阅读理解。 On a hill 600 feet above the surrounding land, we watch the lines of r

题型：四川省高考真题难度：来源：

阅读理解。     On a hill 600 feet above the surrounding land, we watch the lines of rain move across the scene, the
moon rise over the hills, and the stars appear in the sky. The views invite a long look from a comfortable
chair in front of the wooden house.
    Every window in our wooden house has a view, and the forest and lakes seldom look the same as the
hour before. Each look reminds us where we are.
    There is space for our three boys to play outside, to shoot arrows, collect tree seeds, build earth
houses and climb trees.
    Our kids have learned the names of the trees, and with the names have come familiarity and
appreciation. As they tell all who show even a passing interest, maple(枫树)makes the best fighting sticks
and white pines are the best climbing trees.
    The air is clean and fresh. The water from the well has a pleasant taste, and it is perhaps the healthiest
water our kids will ever drink. Though they have one glass a day of juice and the rest is water, they never
say anything against that.
    The seasons change just outside the door. We watch the maples turn every shade of yellow and red in
the fall and note the poplars"(杨树)putting out the first green leaves of spring. The rainbow smelt fills the
local steam as the ice gradually disappears, and the wood frogs start to sing in pools after being frozen for
the winter. A family of birds rules our skies and flies over the lake.1. What can be learned from Paragraph 2?A. The scenes are colorful and changeable.
B. There are many windows in the wooden house.
C. The views remind us that we are in a wooden house.
D. The lakes outside the windows are quite different in color.2. By mentioning the names of the trees, the author aims to show that ______ .A. the kids like playing in trees
B. the kids are very familiar with trees
C. the kids have learned much knowledge
D. the kids find trees useful learning tools3. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?A. The change of seasons is easily felt.
B. The seasons make the scenes change.
C. The weather often changes in the forest.
D. The door is a good position to enjoy changing seasons.4. What is the main purpose of the author writing the text?A. To describe the beauty of the scene around the house.
B. To introduce her children"s happy life in the forest.
C. To show that living in the forest is healthful.
D. To share the joy of living in the nature.

答案

1-4: ACAD

举一反三

阅读理解。     I left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over
the next six years, I was treading water, just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism, but I didn"t think
I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher.
I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull.
    I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000
words.
    It takes confidence to make a new start - there"s a dark period in-between where you"re neither one
thing nor the other. You"re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you"re too ashamed to say,
"Well, I"m writing a navel, but I"m not quite sure if I"m going to get there." My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside.
    Then I met an agent(代理商)who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my
surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer
and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel.
    The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income, just waiting and
wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal - that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for.
    It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck - of fate, really. When you set out to do something different,
there"s no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract(合
同)of the publisher - to be a published writer - is unbelievably rewarding(有回报的).1. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean?A. I was waiting for good fortune.
B. I was trying to find an admirable job.
C. I was being aimless about a suitable job.
D. I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time.2. The author decided to write a novel ______ .A. to finish the writing course
B. to realize her own dream
C. to satisfy readers" wish
D. to earn more money3. How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?A. Disturbed.
B. Ashamed.
C. Confident.
D. Uncertain.4. What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph?A. It pays to stick to one"s goal.
B. Hard work can lead to success.
C. She feels like being unexpectedly lucky.
D. There is no end in sight when starting to do something.

题型：四川省高考真题难度：| 查看答案

阅读理解。     I was blind, but I was ashamed of it if it was known. I refused to use a white stick and hated asking for help. After all, I was a teenager girl, and I couldn"t bear people to look at me and think I was not like them. I must have been a terrible
danger on the roads, coming across me wandering through the traffic; motorists probably would have to
step rapidly on their brakes. Apart from that, there were all sorts of disasters that used to occur on the way to and from work.
    One evening, I got off the bus about halfway home where I had to change buses, and as usual I ran into something. "I"m awfully sorry," I said and stepped forward only to run into it again. When it happened a
third time, I realized I had been apologizing to a lamppost. This was just one of the stupid things that
constantly happened to me. So I carried on and found the bus stop, which was a request stop, where the
bus wouldn"t stop unless passengers wanted to get on or off. No one else was there and I had to try to
guess if the bus had arrived.
    Generally in this situation, because I hated showing I was blind by asking for help, I tried to guess at the sound. Sometimes I would stop a big lorry and stand there feeling stupid as it drew away. In the end, I
usually managed to swallow my pride and ask someone at the stop for help.
    But on this particular evening no one joined me at the stop; it seemed that everyone had suddenly
decided not to travel by bus. Of course I heard plenty of buses pass, or I thought I did. But because I had given up stopping them for fear of making a fool of myself, I let them all go by. I stood there alone for half an hour without stopping one. Then I gave up. I decided to walk on to the next stop.1. The girl refused to ask for help because she thought_________.A. she might be recognized
B. asking for help looked silly
C. she was normal and independent
D. being found blind was embarrassing2. After the girl got off the bus that evening, she_________.A. began to run
B. hit a person as usual
C. hit a lamppost by accident
D. was caught by something3. At the request stop that evening, the girl___________.

