Camping goes back to trendy in the UK．With st...

Camping goes back to trendy in the UK．With students and parents tightening their belts in the face of tne global economic crisis，the overseas holiday tourism around the world is suffering a lot．For many young Brits，during uncertain times，cheap，traditional and homemade altenatives are the choice．

A lot of these people are developing a particular taste for camping holidays．The Camping and Caravanning．Club is reporting a 40 percent increase in booking this year，as well as an increase in new membership applications．

Campsites in the UK generally fall into two categories：holiday parks and wild camping．

The holiday parks are usually large，and accept earavans(旅居车)and tents and have many facilities,from swimming pools to laundry services to bars and shops．For example，young people can find much fun in the Wild Boar Inn campsite in Cheshire．northwest England．There’s live music every Saturday，with 60s,70s and 80s-inspired acts for an evening of laughs．These places are good fbr young Britons to get social．And it’s cheap，only around 5 pounds for entry and people can use all the facilities．

For others，the beauty of camping is in enjoying nature and tranquility(宁静)，so a wilder camping experience is also attractive. These people choose anywhere remote，with no light or noise po11ution．The campers often choose relatively small campsites．For example，the Highlands of Scotland．and Danmoor in southern England．

1.become popular again in the UK

高二英语任务型阅读中等难度题查看答案及解析

With a bag on his back and his hands in his pockets, Ye Tian sneaked around the fence,trying to find an entrance to the abandoned coking works without being noticed.

However, a guard dog gave Ye second thoughts. I'm not afraid of the gatekeeper-at least I can negotiate with him. But a dog? Forget it. I'll find another way. "While planning his special(uninvited)visit to the Beijing site, the 25-year-old did some research, but still failed to locate the entrance.

Ye is among the thousands who are interested in “taking adventures”, which they call urban exploration, or “urbex”. The aim is to explore structures-usually abandoned ruins or “hidden components of the man-made environments”.

Venturing into abandoned structures is one of the most common examples of urban exploration. Although targets vary from one country to another, high-profile abandoned structures usually include amusement parks, factories, power plants, missile silos, fallout shelters, hospitals, asylums, schools and houses.

Urban explorers are interested in visiting such sites, as they can discover “other parts of a city”and get to understand its history from a different angle.

Ye, who worked as an intern for a German company in Beijing for six months, said he enjoyed the contrast between the city's two sides- modern and crowded, compared with old-fashioned and silent-and wanted to learn more about the capital during his short stay.

Ye said that he was able to finally sneak in through another entrance, yet he was still asked to leave by a gatekeeper shortly after. But he then managed to get into a newly built residential block, climbed to the top and took a picture of the factory ruins at sunset.

“I will come back another day,” he said.

1.What do we know about Ye Tian in the passage?

A.He enters a place easily every time.

B.He loves exploring natural environment.

C.He is afraid of nothing.

D.He is interested in old buildings.

2.What made Ye Tian fail to enter the entrance first?

A.The fence. B.The gatekeeper.

C.The dog. D.The bag.

3.Why are the urbe explorers keen on visiting the abandoned structures?

A.Because they can do all the research.

B.Because they can move from one country to another.

C.Because they can visit different kinds of places.

D.Because they can know the history of the city.

4.As an urbex explorer, what characteristic is probably most necessary?

A.Hesitation. B.Thoughtfulness.

C.Determination. D.Inspiration.

高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

I arrived in the classroom，ready to share my knowledge and experience with 75 students who would be my English literature class．Having taught in the US for 17 years，I had no 　 about my ability to hold their attention and to　 on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue．

I was shocked when the monitor shouted，“　 　 !” The entire class rose as I entered the room，and I was somewhat 　 　 about how to get them to sit down again，but once that awkwardness (尴尬) was over，I quickly 　 　 calmness and began what I thought was a fact—packed lecture，sure to gain their respect—perhaps　 　 their admiration．I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a(n) 　 　 of achievement．

My students　 　 diaries．However，as I read them，the happy mood was gradually　 　 by a strong sense of sadness．The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today．　 　 her next lecture will be better．”Greatly surprised，I read diary after diary，each expressing a 　 theme．“Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework (哲学体系) of Western thought and laid the historical　 　 for all the works we’ll study in class，” I complained．“How　 　 they say I didn’t teach them anything?”

It was a long term，and it 　 　 became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as　 　 of my students．I thought a teacher’s job was to raise　 　 questions and provide enough background so that students could ＿ 　 their own conclusions．My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide 　 　 information as directly and clearly as possible．What a difference!

　 ，I also learnt a lot，and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a＿ 　 American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.

