At my daughter's recent graduation, a speaker kept repeating, ''You can do anything with a degree in philosophy. '' To that, I thought you can do anything with the right _______.
I didn't have a _______ job until I was 27. When I was hired, I was basically _______. My car had broken down. I was living with two other people and sleeping on a couch. My family and friends thought I was going _______．
I didn't feel that way though. I wasn't doing well _______. Sure, friends of mine got married and bought houses. But neither of those choices _______ me. Taking the road _______ traveled is part of being an entrepreneur (创业者). I wanted to _______ my dream, which was to work with my hands and be creative. I wanted to be my own boss.
At the time, I was _______ toy animals and selling them at street fairs. It wasn't easy, but I stayed true to myself. I was ________ and hardworking. I know those were the qualities that led me to get ________ at my first job. So don't give up hope.
One Sunday, I read an article about a toy company called Worlds of Wonder. I knew I could make a better teddy bear than the one they were ________, although I had designed just a few cuddly toys for another company. The next day, I visited the company's offices in person and told them they needed me. To my surprise, they ________ to interview me. Because they could tell I was enthusiastic.
Many of us don't ________ new things because we're sure we don't have the skills. But from my experience, it's far more ________ to have the right attitude. Almost everything can be taught. Are you a ready and willing student?
1.A.direction B.attitude C.way D.knowledge
2.A.full-time B.special C.creative D.surprising
3.A.blessing B.annoying C.starving D.satisfying
4.A.forward B.nowhere C.anywhere D.somewhere
5.A.physically B.spiritually C.mentally D.financially
6.A.upset B.disappointed C.envied D.excited
7.A.often B.nearly C.less D.easily
8.A.follow B.change C.get D.earn
9.A.copying B.making C.buying D.learning
10.A.enthusiastic B.healthy C.friendly D.intelligent
11.A.hired B.lost C.warned D.supported
12.A.improving B.researching C.designing D.marketing
13.A.denied B.agreed C.refused D.invited
14.A.give away B.take on C.put up D.let down
15.A.funny B.ready C.important D.successful
高二英语完形填空中等难度题
At my daughter's recent graduation, a speaker kept repeating, ''You can do anything with a degree in philosophy. '' To that, I thought you can do anything with the right _______.
I didn't have a _______ job until I was 27. When I was hired, I was basically _______. My car had broken down. I was living with two other people and sleeping on a couch. My family and friends thought I was going _______．
I didn't feel that way though. I wasn't doing well _______. Sure, friends of mine got married and bought houses. But neither of those choices _______ me. Taking the road _______ traveled is part of being an entrepreneur (创业者). I wanted to _______ my dream, which was to work with my hands and be creative. I wanted to be my own boss.
At the time, I was _______ toy animals and selling them at street fairs. It wasn't easy, but I stayed true to myself. I was ________ and hardworking. I know those were the qualities that led me to get ________ at my first job. So don't give up hope.
One Sunday, I read an article about a toy company called Worlds of Wonder. I knew I could make a better teddy bear than the one they were ________, although I had designed just a few cuddly toys for another company. The next day, I visited the company's offices in person and told them they needed me. To my surprise, they ________ to interview me. Because they could tell I was enthusiastic.
Many of us don't ________ new things because we're sure we don't have the skills. But from my experience, it's far more ________ to have the right attitude. Almost everything can be taught. Are you a ready and willing student?
1.A.direction B.attitude C.way D.knowledge
2.A.full-time B.special C.creative D.surprising
3.A.blessing B.annoying C.starving D.satisfying
4.A.forward B.nowhere C.anywhere D.somewhere
5.A.physically B.spiritually C.mentally D.financially
6.A.upset B.disappointed C.envied D.excited
7.A.often B.nearly C.less D.easily
8.A.follow B.change C.get D.earn
9.A.copying B.making C.buying D.learning
10.A.enthusiastic B.healthy C.friendly D.intelligent
11.A.hired B.lost C.warned D.supported
12.A.improving B.researching C.designing D.marketing
13.A.denied B.agreed C.refused D.invited
14.A.give away B.take on C.put up D.let down
15.A.funny B.ready C.important D.successful
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Though ______ to stop, the ______ speaker kept on talking at the meeting.
