Journalists present at the press conference all wanted to know whether she had got married secretly, but she ______ the subject throughout the conference.
| A．kept off | B．kept away | C．kept aside | D．kept out |
科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：051
People who are married or in committed relationships are healthier, wealthier, and happier. So why do more than 60 percent of marriages end in divorce? Why has the national divorce rate climbed more than 200 percent in the last thirty years? And why are fewer people getting married today than ever before?
The answers to these questions are plentiful, but the main reason is simple. It's easy to “fall” in love but very few people know how to stay in love. Even though staying in love is our “smartest” choice all the way around! Recent studies on marriage prove it's one of the major ingredients in life-frog success for men and women. Marriage has also been found to boost happiness, reduce the degree of depression, and provide protection from sexually transmitted diseases.
So let's wake up, make up, and turn this trend around! One of the most amazing pieces of evidence that shows people are not in touch with what's really going on in their partnerships is the fact that the majority of people who put in for divorce say they didn't think there was a relationship-threatening problem just six months prior to breaking up. Another shocker is that most couples wait six years or more to seek professional help when their relationship is in danger. By the time they do wake up and smell the coffee, it's often too late.
Truly there is no reason to resign yourself to a bad relationship? Whether you're dating or married. Rather than changing partners and ending up this same predicament(困境) again, you can learn to have a fabulous (难以置信的) relationship with the partner you already have! I strongly encourage you to make the relationship you have work, because there is a higher rate of divorce in second marriages.
1. According to the author, which of the following is NOT true?
A. A happy marriage can be beneficial for both partners' mentality.
B. More and more people face marriage crisis.
C. Large portions of people are not quite sure of the meaning of true love.
D. More and more people tend to be single.
2. The fundamental reason for marriage crisis is——.
A. that people are too easy to fall in love without a comprehensive understanding
B. that people do not know how to get along well with partners after marriage
C. some kinds of economic pressure and stress
D. to maintain a life-long love is too difficult for common people
3. What does the author mean by saying “...smell the coffee, it's often too late” in Para. 3？
A. Partners who like drinking coffee are more likely to experience divorce.
B. People are always not aware of enough about marriage crisis.
C. Partners should have a happy ending of marriage when facing crisis.
D. People should value their marriage.
4. It can be inferred from the passage that the author may be a (an)
A. journalist B. professor
C. advisor D. official
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
I began working in journalism(新闻工作)when I was eight. It was my mother’s idea. She wanted me to “make something” of myself, and decided I had better start young if I was to have any chance of keeping up with the competition.
With my load of magazines I headed toward Belleville Avenue. The crowds were there. There were two gas stations on the corner of Belleville and Union. For several hours I made myself highly visible, making sure everyone could see me and the heavy black letters on the bag that said THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. When it was suppertime, I walked back home.
“ How many did you sell, my boy?” my mother asked.
“ None.”
“ Where did you go?”
“ The corner of Belleville and Union Avenues.”
“ What did you do?”
“ Stood on the corner waiting for somebody to buy a Saturday Evening Post.”
“ You just stood there?”
“ Didn’t sell a single one.”
“ My God, Russell!”
Uncle Allen put in, “ Well, I’ve decided to take the Post.” I handed him a copy and he paid me a nickle(五分镍币). It was the first nickle I earned.
Afterwards my mother taught me how to be a salesman. I would have to ring doorbells, address adults with self-confidence(自信), and persuade them by saying that no one, no matter how poor, could afford to be without the Saturday Evening Post in the home.
One day, I told my mother I’d changed my mind. I didn’t want to make a success in the magazine business.
“ If you think you can change your mind like this,” she replied, “ you’ll become a good-for-nothing.” She insisted that, as soon as school was over, I should start ringing doorbells, selling magazines. Whenever I said no, she would scold me.
My mother and I had fought this battle almost as long as I could remember. My mother, dissatisfied with my father’s plain workman’s life, determined that I would not grow up like him and his people. But never did she expect that, forty years later, such a successful journalist as me would go back to her husband’s people for true life and love.
56. Why did the boy start his job young?
A. He wanted to be famous in the future. B. The job was quite easy for him.
C. His mother had high hopes for him. D. The competition for the job was fierce.
57. From the dialogue between the boy and his mother, we learn that the mother was _______.
A. excited B. interested C. ashamed D. disappointed
58. What did the mother do when the boy wanted to give up?
A. She forced him to continue. B. She punished him.
C. She gave him some money. D. She changed her plan.
59. What does the underlined phrase “this battle”(last paragraph) refer to?
A. The war between the boy’s parents.
B. The arguing between the boy and his mother.
C. The quarrel between the boy and his customers.
D. The fight between the boy and his father.
60. What is the text mainly about?
A. The early life of a journalist. B. The early success of a journalist.
C. The happy childhood of the writer. D. The important role of the writer in his family.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
I began working in journalism(新闻工作) when I was eight. It was my mother’s idea. She wanted me to “make something” of myself, and decided I had better start young if I was to have any chance of keeping up with the competition.
With my load of magazines I headed toward Belleville Avenue. The crowds were there. There were two gas stations on the corner of Belleville and Union. For several hours I made myself highly visible, making sure everyone could see me and the heavy black letters on the bag that said THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. When it was supper time, I walked back home.
“How many did you sell, my boy?” my mother asked.
