I don't think I can recall a time when I wasn...

I don't think I can recall a time when I wasn't aware of the beauty of the ocean. Growing up in Australia, I had the good fortune of having the sea at my side. The first time I went to Half Moon Bay, I suddenly had the feeling of not being able to feel the ground with my feet anymore.

For my 10th birthday, my sister and I were taken out to the Great Barrier Reef. There were fish in different colors, caves and layers of coral. They made such an impression on me. When I learned that only 1 percent of Australia's Coral Sea was protected, I was shocked. Australian marine life is particularly important because the reef have more marine species than any other country on the earth. But sadly, only 45% of the world's reefs are considered healthy.

This statistic is depressing, so it's important to do everything to protect them. The hope that the Coral Sea remains a complete eco system has led me to take action. I’ve become involved with the Protect Our Coral Sea activity, which aims to create the largest marine park in the world. It would serve as a place where the ocean's species will all have a safe place forever.

Together, Angus and I created a little video and we hope it will inspire people to be a part of the movement. Angus also shares many beautiful childhood memories of the ocean as a young boy, who grew up sailing, admiring the beauty of the ocean and trying to find the species.

1.From the underlined sentence in Para.1, we can learn the author_______

A.had a wonderful impression of Half Moon Bay B.seldom went surfing at the sea

C.forgot his experiences about the ocean D.never went back to his hometown

2.According to the second paragraph, Australian marine life________

A.is protected better than that in other oceans

B.is escaping from the Coral Sea gradually

C.depends on reefs for living greatly

D.may be faced with danger

3.The Protect Our Coral Sea activity is intended to_______

A.raise more teenagers environmental awareness

B.contribute to a complete eco-system

C.prevent more marine species being endangered

D.set up a large nature reserve for reefs

4.Angus and the author created a little video to__________

A.bring back to people their memory of ocean species

B.urge more people to take action to protect the marine species

C.inspire more people to explore the secret of the ocean

D.share their childhood experiences about the ocean

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

This is time of year when we think about giving and receiving presents. Can you find a little extra to give? On this page we suggest a few organizations you might like to help.

Littleton Children’s Home

We don’t want your money, but children’s toys, books and clothes in good condition would be very welcome.

Also—we are looking for friendly families who would take our children into their homes for a few hours or days as guests. You have so much—will you share it?

Phone Sister Thomas on 55671.

Children’s Hospice

We look after a small number of very sick children. This important work needs skill and love. We cannot continue without gifts of money to pay for more nursing staff. We also need story books and toys suitable for quiet games.

Please contact The Secretary, Little Children’s Hospice, Newby Road.

Street Food

In the winter weather, it’s no fun being homeless. It’s even worse if you’re hungry. We give hot food to at least fifty people every night. It’s hard work, but necessary. Can you come and help? If not, can you find a little money? We use a very old kitchen, and we urgently need some new saucepans. Money for new ones would be most welcome indeed.

Contact Street Food, c/o Mary’s House, Elming Way, Littleton. Phone 27713.

Littleton Youth Club

Have you got an unwanted chair?—a record player?—a pot of paint?

Because we can use them!

We want to get to work on our meeting room!

Please phone 66231 and we’ll be happy to collect anything you can give us.

Thank you!

The Night Shelter

We offer a warm bed for the night to anyone who has nowhere to go. We rent the former Commercial Hotel on Green Street. Although it is not expensive, we never seem to have quite enough money. Can you let us have a few pounds? Any amount, however small, will be such a help.

Send it to us at 15, Green St, Littleton. Please make check payable to Night Shelter.

1.Reading the passage, you might like to help these organizations which work for________

A．homeless and sick children

B．less fortunate members of our society

C．hungry people who have no beds to sleep in

D．friendly members of our society to help others

2.If you like children and can offer a happy family to a homeless child, you may go to________.

A．Street Food  B．Night Shelter                C．Children’s Home   D．Children’s Hospice

3.We can infer that________.

A．there are too many social problems in this country

B．people are very poor during the time for giving presents

C．warm-hearted people like to give away money

D．this passage is taken from a local newspaper

4.If your child has grown up, you may take the child’s things to________.

A．Children’s Home and Children’s Hospice  B．Youth Club and Children’s Home

C．Children’s Hospice and Night Shelter          D．Youth Club and Night Shelter

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

This is a time of year when we think about giving and receiving presents. Can you find a little extra to give? On this page we suggest a few organizations you might like to help.

Littleton Children’s Home

We DON’T want your money, but children’s toys, books and clothes IN GOOD CONDITION would be very welcome.

