I will probably remember one June day seven years ago for the rest of my life. My father had been complaining that my brother and I were watching too much TV, but we ignored him. Then one day we came home and the television was gone.
When I asked my father about the missing TV, he said watching television was a waste of time. Without it, we would have time for other things.
I decided he was wrong. Is there life without TV? How can we spend the week without all those shows and soaps? I was sure my life would be boring without TV, I used my best debating skills to argue with him, but he would not give in.
However, I found other ways to spend my time finally, Each day I ran around the street. This reminded me of my love for athletics, which I still enjoy. I joined Volunteers, and I built lasting friendships. Most importantly, I discovered an artistic world I never knew. I started taking art contests, and was shocked when I won. Then I took piano lessons. I began to like listening to AM radio, reading news magazines.
Living without TV has taught me how to manage my time, so that I can do many things in one day. I am proud to have learned I don’t need television.
Looking back, I think my father did the right thing. “You are smart. You could do anything that you put your heart to.” he used to say. He believed in us. His actions showed me a much more colorful side of life without TV and the value of having a goal and sticking to it.
小題1:My father was angry and took the television away because _______.
A．we asked him to do so
B．my brother and I did not need it
C．he needed some money
D．my brother and I watched too much TV
小題2:What did I do after the TV was missing?
A．I went to my friend’s house to watch TV.
B．I stayed at home all day.
C．I asked my father to buy a new television.
D．I did many useful things.
小題3:_______ is NOT what I did after the TV was missing?
A．Running around the street
B．Sleeping day in and day out
C．Listening to the radio
D．Taking art contests
小題4:The author mainly tells us that _______.
A．life without TV can be very colorful
B．life would be boring without TV
C．people can’t spend the week without shows and soaps
D．watching television was a waste of time

小題1:D
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:A
文章想向我們解釋沒有電視，我們的生活可以非常精彩。
小題1:D 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第一段第2行my brother and I were watching too much TV可知D正確。
小題2:D 段落大意題。根據(jù)文章第4段內(nèi)容可知，沒有了電視我做了很多有用的事情，故D正確。
小題3:B 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第4段內(nèi)容可知沒有了電視我做了很多有用的事情，并沒有整天睡覺。
小題4:A 主旨大意題。文章想向我們解釋沒有電視，我們的生活可以非常精彩。
練習(xí)冊系列答案
相關(guān)習(xí)題

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：完形填空

I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was ____36____ and when I was 14 years old, he predicted, “You are never to be ____37____ but a failure.”
After 5 years of poor jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best thing ____38____ could have happened to me. I ____39____ I should do something positive with my life because I wanted to prove ___40___ her that what people said about me had gone ___41___, especially her mother, who once said to me, “Let’s ____42____ it. You’ve failed every thing you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my ____43____ and went to ____44____. My first novel ____45____ while I was still a college student.
After college, I taught during the day in high schools and attended ____46____ classes at London University, where I ____47____ a degree in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of ____48____ that job to write full time when I was ____49____ a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself---here was a working-class boy who’d ___50___ school early, now teaching at the university.
My writing career ____51____ when I discovered my own writing ____52____. Now I’m rich and famous, have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. _____53____ what does it mean? I just wish that all those people who have ____54____ me down had just said, “I believe in you and you will be ____55____.”
小題1:
A．naughtyB．lazyC．uselessD．raggy
小題2:A. nothing         B. something        C everything        D. anything
小題3:
A．whenB．thatC．whichD．a(chǎn)s
小題4:
A．thoughtB．promisedC．decidedD．expected
小題5:
A．toB．for C．withD．a(chǎn)t
小題6:
A．ridiculousB．a(chǎn)cceptableC．believableD．wrong
小題7:
A．seeB．faceC．treatD．react
小題8:
A．writingB．experimentC．practiceD．composition
小題9:
A．schoolB．collegeC．clubD．company
小題10:
A．went acrossB．put asideC．came outD．set off
小題11:
A．lectureB．writingC．teachingD．evening
小題12:
A．receivedB．a(chǎn)cceptedC．gaveD．offered
小題13:
A．giving upB．paying forC．signing upD．ridding of
小題14:
A．paidB．madeC．offeredD．tried
小題15:
A．finishedB．goneC．delayedD．left
小題16:
A．made offB．took offC．gave offD．moved off
小題17:
A．styleB．habitC．ideaD．skill
小題18:
A．ThereforeB．ButC．ThoughD．For
小題19:
A．writtenB．turnedC．tornD．put
小題20:
A．cheerfulB．enjoyableC．successfulD．forgettable