A. being told; thrilling B. telling; thrilled
C. to be told; thrilling D. told; thrilled
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Recently I spoke to some of my students about what they wanted to do after they graduated, and what kind of job prospects they thought they had.
Given that I teach students who are trained to be doctors, I was surprised to find that most thought that they would not be able to get the jobs they wanted without “outside help”. “What kind of help is that?” I asked, expecting them to tell me that they would need a relative or family friend to help them out.
“Surgery（外科手术）”, one replied. I was pretty alarmed by that response. It seems that the graduates of today are increasingly willing to go under the knife to get ahead of others when it comes to getting a job. One girl told me that she was considering surgery to increase her height. “They break your legs, put in special extending screws, and slowly expand the gap between the two ends of the bone as it regrows. You can get at least 5 cm taller!”
At that point, I was shocked. I am short. I can’t deny that, but I don’t think I would put myself through months of pain just to be a few centimeters taller. I don’t even bother to wear shoes with thick soles, as I’m not trying to hide the fact that I am just not tall!
It seems to me that there is a trend toward wanting “perfection”, and that is an ideal that just does not exist in reality.
No one is born perfect, yet magazines, TV shows and movies present images of thin, tall, beautiful people as being the norm（标准）. Advertisements for slimming aids, beauty treatments and cosmetic surgery clinics fill the pages of newspapers, further creating an idea that “perfection” is a requirement, and that it must be purchased, no matter what the cost. In my opinion, skills, rather than appearance, should determine how successful a person is in his chosen career.
1.We can know from the passage that the author works as ________.
A. a professor B. a model C. a teacher D. a reporter
2.Many graduates today turn to cosmetic surgery to ________.
A. marry a better man/woman
B. become a model
C. get an advantage over others in job-hunting
D. attract more admirers
3.What was the author’s reaction towards the girl’s decision?
A. Excited. B. Surprised. C. Happy. D. Angry.
4.According to the passage, the author believes that ________.
A. everyone should pursue perfection, whatever the cost
B. it’s right for graduates to ask for others to help them out in hunting for jobs
C. media are to blame for misleading young people in their seeking for surgery
D. it is one’s appearance instead of skills that really matters in one’s career
5.What does the author think of his height?
A. He hates to be called a short man.
B. He tries to increase his height through surgery.
C. He always wears shoes with thick soles to hide the fact.
D. He just accepts it as it is.
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
I recently paid _____ visit to my aunt, and her grandson kept _____ making fun of me.
A．a, \ B．the, a C．a, a D．the, \
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
My darling daughter,
Recently I saw a diary of years. It was written when you were nine. I read your goals in the diary, and one little goal was really surprising for me. It was “to make Mom happy”.
I was so moved, and I would have told you that you made me happy every day of my life. My first thoughts in the morning were of you. When I got home from work, I couldn’t wait to see you. I liked talking to you very much and I wanted to know what your day was like. You kept my spirit alive, my mind challenged and my body active. You were, and still are, the light of my life. Without you, my life would have been boring. You made me happy and you continue to do so.
You are a mother now, with a child of your own. I know you love her, so I think you should tell her how happy she makes you. Sometimes we forget to say the words that are in our hearts. These words can be very important to a child. They can change their world completely. They can create a beautiful world for them.
You are my joy in life, my little one. You always have been, and you always will be. Never forget that, and tell that to your child. Tell her that she is the most important thing in the world for you, because she makes things joyful in your life! I love you, my dearest daughter.
Mom
1.What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A.The diary was written when the daughter was young
B. The mother was not close to her daughter.
C. The daughter had been dead for many years.
D. The mother often heard from her daughter.
2.The mother ______ according to the text.
