Surfing: It’s Not Just for Boys Any More
If you asked high school girls to name their favorite sports, most would probably say basketball or volleyball. I am one of the few girls who would   21 : surfing(沖浪運(yùn)動(dòng)). But isn’t that a boy thing? Some people 　22　　 . 　Most certainly not.
I started surfing about five years ago and   23  in love with the sport on the very first day. Riding the first   24  was the best feeling I had ever experienced.
When I try to   25  surfing with other things, I find it very difficult because, in my   2—___26  , there’s nothing like it. It involves(牽涉到) body and  27 . There’s sand between my toes and cool, salt   28 all around us. The feeling I get when I’m surfing   29  that water, becoming one with the   30 , is like I’m weightless.
The one thing I can   31  from surfing and not any other sport is endless challenge. You can never be the “best surfer” because the ocean  32 an too many kinds of waves that nobody can ever master. The variations of surfing styles are wonderful. Some surfers are free and flowing; others are very aggressive(活躍有力的) and   33 . All of these things attract me to surfing and make it   34  from any other sport.
I’ve    35  to tell every girl I know to do something that people don’t think girls can do. It’s part of being human to advance to new   36 , so shouldn’t it be expected that girls should step up and start   37 __the limits of things boys and men used to dominate(主宰)?
There’re women   38  side by side with the President of our country, so why not side by side with the boys   39 the football team or out in the water surfing? Give girls a chance to   40 , and they will.
小題1:
A．tell　B．a(chǎn)nswer　　　 C．give 　D．realize
小題2:
A．wonderB．understand　C．reply　　D．believe
小題3:
A．stayedB．came C．droppedD．fell
小題4:
A．waveB．stormC．sail D．boat
小題5:
A．bringB．connectC．compareD．tie
小題6:
A．workB．studyC．holidayD．life
小題7:
A．mindB．effortC．healthD．time
小題8:
A．beachB．oceanC．waterD．coast
小題9:
A．through B．a(chǎn)crossC．over D．a(chǎn)bove
小題10:
A．skyB．worldC．earthD．ocean
小題11:
A．takeB．get C．make D．keep
小題12:
A．catchesB．includesC．offersD．collects
小題13:
A．sharpB．greatC．hardD．calm
小題14:
A．knownB．rightC．farD．different
小題15:
A．chosen B．triedC．managedD．promised
小題16:
A．levels B．pointsC．steps D．parts
小題17:
A．reachingB．a(chǎn)cceptingC．pushingD．setting
小題18:
A．sittingB．walking C．fightingD．working
小題19:
A．of B．fromC．onD．with
小題20:
A．thinkB．succeed C．performD．feel

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:A
小題5:C
小題6:D
小題7:A
小題8:C
小題9:B
小題10:D
小題11:B
小題12:C
小題13:A
小題14:D
小題15:B
小題16:A
小題17:C
小題18:D
小題19:C
小題20:B

