From that day on, when eight-year-old Charlie with gray eyes began riding my school bus, he was a trial. If a fight ______ out, it must have been Charlie. If a girl was crying, ______ were that Charlie had pulled her hair. I practiced every bit of patience, but all ______. However, I spoke to him ______ but firmly, he would stare at me with those big gray eyes without a word.
A little girl sent me a small tin ______. She had written, “To the Best Bus Driver Polly.” One day, I was ______ because of a talk with the headmaster. When I got on the bus, I ______ that the tin heart was gone.“Charlie was the first one on the bus. Check his ______, ”insisted the girl who had given me the heart.
I asked him to come forward, and ______ into his pocket. Then I felt it—the ______ small tin heart. Charlie stared at me for a long time. There were no ______ in those big gray eyes and no plea(恳求) for ______ He seemed to be waiting for what would happen. I was about to pull the tin heart out of Charlie’s pocket when I ______ myself. “Let him keep it,” a ______ seemed to whisper.
Many years later, I was in a department store ______ someone said, “Polly?” I turned to see the big ______ eyes. There was no doubt. It was Charlie. To my ______, he hugged me and pulled ______ from his pocket—the little tin heart that ______, “To the Best Bus Driver Polly.”
“You were the only one who kept ______,” he explained.
1.A. held B. broke C. gave D. got
2.A. challenges B. changes C. choices D. chances
3.A. in secret B. in shape C. in vain D. in sight
4.A. weakly B. gently C. coldly D. rudely
5.A. heart B. bus C. animal D. girl
6.A. blamed B. charged C. teased D. delayed
7.A. doubted B. admitted C. realized D. wondered
8.A. pockets B. books C. seats D. schoolbags
9.A. stretched B. raised C. reached D. pulled
10.A. familiar B. new C. ordinary D. earlier
11.A. pride B. pleasure C. smiles D. tears
12.A. encouragement B. mercy C. recognition D. escape
13.A. stopped B. enjoyed C. devoted D. prepared
14.A. child B. voice C. tone D. noise
15.A. until B. before C. because D. when
16.A. black B. blue C. gray D. red
17.A. surprise B. relief C. amusement D. delight
18.A. nothing B. anything C. something D. everything
19.A. sang B. read C. showed D. appeared
20.A. asking B. practicing C. persuading D. trying
高二英语完形填空中等难度题
From that day on, when eight-year-old Charlie with gray eyes began riding my school bus, he was a trial. If a fight ______ out, it must have been Charlie. If a girl was crying, ______ were that Charlie had pulled her hair. I practiced every bit of patience, but all ______. However, I spoke to him ______ but firmly, he would stare at me with those big gray eyes without a word.
A little girl sent me a small tin ______. She had written, “To the Best Bus Driver Polly.” One day, I was ______ because of a talk with the headmaster. When I got on the bus, I ______ that the tin heart was gone.“Charlie was the first one on the bus. Check his ______, ”insisted the girl who had given me the heart.
I asked him to come forward, and ______ into his pocket. Then I felt it—the ______ small tin heart. Charlie stared at me for a long time. There were no ______ in those big gray eyes and no plea(恳求) for ______ He seemed to be waiting for what would happen. I was about to pull the tin heart out of Charlie’s pocket when I ______ myself. “Let him keep it,” a ______ seemed to whisper.
Many years later, I was in a department store ______ someone said, “Polly?” I turned to see the big ______ eyes. There was no doubt. It was Charlie. To my ______, he hugged me and pulled ______ from his pocket—the little tin heart that ______, “To the Best Bus Driver Polly.”
“You were the only one who kept ______,” he explained.
1.A. held B. broke C. gave D. got
2.A. challenges B. changes C. choices D. chances
3.A. in secret B. in shape C. in vain D. in sight
4.A. weakly B. gently C. coldly D. rudely
5.A. heart B. bus C. animal D. girl
6.A. blamed B. charged C. teased D. delayed
7.A. doubted B. admitted C. realized D. wondered
8.A. pockets B. books C. seats D. schoolbags
9.A. stretched B. raised C. reached D. pulled
10.A. familiar B. new C. ordinary D. earlier
11.A. pride B. pleasure C. smiles D. tears
12.A. encouragement B. mercy C. recognition D. escape
13.A. stopped B. enjoyed C. devoted D. prepared
14.A. child B. voice C. tone D. noise
15.A. until B. before C. because D. when
16.A. black B. blue C. gray D. red
17.A. surprise B. relief C. amusement D. delight
18.A. nothing B. anything C. something D. everything
19.A. sang B. read C. showed D. appeared
20.A. asking B. practicing C. persuading D. trying
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On a cloudless summer day, 13-year-old Charlie Finlayson was ready for a long hike with his father, David.
