Sheila Nilber had been going to her new school for only a week, and she felt like a 1 there.
“ 2 talks to me, ”Sheila said. “It’s as though I’m not 3 there. “
“You’ll figure out(想出) something.”Her father said.
Sheila 4 about Gloria, the girl who sat 5 to her in class. Gloria had said 6 to Sheila the first day, but 7 that she hadn’t talked to Sheila 8 .
“She’s not 9 friendly.”Sheila said to her father.
“And what about you?” Mr. Nilber asked. “Are you 10 ?”
11 weekend Sheila thought about her father’s question. Had she been friendly?
That Monday Sheila went to school with a 12 . The first 13 was to greet Gloria with a big 14 and a hello. Sheila tried it, and when Gloria smiled back, Sheila 15 the second step.
“Gloria, 16 you like to have lunch with me today?” Sheila whispered just before class 17 .
“Sure, ”Gloria whispered 18 ,“You know, I want to talk to you last week, but you 19 as though you would 20 be left alone. I didn’t know what to do. I’m glad you asked me. ”
1. A. schoolgirl B. stranger C. headmaster D. visitor
2. A. Everybody B. Someone C. No one D. Anyone
3. A. often B. even C. always D. yet
4. A. thought B. talked C. concerned D. felt
5. A. nearly B. first C. closely D. next
6. A. hello B. no C. so D. not
7. A. until B. before C. less D. after
8. A. no more B. over C. again D. no longer
9. A. a bit B. much C. a little D. more
10. A. serious B. sure C. friendly D. happy
11. A. By B. All C. In D. Through
12. A. friend B. question C. plan D. smile
13. A. step B. class C. girl D. way
14. A. excuse B. eye C. smile D. gift
15. A. explained B. put C. walked D. took
16. A. did B. would C. are D. may
17. A. went B. kept C. began D. got
18. A. back B. again C. loudly D. sound
19. A. thought B. tried C. worked D. acted
20. A. almost B. rather C. soon D. hardly
1 刚转学不久，故觉得自己像一个陌生人。 2 没有人同她说话 3 表示递进 4 think about“想到” 5 应该是坐在她旁面的同学 6 打招呼 7 自那之后 8 再也没和她说过话。 9 根据题意应选a bit，用于否定句表示“一点也不” 10 联系上下文，可知本题选C 11 整周她都在想父亲的问题。 12 从下文来看，她是带着一个计划回到学校的 13 计划的第一步。 14 她想使自己变得friendly,肯定是微笑 15 take the second step 采取第二步 16 would like to do sth 17 据判断应该是上课之前。 18 小声回答，故用back 19 行为 20 would rather+动词原形
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科目：高中英语 来源：2012届陕西省西工大附中高三第十一次模拟考试英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Combining families with kids can be tough and offers even more unexpected problems. You just don’t know how things will shake out until everyone is under one roof, trying on new roles with name that start with “step”. This is what happened to Sheila and Will, and Sheila’s 8-year-old daughter Ashley. After the couple got married, and Will became the member of the new family, things got worse than expected. How did they make it work? Read the full version of the story here.
Shelia’s Turn: When Shelia and Will were dating, he seemed like kids, especially Ashley. He’d bring her presents, play games with her. But after the wedding, things took a turn. Will suddenly became a super strict stepfather, scolding Ashley for watching too much cartoons, constantly picking fights and punishing her for offenses as small as spilling milk. Shelia’s thought about leaving Will, but soon after they married, they had a son, Billy. Will adores his well-behaved boy, but Ashley hates him. Shelia doesn’t know what to do--- her daughter is miserable, but leaving her husband might mean losing her son.
Will’s turn: Will was so excited to be a male role model in Ashley’s life. He didn’t just want to be a guy living in her house; he wanted to treat her like his own daughter, which, to Will, meant giving Ashley more rules and help her learn responsibility. He’d always felt that Shelia let Ashley loose on everything. But after the wedding, Will was surprised that Shelia didn’t want him to do that. If Will takes away Ashley’s TV privileges or tells her to clean up her room, Shelia just lets Ashley do what she likes and does it herself. Will was tired of this and he’d rather take his son and go.