A. thought her life was boring
B. has a granddaughter
C. was a housewife
D. used to get up early
3. According to the third paragraph, the mother advised her daughter to ______ .
A. try her best to make her child happy
B. take her child traveling around the world
C. let her child do whatever she wants
D. tell her child her feelings
4. The text has most likely been taken from
A. a report B. a letter
C. a piece of news D. a poster
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
My daughter recently asked me what a Travel Agency does. There is one located on our street and it has just been completely rebuilt. I told her that they helped people book their trips and vacations. “Why haven’t we ever been in there?” she wanted to know. “Because we do everything ourselves online these days” I explained. “But why do it yourself if other people want to do it for you?” she wondered out loud.
The answer is that the travel agency makes a little bit of money on each ticket you book through them. If you book your ticket yourself, online, you save that money. Saving money sounds great except that when you think about it you typically spend three evenings comparing prices to end up saving $30 on a $300 trip. All those $30 discounts add up of course so I guess we should be happy with that.
Still, how bad is it really to pay someone $30 and trust them to buy you something decent? Wouldn’t you say your free evenings are worth more than $10 a piece?
Consider books for a moment. Buying your book at Amazon saves you maybe 30% to 40% on each book. Add to that the convenience of shopping from home and getting the package delivered to your home address. So far so good.
Unfortunately that does mean you spend way too much time browsing Amazon. com while you could do something fun instead. Like maybe reading an actual book?
Then the package arrives and you aren’t home and end up having to pick it up at the local post- office. All in all I wonder how much time I end up investing in the whole process.
Time sounds free, but to most of us, it is more valuable than money.
The Internet Economy promised to get rid of the middle-men and we loved it. Somehow, I’m starting to get the feeling that we ourselves ended up doing the work of that middle-men we were so eager to get rid of.
In any project you can always pick two of these: fast, cheap or good. We seem to have focused a lot on ‘cheap’ and ‘good’ but the extra time we need to invest to keep it ‘fast’ comes out of our own pockets.
You can always make more money but you can never make more time.
1.What is the purpose of the first paragraph?
| A．It mainly shows the curiosity of the author’s daughter. |
| B．It indicates that the Internet has influenced our daily life. |
| C．It tells us the importance of a travel agency. |
| D．It shows why people need a travel agency. |
2.What’s the author’s attitude towards the Internet Economy?
| A．The author thinks online shopping saves time and is a convenient way to buy products. |
| B．The author worries about sending personal information over the internet. |
| C．The author doesn’t think online shopping is satisfactory in every way. |
| D．The author likes the convenience but is concerned about the e-commerce environment. |
3.What’s the best title for the passage?
| A．The convenience of the Internet Economy. |
| B．How to save money in the Internet Economy. |
| C．The hidden cost of the Internet Economy. |
| D．How to save time in the Internet Economy. |
高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
Last week my daughter was sick, so she had to stay at home. While staying at home, she looks at my hands and asks, “Your hands have this _______, right?” It’s true that my hands are shaking, not too much, not too _______, and if I really want, I can control that. When I was a kid, my mother _______ to find out why I had this. We went to quite a few _______, but none of them really _______ it. They then thought it was something psychological, not _______. As I grow up, I learned how to _______ it. But it’s still not very _______ to be asked about it. I _______ most people think that I had too much caffeine or drunk too much.
“Right”, I said, “I have this ________ I was a kid and I never knew why I really had this.” And there she goes ________ my entire sad world in just one tiny sentence: “Well, maybe it’s because you have some kind of superpower.” It took me a few good seconds to ________ after I heard this. And then a few ________ to think about it. Yes, maybe it’s because I have some kind of superpower, like too much ________ trying to find an outlet(出口), it’s ________ that kids find the best ________ in everything, even in the strangest things, while adults ________ to see every deviation(偏离) from the ________ as a “disease”.
So, next time you see my hands shaking, don’t you ever ________ to think I had too much caffeine or drunk too much. It’s not because of that. It’s because I have a superpower that is so ________ that my body can hardly hold it.
