阅读理解 "Grandma, Grandma, tell us a story!" Four darling children sat by my fee - 高中英语试题 - 超级试练试题库

阅读理解    "Grandma, Grandma, tell us a story!" Four darling children sat by my feet, looking up at me
expectantly.
Suddenly, we were interrupted clapping. "Terrific," the director said, stepping up the stage from
the aisle(过道).  "Except, could you kids face the audience a bit more?"
     The kids shifted to face the empty seats, which would be filled in a few days for the church play.
"Perfect," the director said. "Now, Grandma, read to your grandchildren." A pang of sadness hit me.
If only I could read to my real grandchild!
     I had a granddaughter, but I"d never met her. Sixteen years earlier my son was involved in a
relationship that ended badly. But out of it came a blessing: a baby girl named Lena. I hoped to be
a grandmother to her-but shortly after the birth, the mother moved without any address left. Over
the years, I asked around town to try and find my son"s exwife(前妻), but it seemed that she didn"t
want to be found.
      I"d just joined this new church a week earlier, and was at once offered the part of Grandma in
the play.  At least now I could pretend to be a grandma. The rehearsals went well, and finally the
day of the show arrived. The performance was great. "You all looked so natural up there," one of
my friends said.
     Afterward, we went to the church basement for refreshments(茶点). I walked over to one of
the girls in the play, Rehearsals had been such a whirlwind(一片忙乱) that we never really got to
talk. "How"s my granddaughter?" I joked.
     "Fine!" she answered. Just then, someone else walked up and asked the girl her name.
      I wasn"t sure I heard the girl"s answer correctly. But it made me ask her another question. "What"s
your mother"s name?"
    She told me, I was still in shock. "And what"s your father"s name?" I asked. She told me. It was my
son.
     She"d only started going to that church a week before I did. Since that day of the play, we"ve stayed
close. Not long ago, she even made me a great grandma.

1.  What was the author doing at the beginning of the story?
A.  Telling a story.
B.  Playing a game.
C.  Preparing for a play.
D.  Acting in a movie.

2.  Why did the author feel "A pang of sadness" at the words of the director?
A.  The director"s words reminded her of her lost granddaughter.
B.  The director"s words hurt her so badly.
C.  She wished that she had a real grandchild.
D.  The director wasn"t content with her performance.

3.What happened in the church basement after the play?
A.  The author played a joke on Lena.
B.  Lena treated the author as a friend.
C.  The author got to know who Lena was.
D.  Lena mistook the author for her grandmother.

4.  This passage is mainly organized in the pattern of ________.
A.  time and events
B.  contrast and conclusion
C.  cause and effect
D.  questions and answers

5.  We can infer that when writing the story, the author felt ________.
A.  lighthearted
B.  heartbroken
C.  confused
D. anxious

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     阅读短文,并按照题目要求用英语回答问题.
     This is a story from the Ming Dynasty period of China"s history. There was a miner official called
Wan Hu, whose dream was to "fly to the moon". One day he tied himself to a chair with 47 "rockets"
and disappeared into the sky and was never seen again. Hundreds of years later in 1969, when US
astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped down from Apollo 11 and set his foot on the moon"s surface, the
dream of Wan, as well as the rest of humankind was realized. To honor Wan, a crater (环形山) on
the far side of the moon is named after him.
   Mankind has been able to change the world for the better because there are people like Wan who
never stopped pursuing their dreams.
   "I have a dream!" American civil rights leader Martin Luther King once said. It was that dream that
helped black Americans to get equal legal rights.
   To realize his dream of feeding everyone in China, Yuan Longping worked in fields day and night
and invented hybrid rice that now feeds almost one quarter of the world"s population.
   Dreams are important because they give us vision (远景). We grew great with them. They provide
direction for our life. With dreams we set goals and make plans, so we can change our present situation
for the better. And our dreams appeal to the likeminded. As individuals we are better off with
dreams-and so are our families, communities and society. Life would be dull without a dream.
   When we have a burning desire and we decided to go after it we are full of enthusiasm. As American
novelist Louisa May Alcott, who wrote Little Women said: "Far away there in the sunshine are my
highest aspirations". I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and
follow where they lead.
1.  How many people who had dreams are mentioned in the passage? (1 word)
________________________________________________________________________
2.  According to the passage, what was it that changed the world for the better? (No more than 20 words)
________________________________________________________________________
3.  How do people remember Wan Hu? (No more than 20 words)
________________________________________________________________________
4.  What can we learn from the fifth paragraph? (No more than 10 words)
________________________________________________________________________
5.  What"s the meaning of the underlined word "aspirations" in the last paragraph? (1 word)
________________________________________________________________________