Also, we are looking for friendly families who would take our children into their homes for a few hours or days as guests. You have so much ─will you share it?

Phone Sister Thomas on 55671

Children’s Hospice

We look after a small number of very sick children. This important work needs skill and love. We cannot continue without gifts or money to pay for more nursing staff. We also need storybooks and toys suitable for quiet games.

Please contact the Secretary, Little Children’s Hospice, Newby Road.

Street Food

In the winter weather, it’s no fun being homeless. It’s even worse if you’re hungry. We give hot food to at least fifty people every night. It’s hard work, but necessary. Can you come and help? If not, can you offer a little money? We use a very old kitchen, and we need some new saucepans(平底锅). Money for new ones would be most welcome indeed.

Contact Street Food, c/o Mary’s House, Elming Way. Littleton Phone 27713

Littleton Youth Club

Have you got an unwanted chair? ─a record-player?─a pot of paint ? Because we can use them!

We want to get to work on our meeting room!

Please phone 66231 and we’ll be happy to collect anything you can give us.

Thank you!

The Night Shelter

We offer a warm bed for the night to anyone who has nowhere to go. We rent the former Commercial Hotel on Green Street. Although it is not expensive, we never seem to have quite enough money. Can you let us have a few pounds? Any amount, however small, will be such a help.

Send it to us at 15, Green St, Littleton. Please make check payable to Night Shelter.

1. What kind of people are these organizations designed for?

2.If you like children and you could offer a happy family to a homeless child, you may contact _____.

3. What can be concluded from the passage?

高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

This is a time of year when we think about giving and receiving presents. Can you find a little extra to give? On this page we suggest a few organizations you might like to help.

Littleton Children’s Home

We DON’T want your money, but children’s toys, books and clothes IN GOOD CONDITION would be very welcome.

Also, we are looking for friendly families who would take our children into their homes for a few hours or days as guests. You have so much─will you share it?

Phone Sister Thomas on 55671

Children’s Hospice

We look after a small number of very sick children. This important work needs skill and love. We cannot continue without gifts or money to pay for more nursing staff. We also need storybooks and toys suitable for quiet games.

Please contact the Secretary, Little Children’s Hospice, Newby Road.

Street Food

In the winter weather, it’s no fun being homeless. It’s even worse if you’re hungry. We give hot food to at least fifty people every night. It’s hard work, but necessary. Can you come and help? If not, can you offer a little money? We use a very old kitchen, and we need some new saucepans(平底锅). Money for new ones would be most welcome indeed.

Contact Street Food, c/o Mary’s House, Elming Way. Littleton Phone 27713

Littleton Youth Club

Have you got an unwanted chair?─a record-player?─a pot of paint ? Because we can use them!

We want to get to work on our meeting room!

Please phone 66231 and we’ll be happy to collect anything you can give us.

Thank you!

The Night Shelter

We offer a warm bed for the night to anyone who has nowhere to go. We rent the former Commercial Hotel on Green Street. Although it is not expensive, we never seem to have quite enough money. Can you let us have a few pounds? Any amount, however small, will be such a help.

Send it to us at 15, Green St, Littleton. Please make check payable to Night Shelter.

1.What kind of people are these organizations designed for?

A. Homeless and sick children

B. Less fortunate members of our society

C. Hungry people who have no beds to sleep in

D. Friendly members of our society to help others

2. If you like children and you could offer a happy family to a homeless child, you may contact _____.

A. Street Food　　　　                         B. The Night Shelter　　

C. Littleton Children’s Home　　　　             D. Children’s Hospice

3.What can be concluded from the passage?

A. There are too many social problems in this society.

B. People are very poor during the time of giving.

C. To offer help is just an excuse for these organizations to collect money.

D. There are many organizations trying to solve social problems.

4.What kind of things would Littleton Youth Club like to collect?

A. Old furniture and second-hand electrical equipment.

B. An apartment and some saucepans.

C. Hot food and storybooks.

D. A sum of money and children’s toys.　

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

When I think back to my childhood, I like to recall the super-heroes that filled my Saturday morning cartoon marathons. Wearing my warm pajamas, eyes ________ on the screen, I remember how I ________ those larger-than-life superheroes fighting against enemies and ________ the difficulties. They opened up a world of ________.

As a child, I think we all admire the idea that there are people in this world who can _____ the impossible things--do things that ______ people cannot. Fictional superheroes are usually ____ as the people having extraordinary or superhuman power and are devoted to ________ the public. But，there are real-life heroes ________ there. They don't have fascinating power that we can only ________ of. I am talking about unsung heroes in our ________. The people we often forget, the cashiers at our ________ grocery stores, mechanics who fix our cars，people who cook the food in our local restaurants, daycare workers，those working on the frontline of non-profit organizations, secretaries, and the ________ goes on.