Around noon, David was inching his way across a cliff 800 feet above the valley, searching for a line of cracks that would lead them to the top. Charlie stood on a rock a dozen yards to the right as he fed rope to his dad. Reaching up, David missed his step. In the next moment, he heard a sharp crack from above as something larger broke loose.
When Charlie saw his father sailing through the air alongside the huge rocks that had struck him, he pulled the rope fiercely.
“Tell me it’s OK,” Charlie begged, struggling to control his fear.
“I think I broke my leg,” David told him. “And we must get off this mountain.” He proposed a plan: Charlie would lower David half a rope length at a time, then lower himself to the same level, and at a new place, begin again.
As hours passed, they came to the base of the cliff, and David was shaking with cold and exhaustion.
Worried that David would die if he fell asleep, Charlie kept the conversation going; they talked about past travels. Eventually Charlie allowed himself to catnap, checking on his father each time he awoke. When the sun rose on their camp, Charlie was relieved to see that his father was awake.
Just after dawn, Charlie headed off on the trail toward the volunteers’ cabin 12 miles away, bringing back a helicopter that would carry his father to safety.
“Charlie’s as strong as anyone I know,” says his father, “I’m so proud of him.”
1.What happened to David when he climbed up?
A. He missed his step and broke his leg.
B. He lost his way across the cliff.
C. He caught sight of a sharp crack from above.
D. He stood on a rock a dozen yards from the cliff.
2.How did Charlie feel at his father’s sailing through the air?
A. Puzzled.
B. Fearful.
C. Relieved.
D. Proud.
3.What does the underlined word “catnap” in Paragraph 7 mean?
A. become less calm
B. continue talking
C. comfort himself
D. take a short sleep
4.What might be the best title for the passage?
A. A Father and His Brave Son
B. An Accident Happened in a Valley
C. A Story on a Cloudless Summer Day
D. A Boy Saved His Father’s Life from Cliff
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
“Keep your eyes on the ball.” That is good advice when you are on the playing field, and good advice for everyday life. “Keep your mind on what’s important,” is the way I’d put it. But people are funny. They think too much about the details.
I had a secretary once. She was very hardworking. I ran a school and people used to call up to enroll(登记) for courses. Berry used to get angry at the phone. “If they keep on ringing, I’ll never get my typing done!” she’d shout.
People just don’t see the big picture. One evening, after leaving work, I was sitting next to a man on the train. I was feeling tired. My eyes fell on the paper he had spread out in front of him. You know how you feel to read over someone’s shoulder?
I read the page and leaned back. I guessed I was waiting for him to turn it. After a while, I realized—he wasn’t turning the page. He just kept on reading.
Now if you knew the page he was reading, you’d know that there weren’t many words on the page to read anyway. The layout（版面） was mostly pictures. So I turned to the man and said,” You know, you really read very slowly.”
“What do you mean?” he asked. “Well,” I told him, “I read the page in about a minute, and you have taken about ten. And you are still reading. You know,” I went on “If you learned to read faster, you could get more reading done.” He remained silent for a minute or two. “If I read too fast, my paper wouldn’t last me to my station.”
1.The writer wasn’t satisfied with his secretary because ___.
A. she didn’t put first thing first
B. she was too busy
C. she was easy to get angry
D. she couldn’t finish her work on time
2.The man read newspaper in order to___.
A. take in information B. enjoy pictures
C. save time D. kill time
3.The writer thinks that people seem to need a sense of ___.
A. what to read first B. how to read fast
C. what is important D. what is funny
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
One day, when I was in high school, I saw a kid named Kyle walking home from school with all his books, I thought to myself, “ 11 would anyone bring home all his books for the weekend? He must really be 12.” As I was walking, I saw several kids running toward him. They ran at him, 13 all his books out of his arms and he fell down in the dirt. His glasses went 14 and landed in the grass.
My heart went out to him. So, I ran over to him.15 I handed him his glasses, he looked at me and said, “Hey, thanks!”
I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he lived. As it 16 , he lived near me. We talked all the way home. Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best friends.
Kyle was the 17 student of our class, one of those guys that really found themselves during high school. Therefore he had the 18 to prepare a graduation speech. On the graduation day, I could see that he was 19. So, I patted him on the back and said, “Hey, big guy, you’ll be great!” He looked at me and smiled.