1.A．certainty         B．idea             C．doubt         D．experience

2.A．impress         B．put             C．leave         D．fix

3.A．Attention 　     　　 B．Look out         C．At ease         D. Stand up

4.A．puzzled         B．sure             C．curious         D．worried

5.A．found         　　 B．returned         C．regained         D．followed

6.A．more         　　 B．even         　　 C．yet             D．still

7.A．thought         B．sense         C．emotion         D．idea

8.A．shared         　　 B．borrowed     　　 C．kept             D．read

9.A. replaced　     　　 B.　 taken　　         C. caught　　     D. moved

10.A．Naturally 　     B．Perhaps         C．Fortunately     D．Reasonably

11.A．different         B．same         C．similar         D．usual

12.A．happenings     B．characters     C．development     D．background

13.A．should         B．need         C．will             D．must

14.A．immediately     B．certainly         C．simply         D．gradually

15.A．that             B．what         C．those         D．ones

16.A．difficult         B．interesting     C．ordinary         D．unusual

17.A．draw         　　 B．get             C．decide         D．give

18.A．strange         B．standard         C．exact         D．serious

19.A．Therefore     　　 B．However         C．Besides         D．Though

20.A．stricter         B．happier         C．worse         D．better

高二英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Going to outer space is a little like going camping. You have to carry with you all the food and equipment you need for your trip, so your food can’t be too heavy or hard to prepare. Plus, there are no refrigerators to keep food cold and fresh. Food with all the water dried out is lightweight and doesn’t spoil(变坏). So, many space foods are dried on Earth and stored in special packets.

On Earth, gravity is the force that keeps your feet on the ground and your sandwich on your plate. But there’s no gravity in space. To keep food from floating(漂浮) away, astronauts on the Space Shuttle attach the packets to a special tray(托盘). The tray can be fixed to a wall or to the astronaut’s lap. To prepare their food, astronauts use liquid forms of salt and pepper. The liquid sticks to the food better. Regular salt and pepper would float away, maybe up an astronaut’s nose.

Liquids float right out of cups and glasses, though. So astronauts drink everything from a small bag with a straw(吸管) that can be closed. Astronauts say that most space foods taste pretty good. Some, such as apples and pudding, are the same as the foods you eat on Earth.

Astronauts eat tortillas instead of bread because they make fewer crumbs(碎屑). Floating crumbs could get stuck in equipment or an astronaut’s eye.

Your body uses food in space the same way it does on Earth. Your body must deal with waste in space too. During takeoff and landing, astronauts can’t leave their seats to go to the bathroom. They wear diapers(尿布) under their spacesuits instead. The Space Shuttle has a bathroom the size of a small closet. The toilet has bars that keep astronauts from floating away. A strong flow of air is used instead of water to flush waste down the toilet.

1.Why do astronauts use liquid forms of salt and pepper to prepare food?

A. Liquid doesn’t spoil.

B. Liquid is convenient to use in space.

C.Liquid is lightweight.

D. Astronauts are in great need of water.

2.What do astronauts think of space foods?

A. Most of them taste pleasant.

B. They are mostly fruits.

C.Most of them are rather cold.

D. They contain too little meat.

3.We can infer from the passage that astronauts ___________.

A. drink from cups and glasses

B. always wear diapers in space

C. can move freely during landing

D. must pay attention to crumbs in space

4.What is the passage mainly about?

A. Astronaut’s hard life in space.

B. How astronauts go to the bathroom.

C. The various foods astronauts eat in space.

D. How astronauts eat and deal with waste in space.

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

Back in April 1939 and armed with $5,000 provided by the Rockefeller Foundation, Columbia University Teachers College professor Frank Cyr took a tour of ten states to make a research about school transportation problems. What he found was that many students had no dependable way to get to school and the ones who did often traveled in unsafe buses in the over 100,000 school areas.

Seeing a need to fix this problem, Cyr organized a meeting- one that would change the future of school buses forever. School officials and transportation experts met to set much-needed standards for buses, including those for color, height and width as well as safety rules that hadn’t been set before or that were different in every state.

There were many different bus colors in the US before this meeting; several areas even planned to have red, white and blue buses as a way of encouraging students to love their country. Cyr presented his new choices to education officials, a reported “50 shades(色度) changing from lemon yellow to deep orange-red”. The matter was settled quickly. Yellow, or “National School Bus Glossy Yellow”, was chosen because it was quite striking, making the school bus easy to be seen. Besides, it made the bold(黑体的), black writing on the side of each bus clear. (The bold, black writing gives information about each school area, telling students which school bus they could take during early morning and late afternoon hours.) Thirty-five states made the changes quickly, and every state was on board by 1974.

Being recognized as the “father of the yellow school bus”, Frank Cyr has surely influenced your life if you ever rode a school bus or saw that noticeable color pulling up to your stop on a dusky morning.

