练习册

  • 练习册
  • 试题
    精英家教网 > 高中英语 > 题目详情

    A lady and her husband stepped off the train in Boston. They walked without an appointment (预约) into the outer ___36___of Harvard’s president. But they were ___37___ by his secretary and kept waiting. For hours, the secretary took no notice of them, ___38___ that the couple would finally become ___39___ and go away. But they didn’t. The secretary finally decided to disturb the president, though ___40___.
    A few minutes later, the president walked towards the couple with a ___41___face. The lady told him, “We had a son that ___42___Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was ___43___here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My hus­band and I would like to ___44___a memorial (纪念物) to him, somewhere on campus.”
    The president wasn’t ___45___Instead, he was shocked. “Madam,” he said, “we can’t put up a statue for every person who studied at Harvard and died. If we did, this ___46___would look like a cemetery (墓地).” “Oh, no,” the lady ___47___quickly, “we don’t want to put up a statue. We would like to give a ___48___to Harvard. “The president rolled his eyes and ___49___at the couple and then exclaimed, “A building! Do you have any ___50___how much a building costs? We have spent over $ 7,500,000 on the cam­pus building at Harvard.” For a moment the lady was silent. The president was ___51___, because he could get rid of them now. Then the lady turned to her husband and said quietly. “Is that all it costs to start a ___52___? Why don’t we just start our own?” Her husband nodded. ___53___their offer was turned down. Mr, and Mrs Stanford traveled to California where they founded the University that bears their ___54___, a me­morial to a son that Harvard no longer ___55___ about.
    36. A. Lab      B. library       C. hall     D. off ice
    37. A. watched       B. stopped      C. followed    D. interviewed
    38. A. hoping B. finding       C. realizing     D. imaging
    39. A. surprised     B. disappointed C. worried    D. troubled
    40. A. hopelessly    B. carefully    C. unexpected D. unwillingly
    41. A. pleasant       B. funny  C. cold    D. sad
    42. A. attended      B. visited C. studied       D. served
    43. A. clever   B. brave  C. proud  D. happy
    44. A. set about      B. set up  C. take down  D. take over
    45. A. satisfied       B. excited       C. moved       D. ashamed
    46. A. house   B. part    C. garden       D. place
    47. A. explained     B. expressed   C. refused       D. admitted
    48. A. building      B. yard    C. playground D. square
    49. A. laughed       B. shouted      C. glanced      D. called
    50. A. suggestion   B. idea    C. thought      D. opinion
    51. A. bored   B. astonished  C. interested   D. pleased
    52. A. department  B. university   C. business     D. club
    53. A. Once    B. While C. Since  D. Though
    54. A. name    B. character    C. picture       D. sign
    55. A. talked   B. knew  C. beard  D. cared

    36---55      DBABD   CADBC   DAACB   DBCAD          

    本文主要讲述了Stanford大学是怎样创建的。
    36. D。Stanford夫妇没有预约来找Harvard的校长，根据常识，他们应该是在校长办公室的外间。
    37. B。根据前文讲到的 without an appointment和后文讲到的kept waiting可知，此处指Stanford夫妇被秘书拦住(stopped)了。
    38. A。根据For hours, the secretary took no notice of them 这一信息来看，秘书肯定是希望(hoping)他们最后变得失望而离开。
    39. B。分析见上题。
    40. D。秘书开始对Stanford夫妇不理不睬，是希望他们最后变得失望而离开。但是，他们的坚持最后使得秘书不得不去找校长，故此处用 unwillingly 最合语境。
    41. C。从下文可以看出，校长对Stanford夫妇一直很冷淡，而且拒绝了他们的要求。故此处填cold 最佳。
    42. A。表示Harvard学习，要用study in Harvard或attend Harvard。
    43. D。根据前文的 He love Harvard可知，Stanford夫妇的儿子在Harvard很愉快。
    44. B。比较：set about着手工作；set up 建立；take down 拿下，记下；take over 继承；接管。根据与其后宾语的搭配，只有set up 最佳。
    45. C。此处指校长并没有被夫妇二人的话所感动。相反，他感到很震惊，并拒绝了他们的请求。
    46. D。If we did 在此的意思是“如果我们同意你们哈佛为你们的儿子建一个纪念物的话”，故此处选place，this place 指哈佛大学。
    47. A。根据后文Harvard 夫人说的话来看，她是在作解释(explain)。
    48. A。根据下文提到的how much a building costs 可以推断出此处填building。
    49. C。此处指校长不相信Stanford夫妇有能力盖一座楼，所以他用轻蔑的眼光扫视他们，故用glance 最贴切。
    50. B。have an idea about sth 意为“知道……”。
    51. D。此处指的是校长感到很高兴，因为他认为现在可以摆脱掉他们了。
    52. B。从下文可知，Stanford夫妇想建立了一所属于自己的大学。
    53. C。因上下文为因果关系，故用since。
    54. A。bear one’s name 意为“用……的名字”“带有……的名字”。
    55. D。比较：talk about 谈论；know about 知道，了解；hear about 听说；care about 在乎，关心。根据文章语境，选care about 最佳。
    练习册系列答案
    年级 高中课程 年级 初中课程
    高一 高一免费课程推荐！ 初一 初一免费课程推荐！
    高二 高二免费课程推荐！ 初二 初二免费课程推荐！
    高三 高三免费课程推荐！ 初三 初三免费课程推荐！
    相关习题

