科目:高中英語 來源:2010年江蘇省范集中學高一下學期期末考試英語卷 題型:閱讀理解
My life as a ‘runner’ began by running in a playground near my home in order to lose weight about 2 years ago. As time went by, I found myself so good at running that sometimes, I even forgot how many rounds I ran around the playground.
Thanks to all this practice, I was able to win the 5th place in short course marathon game at ‘BASF Yeosu Site Athletic Competition’ held in October 2002. This event inspired(鼓舞)me to take part in public short-course marathon games such as 10km, 20km and half-course competitions. Finally, in May 2003, I was able to complete a full course (路線) marathon for the first time of my life. My next challenge was the Boston Marathon race, which is the world's oldest and most famous marathon races. To qualify for the Boston Marathon, one should meet the designated time standard of their age group at a certified marathon. So I took part in ChunCheon Marathon in Korea. I had to finish the full coursewithin 3 hours and 30 minutes to meet the time standard for my age group (45 to 49 years old). But to my pleasant surprise, I recorded 3 hours 22 minutes, which is 25 minute faster than my previous best record!
In April 2004, I was finally able to go to Boston. I was very pleased and proud because I could play a role to promote BASF all across the world through this sport. And it really happened! When I ran in the Boston Marathon wearing BASF logo(標記), people along the streets rooted for me shouting ‘BASF! BASF!’. I was very touched and so proud of my company. Of course I completed the full course successfully. After the game, I was interviewed by Korean local newspapers and had an opportunity to appear on several TV shows, which helped me to promote BASF in the community.
【小題1】The author first began running in order to ______.
A.build up his strength | B.prepare for a marathon race |
C.lose weight | D.train for a sport meet |
A.a company | B.a book |
C.a piece of sports equipment | D.a city |
A.in his thirties | B.in his late forties |
C.in his twenties | D.in his fifties |
A.2002 | B.2003 | C.2004 | D.2005 |
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科目:高中英語 來源:2013屆山東省濟寧市泗水一中高三上學期期末模擬英語試卷(帶解析) 題型:閱讀理解
Lightning flashed through the darkness over Donald Lubeck’s bedroom skylight. The 80-year-old retired worker was shaken by a blast of thunder. It was 11 p.m. The storm had moved directly over his two-story wood home in the rural town of Belchertown, Massachusetts. Then he heard the smoke alarm beeping. Lubeck padded down the stairs barefoot and opened the door to the basement, and flames exploded out.
Lubeck fled back upstairs to call 911 from his bedroom, but the phone didn’t work. Lubeck realized he was trapped. “I started panicking,” he says.
His daughter and young granddaughters, who lived with him, were away for the night. No one will even know I’m home, he thought. His house was three miles off the main road and so well hidden by pines that Lubeck knew calling for help would be fruitless.
Up a hill about a third of a mile away lived Lubeck’s closest neighbors, Jeremie Wentworth and his wife. Wentworth had been lying down, listening to the radio when it occurred to him that the sound was more like a smoke detector. He jumped out of bed, grabbed a cordless phone and a flashlight, and headed down the hillside toward the noise.
He dialed 911. “Is anyone there?” he called out as he approached the house. Wentworth knew that Lubeck lived in the house.
Then he heard, “Help me! I’m trapped!” coming from the balcony off Lubeck’s bedroom.
“I ran in and yelled,‘Don, where are you?’ Then I had to run outside to catch my breath.”
After one more attempt inside the house, he gave up and circled around back. But there was no way to get to him. “I shined the flashlight into the woods next to an old shed and noticed a ladder,” says Wentworth. He dragged it over to the balcony and pulled Lubeck down just as the second floor of the house collapsed.
Wentworth and Lubeck don’t run into each other regularly, but Lubeck now knows that if he ever needs help, Wentworth will be there.
Lubeck still chokes up when he tells the story. “I was alone,” he says. “Then I heard the most beautiful sound in my life. It was Jeremie.”
【小題1】According to the text, Lubeck___________.
A.stayed calm in the fire | B.couldn’t find a safe way out |
C.lived on the first floor | D.called for help in the fire |
A.He called 911. |
B.He went upstairs and took Lubeck out. |
C.He put out the fire. |
D.He used a ladder and pulled Lubeck down. |
A.He was living in his wood home alone that night. |
B.The storm was too heavy and the fire was too fierce. |
C.He lived far from the main road and was surrounded by pines. |
D.He was too frightened to escape from the danger. |
A.A near neighbour is better than a distant cousin. |
B.A good way to get a narrow escape. |
C.God helps those who help themselves. |
D.Blood is thicker than water. |
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科目:高中英語 來源:2014屆浙江省高二上學期期中考試英語試卷(解析版) 題型:閱讀理解
When my grandfather died, my 83-year-old grandmother, once so full of life, slowly began to fade. No longer able to manage a home of her own, she moved in with my mother, where she was visited often by other members of her large, loving family. Although she still had her good days, it was often hard to arouse her interest.
