When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Doctor Gibbs. He didn't look like any doctor I'd ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard, but was always very kind.
When Doctor Gibbs wasn't saving lives, he was planting trees. He had some interesting theories about planting trees. He believed in the principle: "No pains, no gains". He hardly watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why and he told me that watering plants spoiled them because it made them grow weaker. He said you had to make things tough for the trees so that only the strongest could survive. He talked about how watering trees made them develop shallow roots and how, if they were not watered, trees would grow deep roots in search of water. So, instead of watering his trees every morning, he'd beat them with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree's attention.
Doctor Gibbs died a couple of years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I'd watched him plant some twenty five years ago. They were all tall and strong.
I planted a couple of trees myself a few years ago. Two years of attending these trees meant they grew up weak. Whenever a cold wind blew, their branches trembled. Adversity(逆境) seemed to benefit Doctor Gibb's trees in ways comfort and ease never could.
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I often pray that their lives will be easy. But lately I've been thinking that it's time to change my prayer. I know my children are going to meet with hardship. There's always a cold wind blowing somewhere. What we need to do is to pray for deep roots, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be torn apart.
1.With the trees planted, Doctor Gibbs often __________.
A. paid little attention to them
B. kept watering them every morning
C. talked to them to get their attention
D. beat them to make them grow deep roots
2.What does the author think of the way Doctor Gibbs planted trees?
A. Strange and harmful.
B. Interesting and funny.
C. Cruel and unacceptable.
D. Original and reasonable.[
3.Which prayer does the author wish for his sons?
A. Meet people like Dr Gibbs in the future.
B. Be able to stand the rain and wind in their lives.
C. Have an easy life, without too much to worry about.
D. Have good luck, encountering less hardship in their life.
4.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A. Prayers for my sons
B. Doctor Gibbs and his trees
C. Growing roots
D. Watering trees
科目:高中英语 来源:山西省2016-2017学年高一(普通班)下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型:七选五
How to Become a Top Student
Successful students use different techniques(技巧) to study,which brings them more success. 1.Here are the four techniques almost all top?performing students use.
They are regular. Almost all successful students study regularly, because they know “what you give is what you get”. If you put in regular hours of studying, then you will learn more and get better grades. 2.This will help you to study regularly.
They have clear goals. All top?performing students have definite, specific goals. 3.They motivate(激发) you and drive you to study more. But make sure that you do not get carried away. Set realistic goals which can challenge(挑战) you, but do not seem impossible or too difficult to achieve.
They study without pressure(压力). Successful students study a lot. But they study without putting strain on themselves. Most students make the mistake of studying too hard or studying continuously for a long time. 4.Studying should be done in a balanced manner. Take a break for a few minutes, after studying for 30 or 45 minutes. Relax, walk around your room or house, or drink some water and return to studying. Such short breaks will refresh your brain and you will learn more.
5.Studying is not something you do just because your parents ask you to do it.It's actually very important for you.Studying gives you knowledge and skills that will remain with you for the rest of your life.It gives you the ability to get a job and earn money.And successful students recognize the value of studying well.
A. This creates tension and actually slows down learning and memory.
B. Set aside some hours, each day or each week,for studying.
C. Having such goals gives you a purpose to study better.
D. Learn their techniques, and you will also join their rank.
E. They give importance to study.
F. But to score A grade in English, you should make well-planned efforts.
G. They finish their homework on time.
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科目:高中英语 来源:黑龙江省伊春市2016-2017学年高一下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型:阅读理解
Johnny Smith was a good math student at a high school. He loved his computer. He came home early every day, then he worked with it till midnight. But Johnny was not a good English student, not good at all. He got an F in his English class.
One day after school,Johnny came back home and joined his computer to the computer of his high school office. The school office computer had the grades of all the students: the math grades, the science grades, the grades in arts and music, and the grades in English. He found his English grade. An F! Johnny changed his English grade from an F to A. Johnny' parents looked at his report card. They were very happy.
"An A in English!" said Johnny's Dad. "You're a very clever boy, Johnny."
Johnny is a hacker(黑客). Hackers know how to take information (信息)from other computers and put new information in. Using a modem(调制解调器), they join their computers to other computers secretly. School headmasters and teachers are worried about hackers. So are the police, for some people even take money from bank (银行)computer account (账户)and put it into their own ones. And they never have to leave home to do it! They are called hackers.
1.Johnny changed his English grade with the computer in _______.
A. the classroom B. the school office
C. a bank near his house D. his own house
2.When Johnny's parents saw the report, they were happy because _______.
A. Johnny was good at math
B. Johnny loved computers
C. Johnny could join one computer to another
D. they thought Johnny was not poor in English any longer
3.What should the hackers know well, do you think, after you read this story?
A. Information. B. English
C. Computers. D. Grades.
4.The last paragraph is about _______.
A. Johnny B. computers
C. hackers D. modem
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科目:高中英语 来源:甘肃省2016-2017学年高一下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型:七选五
Tips for cooking on a Tight Schedule
From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don’t cook more often: ability, money and time.1.. Money is a topic I’ll save for another day. So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make the most of the time you spend in the kitchen. Here are three tips for great cooking on a tight schedule:
1.Think ahead. The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I’m already hungry and there is nothing ready to eat. So think ahead of the coming week. When will you have time to cook? Do you have the right materials(材料) ready?2.