    科目：高中英语 来源：不详 题型：完形填空


    Marriage is still a popular institution in the United States, but divorce(离婚) is becoming_1_as“popular”.Most American people get married, _2_,at the present time, and fifty percent of American marriages end _3_ divorce. However, four out of five divorced people do not _4_ single. They get married a second time to _5_ partners. Sociologists(社会学家)tell us that in the next century, _6_American people will marry three _7_ four times in one lifetime. Alvin Toffler, an American sociologist, _8_this new social form serial(连续的)marriages. In his book Future Shock, Toffler gives many _9_ for this change in American marriage. In modern society, _10_ lives don't stay the same for very long.Americans_11_ change their jobs, their homes, and their circles of _12_So,the person who was a _13_ husband or wife ten years ago is sometimes not as good ten years _14_After some years of marriage, a husband and wife can _15 _that their lives have become very different, and they don't 16the same interests anymore. For this reason, Toffler says, people in the twenty first century will not _17_ to marry only one person for an _18_ lifetime. They will plan to stay married to one person for perhaps five or ten years, and then marry _19_.Most Americans will expect to have a “marriage carrier”that _20_ three or four marriages.
    1. A. already           B. almost          C. ever        D. even
    2. A. anyway           B. then            C. but         D. therefore
    3. A. with            B. from            C. in          D. for
    4. A. live              B. take            C. make       D. stay
    5. A .new             B. old              C. young       D. pretty
    6. A. most             B. main            C. few         D. mostly
    7. A. and             B. by              C. or          D. to
    8. A. asks             B. calls             C. tells        D. lets
    9. A. causes           B. chances           C. problems    D. reasons
    10. A. human's         B. people's          C. person's      D. man's
    11. A. frequently       B. quickly           C. rapidly      D. fast
    12. A. parents         B. classmates         C. neighbors    D. friends
    13. A. polite           B. strict              C. good      D. unfriendly
    14. A. late             B. latter           C. lately       D. later
    15. A. imagine         B. feel              C. believe     D. suppose
    16. A. enjoy           B. hold             C. divide      D. share
    17. A. desire          B. plan              C. wish       D. design
    18. A. entire         B. extreme           C. total       D. whole
    19. A. the other       B. others             C. other       D. another
    20. A. appears        B. happens           C. includes     D. carries

    查看答案和解析>>

    科目：高中英语 来源：不详 题型：阅读理解


    As the saying goes, nothing succeeds like success. People like to deal with a successful person. Why? You see there must be a reason why the person has achieved success. And most obviously it is because he is expert at what he is doing.
    When given a chance, people would deal with the best. Naturally, the best way to produce a success is to do a lot of work. Your achievement and the fame it leads to will make it known to the public how good you really are. People will know this by your completed record or simply by recognizing it upon seeing you in action. Just as it becomes quite obvious that a man is a full-time tennis player when you see him play on the tennis court, it will become obvious that you are skilled in your work when people see you do your work. But many other image building ways are practical in producing a success image, as will be discussed in the following…
    1. People like to deal with a successful person probably because _______.
    A. they hope to know the secret of being successful
    B. they don’t believe what he has achieved
    C. they are eager to show respect to him
    D. they feel uncertain if he is an expert
    2. How can we know how good a person is at his work?
    A. Work with him.
    B. Study how he has achieved success.
    C. Just look at him doing his work.
    D. Watch him playing tennis on the tennis court.
    3. The passage mainly tells that _____.
    A. success image may come after success
    B. people like to deal with a successful person
    C. there are many image building ways
    D. success image is or has been built in one’s work
    (1—3 ACB)

    查看答案和解析>>

    科目：高中英语 来源：不详 题型：阅读理解

    Somehow Rey had managed to struggle free from the rope around his neck, after being left to die a slow death as punishment for being a bad Spanish greyhound（猎狗）．

