I was riding my special motorbike this past weekend and stopped at a store. As I was getting my wheelchair off the back, a man watched me from his car and I noticed a wheelchair in his back seat. We spoke for a moment and I asked him about the wheelchair. He answered that it was for his daughter. “Well, do you think she would like to go for a ride on my motorbike with me?” I asked. He seemed shocked that a total stranger would ask him this. He thought about it for a second and said, “OK, as long as I can follow you.”
He introduced me to Amy and he sat her on my back seat. Her father followed me for a few miles and she talked non-stop about what she wanted for Christmas.
As we came back to the store she said, “This ride is the best Christmas present I could ever receive. I have been in a wheelchair my whole life and didn’t know I could do this.”Then she turned to him and said, “Oh Daddy, I’m going to be OK. Mr. Bryant does all kinds of things —and I will, too.” Her father hugged me and said, “I was sitting here praying for a gift for Amy that would encourage her. She often felt that her life was dull compared to other children. God answered my prayer(禱告) just now. Now I pray that God will bless you for your gift to Amy today.” Being kind and thoughtful to others, we can be an answer to prayer.
【小題1】How did the father feel at first when the author invited his daughter for a ride?
A.Anxious. | B.Embarrassed. | C.Surprised. | D.Moved. |
A.He was a disabled man. | B.He usually drove too fast. |
C.He worked in a store. | D.He often helped people in trouble. |
A.was not allowed to do some sports |
B.used to be a completely healthy person |
C.was unwillingly to communicate with a stranger |
D.usually felt sad about life because of her disability |
A.The motorbike. | B.The wheelchair. | C.The ride. | D.The prayer. |
【小題1】C
【小題2】A
【小題3】D
【小題4】C
解析試題分析: 本文講作者騎著自己的輪椅在一家商店門口停下,一個男人他的女兒也是殘疾人,我提出讓他女兒做在我輪椅后座上,女孩說這是收到最好的禮物。
【小題1】C細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段“Well, do you think she would like to go for a ride on my motorbike with me?” I asked. He seemed shocked that a total stranger would ask him this,當我說讓你女兒來試試時候,他對于一個陌生提到這樣的要求感覺很震驚,故選C項。
【小題2】A 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段As I was getting my wheelchair off the back, a man watched me from his car and I noticed a wheelchair in his back seat,我把輪椅放回去,故得知作者是個殘疾人。所以選A項。
【小題3】D細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段She often felt that her life was dull compared to other children.跟別人相比,她感覺自己的生活十分呆滯無趣,故選D項。
【小題4】C 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中第二段提到He introduced me to Amy and he sat her on my back seat. Her father followed me for a few miles and she talked non-stop about what she wanted for Christmas.,他做在我的后座上,她一直在談論這個圣誕節(jié)禮物,故選C項。
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
“Get yourself up and make something of yourself,buddy!”Though my mother has passed away,her words are as clear in my head today as when I was a boy.
“Christ!”I said,“I have made something of myself. I want to sleep late as I like.”
“If there’s one thing I can’t stand,it’s a quitter.”Her voice in my head is more powerful than my will to refuse,so I pull myself from bed.
Before I was out of primary school,mother could see I lacked the gifts for either making millions or winning the love of crowds.So she began pushing me toward working with words.Words ran in her family.There seemed to be a word gene that passed down from her mother’s grandfather·
The greatest proof was my mother’s first cousin Edwin.He was the managing editor of the New York Times and had gained a name in his career.
In 1947 1 graduated from Johns Hopkins and applied for a job with the Baltimore Sun as a police reporter.It paid$30 a week .When I complained the wage was shameful for a learned man,mother refused to sympathize.“If you work hard at this job,”she said,“maybe you can make something of it.”
After a while,I was asked to cover diplomats(外交官)at various African embassies. Then,
seven years later I was arranged by the Sun to cover the White House,a task that was as close to heaven as a journalist could get.However,whatever achievement of mine only seemed insignificant in her eyes.Uncle Edwin’s success was really annoying during my early years as a reporter.What a thrill,I thought.