He cleared his throat, and began. “Graduation is a time to 20 those who helped you make it through those 21 years. Your parents, your teachers… but mostly your friends, I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best22 you can give him.”
I just looked at my friend with disbelief as he told the story of the first day we met. He had planned to 23 himself over the weekend and was carrying his books home. “Thankfully, nothing happened. My friend 24 me from doing the unspeakable.”
Not until that moment did I realize that you should never underestimate(低估) the25 of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person’s life. For better or for worse.
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高二英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed that the boy ahead of him had tripped and dropped all the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a baseball bat, a glove and a small tape recorder. Mark knelt down and helped the boy pick up the scattered articles. Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry part of the burden. As they walked, Mark discovered the boy’s name was Bill, that he loved video games, baseball and history that he was having a lot of trouble with his other subjects and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend.
Mark went home after leaving Bill at his house. They continued to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice, and then both graduated from junior high school. They ended up in the same high school, where they had brief contacts over the years. Finally the long-awaited senior year came. Three weeks before graduation, Bill asked Mark if they could talk.
Bill reminded him of the day years ago when they had first met. “Do you ever wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day?” asked Bill. “You see, I cleaned out my locker because I didn’t want to leave a mess for anyone else. I had stored away some of my mother’s sleeping pills and I was going home to commit suicide(自杀). But after we spent some time together talking and laughing, I realized that if I had killed myself, I would have missed that time and so many others that might follow. So you see, Mark, when you picked up my books that day, you did a lot more. You saved my life.”
1.What happened to Bill on his way home from school?
A．Bill almost killed himself.
B．Bill was caught on something and almost fell down.
C．Bill was sleepy from the sleeping pills.
D．Bill noticed Mark following him home.
2.After Bill got home, ________.
A．he missed his friend Mark very much
B．he decided to break up with his girlfriend
C．he intended to kill himself immediately
D．he thought of the friendliness of Mark
3.Mark saved Bill from committing suicide by________ .
A．helping Bill pick up the fallen books on the ground
B．saying something comfortable and friendly to Bill
C．persuading Bill not to leave a mess for other people
D．being friendly to Bill in trouble
4.Bill cleared his locker in order to ________.
A．store away some of his mother’s sleeping pills
B．prepare for the next school year of high school
C．leave the world without troubling others
D．help his mother do some housework the last time
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
I was on my way home from work, cutting through the Bryant Park. On that day, the sun seemed to set faster than usual, and suddenly I found myself walking in the dark. I was less than half a mile from my apartment, but the path would lead me over a bridge, across train tracks, and through an unlit underpass.
Then I heard him – a stranger running alongside me, partly obscured(遮掩) by the bushes. My mouth went dry; my legs felt like water. But I didn’t pick up my pace – instead, I stopped, turned, and faced him. He came out of the bushes and said he’d been watching me “for a long time”.
As he walked beside me, I guided us towards the edge of the park. When we reached the bridge, a train rumbled(轰鸣着缓慢行进) past, and he seized the moment, attacking me with a knife around my throat. The self-defense skills I had learned years before kicked in, and I pushed my finger into his eye, hard. And then came the shock: That didn’t frighten him away. My mind flashed back to a tip from an old guitar teacher: “Press the strings like you’re squeezing a flea(跳蚤).” I put all my strength into that finger, and finally he let go.
I was shaking with fear, but I looked him straight in the eye and began to back away. I turned to run the hell out of there, but then I remembered another self-defense lesson: Never run, because then you’re a target. So I walked away alone – through the dark tunnel as I dialed 911 with trembling fingers. If you ever find yourself in this situation, use these self-defense skills that you already know. They can really make all the difference to you.
1.Which of the following word best describes the author’s way home?
A.Well-traveled. B.Risky.
C.Boring. D.Well-protected.
2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 suggest?
A.The author was desperate to go home.
B.The author was exhausted and thirsty.
C.The author was in a state of fear.
D.The author’s legs were wet.
3.Which statement may the author agree with?
A.The man is a casual acquaintance of her.
B.She was guarded home by the police finally.
C.She might feel grateful for her self-defense skills.
D.The man injured his eye himself when making an attack.
4.What is the best title for the passage?
