阅读理解 It was a Sunday and the heavy storm had lasted all night.The morning af - 高中英语试题 - 超级试练试题库

阅读理解     It was a Sunday and the heavy storm had lasted all night.The morning after the storm,though,was
beautiful:blue skies,warm air and a calm,inviting sea touching the shore gently.
     My father realised it was a good day for fishing and invited my sister and me to go with him.I was
only 14 and fishing had never been my thing,but I decided to go all the same.I"m_so_glad_I_did.
     On the road to the harbour we could see the terrible destruction on the coast,but the harbour itself
was in fairly good shape.After all,it was protected by the arms of a bay that had only one tiny channel
to the sea.As we got on board,we noticed two big humps(脊背) in the distance.
     On approaching them,we saw it was a mother whale with her baby.We couldn"t believe it-there aren"t
any whales along the coast here.The storm must have driven them across the ocean into the bay,in which
the still water was so badly polluted that nothing could survive.
     The little baby whale-actually as big as our boat-was obviously stuck and could not move.The mother
dived under the water and came up suddenly,making big whirlpools(漩涡) and waves."She"s trying to
help her baby,but on the wrong side,"my father said.At this point,my father moved our boat in a semicircle to the other side and,heading the boat towards the baby whale,pushed it gently.With our several gentle
pushes the big hump turned over and disappeared under water.Then it swam up right beside its mum.
They struggled in their desperate attempts to escape but missed the exit and started heading in the wrong
direction.We hurried up to the whales and tried to lead them towards the bay channel.Slowly,they let us
lead them,sometimes rising from the water right beside us to breathe-and to give us a trusting look with
those huge eyes.Once they hit their first part of clean water flowing straight from the sea,the mum gave
us a wave with her tail and off they swam into the distance.
     In the excitement it had felt like only a few minutes,but we had been with those wonderful animals for
almost an hour and a half.That was the simple and lasting beauty of the day.Nearly four decades later,I
still look back fondly to that golden day at sea.

1. The author says "I"m so glad I did."(in Para. 2)because_____  .
A. he witnessed the whole process of fishing
B. he enjoyed the beauty of the calm sea
C. he experienced the rescue of the whales
D. he spent the weekend with his family

2. The harbour survived the storm owing to ________.
A. the shape of the harbour
B. the arms of the bay
C. the still water in the channel
D. the long coast line

3. The mother whale failed to help her baby because ________.
A. she had stayed in the polluted water for too long
B. the whirlpools she had made were not big enough
C. she had no other whales around to turn to for help
D. the waves pushed her baby in the wrong direction

4. What is the theme of the story?
A. Saving lives brings people a sense of happiness.
B. Fishing provides excitement for children.
C. It"s necessary to live in harmony with animals.
D. It"s vital to protect the environment.

1-4: C B D A

完形填空。     As a teacher, my daily activity involves driving to a new school almost every day.
     On one particular day, I was teaching in a very 36   classroom. I was managing behavior all morning,
and by lunchtime I knew I needed a coffee to 37  the afternoon. So during my lunch break, I drove to a
nearby square to get a coffee. Upon returning to the 38  , I realized I had locked my phone and my 39
inside! I had about 15 minutes to get back to the 40  , which was a good five -minute drive. If I ran back
really quickly, I could 41   it. But it was winter, and a sudden fall on the ice would only make the situation
much 42  .
     So I hurried into a McDonald"s in the same square, and 43   the man at the counter, who happened to
be the 44  , to call a taxi for me. After I 45   explained my situation to him, he rushed inside to make the
phone 46   I waited anxiously in the restaurant. I had less than 10 minutes to 47   to my school at this point.
     A moment later, the manager returned 48   to tell me that the line was 49  , and that he had not been
able to 50   the taxi yet. I think both 51   and fear could be seen in my face.
     Without a thought, he grabbed his coat and 52   to drive me to the school. Without hesitation, I
followed him into his car and got back to the classroom with two minutes to 53   before the bell rang!
     This experience made me 54   that out of every seemingly hopeless situation, there is the opportunity
for acts of kindness to happen, which has a(n) 55   influence on those who receive them.