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完形填空      One famous artist Sheikh went back to his hometown. He hadn"t seen one of his friends for many
years, who was a _1_and needy man. When Sheikh asked about him, he was told by people that the
man he was    2 was a rich man and no longer poor. Sheikh  3 to pay a visit to his friend.
       4 talking with his friend, Sheikh asked him the   5 for the change in his situation. The man replied
that he had been so poor that he was forced to  6 some properties(财产)that belonged to him, like
furniture(家具). By selling these things, he had  7 some money enough to start a   8   with.
     As he was on his way back to his house with the  9 , he saw a poor lady  10 by the road. The man
asked the lady the reason, and she  11 that her husband died and her children were  12 . Hearing this,
the man felt  13 for her, and on seeing that she  14 the money more than himself, he gave all the money
to her. He  15 home and spent the night, sad and  16 for his family.
      The next morning,   17   he was summoned(召唤) to the house of a rich man. He was told by the
rich man that he had six thousand bags of  18 which he wanted to sell quickly and the man could buy it
at a   19   price on loan(借用) from him. The poor man did so and sold the rice 20  . He took some
more bags several days later and in this way he was able to make much more money. Soon he became
rich.

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(     )1. A. clever
(     )2. A. living with
(     )3. A. decided
(     )4. A. Until
(     )5. A. message
(     )6. A. sell
(     )7. A. saved
(     )8. A. travel
(     )9. A. money
(     )10. A. crying
(     )11. A. believed
(     )12. A. hungry
(     )13. A. sadness
(     )14. A. took
(     )15. A. drove
(     )16. A. worried
(     )17. A. happily
(     )18. A. rice
(     )19. A. low
(     )20. A. slowly

B. rich
B. waiting for
B. forgot
B. Before
B. reason
B. make
B. collected
B. business
B. news
B. walking
B. explained
B. dangerous
B. interest
B. needed
B. returned
B. pleased
B. surprisingly
B. meat
B. fair
B. quickly

C. lazy
C. asking about
C. refused
C. After
C. time
C. keep
C. paid
C. family
C. hope
C. sleeping
C. shouted
C. crazy
C. shame
C. owned
C. left
C. excited
C. carelessly
C. vegetables
C. high
C. hardly

D. oor
D. istening to
D. ried
D. hile
D. lan
D. ind
D. asted
D. esson
D. urniture
D. tanding
D. magined
D. ngry
D. ity
D. arned
D. tayed
D. rightened
D. nluckily
D. lothes
D. ight
D. inally

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     I live in a big city with a lot of homeless people. Luckily there"re small ways of helping them and you
needn"t have a lot of  1 . One way to help is to buy their monthly magazine.   2   doing this one day, I got
to_ 3   a young homeless man. He was often  4 the magazine at the train station.
     He was a poor farmer from another country. After a while, I discovered that his   5 was close to mine.
It  6 that we were born in the same month.
     I met him last year    7 after his birthday, and after congratulating(祝贺) him, without   8 ,  I asked
if he had had a good day. He  9   and said that he hadn"t really celebrated. I felt so  10 .
    I just couldn"t bear the thought of (不敢想)this nice, young man being  11 on his 25th birthday with
no presents, no cake, nothing! So I went home and looked in my yarn(纱线) basket.  12 for me, I had
enough yarn  13 . I set to work and knitted(编织) a  14 for the young man. The yarn had become a
little dirty  15 I didn"t knit very often. Then I washed the yarn so the scarf would be  16 when he got it.
    I met him on my own birthday as I was going shopping. I had 17   to meet him so I had  18   the scarf
and a piece of my own birthday 19   around with me. He was very happy with these gifts and so was I.
The 20   in his eyes was the best present he could have given me!