Then,out of my wildest childhood fantasy,the Times came knocking.It was sad that Uncle Edwin had passed away by this time.In 1979 I won the Pulitzer Prize.Unfortunately,my mother’s brain and health broke down the year before,leaving her in a nursing home,out of touch with life forevermore .She never knew of my Pulitzer.
I can probably guess how she’d have responded.“ That’s nice,buddy.It shows if you work hand,you’11 be able to make something of yourself one day,”
【小題1】The first three paragraphs are intended to______
A.draw readers’attention to the author’s success |
B.remind readers that the road to success is rough |
C.serve as an introduction to the author’s mother |
D.explain why the author’s mother kept blaming him |
A.were gifted at language | B.never broke their promise |
C.were fond of reading | D.stuck to their family belief |
A.He got a good salary working as a police reporter. |
B.He lived a rich life with his mother in his childhood. |
C.It was proud of her mother to see his winning the Pulitzer Prize. |
D.It was beyond his wildest dream that he could work for the Times. |
A.he himself was less smart than Uncle Edwin |
B.his mother’s family thought Uncle Edwin to be a good reporter |
C.few reporters can become the managing editor of the New York Times |
D.Uncle Edwin spared no effort to get the Pulitzer Prize at the cost of his life |
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
Since I was a child, I called my father my Kong, after King Kong. I believed that he was just as strong as the giant ape(猿猴). As he faced death, I did my best to help release him to the next life.
Two months after he passed away, my sister called to ask if I would like to go see Lisa Williams, a well-known witch(巫婆). I was familiar with Lisa from her show on Lifetime, and since I was eager to get a sign from my father, I agreed to go.
I took my father’s gold watch and listened as Lisa helped audience members communicate with their loved ones. “I have a grandfather-like figure with me and he is speaking about his granddaughter Jilly,” she announced. The audience was quiet; no one raised a hand. I nudged(用肘輕推) my sister and whispered to her that this was Dad ,for my third child and my father had a deep bond(關(guān)系,紐帶) and he called her Jilly.
Although I sensed his presence, I wasn’t confident enough to raise my hand. I needed something a bit more concrete, something undoubted.
“This man is letting me know he had cancer,” she continued. I nudged my sister harder and assured her this was our father. Lisa went on to say that this person died in June (my father had died June 8th). There was swelling of the legs.
“Important information,” she called out. My heart beat fast . I jumped up when she asked, “Who is holding his watch?” I waved the watch in the air.
“He wishes you congratulations.” My fourth child was born three weeks after my father died. I was in shock and could not believe I was getting a chance to hear from him, yet I knew our bond was strong enough that he could come to the world. She banged on her chest like an ape and apologized, saying, “I don’t know why but he wants me to do this like Tarzan.” It didn’t resonate(共鳴) with me until my sister called out “King Kong!” I was convinced. No way could this woman have ever known a detail unless Dad was communicating through her.
Each bit of information she gave us was just as meaningful. She ended our session by informing us that he would send us coins. The very next day I found six coins in various places; they seemed to have come out of nowhere. Even in death he is my Kong, and he remains important in my life.
【小題1】What’s the best title of the passage?
A.Information from Lisa Williams |
B.Miraculous Messages from Heaven |
C.Strange Things in the Party. |
D.Unforgettable memories |
A.I tried my best to make my father feel relieved in another world . |
B.I wanted to help my father live a better life in future. |
C.I tried to set my father free next time. |
D.I wanted to help my father in everything. |
A.She may be a learned teacher. |
B.She may be a woman knowing witchcraft |
C.She may be is a scientist researching Lifetime. |
D.She may be a fairy. |
A.cared little about our life |
B.withdrew from the society and lived alone |
C.liked to live with giant ape |
D.was still concerned about my family after his death . |
A.Narration | B.Illustration | C.Discussion | D.Description |
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
The morning had been a disaster. My tooth was aching, and I’d been in an argument with a friend. Her words still hurt:“The trouble with you is that you won’t put yourself in my place. Can’t you see things from my point of view?” I shook my head stubbornly—and felt the ache in my tooth. I’d thought I could hold out till my dentist came back from holiday, but the pain was really unbearable. I started calling the dentists in the phone book, but no one could see me immediately. Finally, at about lunch time, I got lucky.
