科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1981. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching the high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.
Fortunately he had a strong—willed caring mother. John remembered that his mother told him many times, “Son, you can be anything you want really to be if you just believe.” She told him not to depend on others, including his mother. “You have to learn success” she said. “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”
These words, came from a woman with less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and hard work don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son, who was then 15, to Chicago.
Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land that black southerners were looking for. John’s mother and stepfather could not find work. But here John could go to school, and here he learned the power of words--as an editor of the newspaper and yearbook at Du Sable High School. His wish was to publish www..coma magazine for blacks.
While others discouraged him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” She also let him pawn（典当） her furniture to get the $ 500 he needed to start the Negro magazine.
It is natural that difficulties and failures followed john closely until he become very successful. He always keeps his mother’s words in mind:” Son, failure is not in your vocabulary!” Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America--worth $150 million.
What does the story mainly want to show us?
A. The key to success for blacks.
B. The mental support John’s mother gave him.
C. The importance of a good education.
D. How John H. Johnson became successful.
Why did John’s mother decide to move to Chicago?
A. Because his father died when John was very young.
B. Because life was too hard for them to stay on in their hometown.
C. Because John needed more education badly.
D. Because there were no schools for Negroes in their hometown.
Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. John’s mother didn’t believe in or depend on others.
B. John’s mother believed one would succeed without working hard.
C. John’s mother thought one could be whatever one wanted to be.
D. John’s mother thought no one could succeed without working hard.
What does the underlined sentence “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” in Passage 5 mean?
A. No failure can be beaten unless you try.
B. If you try, you would succeed.
C. A try is always followed by a failure.
D. A failure is difficult to beat, even if you try.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2010—2011学年福建省古田一中高二下学期期中考试英语卷 题型：填空题
阅读下面短文，根据以下要求：1）括号内汉语提示；2）该词首字母提示；3）上下文语境提示,在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词使短文通顺，所填单词要求拼写正确，形式符合英语表达习惯。（请将答案抄到答案卷上）
I’m glad to hear ___1___you. I know you’re dying to h___2___ about my life here. I’m still trying to adapt ___3____ the conditions here. The other days I visited a ___4____(偏远的)village with another teacher. We walked for two and a half h____5___ to get there. We s___6___a day in the home of Tombe, one of my students。The hut was d___7___ inside so it took time for my eyes to adjust. We also had a meal there. I don’t speak much of the __8___(当地的)English dialect yet, so I could not _____9______(参加) in their conversation. Luckily, Tombe could act as our interpreter. We left the village the next morning. It was s__10__ a privilege to have spent a day with Tombe’s family.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014届江苏扬州扬州中学高三上期10月月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Among the more colorful characters of Leadville’s golden age were H. A. W. Tabor and his wife, Elizabeth McCourt, better known as “Baby Doe”. Their history is fast becoming one of the legends of the Old West.
Horace Austin Warner Tabor was a school teacher in Vermont. Then he moved west to the small Colorado mining camp known as California Gulch, which he later renamed Leadville when he became its leading citizen. “Great deposits of lead are sure to be found here.” he said.
As it turned out, it was silver, not lead, that was to make Leadville’s fortune and wealth. Tabor knew little about mining himself, so he opened a general store, which sold everything from boots to salt, flour, and tobacco. It was his custom to “grubstake” prospective miners, in other words, to supply them with food and supplies, or “grub”, while they looked for ore（矿石）, in return for which he would get a share in the mine if one was discovered. He did this for a number of years, but no one that he aided ever found anything of value.
Finally one day in the year 1878, so the story goes, two miners came in and asked for “grub”. Tabor had decided to quit supplying it because he had lost too much money that way. These were persistent, however, and Tabor was too busy to argue with them. “Oh help yourself. One more time won’t make any difference,” He said and went on selling shoes and hats to other customers. The two miners took $17 worth of supplies, in return for which they gave Tabor a one-third interest in their findings. They picked a barren place on the mountain side and began to dig. After nine days they struck a rich vein of silver. Tabor bought the shares of the other two men, and so the mine belonged to him alone. This mine, known as the “Pittsburgh Mine,” made $1,300,000 for Tabor in return for his $17 investment.
Later Tabor bought the Matchless Mine on another barren hillside just outside the town for $117,000. This turned out to be even more fabulous than the Pittsburgh, yielding $35,000 worth of silver per day at one time. Leadville grew. Tabor became its first mayor, and later became lieutenant governor of the state.
1.Leadville got its name for the following reasons EXCEPT that
A.Tabor became its leading citizen.
B.great deposits of lead is expected to be found there.
C.it could bring good fortune to Tabor
D.it was renamed
2.The underlined word “grubstake” in Paragraph 3 means
A.to supply miners with food and supplies
B.to open a general stores
C.to do one's contribution to the development of the mine
D.to supply miners with food and supplies and in return get a share in the mine, if one was discovered
3.We can infer that Tabor’s life career is.
A.purely lucky
B.based on his managing theory of “grubstake’
C.through the help from his wife
D.because he planned well and accomplished targets step by step
4.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A．Tabor’s Life. B．A legend of the Old West
C．Lead Makes Leadville’s Fortune D．The Best Investment
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科目：高中英语 来源：江苏省无锡市2009-2010学年度高一第一学期期末考试 题型：单词拼写
第Ⅱ卷 非选择题 (共60分）
第一节：单词拼写（每词1分，满分10分）
1.The professors p_______ at the meeting stated their opinions about the problem.
2.By a strange ______ （巧合）we happened to be traveling on the same train.
3.The three _______ ( 候选人) should hand in their information before the contest.
4.Yesterday the old lady ______ (目击) the car accident and knew there were five killed in it.
5.At the meeting nobody would be the first to give his opinion and it was Sally that broke the s_______.
6.We have _______ (相似的) tastes in music.
7.Many years of life in prison made him mentally d_______, almost mad.
8.The Chinese g_______ is worried about the serious pollution.
9.In the African rainforest various kinds of animals live in h______ with each other.
10.Such a person experienced in _______ ( 组织) such a wedding party is welcome now.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2012届福建省高二下学期期中考试英语题 题型：单词拼写
阅读下面短文，根据以下要求：1）括号内汉语提示；2）该词首字母提示；3）上下文语境提示,在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词使短文通顺，所填单词要求拼写正确，形式符合英语表达习惯。（请将答案抄到答案卷上）
I’m glad to hear ___1___you. I know you’re dying to h___2___ about my life here. I’m still trying to adapt ___3____ the conditions here. The other days I visited a ___4____(偏远的)village with another teacher. We walked for two and a half h____5___ to get there. We s___6___a day in the home of Tombe, one of my students。The hut was d___7___ inside so it took time for my eyes to adjust. We also had a meal there. I don’t speak much of the __8___(当地的)English dialect yet, so I could not _____9______(参加) in their conversation. Luckily, Tombe could act as our interpreter. We left the village the next morning. It was s__10__ a privilege to have spent a day with Tombe’s family.
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