Love Is Blind: The Magic of Tabby
In October, 2003 I started my work at my local animal shelter’s Adoption Department. Over the years, more than 50,000 animals have ______ the doors of the shelter. Most of them, I do not remember. But occasionally there are ______ animals, who touch me so deeply that I could never possibly ______ them. Tabby was one such animal. Tabby was an ancient Cocker Spaniel, probably 14 years old. What’s more, she was blind and deaf. Tabby’s chances at adoption seemed ______ at best. After all, we didn’t have many adopters coming in ______, “Can you show me all of your really old dogs who are also ______ ?” We had all thought that Tabby would live out the rest of her life at the ______.
One day a woman named Loretta came to the shelter. Her son, Gary, had ______ Tabby’s picture and stories on the shelter’s website at home. They were interested in meeting her! It was the only ______ we ever received about Tabby. What could a young child possibly see in a 14-year-old dog who was both blind and deaf? Most boys would want a dog who could grow with them and ______ through grassy fields on summer days. Tabby would ______ be able to do that. But after meeting her, Loretta and Gary decided that she was the right dog for their family. They adopted Tabby! If Tabby’s story had simply ended with her ______ adoption, it would still have been something very special indeed. ______, it was what happened after her adoption that people might regard as “magic”. Gary _____ from seizures(癫痫). Since Gary and Tabby met they became ______. They did everything together. They became so “in tune” with one another that Tabby began to telegraph Gary’s seizures ______ they occurred, giving his family ______ that one was about to strike. What’s more, Gary seemed to be having fewer and fewer seizures since Tabby’s ______.
How could it be? Nobody could explain _____ Tabby did it. But those of us who were fortunate enough to know her and her family had ______ the magic, the kind that has its roots in love.
1.A. broken B. passed C. painted D. locked
2.A. strange B. active C. wild D. special
3.A. recall B. leave C. forget D. abandon
4.A. remote B. great C. fair D. potential
5.A. wondering B. stating C. seeking D. asking
6.A. stubborn B. active C. disabled D. patient
7.A. hospital B. shelter C. farm D. roadside
8.A. posted B. taken C. seen D. drawn
9.A. letter B. donation C. call D. enquiry
10.A. get B. run C. look D. break
11.A. often B. possibly C. never D. generally
12.A. successful B. normal C. temporary D. early
13.A. However B. Moreover C. Therefore D. Otherwise
14.A. learnt B. suffered C. heard D. differed
15.A. indifferent B. uncomfortable C. unfortunate D. inseparable
16.A. since B. unless C. before D. though
17.A. explanation B. notice C. suggestion D. warning
18.A. arrival B. birth . C. return D. recovery
19.A. where B. how C. when D. whether
20.A. witnessed B. created C. achieved D. performed
科目：高中英语 来源：黑龙江省牡丹江市2016-2017学年高二6月月考英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
The son of a piano producer, Elwyn Brooks White was born in Mount Vernon in a wealthy family．And he was raised with the mix of sophistication（富有经验）and common sense that would mark his writing．
After graduation, White spent a year as a newspaper reporter in New York City, then decided to drive across the country with a friend．The trip gave White a lifetime of anecdotes．“When they ran out of money," White's friend, James Thurber, noted, "they played for their supper and their gasoline on an interesting musical instrument that White had made out of some pieces of wire and an old shoe．"
When White returned to New York City in the mid-1920s, he spent a few years bouncing between advertising jobs and unemployment before trying his hand again at writing．Not very seriously, he sent some essays to a new magazine called The New Yorker．Since its founding in 1925, the magazine had struggled to find its niche, and White's work helped put The New Yorker on the map．His essays were funny and sophisticated; they spoke equally to socialites(社会名流）and cab drivers, professors and repairmen．Through his essays, which he wrote for nearly 50 years, White helped give The New Yor
ker its voice and identity．
In 1945, already a leading literary figure, White switched to his second occupation writing children's books．He moved from New York to a farm in Maine, where he raised chickens and geese． Seeking a way to amuse his nieces and nephews, White started to write stories for them．“Children were always after me to tell them a story and I found I couldn't do it," he said．“ So I had to get it down on paper．”
By the time he died from Alzheimer's disease in 1985, White's essays had appeared in more literary collections in colleges than those of any other writer．Many said his essays matched his personality: sophisticated without being simple, critical without being mean．
1.What do we learn from Paragraph 2?
A. White took the trip to realize his lifelong dream．
B. The trip had a lasting effect on White's personality．
C. The travelling companion found White's music talent．
D. White had many experiences to talk about after the trip．
2.The underlined part "its niche" means something that ．
A. suits its sponsors' tastes
B. protects its social identity
C. helps to build its own style
D. voices its authors' concern
3.What do we know about White's works?