The advisor’s turn: The counselor(顾问) quickly recognized their conflict as a classic case of unspoken, hidden expectations. Before the wedding, when it was just Shelia and Will, everything was easy. But now, everyone in their big family is competing for attention, and the couple never sat down and discussed the biggest issue---their child-upbringing philosophies(育儿经). The counselor suggested Shelia allow Will to give some rules on Ashley but Will’s punishments couldn’t be extreme. Once Ashley saw that her mom and stepdad had become a united front, she cooperated more.
【小题1】The text is most likely to be found in a book about______.
| A．popular science | B．historical events |
| C．social problems | D．political systems |
| A．Will often picked fights with Ashley. |
| B．Ashley often spilled milk on the floor. |
| C．Will always punished her for bad behaviors. |
| D．Ashley was stopped watching too many cartoons. |
| A．Will has a good intention. |
| B．Will does not love children |
| C．Will does not love Shelia any more |
| D．Will’s way of parenting is very perfect. |
| A．Negative | B．Objective | C．Critical | D．. Subjective |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014届四川省高三上学期期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.
His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary: “My own happiness in the past often approached such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”
This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quickly brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.
However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The love of the last Tycoon in 1940. While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.
1.How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage?
A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8
2.Which of the following is the correct order to describe Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?
a. He became addicted to drinking.
b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.
c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.
d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.
e. He failed to reorder his life.
f. He joined the army and met Zelda.
A.f-c-e-a-b-d B. b-e-a-f-c-d C. f-d-e-c-b-a D. b-f-c-d-e-a
3.We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald .
A. had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama.
B. was well educated and well off before he served in the army
C. would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down
D. helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital
4.The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about _______.
A. Zelda’s personal life
B. Zelda’s illness and treatment
C. Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham
D. Fitzgerald’s contributions to the literary world
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Special Bridges Help Animals Cross the Road
----- Reported by Sheila Carrick
Why did the chicken cross the road？ To get to the other side. Most people know this joke. But recently, some people have been much more concerned with how the grizzly bear and mountain lion can cross the road. Millions of animals die each year on U.S. roads， the Federal Highway Administration reports. In fact， only about 80 ocelots, an endangered wild cat, exist in the U.S. today. The main reason？ Road kill. "Ecopassages" may help animals cross the road without being hit by cars. They are paths both over and under roads. "These ecopassages can be extremely useful, so that wildlife can avoid human conflicts, " said Jodi Hilty of the Wildlife Conservation Society. But do animals actually use the ecopassages？The answer is yes. Paul Beier of Northern Arizona University found foot marks left by mountain lions on an ecopassage that went under a highway. This showed that the lion used the passage. Builders of some ecopassages try to make them look like a natural part of an area by planting trees on and around them. Animals seem to be catching on. Animals as different as salamanders and grizzly bears are using the bridges and underpasses. The next time you visit a park or drive through an area with a lot of wildlife, look around. You might see an animal overpass！
1.The writer uses the example of “ocelots” to show that_________.
A. wild animals have become more dangerous
B. the driving conditions have improved greatly
C. the measure for protecting wildlife fails to work
D. an increasing number of animals are killed in road accidents
2.When the writer says that animals seem “to be catching on”， he means_________.
A. animals begin to realize the dangers on the road
B. animals begin to learn to use ecopassages
C. animals are crossing the road in groups
D. animals are increasing in number
3.The writer asks visitors and drivers to look around when traveling because_________.
A. wild animals may attack cars
B. wild animals may jam the road
C. they may see wild animals in the park
D. they may see wild animals on ecopassages
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科目：高中英语 来源：2012-2013学年辽宁省高三上学期第三次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Which animal has the fastest snapping jaw (颚)? If you're guessing a shark or perhaps a larger animal, you'll have to think smaller. The trapjaw ant, which lives in Central and South America, moves its mouth parts at 35 to 63 meters per second. Another way to think about this is that the ant's jaws close at 125 to 233 kilometers per hour. That's 2, 300 times faster than the blink of an eye.