A. stopped a big lorry
B. stopped the wrong bus
C. made no attempt to stop the bus
D. was not noticed by other people

4. What was the problem with guessing at the sound to stop a bus?A. Other vehicles also stopped there.
B. It was unreliable for making judgments.
C. More lorries than buses responded to the girl.
D. It took too much time for the girl to catch the bus5. Finally the girl decided to walk to the next stop, hoping__________.A. to find people there
B. to find more buses there
C. to find the bus by herself there
D. to find people more helpful there

题型：广东省高考真题难度：| 查看答案

完形填空。

    Once there was a very brilliant, creative and educated man. He gained much __1__while traveling
throughout the world. Unfortunately he lost his legs and left arm in a tragic accident, leaving only a finger
and thumb on his right hand. He became so   2    that he was afraid he would spend his life   3   and
would no longer be able to use his life in a(n)  4 way.
    One day, he remembered how he had always loved getting   5   . He realized that he still had partial
    6    of his right hand and could write with    7   . Then, he had an idea," Why not write to other people
who need encourage- ment?"
    He   8   where he could find those who could be encouraged if they read his letters. He thought of
people in   9   .  Many of them had hope of regaining their    10   . Others would keep feeling depressed
and remain put away for the rest of their lives. He decided that he must try to    11    them. So he wrote
to a prison ministry about sending letters to the prisoners. The prison minister replied that writing to the
prisoners would be   12   . However,it would be against prison rules for the prisoners to write back.
        13   with the intention, the man began sending   14   messages of God"s love, hope, strength, and
encouragement. He wrote twice a week, testing his strength and ability to the    15   . He poured his heart
and soul into his words,    16   his experience, sense of humor, optimism, and faith.
    It was difficult to write those letters, especially without hope of any   17   . Frequently, he felt
discouraged, wondering if anyone    18    read his letters. However, this was his    19    chance, so he was
determined to continue.
    At last, he received a letter from the prison officer, which said, " Please write on the best paper you
can afford. Your letters are passed from cell(小牢房) to cell until they almost fall to    20    !" We all have
unique experiences, abilities and talents.We can discover ways to reach others in need of encouragement
and strength.

(     )1. A. wealth
(     )2. A. depressed
(     )3. A. writing
(     )4. A. abnormal
(     )5. A. presents
(     )6. A. sense
(     )7. A. affection
(     )8. A. estimated
(     )9. A. hospitals
(     )10. A. families
(     )11. A. release
(     )12. A. acceptable
(     )13. A. Faced
(     )14. A. holy
(     )15. A. point
(     )16. A. sharing
(     )17. A. success
(     )18. A. curiously
(     )19. A. only
(     )20. A. ruin

B. faith
B. embarrassed
B. suffering
B. regular
B. e-mails
B. strength
B. caution
B. doubted
B. churches
B. letters
B. reach
B. reasonable
B. Filled
B. daily
B. worst
B. learning
B. reply
B. patiently
B. better
B. pieces       C. experience
C. ashamed
C. weeping
C. comfortable
C. letters
C. shape
C. difficulty
C. assumed
C. prisons
C. freedom
C. defend
C. prohibited
C. Satisfied
C. one-way
C. degree
C. gaining
C. help
C. carefully
C. extra
C. the ground   D. confidence
D. thrilled
D. wandering
D. meaninful
D. prizes
D. function
D. confidence
D. wondered
D. charities
D. conscience
D. know
D. considered
D. Impressed
D. round-way
D. limit
D. enriching
D. progress
D. actually
D. lost
D. the bottom