A. They originally came from the stories told by his nieces．
B. They were intended for people of different social status．
C. They helped The New Yorker find its position on the map．
D. They were chosen by college textbooks when they came out．
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科目：高中英语 来源：河北省2016-2017学年高一下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型：短文填空
Do you like trying different things? Are you afraid 1. things that you think you’re bad at?
Last year I started to learn t’ at chi in order to improve my health and reduce my stress. It was something new for me, and I found it to be quite difficult, very 2. (difference) form anything I’d ever learned before. Small 3.move） are important in t’ ai chi. I was used to being fast and active ,4. to learn t’ ai chi I had to learn patience. Now I’ve found that I’m a much more patient person than before, and t’ ai chi isn’t nearly as difficult as it 5.(be ) before.
We tend 6.(like) things we are good at — that’s normal. For example, I’m naturally very good at badminton and tennis, but I’m very had at anything 7.involves keeping balance, such as skating, skiing and gymnastics. T’ ai chi has 8. (great) improved my balance which has been a very good thing for me.
My point is that you can keep 9.(do) the things you know you’re good at and live in your comfort zone, or you can try something new. If you don’t try new things, you’ll never know what it would be like to try something new. Challenge 10. (you). It will definitely pay off in the end.
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科目：高中英语 来源：福建省三明市2016-2017学年高一下学期第二次月考英语试卷 题型：翻译
1.连日暴雨导致洪水泛滥，彻底中断了村子与外界的联系。
Days of rainstorms _________ ________ great floods, completely ________ ________ the village from the outside world.
2.多亏了老师的不断鼓舞，他的信心逐渐得到增强。
________ ________ the teacher’s constant encouragement, his confidence has been ________ ________ gradually.
3.水果商正在挑出已经坏掉的苹果好让其它没坏的免受污染。
The fruit seller is _________ _________ the rotten apples to _________ the good ones _________ _________ contamination.
4.直到现在，我们也没能赢得消除世界饥饿的斗争。
_________ _________ _________, we have not won the battle to ________ the world ________ hunger.
5.不幸的是他的父亲去世了，使的他的家境更加艰难。
Unfortunately his father died, leaving the family even .________ ________.
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科目：高中英语 来源：福建省三明市2016-2017学年高一下学期第二次月考英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she fought to find a place to sleep on the street. But she beat these terrible setbacks（挫折） to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry （录入）into Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”.
Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up with two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just l5 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died. She decided to do something about it.
Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, and by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.
She admitted that she used envy （妒忌）to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time. ”
Liz wants moviegoers（常看电影的人） to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.
1.In which order did the following things happen to Liz?
a. Her mother died of AIDS.
b. She got admitted into Harvad.
c. She worked at a petrol station.
d. The movie about her life was put on.
e. She had trouble finding a place to sleep.
A. c, a, e, b, d B. a, b, c, e, d
C. c, d, b, a, e D. b, e, a, d, c
2.What actually made her go towards her goal?
A. Envy and encouragement.
B. Willpower and determination.
C. Decisions and understanding
D. Love and respect for her parents.
3.What does Liz mean by saying “What drove me to live on...I had only experienced a small part of the society”?
A. She had little experience of social life.
B. She could hardly understand the society.
C. She would do something for her own life.
D. She needed to travel more around the world.
4.What does the passage mainly tell us?
A. Why Liz loved her parents so much.
B. How Liz made efforts to change her life.
C. What a hard time Liz had in her childhood.
D. How Liz managed to enter Harvard University.
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科目：高中英语 来源：四川省2016-2017学年高二下学期5月月考英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
You're riding in the car on this family vacation. Suddenly your dad slows down. And you may see the following：
1. Bubblegum Alley
San Luis Obispo, California
Some call it art; others call it just plain gross. Bubblegum Alley is covered from top to bottom with wads of chewed gum, a tradition that was started mysteriously by locals in the 1950s. Some artists even created images of funny faces and the American flag.
2. Blue Whale
Catoosa, Oklahoma
Not ready to dive the depths of the ocean to see a blue whale? No problem. Just visit this 80-foot-long cement beast, which even has a slide and diving board so visitors can take a dip in the pond. When the artist died, the whale fell into disrepair. Neighbors couldn't stand to see the grinning whale fall apart, so they fixed it and now keep it bright with gallons of blue paint.