“If you come by right now,” the receptionist said, “the dentist will fit you in.”
I took my purse and keys and rushed to my car. But suddenly I began to doubt about the dentist. What kind of dentist would be so eager to treat someone at such short notice? Why wasn’t he as busy as the others?
In the dentist’s office, I sat down and looked around. I saw nothing but the bare walls and I became even more worried. The assistant noticed my nervousness and placed her warm hand over my ice-cold one.
When I told her my fears, she laughed and said, “Don’t worry. The dentist is very good. ”
“How long do I have to wait for him?” I asked impatiently.
“Come on, he is coming. Just lie down and relax. And enjoy the artwork,” the assistant said.
“The artwork?” I was puzzled.
The chair went back, suddenly I smiled. There was a beautiful picture, right where I could enjoy it: on the ceiling. How considerate the dentist was! At that moment, I began to understand what my friend meant by her words.
What a relief!
【小題1】 Which of the following best describes the author’s feeling that morning?
A.Happy. | B.Nervous. | C.Satisfied. | D.Upset. |
A.The dentist’s agreeing to treat her at very short notice. |
B.The dentist’s being as busy as the other dentists. |
C.The surroundings of the dentist’s office. |
D.The laughing assistant of the dentist. |
A.Strike while the iron is hot. |
B.Have a good word for one’s friend. |
C.Put oneself in other’s shoes. |
D.A friend in need is a friend indeed. |
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
Feeling exhausted and hopeless, I began walking to my car. Every step seemed tiring, and every step was another to survive. As I looked up into the sky I thought about how my grandmother had left me, and my anger began to return. I was annoyed by the loss, and my belief in God was beginning to fade. I couldn’t understand why these things happened. So as I stood in a public parking lot a million questions formed in my mind. Why did this happen to me? Aren’t we supposed to get signs from the people that pass on? Why did I not feel her presence anymore? Is there a heaven?
Suddenly, a woman driving right by my side rolled down her window and distracted my unanswered thoughts. “Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me,” she said loudly. Thinking she was going to ask for my parking spot, I simply pointed to my car. The thought of having to say where my car was seemed like too much to bear. “No, excuse me,” she said again.
At this point, I felt I had no choice but to see what this annoying lady wanted. As I got closer, I was startled—was this my grandmother’s nurse, Adu, who lived with her during her final months? I soon realized that she wasn’t, although the resemblance was unusual. Then, I realized that this Adu was searching for something in her bag. Surprisingly, I was overcome by a sense of relief that led me to be patient the entire time the lady was searching. Others would be nervous by a stranger reaching in their bag, but I wasn’t. She finally reached to the very bottom of her bag and handed me a three-page booklet. “It looks like you need this,” she said calmly with a warm smile on her face.
I looked down at the mysterious and obviously used booklet and on the front cover in big bold letters read “What Hope for Dead Loved Ones?”
It took me only a few seconds to comprehend the exchange with this woman, but by the time I looked up, she was gone.
I walked slowly into my car holding the tiny little book that was given to me with fear that it would fly away in the wind. I didn’t know what it was exactly, but I knew that if my grandmother had anything to do with that I didn’t want to let it go.
I felt a sense of relaxation as I opened the first page. It explained how people pass on, but their spirit remains with us. This was the first time since my grandma had passed that I felt her with me, just like I had wanted. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but I did know that I finally felt happiness from the surprising change in events.
I couldn’t, and still can’t, believe what had happened to me on that day. I don’t remember the specific details that you usually hear about like what the person was wearing, the time of day, or even the weather, but it doesn’t matter. It was a random day in November when my life turned back around and I began to feel hope again. It was real. It was a miracle. And, I’ll remember it for the rest of my life.
【小題1】The author refused to say anything to the woman but just pointed to her own car at first mainly because ______.
