Most of the women I know, including myself, are starved for time. I sometimes try to do the chores all without asking (or paying) for assistance. I grew up in a household where my parents took care of all the chores including the housekeeping, lawn maintenance (草坪养护), etc. Looking back, I’m sure they had to make sacrifices to do things for my sister and me. But I think we all can agree on time savers as a positive, welcome contribution.
I made a decision about 5 years ago that I would hire a lawn maintenance service, so that Ted didn’t have to spend his time while home on the weekends taking care of our yard. I didn’t think twice about it and still feel it is money well spent. His travel schedule is very busy and by paying for this service, I get to spend more quality time with my significant other!
When it came to doing something similar for myself, I struggled. I kept telling myself that others are able to keep up with much more than my demands & schedule. I cast the idea back and forth of hiring a housekeeper for over three years, before I decided to take the step.
True to my nature I researched my options online, asked some coworkers and friends for recommendations and made a decision to take a meeting with a nationally known chain. I met with one of their sale representative in my house and decided to move forward. She said that she wasn’t there to push the cleaning services. Instead, she was there to tell me how much time I’d save by purchasing her service.
I decided to keep a spring cleaning and then once a month after that. Ultimately I only ended up keeping up this particular service for about 4 months due to some quality concerns, but I would definitely do it again and am in the market for a new housekeeping service. I loved having some time for me and no longer feel guilty for paying.
1.Why does the author mention his parents in paragraph 1?
A.She wishes her parents to help her do the chores.
B.She thinks the traditional cleaning concept should be changed.
C.She decides to learn from her parents to do the chores by herself.
D.She wants to reward her parents for their sacrifice for her.
2.What can we learn from paragraph 2 and 3?
A.The author had to take care of the yard before she paid for the service.
B.The author’s husband was not willing to do the housework.
C.The author paid for the service for herself without hesitation.
D.The author loves her husband very much.
3.What touched the author and made her decide to buy the service for herself?
A.Her coworkers and friends persuaded her.
B.The quality of the service is perfect.
C.The service can save her a lot of time.
D.The price of the service is lower than any others.
4.What does the author mainly intend to tell us?
A.Women should take more responsibility for the household.
B.We should choose the cleaning services carefully.
C.To save time, it is worth paying for the cleaning services.
D.It’s important to keep the house clean and tidy.
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题
Most of the women I know, including myself, are starved for time. I sometimes try to do the chores all without asking (or paying) for assistance. I grew up in a household where my parents took care of all the chores including the housekeeping, lawn maintenance (草坪养护), etc. Looking back, I’m sure they had to make sacrifices to do things for my sister and me. But I think we all can agree on time savers as a positive, welcome contribution.
I made a decision about 5 years ago that I would hire a lawn maintenance service, so that Ted didn’t have to spend his time while home on the weekends taking care of our yard. I didn’t think twice about it and still feel it is money well spent. His travel schedule is very busy and by paying for this service, I get to spend more quality time with my significant other!
When it came to doing something similar for myself, I struggled. I kept telling myself that others are able to keep up with much more than my demands & schedule. I cast the idea back and forth of hiring a housekeeper for over three years, before I decided to take the step.
True to my nature I researched my options online, asked some coworkers and friends for recommendations and made a decision to take a meeting with a nationally known chain. I met with one of their sale representative in my house and decided to move forward. She said that she wasn’t there to push the cleaning services. Instead, she was there to tell me how much time I’d save by purchasing her service.
I decided to keep a spring cleaning and then once a month after that. Ultimately I only ended up keeping up this particular service for about 4 months due to some quality concerns, but I would definitely do it again and am in the market for a new housekeeping service. I loved having some time for me and no longer feel guilty for paying.
1.Why does the author mention his parents in paragraph 1?
A.She wishes her parents to help her do the chores.
B.She thinks the traditional cleaning concept should be changed.
C.She decides to learn from her parents to do the chores by herself.
D.She wants to reward her parents for their sacrifice for her.
2.What can we learn from paragraph 2 and 3?
A.The author had to take care of the yard before she paid for the service.
