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“Aren’t you in the Crack House Quartet?” a guy in a Hillary Clinton mask asked me, ___________ some hard-core band that Adam loved and I hated.

A.turning to B.backing out C.working out D.referring to

高二英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析

Hillary Diane Clinton arrived at the White House after

serving as First Lady of Arkansas （阿肯色州）for twelve years. During that time she worked as a full-time partner of a

law firm, chaired an education committee that set public school standards in Arkansas, managed a home, and cared

for her husband and child.

Hillary Diane Rodham, daughter of Hugh and Dorothy Rodham, was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 26, 1947. She and her younger two brothers grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, as a close-knit family. As an excellent student, she was also a Girl Scout and a member of the local Methodist youth group. Hillary also enjoyed sports and was always interested in politics. She entered Wellesley College in 1965. Graduating with high honors, she moved on to Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. While at Yale, she developed her special concern for protecting the best interests of children and their families. It was there that she met Bill Clinton, a fellow student.

In 1973, Hillary became a lawyer for the Children’s Defense Fund. In 1975 Hillary left Washington and followed her heart to Arkansas, marrying Bill Clinton. The couple taught together in the University of Arkansas. Their daughter, Chelsea, was born in 1980.

As First Lady of Arkansas, Hillary continued to work tirelessly on behalf of children and families. In addition to chairing the Arkansas Education Standards Committee, she founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. She introduced a pioneering program called Arkansas Home Instruction for Preschool Youth, which trained parents to work with their children in preschool preparedness and literacy. Hillary also served on the board of the Arkansas Children's Hospital. In recognition of her professional and personal accomplishments, Hillary was named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984.

Women’s International Center proudly presents the Living Legacy Award to Hillary Rodham Clinton for her vast contributions in so many fields, especially honoring her work for women and children.

1. Hillary did all the following things before going to college EXCEPT

A. joining the local Methodist youth group

B. taking an active part in sports

C. showing great interest in politics

D. beginning to care for the interests of children

2.The topic sentence of the fourth paragraph is　　　　　　　　 .

A. sentence 1　　 　 B. sentence 2

C. sentence 4　　　　 D. sentence 5

3. What is the main reason why Hillary won the Living Legacy Award?

A. Her being Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983.

B. Her tireless work for woman and children.

C. Graduating with high honors from Yale.

D. Being a perfect wife and caring for her child

4. What do we know about Hillary from this passage?

A. She and Bill Clinton were schoolmates at Yale.

B. She was in her thirties when she married Bill Clinton.

C. She has been a full-time lawyer for more than 20 years.

D. She once worked as a doctor in the Arkansas Children’s Hospital.

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Jerry is the guy you can’t help loving. He was always in a good mood and always had something _________ to say. He was a natural _________. If someone was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling him how to _________ the bright side of the situation.

Seeing that really made me _________, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, “I don’t get it! You _________ be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?”

Jerry replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, ‘Jerry, you have two _________ today. You can choose to be merry or sad. I choose to be merry. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to _________ or to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.’” “Yeah, right, but it’s not that easy,” I _________. “Yes, it is,” Jerry said. “Life is all about choices. The bottom line: It’s your choice _________ you live life.”

Several years later, I heard that Jerry was attacked and shot by two __________ robbers. Luckily, he was found quickly and __________ to the hospital. After timely surgery and intensive care, Jerry recovered. I saw him six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he __________ and showed me the scars.

I wondered what __________ his mind at that time. He replied, “__________ I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or to die. I chose to live.” “Weren’t you scared? Did you lose __________?” I asked.

Jerry continued, “The medical staff __________ me into the emergency room and from the expressions on their faces, I read, ‘He’s a __________ man’. I knew I needed to take action. I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘I am choosing to live. __________ me as if I am alive, not dead.’”

Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing __________. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, __________, is everything.

1.A.funny B.positive C.strange D.interesting

2.A.motivator B.leader C.lecturer D.teacher

3.A.listen to B.take up C.stick with D.look on

4.A.nervous B.curious C.astonished D.upset

5.A.shouldn’t B.won’t C.can’t D.mustn’t

6.A.rights B.chances C.moods D.choices

7.A.complain B.accept C.doubt D.argue

8.A.agreed B.protested C.emphasized D.joked

9.A.why B.where C.how D.whether

10.A.professional B.armed C.rough D.adventurous

11.A.moved B.rushed C.led D.carried

12.A.smiled B.sighed C.relaxed D.froze

13.A.went on B.went away C.went through D.went over

14.A.Until B.Once C.Since D.As

15.A.consciousness B.mind C.temper D.face

16.A.brought B.drove C.allowed D.wheeled

17.A.brave B.poor C.dead D.strong

18.A.Talk to B.Operate on C.Remind D.Trust

19.A.strength B.attitude C.story D.words

20.A.above all B.at all C.in all D.after all

高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

—Do you know the guy over there?