3. Lonesome Legs
Amarillo, Texas
Just what are these large legs doing in a cow pasture? According to artist Lightnin' McDuff, they represent a poem about a traveler who finds a bodiless statue of an Egyptian pharaoh (法老) called Ozymandias. Using concrete over a steel frame, McDuff constructed the legs to appear as if they were made of weathered sandstone. And the socks? A prankster (恶作剧的人) keeps adding them—even though McDuff always removes the unwanted addition.
4. Giant Penguin
Cut Bank, Montana
Bundle up (使……穿暖)when you visit this statue, because temperatures here can get as low as 47 degrees below zero. As a nod to the frosty conditions, a local businessman built the 27-foot-tall penguin out of 10,000 pounds of concrete. The creator left for warmer weather, but the statue—7 times the height of a real emperor penguin—still stands, welcoming visitors to its chilly home.
1.What led to the formation of the Bubblegum Alley?
A. Artists made it by creating images of funny faces and the American flag.
B. It’s covered with pieces of chewed gum.
C. It spread for some unknown reason.
D. Artists guided this trend.
2.The following are descriptions about these sites, which is TRUE?
①The Blue Whale has been ruined.
②Visitors can entertain in the whale.
③The socks were added by the designer.
④The legs were made of weathered sandstone.
⑤The penguin is located in a very cold area.
⑥The statue of penguin is 6 times higher than a real emperor penguin.
A. ①②③
B. ④⑤⑥
C. ①④⑤
D. ②⑤⑥
3.What impression of these sites does the author give you?
A. Funny.
B. Strange.
C. Amazing.
D. Usual.
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科目：高中英语 来源：陕西省咸阳市2016-2017学年高一下学期第三次月考英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
Exams appeared long time ago and it is a way of picking out excellent ones .All taking exams want to win. So exam cheatings always go hand in hand. Taking exams in a large group setting can be stressful for students and for the staff members who are watching over them. When classrooms are crowded and desks are close together, cheating might be tempting.
Many organizations took measures to stop cheating. Not long ago one university in Thailand came up with an anti-cheating hat that makes it almost impossible for students to see other students’ papers. The hats were made by stapling two pieces of paper onto a headband, one to each side of the head.
This caused many students annoyed. A photo of the students wearing the anti-cheating hats made its way to the internet, and the university was also criticized for making students wear those ridiculous looking homemade hats.
After being criticized, senior academic staff at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand, released a statement saying that the hats idea came from students. They said that in a bid to prevent cheating they asked the students for ideas on how to prevent cheating in the upcoming exam, which was being taken by almost one hundred students. Students came up with different ideas, then the paper hat idea was selected by them as the most fit. The university claims that no-one was forced to use the hat, but they all chose to do so. “When wearing the hat during the exam, students felt more relaxed,” a lecturer at the university ,Nattadon Rungruangkitkrai, said. “It was not meant to indicate that Kasetsart students often cheat on exams. I apologize if the photo makes other people look at my students in a negative way,’ Rungruangkitkrai added.
1.That the university was criticized on the Internet is because ?
A. The homemade anti-cheating hat looked too simple.
B. Wearing the anti-cheating hat made students look ridiculous.
C. Wearing the anti-cheating hats couldn’t prevent students from cheating in the exam.
D. The university forced students to wear the anti-cheating hat.
2.What’s most of the Kasetsart University students’ attitude towards the cheating hat?
A. careless B. objective
C. negative D. supportive
3.From the passage we can infer that_______.
A. Wearing the anti-cheating hat is effective in some degree.
B. Some students are forced to wear the anti-cheating hat.
C. It’s useless wearing the anti-cheating hat in the exam.
D. Kasetsart students are often caught cheating in the exam.
4.What is the best title of the passage?
A. influence about anti-cheating hats of Kasetsart University, Thailand
B. pressure about anti-cheating hats of Kasetsart University, Thailand
C. measures about anti-cheating hats of Kasetsart University, Thailand
D. supports of anti-cheating hats of Kasetsart University, Thailand
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科目：高中英语 来源：江西省南昌市2016-2017学年高一下学期第三次月考英语试卷 题型：单项填空
One third of the country ___ covered with trees and the majority of citizens ___ Han people.
A. is ; are B. is is
C. are are D. are is
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科目：高中英语 来源：广东省广州市2017届高三高考冲刺题（二）英语试卷 题型：书面表达
假定你是李华。从学校通告栏上看到某公司招聘海外游学团领队的广告，你很感兴趣。请写一封英文电子邮件咨询此职位的工作职责、资历要求及报酬等相关信息。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3. 参考词汇：通告栏 notice board；游学团 study tour
Dear Sir/Madam,
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
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