A.How I survived an attack B.Whether fortune smiles on me
C.What one should do when in danger D.Why self-defense skills are important
高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
Coming home from school that dark winter day so long ago, I was filled with excitement of having the weekend off. But I was into stillness by what I saw. Mother, seated at the far end of the sofa, , with the second-hand green typewriter on the table. She told me that she couldn’t type fast and then she was out of work. My shock and embarrassment(尴尬) at finding Mother in tears was a perfect proof (证据)of how I understood the pressures on her. Sitting beside her on the sofa, I _____began to understand. “I guess we may all sometimes,” Mother said quietly. I could her pain and the tension(压力) of the strong feelings that were interrupted by my arrival. Suddenly, something inside me turned. I out and put my arms around her. She broke then. She put her face my shoulder and sobbed（抽泣）. I held her and didn’t try to talk. I knew I was doing what I , what I could and that it was enough. At that moment, feeling Mother’s back with , I understood for the first time her being so easy to . She was still my mother, she was something : a person like me, capable of fear and and failure. I could feel her pain as she must have felt mine on a thousand occasions(场合) when I sought in her arms.
A week later Mother took a job selling dry goods at half the salary the radio station . “It’s a job I can do, though,” she said simply. But the evening practice on the old green typewriter continued. I had a very feeling now when I passed her door at night and heard her away across the paper. I knew there was something more going on there than a woman learning to type.
1.A. tired B. ashamed C. lazy D. shocked
2.A. crying B. smiling C. thinking D. whispering
3.A. eagerly B. worriedly C. little D. much
4.A. quickly B. gradually C. suddenly D. proudly
5.A. fail B. win C. fall sick D. give in
6.A. learn B. watch C. sense D. recognize
7.A. holding back B. putting away C. sitting up D. stopping from
8.A. found B. worked C. reached D. ran
9.A. to B. up C. through D. against
10.A. tightly B. thoughtfully C. carefully D. politely
11.A. should B. would C. could D. might
12.A. my hand B. tear C. happiness D. patting
13.A. content B. break C. fall D. understand
14.A. therefore B. however C. yet D. though
15.A. more B. much C. little D. huge
16.A. wound B. defeat C. cut D. hurt
17.A. coldness B. memory C. comfort D. support
18.A. supplied B. offered C. paid D. contributed
19.A. different B. hard C. pleasant D. serious
20.A. hitting B. tapping C. beating D. striking
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
A few days ago, I was sitting in a Thai restaurant enjoying a meal when I got on a phone call from a friend I hadn’t spoken to in a long time. In my enthusiasm and excitement, I talked quite louder than usual voice and in Spanish, my mother tongue.
A few minutes into the call, an old lady sitting at the table beside mine got up, seemingly offended, and asked the restaurant staff to relocate (重新安排) a table as far away as possible from this man who seemed to be impolite.
I sank in my seat out of embarrassment. I ended the call soon afterwards and felt the urge to apologize. Before getting up, I looked around to see where she was and she was at the table farthest away from me. I noticed that the lady was alone and staring out the window. I found a tinge (气息) of sadness or anxiety and perhaps a desire for aloneness and peace. But I had obviously destroyed it minutes earlier.
Right then I abandoned my plan for a conventional apologetic gesture. Seeing those funny smile cards in my wallet, I took one out and wrote some words to express my apology. On signing my restaurant bill, I asked a waiter to secretly charge the lady’s meal to me and hand her the smile card instead of her bill.
Did she take it the wrong way, I wondered? Did she get confused? Did she refuse the anonymous (匿名的) offer? And so on. I just waited and felt nervous to learn the outcome. To my pleasant surprise, things turned out the best possible way.
The waiter approached me in a joy, telling me, “In the many times she had dined here before, I had never seen the old lady smile as she did when receiving the smile card and the $0 bill. She thanked me even though I explained that someone else did the job.”
1.The old lady changed her seat mainly because of __________.
A. her private phone call
B. the author’s loud voice
C. the views out of the window
D. the restaurant staff’s mistake
2.What can we infer from Paragraph 3?
A. The author didn’t stop talking though he felt embarrassed.
B. The author went up to the old lady and apologized to her.
C. The old lady just moved to the farthest table to see outside.
D. The lady didn’t have a nice mood and liked to stay alone.
3.Feeling sorry, the author offered the old lady the following EXCEPT __________.
A. an apologetic gesture
B. a smile card
C. a free meal
D. some written words to apologize
4.Which of the following is the best title of this passage?