B.The author’s husband was not willing to do the housework.
C.The author paid for the service for herself without hesitation.
D.The author loves her husband very much.
3.What touched the author and made her decide to buy the service for herself?
A.Her coworkers and friends persuaded her.
B.The quality of the service is perfect.
C.The service can save her a lot of time.
D.The price of the service is lower than any others.
4.What does the author mainly intend to tell us?
A.Women should take more responsibility for the household.
B.We should choose the cleaning services carefully.
C.To save time, it is worth paying for the cleaning services.
D.It’s important to keep the house clean and tidy.
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Many women work in big companies，but in the boardrooms of most big companies, women are in the _______.
A. scarcity B. minority C. majority D. popularity
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Michelle Obama, Kate Moss and Samantha Cameron are three of the most stylish women on the planet but it seems they have their daughters rather than their style know how to thank for that. New research has shown that women with daughters tend to be more stylish than mothers of sons; a fact partly because of the style advice their daughters offer as they get older.
78 percent of women over the age of 50 say they would be more than happy to let their daughters choose a complete outfit for them. However, just five percent of women say they would turn to their sons for style advice, while 28 percent believe that mothers of boys are less fashionable than women with girls.
“Women who don’t have daughters become less interested in style as they grow older but having a daughter may keep alive her interest in looking great,” comments psychologist Honey Langcaster - James. “And, because of their close relationship, they also have a source of support and encouragement when it comes to their style decisions.”
More than a quarter of women believe that Mums who have sons are less fashion - conscious than Mums with daughters. The most common reasons for this are that daughters are more critical (爱挑剔的), offer good advice and inspiration, and add an element of competition to look the best while sons don’t seem to care and aren’t as strict as daughters.
Interestingly, although mothers tend to rely on their daughters’ style tips, their confidence isn’t reciprocated, with 40 percent of women between the ages of 19 and 34 saying they wouldn’t allow their mothers to shop for them as what their mothers would choose for them would not be as good as they expected.
And although they might not appreciate the fashion advice, the research, which was conducted by online retailer Gray & Osbourn, showed that daughters do still need their mothers with 71 percent saying they chat to their female parent every day.
“Overall, the research shows just how important relationships are between mothers and daughters,” added Langcaster - James, “and just how much women appreciate an honest and trustworthy opinion.”
1. The opening paragraph is mainly to show ________.
A. girls influence their mothers’ style decisions
B. women with children are often less stylish
C. mothers like to follow their children’s advice
D. boys are actually better advisors than girls
2.It can be inferred from the passage that girls ________.
A. show more interest in science than boys
B. care more about what their mothers wear
C. can help a lot to solve family problems
D. are good at encouraging other people
3.By saying “their confidence isn’t reciprocated”, the author means that ______.
A. some women would not like to follow their mother’s style advice
B. some women aren’t sure what to wear when attending a party
C. some women don’t like to choose clothes for their mothers
D. some women often show no confidence in themselves
4.What does the author mainly tell us in the passage?
A. It confuses many parents how to talk with their kids.
B. Daughters prefer to talk with their mums instead of dads.
C. It is important for parents to respect their children’s choice.
D. Mothers of girls are more fashionable than those of boys.
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The following are some of history’s most inspirational women recommended by Therese Borchard.
Who Was Mother Teresa ? ￥66.00
Born in Macedonia, Mother Teresa（1910—1997）taught at St. Mary’s High School, in Calcutta, India, but was forced to do something about the suffering and poverty. In 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity. Although her devotion to the poor is inspiring, it’s her persistence（坚持不懈）through years of doubt, as recorded in her private journals, that inspired me the most.
The Diary of a Young Girl ￥55.10
In The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank （1929—1945） documented her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944 during the German Occupation of the Netherlands. She is a role model of honesty, strength, and hope for me — that even in the most miserable circumstances, you can lead with love.
A Life of Discovery ￥111.10
“Do one thing every day that scares you,” wrote Eleanor Roosevelt （1884—1962）. She had a lot to choose from, as her life was full of challenges. Eleanor inspires me to bravely deal with problems that matter to me, and to find her way through life’s trials and hardships with gracefulness and determination.