—He’s a ________ in our company, treating his members kindly.

A. cold fish　　 B. rotten apple

C. sly fox　　 D. top banana

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Edmund Percival Hillary was one of the greatest explorers of the twentieth century. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1919. He discovered an interest in mountain climbing while he was still in high school and began climbing New Zealand's Southern Alps.

Like his father, Hillary earned his living as a beekeeper. However, he continued to climb mountains. His goal was to climb Mt. Everest, which is the highest mountain in the world. By the early 1950s, several expeditions（探险队）had attempted to reach the summit of Everest, but all had failed. Then, in 1953, Hillary and a Nepalese climber named Tenzing Norgay became the first two people to reach the top of the world.

Hillary's spirit of exploration was not satisfied. He joined an expedition to Antarctica and reached the South Pole in 1958. He also made an expedition up the Ganges River to its source in the Himalayas. Sir Edmund Hillary was a brave adventurer. He went where no man or woman had gone before.

Although Hillary was best known as the young man who climbed to the summit of Mt. Everest in the 1950s, he continued his journeys to far-off places into his senior years. For instance, in his mid-sixties Hillary flew to the North Pole with Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. Moreover, Hillary authored many books. However, his most lasting gift, perhaps, was the Sir Edmund Hillary Himalayan Trust（信托基金）. It raised millions of dollars and contributed to schools, hospitals and many other public improvements in the Sherpa villages of Nepal. In January 2008, Sir Edmund Hillary died at the age of 88.

Despite being a great adventurer and known for the treasure he left Sir Edmund Hillary always modestly referred to himself as a simple beekeeper from New Zealand.

1.Hillary was interested in ________ when he was in high school.

A. mountain-climbing　　 B. bee-keeping

C. money-raising　　 D. story-writing

2.Hillary became well-known because ________.

A. he reached both the South Pole and the North Pole

B. he was the first to reach the top of Mt. Everest

C. he lived in places where no humans had gone

D. he made a lot of money as a beekeeper

3.We can learn from the passage that Hillary is ________.

A. outgoing and fearless

B. talented and honest

C. determined and caring

D. hardworking and careful

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package: What food might it contain? He was astonished to discover that it was a mouse trap!

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse declared the warning, “There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house.”

The chicken clucked ( 咯咯叫 ), raised her head and said, “Mr Mouse, I can tell you this is a great concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me, I cannot be bothered by it.”

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mouse trap in the house.” “I am so sorry, Mr Mouse,” sympathized the pig, “but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; be assured that you are in my prayers.”

The mouse turned to the cow, who replied, “A mouse trap, am I in great danger, huh?”

So the mouse returned to the house, head down and depressed to face the farmer’s mouse trap alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching its prey( 猎物 ). The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was an evil snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. Now everyone knew to treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his knife to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. His wife’s sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer killed the pig. The farmer’s wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral. The farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat.

So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern you, remember that when the least of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

1.We may infer that the passage is most probably a ______.

A. an advertisement　　　　　　 B. fable

C. science fiction　　　　　　 D. news report

2.We could see from the passage that the mouse was ______.

A. kind and warm-hearted

B. well-informed

C. good at cheating others

D. foolish and rude

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The pig was comparatively less friendly than the others in the farmyard.

B. The mouse trap that the mouse discovered was not a practical one.

C. The farmer and his wife trapped an evil snake that night.

D. The farmer’s family was in fact poor and they had no friends.

4.How many animals are mentioned in this passage?

A. five　　　　 B. three　　　　 　　 C. four　　　　 　 D. six

5.What can we learn from the story?

A. Better safe than sorry.

B. Traps are usually well disguised.

C. To help others is just to save you.

D. To keep the balance of nature is the duty of us all.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package: What food might it contain? He was astonished to discover that it was a mouse trap!

Retreating（撤退） to the farmyard, the mouse declared the warning, “There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house.”

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, “Mr Mouse, I can tell you this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me, I cannot be bothered by it.”

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mouse trap in the house.” “I am so sorry, Mr Mouse,” sympathized the pig, “but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; be assured that you are in my prayers.”

The mouse turned to the cow, who replied, “A mouse trap, am I in grave danger, huh?”

