科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：閱讀理解
A few days ago I asked my sons’ governess（女家庭教師）Julia to come into my study. “Be seated, Julia, ”I said, “Let’s settle our accounts. I guess you most likely need some money, but maybe you’re too polite to mention it. Now then, we agreed on thirty dollars a month...”
“Forty.”
“No, thirty. I made a note of it. I always pay our governess thirty. Well, um, you’ve been here two months, so...”
“Two months and five days.”
“Exactly two months. I made a special note of it. That means you have sixty dollars coming to you. Take off nine Sundays... you know you didn’t work with Tom on Sundays, you only took walks. And three holidays... ”Julia was biting her finger nail nervously, her face red, but - not a word.
“Three holidays, therefore take off twelve dollars. Four days Tom was sick and there were no lessons, as you were occupied only with Dick. Three days you had a toothache and my wife gave you permission not to work after lunch. Twelve and seven - nineteen. Take nineteen off ... that leaves. hmm.... forty one dollars. Correct？”
Julia’s left eye reddened with tears welling up. Her chin trembled; she coughed nervously and blew her nose, but - still not a word.
“Around New Year’s Day you broke a teacup and a saucer; take off two dollars. The cup cost more, it was a treasure of the family, but- forget it. When didn’t I take a loss! Then, due to your neglect （疏忽）, Tom climbed a tree and tore his jacket; take away ten. Also due to your carelessness the maid stole Dick’s shoes. You ought to watch everything! You get paid for it. So, that means five more dollars off. The tenth of January I gave ten dollars.”
“You didn’t. ”sobbed Julia.
“But I made a note of it.”
“Well... if you say so.”
“Take twenty seven from forty one -that leaves fourteen.”
Both her eyes were filled with tears. Beads of sweat stood on the thin pretty little nose. Poor girl!
“Only once was I given any money,” she whispered, her voice trembling, “and that was by your wife. Three dollars, nothing more.”
“Really? You see now, and I didn’t know that! Take three from fourteen.. leaves eleven. Here’s your money, my dear. Three, three, three, one and one. Here it is !”
I handed her eleven dollars. She took them and pocketed them.
“Merci （法語: 謝謝）,”she whispered.
I jumped to my feet and started pacing the room. I was overcome with anger. “For what, this - ‘merci’?” I asked.
“For the money. ”
“But you know I’ve cheated you - robbed you ! I have actually stolen from you ! Why this‘merci’？”
“In my other places they didn’t give me anything at all.”
“They didn’t give you anything? No wonder! I played a little joke on you, a cruel lesson, just to teach you... I m going to give you all the eighty dollars! Here they are in the envelope all ready for you... Is it really possible to be so spineless （懦弱）?Why didn’t you protest? Why were you silent? Is it possible in this world to be without teeth and claws（爪）—to be such a fool?”
Embarrassed, she smiled. And I could read her expression,“It is possible.”
I asked her pardon for the cruel lesson and, to her great surprise, gave her the eighty dollars. She murmured her little“merci”several times and went out. I looked after her and thought,“How easy it is to crush the weak in this world !”
While talking to Julia, the wrier expected from her ________.
A. a protest B. gratitude
C. obedience D. an explanation
What shocked the writer was Julia’s ________.
A. nervousness in front of her boss
B. acceptance of injustice
C. shyness when talking about money
D. reluctance to express herself
The writer said, “Is it possible in this world to be without teeth and claws?” He was actually telling the governess ________.
A. to be more aggressive
B. to be more careful in her work
C. to protect her right
D. to live independently
At the end of the story, the writer said,“ How easy it is to crush the weak in this world!”to show ________.
A. his understanding of Julia’s anxiety
B. his worry about Julia’s future
C. his concern on the living condition of working - class people
D. his sympathy for the mental state of those exploited
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科目：高中英語 來源：2012-2013學(xué)年安徽宿州泗縣二中高一下學(xué)期周考英語卷（帶解析） 題型：閱讀理解
Miss Gogers taught physics in a New York school. Last month she explained to one of her classes about sound, and she decided to test them to see how successful she had been in her explanation. She said to them, “Now I have a brother in Los Angeles. If I was calling him on the phone and at the same time you were 75 feet away, listening to me from across the street, which of you would hear what I said earlier, my brother or you and for what reason?”
Tom at once answered, “Your brother. Because electricity travels faster than sound waves.” “That's every good,” Miss Gogers answered; but then one of the girls raised her hand, and Miss Gogers said. “Yes, Kate.”
“I disagree,” Kate said. “Your brother would hear you earlier because when it's 11 o'clock here it's only 8 o'clock in Los Angeles.”
【小題1】Miss Gogers was teaching her class_________.
| A．how to telephone | B．a(chǎn)bout electricity |
| C．a(chǎn)bout time zone(時區(qū)) | D．a(chǎn)bout sound |
| A．it was easy to phone to Los Angeles | B．her student could hear her from 75 feet away |
| C．her students had grasped（理解）her lesson. | D．sound waves were slower than electricity |
| A．slower than sound waves | B．faster than sound waves |
| C．not so fast as sound waves | D．a(chǎn)s fast as sound waves |
| A．clocks in Los Angeles showed a different time from those in New York |
| B．electricity was slower than sound waves |
| C．Tom was not good at physics at all |
| D．Tom's answer had nothing to do with sound waves |
| A．Tom's | B．Kate's | C．Bath A and B | D．Neither A nor B |
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科目：高中英語 來源：2014屆江西省贛州市高二下學(xué)期第二次月考英語卷（解析版） 題型：單項填空
Tom was at a loss as to how a car worked, so it was
______ that he knew nothing about how to repair cars.
A．a(chǎn)pparent B．a(chǎn)bsurd C．confused D．complicated
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科目：高中英語 來源：20102011河北衡水中學(xué)高一下學(xué)期期末考試英語試題 題型：單詞拼寫
根據(jù)下列句子所給漢語意思，寫出空缺處各單詞的正確形式。
1.
Grandfather, father and sons belong to three different (輩).
2.
After supper many people go to the Central Square just for e （娛樂）.
3.
---Tom, look at your papers. How did you do your homework?
--Sorry, sir. You have c me with my twin brother. I’m Jim
4.
Yesterday was our open day. Many children came into our school looking around (好奇).
5.
Don’t be in such a hurry; you’d better eat a few m_____ of food before you go shopping.
6.
I saw some girls were talking about something in w . But when I got closer they all ran away.
7.
The painting in the flag of our class r unity, strength and effort.
8.
As the teacher (走近) the dormitory of his students, the rooms became quiet.
9.
If bright sunlight is (聚焦) on dry wood with a glass, it will start burning.
10.
The sports reporter was watching the football match, (評論) all the time.
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