“He was a nightmare (噩梦),” his mother, Mary said as I talked with her and her son Jamie. “I was sure he was going to end up in prison, or worse”. Seeing Jamie so full of life with his new friends, there was no room for imagination that he was ever a rebellious (叛逆的) kid.
Jamie was raised by his mother after his father left ten years ago. They lived in a small flat with little money. Most of their neighbors were alcoholics, so crime was very common. At middle school, he quickly got in with the wrong crowd and began to steal everything from shoes to phones.
Mary didn’t realize the consequence of the trouble Jamie made until he told her he had been stopped from going to school for three weeks. Mary was very angry, but now she has realized that it was the best thing that had happened to both of them.
During the three weeks, Mary made him volunteer at the local community centre where he saw the street dancers for the first time. “They were so cool and able to express themselves in a way I had never seen before. I asked to join them and they agreed. Because of them I am who I am now.” Jamie told me, tears in his eyes.
Back at school, his whole attitude and behavior improved. “I realized the boys I was hanging out with weren’t cool, stealing wasn’t cool and getting out of school wasn’t cool either. It made me find something I love and have a goal in life.” he said.
Yes, street dance makes him happy. This kind of dance speaks to people, and gives them a purpose.
1.Who is most probably the writer?
A.A reporter. B.A manager.
C.A photographer. D.A dancer.
2.What is Mary’s attitude toward Jamie’s future in the first paragraph?
A.Angry. B.Negative.
C.Careless. D.Cold
3.The underlined part “the wrong crowd” probably refers to _______.
A.Thieves hanging about in shops B.Strangers
C.Schoolmates with bad influence D.Neighbors
4.The text is written to _______.
A.outline the advantages of learning street dance
B.warn about the dangers of a difficult childhood
C.give advice on how to handle rebellious teenagers
D.tell how a kid changed after learning street dance
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“He was a nightmare (噩梦),” his mother, Mary said as I talked with her and her son Jamie. “I was sure he was going to end up in prison, or worse”. Seeing Jamie so full of life with his new friends, there was no room for imagination that he was ever a rebellious (叛逆的) kid.
Jamie was raised by his mother after his father left ten years ago. They lived in a small flat with little money. Most of their neighbors were alcoholics, so crime was very common. At middle school, he quickly got in with the wrong crowd and began to steal everything from shoes to phones.
Mary didn’t realize the consequence of the trouble Jamie made until he told her he had been stopped from going to school for three weeks. Mary was very angry, but now she has realized that it was the best thing that had happened to both of them.
During the three weeks, Mary made him volunteer at the local community centre where he saw the street dancers for the first time. “They were so cool and able to express themselves in a way I had never seen before. I asked to join them and they agreed. Because of them I am who I am now.” Jamie told me, tears in his eyes.
Back at school, his whole attitude and behavior improved. “I realized the boys I was hanging out with weren’t cool, stealing wasn’t cool and getting out of school wasn’t cool either. It made me find something I love and have a goal in life.” he said.
Yes, street dance makes him happy. This kind of dance speaks to people, and gives them a purpose.
1.Who is most probably the writer?
A.A reporter. B.A manager.
C.A photographer. D.A dancer.
2.What is Mary’s attitude toward Jamie’s future in the first paragraph?
A.Angry. B.Negative.
C.Careless. D.Cold
3.The underlined part “the wrong crowd” probably refers to _______.
A.Thieves hanging about in shops B.Strangers
C.Schoolmates with bad influence D.Neighbors
4.The text is written to _______.
A.outline the advantages of learning street dance
B.warn about the dangers of a difficult childhood
C.give advice on how to handle rebellious teenagers
D.tell how a kid changed after learning street dance
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Jack was halfway back to the village where his mother lived _____ Mary caught up with him.
A.when | B.while | C.until | D.though |
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It was not what Tom said but what he wrote in the letter ______ touched his mother.