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(     ) 1. A. modern
(     ) 2. A. survive
(     ) 3. A. shop
(     ) 4. A. textbooks
(     ) 5. A. home
(     ) 6. A. do
(     ) 7. A. worse
(     ) 8. A. advised
(     ) 9. A. manager
(     )10. A. slowly
(     )11. A. since
(     )12. A. get across
(     )13. A. yet
(     )14. A. busy
(     )15. A. get
(     )16. A. excitement
(     )17  A. offered
(     )18. A. wait
(     )19. A. doubt
(     )20. A. bad

B. difficult
B. enjoy
B. bar
B. cards
B. school
B. see
B. more different
B. arranged
B. secretary
B. briefly
B. unless
B. get around
B. only
B. broken
B. repair
B. anger
B. refused
B. spare
B. argue
B. harmful

C. comfortable
C. forget
C. counter
C. keys
C. party
C. make
C. easier
C. ordered
C. guest
C. effectively
C. while
C. get over
C. comfortable
C. full
C. drive
C. hopelessness
C. wanted
C. waste
C. regret
C. unimaginable

D. old
D. remember
D. car
D. gloves
D. restaurant
D. meet
D. more stable
D. asked
D. waiter
D. successfully
D. if
D. get back
D. old
D. ready
D. show
D. surprise
D. hesitated
D. spend
D. realize
D. indirect

阅读理解。

     A few days ago I got a call from my old college friend whom I haven"t seen for a very long time.
The topic, which was about all the good old times that we had changed to a touching story when he
started talking about his father.
     His father"s declining health made him stay at the hospital. Because of his illness, his father suffered
from insomnia(失眠) and often talked to himself. My friend, who had not been able to sleep for a few
days as he had to keep watching his father"s condition, became irritated and told his father to keep silent
and try to get some sleep. His father said that he really wanted to sleep well because he was very tired
and told my friend to leave him alone in the hospital if he did not want to keep him company.
     After his father finished talking, he fell unconscious(失去知觉) . My friend was very sorry for
speaking the ill words towards his father. My friend, whom I knew as a tough person, cried as a baby
on the other end of the telephone. He said that from that moment on, he prayed every day, asking God
to let his father wake up from his coma. He promised himself that whatever words came out from his
father"s mouth after he regained his consciousness, he would gladly take them. His only hope for God
was to give him a chance to rectify his past mistake.
     Often, we complain when we have to accompany or watch over our parents for years, months, days,
hours or even minutes. But do we realize that our parents keep us company and watch over us for as
long as we (or they)live? From the day we were born to our adulthood, and even when deaths come to
us, they are always at our side.
     Imagine how sad our parents will be when they hear a seemingly innocent word of "no" come out
from our mouths. We can make promises to ourselves that from now on there will be no more complaints
that come out from our mouths when we have to watch over or accompany our parents. No more
complaints come out from our mouths when we feel that our parents have treated us like little children.
There are so many unlucky ones who have neither fathers nor mothers. They long to have the things that
we most complain about, but never have them.
     Actually, it takes only a second to think and light the lamp that will bring us to a place where peace is
dwelling.

1. Which of the following word can be used to describe the writer"s friend?

A. Sad
B. Sorry
C. Regretful
D. Pitiful

2. What does the underlined word "rectify" mean in Para. 3?

A. put…right
B. recite…by heart
C. realize
D. recogniz

3. What does the writer want to tell us in the passage?

A. Your parents will keep talking to themselves when they are old.
B. Be good to your parents when you still have the chance.
C. You will regret in your life if you don"t show your kindness to your parents.
D. It is not easy to take good care of sick old parents.

完形填空

     As the train approached the seaside town where I was going to spend my holidays, I went into the
corridor to __1_ my legs. I stayed there a short while, breathing in the fresh sea air and __2_ a few
words with one of the passengers, whom I had met earlier on the __3_.
     When I turned to go back to __4__, I happened to glance into the compartment (车厢) next to mine.
Sitting there was a man who many years before had been my neighbour. He was a great __5__, I
remembered; it used to take hours to __6__ him once he began a conversation. I was not at all __7__
when he went to live in another part of London. We had not met since then, __8__ did I wish to meet
him now, when __9__ was about to begin.
     Luckily at that moment he was  10   busy talking to the man opposite him to catch sight of me. I
slipped back into my compartment, took down my two suitcases and carried them to the far end of the
corridor so as to be ready to   11 the train as soon as it stopped. The moment the train came to a halt
(停止), I called a porter, who in no time at all had carried my luggage out of the station and   12 me a
taxi. As I drove towards my small hotel on the outskirts of the town, I breathed a deep sigh of relief at
my   13 . There was little chance that I should    14   my boring exneighbour again.
     When I reached the hotel, I went    15 to my room and rested there until it was time for dinner. Then
I went down to the dining room and   16 a drink. I had barely raised the glass to my lips   17 an all
too familiar voice greeted me. I had not escaped from the tiresome neighbour  18   ! He grasped me
warmly by the hand and insisted that we   19 a table in the dinningroom. "This is a pleasant 20 ," he
said. "I never expected to see you again after  all these years."

