I'm a blind teenager girl, but I am ashamed of it if it is known. I refuse to use a white stick and hate asking for help, and I couldn't bear people to look at me and think I am not like them. I must be a terrible danger on the roads. Coming across me wandering through the traffic, motorists probably would have to step rapidly on their brakes. Apart from that, there are all sorts of disasters that used to occur on the way to and from work.
One evening, I got off the bus about halfway home where I had to change buses, and as usual I ran into something. "I'm awfully sorry," I said and stepped forward only to run into it again. When it happened a third time, I realized I had been apologizing to a lamppost. This was just one of the stupid things that constantly happened to me. So I carried on and found the bus stop, which was a request stop, where the bus wouldn't stop unless passengers wanted to get on or off. No one else was there and I had to try to guess if the bus had arrived.
Generally in this situation, because I hated showing I was blind by asking for help, I tried to guess at the sound. Sometimes I would stop a big lorry and stand there feeling stupid as it drew away. In the end, I usually managed to swallow my pride and ask someone at the stop for help.
But on this particular evening no one joined me at the stop; it seemed that everyone had suddenly decided not to travel by bus. Of course I heard plenty of buses pass, or I thought I did. But because I had given up stopping them for fear of making a fool of myself, I let them all go by. I stood there alone for half an hour without stopping one. Then I gave up. I decided to walk on to the next stop.
1.The girl is unwilling to use a stick or ask for help because .
A. she thinks she might be cheated
B. asking for help will cost her money
C. she is normal and independent
D. she can't stand being found different from others
2. According to the passage, after the girl got off the bus that evening, she .
A. began to run away
B. knocked down a person as usual
C. hit a lamppost by accident
D. made several apologies to an old man
3. What was the problem with guessing at the sound to stop a bus?
A. All cars have exactly the same sound.
B. No bus would stop to pick up a blind girl.
C. Some lorries may have the same sound as that of the bus.
D. It took long for the girl to recognize the sound of a bus.
4.At last the girl decided to walk to the next stop, hoping
A. to find people there
B. to hear more buses there
C. to find the bus by herself there
D. to hear his parents waiting for her
考前必练系列答案科目：高中英语 来源：2016届河南三门峡陕州中学高三上学期第一次强化训练英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Lee’s mother Sun became unexpectedly pregnant while married to a disabled man. Doctors told her that because of a medication she had been taking her child would not be normal. She chose to continue with the pregnancy and in 1985 in Seoul, South Korea, little Hee Ah Lee was born with only two fingers on each hand, disfigurement of her legs, and slight brain injury. The hospital told Sun that she could not care for the child at home and her relatives wanted her to place the child for adoption in a foreign country. Sun, however, thought her baby would live a successful life.
When Lee was a pre-schooler, Sun wanted her daughter to take piano lessons for two reasons. One was that she felt it would help her strengthen her hands so she could hold a pencil. The other was that she felt that if she could master the piano, she could master anything. For six months piano schools turned them down and then the one teacher who did accept the task got discouraged and wanted to quit. It was a three-month contest of wills between mother and daughter that led to a conflict in which Sun actually threw her daughter on the floor in frustration. But Lee got back up on the piano bench and for the first time played a children’s song. That was the turning point and one year later Lee won the grand prize in a piano concert for Kindergartners. It was at the age of 7 that Lee won Korea’s 19th National Handicap Conquest Contest and was presented with her award by the President of Korea.
Lee has won numerous awards, and is a widely traveled concert pianist with more than 200 appearances. Her first album titled “Hee-ah, a Pianist with Four Fingers” was released in June, 2008.
Lee speaks highly of her mother for challenging her to master the piano and said that although her training was difficult, “As time went by, the piano became my source of inspiration and my best friend.”
1. Which of the following can best describe Sun?
A. stubborn and devoted
B. impatient and strict
C. enthusiastic and hardworking
D. honest and responsible
2.What was probably in Lee’s mind when on the floor?
A. Learning piano was too difficult for her.
B. Life was unfair to her.
C. She would try her best to learn piano.
D. Her mother didn’t love her any more.
3.When was Lee awarded by the president of Korea?
A. 1985 B. 1992 C. 2008 D. 2007
4.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. A 4-finger pianist
B. Love between mother and daughter
C. Learning piano
D. An abnormal girl
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This Monday，the nation will start to celebrate Presidents’ Day，just seven days before George Washington’s birthday．Everyone agrees that day is a holiday，but is it just to celebrate George Washington’s Birthday? What about Abraham Lincoln? Some government offices call it Presidents’ Day．Others say the holiday is officially Washington’s Birthday．Confused yet?