So the mouse returned to the house, head down and depressed to face the farmer’s mouse trap alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was an evil snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. Now everyone knew to treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. His wife’s sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer’s wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral. The farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat.

So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern you, remember that when the least of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

1.We may infer that the passage is most probably a ______.

A. fairy tale　 　　　　 B. fable

C. science fiction　 D. news report

2.We could see from the passage that the mouse was ______.

A. kind and warm-hearted　　 　 B. well-informed

C. good at cheating others　　 D. foolish and rude

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The pig was comparatively less friendly than the others in the farmyard.

B. The mouse trap that the mouse discovered was not a practical one.

C. The farmer and his wife trapped an evil snake that night.

D. The farmer’s family was in fact poor and they had no friends.

4.The underlined word “ingredient” (Paragraph 7) refers to ______.

A. the mouse　 B. the pig

C. the snake　　 D. the chicken

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Allen Cook and his daughter Melissa found a crack（裂缝）in one of the ceilings while decorating her house. What they discovered within turned out to be part of a beautiful,heartwarming____story.

"The envelope was____and yellow.It has never been____.In the letter she was talking about the baby she was going to have."Allen Cook told CNN,____May 4 of that year,the typed letter was written by a woman named Virginia to her husband,Rolf Christoffersen.At the time,he was a sailor abroad.The envelope was____"return to sender" and never____its way to her husband until this week.Allen's daughter called and visited a man named Rolf Christoffersen in Santa Barbara,California.

"Someone googled my name and called me at my office____I have the same name as my father." Christoffersen's son,66,told CNN.The younger Christoffersen wasn't yet born when his mother Virginia wrote the letter,but Seventy-two years later,her____were finally heard by her husband.Christoffersen____called his father,who is now 96 and also lives in California,and read the letter to him____.

"I was so surprised and____to find out that a letter like that_____.I am still very____,"the elder Christoffersen told CNN.The long-lost letter is believed to have fallen through a crack in the____floor of the house,where the Christoffersens used to live.

Finally____just before Mother's Day,it is now another meaningful____to Virginia Christoffersen."It's____and reading her words____me just what a wonderful person she was and her much she____us,"her son said,through ____.

1.A. cartoon　　 B. foll　　 C. war　　 D. love

2.A. old　　 B. new　　 C. worn　　 D. magic

3.A. posted　　 B. opened　　 C. cleaned　　 D. removed

4.A. Fetched　　 B. Guided　　 C. Dated　　 D. Delivered

5.A. listed　　 B. named　　 C. advertised　　 D. marked

6.A. tried　　 B. found　　 C. felt　　 D. fought

7.A. because　　 B. now that　　 C. so　　 D. but

8.A. summaries　　 B. feelings　　 C. words　　 D. diaries

9.A. especially　　 B. immediately　　 C. anxiously　　 D. actually

10.A. by fax　　 B. by email　　 C. through the Internet　　 D. over the phone

11.A. scared　　 B. sad　　 C. happy　　 D. calm

12.A. existed　　 B. disappeared　　 C. escaped　　 D. moved

13.A. excited　　 B. embarrassed　　 C. energetic　　 D. talkative

14.A. double　　 B. nearby　　 C. downstairs　　 D. upstairs

15.A. welcomed　　 B. approached　　 C. received　　 D. arrived

16.A. motivation　　 B. connection　　 C. application　　 D. devotion

17.A. Valentin's Day　　 B. Mother's Day　　 C. Thanksgiving Day　　 D. Father's Day

18.A. urged　　 B. suggested　　 C. advised　　 D. reminded

19.A. loved　　 B. remembered　　 C. treated　　 D. helped

20.A. laughter　　 B. tears　　 C. effort　　 D. difficulty

高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

请根据以下提示，结合你生活中的一个事例，用英语写一篇短文。

There is a crack in everything, and that is how the light gets in.(Leonard Cohen, a Canadian singer)

注意：①无须写标题，不得照抄英语提示语；

②除诗歌外，文体不限；

③内容必须结合生活中的一个事例；

④文中不得透露个人姓名和班级；

⑤词数为120左右。

高二英语书面表达中等难度题查看答案及解析

请根据以下提示，并结合生活学习实际，用英语写一篇短文。

There is a crack (裂痕）in everything, so is our life, that’s how the light gets in.(Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer). We all possibly make a mistake, but what matters most is how to make use of the mistake to get improved.

注意：1．无需写标题，不得照抄英语提示语；

2．除诗歌外，文体不限；

3．文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称；

4．字数为120词左右。

高二英语书面表达中等难度题查看答案及解析