I try to express my ________ every day to the people who make our lives ________, even when we don't realize it. Just everyone in your community is ________ an unsung hero to someone in their lives.

Life is a ________ at times and each of us has a story to tell. Someone else is thankful for less than what you have. An unsung hero of mine who ________ my day was a lady in the line behind me at the grocery store who said," It doesn't matter if the glass is full or empty just be _____ that you have a glass." Having a ________ attitude means showing gratitude towards the people in your life.

1.A. attended　　 B. adapted　　 C. exposed　　 D. fixed

2.A. admired　　 B. respected　　 C. imagined　　 D. expected

3.A. arranging　　 B. challenging　　 C. responding　　 D. balancing

4.A. wonders　　 B. freedom　　 C. possibilities　　 D. business

5.A. accomplish　　 B. acquire　　 C. overcome　　 D. occupy

6.A. wealthy　　 B. unusual　　 C. ordinary　　 D. educated

7.A. represented　　 B. described　　 C. designed　　 D. supposed

8.A. entertaining　　 B. astonishing　　 C. leading　　 D. protecting

9.A. staying　　 B. fighting　　 C. working　　 D. existing

10.A. talk　　 B. dream　　 C. think　　 D. imagine

11.A. country　　 B. city　　 C. community　　 D. state

12.A. local　　 B. rural　　 C. urban　　 D. favorite

13.A. frontline　　 B. example　　 C. number　　 D. list

14.A. gratitude　　 B. admiration　　 C. delight　　 D. praise

15.A. faster　　 B. cheaper　　 C. easier　　 D. worse

16.A. exactly　　 B. probably　　 C. naturally　　 D. slightly

17.A. stage　　 B. struggle　　 C. discussion　　 D. conversation

18.A. made　　 B. led　　 C. spent　　 D. enriched

19.A. amazed　　 B. confident　　 C. astonished　　 D. thankful

20.A. clever　　 B. satisfactory　　 C. positive　　 D. negative

高二英语完形填空困难题查看答案及解析

_______ I admit the problem is very serious, I don’t think it can’t be solved．

A．While                  B．When                  C．As                      D．Because

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

I am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language — the way it can evoke(唤起) an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all — all the Englishes I grew up with.

Born into a Chinese family that had recently arrived in California, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as “broken” English. But I feel embarrassed to say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken”, as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness. I’ve heard other terms used, “limited English,” for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people’s perceptions (认识) of the limited English speaker.

I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly, her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.

I started writing fiction in 1985. And for reasons I won’t get into today, I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”, and what I imagine to be her translation of her Chinese, her internal(内在的) language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure: I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show; her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.

1.By saying “Language is the tool of my trade”, the author means that________.

2.The author used to think of her mother’s English as________.

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

4.What is the passage mainly about?

高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

I am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language — the way it can evoke（唤起） an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all—all the Englishes I grew up with.

Born into a Chinese family that had recently arrived in California, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as “broken” English. But feel embarrassed to say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken”, as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness. I’ve heard other terms used, “limited English,” for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people’s perceptions（认识）of the limited English speaker.

I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.

I started writing fiction in 1985. And for reasons I won’t get into today, I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”, and what I imagine to be her translation of her Chinese, her internal（内在的）language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure: I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show; her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.

1.By saying “Language is the tool of my trade”, the author means that ______.

A. she uses English in foreign trade

B. she is fascinated by languages

C. she works as a translator

D. she is a writer by profession

2.The author used to think of her mother’s English as ______.

A. impolite         B. amusing          C. imperfect        D. practical

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

A. Americans do not understand broken English.

B. The author’s mother was not respected sometimes.

C. The author’ mother had positive influence on her.

D. Broken English always reflects imperfect thoughts.

4.The author gradually realizes her mother’s English is ______.

A. well structured   B. in the old style

C. easy to translate   D. rich in meaning

5.What is the passage mainly about?

A. The changes of the author’s attitude to her mother’s English.

B. The limitation of the author’s perception of her mother.

C. The author’s misunderstanding of “limited” English.

D. The author’s experiences of using broken English.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

_____ the Internet is of great help. I don’t think it’s a good idea to spend too much time on it.

A. If　　 B. While　　 C. Because　　 D. As

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

_____ the Internet is of great help, I don’t think it’s a good idea to spend too much time on it.

A. If               B. While           C. Because         D. As

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析