    20090506

     
    It is believed that 50,000 greyhounds are killed by their owners in Spain each year after they grow too old, or turn out to be too slow to hunt with．Dogs have also been found thrown into wells, burnt alive and even injected with poison．

    But Rey's intended fate（命运） was, even within the levels of cruelty usually shown to Spanish hunting dogs, especially cruel．The rope around his neck had been set at a height so that his front paws could not touch the ground, meaning that he was intended to stand on his back legs until he was too tired to support himself．When his legs finally became too tired, the rope should have done its work．
    "They call it the typewriting death, because the dog's back legs struggled against the ground and make the clicking sound of a typewriter," said Albert Sorde, of the SOS Galgos greyhound rescue group．"It is a punishment for greyhounds that are thought to have made their owners lose face．"
    "Rey's throat was severely damaged but we managed to find a vet to operate and, though it was expensive, he survived," he said．
    Greyhounds in Spain are used for hunting hares（野兔）．"The dogs are meant to imitate the swerves（转向）of the hares," said Sorde．"Those who don't, and make their owners look bad, are called 'dirty greyhounds' and are most likely to be killed by the typewriter method．"  
    小题1:Rey was intended to be killed by            ．
    A．kickingB．burying
    C．hangingD．drowning
    小题2:The underlined word "vet" in（Paragraph 5）probably means  “_________”．
    A．animal doctorB．ambulance
    C．animal medicine D．equipment
    小题3:What can you infer from the passage?  
    A．Dogs are not kept as pets in Spain．
    B．Rey was punished because he had not been loyal to his owner．
    C．The typewriting death is named because a typewriter is used in the punishment．
    D．Rey didn’t behave very well in the hunting．
    小题4:The passage mainly tells the readers about _________．
    A．the cruel killing of dogs in Spain
    B．how Rey was saved by rescuers
    C．how Spanish dogs hunt hares
    D．the fate of the dogs in Spain

    查看答案和解析>>

    科目：高中英语 来源：不详 题型：阅读理解

    How to Be a Winner
    Sir Steven Redgrave
    Winner of 5 Olympic Gold Medals
    “In 1997 I was found to have developed diabetes （糖尿病）. Believing my career （职业生涯）was over, I felt extremely low. Then one of the specialists said there was no reason why I should stop training and competing. That was it----the encouragement I needed. I could still be a winner if I believed in myself. I am not saying that it isn’t difficult sometimes. But I wanted to prove to myself that I wasn’t finished yet. Nothing is to stand in my way.”
    Karen Pickering
    Swimming World Champion
    “I swim 4 hours a day, 6 days a week. I manage that sort of workload by putting it on top of my diary. This is the key to success—you can’t follow a career in any field without being well-organized. List what you believe you can achieve. “Trust yourself, write down your goals for the day, however small they are, and you’ll be a step closer to achieving them.”
    Kirsten Best
    Poet ＆ Writer
    “When things are getting hard, a voice inside my head tells me that I can’t achieve something. Then, there are other distractions, such as family or hobbies. The key is to concentrate. When I feel tense, it helps a lot to repeat words such as ‘calm’, ‘peace’ or ‘focus’, either out loud or silently in my mind. It makes me feel more in control and increases my confidence. This is a habit that can become second nature quite easily and is a powerful psychological （心理的） tool.”
    小题1:What does Sir Steven Redgrave mainly talk about?
    A．Difficulties influenced his career.
    B．Specialists offered him medical advice.
    C．Training helped him defeat his disease.
    D．He overcame the shadow of illness to win.
    小题2:What does Karen Pickering put on top of her diary?
    A．Her training schedule.
    B．Her daily happenings.
    C．Her achievements.
    D．Her sports career.
    小题3:What does the underlined word “distractions” probably refer to?
    A．Ways that help one to focus.
    B．Words that help one to feel less tense.
    C．Activities that turn one’s attention away.
    D．Habits that make it hard for one to relax.
    小题4:According to the passage, what do the three people have in common?
    A．Courage.
    B．Devotion.
    C．Hard work.
    D．Self-confidence.

