said, "you have my shopping basket." At that moment I realized I misunderstood him, so I said sorry for him at once.
高三英语短文改错中等难度题查看答案及解析
The boy doesn't work hard enough at his lesson. As for his intelligence, he has ______ he can
possibly make use of.
A.other than | B.rather than | C.more than | D.less than |
高三英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析
— These days I can only sleep for four or five hours at night as I’m too busy with my research work..
— If you keep going on like that, you are sure to ______ sooner or later.
A. get down B. break down C. calm down D. put down
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One day, when I was working as a psychologist in England, an adolescent boy showed up in my office. It was David. He kept walking up and down restlessly, his face pale, and his hands shaking slightly. His head teacher had referred him to me. “This boy has lost his family,” he wrote, “He is understandably very sad and refuses to talk to others, and I’m very worried about him. Can you help?”
I looked at David and showed him to a chair. How could I help him? There are problems psychology doesn’t have the answer to, and which no words can describe. Sometimes the best thing one can do is to listen openly and sympathetically.
The first two times we met, David didn’t say a word. He sat there, only looking up to look at the children’s drawing on the wall behind me. I suggested we play a game of chess. He nodded. After that he played chess with me every Wednesday afternoon-in complete silence and without looking at me. It’s not easy to cheat in chess, but I admit I made sure David won once or twice.
Usually, he arrived earlier than agreed, took the chess board and pieces from the shelf and began setting them up before I even got a chance to sit down. It seemed as if he enjoyed my company (陪伴). But why did he never look at me?
“Perhaps he simply needs someone to share his pain with,” I thought, “Perhaps he senses that I respect his suffering.” Some months later, when we were playing chess, he looked up at me suddenly.
“It’s your turn,” he said.
After that day, David started talking. He got friends in school and joined a bicycle club. He wrote to me a few times about his biking with some friends, and about his plan to get into university. Now he had really started to live his own life.
Maybe I gave David something. But I also learned that one, without any words, can reach out to another person. All it takes is a hug, a shoulder to cry on, a friendly touch, and an ear that listens.
1.When he first met the author, David ________.
A.looked a little nervous
B.felt a little excited
C.walked energetically
D.was accompanied by his teacher
2.What can we learn about the author from paragraph 2?
A.He was sure of handling David’s problem.
B.He was able to describe David’s problem.
C.He was skeptical about psychology.
D.He was ready to listen to David.
3.David enjoyed being with the author because he ________.
A.beat the author many times in the chess game
B.liked the children’s drawings in the office
C.needed to share sorrow with the author
D.wanted to ask the author for advice
4.What can be inferred about David?
A.He got friends in school before he met the author.
B.He went into university soon after starting to talk.
C.He liked biking before he lost his family.
D.He recovered after months of treatment.
5.What made David change?
A.The author’s friendship.
B.His teacher’s help.
C.His exchange of letters with the author.
D.The author's silent communication with him.
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