People begin to know that most environmental problems exist because necessary measures for preventing them _______taken in the past.
A. are not B. were not C. hadn't been D. wouldn't be
科目:高中英语 来源:2010年广东省东莞市高二下学期期末考试英语卷 题型:阅读理解
Hans Christian Andersen was a poor boy who lived in Denmark. His father, a shoemaker, had died, and his mother had married again.
Andersen’s father liked to read better than to make shoes. In the evenings, he had read aloud from The Arabian Nights. His wife understood very little of the book, but the boy, pretending to sleep, understood every word.
By day Hans Christian Anderson went to a house where old women worked as weavers. There he listened to the tales that the women told. In those days, there were almost as many tales in Denmark as there were people to tell them.
Among the tales told in the town of Odense, where Andersen was born in 1805, was one about a fairy who brought death to those who danced with her. To this tale, Hans Christian later added a story from his own life.
Once, when his father was still alive, a young lady ordered a pair of red shoes. When she refused to pay for them, unhappiness filled the poor shoemaker’s house. From that small tragedy and the story of the dancing fairy, the shoemaker’s son years later wrote the story that millions of people now know as The Red Shoes.
As a little girl, Hans Christian’s mother was sent out on the streets to beg. She did not want to beg, so she hid under one of the city bridges. She warmed her cold feet in her hands, for she had no shoes. She was afraid to go home. Years later, her son, in his pity for her and his anger at the world, wrote the angry story She’s No Good and the famous tale The Little Match Girl.
Through his genius, he changed every early experience, even his father’s death, into a fairy tale. One cold day his father showed him a white, woman-like figure among the frost patterns. “That is the snow queen,” said the shoemaker. “Soon she will be coming for me.” A few months later he died. And years later, Andersen turned that sad experience into a fairy tale, The Snow Queen.
【小题1】Which of the following is TRUE about Anderson when he was a boy?
A.His father had remarried before he died. |
B.His mother was struck by The Arabian Night. |
C.He enjoyed listening to stories very much. |
D.He would help old weavers with their work. |
A.Almost all tales from around the world once had their origin in Denmark. |
B.The people in Denmark were very enthusiastic about telling tales. |
C.The number of tales in Denmark was exactly equal to that of the people living there. |
D.The people in Denmark loved doing nothing but tell stories to each other. |
A.5. | B.6. | C.3. | D.4. |
A.The Red Shoes was based on a tragedy of Anderson’s family |
B.Andersen’s genius as well as his early experience made him successful |
C.Andersen was educated at home by his parents because of poverty |
D.Anderson wrote The Snow Queen in memory of his parents |
A.Hans Christian Andersen’s Own Fairy Tales. |
B.Hans Christian Andersen’s Family. |
C.Hans Christian Andersen’s Bitter Experiences. |
D.Hans Christian Andersen’s Considerate Parents. |
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科目:高中英语 来源:2015届陕西长安一中高一下期期末考试英语卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
One day an out of work mimic(滑稽演员) is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw the crowd,a zoo keeper grabs him and drags him into his office. The zoo keeper explains to the mimic that the zoo's most popular attraction,a gorilla(大猩猩),has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mimic a job to dress up as the gorilla until they can get another one. The mimic accepts.
So the next morning the mimic puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He discovers that it's a great job. He can sleep all he wants,play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mimic. However,eventually the crowds tire of him and he tires of just swinging on wires. He begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience,he climbs to the top of his cage,crawls across a partition(隔离物),and dangles from the top to the lion's cage. Of course,this makes the lion very angry,but the crowd loves it.
At the end of the day the zoo keeper comes and gives the mimic a raise for being such a good attraction. Well,this goes on for some time-the mimic keeps taunting the lion,the crowds grow larger,and his salary keeps going up. Then one terrible day when he is dangling over the angry lion he slips and falls. The mimic is terrified.
The lion gathers itself and prepares to attack. The mimic is so scared that he begins to run round and round the cage with the lion close behind. Finally,the mimic starts screaming and yelling,“Help me,help me!”But the lion is quick and attacks. The mimic soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says,“Shut up,you idiot!Do you want to get us both fired?”
1.The mimic visits the zoo to________.
A.take care of the dying gorilla B.beg some money from the zoo keeper
C.ask for a job there D.perform and earn some money there
2.The zoo keeper offers the mimic a job to act as the gorilla because________.
A.it is more expensive to hire a real gorilla
B.the real gorilla died but the keeper does not want to lose its visitors
C.he likes the mimic's performance
D.he wants to help the mimic who is out of work
3.What does the mimic feel about the new job at first?
A.He likes it because he has enough freedom in the job.
B.He likes it but he prefers to working as a mimic.
C.He doesn't like it for people do not respect him.
D.He doesn't like it because he gets little pay.
4.The mimic climbs to the lion's cage because________.
A.he finds it more interesting to climb the cage
B.he wants to play with the lion
C.he wants to attract the attention of his audience
D.he has never seen a lion before
5.What does the passage mainly tell us?
A. The mimic and his job B. The mimic and his success
C. The actor and the mimic D. The mimic and his animals
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014届甘肃省高二上学期期中考试英语卷(解析版) 题型:完型填空
That holiday morning I didn’t have to attend school. Usually, on holidays, Mother 36 me to sleep in. And I would certainly take full advantage of it. On this particular morning, ___37___,I felt like getting up early.
I stood by my window overlooking the ___38___, having nothing better to do. But as it turned out, I was soon to learn about something ___39___ in life.
As I watched several people go by, get into their cars and go off, I ___40___ an old man on a bicycle with a bucket on its ___41___ and a basket rags and bottles on its back-carriage. He ___42___ from one car to another, washing and cleaning them. From the water on the ground, it seemed that he had already ___43___ washing and cleaning about a dozen or more cars. He must have begun to work quite early in the morning.