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

About this time every year, I get very nostalgic(懷舊的). Walking through my neighborhood on a fall afternoon reminds me of a time not too long ago when sounds of children filled the air, children playing games on a hill, and throwing leaves around in the street below. I was one of those children, carefree and happy. I live on a street that is only one block long. I have lived on the same street for sixteen years. I love my street. One side has six houses on it, and the other has only two houses, with a small hill in the middle and a huge cottonwood tree on one end. When I think of home, I think of my street. Only I see it as it was before. Unfortunately things change. One day, not long ago, I looked around and saw how different everything has become. Life on my street will never be the same because neighbors are quickly grown old, friends are growing up and leaving, and the city is planning to destroy my precious hill and sell the property to contractors.
It is hard for me to accept that many of my wonderful neighbors are growing old and won’t be around much longer. I have fond memories of the couple across the street, who sat together on their porch swing almost every evening, the widow next door who yelled at my brother and me for being too loud, and the crazy old man in a black suit who drove an old car. In contrast to those people, the people I see today are very old neighbors who have seen better days. The man in the black suit says he wants to die, and another neighbor just sold his house and moved into a nursing home. The lady who used to yell at us is too tired to bother any more, and the couple across the street rarely go out to their front porch these days. It is difficult to watch these precious people as they near the end of their lives because at once I thought they would live forever.
The “comings and goings” of the younger generation of my street are now mostly “goings” as friends and peers move on. Once upon a time, my life and the lives of my peers revolved around home. The boundary of our world was the gutter at the end of the street. We got pleasure from playing night games or from a breathtaking ride on a tricycle. Things are different now, as my friends become adults and move on. Children who rode tricycles now drive cars. The kids who once played with me now have new interests and values as they go their separate ways. Some have gone away to college like me, a few got married, two went into the army, and one went to prison. Watching all these people grow up and go away makes me long for the good old days.
Perhaps the biggest change on my street is the fact that the city is going to turn my precious hill into several lots for now homes. For sixteen years, the view out of my kitchen window has been a view of that hill. The hill was a fundamental part of my childhood life; it was the hub of social activity for the children of my street. We spent hours there building forts, sledding, and playing tag. The view out of my kitchen window now is very different; it is one of tractors and dump trucks tearing up the hill. When the hill goes, the neighborhood will not be the same. It is a piece of my childhood. It is a visual reminder of being a kid. Without the hill, my street will be just another pea in the pod.
There was a time when my street was my world, and I thought my world would never change. But something happened. People grow up, and people grow old. Places changes, and with the change comes the heartache of knowing I can never go back to the times I loved. In a year or so, I will be gone just like many of my neighbors. I will always look back to my years as a child, but the place I remember will not be the silent street whose peace is interrupted by the sounds of construction. It will be the happy, noisy, somewhat strange, but wonderful street I knew as a child.
小題1:The writer calls up the memory of the street _____________.
A．every year when autumn comes
B．in the afternoon every day
C．every time he walks along his street
D．now that he is an old man
小題2:The writer finds it hard to accept the fact that _____________.
A．many of his good neighbors are growing old
B．the lady next door who used to yell at him and his brother is now a widow
C．the life of his neighbors has become very boring
D．the man in his black suit even wanted to end his own life
小題3:The writer thinks of the past all the more when he sees those who had grown up with him _____________.
A．continue to consider home to be the center of their lives
B．leave the neighborhood they grew up in
C．still enjoy playing card games in the evenings
D．develop new interests and have new dreams
小題4:The biggest change on the writer's street is _____________.
A．removing the hill to make way for residential development
B．the building of new homes behind his kitchen window
C．the fact that there are much fewer people around than in the past
D．the change in his childhood friends' attitude towards their neighborhood
小題5:What does the writer mean by saying “my street will be another pea in the     pod”?
A．his street will be very noisy and dirty
B．his street will soon be crowded with people
C．his street will have some new attractions
D．his street will be no different from any other street
小題6:Which could be a good title for the passage?
A．The Past of My Street will Live Forever
B．Unforgettable People and Things of My Street
C．Memory Street Isn't What It Used to Be
D．The Big Changes of My Street