A. A Misunderstanding Caused by Different Cultures
B. An Unpleasant Experience in Thailand
C. A Smile Card for a Sincere Apology
D. An Old Lady Who Never Smiles
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
A few days ago, I was sitting in a Thai restaurant enjoying a meal when I got on a phone call from a friend I hadn’t spoken to in a long time. In my enthusiasm and excitement, I talked quite louder than usual voice and in Spanish, my mother tongue.
A few minutes into the call, an old lady sitting at the table beside mine got up, seemingly offended, and asked the restaurant staff to relocate (重新安排) a table as far away as possible from this man who seemed to be impolite.
I sank in my seat out of embarrassment. I ended the call soon afterwards and felt the urge to apologize. Before getting up, I looked around to see where she was and she was at the table farthest away from me. I noticed that the lady was alone and staring out the window. I found a tinge (气息) of sadness or anxiety and perhaps a desire for aloneness and peace. But I had obviously destroyed it minutes earlier.
Right then I abandoned my plan for a conventional apologetic gesture. Seeing those funny smile cards in my wallet, I took one out and wrote some words to express my apology. On signing my restaurant bill, I asked a waiter to secretly charge the lady’s meal to me and hand her the smile card instead of her bill.
Did she take it the wrong way, I wondered? Did she get confused? Did she refuse the anonymous (匿名的) offer? And so on. I just waited and felt nervous to learn the outcome. To my pleasant surprise, things turned out the best possible way.
The waiter approached me in a joy, telling me, “In the many times she had dined here before, I had never seen the old lady smile as she did when receiving the smile card and the $0 bill. She thanked me even though I explained that someone else did the job.”
1.The old lady changed her seat mainly because of __________.
A. her private phone call
B. the author’s loud voice
C. the views out of the window
D. the restaurant staff’s mistake
2.What can we infer from Paragraph 3?
A. The author didn’t stop talking though he felt embarrassed.
B. The author went up to the old lady and apologized to her.
C. The old lady just moved to the farthest table to see outside.
D. The lady didn’t have a nice mood and liked to stay alone.
3.Feeling sorry, the author offered the old lady the following EXCEPT __________.
A. an apologetic gesture
B. a smile card
C. a free meal
D. some written words to apologize
4.Which of the following is the best title of this passage?
A. A Misunderstanding Caused by Different Cultures
B. An Unpleasant Experience in Thailand
C. A Smile Card for a Sincere Apology
D. An Old Lady Who Never Smiles
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Eight-year-old Owen Howkins suffers from growth delays(迟缓) and poor eyesight. This means that Owen needs a wheelchair to get around. Not surprisingly, he felt people were staring (盯着看) at him, and that made him very uncomfortable, so he became lonely and even stopped going outside of his house. That, however, was all before Haatchi came into his life!
Haatchi had a very unlucky start to life too. Tied to a railway track when he was just five months old, the dog was hit by a train. The hit unjured his tail and a leg so badly that both had to be cut off. Taken to a rescue shelter(救助站), the dog would have probably been killed if his story posted on Facebook had not been seen by Owen’s dad Will. He fell in love with Haatchi and decided to keep him, thinking that they were helping him. It turns out that it was Haatchi who helped them. By always staying at young Owen’s side, he became the boy’s best friend. Slowly Owen liked to go outside. Wherever he goes, the dog follows and protects him. Owen now proudly walks around the neighborhood, showing off his dog and telling anyone willing to listen, Haatchi’s story.
Haatch’s positive influence on the young boy has not gone unnoticed. In October 2012, the International Fund of Animal Welfare presented him with a special award(奖). The amazing friendship between the two has also been shown in a touching short film called “A Boy and His Dog” by students from the filmmaking class at the University of Hertfordshire. It has won several awards and had almost 2 million views. British best-selling author Wendy Holden has also writtern about this touching friendship in a aheartwarming children’s book, which was released on February 13th and had made Owen and Haatchi better known!
1.Owen didn’t like go out of his house mainly because_______.
A. he couldn’t walk outside by himself
B. he felt very lonely without any friend
C. he was very unhappy with his disease
D. he disliked other people’s unfriendly stares.
2.The underlined word “they” in the second paragraph refers to “_____”.
A. Will’s family B. Facebook users
C. the rescue shelter workers D. the friends from the neighborhood
3.Since Haatchi came into his life, Owen ________.
A. has more friends
B. has more confidence
C. has been growing taller and taller
D. had become a best-selling author
4.What can we learn about “A Boy and His Dog” ?
A. It is very popular
B. It was filmed by Will
C. It was first shown on February 13th
D. It made Wendy Holden better known.
高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析