题型：同步题难度：| 查看答案

完形填空。     A photographer is a person who takes photos as a business or as art. It is often    1   that his work is
not only full of pleasure   2   it is very safe,and no one can imagine how   3   his work sometimes I Two
photographers were traveling   4   a thick forest in Alaska,aiming at taking photos of the wildlife. As there
was nothing interesting to take pictures of,they were feeling disappointed    5   they caught sight of a
brown bear which had caught a large fish by a quiet lake. The wild bear found   6   too,and stood on its
hind legs to get a better     7   of the man. While doing this,the bear made a wonderful pose(姿态) for
the two   8   photographers.
     Suddenly the bear began to run at them while the two men kept right     9    taking pictures of the
angry animal.As the beast was drawing very fast towards them,one of the men    10    right away and
rushed to a tall tree nearby.  He climbed to the top of it as quickly as he could.     11    who could not
climb a tree,immediately lay down on the ground,     12    to be dead. When the bear bent down over
him and     13    him all over,the man shut his eyes tightly,   14    and tried not to make any movement.
While all this was going on,the man    15    was busy taking pictures of the exciting     16   .  After a
while the bear went away     17     because bears never touch a     18     man. When all was safe,the
photographer in the tree came down and said to the friend,"The same story  19   was told in Aesop"s
Fable has just happened to us,and I   20   no chance to take photos of the wonderful scenes.

题型：同步题难度：| 查看答案

(      )1. A. got
(      )2. A. reported
(      )3. A. also
(      )4. A. dangerous
(      )5. A. through
(      )6. A. and
(      )7. A. it
(      )8. A. idea
(      )9. A. experienced
(      )10. A. for
(      )11. A. looked around
(      )12. A. Another man
(      )13. A. hoping
(      )14. A. smelled
(      )15. A. closed his mouth
(      )16. A. hy the tree
(      )17. A. acts
(      )18. A. disappointedly
(      )19. A. dead
(      )20. A. that

B. had
B. said
B. but
B. exciting
B. across
B. then
B. him
B. picture
B. excited
B. to
B. showed around
B. The other man
B. continuing
B. tasted
B. held his breath
B. in the tree
B. movements
B. excitedly
B. dying
B. which

C. waited
C. thought
C. and
C. hard
C. over
C. soon
C. us
C. sight
C. happy
C. on
C. turned around
C. The second man
C. pretending
C. smiled
C. raised his arms
C. on the tree
C. senses
C. hurriedly
C. lying
C. like

D. lost
D. told
D. so
D. dirty
D. by
D. when
D. them
D. understanding
D. wonderful
D. up
D. walked around
D. The slow man
D. trying
D. touched
D. crossed his legs
D. under the tree
D. scenes
D. worriedly
D. good
D. as

完形填空。

     Each of us fails from time to time.  If we are wise,we accept these failures as a    1     part of the
learning process. But all too often as parents and teachers,we don"t     2    our children to have this
same right.
       When I see a child      3     from this kind of pressure,I think of Donnie.
        Donnie was my youngest third-grader.  His      4      of failure kept him from classroom games
that other children enjoyed. He     5    answered questions-he was afraid he might be wrong. I tried
my best to build his     6    . But nothing changed until midterm,when Mary Anne,a student teacher,
was assigned to our classroom. She was young and pretty,and she loved children. My pupils, Donnie
included,all     7    her very much.
     One morning,we were working on math problems at the chalkboard. Donnie had copied the
problems with pains taking tidiness and filled answers in the first row.   8  with his progress, I     9
the children with Mary Anne and went for art materials. When I returned,Donnie was in     10   .
He"d missed the third problem.
       My student teacher looked at me in despair.  Suddenly her face      11    .  From the desk we
shared,she got a container filled with pencils.
       "Look,Donnie," she said,kneeling beside him and gently    12    the tear-stained (弄脏的) face
from his arms."I"ve got something to     13    you. " She removed the pencils,one at a time, and
placed them on his desk.
      "See these     14    , Donnie," she continued.  "They belong to Mrs Lindstrom and me.  See how
the erasers(橡皮) are    15     ? That"s because we make mistakes too.  But we erase the mistakes
and try again.  That"s what you   16    learn to do,too. "
        She kissed him and stood up.  "Here," she said. "I"ll leave one of these pencils on      17
desk so you"ll remember that everybody makes mistakes,     18    teachers. " Donnie looked up
with love in his eyes and a smile.
      The     19     became Donnie"s prized possession. That,together with Mary Anne"s frequent
encouragement,gradually    20   him that it"s all right to make mistakes as long as you erase them
and try again.

题型：同步题难度：| 查看答案