I was driving home from the gym with my children. It was approaching bed time.
“ My legs hurt, I can’t walk to the car.” said my son, William. Then be sat on the ground regardless of whatever we said.
“Maybe you just need a banana? They’re good for tired bones.” his sister, Meredith, persuaded him in a wise way.
This was the first time I had heard of the banana’s miracle(神奇的) cure for achy bones. It distracted(使分心) William and we were able to make it to the car. His wish for bone relief brought him energy and he persisted(坚持) the entire ride home. Upon arrival, he struggled out of the car and slowly went up 3 steps into the house. While he took his ”medicine”, we arrived on a suitable diagnosis (诊断) for his “illness” ---a serious case of Banana Bone. He was probably just over—tired. He had a long day and played hard in the Adventure Room at the gym. Thankfully we kept some bananas in the fridge, and hugs and kisses were given as a booster (辅助药剂) , which gave him the courage to walk upstairs to sleep.
Banana Bone sounds like something I’ve had before. The aching hasn’t been in my bones so much as in my head and my heart. I think it’s a condition related to stress, lack of rest and stretching of one’s abilities. Perhaps you’re experienced it too. It is about long days facing challenges or pressing against the edges of your own ability without any hope.
That’s when you realize Banana Bone doesn’t have to be a physical illness. It can be mental. It can drive emotion. It means you can choose it or you can choose against it. It’s not real. It’ s your reaction to what’s real. I know, it’ s still not easy. But it’ s part of “growing up”. We must have the courage to overcome it and I believe we can make it﹗
My advice to you? Eat a banana and go to bed. You’ll feel a lot better and be your fresh self in the morning.
1.People need the same kind of “banana” as William did when they_____.
A. feel puzzled over choices
B. are under a stressful condition
C. find it hard to make changes
D. hold on to the wrong things
2.What attitude does the author think we should have towards “Banana Bone” ?
A. Respectful.
B. Supportive.
C. Fearless.
D. Doubtful.
3.When you are suffering “Banana Bone”, you had better______________.
A. distract and refresh yourself
B. stop and wait for a better chance
C. break down your old habits and give up
D. ask doctors for clear guidance
4.What can be the best title for the text?
A. Bone Made of Banana
B. My Daughter’s Trick
C. Miracle Banana
D. Banana Bone
科目：高中英语 来源：新疆克拉玛依市2017届高三7月月考英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
Alex Elman runs a big business --- something hard to imagine after she lost her sight in her twenties. But Elman says that losing her sight helped her focus on finding success.
Elman’s father planted a hillside vineyard in western Massachusetts in 1981. It’s where Elman fled during the darkest period of her life. When she was 27 years old, she went blind due to complications from juvenile diabetes (幼年型糖尿病) 17 years ago. She recalled, “I hid in my home. I hid in the place, to me, that was the safest place in the world.”
Elman is now the founder of Alex Elman Wines, a growing portfolio (股份) of organic wines from all around the world: Chianti from Italy, Torrontes from Argentina. Elman doesn’t work alone. Her assistant, a guide dog named Hanley, is something of a wine snob, and quite a beggar. Hanley travels to all of the wineries that Elman does, from South America to Europe.
At first, Elman resisted the idea of a seeing-eye-dog. Now it’s hard to imagine her life, or her business, without him. She said. “When someone tells me something is organic and I don’t really believe it because I taste something funny on it, I’ll put it in front of his face and if he likes the wine, he’ll actually go in and sniff it. If it’s not right, he’ll turn his head away…He gets in the dirt with me. He scratches around. He makes sure that we see earthworms and butterflies. That’s how we know that the soil is actually organic, that there are no chemicals.”
Elman told CBS News she believes the loss of her vision was a gift. She said, “It allowed me to pay attention to what I thought was important and also to be able to teach people that the broken hang nail is not a big deal, you know what I mean? Don’t sweat the small stuff. Don’t sweat the big stuff either.”
1.Elman hid herself in her father’s vineyard probably because she ________.
A. suffered from juvenile diabetes
B. was extremely painful for her blindness
C. would like to help her father with the work
D. expected to recover her sight sooner or later
2.We can learn from Paragraph 3 that Elman ________.
A. has earned a large amount of money
B. plans to operate organic wine companies
C. has become successful with Hanley’s help
D. has travelled around the world with Hanley
3.Whenever Elman couldn’t judge the wine exactly, she would ________.
A. turn to Hanley for advice
B. have another taste in person
C. order Hanley to head away
D. make Hanley to drink it
4.The underlined phrase “the broken hang nail” (in Paragraph 5) probably refers to ________.
