A 1 thing happened 2 me last Sunday. It was such a beautiful day 3 I drove to go for a look in the country.
On the way back home, my 4 stopped. It was out of gas on a 5 road far from a town! I decided to walk 6 I found someone who could sell some gas. I had walked almost a mile 7 I finally found a house near the 8__ . I was glad to see it because it was getting dark.
I knocked at the door and a little old lady with long white hair __9_ She said, “I’ve been ___10__ for you here for a long time. Come in. 11 is almost ready.”
“But I only came for some gas,” I answered. I couldn’t 12 what she was talking about.
“Oh, Alfred! Gas? You 13 tea,” said she.
I quickly 14 that my car was out of 15 , but she didn’t seem to listen to me. She just kept 16 me Alfred and talking about how long it had been 17 she had seen me. She was acting very strangely and I was 18 to leave. As soon as she went to get tea, I went out of the house as fast as I could.
Fortunately, there was another house down the road and I was able to buy the gas I needed. When I told the man about my _19 , he said, “Oh, that’s Miss Emily. She lives by herself in that big house. She’s strange, but she wouldn’t 20 anybody. She is still waiting for the man she was going to marry thirty years ago. The day before their wedding he left home and never came back because of the war.”
1. A. happy B. strange C. common D. bad
2. A. on B. in C. upon D. to
3. A. and B. so C. but D. that
4. A. car B. bus C. bike D. truck
5. A. narrow B. lonely C. crowded D. busy
6. A. when B. so that C. until D. because
7. A. before B. after C. while D. as
8. A. street B. path C. way D. road
9. A. came B. answered C. opened D. appeared
10. A. asking B. looking C. calling D. waiting
11. A. Gas B. Coffee C. Tea D. Lunch
12. A. consider B. understand C. accept D. think
13. A. like B. liked C. used to like D. liking
14. A. answered B. explained C. refused D. promised
15. A. gas B. tea C. strength D. energy
16. A. calling B. call C. to call D. called
17. A. until B. before C. since D. when
18. A. anxious B. interested C. glad D. ready
19. A. accident B. incident C. experience D. surprise
20. A. wound B. injury C. hurt D. frighten
科目：高中英语 来源：海淀区高三年级第二学期期中练习·英语 题型：054
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I used to be ashamed of my grandma. I know that's a 1 thing to say, but it was true until today, so I have to 2 it.
The 3 started when my friend Katy found Grandma's false teeth floating in a glass on the bathroom sink. I was so used to seeing them that I 4 took notice of them. But Katy shouted, laughing and 5 to talk to them. I had to get down on my knees and 6 her to shut up so my grandma wouldn't 7 and get hurt.
After that happened, I 8 there were a million things about Grandma that were embarrassing (令人窘迫) .
Once she took Jill and me out to Burger King. 9 ordering our hamburgers well-done, she told the person behind the counter, “They' 11 have two Whoppers (巨无霸) well-to-do. ” Jill burst out laughing, but I almost 10 .
After a while, I started wishing I could 11 Grandma in a closet. I even complained to my parents. Both my parents said I had to be careful not to make Grandma feel 12 in our home.
Then last Wednesday, something happened that 13 everything completely. My teacher told us to help find interesting old people and 14 them about their 15 for a big Oral History project. I was trying to think of someone when Angie pushed me gently.
“Volunteer your grandmother,” she whispered. “She's 16 and rich in experience.”
That was the last thing I ever thought Angie would say about my grandma.
This is how I ended up on 17 today interviewing my own grandmother before the whole school assembly (集合). All my friends and teachers were listening to her 18 she was a great heroine. I was 19 of my grandma and hoped she would 20 know that I had been ashamed of her.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2013届四川省射洪县射洪中学高三零诊英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
It was 1961 and I was in the fifth grade. My marks in school were miserable and, the thing was, I didn’t know enough to really care. My older bother and I lived with Mom in an ugly multi-family house in Detroit. We watched TV every night. The background noise of our lives was gunfire and horses’ hoofs(马蹄) from “Wagon Train” or “Cheyenne”, and laughter from “I Love Lucy”, or “Mister Ed”. After supper, we’d lie on Mom’s bed and stare for hours at the TV screen.
But one day Mom changed our world forever. She turned off the TV. Our mother had only been able to get through third grade. But, she was much brighter and smarter than we boys know at the time. She had noticed something in the suburban houses where she cleaned books. So she came home one day, switched off the TV, sat us down and explained that her sons were going to make something of themselves. “You boys are going to read two books every week,” she said. “And you’re going to write a report on what you read.”
We moaned（不满,发牢骚） and complained about how unfair it was. Besides, we didn’t have any books in the house other than Mom’s Bible. But she explained that we would go where the books were: “I’ll drive you to the library.”
So pretty soon there were these two peevish（坏脾气的）boys sitting in her white 1959 Oldsmobile on their way to Detroit Public Library. I wandered reluctantly（不情愿） among the children’s books. I loved animals, so when I saw some books that seemed to be about animals, I started leafing through them.
The first book I read clear through was Chip the Dam Builder. It was about beavers（河狸）. For the first time in my life I was lost in another world. No television program had ever taken me so far away from my surroundings as did this virtue visit to a cold stream in a forest and these animals building a home.