Scientists were able to measure the amazing jaw speed using highspeed video techniques. Sheila Patek, a biologist, says the key is that the jaws have a springy (有弹性的) system, which is critical in getting explosive (爆发性的) speeds.
Consider a bow and arrow. If you try to throw an arrow with your arm, it won't go very far. If you use a bow, elastic energy stored in the bow is released almost instantly when you release the arrow with your finger or a latch. The combination of the springy bow and latch mechanism is what makes the arrow zoom through the air.
Maybe even more amazing than how fast these ants grab food or even enemies is how they use this same energy to move. As the ant closes its jaws, it uses them to push off the ground—all faster than the eye can see without slow motion video. A snap of the jaw can send an ant up to 8.3 centimeters into the air. That's like someone who is 1.7 meters jumping 13 meters high! Not only can they quickly escape from enemies, but often a group of ants will start jumping all at once. It would be hard for their enemies to grab just one.
People have suspected the ants used their jaws to jump for over a century, but could only prove it with today's modern video equipment.
1.The fast speed of the trapjaw ant's jaw lies in ________.
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A．its light body |
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B．its springy system |
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C．its living environment |
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D．the length of its jaw |
2.The passage uses “a bow and arrow” as an example to show ________.
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A．how an arrow gets so much energy to fly |
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B．why the trapjaw ants have springy system |
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C．why the trapjaw ants jaws move so fast |
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D．how a bow and arrow works |
3.Which of the following may amaze the scientists most?
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A．How high the ants can leap by using their jaws. |
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B．How quickly the trapjaw ants can move on the ground. |
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C．How wonderfully the springy system in the trapjaw ants' jaws works. |
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D．How quickly the trapjaw ants can grab food or enemies. |
4.According to the passage, the trapjaw ants' jaws keep them safe because ________.
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A．they can catch their enemies easily with their jaws |
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B．their jaws make them difficult to recognize |
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C．their jaws help them find food easily |
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D．their jaws help them escape from their enemies |
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科目：高中英语 来源：江西省2009-2010学年高二下学期期中考试试题（英语） 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)
US first lady Michelle Obama is among the world’s 100 most powerful women on a list topped by German premier Angela Merkel for four years in a row, according to a Forbes ranking released recently.
Michelle Obama debuted（初次露面）at No.40,coming in ahead of talk show host Oprah Winfrey at 41 and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth at 42.
Sheila Bair, chair of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, which insures bank deposits,remained NO.2 after debuting on the Forbes list last year. She has gained increased fame as the US recession（经济衰退） lasts.
The list is based on factors such as economic impact, media reach and career accomplishments. Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice fell off the list after leaving office in January. Rice’s successor （继任者）,Hillary Clinton, came in at NO.36, dropping from No.28 last year when her presidential bid made her the woman with the highest public profile on the list.
“women im power are rising to leadership positions in business, government and philanthropy （慈善）by making daring and unconventional moves,”Forbes said.“Gone are the days of women feeling they must stick with one employer and patiently wait for promotions.”
“Highly ambitious women… are moving across companies and industries, making big leaps with each change, and repositioning themselves for opportunities that allow them to gain a breadth of experience,” the business magazine said.
Merkel,55, became the first female premier of Germany in 2005 and succeeded in retaining(保留) power in a federal election not long ago.
Michelle Obama,45,has won fans for her down-to-earth personality, her support of causes including healthy eating and the arts.
1.Condoleezza Rice is not included on the list probably because_______________ .
A. she exercises less influence
B. she keeps her new job a secret
C. she has become an ordinary woman
D. she is silent after leaving office
2.Hillary Clinton was ranked No.28 last year because_____________
A. she was the former first lady
B. she was running for president then
C. she frequently appeared in public
D. she got support from her husband
3. We learn from the passage that powerful women today_____________
A. change their jobs more frequently
B. are better political leaders than men
C. are not content with being housewives
D. have changed their traditional concept
4. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. The most powerful women in the world
B. Women in power are rising to leadership postitions
C. Forbes: Germany’s Merkel again most powerful woman
D. Forbes: The rise and fall of the women in power
D. The latest source of biofuel
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