George Washington was elected the country’s first President on April 30，1789．Soon after，Americans began publicly celebrating his birthday．Presidential historians say the actual date of George Washington’s birth is February 11，1732．But a change in the calendar system 20 years later shifted all dates，making Washington’s birthday February 22，which is now well accepted．In 1879．Congress made Washington’s birthday an official federal holiday．It was the first federal holiday to celebrate an individual’s birthday．In 1968，Congress passed the Monday Holidays Act，which moved the holiday to the third Monday in February．The new law did not change the holiday’s name．It was still called Washington’s Birthday，even though some lawmakers wanted to call it Presidents’ Day to include Abraham Lincoln，whose actual birthday is February 12．
Many people argue that the holiday should celebrate all past Presidents．They feel Lincoln should be honored for his role in preserving the nation during the Civil War and helping to free slaves．Others feel the holiday should only honor Washington．the country’s first President．They say shifting the focus away from Washington would mean future generations of kids would not know about the Father of Our Country．
Laws have been introduced in Congress over the years to require use of the term “George Washington’s Birthday．”but none of those laws have been passed．Meanwhile，many state governments and school districts now use the term “Presidents’ Day．”Many stoles also use it to promote holiday sales．
Should the holiday honor Washington，Washington and Lincoln，or all past Presidents? Write to emailbag@timeforkids．com and tell us what you think．
1.The President’s Day was originally designed to honor______．
A．George Washington B．Abraham Lincoln
C．all presidents D．the Civil War
2.What can we infer from the passage?
A．Washington’s Birthday is the same as Lincoln’s．
B．The change in the calendar system was not wise．
C．The new act changed the holiday’s name．
D．This Monday is the third one of this February．
3.What’s the main argument about this holiday?
A．When to celebrate the holiday．
B．How to celebrate the holiday．
C．Which president to honor．
D．Where to celebrate the holiday．
4.What’s the best title for this passage?
A．Why people celebrate President Day.
B．The history and debate behind Presidents’ Day
C．To celebrate Presidents’ Day or not
D．Colorful activities on Presidents’ Day
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Want to live longer? Win an Oscar.
A new study says that actors who received the award earn more than larger paych
ecks.
So when 94-year-old Katharine Hepburn once remarked that she was respected internationally “like an old building”, she had no idea that her four Oscars directly influenced her longevity(长寿).
The study says winning actors will live 3.9 years longer than their losing counterparts (对手). Actors who have won more than once, like Hepburn, live up to six years longer than those who were nominated (提名) but never won.
“We found that they died from the same things we all die from—cancer, heart disease, but they fought them a bit longer and diseases came a bit later,” says Dr. Donald Redelmeier, the leading author of the study. Redelmeier says the sense of success and satisfaction makes one’s soul become more full of life.
“We are not saying that you will live longer if you win an Oscar,” explains Redelmeier, “or that people should go out and take acting courses. Our main conclusion is simply that social factors are important.” The study’s implied conclusion, he says, is that doctors should ask about their patients’ personal feelings because mental well-being is related to physical health.
Redelmeier says he got the idea for the study when he watched a glowing Gwyneth Paltrow win an Oscar in 1999 for her role in Shakespeare in Love. Redelmeier says, “She looked more full of life than anyone I had seen.”
“We found, too, those that had multi-nominations and no win had the same life expectancy as those with just a single nomination and no win,” Redelmeier adds.
1.The longevity of Oscar winners mainly has something to do with___________.
A. the big money that was awarded
B. mental factors
C. rich and colorful lives
D. respect from others and better treatment
2.Tom had five Oscar nominations but win no Oscar and Peter had only one nomination and won no Oscar either. We can tell__________.
A. Tom probably will have a longer life than Peter.
B. Peter probably will have a longer life than Tom
C. Both Tom and Peter probably will have the same life expectancy
D. Both Tom and Peter probably will have a long life.
3.According to the passage, we know __________.
A. When Katharine Hepburn was 94, she knew her long life had something to do with her 4 Oscar prizes
B. In general the number of Oscar prizes has nothing to do with a person’s life expectancy.
C. That Gwyneth Paltrow’s full of life made Redelmeier decide to do the study.
D. If you want to live a happy and long 
life, you should take acting courses and win Oscars.
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Most Oscar Winners Live Longer Lives
B. How to Get a Long Life
C. A New Study about Long Lives
D. An Amazing Finding
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My 15-year-old son. Eric, had gone to the local swimming hole. Most of the kids go there to swim, and there are plenty of rocks for them to use as safe harbors, so I had no for his safety.
,the fireman's first words "You need to come up here to the Stillwater River"made me catch my ,and his following words gave me relief, "Your son is OK.”
When I got to the river, _saw the fire truck, ambulance and Eric, wrapped with a towel about his shoulders, sitting On a low platform of the fire engine.
I hurried over to him. "You OK?"I asked.
¨Yeah," was all he said. But my eyes begged for a(n) .I didn't get it from my son.
The was this: A woman was being under water. Hearing the cries, Eric and his friend Tyler, without ,swam out to her, and brought her safely to shore.