A.the author did not know the woman |
B.the woman interrupted the author’s thoughts |
C.the author thought she wanted to use the vacant parking space |
D.the author was too weak to say anything |
A.She often made the author angry. | B.She left nothing to the author. |
C.She was kind to the author. | D.She lost faith in God. |
A.The author and the woman became good friends later. |
B.The woman turned out to be the author’s grandmother’s nurse. |
C.The author knows the specific details about this experience. |
D.The author was very grateful to the unknown woman. |
A.Miracle at the Parking Lot | B.What Hope for Dead Loved Ones? |
C.True Love for My Grandmother | D.Adu, My Grandmother’s Nurse |
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
When I was at University I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn’t do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time playing than working in the library.
Once at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. Beside each question we had to write “True” or “False”. While I was studying in my room the night before the test, Fred was watching TV. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan. “It’s very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I’ll just toss(擲)the coin to decide the answers. That way, I’m sure I’ll get half the questions right.”
The next day, Fred came happily into the exam room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.
The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor. “Oh, good,” he said to the teacher, “Have you got the result of the test?” The teacher reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.
“I’m terribly sorry, Fred,” he said, “You failed!”
【小題1】This story mainly wants to tell us .
A.chemistry is really hard to learn |
B.there are many questions for students to prepare. |
C.good exam results really need studying hard |
D.tossing a coin can not always decide the result |
A.did just enough to pass an exam |
B.didn’t work hard enough for their studies |
C.had more important work to do than study |
D.were quite good at passing exams |
A.he had got ready for the exam |
B.he knew the answers already |
C.one excellent student would help him |
D.he had his special way to finish the exam |
A.The chemisty exam was not very difficult at all. |
B.It in fact took an hour to finish the chemisty exam |
C.The chemisty exam had more than one hundred questions. |
D.The chemisty exam needed to be done by tossing a coin. |
A.he was satisfied with Baines’ way for the exam |
B.he wanted to make friends with Baines |
C.Baines’ way for the exam would never work |
D.the exam result depended on the coin |
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
My daughter Alisa was born blind in her right eye and was bullied (欺侮) pretty severely in school. So I quitted my job as a babysitter and then schooled my daughter heart and soul at home.
A year ago a boy of 14 befriended my daughter on Facebook after reading something Alisa wrote about bullying. Today he messaged her and asked if she would like six tickets to a Colorado Rockies baseball game. They have never met in person but she said, “Sure! That would be great.”
Then I received a call from his mother explaining why her son had chosen my daughter. She said he thought my daughter deserved them because of all the good she does in the community. Her son, she explained, had experienced a similar situation and was also home schooled.
What she said is true. Now my daughter Alisa continues to teach groups of girls in trouble in our community how to look within themselves for the positive and how to be their own person.
Everything taken into consideration, we decided to meet the mother and the boy at a local bike shop. After meeting, the boy approached my car and my daughter gave him a hug and thanked him for his generosity. She told him that she had never been to a baseball game and that she was going to take her entire family, including myself, her dad, little sister, her cousin and an aunt who has brain cancer.
We all thanked one another, got in our car, and went our way. As we drove home my daughter opened the envelope. Inside it were the tickets and $100 each to buy hot dogs, pay for parking and not have any worries but a great time.
My daughter has always been the giver and now she and our family are the receivers and I can not tell you how incredibly honored we feel to be on the other end. What an incredible young man to have such a kind idea.
【小題1】What did the author once do according to the passage?
A.She was a ticket seller. | B.She was a school teacher. |
C.She was a babysitter. | D.She was a social worker. |
A.They met when buying tickets to a baseball game. |
B.They got in touch via the Internet. |
C.They became familiar when talking face to face. |
D.They went to the same school and met each other. |
A.Because Alisa is a disabled girl. |
B.Because he has a lot money to share. |
C.Because Alisa often helps those in trouble. |
D.Because he has a similar situation with Alisa. |
A.He is afraid of meeting strangers. |
B.He always bullies smaller children. |
C.He is addicted to the internet. |
D.He receives education at home. |
A.Good is rewarded with good. |
B.A friend in need is a friend indeed. |
C.Two heads are better than one. |
D.Where there is a will, there is a way. |
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
When Marilynne Robinson published her first novel, Housekeeping, in 1980, she was unknown in the literary world. But an early review in The New York Times ensured that the book would be noticed. “It’s as if, in writing it, she broke through the ordinary human condition with all its dissatisfactions, and achieved a kind of transfiguration(美化),” wrote Anatole Broyard, with an enthusiasm and amazement that was shared by many critics and readers. The book became a classic, and Robinson was recognized as one of the outstanding American writers of our time. Yet it would be more than twenty years before she wrote another novel.