Story of My Life ￥32.50
A deaf-blind author from Alabama, Helen Keller （1880—1968） provides a powerful example of a woman through two major disabilities to achieve a meaningful life. “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world,” she said. Her attitude of hope and optimism inspires me to use my suffering to become a better and wiser person, to go beyond my pain into service of others.
1.Why does Therese Borchard recommend Mother Teresa?
A.She worked as a teacher for years. B.She set up a charity organization.
C.She published a private journal. D.She helped the poor in spite of doubt.
2.What made Eleanor Roosevelt special?
A.Facing challenges bravely. B.Loving doing scary things.
C.Having high intelligence. D.Continuing carrying out trials.
3.Which book should the disabled losing hope read?
A.Who Was Mother Teresa ? B.The Diary of a Young Girl
C.A Life of Discovery D.Story of My Life
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Listed below are the stories of women you may not know about, but definitely should.
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr starred in many films. But her film career is far from her only noteworthy achievement; she was also a brilliant inventor. In 1942, she and composer George Antheil received a patent（专利）for a device that could change radio signal frequencies. The purpose of the technology was to keep military enemies from figuring out messages. But it did more than that - it laid a foundation for the wireless technology we use today.
Maria Sibylla Merian
Today, children can happily explain how a caterpillar（毛虫） tums into a butterfly. But there was a time when no one knew this. Until the 1670s, scientists thought that caterpillars and butterflies were two totally different creatures. Thanks to Maria, we know the truth about these beautiful winged insects. Fascinated by insects, she began collecting, studying and drawing them as a child. It was through her study of caterpillars that she discovered the truth about their life cycles. She published two volumes of naturalist research, which provide major contributions to the field of entomology（昆虫学）.
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace, the daughter of celebrated British poet Lord Byron, wasn’t a poet herself but the world’s first computer programmer. We think of computers as a recent invention, but people were toying with the idea of “computing machines” in the mid – 19th century when Lovelace was alive. Lovelace’s mathematical genius was apparent at a young age and caught the attention of Cambridge professor Charles Babbage, who was working to design early computing machines that would be able to quickly solve math problems. Lovelace wrote some suggestions as to how to program the machines to work out numbers.
In addition to designing this early computer program, she was also the first to surest that these computers might be able to do more than compute. She imagined them doing almost everything, from producing images to composing music.
1.What does the underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refer to?
A. The technology. B. The patent.
C. The device. D. The film career.
2.Before Maria’s discovery, people thought that .
A. a butterfly was insect without wings
B. a butterfly was turned from a caterpillar
C. a caterpillar had nothing to do with a butterfly
D. a caterpillar and a butterfly were insects of a kind
3.What can we learn about Ada Lovelace from the text?
A. She possessed literary talent just like her father.
B. She foresaw various function& of the computer.
C. She received education in Cambridge University.
D. She is considered to have invented the computer.
4.What did the three women have in common?
A. They discovered priceless things existing in nature.
B. They were entirely devoted to women’s rights.
C. They were expert at information technology.
D. They made great contributions to science.
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It’s an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are starved for time. We try our best to save bits of time here and there. Add it up, and we will finally get to everything we want to do. But bits of time here and there. Add it up, and we will finally get to everything we want to do. But this idea has been completely backward. 1. We build the lives we want, and then time saves itself.
Do we really have no time? “I don’t have time, ”often means “It’s not a priority (优先事项). ”Time is highly flexible. We cannot make more time. However, time will stretch (延展)to accommodate what we choose to put into it. No one will leave the broken water heater aside. So not doing something is not a matter of lacking time; 2. Actually, it’s a matter of choice.
How do we treat our priorities? First, we need to figure out what our priorities are. Actually we may give ourselves a performance review. What three to five things did we do that made it so amazing? Next, we can write them into next year’s performance review. We will have a list of six to ten goals we can work on in the next year. 3.