1.A. moving B. striking C. beating D. shaking
2.A. weak B. evident C. slight D. big
3.A. managed B. wished C. tried D. refused
4.A. doctors B. scientists C. teachers D. lawyers
5.A. treated B. operated C. examined D. cured
6.A. mental B. physical C. spiritual D. natural
7.A. live with B. go with C. face with D. agree with
8.A. upset B. comfortable C. curious D. awkward
9.A. guess B. calculate C. realize D. announce
10.A. as B. after C. until D. since
11.A. attacking B. sticking C. blowing D. hiding
12.A. restart B. replace C. recover D. pick
13.A. minutes B. months C. years D. time
14.A. energy B. wind C. information D. wealth
15.A. rare B. terrible C. embarrassing D. wonderful
16.A. thing B. fact C. point D. part
17.A. attend B. tend C. expect D. intend
18.A. truth B. path C. life D. highway
19.A. dare B. need C. have D. can
20.A. powerful B. meaningful C. extreme D. awful
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
My wife was shouting at Sindu again．I threw the paper away and rushed to the scene．My daughter Sindu looked __．Her eyes were wet with tears．In front of her was a bowl ___with bitter melon（苦瓜）．Sindu particularly hated bitter melon, but my wife believed _ _ in the “cooling effects” of bitter melon. I tried to __ Sindu to take a few mouthfuls．She __ down a bit and wiped her tears．Then she said she would eat the __bowl of bitter melon on condition that I gave her whatever she asked for．I agreed．Slowly and __ , she finished the whole bowl．After that, Sindu came to me with her eyes wide with __. To our surprise, she wanted to have her head __. “Impossible!”shouted my wife．However, I knew that if I __ my promise, Sindu would never learn to her own．So I decided to keep my promise．
On Monday morning, I __ her off at school．Just then，a boy shouted, “Sindu, wait for me!” struck me was his hairless head．I was about to leave when a lady came to me and said, “Sir, your __is great indeed!” I didn't __. She continued, “That boy is my son．He is __ from Leukemia （白血病）．He lost all his hair_ __the side effects of the chemotherapy （化疗）．He __ to come back to school because he was afraid that the kids at school would make fun of him．Sindu visited him last week and promised to help him, but I __ imagined that she would sacrifice（牺牲） her lovely hair for the sake（缘由） of my son! Sir, you and your wife are blessed to have such a（n） __ soul for a child.”
I didn't know what to say．It was then that I knew what love really was．
1.A．frightened B．excited C．moved D．disappointed
2.A．provided B．covered C．equipped D．filled
3.A．heavily B．angrily C．firmly D．happily
4.A．permit B．persuade C．forbid D．order
5.A．went B．calmed C．came D．fought
6.A．sweet B．entire C．bitter D．little
7.A．angrily B．worriedly C．sadly D．painful
8.A．expectation B．happiness C．satisfaction D．pride
9.A．nodded B．shaved（剃头） C．washed D．cut
10.A．kept B．broke C．made D．share
11.A．Keep B．remind C．share D．take
12.A．sent B．dropped C．took D．picked
13.A．It B．Something C．That D．What
14.A．wife B．daughter C．view D．life
15.A．insist B．request C．understand D．move
16.A．dying B．suffering C．escaping D．recovering
17.A．according to B．instead of C．thanks to D．because of
18.A．tended B．refused C．promised D．determined
19.A．nearly B．never C．ever D．seldom
20.A．abstract B．noble C．simple D．horrible
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Last night I was lonely at home because my husband took 1.______
Ann, my daughter, for New York to see his parents. At 8:00 2.______
I decided to watch a TV programme. I turned the set and 3.______
started to watch a TV play. I am not usually interested in 4.______
TV plays but I was complete delighted with this one. I was 5.______
enjoying it very well when something was happened to the 6.______
picture. I tried hard to adjust(调) the set because I want to 7.______
see who turned off to be the murderer, but the set was out of 8.______
order and the picture was so bad that I finally had to give in, 9.______
turn off the set and go to bed at nine, much early than usual. 10.______
高二英语短文改错中等难度题查看答案及解析
My dearest daughter, as I looked across at you sitting on the sofa watching The X Factor, I noticed that you are no longer a child, and that having just celebrated your 14th birthday, you are now a young woman starting a journey into becoming an adult woman. As I looked at you, I remembered myself at 14, and the vastly different places we are beginning this journey from.