But one chilly December afternoon three years ago, my daughter Meagan, then eight, and I were visiting her, when she noticed that Meagan was carrying her favorite doll.“I, too, had a special doll when I was a little girl,” she told a wide-eyed Meagan. “I got it one Christmas when I was about your age. I lived in an old farmhouse in Maine, with Mom, Dad and my four sisters, and the very first gift I opened that Christmas was the most beautiful doll you’d ever want to see.”
“She had an exquisite(優(yōu)美的,高雅的), hand-painted face, and her long brown hair was pulled back with a big pink bow. Her eyes were blue, and they opened and closed. I remember she had a body of kidskin, and her arms and legs bent at the joints.”
GG’s voice dropped low, taking on an almost respectful tone. “My doll was dressed in a pretty pink gown, decorated with fine lace. … Getting such a fine doll was like a miracle for a little farm girl like me — my parents must have had to sacrifice so much to afford it But how happy I was that morning!”
GG’s eyes filled and her voice shook with emotion as she recalled that Christmas of long ago. “I played with my doll all morning long. And then it happened. My mother called us to the dining room for Christmas dinner and I laid my new doll down gently on the hall table. But as I went to join the family at the table, I heard a loud crash.”
“I hardly had to turn around — I knew it was my precious doll. And it was. Her lace skirt had hung down from the table just enough for my baby sister to reach up and pull on it. When I ran in, there lay my beautiful doll on the floor, her face smashed into a dozen pieces. She was gone forever.”
A few years later, GG’s baby sister was also gone, she told Meagan, a victim of pneumonia(肺炎). Now the tears in her eyes spilled over — tears, I knew, not only for a lost doll and a lost sister, but for a lost time.
Subdued(沉默的) for the rest of the visit, Meagan was no sooner in the car going home than she exclaimed, “Mom, I have a great idea! Let’s get GG a new doll for Christmas. Then she won’t cry when she thinks about it.”
My heart filled with pride as I listened to my sympathetic little daughter. But where would we find a doll to match GG’s fond memories?
Where there’s a will, as they say, there’s a way. When I told my best friends, Liz and Chris, about my problem, Liz put me in touch with a local doll-make. From a doll supply house I ordered a long brown hair and a kidskin body to copy the outfit GG had so lovingly described. Liz volunteered to put the doll together, and Chris helped me make the doll’s outfit. Meagan wrote the story of the lost doll by giving examples.
Finally our creation was finished. To our eyes it was perfect. But there was no way it could be exactly like the doll GG had loved so much and lost. Would she think it looked anything like it?
On Christmas Eve, Meagan and I carried our happily packed gift to GG, where she sat surrounded by children, parents, aunts, uncles and cousins. “It’s for you,” Meagan said, “but first you have to read the story that goes with it.”
GG no sooner got through the first page than her voice cracked and she was unable to go on, but Meagan took over where she left off. Then it was time to open her present.
I’ll never forget the look on GG’s face as she lifted the doll and held it to her chest. Once again her tears fell, but this time they were tears of joy. Holding the doll in her frail arms, she repeated over and over again, “She’s exactly like my old doll, exactly like her.”
And perhaps she wasn't saying that just to be kind. Perhaps however impossible it seemed, we had managed to produce a close copy of the doll she remembered. But as I watched my eight-year-old daughter and her great-grandmother examining the doll together, I thought of a likelier explanation. What GG really recognized, perhaps, was the love that inspired the gift. And love, wherever it comes from, always looks the same.
1.GG moved in with her daughter because ______.
A.she wanted to live with a large family
B.she was not able to live on her own due to her weakness
C.her husband passed away
D.she thought it was the children’s obligation to take care of her
2.Why did GG become very emotional on a December afternoon?
A.Because she saw her great granddaughter’s doll.
B.Because she recalled her long deceased parents.
C.Because she was surrounded by her offspring.
D.Because she felt lonely during the Christmas season.
3.What can we infer from the underlined sentence in paragraph 4?
A.GG’s doll was important and was a symbol of many things.
B.GG showed great respect for his husband’s love.
C.GG missed the great old days she spent with her family
D.GG was grateful for her long life.
4.What happened to GG’s baby sister?
A.She envied her sister all her life.
B.She felt guilty for breaking GG’s doll and decided to go.
C.She left home at a young age.
D.She died of some disease at a young age.
5.Why did Meagan’s mum feel proud of her daughter?
A.Because she was clever. B.Because she was loving.
C.Because she was amiable. D.Because she was imaginative.
6.This passage implies that ______.
A.treating the elderly well is moral
B.it is impossible to copy the exact doll for the elderly
C.love, the permanent rhythm of life, will always remain in the elderly’s heart
D.physical comfort from children rather than psychological care is important
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科目:高中英語 來源:吉林市2009-2010學年度高二下學期模塊檢測試卷(英語) 題型:完型填空
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第二節(jié)完形填空(共20小題;每小題1.5分,滿分30分)
閱讀下面短文,從短文后各題所給的四個選項(A、B、C和D)中,選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。
Our neighbour’s son was getting married in 2009 at an out-of-town church, and my husband and I were invited. We immediately rushed out to a 36 , and I bought a nice pink dress with a jacket. The dress was a little 37 , but I had a month to go before the June 30 wedding and I would 38 a few pounds.
