Two of the hardest things to accomplish in this world are to acquire wealth by honest effort and,having gained it,to learn how to use it properly.Recently I walked into the locker room of a rather well known golf club after finishing a round.It was in the late afternoon and most of the members had left for their homes.But a half-dozen or so men past middle age were still seated at tables talking aimlessly and drinking more than was good for them.These same men can be found there day after day,and,strangely enough,each one of these men had been a man of affairs and wealth, successful in business and respected in the community.If material prosperity were the chief necessity for happiness, then each one should have been happy.Yet,it seemed to me,something very important was missing,else(否则)there would not have been the constant effort to escape the realities of life through scotch and soda.They knew,each one of them,that their productivity had ceased(停止).When a fruit tree ceases to bear its fruit,it is dying.And it is even so with man.
What is the answer to a long and happy existence in this world of ours?I think I found it long ago in a passage from the book of Genesis which caught my eye while I was looking through my Bible.The words were few,but they became memorably impressed on my mind.“In the sweat of the face shall you eat the bread.”
To me,that has been a challenge from my earliest recollections(memories).In fact,the battle of life,of existence,is a challenge to everyone.The immortal words of St.Paul,too,have been and always will be a great inspiration to me.At the end of the road I want to be able to feel that I have fought a good fight,I have finished the course,I have kept the faith.
1.The underlined sentence “In the sweat of the face shall you eat the bread” means “ ”.
A. Bread tastes delicious when sweat pours off your face
B. Bread comes from the sweat on your face
C. Failure is the mother of success
D. No pains,no gains
2.We learn from the passage that the author .
A. was a wealthy person in the community
B. was fond of associating with celebrities(名人)
C. held a positive attitude towards an active life
D. kept a secret of the reason why he was so impressed
3.What is implied in the passage by the writer?
A. To use wealth properly,eat,drink and be merry.
B. If you cease to struggle,you cease to live.
C. As life is but like a dream,a man is like a fruit tree.
D. Where there is a will,there is a way.
科目:高中英语 来源:江苏省高中英语必修五牛津译林版练习题:Unit 2 The environment 题型:单项填空
I’d appreciate________if you would turn out the lights.I’m sleepy.
A. one B. that
C. this D. it
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Maybe you have been to many famous restaurants,but nowhere else ________on such nice ducks.
A. you can feast B. can you taste
C. you can taste D. can you feast
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Like many new graduates, I left university full of hope for the future but with no real idea of what I wanted to do. My degree, with honors, in English literature had not really prepared me for anything practical. I knew I wanted to make a difference in the world somehow, but I had no idea how to do that. That’s when I learned about the Lighthouse Project.
I started my journey as a Lighthouse Project volunteer by reading as much as I could about the experiences of previous volunteers. I knew it would be a lot of hard work, and that I would be away from my family and friends for a very long time. In short, I did not take my decision to apply for the Lighthouse Project lightly. Neither did my family.
Eventually, however, I won the support of my family, and I sent in all the paperwork needed for the application. After countless interviews and presentations, I managed to stand out among the candidates and survive the test alone. Several months later, I finally received a call asking me to report for the duty. I would be going to a small village near Abuja, Nigeria. Where? What? Nigeria? I had no idea. But I was about to find out.
After completing my training, I was sent to the village that was small and desperately in need of proper accommodation. Though the local villagers were poor, they offered their homes, hearts, and food as if I were their own family. I was asked to lead a small team of local people in building a new schoolhouse. For the next year or so, I taught in that same schoolhouse. But I sometimes think I learned more from my students than they did from me.
Sometime during that period, I realized that all those things that had seemed so strange or unusual to me no longer did, though I did not get anywhere with the local language, and returned to the United States a different man. The Lighthouse Project had changed my life forever.
1.What do we know about the author?
A. His university education focused on the theoretical knowledge.
B. His dream at university was to become a volunteer.
C. He took pride in having contributed to the world.
D. He felt honored to study English literature.
2.According to the Project Lighthouse, it is likely that the author______________
A. discussed his decision with his family.
B. asked previous volunteers about voluntary work
C. attended special training to perform difficult tasks
D. felt sad about having to leave his family and friends
3.In his application for the volunteer job, the author _______________
A. Participated in many discussions
B. Went through challenging survival tests
C. Wrote quite a few paper on voluntary work
D. Faced strong competition from other candidates
4.On arrival at the village, the author was ___________
A. asked to lead a farming team
B. sent to teach in schoolhouse
C. received warmly by local villagers
D. arranged to live in a separate house.
5.What can we infer from the author’s experiences in Nigeria?