A. what B. which
C. that D. who
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
No sooner had he finished his talk he was surrounded by the workers.
A.as | B.then | C.than | D.when |
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What were you like as a teenager? I was a nightmare. I was rude to my parents, always stayed out late, never did my homework, hung out with the wrong people and made lots of bad decisions. Apparently, this is the age when teenagers are out of control and behave badly. Maybe,if you’re a teenager now, you think this is unfair criticism or it’s not your fault. Well, you might be right!
Experts have found that it’s a teenager’s brain that is to blame. Between the ages of approximately 13 to 19—a period known as adolescence—the brain is still developing in areas that control behavior. This has an influence on learning and multitasking(同时做多件事情), stress and memory, sleep, addiction, and decision-making. For parents, these consequences often manifest themselves in a variety of behaviors that they may have previously blamed on hormones or just moodiness(喜怒无常).
This is quite a new discovery, according to Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, who, speaking on the BBC radio program The Life Scientific, says, “when I was at university, the dogma(教条) in the text books was that the vast majority of brain development goes on in the first few years of life and nothing much changes after mid-childhood. That dogma is completely false.”
According to Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, students’ not being able to get their homework done on time has something to do with our prefrontal cortex—that’s the part of our brain right at the front, just behind the forehead. She says, “it’s involved in a whole range of very high-level cognitive(认知的) tasks such as decision making and planning—we know that this region is undergoing very large amounts of development during the adolescent years.” This is the part of the brain, mainly involved in planning, and, for a teenager, this hasn’t developed yet. So getting organized to do their homework, for example, can come as a bit of a challenge.
I wish I’d known about this because instead of telling my teacher I’d left my homework on the bus or that the dog had eaten it. Now I could say, “Sorry sir, my brain isn’t developed enough for the cognitive task of planning my homework.”
1.What is the main idea of the text?
A. The growing pains of teenagers.
B. The dogma in the text hooks was false.
C. A new discovery about the teenager’s brain.
D. The students’ new challenge of doing their homework.
2.According to the author, why is it a bit of challenge for students to do their homework?
A. The students are moody.
B. Hormones are to blame.
C. There is too much homework.
D. The brains of the students haven’t been developed.
3.What does the underlined word manifest mean?
A. Develop. B. Show.
C. Abandon. D. Experience.
4.What can we know from the text?
A. The vast majority of brain doesn’t develop after mid-childhood.
B. All of the students are nightmares for parents during adolescence.
C. Prefrontal cortex is undergoing large amounts of development during childhood.
D. The prefrontal cortex has something to do with many high-level cognitive tasks.
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The dying old man opened his mouth as if ____ something.
A.to say | B.saying | C.to have said | D.was saying |
高三英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
As a child, Bill was untidy. It has been said that in order to _______this, his Mum drew up _______clothing plans for him. On Mondays he might go to school in blue…on Thursdays in black, and so on. Weekend meal _______might also be planned in detail.
People around Bill _______that he was exceptional. One of his friends recalled, “he was _______the kind of kid you didn’t want_______our team. We all knew Bill was _______than us. Even back then, when he was nine or ten years old, he talked like a(an) _______and could express himself in ways that none of us understood.”
Bill was also well _______his classmates in mathematics and science. He needed to go to a school that ________him, Lakeside, an all-boys’ school for ________students.
Lakeside allowed students to go after their own ________, to whatever extent they wished. The school ________itself on helping all its students to reach their ________potential. It was the ideal environment for someone like Bill Gates.
During his time at Lakeside, Bill scored a ________eight hundred on a mathematics test. It was extremely important to him to get this grade—he had to take the ________more than once in order to do it.
Computer time was expensive and, because he was anxious to get more ________and because Bill already had an understanding ________what he could achieve ________, he decided to ________a company: The Lakeside Programmers Group. “Let’s call the real world and try to sell something to it!” Bill announced.