Several thoughts ___44___my mind as I watched him work. He wasn’t well-dressed. He had on a pair of shorts and a(n) ___45___ T-shirt. The bicycle he rode was not by any means the kind modern ___46___would want to be seen riding on. But he seemed___47___ with life. There he was, working hard at his small business, ___48___ at passers-by and stopping to chat now and then ___49___ elderly men and women on their way to the market nearby.
There was a noticeable touch of___50___ in the way he seemed to be doing things— ___51___the windscreen (挡风玻璃), then standing back to admire it; scrubbing (擦净) the wheels and ___52___, standing back to see what they look like after the scrub.
It was a ___53___ to learn, I felt. At no age need one have to beg for a ___54___if one has good health and is willing to work hard. For a while I felt ___55__ of myself. Young as I am—just sixteen, and there was this old man who must have been usefully engaged perhaps before the sun appeared above the horizon.
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科目:高中英语 来源:安徽省20092010学年高一下学期期末考试试题(英语) 题型:阅读理解
III. 阅读理解
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D选项中,选出最佳选项。
I’ve written 14 movies. My characters smoke in many of them, and they look cool and glamorous doing it. Smoking was an integral(必需的) part of many of my screenplays because I was a heavy smoker. It was part of a bad-boy image I’d cultivated for a long time— smoking, drinking, partying, rock ’n’ roll.
Smoking, I once believed, was every person’s right. The second-hand smoke was non-existent problem invented by professional do-gooders. I put all these views into my plays.
Remembering all this, I find it hard to forgive myself. I have been an accomplice (帮凶) to the murders of untold numbers of human beings. I am admitting this only because I have made a deal with God. Spare me, I said, and I will try to stop others from committing the same crimes I did.
Eighteen months ago I was diagnosed with throat cancer, the result of a lifetime of smoking. I am alive but disabled. Much of my larynx (喉) is gone. I have some difficulty speaking; others have some difficulty understanding me.
I haven’t smoked or drunk for 18 months now, though I still take it day by day and pray for help. I believe in prayer and exercise. I have walked five miles a day for a year, without missing even one day. Quitting smoking and drinking has taught me the hardest lesson I’ve ever learned about my own weakness; it has also given me the greatest affection and empathy(同感) for those still addicted.
I don’t think smoking is every person’s right anymore. I think smoking should be as illegal as heroin. I’m no longer such a bad boy. I go to church on Sunday. I’m desperate to see my four boys grow up. I want to do everything I can to undo the damage I have done with my own big-screen words and images.
Screen writers know, too, that some movie stars are more likely to play a part if they can smoke —because they are so addicted to smoking that they have difficulty stopping even during the shooting of a scene.
My hands are bloody; so are Hollywood’s. My cancer has caused me to attempt to cleanse me. I don’t wish my fate upon anyone in Hollywood, but I beg that Hollywood should stop putting it upon millions of others.
1. The main idea of this passage probably is _________.
A. the writer is ashamed of the bad effects his screenplays have had on human beings
B. the writer’s smoking experience nearly killed himself
C. the bad effects that Hollywood screenplay have brought to children
D. the determination of the writer to overcome his illness
2. How do you think the writer has realized his mistake?
A. So many people have found the habit of smoking due to his plays.
B. His plays have brought great harm to teenagers.
C. He himself suffered greatly from smoking.
D. His screenplays have been doing more and more harm to human beings.
3. What is the writer determined to do in future?
A. He has made up his mind to give up smoking forever.
B. He will try his best to prevent others from writing screen plays encouraging smoking.
C. He will try his best to bring up his four children.
D. He has decided to write his screenplays without smoking scenes.
4. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.
A. the writer will soon be recovered from his illness thanks to his exercise
B. the writer will soon die because of his deadly disease
C. smoking will be got rid of in all Hollywood films
D. smoking in Hollywood films is still doing great harm to human beings
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:阅读理解
What does the word “heart” mean? Strictly speaking, a heart is an organ of the physical body which pumps blood into the organism(生物体). The term “heart”, however, extends to more than the physical body.
When lovers separate, one will often claim to have a broken heart, yet remain living. A sad gent or lady will often grasp the area between the ribs(肋骨) at the center of the chest, and moan (呻吟) in sorrow over the lost lover. Physical or not, the heart in this case is also something that pumps life into the emotional body.
“Don’t lose heart,” says a friend to another who has been discouraged by one of life’s many trials. Now how can anyone lose a heart? I ask. Easily, by getting discouraged. Again, the heart becomes a symbol of pumping life into a system but not a physical one.
When one gets to the heart of the matter, she gets to its center which gives its meaning. When people beg, “Have a heart,” they are asking you to be kind hearted to recognize the soul in another. Having a heart to heart talk means sharing something from the center of our being with someone else. Speaking from the heart always implies communicating from what is real and essential in our lives.
Perhaps the most common definition of the word “heart”, therefore, should recognize that “heart” is something essential to every human being, whether it is physical or not.
77.The author writes this passage to .
A.correct others’ inexact explanations of the word “heart”
B.tell readers a series of humorous stories
C.discuss how to give a good definition to the word “heart”
D.educate people to old positive attitude towards life
78.The underlined words “this case” (in Paragraph 2) refer to .
A.lovers’ separation B.the death of one’s lover
C.one hurts oneself D.one’s crying for his or her lover
79.According to the author, how can one lose a heart?
A.By losing what one owns. B.By feeling sad.
C.By hurting others. D.By getting discouraged.
80.If you would like to have a heart to heart talk with someone, .
A.you will follow the other’s advice without hesitation
B.you will give your own opinion in a direct way
C.both of you will be honest as well as open minded
D.both of you will talk about others’ affairs instead of yours
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