試題分析：本文講述了作者最喜歡的運(yùn)動(dòng)---沖浪。人們認(rèn)為這項(xiàng)運(yùn)動(dòng)是男孩子做的。而她卻覺得女孩子也應(yīng)該像男孩一樣有做任何事的機(jī)會(huì)。
小題1:考查動(dòng)詞辨析及上下文的呼應(yīng)。此處用 answer于上一句的ask相對(duì)應(yīng)，我是回答沖浪的幾個(gè)女孩之一。故答案選B。
小題2:考查動(dòng)詞辨析及上下文的呼應(yīng)。 由上文講很少女孩會(huì)喜歡沖浪，所以她最喜愛的是沖浪人們會(huì)感到好奇。A. wonder驚奇；B. understand理解；C. reply回答；D. believe相信。故選 A。
小題3:考查固定搭配及上下文的呼應(yīng)。此處是固定短語(yǔ)fall in love with…喜歡/愛上……，故選D。
小題4:考查名詞辨析及上下文的呼應(yīng)。A. wave波浪；B. storm 暴風(fēng)雨；C. sail航行；  D. boat船。這里說(shuō)的是第一次做沖浪運(yùn)動(dòng)，故選 A。
小題5:考查動(dòng)詞辨析及上下文的呼應(yīng)。固定短語(yǔ) compare sth. with sth. ……和……比較，文中拿沖浪和其他事情作比較，故選C。
小題6:考查名詞辨析及上下文的呼應(yīng)。In one’s life 在某人的生活中，故選D。
小題7:考查名詞辨析及上下文的呼應(yīng)。body and mind指沖浪牽涉到身體和心理的感受，其他選項(xiàng)effort努力； health健康；time時(shí)間；均不合邏輯，故選A。
小題8:考查動(dòng)詞辨析及上下文的呼應(yīng)。因?yàn)槭窃跊_浪，所以周圍應(yīng)該是水，故選C。
小題9:考查介詞辨析及上下文的呼應(yīng)。聯(lián)系上下文，此句應(yīng)該意為我在海水里沖浪，成為大海的一部分，這種感覺就像失重一樣。因?yàn)闆_浪運(yùn)動(dòng)是在海面上做的，所以用across，表示從表面穿過(guò)。Through從中間穿過(guò)； over  從上方越過(guò)； above在上方；均不符合題意，故選 B。
小題10:考查名詞辨析及上下文的呼應(yīng)。因?yàn)闆_浪是在海里做的，所以肯定成為大海的一部分，故選D. ocean（海洋）。
小題11:考查動(dòng)詞辨析及上下文的呼應(yīng)。A. take帶走；B. get得到；C. make制作； D. keep保持。 文中意為我能從沖浪中得到的就是無(wú)止境的挑戰(zhàn)。故選B。
小題12:考查動(dòng)詞辨析及上下文的呼應(yīng)。句意：你永遠(yuǎn)成不了最好的沖浪運(yùn)動(dòng)員，因?yàn)榇蠛Ｌ峁┨喾N沒人能控制的海浪。A. catches接住；B. includes包括；C. offers提供；D. collects收集。故選C。
小題13:考查形容詞辨析及上下文的呼應(yīng)。有上下文可知，一些沖浪者在海上自由飄蕩，而另一些則是比較活躍劇烈的運(yùn)動(dòng)。故選A.
小題14:考查形容詞辨析及上下文的呼應(yīng)。make it different from any other sport 使得沖浪與其他運(yùn)動(dòng)不同。故選D。
小題15:考查動(dòng)詞辨析及上下文的呼應(yīng)。Try to do sth. 盡力做某事，本句意為我盡量告訴我認(rèn)識(shí)的每個(gè)女孩，去做人們認(rèn)為女孩做不了的事情。由上下文可知tried為正確選項(xiàng)。   
小題16:考查名詞辨析及上下文的呼應(yīng)。句意：使人類發(fā)展到新水平。A. levels水平； B. points點(diǎn)；C. steps臺(tái)階，步；D. parts部分。故選A。
小題17:考查非謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞及上下文的呼應(yīng)。根據(jù)上下文可知，作者對(duì)男性主宰的世界發(fā)出挑戰(zhàn)。A. reaching到達(dá)；B. accepting接受；C. pushing推，促進(jìn)；D. setting設(shè)置。故選C。
小題18:考查非謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞及上下文的呼應(yīng)。working side by side指并肩工作，故選D。
小題19:考查介詞的用法及上下文的呼應(yīng)。“在……隊(duì)”用介詞on，故選C。
小題20:考查動(dòng)詞辨析及上下文的呼應(yīng)。最后作者呼吁，給女孩一個(gè)成功的機(jī)會(huì)，她們會(huì)成功的。A. think想；B. succeed成功；C. perform執(zhí)行，表演；D. feel感覺。故選B。
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A．drawnB．expectedC．requiredD．ordered
小題6:
A．even thoughB．in case C．a(chǎn)s thoughD．if only
小題7:
A．ofB．fromC．inD．with
小題8:
A．a(chǎn)dviseB．greetC．surpriseD．please
小題9:
A．commentsB．picturesC．repliesD．statements
小題10:
A．nervousB．sorryC．eagerD．desperate
小題11:
A．stillB．everC．a(chǎn)lsoD．even
小題12:
A．ifB．a(chǎn)s C．whileD．a(chǎn)lthough
小題13:
A．a(chǎn)ccording toB．thanks toC．owing toD．up to
小題14:
A．stageB．a(chǎn)reaC．placeD．room
小題15:
A．protectB．rescueC．serveD．reserve
小題16:
A．challengesB．limitsC．doubtsD．endings
小題17:
A．finishB．continueC．startD．stop
小題18:
A．worryB．thinkC．careD．talk
小題19:
A．weB．oneC．itD．you
小題20:
A．freeB．shortC．a(chǎn)wareD．fond

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科目：高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

My son Jack, a fourth grader, was having a hard time in getting interested in story books recently, so I offered to read the first few chapters to him. In the early pages of ‘Incident at Halk Hill’, a quiet little boy has a special meeting with a female badger (獾).Soon after, another badger is caught in a steel leg trap(陷阱), and the author describes in detail the pain and scare of an animal struggling to its death. We meet the cruel hunter and his ill treatment of a dog; we see the badger being skinned by the boy's father；and we experience the child's confusion when beaten by his father in anger. Pretty heavy going for ten-year-olds, I thought.
Last night , I returned from a weekend away to find that Jack had finished the whole book on his own. “It was really, really good and sad, and violent，” he reported. “There was a lot of killing.”
“Were there any happy parts?" I asked,
"The boy's life was saved by the badger, and that was good. But then that badger got caught in a trap again and at the end it's dying, too. ” Jack said, "It was so sad that I almost cried. ”
I told him that many books have made me cry, beginning with Heidi, when I was just his age, right on up to the novel I finished last week.
“Well，” he admitted then, “I actually did cry. Reading that book just reminded me of all the sadness in the world, and it made me feel sad ,too. ”
So, I think, now he has been through the sad tone of the passage , the discovery that words on a printed page can give rise to such strong emotion ，that a book can move you right out of your own comfortable little self and into someone else's pain. Thus we come to realize that if we are to remain fully engaged in life, open to its mysteries and feel sorry towards its suffering, we indeed need stories to grab（抓�。� us by the neck and remind us of the sadness in the world that is not our own.
小題1:‘Incident at Halk Hill’ is a _______story.
A．sadB．happy C．funny D．boring
小題2:The underlined sentence “Pretty heavy going for ten-year-olds" means____
A．the book is too long for a ten year old child
B．the book is too difficult for a ten year old child
C．the book is too violent(暴力) for a ten year old child
D．the book is too pretty for a ten year old child
小題3:According to the passage , stories can be something to help you_____
A．enjoy your spare timeB．develop your care for animals
C．realize the truth of lifeD．think about your own life
小題4:By writing the passage, the writer mainly wants to____.
A．tell a story that interested his son
B．show the importance of reading stories
C．share an experience between himself and his son
D．show how to make children interested in books

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