“None.”
“Where did you go?”
“The corner of Belleville and Union Avenues.”
“What did you do?”
“Stood on the corner waiting for somebody to buy a Saturday Evening Post.”
“You just stood there?”
“Didn’t sell a single one.”
“My God, Russell!”
Uncle Allen put in, “Well, I’ve decided to take the Post.” I handed him a copy and he paid me a nickel(五分镍币). It was the first nickel I earned.
Afterwards my mother taught me how to be a salesman. I would have to ring doorbells, address adults with self-confidence, and persuade them by saying that no one, no matter how poor, could afford to be without the Saturday Evening Post in the home.
One day, I told my mother I’d changed my mind. I didn’t want to make a success in the magazine business.“If you think you can change your mind like this,” she replied, “you’ll become a good-for-nothing.” She insisted that, as soon as school was over, I should start ringing doorbells, selling magazines. Whenever I said no, she would scold me.
My mother and I had fought this battle almost as long as I could remember. My mother, dissatisfied with my father’s plain workman’s life, determined that I would not grow up like him and his people. But never did she expect that, forty years later, such a successful journalist as me would go back to her husband’s people for true life and love.
56、 Why did the boy start his job young?
| A．He wanted to be famous in the future. B．The job was quite easy for him. |
| C．His mother had high hopes for him. D．The competition for the job was fierce |
57、From the dialogue between the boy and his mother, we learn that the mother was _______.
| A．excited | B．interested C．ashamed D．disappointed |
58、What did the mother do when the boy wanted to give up?
| A．She forced him to continue. B．She punished him. |
| C．She gave him some money. D．She changed her plan. |
59、 What does the underlined phrase “this battle” refer to?
| A．The war between the boy’s parents. |
| B．The arguing between the boy and his mother. |
| C．The quarrel between the boy and his customers. |
| D．The fight between the boy and his father. |
60、 What is the text mainly about?
| A．The early life of a journalist. |
| B．The early success of a journalist. |
| C．The happy childhood of the writer. |
| D．The important role of the writer in his family. |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2010年高考预测试题英语（二） 题型：填空题
第II卷（非选择题，共35分）
第四部分 写作（共35分）
第一节短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误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仅限一词。
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
On May 25, 1944, Roosevelt was re-elected the President of the United 76.________
States for the four time. A journalist interviewed him and asked, “How 77. _______
do you feel now?” Roosevelt smiled without answering any words, and 78.________
treated the journalist with three small sandwiches. The journalist failed 79. _______
to understand Roosevelt’s point, but felt honor, so he picked 80. ________
up the sandwich to eat. What he wasn’t hungry, he managed to 81. ________
finish all three sandwiches. Roosevelt picked up the 4th sandwich and 82. _______
asked him to eat it as well. The journalist looked embarrassing. 83. ________
So Roosevelt said, “I think I don’t need answer the question you’ve 84. ________
Risen, for you have had your own experience now.” 85. ________
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科目：高中英语 来源：2012-2013学年黑龙江省高三8月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program, her mother recalled, Marie Colvin returned home to find that her classmates had narrowed down their college choices. “Everyone else was already admitted to college,” her mother, Rosemarie Colvin, said from the family home. “So she took our car and drove up to Yale and said, ‘You have to let me in.’?”
Impressed—she was a National Merit(全国英才) finalist who had picked up Portuguese in Brazil—Yaledid, admitting her to the class of 1978, where she started writing for The Yale Daily News “and decided to be a journalist,” her mother said.
On Wednesday, Marie Colvin, 56, an experienced journalist for The Sunday Times of London, was killed as Syrian forces shelled the city of Homs. She was working in a temporary media center that was destroyed in the attack.
“She was supposed to leave Syria on Wednesday”, Ms. Colvin said. “Her editor told me he called her yesterday and said it was getting too dangerous and they wanted to take her out. She said she was doing a story and she wanted to finish it. ”
Ms. Colvin said it was pointless to try to prevent her daughter from going to conflict zones. “If you knew my daughter,” she said, “it would have been such a waste of words. She was determined, she was enthusiastic about what she did, it was her life. There was no saying ‘Don’t do this.’ This is who she was, absolutely who she was and what she believed in: cover the story, not just have pictures of it, but bring it to life in the deepest way you could.” So it was not a surprise when she took an interest in journalism, her mother said.
1.From the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 we can infer that .
A. Yale University was her last choice
B. Yale must keep its promise to Marie
C. Marie Colvin was confident of herself
D. Marie Colvin was good at persuading
2.Marie Colvin’s story suggests some of the best qualities of being a journalist are .
A. patience and confidence
B. honesty and curiosity
C. flexibility and creativity
D. determination and courage
3.Which of the following is the correct order to describe Marie Colvin’s life?
a. She was doing a story in Syria and got killed.
b. She was admitted to Yale University.
c. She studied in Brazil as an exchange student.
d. She was hired by The Sunday Times of London.
e. She began to take an interest in journalism.
A. d→e→c→a→b B. c→b→e→d→a
C. e→d→c→b→a D. b→c→d→e→a
4.What can be the best title of the text?
A. Covering Stories in a Dangerous Conflict Area
B. Applying for Top Universities, a Successful Case
C. Recalling Her Daughter, a Journalist Killed in Syria
D. Choosing Lifelong Careers Based on Your Own Interest
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