A. He found some difficulty adapting to the local culture
B. He had learned to communicate in the local language.
C. He had overcome all his weakness before he left for home.
D. He was chosen as the most respectable teacher by his students.
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Once there lived a rich merchant(商人)and a poor shoemaker in the same house.The merchant occupied the second floor,____the shoemaker lived and worked in a small room on the first floor.The shoemaker was one of the____persons on earth.He worked from morning till night,singing merrily.His heart was filled with____,whenever he saw the boots and shoes____.Now the merchant upstairs was so rich that he____knew how much wealth he had.He was always__ over his gold and silver coins far into the night.Even in bed his uneasiness(不安)about his riches kept him____.When at last he had been asleep for an hour or two,up came the song of the happy shoemaker,who was an____riser.It continued all day and was a (n)____to the merchant.Day by day the merchant grew more and more tired through want of____.He asked a wise friend of his how he could put an____to the shoemaker’s song.“Well,if I were you,I would give the shoemaker a hundred pounds,”answered his friend.“You are rich enough to do that,I suppose.Ask for nothing in __.Simply give the money.”The merchant____the advice.
When the shoemaker____the bag that had been sent by the merchant,he was____to find shining coins.“I must hide this from the eyes of my neighbors.If they see it,they will think that I have stolen it,”he thought.“I will____it away even from my wife.”So he hid the bag of money under the floor.From then on he____his neighbors as much as he could.His wife who had been the best____to him,became troublesome.Now his mind was too much set on the money bag to___to his work with diligence(勤劳).He could not sing merrily now.___he thought of the money bag,he became uneasy and unhappy.
1.A. for B. therefore C. while D. however
2.A. highest B. happiest C. richest D. shortest
3.A. smile B. sorrow C. sadness D. joy
4.A. being repairing B. repair C. to repair D. to be repaired
5.A. always B. completely C. hardly D. entirely
6.A. hiding B. counting C. fighting D. figuring
7.A. awake B. nervous C. frightened D. asleep
8.A. early B. happy C. noisy D. late
9.A. threat B. matter C. trouble D. alarm
10.A. sympathy B. understanding C. sleep D. treatment
11.A. end B. notice C. information D. stop
12.A. trouble B. need C. turn D. return
13.A. refused B. agreed C. asked D. followed
14.A. stole B. opened C. received D. carried
15.A. exciting B. amazed C. ashamed D. disappointed
16.A. throw B. keep C. give D. remain
17.A. avoided B. thanked C. helped D. attracted
18.A. companion B. fellow C. shoemaker D. merchant
19.A. tend B. turn C. attend D. come
20.A. Wherever B. Whatever C. Whenever D. However
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Things You Should Quit Doing to be Successful
Would you like to be successful? But what are you willing to do in order to reach your goal? 1. If you want it bad enough, you will get it. When you are productive, you efficiently finish various tasks and achieve better results. However, there are many bad habits that successful people will try to avoid to reach their desired success.
They don’t do without first learning. The greatest thing about learning is the benefit that we receive in all aspects of our lives. If we stop learning, then the only thing we can do is settle with what we already know; if we settle for that, then there is no way to expand our minds. 2. Since our minds require learning for expansion, we must never stop seeking new knowledge.
They don’t work in their comfort zone. What is your comfort zone? Your comfort zone is defined as “A psychological state in which a person feels familiar, at ease, in control, and experiences low anxiety.” When you get outside of your comfort zone, it doesn’t mean that you should strive for a constant state of anxiety and stress. 3.
4. Social networks are great for staying in touch with family and friends. However, when chatting, posting, sharing, and looking at various funny photos, we waste hours just scrolling through pages. Usually, before we fall asleep, we decide to check if there is something new in the news feed and end up falling asleep very late at night. You then feel tired in the morning and incapable of doing anything that demands focus and hard work.
They don’t hang around negative people. Negative people are very harmful to be around when it comes to achieving success. 5. When you are around negative people enough, you start to see things negatively and you begin to lose sight of your dream. If that happens, life will reward you with negative outcomes to deal with.