Your identity as a mixed-race young woman, with an English father and a Pakistani mother, has already influenced how you place yourself in this world. As yet, you are unaware of the personal struggles that I took at the age of 25 to marry. How it felt when my mother refused to come to my wedding. The sharp criticisms of the Asian community that such marriages do not work out and always end in divorce. The confidence I had to grow, as we chose to live in a multicultural community, as I refused to be shamed into living in the leafier white suburbs.
Then, at the age of 30, I became your mum with all the joys and struggles this brought, as I refused the Asian traditions for a new baby's arrival. From your birth, your life could not have been more different from mine. I was brought up on a council estate, within a tight-knit extended Muslim family, through which poverty, racism and neglect were woven. I was never given the freedoms or the opportunity to experience new things. Now, as I hear you play your piano. I am grateful that you have these opportunities.
So many doors were closed to me as a young person, and as I fought for small steps of freedom, I soon learned that it was better to do what I wanted without the knowledge of my parents, and so deceit and deception(欺骗) became woven into my life too. The pressures to obey, to be a "good Muslim" girl and keep the family honour, were choking. Behind closed doors at home, the neglect and abuse took place. It was hidden, I felt the shame, lived with the fear and suffered alongside my sister and two younger brothers. Oh, the power we thought our parents had over us! I was convinced that one day my father would indeed beat us so hard that leaving us for dead, he would, as his threats said he would, bury us in the large back garden, and tell the school he had taken us back to Pakistan for good. My sister and I longed for a different blue sky to live under.
As a daughter of immigrant parents, I carried their hopes of a better education for their children--my own veins(血管) pulsing with the hard- work ethic(道德) and need to be grateful for the opportunity of a free education. And it was education that provided me with the strength to find my own blue sky. I fought to leave home to go to university at the age of 18, and never returned to live with my parents again.
Now as you explore your mixed-race heritage, which I hope we have supported you to do with visits to Pakistan and ensuring you go to multi-cultural schools, I want you to take the very best of all that is Asian with you as you become a woman.
I want you to know that although your journey has been vastly different. I am excited as I watch you standing on the threshold of becoming a woman for all the adventures and possibilities the future holds for you.
May you fly your blue sky with grace, confidence and hope as you find your place in this beautiful and crazy world.
Loving you now and always. Mommy
1.Mommy's mother refused to attend her wedding party because _________.
A. she struggled to break away from the family before it
B. her marriage was against the tradition of the community
C. she would leave the family to settle in the white suburbs
D. she refused the Asian tradition for a new baby’s arrival
2.What can be inferred from mommy's Muslim family life?
A. She was forced to drop out of school.
B. She behaved like a good Muslim girl.
C. She fought against her Muslim identity.
D. She suffered much abuse in the family.
3.From the fourth paragraph, we can see that Mommy was very _________.
A. determined B. realistic
C. ambitious D. tolerant
4.Mommy sends her daughter to multicultural schools to _________.
A. prepare the daughter for different adventures in future
B. ensure the daughter more opportunities to visit Pakistan
C. increase the daughter’s exposure to different cultures
D. encourage the daughter to grow up to be a better woman
5.We can learn from the passage that Mommy _________.
A. is regretful for giving her daughter the mixed-race identity
B. encourages her daughter to explore her origin and pursue her dream
C. won’t forgive her parents for the sufferings she had during childhood
D. criticizes the social traditions and prejudice in her community
高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析