4. Scientists find a really good time to do this is Friday afternoon. Friday afternoon is what an economist might call a “low opportunity cost” time. Most of us are not sitting there on Friday afternoons saying, “I am excited to make progress toward my personal and professional priorities right now. ”But we are willing to think about what those should be. So take a little bit of time Friday afternoon, and make ourselves a three-category priority list:career, relationships, self.
It’s about looking at the whole of one’s time and seeing where the good aspects can go. There is time. 5. And when we focus on what matters, we can build the lives we want in the time we’ve got.
A. it’s that I’m too busy for it.
B. it’s that I don’t want to do it.
C. When do we plan our priorities?
D. Make sure there’s time for the important things.
E. We don’t build the lives we want by saving time.
F. Even if we are busy, we have time for what matters.
G. And then we need to break these down into doable steps.
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The plant was_____light and died.
A. starve B. starving
C. starved of D. starve for
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Five people are at our table, including myself. I’ve already learnt a great deal about them in the short time we’ve been at sea, although we rarely meet except at mealtimes.
First of all, there is Dr. Stone. He is a man of about sixty-five, with gray hair and a friendly face. He gave up his work a short while ago and is now traveling round the world before he retires to some quite country village. As a young man, he served for many years as a doctor in the army and visited many countries. He’s told us a great deal about the city to which they are going.
Then there is “Grandmother”. I call her that because her name escapes me. In spite of being a grandmother, she looks remarkable young, no more than fifty. She is on her way to visit a daughter who went to Australia some years ago. Naturally she is very excited at the thought of seeing her again, and her three grandchildren, whom she has never seen.
Then there is a man I don’t care for very much, the engineer by the name of Barlow. He has been on leave in England and is now returning to his work in Singapore.
The other person who sits at our table is Mrs. Hunt. I’ve found out hardly anything about her. She’s extremely quiet and rarely talks, except to consult the doctor about children’s various illnesses. She is on her way to join her husband in India.
1.What can we know about Mr. Stone?
A． He knows a lot about the city the author is going to visit.
B．He is going to give up his work.
C．He has been retired for many years.
D．He is a doctor in the army now
2.Who lives in India?
A．Mrs. Hunt B．Grandmother C．The doctor D．Mr. Hunt
3.The writer calls the second person “Grandmother”because _____.
A. She looks old. B. he can’t think of her name
C. She has three daughters D he respects her
4.The underlined phrase“on leave”in Paragragh 4 probably means _____.
A．leaving B．at home C．about to leave D．on vacation
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It's an unquestioned truth of modern life that we are starved for time. We try our best to save bits of time here and there. Add it up, and we will finally do everything we want. But this idea has been completely backward. 1. We build the lives we want, and then time saves itself.
Do we really have no time? “I don' t have time" often means” It's not a priority(优先事项)". Time is highly flexible. We cannot make more time. However, time will stretch to accommodate what we choose to put into it. So not doing something is not a matter of lacking time; 2.Actually it's a matter of choice.
How do we treat our priorities? First, we need to figure out what our priorities are. Actually we may give ourselves a performance review. What did we do that made it so amazing? Next, we can write them into the next year's performance review. We will have a list of six to ten goals we can work on next year. 3.
4. Scientists find the really good time to do this is Friday afternoon. Friday afternoon is what an economist might call the "low opportunity cost" time. Most of us do not sit there on Friday afternoon saying, "I am excited to make progress toward my personal and professional priorities right now." But we are willing to think about what those should be. So take a little bit of time on Friday afternoon, and make a list of three-category priorities: careers, relationships and self.
It's about looking at the whole of one's time and seeing where the good aspects can go. There is time. 5. And when we focus on what matters, we can build the lives we want in time we’ve got.
A. it's that we are too busy with it.
B. it's that we don’t want to do it.
C. When do we plan our priorities?
D. Make sure there's time for the important things.
E. We don't build the lives we want by saving time.
F. Even if we are busy, we have time for what matters.
G. And then we need to break these down into doable steps.
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Don’t _____ women. They are as important as men for the development of society.
A. look up to B. look down upon
C. look out for D. look forward to
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