Jim was not _________ to the club, because at that time he was not a member of it.
A.allowed B.permitted C.admitted D.promoted
科目:高中英语 来源:广西柳州铁一中学2010届高考模拟冲刺试题 题型:完型填空
第二节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Growing up on a remote Michigan farm, Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, knew little of farming. Like most pioneer farmers, his father, William, hoped that his eldest son would 36 him on the farm, enable it to expand, and eventually take it 37 . But Henry proved a 38 . He hated farm work and did everything he could to 39 it. It was not that he was lazy. 40 from it! Give him a mechanical job to do, from mending a gate to sharpening tools, 41 he would set to work eagerly. It was the daily life of the farm, with its dull tasks, 42 upset him.
Henry was excited by the development in technology that could __43 farmers like his father from wasteful and 44 labor. But these developments, in Henry’s boyhood, had touched farming 45 at all and farmers went on doing things in the way they had always done. So Henry 46 his attention elsewhere. When he was twelve, he became 47 in clocks and watches. Soon he was repairing them for friends, working at a bench he built in his bedroom.
In 1876, Henry suffered a serious 48 . His mother died in childbirth. 49 was no reason for him to stay on the farm, and he 50 to get away as soon as he could. Three years later, he took a job as a mechanic in Detroit. 51 this time steam engines had joined clocks and watches as objects of Henry’s fascination. Making and installing them was the business of the Detroit workshop that he joined at the age of sixteen.
A chance meeting with an old co-worker 52 a job for Henry as an engineer at the Edison Detroit Electricity Company. When he quickly learned the ropes of his new job, his interest in fuel engines had come to control his life.
Henry learned 53 a slow, painstaking business it was to build an engine by hand. Every piece of every part had to be made individually, checked and rechecked, and tested. 54 the burden, he joined forces with another mechanic, Jim Bishop. Even so, it was two years 55 they succeeded in building a working car. Henry called it “Quadricycle.”(四轮驱动脚踏车)
36. A. learn B. find C. Work D. join
37. A. away B. down C. Over D. off
38. A. success B. discouragement C. Surprise D. disappointment
39. A. do B. avoid C. Work D. make
40. A. Apart B. Far C. Free D. Aside
41. A. and B. or C. Otherwise D. so
42. A. that B. which C. what D. where
43. A. prevent B. free C. Take D. bring
44. A. boring B. exciting C. Funny D. inspiring
45. A. almost B. sometimes C. Hardly D. always
46. A. drew B. caught C. turned D. attracted
47. A. worried B. interested C. Upset D. bored
48. A. disease B. blow C. Beat D. defeat
49. A. It B. There C. This D. That
50. A. decided B. avoided C. Stuck D. took
51. A. At B. After C. In D. By
52. A.attended to B. related to C. turned to D. led to
53. A. how B. what C. why D. where
54. A. To reduce B.To bear C. To carry D. To place
55. A. when B. before C. After D. unless
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科目:高中英语 来源:2013年全国普通高等学校招生统一考试英语(江苏卷带解析) 题型:阅读理解
Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. And he surely deserves additional praise: the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.
I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War. H. B. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is only the most famous example. These early stories dealt directly with slavery. With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely. He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.
Again and again, in the postwar years, Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race. Consider the most controversial, at least today, of Twain’s novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twain’s most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck them as rude. Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums (贫民窟).” More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim, the escaped slave, and many occurences of the word nigger. (The term Nigger Jim, for which the novel is often severely criticized, never appears in it.)
But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point. The novel is strongly anti-slavery. Jim’s search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic. As J. Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual: Jim, the father and the man.”
There is much more. Twain’s mystery novel Pudd’nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior (低等的) to whites, especially in intelligence, Twain’s tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth to her master’s baby and, for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the master’s baby by his wife. The slave’s lightskinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class. The master’s wife’s baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.
The point was difficult to miss: nurture (养育), not nature, was the key to social status. The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice—manner of speech, for example— were, to Twain, indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.
Twain’s racial tone was not perfect. One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography (自传) about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youth—mostly with white men performing in black-face—and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them. Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality. His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.
Was Twain a racist? Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln. If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black man the inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.
【小题1】 How do Twain’s novels on slavery differ from Stowe’s?
A.Twain was more willing to deal with racism. |
B.Twain’s attack on racism was much less open. |
C.Twain’s themes seemed to agree with plots. |
D.Twain was openly concerned with racism. |
A.target readers at the bottom |
B.anti-slavery attitude |
C.rather impolite language |
D.frequent use of “nigger” |
A.Jim’s search for his family was described in detail. |
B.The slave’s voice was first heard in American novels. |
C.Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture. |
D.Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent. |
A.slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters |
B.slaves’ babies could pick up slave-holders’ way of speaking |
C.blacks’ social position was shaped by how they were brought up |
D.blacks were born with certain features of prejudice |
A.The attacks. | B.Slavery and prejudice. |
C.White men. | D.The shows. |
A.Twain had done more than his contemporary writers to attack racism. |
B.Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln. |
C.Twain’s works had been banned on unreasonable grounds. |
D.Twain’s works should be read from a historical point of view. |
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科目:高中英语 来源:2010年郑州盛同学校高一下学期期末考试英语卷 题型:填空题
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断:如无错误,在该行右边横线上画一个勾(√);如有错误(每行只有一个错误),则按下列情况改正:
该行多一个词:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉,在该行右边横线上写出该词,并也用斜线划掉。
该行缺一个词:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(^),在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
该行错一个词:在错的词下划一横线,在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意:原行没有错的不要改。
By midday the sun was very strong. Jim was so tired 1.