1.A. balance B. keep C. watch D. control
2.A. certain B. strict C. weekly D. timely
3.A. dishes B. conferences C. places D. schedules
4.A. saw B. discussed C. confused D. recognized
5.A. ever B. never C. seldom D. always
6.A. for B. on C. among D. against
7.A. smarter B. older C. stronger D. braver
8.A. child B. teacher C. adult D. man
9.A. back off B. far from C. ahead of D. more than
10.A. defeated B. challenged C. entertained D. monitored
11.A. exceptional B. rich C. ordinary D. special
12.A. friends B. values C. careers D. interests
13.A. looked B. opened C. prided D. tricked
14.A. deep B. sacred C. full D. rich
15.A. logical B. tough C. imaginary D. perfect
16.A. test B. lesson C. task D. measure
17.A. time B. fund C. help D. grade
18.A. to B. of C. from D. behind
19.A. psychologically B. financially C. wisely D. universally
20.A. pick up B. take up C. send up D. set up
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Wild weather, unexpected coral reefs and dangerous sea creatures… these are the nightmares (噩梦) you can imagine a teenager on a solo voyage (独自旅行) around the world might suffer from. But for Laura Dekker, sailing around the globe seems less a price to be paid than a prize to be treasured.
As the 19-year-old Dutch sailor said in Maidentrip, a documentary(纪录影片) released last year about her experience of becoming the youngest person to sail around the world alone in 2012, “I was born on a boat. I lived my first five years at sea. And ever since, all I have wanted is to return to that life.”
With her yacht(游艇) Guppy, Dekker began her journey at 14 and sailed 50,004 kilometers in 519 days.
The flying fish keeping her company, the dolphins following in her wake and the warm days spent on deck playing the flute (长笛) as she watched another unforgettable sunset were enough to make others jealous.
But these didn’t always go well. There were terrible moments in which Dekker feared death. On one occasion, a whale almost turned Guppy over. Another time, she battled extreme winds and Guppy surfed down 8-meter-high waves.
Out on the open sea alone, she also got used to living without a fridge, a flushing(用水冲洗) toilet, and a hot shower.
“As a human being you don’t need much,” she told Stuff.co.nz. “ They might make life more comfortable, but you really don’t need them to be happy.”
In fact, her outlook on life was shaped by the trip. “I wanted the storms. I wanted the calms. I wanted to feel loneliness,” she told The New York Times. “And now I know all these things. It’s the end of the dream I had as a child, and it’s the beginning of my life as a sailor.”
1.According to the text, in which year did Dekker begin her journey of 50,004 kilometers at sea?
A. In 2012 B. In 2010 C. In 2009 D. In 2011
2. The method the author uses to develop Paragraph 5 is ________.
A. offering analyses B. providing explanations
C. giving examples D. making comparisons
3.Which of the following can best describe the girl Laura Dekker? _________.
A. Modest and optimistic
B. Patient and hospitable
C. Brave and generous
D. Brave and determined
4. How did Laura Dekker think of her life on the sea?
A. It was so dangerous and almost ruined her.
B. It brought her great happiness and much comfort.
C. It is the sailing on the sea that made her well known.
D. Full of danger and challenge, it made her experience happiness and better understand life as well.
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Wild weather, unexpected coral reefs and dangerous sea creatures… these are the nightmares (噩梦) you can imagine a teenager on a solo voyage (独自旅行) around the world might suffer from. But for Laura Dekker, sailing around the globe seems less a price to be paid than a prize to be treasured.
As the 19-year-old Dutch sailor said in Maidentrip, a documentary released last year about her experience of becoming the youngest person to sail around the world alone in 2012, “I was born on a boat. I lived my first five years at sea. And ever since, all I have wanted is to return to that life.”
With her yacht Guppy, Dekker began her journey at 14 and sailed 50,004 kilometers in 519 days.