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Driving to a friend’s house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftop. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it is that most city people --- myself included --- usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fiber-glass. We have television, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought, “Before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains. And perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touched the moon.”
小題1:The best title for the passage would be _________.
A．Touched by the Moon
B．The Pleasures of Modern Life
C．A Bottomless well of Silence
D．Break away from Modern life
小題2:The writer felt sorry for himself because __________.
A．there was too much pollution.
B．he failed to see the fullest moon.
C．he didn’t adapt to modern inventions
D．there were too many accidents on the road.
小題3:What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?
A．No modern equipment.B．Complete silence.
C．The nice moon.D．The high mountain.
小題4:Modern things are mentioned mainly to ___________.
A．show that the writer likes city life very much.
B．tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life.
C．explain that people have less chances to enjoy nature.
D．show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them.
小題5:The author wrote the passage to __________.
A．express the feeling of returning to nature.
B．show the love for the moonlight.
C．a(chǎn)dvise modern people to learn to live.
D．want to communicate longing for modern life.

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Last Friday my brother and I were driving home together after doing some shopping and gave our attention to an interesting conversation. Because of this distraction (分心)my brother took a wrong turn.
Unfortunately, the wrong turn took us towards a bridge and we had no way to turn back. Unwillingly, my brother paid the bridge fee and drove on. He was clearly frustrated by the mistake and the needless waste of $4.
We eventually reached an exit and, as we took it, my brother noticed a young fellow pulled over to the side of the road. He came out of his car and tried to phone someone. I was busy trying to figure out which way we would go next but my brother pulled over and asked the guy if he needed any help. And he did. He had a flat tire and needed a tool to get it off.
My brother gave him a wrench, and then began to help him change the flat. The young man said that this had been a bad week for him: earlier he had gotten into a minor car accident, and now this flat on his way home from work. But he called us “a breath of fresh air” and kept thanking us because he really would have been stuck if we hadn’t come along.
After we finished the job he thanked us again and pulled out $20 from his pocket and tried to give it to us. “No,” I said. “We were never supposed to even get on that bridge,we took a wrong turn. But now we know why we did. It was to help you. Thank you for turning our mistake into an opportunity to serve.” 
What I loved most was that my brother was able to see a chance to help. His reaction in the situation is a lesson for everyone and we felt so good the rest of the day.
小題1:When did the author and his brother notice the young man who had a flat tire?
A．Before they arrived at a bridge.
B．When they were passing through an exit.
C．When the young man stopped them for help.
D．After they came back to the right road.
小題2:We can learn from the text that the writer’s brother ________.
A．didn’t know the roads well
B．was a warm-hearted young man
C．made the turn to help the young man
D．regretted making a wrong turn all the way home
小題3:What did the young man mean by calling the writer and his brother “a breath of fresh air” ?
A．He had been in the hot sun waiting for help for so long.
B．His car’s air conditioner was broken.
C．They calmed him down by offering him a cold drink.
D．They changed his bad luck and the bad mood he was in.
小題4:Which of the following sentences best describes the writer’s experience?
A．It’s no use crying over spilt milk.
B．God helps those who help themselves.
C．Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.
D．If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：完形填空

