科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
Thirteen, for me, was a challenging year. My parents divorced and I moved to a new town with my father, far from my old family and friends. I was terribly lonely mad and would cry myself to sleep each night. To ease my sadness, my father purchased an old horse for me at a local auction. I named him Cowboy.?
Cowboy was without a doubt the ugliest horse in the world. But I didn’t care. I loved him beyond all reason.?
I joined a riding club and suffered rude comments and mean snickers(窃笑) about Cowboy’s looks. I never let on about how I felt, but deep inside, my heart was breaking. The other members rode beautiful, registered horses.?
When Cowboy and I entered the events where the horse was judged on appearance, we were quickly shown the gate. No amount of preparation and love would turn Cowboy into a beauty. My only chance to compete would be in the speed events. I chose the jumping race.?
One girl named Becky rode a big brown horse in the race events. She always won the blue ribbons. Needless to say, she didn’t feel threatened when I competed against her at the next show. She didn’t need to. I came in next to last.?
The stinging memory of Becky’s smirks made me determined to beat her. For the whole next month I woke up early every day and rode Cowboy five miles to the arena (赛马场). We practiced running and jumping for hours in the hot sun and then I would walk Cowboy home totally exhausted.?
All of our hard work didn’t make me feel confident by the time the show came. I sat at the gate and sweated it out while I watched Becky and her horse charge through the course and finish in first place.?
My turn finally came. I put on my hat, rubbed Cowboy’s neck and entered the arena. At the signal, we dashed toward the first fence, jumped it without trouble and raced on to the next one. Cowboy then flew over the second, third and fourth fences like a bird and I turned him toward the finish line.?
As we crossed the line the crowd was shocked into silence. Cowboy and I had beaten Becky and her fancy horse by two seconds!?
I gained much more than a blue ribbon that day. At thirteen, I realized that no matter what the odds, I’d always come out a winner if I wanted something badly enough to work for it.?
The underlined expression "shown the gate" (paragraph 4) most probably means " __________".?
A. told how to enter the arena?
B. shown how to make the horse beautiful?
C. removed from the competition early?
D. told to enter the timed-speed events?
Why was the writer not confident of victory??
A. He was an inexperienced rider.?
B. He had not practiced enough.?
C. He believed he was unpopular with the crowd.?
D. He thought his horse wasn’t as good as the others. ?
When the final race finished, nobody cheered because____________.?
A. the audience didn’t like Cowboy? B. people envied the writer?
C. the win was unexpected? D. the writer had run out of time
What did the writer learn from his experience??
A. Life can sometimes be unfair.?
B. Anything is possible if one tries hard enough.?
C. A positive attitude will bring success.?
D. One should not make judgments based on appearance.
The best title for the story is ___________. .?
A. A Race to Remember B.A Horse’s Tale?
C. Neck and Neck D.A Difficult Age ?
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科目：高中英语 来源：江苏省盐城中学2010届高三第三次模拟英语试题 题型：阅读理解
第三部分: 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I stepped out the plane from Miami into Charlotte, North Carolina, airport for a connecting flight home, I immediately knew something was wrong. Lots of desperate people crowded the terminal. I quickly learned that flights headed to the Northeast were called off because of a storm. The earliest they could get us out of Charlotte was Tuesday. It was Friday. A gate agent stood on
the counter and shouted, “Don’t ask us for help! We cannot help you!”
I joined a crowd that ran from terminal to terminal in search of a flight out. Eventually, I found six strangers willing to rent a van with me. We drove through the night to Washington, where I took a train the rest of the way to Providence.
The real problem, of course, is that incidents like this happen every day, to everyone who flies, more and more often. It really gets to me, though, because for eight years I was on the other side, as a flight attendant for Trans-World Airlines (TWA).
I know the days are gone when attendants could be written up if we did not put the lines napkins with the TWA logo in the lower right-hand corner of the first-class diners’ trays. As are the days when there were three dinner options on flights from Boston to Los Angeles in economy class. When, once, stuck 
on
a tarmac（机场停机坪）in Newark for four hours, a planeload of passengers got McDonald’s hamburgers and fries by thoughtfulness of the airline.
I have experienced the decline of
service along with the rest of the flying public. But I believe everything will change little by little, because I remember the days when to fly was to soar (翱翔). The airlines, and their employees, took pride in how their passengers were treated. And I think the days are sure to come back one day in the near future.
1..Many people crowded the terminal because ________.