1.What did Frank Cyr find about the school buses in the US?

A.Funny. B.Surprising.

C.Disappointing. D.Reliable.

2.What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?

A.Who attended the meeting. B.Why the meeting was held.

C.What was settled in the meeting. D.What was discussed in the meeting.

3.What does the underlined word “striking” in the Paragraph 3 mean?

A.Soft. B.Bright.

C.Natural. D.Beautiful.

4.What is the main idea of the text?

A.Why school buses in the US are yellow.

B.How school buses developed in the US.

C.How students in the US recognized school buses.

D.Why there are school buses for students in the US.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

The orderly came back in a few minutes with a rifle（步枪）and some Burmans（缅甸人）. He told us that the elephant was in the rice fields below, only a few hundred yards away. As I started forward practically the whole population of the quarter flocked out of the houses and followed me. They had seen the rifle and were all shouting excitedly that I was going to shoot the elephant. It was fun to them, as it would be to an English crowd; besides, they wanted the meat. It made me a little uneasy. I had no intention of shooting the elephant—I had merely sent for the rifle to defend myself—and it is always uneasy to have a crowd following you. I marched down the hill, looking and feeling a fool, with the rifle over my shoulder and an ever-growing army of people knocking and pushing at my heels. Beyond the huts（小木屋）there was a rice field a thousand yards across, muddy from the first rains. The elephant was standing eight yards from the road. He took not the slightest notice of the crowd. He was tearing up bunches of grass, beating them against his knees to clean them and feeding them into his mouth.

As soon as I saw the elephant I knew with perfect certainty that I ought not to shoot him. It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant — it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery. There, peacefully eating, the elephant looked no more dangerous than a cow. I thought then and I think now that his attack of “must” was already passing off; in which case he would merely wander harmlessly about. Moreover, I did not in the least want to shoot him.

But at that moment I glanced round at the crowd that had followed me. It was a huge crowd, two thousand at least and growing every minute. I looked at the sea of the faces above the colorful clothes—faces all happy and excited over this bit of fun, all certain that the elephant was going to be shot. They were watching me as they would watch a magician about to perform a trick. They did not like me. But with the magical rifle in my hands I was momentarily worth watching. And suddenly I realized that I should have to shoot the elephant after all. The people expected it of me and I had got to do it; I could feel their two thousand wills pressing me forward. And it was at this moment that I first felt the hollowness（空洞）, the uselessness of the white man's control in the East. Here was I, standing in front of the unarmed crowds—seemingly the leading actor; but in reality only a puppet (傀儡). I understood in this moment that when the white man turns ruler of complete power it is his own freedom that he destroys.

1.The people were glad to think the elephant was to be shot mainly because ________.

A. it had damaged their homes and crops

B. it would provide them with meat

C. it would make them feel entertained

D. it was spoiling their rice fields

2.When the writer saw the elephant he felt ________.

A. foolish　　 B. afraid　　 C. pitiful　　 D. confident

3.The writer realized that he had to shoot the elephant because ________.

A. shooting elephants is a serious problem

B. everybody expected it of him

C. he did not wish to disappoint the rulers

D. he had to show how guns are fired

4.What does the writer intend to tells us when he tells the story?

A. Leading actors are sometimes foolish puppets.

B. Governments for white people are useless.

C. Power can sometimes turn people imprisoned (监禁).

D. Unarmed crowds are in control of everything.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Sitting at the back of the room but in front of some old men and women ______ a very shy girl with two bright eyes.

A. was                         B. were                        C. are                   D. being

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Sitting at the back of the room but in front of some old men and women ______ a very shy girl with two bright eyes.

A. was                                B. were                                C. are                         D. being

高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

—Wang Gang shows no interest in all the subjects, and goes to Bingyu Internet Bar to surf the Internet every night!

—Oh, that’s too bad. He is______ to fail in the final exam.

A．relevant          B．bound            C．adjusting          D．passive

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

The first ting we do is to put an APB and this goes to all the police stations in the country.

Next we telephone the hospitals. Often the person we are looking for has been in an accident.

Then we might try parents, friends or relatives they might be with. We try to follow their movements and to find the last person they saw in local or national papers—especially papers they might read. There are other things we can do: put posters in places where they might be, go on television.

Here in America there is a magazine in which there are photographs of missing children. This is often the last hope. Of course, with nearly two million missing children every year, we can’t do all these things for everyone. We haven’t got the time, or the money , or the people who work for it.

1.Who do they look for?

2.How many ways to find the missing children are mentioned in the passage?

3.When a person is reported to be missing, they     .

4.They put photos in newspapers or put posters because they think    .

5.According to the passage, when they are looking for a missing child, they  .

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析