What on earth does happiness mean? I can’t give you its exact definition, but I’m sure if you love and help 16.        , you’ll get it.
I’ll never forget an old lady. She lives in 17.      small house alone. It is said that her husband and her son 18.    （die）in a road accident years ago. Her life is bitter, but she often helps others 19 .    a smile. Whenever it snows, she is always the first to clean the paths. She looks after several children living nearby. I am one of them. I often remember the stories she told us and her kind smile. Perhaps she is unlucky, but I think she is a happy person. Her life is full of 20.     （laugh）and love.
But I’m sad to see some people getting their happiness in bad ways. They talk 21.    （noisy）in cinemas and meeting rooms; they destroy trees to enjoy themselves and they laugh at others’ shortcomings. Perhaps they feel happy at that time, 22.       they will never get true happiness because they 23.      （lose）their personality already.
Now I know what happiness is. 24.     means kindness, love and unselfishness. Above all, I have come to understand that 25.      （bring）happiness to others is getting ourselves happiness.

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

When he was a boy, Tim was much influenced（影響） by the books about the sea, but in fact by the age of fifteen he had decided to become a doctor rather than a sailor. His father was a dentist and as a result, Tim had the opportunity of meeting many doctors either at home or elsewhere. When he was fourteen he was already hanging around the clinic (診所) of a local doctor where he was supposed to help to wrap up medicine bottles, but was actually trying to listen to the conversations taking place between the doctor and his patients in the next room.
During the war Tim served in the Navy (海軍) as a surgeon (外科醫(yī)生). “That was the happiest time of my life. I was dealing with very real suffering and on the whole making a success of it.” In California he taught the country people simple facts about medicine. He saw himself as a life-saver. He had proved his skills to himself and his ability to take decisions. Thus, while he was able to tell them what to do, he could feel he was saving them. After the war, he got married and chose to be a doctor in the countryside, working under an old doctor who was popular in the area, but who hated the sight of blood and believed that the secret of medicine was faith. This gave the young man many opportunities to go on working as a life-saver.
小題1:Tim decided to be a doctor when he was________.
A．fourteenB．fifteen
C．serving in the NavyD．working in clinic
小題2:Tim decided to become a doctor mainly because________
A．his father wanted him to be so.
B．his father was a surgeon.
C．he had read many books about medicine.
D．he had chances to know many doctors and know about what doctors did.
小題3:Which of the following is not true?
A．during the war, Tim was a surgeon in the Navy.
B．he taught the country people simple facts about medicine in California.
C．a(chǎn)fter the war, he married the old doctors’ daughter.
D．Tim worked as a life-saver after war.
小題4:From the passage we can infer(推出) that Tim_________.
A．was sent to Europe during the war.
B．was not afraid of blood.
C．decided to give up his doctor career.
D．regarded himself as a life-saver.
小題5:The passage is mainly about­________
A．Tim’s life storyB．Tim’ dreamsC．Tim’s marriageD．Tim’s patients

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

My bike was a three-speed English “racer”, purchased during my second year in college in November 1964 for $44. Most of the money was earned by myself in my spare time, but I had to get my mother to help me out a little. At that time, bikes were rare on a college campus. My reason for getting a bicycle was a little strange. A friend of mine convinced me to take a summer job selling door-to-door and suggested that I should use a bicycle to travel between houses. The job didn’t work out, but the idea was in my brain.
That fall, I borrowed another student’s bike and rode 45 miles on the first day, but his bike soon had a flat(癟了的輪胎) which he didn’t like fixing. So I had to buy one. I immediately started using mine almost every day. Before getting the bike, I sometimes walked 28 miles to my parents’ house. Now the bike gave me a quicker method, but my first trip took four hours due to strong headwinds that had me fight for every foot. Once I made a trip of 100 miles in one day. I decided to use the bike to go camping in the Smokies. During the trip, I recognized the need for handlebars and more gears, so I bought a ten-speed after just one year though I loved this bike.
The first bike “hung around” for a couple of years, and then I gave it to my sister’s kids who let it become part of their lives.
小題1:What can we learn from the passage?
A．His mother gave him some money when he bought the first bike.
B．The first bike was a gift from his mother.
C．He bought the first bike for racing.
D．He wanted to buy a bike because all his classmates had one.
小題2:We can infer that besides studying at college the writer ____.
A．often helped his friend do business
B．a(chǎn)lso worked in a factory
C．had part-time jobs in his spare time
D．had to make money to pay for his tuition
小題3:The underlined phrase “the idea” in the first paragraph refers to “____”.
A．selling door-to-door
B．buying a bike of his own
C．borrowing a bike from others
D．earning money by working
小題4:According to the passage, we can learn that the first bike was ____ for him.
A．unnecessaryB．very useful
C．a(chǎn) lifelong toolD．too troublesome