A. they were ready to board on the planes
B. something was wrong with the terminal
C. the flights to the Northeast were canceled
D. the gate agent wouldn’t help the passengers
2. How did the writer get to Providence at last?
A. by air B. by van
C. by train D. by underground
3. Which of the
following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Incidents happened to those who fly quite often.
B. The writer used to be a flight attendant for Trans-World Airlines.
C. Even a small mistake might cause complaints from passengers in the past.
D. McDonald’s hamburgers and fries were among regular dinner options.
4. What can be implied from the passage?
A. The writer lived in Charlotte, North
Carolina.
B. The writer thought the service was not as good as it used to be.
C. The writer with other passengers waited to be picked up patiently.
D. Passengers would feel proud of how they were treated on the plane.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2011届甘肃省武威六中高三第二次诊断考试英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
The Pillow
At the age of sixteen, I joined a volunteer group with my dad. I went on my first volunteer project in West Virginia. On the night we arrived, we discovered that “our family” was living in a trailer (拖车) that was in poor condition. A crew had been working on it for two weeks, but every time they finished one problem, another surfaced.
We decided the only reasonable solution was to build a new house—something unusual but necessary under these circumstances. The family was overjoyed with their new house that was twenty by thirty feet with three bedrooms, a bath and a kitchen.
On Tuesday of that week,
while we ate lunch together, I asked the family’s three boys, Josh, Eric and Ryan, “What do you want for your new room?” Expecting toys and other gadgets that children usually ask for, we were astonished when Josh responded, “I just want a bed.”
The boys had never slept in a bed! They were accustomed to plastic mats. That night we had a meeting and decided that beds would be the perfect gift. On Thursday night, a few adults in our group drove to the nearest city and bought beds and new bedding.
When we saw the delivery truck coming, we told the family about the surprise. We could hardly contain ourselves. It was like watching excited children on Christmas morning.
That afternoon, as we fitted the frames of the beds together, Eric ran into the house to watch us. Too dirty to enter his room, he observed with wide-eyed enthusiasm from the doorway.
As my father slipped a pillowcase onto one of the pillows, Eric asked, “What is that?”
“A pillow,” he replied.
“What do you do with it?” Eric continued to ask.
“When you go to sleep, you put your head on it,” I answered softly. Tears came to my eyes as my father handed Eric the pillow.
“Oh…that’s soft,” he said, hugging it tightly.
Now, when my sister or I start to ask for something that seems urgent, my dad gently asks, “Do you have a pillow?”
We know exactly what he means. [来源:学科网ZXXK]
【小题1】The writer’s first volunteer project was ______.
| A．working on a poor trailer | B．helping a poor family |
| C．donating beds and bedding | D．dealing with a housing problem |
| A．the family lived in a trailer | B．he expected to get some toys |
| C．he didn’t know what a bed was | D．the boys had no bed to sleep in |
| A．a trailer | B．a truck | C．a pillow | D．a house |
| A．what they want to get may be unnecessary |
| B．they should not waste money on small things |
| C．they should do more volunteer work for the poor |
D．what he w ill buy is not what they want but a pillow |
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科目：高中英语 来源：辽宁省本溪县2009-2010学年高二下学期第二次月考试题（英语） 题型：阅读理解
Glynis Davis:
I first piled on the pounds when I was in the family way and I couldn’t lose them afterwards. Then I joined a slimming club. My target was 140 pounds and I lost 30 pounds in six months. I felt great and people kept saying how good I looked. But Christmas came and I started to slip back into my old eating habits. I told myself I’d lose the weight at slimming classes in the new year…but it didn’t happen. Instead of losing the pounds, I put them on. I’d lost willpower and tried to believe that the old bag of fish and chips didn’t make any difference but the scales don’t lie.[来源:Z。xx。k.Com]
Roz Jumab:
To be honest, I never weigh myself any more. I’ve learnt to be happy with myself. It seemed to me that I would feel sorry about every spoonful of tasty food that passed my lips. My idea is simple. You shouldn’t be too much thinking about food and dieting. Instead, you should get on with life and stop dreaming of a super thin body. This is obviously the size I’m meant to be and, most of all, I’m happy with it.
Lesley Codwin:
I was very happy at winning Young Slimmer of the year. I’d look into the mirror unable to believe this slim lady was me! That might have been my problem—perhaps from then on I didn’t pay any attention to myself. Winning a national competition makes everything worse, though, because you feel the eyes of the world are fixed upon you. I feel a complete failure because I’ve put on weight again.