    查看答案和解析>>

    科目：高中英语 来源：不详 题型：阅读理解

    The Internet has led to a huge increase in credit-card (信用卡) fraud. Your card information could even be for sale in an illegal web site(非法网站).
    Web sites offering cheap goods and services should be regarded with care.
    On-line shoppers who enter their credit-card information may never receive the goods they thought they bought. The thieves then go shopping with your card number — or sell the information over the Internet. Computers hackers(黑客) have broken down security(安全) systems, raising questions about the safety of cardholder information. Several months ago, 25, 000 customers of CD Universe, an on-line music retailer(零售商), were not lucky. Their names, addresses and credit-card numbers were posted on a Web site after the retailer refused to pay US $157, 828 to get back the information.
    Credit-card firms are now fighting against on-line fraud. Mastercard is working on plans for Web — only credit card, with a lower credit limit. The card could be used only for shopping on-line. However, there are a few simple steps you can take to keep from being cheated(欺骗).
    Ask about your credit-card firm’s on-line rules: Under British law, cardholders have to pay the first US $78 of any fraudulent(欺骗性的) spending.
    And shop only at secure sites; Send your credit-card information only if the Web site offers advanced secure system.
    If the security is in place, a letter will appear in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen. The Website address may also start https: //—the extra “s” stands for secure. If in doubt, give your credit-card information over the telephone.
    Keep your password(密码) safe: Most on-line sites require a user name and password before placing an order. Treat your passwords with care.
    小题1:What do most people worry about the Internet according to this passage?
    A．A lot of stolen credit-cards were sold on the Internet.B．Fraud on the Internet.
    C．Many Web sites are destroyed.D．Many illegal Web sites are on the Internet.
    小题2:What is the meaning of “fraud”?
    A．Cheating.B．Sale. C．Payment. D．Safety.
    小题3: How can the thieves get the information of the credit card?
    A．The customers give them the information.
    B．The thieves steal the information from Web sites.
    C．The customers sell the information to them.
    D．The thieves buy the information from credit-card firms.
    小题4:How many pieces of advice does the passage give to you?
    A．Four.B．Three.C．Five.D．Six.
    小题5:You are shopping on the site: http: // www. Shopping. com, and you want to buy a TV set, what does this article suggest to do?
    A．Order the TV set at once.B．Do not buy the TV set on this site.
    C．E-mail the site your credit-card information.
    D．Tell the site your password and buy the TV set for you.

    查看答案和解析>>

    科目：高中英语 来源：不详 题型：完形填空

    完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）
    Every year, almost 2 million Americans are injured while they're  21 work every day, 240 are killed on the job. The   22   job is cutting down trees. Being a policeman is safer than many jobs, including driving a truck, collecting garbage and   23  airplanes. One of the safest jobs is being a librarian.
    The government inspects(检查) most factories and offices.  24 have to   25   fines(罚款) if their factories or offices are unsafe. In California, employers often go to prison if one of their workers is  26  because a factory didn't  27 safety measures. But President Bush cut down the number of government inspectors(检查员)  28 15 percent.   29 , many people say working is less safe now.
    For women workers, the greatest danger so far is murder. Forty--two percent of all  30 who died at work were killed. Many of them work  31 clerks in stores   32 they are alone at night. Experts say they can protect themselves by putting the cash desk in full   33  .
    The numbers of deaths and accidents at work don't take into  34 people who become sick from   35   that they are exposed to （暴露）at work. Doctors don't know   36 some chemicals cause illness.There are no government rules for many new chemicals.
    Inspectors say employers  37 their backs on safety problems because they don't want to pay the bill for fixing them. They also say some workers don't want to complain about dangers because they may  38  their jobs.
    The government should force business to improve safety. There's no   39 for workers dying or  40 in an accident that could have been prevented.
    21. A. in           B. at             C. on               D. during
    22. A. safest        B. most dangerous   C. easiest            D. most tiring
    23. A. flying        B. making         C. doing             D. riding
    24. A. Officers      B. Workers         C. Employers        D. Employees
    25. A. give         B. offer            C. pay              D. buy
    26. A. saved        B. hit             C. shot              D. killed
    27. A. use          B.do              C. break            D. take
    28. A. to           B. by              C. from            D. at
    29. A. As a result    B. As              C. At last            D. Then
    30. A. adults        B. youths          C. men              D. women
    31. A. for          B. as              C. like               D. to
    32. A. which        B. that             C. where            D. why
    33. A. view         B. opinion         C. scene              D. scenery
    34.A thought       B mind           C thinking            D consideration
    35. A. machines     B. chemicals        C. air                D. work
    36. A. because      B. when            C. whether            D. even if
    37. A. do          B. turn             C. make              D. refuse
    38. A. lose         B. miss             C. give up            D. save
    39. A. need         B. reason           C. time             D. excuse
    40. A. injuring      B. being injured      C. be injuring         D. be injured 