June 29 came and, of course, I hadn’t lost a single pound; in fact I had 39 two. But I 40 a nice new girdle (緊身內衣) would cure everything. So on our way out of the city we 41 once again at the store. I ran in and told the clerk I needed a 42 large girdle. The clerk found the box with the 43 girdle marked “LG”, and asked if I would like to try it on. “Oh, no, a large will fit just right. I 44 try it on.”
The next morning was rather hot, one of those thirty-four degree days, I suppose, so I 45 to get dressed until about 45 minutes before time to go. I opened the box only to 46 a new girdle in a small size. Since it was too late to find another one and the dress wouldn’t 47 right without a girdle, a fight 48 in the hotel room between me and the girdle. Have you ever tried to 49 20 pounds of potatoes into a five-pound bag? That’s it. Finally my husband, 50 like crazy, got hold of each side and shook me down into it. At once I put on the pink dress, which didn’t 51 very well with my red face, and was ready to go.
Finally we got to the 52 . I heard one of the people say that they were having a High Mass (大彌撒). I turned to my husband and asked, “What is a High Mass?” He shrugged his 53 .
54 , I learned that this particular mass would last one hour, twenty-two minutes and eight and one half seconds - the priest (神父 ) was going to bless 55 except my girdle.
36. A. hotel B. store C. church D. office
37. A. long B. tight C. little D. perfect
38. A. put on B. gain C. lose D. miss
39. A. won B. received C. gained D. lost
40. A. think B. suggested C. demanded D. figured
41. A. went B. arrived C. stopped D. entered
42. A. size B. length C. width D. depth
43. A. described B. bought C. sold D. talked
44. A. can’t B. needn’t C. shouldn’t D. mustn’t
45. A. wanted B. expected C. tried D. waited
46. A. find B. notice C. search D. look
47. A. work B. use C. fit D. wear
48. A. broke down B. broke out C. broke up D.broke away
49. A. pull B . lay C. push D. shake
50. A. laughing B. crying C. shouting D. smiling
51. A. do B. go C. work D. look
52. A. town B. store C. church D. hotel
53. A. shoulders B. arms C. head D. hands
54. A. Happily B. Generally C.Luckily D.Unfortunately
55. A. something B. nothing C. anything D. everything
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科目:高中英語 來源:2010年廣東省東莞市高二下學期期末考試英語卷 題型:閱讀理解
Our neighbour's son was getting married at an out-of-town church, and my husband and I were invited. We immediately rushed out to a store, and I bought a nice pink dress with a jacket. The dress was a little tight, but I had a month to go before the June 30 wedding and I would lose a few pounds.
June 29 came and, of course, I hadn't lost a single pound; in fact I had gained two. But I figured a nice new girdle (緊身內衣) would cure everything. So on our way out of the city we stopped once again at the store. I ran in and told the clerk I needed a large-size girdle. The shop assistant found the box with the described girdle marked "LG", and asked if I would like to try it on. “Oh, no, a large will fit just right. I needn't try it on.”
The next morning was rather hot, so I waited to get dressed until about 45 minutes before time to go. I opened the box only to find a new girdle in a small size. Since it was too late to find another one and the dress wouldn't fit right without a girdle, a fight broke out in the hotel room between me and the girdle. Have you ever tried to shake 20 pounds of potatoes into a five-pound bag? That's it. Finally my husband, laughing like crazy, got hold of each side and shook me down into it. At once I put on the pink dress, which didn't match my red face well, and was ready to go.
Finally we got to the church. I heard one of the people say that they were having a High Mass. I turned to my husband and asked, "What is a High Mass?" He shrugged his shoulders.
Unfortunately, I learned that this particular mass would last one hour, twenty-two minutes and eight and one half seconds—the priest (神父) was going to bless everything except my girdle.
1. The author most probably bought a nice pink dress with a jacket ______.
A. 4 weeks later B. 4 weeks ago C. a fortnight ago D. a fortnight later
2. What had the author wanted to do with the tight dress?
A. To make herself thinner. B. To buy a large-size girdle.
C. To put on some weight. D. To shake herself into it.
3.Which of the following statements about the author is TRUE according to the story?
A. She was very lucky to buy a girdle to go with her dress.
B. She had no choice but to put on the dress without a girdle.
C. She complained to the shop assistant about her carelessness.
D. She managed to put on the girdle with her husband’s help.
4.The purpose of this passage is ______.
A. to show a husband’s selfless love B. to share an interesting experience
C. to describe a changeable girdle D. to tell us how to keep calm in trouble[來源:]
5. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. A Funny Wedding B. A Wise Decision C. A Tight Situation D. A Fierce Fight
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