In an age in which the word“ ”is broadcast with abandon（恣意地）and seemingly applied to anyone who make it through the day ,I realized the thing in my son. The teens are and self-centered, but that didn't they have no desire to do good.
Still shocked by my son's ,I drove him home. Along the way, I tried to some more information from him-but he had very little to say. The words he said were, "What's for supper?"
I spent some time alone that evening, about the terrible result that might have been. The next morning, when Eric got up,I half him to tell me the story. But all he did was toast some bread, pull himself together, and head for the door to start a(n) day. Watching from the window,1 was reminded that water often runs deep.
1.A.ideas B. ways C. fears D. suggestions
2.A.Still B. Otherwise C. Besides D. Therefore
3.A.promise B. hand C. breath D. apology
4.A.nearly B.immediately C. hardly D. specially
5.A.exactly B.fortunately C. heavily D. quietly
6.A.guess B. explanation C. mystery D. judge
7.A. movement B. disaster C. story D. performance
8.A.swept B. protected C. walked D. escaped
9.A.reward B. hesitation C. congratulation D. request
10.A.freedom B. peace C. equality D. hero
11.A.false B. angry C. perfect D. real
12.A.generous B. smart C. stubborn D. devoted
13.A.mean B. agree C. consider D. introduce
14.A.difficulty B. courage C. discovery D. freedom
15.A.pick out B. take out C. dig out D. send out
16.A.crazy B. only C. last D. former
17.A.worrying B. thinking C. forgiving D.preparing
18.A.expected B. reminded C. advised D. commanded
19.A.nervous B. new C. important D. equal
20.A.slow B. clean C. natural D. still
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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
1000 Hours a Year
Like you, all my email goes into my Sent Mailbox, just sitting there if I want to check back at what I said to whom years ago. So what a surprise to see that I send approximately 18, 250 emails each year (roughly 50 a day). Assuming 3 minutes per email, that’s about 1000 hours a year on email alone. I’ve been on email since the early 90s. ___1.___
The answer is both yes and no. Yes, I have been able to keep in touch with family, friends, and colleagues in far-away corners of the planet with ease. _2.__ But while these undoubted benefits are the reasons why I continue to email, it is not without its own cost. Most importantly, as the above analysis shows, email eats my time just as it likely eats yours.
__3._ Each time a message arrives there’s just the chance that it might contain something exciting, something new, something special, a new opportunity. __4.___ That’s just enough to keep me checking my Inbox. But that means perhaps only 10 of the 1000 hours I spent on emails this year were actually wanted.
Frequent email messages will certainly affect our real work. ___5.___ Like other potential addictions we should perhaps attempt to check the email box at certain times of the day, or by creating email-free zones by turning off Wi-Fi. Now I need to think whether I really want to be spending 1000 hours a year on email, at the expense of more valuable activities.
A. Was that time well spent?
B. All this feeds my continued use of email.
C. Do you spend 1000 hours on emails every year?
D. And we all recognize that email has its addictive side.
E. Email uses technology to communicate a digital message over the Internet.
F. Maybe one in 100 emails contain something I really want to know or hear about.
G. Becoming aware of what email is doing to our allocation of time is the first step to re-gaining control.
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
A tough new smoking ban has been introduced China’s capital city Beijing. The World Health Organization (WHO)___ 1.___ (welcome) it . The ban came into effect on June the 1st and is the toughest anti-smoking law. The law bans__2.___ (smoke)in all indoor public places, on public transport and in workplaces. Anyone__3.___ smokes in these places will get a big fine. Restaurants will have a big part to play in___4.___ (make) sure the ban works. Restaurant__5.__ (own) will get a heavy fine if people smoke in their restaurants. The public is also being asked ___6.___ (report) anyone who breaks the law and smokes in public.
A WHO spokesperson said: “We applauded Beijing for its strong and determined leadership in protecting the health of its people__7.__ making public places smoke-free. We are delighted to be___8.__ ( formal) recognizing the Beijing Municipal Government with a WHO World No Tobacco Day Award." There are still hundreds of millions of smokers in China. The country is the world’s __9.___ (big) tobacco producer and has the most smokers. There are around 300 million smokers in China, ___10.__ is almost the same size as the population of the USA. More than one million Chinese die each year from smoking-related diseases.
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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 (\) 划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，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仅限一词。
2. 只允许修改10处，多者 (从第11处起) 不计分。
I was from Detroit in the United States. During his senior year in high school I win a scholarship to study singing in London. I went there in summer, and I stayed with someone’s home. People there were very sweetly, and it was a really fun summer. I got the inside view of that it’s like to live there. I loved it but one thing that surprising me was that people had to go to such many different stores to do their shopping. There was also a lot of differences in language. They said things like “ring you up” instead of “give you a call.” It took me a little while figure out these differences. So it was fun.
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He postponed his holiday so as to __________ the deadline for his work.
A. miss B. meet C. handle D. fit
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