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(     )1. A. work
(     )2. A. In
(     )3. A. realize
(     )4. A. selling
(     )5. A. birthday
(     )6. A. said
(     )7. A. long
(     )8. A. stopping
(     )9. A. looked up
(     )10. A. foolish
(     )11. A. calm
(     )12. A. Suddenly
(     )13. A. used
(     )14. A. scarf
(     )15. A. when
(     )16. A. different
(     )17. A. liked
(     )18. A. made
(     )19. A. cake
(     )20. A. light

B. energy
B. On
B. ignore
B. reading
B. house
B. found
B. shortly
B. helping
B. turned up
B. excited
B. happy
B. Luckily
B. done
B. cap
B. because
B. dry
B. hoped
B. thrown
B. present
B. pain

C. money
C. Besides
C. know
C. covering
C. height
C. guessed
C. ever
C. praising
C. looked down
C. clever
C. alone
C. Badly
C. left
C. sock
C. so
C. wet
C. promised
C. received
C. song
C. sight

D. experience
D. By
D. recognize
D. buying
D. hobby
D. meant
D. even
D. thinking
D. got down
D. worried
D. hungry
D. However
D. produced
D. glove
D. and
D. clean
D. agreed
D. carried
D. party
D. tear

阅读理解

     It was Thanksgiving morning. I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the
doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together on the
top step.
     "Any old papers, lady?" asked one of them.
     I was busy. I wanted to say "no" until I looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin little
sandals(凉鞋), wet with heavy snow.
    "Come in and I"ll make you a cup of hot cocoa."
     They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks upon the floor. I served
them cocoa and bread to fight against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started
cooking.
     The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands,
looking at it. The boy asked in a flat voice, "Lady, are you rich?"
     "Am I rich? Pity, no!"
     I looked at my wornout slipcovers(椅套). The girl put her cup back in its saucer(茶碟)carefully
and said, "Your cups match your saucers." They left after that, holding their papers against the wind.
They had reminded me that I had so much for which to be grateful.
    Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they matched.
     I tasted the potatoes and stirred(搅动)the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over
our heads, my man with a regular job, these matched, too.
     I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy marks of little
sandals were still wet upon my floor. Let them be for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to
forget how rich I am.

1. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Lady, are you rich?
B. A story of Thanksgiving Day
C. Don"t forget how rich you are
D. Does cups and saucers match well?

2. The writer let the two children come in and served them well because________.
A. she wanted to sell old papers to them
B. she wanted to invite them to her Thanksgiving party
C. she showed great pity and care on them
D. she had the same experience as them in the past

3. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. The girl thought the writer was rich just because she wanted to make the writer happy.
B. The writer had thought she wasn"t rich because her supplies were not expensive.
C. If cups and saucers match well, they are a best pair even though cheap.
D. After hearing what they said, the writer seemed to understand what a rich life was.

4. The writer left the muddy marks of little sandals on the floor for a while to________.
A. show that she was a kindhearted lady
B. remind her that she shouldn"t forget how rich she was
C. leave room for readers to think about what being rich is
D. prove that she had understood what meant being rich

5. It can be inferred from the text that whether you are rich depends on________.
A. how much money you have made
B. what attitude you have had towards life
C. the way you help others
D. your social relationship

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     It was her giggling that drew my attention.Note taking really wasn"t all that funny.
     Walking over to the offender, I asked for the_1_.Frozen, she refused to give it to me.I waited, all
attention in the classroom on the quiet   2   between teacher and student.When she finally   3    it over
she whispered, "Okay, but I didn"t draw it."
     It was a handdrawn   4   of me, teeth blackened and the words "I"m stupid" coming out of my mouth.
     I managed to fold it up calmly.My mind,  5 , was working angrily as I struggled not to  6 . I figured
I knew the two most likely candidates for drawing the picture.It would do them some  7 to teach them
a lesson, and maybe it was high time that I did it!
     Thankfully, I was able to keep myself  8 .
     When there were about six minutes remaining, I showed the class the picture.They were all silent as I
told them how  9 this was for me.I told them there must be a reason  10 and now was their chance to
write down anything they needed to tell me.Then I let them write silently while I sniffed in the back of the
classroom.
     As I  11 the notes later, many of them said something like, "I"ve got nothing against you," or "I"m
sorry you were hurt." Some kids said, "We"re   12 of you." But two notes, from the girls who I  13
were behind the picture, had a list of issues.I was too  14 , too strict…
     Reading those notes, I realized that over the course of this year, instead of  15 my students, I had
begun commanding them to  16 .Where I thought I was driving them to success I was  17 driving them
away.
     I had some apologizing to do.But the next day in the classroom, one boy and one girl each handed me
a card.The one  18   by all the boys expressed sincere regret for the ugly joke.The one from the girls
asked for 19 .
     This was a lesson for both the kids and me.Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge
the  20   .

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