A. a nail which is of no use
B. a disadvantage you have in your life
C. a person who is hard to deal with
D. a task that is not easy to accomplish
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科目：高中英语 来源：河北省2017届高三上学期第14周周测英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
India now leads the world in smartphone growth. It saw a 55% increase in the number of smartphone in 2014. The number of Web users increased by 37 %. Smartphones were the source of 65 % of its Internet traffic and 41 % of its e-commerce, according to a report by the analyst Mary Meeker, titled “Internet Trends 2015”.
India’s Internet boom has started. Within three or four years, almost every adult in India will own a smartphone. They will be used to order goods, read news, monitor crop growth and so on.
Indian adults will be very interested in these devices just as young Americans are. 87 % of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 who own smartphones say they never separate from these: “My smartphone never leaves my side.” Four out of five say that the first thing they do on waking is to reach for their smartphones. And three fifths believe that in the next five years everything will be done on mobile devices.
In the business world, the rise of mobile platforms is dramatically transforming many industries all over the world. What Indian software developers have to do is to start thinking about solutions to old problems by using all the features of these new devices. They need to take advantage of the unique properties of smartphones and tablets. As Indian software developers and enterprises master the smartphone, they will be able to export their solutions to the rest of the world.
This will make possible a new tech revolution that is greater than what created India’s IT industry in the 1980s and 1990s. We can expect the rapid transformation of India when a billion people become connected and have equal access to information and services.
1.Loads of numbers are used in Paragraph 1 to show _____________.
A. India’s smartphones increase most rapidly in the world
B. India has the most advanced IT industry in the world
C. India will be a superpower pretty soon
D. India will export new smartphones to the rest of the world
2.What will most young Americans do first the moment they wake up?
A. Read news. B. Shop online.
C. Get their smartphones. D. Check e-mails.
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. India is the largest mobile maker in the world.
B. Indian farmers use smartphones to monitor crop growth..
C. Indian software developers have made great profits by selling their products abroad.
D. India saw a great boom in IT industry some 30 years ago.
4.Which can be the best title of the text?
A. More people, more smartphones
B. No dream, every Indian owns a smartphone
C. At hand, India’s next tech revolution
D. A small smartphone, a big use
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科目：高中英语 来源：河南省洛阳市2016-2017学年高二下学期期末质量检测（6月）英语试卷 题型：完形填空
“The way we choose to respond to others can cause them to feel ashamed ______can allow them to remember our kindness and _______our stories with the future generations.” when I read this________, I thought of Doris, a very ______person. All around her room were dolls she had made: they were the most interesting dolls I’d ever seen.
One day _____I was in her room, she took one of her dolls out of the case to______ me, saying it was the_______doll she had ever made. The doll was very unusual with fine artistic work. I was amazed that anyone could crate something so ______ .
Doris held the dolls very carefully. Then she slowly ______the doll in such a way that I could see a _______crack(裂缝)on the skirt. Doris said that on the way to class she bumped(撞击)the side of the skirt. She expressed how she was ______. When it was her turn to show the doll to the teacher, she pointed out the crack. Doris felt________that the doll would be_______. Much to her surprise, the teacher told her she was just going to ignore the crack and ______the doll on the other good ______it had. Doris said this remark and_______changed her life. She knew_______the teacher hadn’t overlooked the crack, she ______had made the rest of the dolls.
The teacher could have made Doris feel ashamed about the crack. But because of her _______to ignore the crack, Doris was sharing her ______to the next generation.
1.A. or B. and C. or else D. and also
2.A. tell B. share C. remind D. make up
3.A. diary B. prediction C. sentence D. criticism
4.A. familiar B. considerate C. potential D. creative
5.A. after B. while C. before D. still
6.A. attract B. greet C. distribute D. show
7.A. first B. best C. worst D. last
8.A. strange B. unique C. fashionable D. changeable
9.A. carved B. separated C. turned D. constructed
10.A. slight B. huge C. fragile D. repaired
11.A. betrayed B. unconscious C. upset D. greedy
12.A. in a flash B. for certain C. by and by D. in turn
13.A. rejected B. trapped C. seized D. resisted
14.A. look into B. refer to C. grade D. reserve
15.A. appearances B. designs C. means D. qualities
16.A. attitude B. sponsor C. friction D. consensus
17.A. because B. since C. if D. only if
18.A. hardly B. never C. forever D. seldom
19.A. devotion B. compromise C. prejudice D. willingness
20.A. works B. lessons C. experience D. mercy
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科目：高中英语 来源：河南省林州市2016-2017学年高一（普通班）5月调研考试英语试卷 题型：短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）画掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均限一词;
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
In October last year, I was studying at a school in Cambridge but it was only my second months in the school. At an end of the month the head teacher organized a party for all the new students. It is a good chance to get to know my new classmates and I really looked forward to join in it. As the party was on 31st October, I thought it was a Halloween party. So, the day after the party, I searched everywhere and managed get a witch’s costume. When I arrived at my head teacher’s house, he opened the door and looked at us if I had been complete mad.