2.Make your time worth it. When you do find time to cook a meal, make the most of it and save yourself time later on. Are you making one loaf of bread?3.It takes around the same amount of time to make more of something. So save yourself the effort for a future meal.
3.4.This may surprise you, but one of the best tools for making cooking worth your time is experimentation(实验). It gives you the chance to come up with new ideas and recipes(食谱) that can work well with your appetite(食欲) and schedule. The more you learn and the more you try, the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule.
Hopefully that gives you a good start. 5.And don’t let a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live!
A. Try new things.
B. Make three or four instead.
C. Ability is easily improved.
D. Understand your food better.
E. Cooking is a burden for many people.
F. A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.
G. Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden.
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科目:高中英语 来源:河南省商丘市2016-2017学年高二下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型:短文填空
The relationship between parents and children has always been a hot topic. Many students may feel 1. (stress) because of their parents. Most parents have good intentions, 2. some of them aren’t very helpful with the problems their sons and daughters have in 3. (adjust) to college, and a few of them seem to go out of their way to add to their children’s 4. (difficulty).
For one thing, parents are often not aware of the kinds of problems their children face. They don’t realize that the 5. (compete) is stronger, that the required standards of work are 6. (high), and that their children may not be prepared for 7. change. They may be upset by their children’s poor grades. At their kindest, they may 8. (gentle) ask why John or Mary isn’t doing better, whether he or she is trying as hard as he or she could, and so on. At their worst, they may threaten 9. (take) their children out of college or cut off living expenses.
Sometimes parents think it right and natural that they determine 10. their children should do with their lives. They forget that everyone is different and that each person must develop in his or her own way.
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科目:高中英语 来源:青海省西宁市2016-2017学年高一下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型:信息匹配
How can we all get more laughter into our lives? Here is what the experts suggest:
1. Nancy, a teacher in New York, was once painfully shy and had a hard time laughing. Then she married a circus clown (小丑). “I became interested in the clowns,” she recalls “One day I put on a costume and paint my face. That afternoon my whole life changed. I learned to laugh and enjoy life in a way I had never done before.”2. To this day, she still makes it a rule to be with people who enjoy life and laughing.
3. It doesn’t take you too much time and can be easy. Collect favorite cartoons and jokes. Also, keep a paper for writing down humor you find in everyday life. “Good ideas come and go fast, you have to catch them quickly or they are gone,” says Tooper.
Laugh when you need it most. “4.” says comedian Bill. “And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might by, you can survive it,” he insists.
Gray, a sociology professor, claims that laughter is a skill we can all gain - because it comes naturally.5. Just remember: we are just here for a period, so get a few laughs.
A. Mix with people who laugh.
B. You can lessen your pain through humor.
C. Practise the art of laughing.
D. But it’s also something that has to be developed.
E. He who laughs last laughs best.
F. People’s joy can affect those around them.
G. Keep a laughter file.
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科目:高中英语 来源:安徽省蚌埠市2016-2017学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷 题型:单词拼写
1.I’m lucky that I’m interested in school work, o_________(否则)I’d go mad.
2.I forgot all about it because I was so o_________(忙碌的)with other things.
3.Products strongly _________(推荐)to the customers are not necessarily of good quality.
4.The theory is generally _________(承认,公认)to be true.
5.He is eager to do some _________(志愿的)work for the homeless.
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科目:高中英语 来源:辽宁省庄河市2016-2017学年高一下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型:书面表达
近年来大城市交通拥堵严重,影响了人们的生活和经济发展,对此人们十分抱怨。假如你是李华,请根据以下要点用英语给报社写封信。
1.交通现状及影响;
2.提出改进建议;
3.希望建议被采纳。
注意:1.词数100左右;
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
3.开头语已为你写好,不计入总词数。
Dear editor,
I am writing to you to talk about the heavy traffic.
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Yours
Li Hua
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科目:高中英语 来源:内蒙古包头市2016-2017学年高一下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型:阅读理解
Most dictionaries will tell you a number of things about a language. There are three important things. These three things are spelling, pronunciation(发音) and meaning.
First, a dictionary will tell you the spelling of a word. If you are not sure about the spelling of a word, you can try to find the correct spelling in a dictionary. Words are listed in an alphabetical (字母表的) order —— a, b, c and so on. For example, on a dictionary page the "poor" comes before "poverty" and the word "poverty" comes before the "power".
The words are always given in alphabetical order. The second thing, a dictionary will tell you the pronunciation. Most dictionaries give phonetic , or sound alphabet. The phonetic alphabet (音标) shows pronunciation. The third thing, a dictionary will tell you the meaning of words. You can look up a word and find out what it means. Many words have more than one meaning, and a good dictionary will tell you all of the word’s meanings. For example, in English the common word "get" has over 20 different meanings.
1.Many words have ______.
A. several meanings B. one meaning
C. few meanings D. no meaning
2.A good dictionary will tell you _____.
A. more of word’s pronunciation B. more of the word’s meanings
C. more of grammar D. more of the word’s spelling.
3.Phonetic alphabets are used to show ______.
A. handwritings B. spelling
C. meanings D. pronunciation
4.How many important things will most dictionaries tell you?
A. Four B. Five
C. Three D. Two
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