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(     )1．A. reach
(     )2．A. exchanging
(     )3．A. fruit stand
(     )4．A. the station
(     )5．A. talker
(     )6．A. get rid of
(     )7．A. happy
(     )8．A. so
(     )9．A. holiday
(     )10．A. very
(     )11．A. get on
(     )12．A. found
(     )13．A. good luck
(     )14．A. lose in touch with
(     )15．A. carelessly
(     )16．A. ordered
(     )17．A. while
(     )18．A. above all
(     )19．A. spare
(     )20．A. surprise

B. extend
B. changing
B. department store
B. my seat
B. poet
B. take care of
B. afraid
B. no
B. school day
B. too
B. stay on
B. gave
B. nice choice
B. run into
B. aimlessly
B. requested
B. before
B. after all
B. rent
B. interview

C. stretch
C. talking through
C. bus stop
C. the waiting room
C. speaker
C. get away from
C. sorry
C. not
C. work day
C. so
C. catch
C. offered
C. narrow escape
C. knock down
C. idly
C. fetched
C. when
C. first of all
C. reserve
C. appointment

D. loosen
D. talking about
D. station platform
D. the office
D. hero
D. pay attention to
D. content
D. nor
D. conversation
D. much
D. get off
D. bought
D. bad fortune
D. catch up with
D. straight
D. asked
D. after
D. in all
D. share
D. party

阅读理解

     Adrian"s "Amazing Race" started early when his parents realized that he, as a baby, couldn"t hear a
thing, not even loud noises.In a special school for the hearingimpaired (听觉受损的),he learned sign
language and got to mix with other disabled   children.However, the sight of all the disabled children
communicating with one another upset his mother.She wanted him to lead a normal life.So after speaking
to an advisor, she sent him to private classes where he learned to read lips and pronounce words.
      Later on, Adrian"s parents decided to send him to a regular school.But the headmaster tried to
prevent them from doing so, saying regular school couldn"t take care of a special student.His parents
were determined to take the risk and push him hard to go through his work every day because they
wanted to prove that, given the opportunity, he could do anything.Adrian made the grade and got
accepted.It was a big challenge.The pace (节奏)was faster so he had to sit at the front of the class and
really pay attention to the teacher, which wasn"talways easy.But he stuck to it and did a lot of extra work
after school.
      The efforts made by Adrian and his parents paid off.Adrian graduated with good grades and got into
a top high school.He also achieved a lot in life outside school.He developed a love for the outdoors and
went to Nepal to climb mountains.He even entered the World Yacht Race-being the first hearingimpaired Asian to do so.
     But none of these achievements would have been possible without one of the most important lessons
from his mother. "If you believe in yourself and work hard, you can achieve greatresults," she often said.

1. How did Adrian communicate with other children in the special school?
A. By speaking.
B. By using sign language.
C. By reading lips.
D. By making loud noises.

2. Adrian"s parents decided to send him to a regular school because________.
A. they wanted him to live a normal life
B. they wanted to prove the headmaster wrong
C. he wouldn"t mix with other disabled children
D. he wasn"t taken good care of in the special school

3. How did Adrian finally succeed in his study?
A. He did a lot of outdoor activities.
B. He was pushed hard to study every day.
C. He attended private classes after school.
D. He worked very hard both in and after class.

4. Why is Adrian"s life described as an "Amazing Race"?
A. He did very well in his study.
B. He succeeded in entering a regular school.
C. He reached his goals in spite of his disability.
D. He took part in the World Yacht Race.

完形填空

     A majority of people have no idea of the hard work and worry that goes into the collecting of those
fascinating birds and animals that they pay to see in the zoo.One of the questions that are always asked
of me is how I became an animal collector in the first __1__.The answer is that I have always been
interested in animals and zoos.According to my parents, the first word I was able to say with any __2__
was not the conventional "mamma" or "daddy", but the word "zoo",  which I would __3__ over and
over again with a shrill __4__ until someone, in groups to __5__ me up, would take me to the zoo.
     When I __6__ a little older, we lived in Greece and I had a great __7__ of pets, ranging from owls to
seahorses, and I spent all my spare time __8__ the countryside in search of fresh specimens to __9__ to
my collection of pets.__10__ on I went for a year to the City Zoo, as a student __11__ to get
experience of the large animals, such as lions, bears, bison and ostriches, which were not easy to keep
at home.When I left, I __12__ had enough money of my own to be able to __13__ my first trip and I
have been going __14__ ever since then.Though a collector"s job is not an easy one and is full of __15__,
it is certainly a job which will appeal to all those who love animals and travel.

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