The flying fish keeping her company, the dolphins following in her wake and the warm days spent on deck playing the flute as she watched another unforgettable sunset were enough to make others jealous.
But these didn’t always go well. There were terrible moments in which Dekker feared death. On one occasion, a whale almost turned Guppy over. Another time, she battled extreme winds and Guppy surfed down 8-meter-high waves.
Out on the open sea alone, she also got used to living without a fridge, a flushing toilet, and a hot shower.
“As a human being you don’t need much,” she told Stuff.co.nz. “ They might make life more comfortable, but you really don’t need them to be happy.”
In fact, her outlook on life was shaped by the trip. “I wanted the storms. I wanted the calms. I wanted to feel loneliness,” she told The New York Times. “And now I know all these things. It’s the end of the dream I had as a child, and it’s the beginning of my life as a sailor.”
1.According to the text, in which year did Dekker begin her journey of 50,004 kilometers at sea?
A. In 2012 B. In 2010
C. In 2009 D. In 2011
2.The method the author uses to develop Paragraph 5 is ________.
A. offering analyses B. providing explanations
C. giving examples D. making comparisons
3.Which of the following can best describe the girl Laura Dekker? _________.
A. Modest and optimistic B. Patient and strong
C. Brave and generous D. Brave and determined
4. How did Laura Dekker think of her life on the sea?
A. It was so dangerous and almost ruined her.
B. It made her experience happiness and better understand life.
C. It is the sailing on the sea that made her well known.
D. It brought her great happiness and much comfort.
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
It is widely accepted that nightmares (噩梦) are a reaction to negative experiences that happen during waking hours. However, some scientists believe that nightmares do have some real benefits. One 2017 study, for example, found that frequent nightmare sufferers rated themselves as more empathetic (有同理心的). They also displayed more of a tendency to unconsciously mirror other people through things like yawning People who have constant nightmares also tend to think further outside the box on psychoanalysis tasks. Some other researchers have found support for the idea that nightmares might be linked to creativity.
People seeking cure for nightmares were not necessarily more fearful or anxious, but rather had a general sensitivity to all emotional experience. Sensitivity is the driving force behind intense dreams. Heightened sensitivity to threats or fear during the day results in nightmares, whereas heightened passion or excitement may result in positive dreams. And both these forms of dreams may feed back into waking life, perhaps increasing suffering after nightmares, or promoting social bonds and empathy after positive dreams.
The effects go further still. This sensitivity overflows into awareness and thoughts -people who have a lot of nightmares experience a dreamlike quality to their waking thoughts. And this kind of thinking seems to give them a creative edge. For instance, studies show that such people tend to have greater creative talent and artistic express and people who often have nightmares also tend to have more positive dreams than the average person.
The evidence points towards the idea that, rather than disturbing normal activity, people who are unfortunate in having a lot of nightmares also have a dreaming life that is at least as creative, positive and vivid as it can be distressing and terrifying. What’s more, this imaginative richness is unlikely to be limited to sleep, but also is filled with waking thoughts and daydreams. Even after people wake up and shake off the nightmare, in other words, a mark of it stays behind, possessing them throughout the day.
1.Which can best explain the underlined words “think further outside of the box” in Paragraph 1?
A. To think differently. B. To think positively.
C. To think critically. D. To think unconsciously.
2.How can nightmare sufferers probably stop nightmares in theory according to the text?
A. Be more fearful or anxious to nightmares.
B. Try to reduce sensitivity to threats or fear.
C. Avoid excitement as much as possible.
D. Promote social bonds and empathy.
3.What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. The influence of nightmares is continuing for a long time.
B. People who suffer from nightmares cannot live a normal life.
C. Nightmares are a necessary part of creative thinking.
D. Nightmare is a reflection of waking behavior.
4.What can be the best title for the text?
A. The Solution of Nightmares B. The Benefits of Nightmares
C. The Empathy of Nightmares D. The Tendency of Nightmares
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