It didn’t dawn on me at the time, but the experience was quite different from watching TV. There were images forming in my mind instead of before my eyes. And I could return to them again and again with the flip（快速翻动）of a page.
Soon I began to look forward to visiting this quiet sanctuary form my other world. I moved from animals to plants, and then to rocks. Between the covers of all those books were whole worlds, and I was free to go anywhere in them. Along the way a funny thing happened: I started to know things. Teachers started to notice it too. I got to the point where I couldn’t wait to get home to my books.
Now my older brother is an engineer and I am chief of pediatric neurosurgery(儿童神经外科)at John Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. Sometimes I still can’t believe my life’s journey, from a failing and indifferent student in a Detroit public school to this position, which takes me all over the world to teach and perform critical surgery.
But I know when the journey began the day Mom switched off the TV set and put us in her Oldsmobile for that drive to the library.
【小题1】We can learn from the beginning of the passage that ___________.
| A．the author and his brother had done well in school |
| B．the author had been very concerned about his school work |
| C．the author had spent much time watching TV after school |
| D．the author had realized how important schooling was |
| A．He came from a middle-class family. |
| B．He came from a single-parent family. |
| C．His mother worked as a cleaner. |
| D．His mother had received little education. |
| A．They were afraid | B．They were reluctant. |
| C．They were impatient. | D．They were eager to go. |
| A．he began to see something in his mind |
| B．he could visualize what he read in his mind |
| C．he could go back to read the books again |
| D．he realized that books offered him new experience |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2013届江西南昌10所省重点中学高三第二次模拟突破冲刺（七）英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上(请注意问题后的词数要求)。
[1] Weeks after his wife died, Rao Pingru started to paint pictures of her. From the first time he saw her putting on makeup in a mirror, to their wedding at which they promised “to love and cherish”, to her lying in bed on her final days – all the images of their nearly 60 – year marriage have been food for his art.
[2] “ When I create her with brushstrokes, she is there, and our story doesn’t perish,(死亡)” said Rao, 91, a retired military man and former editor. He has filled 18 albums of drawings in the past four years, which he called Our Story.
[3] At first, the Jiangxi native was only trying to pass time and leave something so his grandchildren could “know about their grandparents” who have been through war, poverty, sickness and, perhaps most importantly, love.
[4] Rao met Meitang as a blind date when he came back from war in 1946. “ It’s a strange thing. You just have to meet the right person to have that feeling,” he said, thinking of how lovely she was. During their early dates, Rao _________________ “the three words”. Instead, he sang a pop song of the time, Rosemary, I love you, to express his feelings, on a park bench in Nanchang, Jiangxi province.
[5] The first two years of their marriage was “ the sweetest time” of Rao’s life, as he recalled, in spite of the turbulence following the war. The couple adopted a happy – go – lucky policy wherever they traveled, worked and lived. They managed to escape robbery by hiding their possessions in tires while Rao was working in Guizhou province.
【小题1】What is the main idea of the passage? (no more than 12 words)
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【小题2】What does the underlined word “ food”(Para 1) refer to? (no more than 9 words)
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【小题3】Why did Rao begin his drawings? (no more than 16 words)
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【小题4】Please fill in the blank (Para 4)with proper words to complete the sentence. (no more than 5 words)
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【小题5】What is Rao and his wife’s attitude towards life? (no more than 4words)
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科目：高中英语 来源：2011-2012学年江苏省无锡市高三第一次模拟考试英语试题 题型：其他题
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请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意：每个空格只填1个单词。
Do we need an “Ivy League(常春藤联盟)”?
China may soon have its own “Ivy League”, with a union of top universities.
The term originally referred to an athletic conference of eight top universities in the northeastern US. The Chinese version, which was officially started in mid-October, consists of nine famous universities, including Peking, Tsinghua, Zhejiang and Fudan. The union is supposed to result in student exchange programs, recognition of academic achievements, and other joint programs.
The news of this Chinese “Ivy League” has received mixed responses from the public and press. Some negative critics have dismissed it as yet another example of the wishful copying of international practices without fully understanding them. Others say that the “Ivy League” is not necessary but that the union is a good idea, one that could promote academic development.
So what’s your opinion on a Chinese “Ivy League”? Do we need one?
Yes. Ivy League or not, nine of China’s best universities cooperating is a good thing.
These universities combining resources could create a better environment for students and for research. It could also save a lot of time and resources because it would mean fewer unnecessary investments for some of the universities.
Allowing students to move to or have exchanges with other universities could broaden their horizons, improve their social skills and create more employment opportunities. The results could be more important than lessons and achievements.
The term “Ivy League” carries a sense of academic excellence, tradition and reputation. If borrowing such a term could encourage students’ and professors’ mental state and improve Chinese higher education, then there’s no reason not to do it.
No.Universities should do some work on increasing cooperation instead of copying an “Ivy League” model.
Many Chinese universities already have such cooperation with each other. If this cooperation were associated with the “Ivy League”, it would just distract (分散) attention and resources and have a negative effect.
These Chinese universities are all state-run and most get their funding from the government. They’re quite similar to each other in many ways and more cooperation wouldn’t bring about as much potential ability as between , say, public and private, or Chinese and foreign universities.
China should find its own way to develop world-class universities instead of by copying some foreign practices. We have our own unique conditions and foreign lessons often don’t apply well here.
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