to walk. There was no trees near the road, so he rested 2.
under a big rock. After drinking some water, he took his 3.
shirt, lying down on the ground and fell asleep at once. 4.
He was very tired that he didn’t wake up until the evening. 5.
He was just about to jump while he felt something moving 6.
near his feet. He looked up and saw a long black snake. 7.
Jim was so frightening that he didn’t dare to move. The 8.
snake began to crawl(爬) across his legs. It crawled on and 9.
on until it was disappeared under the rocks, Jim jumped 10.
to his feet, picked up his shirt and ran down the road.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2012届湖南省邵阳市高二上学期期终考试英语卷 题型:阅读理解
Jim was a farmer. He lived in a village far away from the town. One day he was very ill , and everyone thought he would die . But his family wouldn’t give up. They decided to sent for a doctor in town . The doctor arrived the village two days later and looked over the man. The doctor wanted a pen and some paper , But there was no pen or paper in the village , because nobody could read or write .
The doctor looked around and picked up a piece of burnt wood. Using the wood, he wrote the name of the medicine on the door of the house.“ Get the medicine for him right away, ” he said, “and he will soon get well.’ family and friends did not know what to do . They could not read the writing . Then the village baker had an idea . He took off the door of the house and took the door to the nearest town . He bought the medicine, and Jim was saved. After that Jim would not let anyone wash the magic words off the door .
1.People in the village thought James would die because ________ .
A.he was seriously ill |
B.the doctor could do nothing for him |
C.the doctor didn’t come |
D.they couldn’t find any doctor |
2. The doctor got to the village two days later because ________ .
A.he walked to the village |
B.the will age was far from the town |
C.there was something wrong with his car |
D.they couldn’t find any doctor |
3.When the doctor got to the village, he______.
A.found another doctor there |
B.gave some medicine to Jim |
C.looked over Jim carefully |
D.had no idea and could do nothing for Jim |
4.The doctor wrote down the name of the medicine with_____ on_____.
A.a pen; a piece of paper |
B.a piece of burnt wood; some paper |
C.a piece of burnt wood; the door of the house |
D.a pen; a piece of wood |
5.What do you think of the people in the village?
A.They were rich and clever. |
B.They were lazy. |
C.They could read and write well. |
D.They were poor and fell behind the times. |
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科目:高中英语 来源:2013届山东省高一下学期期末考试英语题 题型:阅读理解
People bury treasure to stop other people from taking it. They choose a quiet place, dig a deep hole and bury the treasure in it. Then they make a map of where the treasure is or write down other clues(线索)that will help them or someone else to find it again.
In Britain a few years ago, a writer wrote about some treasure that he had buried. He put clues in the story to help readers find it. Thousands of people hunted for the treasure. They dug holes all over Britain, hoping to find it.
One of the most popular adventure stories ever written is Robert Louis Stephenson's “Treasured Island”, an exciting story about a young boy, Jim Hawkins, who is captured by pirates (海盗) and later finds some buried treasure.
Then there is the true story about a man who had to travel overseas for a year. He did not trust banks, so he buried his life savings in a park. Then he went away. On his return, he went straight to the park. But the park was no longer there. In its place there was a huge building.
And then there was the man who buried his savings, all in bank notes, in a waterproof(防水的)bag. When he dug it up years later, there was nothing left. Worms and insects had eaten the bag and everything in it.
And of course, these are stories about people who bury things and either forget where they have buried them or lose the map.
Although it is true that people sometimes lose their money because a bank fails, banks are still the safest place to keep our savings and treasures.
1.People who bury treasure usually .
A. do not trust banks
B. have a little money .
C. want to live in a quiet place.
D. expect to lose it
2.The writer in Britain .
A. really had buried something.
B. started a nationwide treasure hunt.
C. had lost his treasure and wanted people to help him find it.
D. caused trouble because people dug holes everywhere.
3. “Treasure Island” .
A. is a story about pirates.
B. is about the adventures of Jim Hawkins.
C. is the most popular story ever written.
D. is a well-known fairy tale.
4.The man who buried his money in a park .
A. thought his money was safer there than in a bank.
B. travelled on the sea for a year.
C. got his life savings back again.
D. stayed away longer than he expected.
5.From these stories we understand that .
A. we cannot trust banks.
B. we should not trust anyone.
C. a waterproof bag is not proof against worms and insects.
D. insects eat anything.
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