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：完形填空

John was waiting for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn’t, the girl with the rose. Thirteen months ago, in a Florida library he took a book off the ___36___and found himself interested in the notes in the margin. The soft handwriting ___37___a thoughtful soul and insightful mind.
In front of the book, he ___38___the previous owner’s name, Miss Hollis Maynell. With time and effort he ___39___her address. He wrote her a letter ___40___himself and inviting her to correspond.
During the next year and one-month the two grew to know each other ___41___the mail. A Romance was budding. John requested a（an） ___42___, but she refused. She felt that if he really cared, it wouldn’t matter what she looked like. Later they ___43___their first meeting—7：00 pm at Grand Central Station in New York
“You’ll ___44___me, ”she wrote, “by the red rose I’ll be wearing on my lapel. ”So at 7：00 he was in the ___45___looking for the girl with the red rose.
A young woman in a green suit was coming toward him, her ___46___long and slim and her eyes were blue as flowers. Almost ___47___he made one step closer to her, and just at this moment he saw Hollis Maynell—a woman well past 40. The girl was walking quickly away. He felt as though he split in two, so keen was his ___48___to follow her, and yet so deep was his longing for the woman whose ___49___had truly companioned him and upheld his own.
He did not ___50___. He squared his shoulders and said, “I’m John, and you must be Miss Maynell. I am so glad you could meet me；may I take you to ___51___?”
The woman smiled. “I don’t know what this is about, son, ”she answered, “but the young lady in the green suit ___52___me to wear this rose on my coat. And she said if you were to ask me out to dinner, I ___53___tell you that she is waiting for you in the ___54___across the street. She said it was some kind of ___55___!”
It’s not difficult to admire Miss Maynell’s wisdom. The true nature of a heart is seen in it’s response to the unattractive.
小題1:
A．exhibitionB．shelfC．figure D．diagram
小題2:
A．representedB．refreshedC．replaced D．rejected
小題3:
A．transformedB．conveyedC．observed D．discovered
小題4:
A．locatedB．expressedC．settled D．evaluated
小題5:
A．explainingB．introducingC．a(chǎn)ppointing D．predicting
小題6:
A．byB．onC．beyond D．through
小題7:
A．photographB．E-mailC．measurement D．document
小題8:
A．separateB．scheduledC．strengthen D．possessed
小題9:
A．recognizeB．witnessC．a(chǎn)dvocate D．tolerate
小題10:
A．libraryB．stationC．downtown D．square
小題11:
A．shadowB．shoulderC．a(chǎn)ppearance D．figure
小題12:
A．randomlyB．mentallyC．uncontrollablyD．ridiculously
小題13:
A．desireB．dreamC．a(chǎn)ttempt D．determination
小題14:
A．carefulnessB．wealthC．expectation D．spirit
小題15:
A．hesitateB．guaranteeC．submit D．hurry
小題16:
A．theatreB．dinnerC．shopping D．service
小題17:
A．a(chǎn)dvisedB．a(chǎn)ppliedC．begged D．required
小題18:
A．shouldB．wouldC．may D．must
小題19:
A．balconyB．restaurantC．corner D．department
小題20:
A．patienceB．experimentC．test D．decision

查看答案和解析>>

同步練習(xí)冊答案