All the other students wore on normal clothes!
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科目：高中英语 来源：江西省百校联盟2017届高三2月联考英语试卷（有答案） 题型：短文填空
If you live in the United States, you’re almost 1.(certain) seen at American crow(乌鸦). Crows range from southern Canada throughout the United States. As2.adult, this bird is entirely black from bill to tail, except for its brown eyes. These3.(noise) birds are often recognizable by their special, loud cry, called a caw. There are often mistaken4.the common raven(渡鸦),but ravens are5.(large), and they have differently shaped bills and pointed wings and tails.
American crows often live family groups. Both members of a breeding pair help build the nests, and the female crow usually6.(lay) four or live eggs in spring or summer. After about five weeks in the nests, the young birds begin learning how to fly and catch prey. Crows sometimes stay near the spot7.they were born to help raise other young crows.
Crows will eat almost anything, from insects and small animals such as frogs fruit and nuts. They prefer open areas with access to trees and they can sometimes 8.(find)around vegetable gardens. Crows also frequently live in suburban9.(neighbor) and in parks. Crows are considered 10.(be)very intelligent birds.
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科目：高中英语 来源：福建省厦门市2017届高三3月质量检测英语试卷 题型：书面表达
假定你是李华，你校在3月22日“世界水日”来临之际将举办系列活动。请写封邮件给学校英语外教Green，请他为本校学生开设讲座。邮件的内容包括：
1．讲座主题：废水处理与利用：
2．讲座目的：
3．讲座时间及时长。
注意：
1．词数100左右：
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．不得透露考生本人所在学校及个人真实信息。
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科目：高中英语 来源：湖北省襄阳市2017届高三第五次适应性考试英语试卷 题型：书面表达
假定你是李华，计划寒假找份兼职工作。下面的招聘广引起了你的注意，请根据要点（箭头所指内容）写一封申请信。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节使行文连贯；
3. 开头已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Mr. Smith,
I’ve read your advertisement for an assistant teacher for a children’s winter camp.
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Yours,
Li Hua
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科目：高中英语 来源：广东省汕头市2017届高三上学期期末考试英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
Times are a little tough at our house right now. Neither of us makes a lot of money, but years of experience have taught us how to walk between the raindrops and make it from one month to the next with a fair amount of grace. I cook a lot at home, more when we're facing lean times. When I know that I have to keep us fed on not much money, I fall back on my grandmother's recipes. She taught me to cook.
When I was a kid, my twin brother and I spent long summer weeks and Christmas vacations with my mother's parents in the mountains of North Carolina. Rather than go hunting with my grandfather on frozen mornings, I found myself more and more in the kitchen with my grandmother, watching her making a lemon cheese pie with her soft hands.
My great-grandmother died when my grandmother was 11 years old. As the eldest daughter, she was expected to take on all of the housework while attending school. Throughout the Great Depression, she learned how to make a little food go a long way. Vegetables were cheap, so she cooked a lot of them, mostly only using small amounts of meat for seasoning. Roast beef was a twice-a-month luxury, but there was nothing she couldn't do with a chicken, every part of it. Nothing went to waste.
Now I understand that her food was sacred. I feel connected to my grandmother and to hundreds of years of family when I'm in my kitchen making country food. In the delicious smells is a long tale of victory over hard times, of conquering starvation—of not just surviving, but finding joy and pleasure in every meal of every day.
From grandmother I learned to take real satisfaction in feeding people. My grandmother would beam with pleasure over a heavily laden table and say, “Do you know what this would cost at the restaurant? ” I never knew what restaurant in particular she had in mind, but I knew that the question was totally not fair, because no restaurant anywhere can cook like a grandmother. But now, thanks to her guidance and years of practice, I can.
1.According to the passage, the author cooks a lot at home because__________.
A. she wants to try out her grandmother’s recipes
B. she and her husband are quite particular about food
C. she enjoys cooking at home
D. she and her husband are embarrassed financially
2.What does the underlined word “lean” mean in the first paragraph?
A. with a bad harvest B. with little money
C. with little enengy D. with little work
3.According to the passage, the author’s grandmother__________.
A. learnt to cook throughout the Great Depression
B. was careful in budgeting
C. preferred chicken to beef
D. was careful in cooking vegetables
4.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A. Cook like My Grandmother B. My Grandmother’s Sacred Food
C. My Grandmother’s Recipe D. Joy and Pleasure in Cooking
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