    查看答案和解析>>

    科目：高中英语 来源：不详 题型：阅读理解


    第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
    阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
    Imagine life as a game in which you are playing some five balls in the air. You name them-work, family, health, friends and spirit, and you’re keeping all these balls in the air.
    You understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably (不可逆转地) scuffed (磨损), marked, damaged or even broken into pieces. They will never be the same. You must understand that and try for balance in your life. How?
    Don’t undermine (逐渐损害) your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different and each of us is special. Don’t set your goals by what other people consider important. Only you know what is the best for you. Don’t take for granted the things closest to your heart. Hold on to them as you would to life, for without them, it’s meaningless. Don’t let life slip through your fingers by living in the past or in the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life. Don’t run through life so fast that you forget not only where you’ve been, but also where you are going. Don’t use time or words carelessly. Life is not a race, but a journey to be enjoyed slowly each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift. That’s why we call it – the present.
    56. What’s the best title of this passage?
    A. Today Is A Present    B. How to Live Your Life
    C. Life Is A Game         D. Imagine Life as a game
    57. What does the underlined sentence mean?
    A. not only where you live , but also where you’re going to live
    B. all over the world
    C. not only what you have done, but what you are going to do as well
    D. the places you have been to as well as the places you are going to
    58. Which of the following is NOT true?
    A. You should try your best to keep balance in your life.
    B. It’s unnecessary to compare yourself with others.
    C. Life is just like a race.
    D. Everyone has his own best points.

    查看答案和解析>>

    科目：高中英语 来源：不详 题型：阅读理解

    Saving the Planet with Earth-Friendly Bamboo Products
    Jackie Heinricher’s love affair with bamboo started in her backyard. “As a child, I remember playing among the golden bamboo my dad had planted, and when there was a slight wind, the bamboos sounded really musical.”
    A fisheries biologist, Heinricher, 47, planned to work in the salmon industry in Seattle, where she lived with her husband, Guy Thornburgh, but she found it too competitive. Then her garden gave her the idea for a business: She’d planted 20 bamboo forests on their seven-acre farm. 
    Heinricher started Boo-Shoot Gardens in 1998. She realized early on what is just now beginning to be known to the rest of the world. It can be used to make fishing poles, skateboards, buildings, furniture, floors, and even clothing. An added bonus: Bamboo absorbs four times as much carbon dioxide as a group of hardwood trees and releases 35 percent more oxygen.
    First she had to find a way to mass-produce the plants—a tough task, since bamboo flowers create seed only once every 50 to 100 years. And dividing a bamboo plant frequently kills it.
    Heinricher appealed to Randy Burr, a tissue culture expert, to help her. “People kept telling us we’d never figure it out,” says Heinricher. “Others had worked on it for 27 years! I believed in what we were doing, though, so I just kept going.”
    She was right to feel a sense of urgency. Bamboo forests are being rapidly used up, and a United Nations report showed that even though bamboo is highly renewable, as many as half of the world’s species are threatened with dying out. Heinricher knew that bamboo could make a significant impact on carbon emissions (排放) and world economies, but only if huge numbers could be produced. And that’s just what she and Burr figured out after nine years of experiments—a way to grow millions of plants. By placing cuttings in test tubes with salts, vitamins, plant hormones, and seaweed gel, they got the plants to grow and then raised them in soil in greenhouses.
    Not long after it, Burr’s lab hit financial difficulties. Heinricher had no experience running a tissue culture operation, but she wasn’t prepared to quit. So she bought the lab.
    Today Heinricher heads up a profitable multimillion-dollar company, working on species from all over the world and selling them to wholesalers. “If you want to farm bamboo, it’s hard to do without the young plants, and that’s what we have,” she says proudly.
    56. What was the main problem with planting bamboo widely?
    A. They didn’t have enough young bamboo.
    B. They were short of money and experience.
    C. They didn’t have a big enough farm to do it.
    D. They were not understood by other people.
    57. What does Heinricher think of bamboo?
    A. Renewable and acceptable                                               B. Productive and flexible.
    C. Useful and earth-friendly.                                  D. Strong and profitable.
    58. The underlined word “renewable” in Paragraph 6 probably means “________”.
    A. able to be replaced naturally                B. able to be raised difficultly
    C. able to be shaped easily                    D. able to be recycled conveniently
    59. What do you learn from the passage?
    A. Heinricher’s love for bamboo led to her experiments in the lab.
    B. Heinricher’s determination helped her to succeed in her work.
    C. Heinricher struggled to prevent bamboo from disappearing.
    D. Heinricher finally succeeded in realizing her childhood dream.

    查看答案和解析>>

    同步练习册答案