A. They don’t fear asking for advice.
B. Expansion is essential on the path to success!
C. They don’t spend a lot of time on social networks.
D. Success is not something that happens by accident.
E. Getting lost in small things causes us to miss out on the overall views.
F. Success is more about a person’s way of thinking than anything else.
G. It simply means that, in order to grow, you should try new things and expand your horizons.
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科目:高中英语 来源:浙江省2016-2017学年高二下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型:完形填空
Last Friday when Jose Rodriguez , a 5-year-old white boy, asked his mother Lydia Rodriguez if he could get his blonde hair cut like his black friend Reddy’s, and of course his mother agreed. For a very ____ reason the two pre-school friends decided to ____ their teacher with matching haircuts.
Jose ____ that if he and Reddy had the same haircut, no one would be able to ____ them. Reddy apparently thought this trick was ____ as well.
“It is just two ____ boys. Obviously, they see they are different colors, they just don’t care. It is not ____ , Rodriguez said. She sees Jose’s inability to see a ____ between himself and his friend as a parenting win. “I just taught him to ____ everyone the same,” she said.
The teacher played along and ____ she was talking to Jose when Reddy arrived before Jose, he told the teacher and his _____he was Jose.
On Monday, Rodriguez ____ the story on the Facebook.78,000 people ____ it and the story has gone viral(疯传). On the post she wrote: “If this isn’t proof that ____ and prejudice is something that is ____ , I don’t know what is. Their ____ is the only difference Jose sees in the two of them. Though Jose loves ____ himself on TV and the Internet, he remains unsure why his haircut became such a big ____ .
“He still has no idea why people ____ so much”, Rodriguez said. “He wanted to ____ Reddy and now he thinks they look the same.”
1.A. wrong B. obvious C. sweet D. funny
2.A. trick B. entertain C. surprise D. frighten
3.A. feared B. decided C. promised D. admitted
4.A. tease B. substitute C. persuade D. distinguish
5.A. simple B. amusing C. perfect D. stupid
6.A. innocent B. naughty C. happy D. clever
7.A. ridiculous B. important C. reasonable D. convincing
8.A. friendship B. cooperation C. respect D. difference
9.A. praise B. blame C. love D. attend
10.A. confirmed B. pretended C. reminded D. explained
11.A. classmates B. parents C. relatives D. guests
12.A. downloaded B. commented C. read D. shared
13.A. contributed to B. submitted to C. reacted to. D. turned to
14.A. hate B. identity C. justice D. happiness
15.A. forbidden B. taught C. permitted D. expected
16.A. colors B. characters C. hair D. status
17.A. watching B. introducing C. reflecting D. amusing
18.A. reward B. gift C. debate D. deal
19.A. care B. envy C. talk D. admire
20.A. believe in B. look like C. appreciate D. inspire
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科目:高中英语 来源:浙江省兰溪市2016-2017学年高一上学期第一次阶段性考试英语试卷 题型:短文填空
Wang kun and Wang Wei are brother and sister. They have 1. about taking a bike trip for a long time. After they graduated from college, they had the chance to cycle along the Mekong River. Wang Wei is very 2.. Once she is 3. (determine) to do something, she will never change her mind. Although it is difficult to travel along the Mekong River by bike, she insisted that they 4. (find) the source of the river and begin their journey there. In order to make the trip 5.(proper), they made a careful study of the maps in a large atlas. Finally they made up their 6.(mind) to begin their journey from 7. altitude of 5, 000 meters.
The part of the river in China is called Lancang River. After it leaves China and the high altitudes, the Mekong River becomes wide, brown and warm. It flows through Laos, Thailand and Cambodia. At last, the river's delta 8.the South China Sea.
During their journey, they experienced different seasons and enjoyed the beautiful scenery of glacier, deep valleys, waterfalls and plains. When they reached Dali, their cousins Dao Wei and Yu Hang joined them. Though 9.(cycle) down so long a river was hard for them, they felt 10. interesting and unforgettable.
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科目:高中英语 来源:内蒙古乌兰察布分校2016-2017学年高一下学期第二次调考英语试卷 题型:书面表达
最近,某中学生英文报开设了“After-class Activities”的栏目。请你根据以下提示,为该栏目写一篇英文稿件,并鼓励同学们积极参加课外活动。
1.你校开展课外活动的情况;
2.你参加过的课外活动及给你带来的益处;
3.为同学选择课外活动提出建议;
4.为学校开展课外活动提出建议;
注意:
1.词数100左右;
2.文中不得提及人名、校名及地名;
3.稿件的开头已为你写好(不计入总词数)。
After -class Activities
Nowadays,after class activities are becoming more and more popular in high schools.
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