Ros Landfod:
Before moving in with my husband Gavin, I’d always been about 110 pounds, but the pleasant housework went straight to my waist and I put on 15 pounds in a year. Every so often I try to go on a diet…I’m really good on a few days, then end up having the children’s leftovers or eating happily chocolate—my weakness. I’d like to be slim, but right now my duty is the children and home. I might take more exercise when my kids are older.?
1．What do you think the four women were all talking about?
A．Their own slimming matter. B．Their life after marriage.
C．Their work as a housewife. D．Different diets they prefer.
2．Where are these short passage most likely to be taken from?
A．Talks on the air. B．Advertisements on the wall.
C．Book in a library. D．Magazines for housewives.
3．What does the underlined word “scales” possibly mean?
A．The coach in the slimming club.?B．Some tool to measure weight.
C．Glynis Davis’ dear husband. D．The salesperson in a food shop.?
4．What can we infer from Roz Jumab’s words?
A．Losing weight is a painful process which is unbearable.
B．Being thin can also be harmful.
C．It is necessary to force ourselves to lose weight.
D．We should learn to live comfortably with the way we look.
5．Which of the following best describes each of the four women’s attitudes towards slimming?
1．Glynis Davis 2．Roz Jumab 3．Lesley Codwinc 4．Ros Langfodd
a．I put on weight soon after I got married. b．Fame doesn’t necessarily mean success.
c．Facts speak much louder than words. d．I like myself as I am, and to be what you are.
A．1- a; 2 – d; 3 – b; 4 – c B．1 – c; 2 – b; 3 – d; 4 – a
C．1 – c; 2 – d; 3 – b; 4 – a D．1 – a; 2 – b; 3 – c; 4 –d
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科目：高中英语 来源：新疆农七师高级中学2009-2010学年度高二下学期第二阶段考试英语试题 题型：完形填空
二 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
The Parking-Lot（停车场）Sweeper
Both my parents came from towns in Mexico. I was born in E1 Paso, Texas, and when I was four, my family moved to a housing project in East Los Angeles.
Even though we struggled to make ends meet, my parents stressed to me and my four brothers and sisters how 21 we were to live in a great country with limitless opportunities. They 22 us with the ideas of family, faith and love.
I got my first 23 job when I was ten. My dad injured his back working in a cardboard-box factory and was retrained as a hairstylist. He 24 space in a little shopping center and gave his shop the flowery name of Mr. Ben’s Coiffure.
The owner of the shopping center 25 my Dad’s payment for cleaning the parking lot three 26 a week, which 27 getting up at 3 a.m. Mom and I helped 28
dustbin and pick up rubbish by hand. It took two to three hours to clean the lot. I 29 sleep in the car on the way home.
I did this for two years, but the lessons I learned have 30 a lifetime. I obtained discipline（自律）and the importance of work, and learned at a(n) 31 age the importance of balancing life’s competing interests——in my 32 , school, homework and a job. This
33 helped during my school years, when I worked 40 hours at a fast-food restaurant while taking a full 34 of college preparation courses.
The hard work 35 off. I attended the U.S. Military Academy and went on to 36
graduate degrees in law and business from Harvard. 37 , I joined a big Los Angeles law firm and was elected to the California state assembly（州议会）. In these jobs and in everything else I’ve done, I have 38 forgotten those nights in the parking lot. The experience taught me that there is value in all work and that if people are working to 39 for themselves and their families, that is 40 we should honor.
21. A. important B. different C. competitive D. fortunate
22. A. mixed B. filled C. piled D. left
23. A. true B. new C. real D. good
24. A. hired B. bought C. cleaned D. created
25. A. reduced B. afforded C. collected D. charged
26. A. mornings B. evenings C. dawns D. nights
27. A. meant B. overcame C. admitted D. allowed
28. A. lift B. empty C. throw D. hold
29. A. must B. need C. would D. should
30. A. existed B. lasted C. kept D. stayed
31. A. small B. exact C. early D. golden
32. A. mind B. way C. part D. case
33. A. really B. nearly C. simply D. merely
34. A. piece B. length C. mass D. load
35. A. made B. took C. paid D. started
36. A. receive B. offer C. require D. study
37. A. Thus B. Later C. Again D. Instead
38. A. seldom B. just C. even D. never
39. A. account B. enter C. provide D. call
40. A. everything B. something C. nothing D. anything
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