During the period, Robinson devoted herself to writing nonfiction. Her essays and book reviews appeared in Harper’s and The New York Times Book Review, and in 1989 she published Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution, criticizing severely the environmental and public health dangers caused by the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in England—and the political and moral corruption(腐敗). In 1998, Robinson published a collection of her critical and theological writings, The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought, which featured reassessments of such figures as Charles Darwin, John Calvin, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Aside from a single short story—“Connie Bronson,” published in The Paris Review in 1986—it wasn’t until 2004 that she returned to fiction with the novel Gilead, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, Home, came out this fall.
Her novels could be described as celebrations of the human—the characters in them are unforgettable creations. Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her sister Lucille, who are cared for by their eccentric(古怪的)Aunt Sylvie after their mother commits suicide. Robinson writes a lot about how each of the three is changed by their new life together. Gilead is an even more close exploration of personality: the book centres on John Ames, a seventy-seven-year-old pastor(牧師) who is writing an account of his life and his family history to leave to his young son after he dies. Home borrows characters from Gilead but centers on Ames’s friend Reverend Robert Boughton and his troubled son Jack. Robinson returned to the same territory as Gilead because, she said, “after I write a novel or a story, I miss the characters—I feel like losing some close friends.”
【小題1】Robinson’s second novel came out ____.
A.in 1980 | B.in 1986 | C.in 1998 | D.in 2004 |
A.Robinson’s achievements in fiction. |
B.Robinson’s achievements in nonfiction. |
C.Robinson’s influence on the literary world. |
D.Robinson’s contributions to the environment. |
A.He is Robinson’s close friend. |
B.He is a character in Gilead. |
C.He is a figure in The Death of Adam. |
D.He is a historian writing family stories. |
A.Career. | B.Lifestyle. | C.Music. | D.Culture. |
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
The sun was just coming up when I headed out to work last May at 6 a.m. Not quite dark but dark enough to need my headlights. I turned onto one of the lonely rural country roads.
Maybe it was because I was listening to the radio, maybe it was because I was already thinking about some projects at work, that I didn’t spot the dark object on the road until I was too late. I ran over it and felt the back left tire pull, and then sink. I stopped and got out of the car.
No mystery here---- my back left tyre was cut like a loaf of bread. Back 50 yards was a piece of sharp iron I had run over. I had never changed a tyre. I looked up the road. Not a car in either direction. The nearest service station was miles away. I threw up my hands. Then I remembered---- my cell phone! I powered it up before realizing, I didn’t know who to call.
Wouldn’t you know it, I spotted a car coming from the opposite direction. The driver slowed as he approached. I guessed he could see I was in trouble. He stopped his car, got out and immediately saw the trouble. “Madam, would you like me to change that tyre for you?” he asked. The man couldn’t have been more friendly. I was frightened out there and he put me completely at ease. “There,” he said, after putting on the spare, “you are all set to go.”
“Good thing for me that you were driving this way,” I told him, as I climbed back into my car.
“Funny you should say that,” he said. “Just like you, I was heading to work, but my job is in the opposite direction. I made a wrong turn at some point. I don’t know what I was thinking.”
【小題1】The writer didn’t notice the object on the road because ______.
A.it was rather dark then | B.she didn’t use her headlights |
C.there was much traffic | D.she was careless when driving |
A.the writer felt quite anxious |
B.no one would like to help the writer |
C.the writer was a new driver |
D.the cell phone should be powered up |
A.He stopped and laughed at her. |
B.He walked over to frighten her. |
C.He helped her without hesitation. |
D.He drove away in the opposite direction. |
A.went a wrong way | B.felt the writer funny |
C.didn’t know what he was doing | D.come specially to help the writer |
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