阅读理解。 A few days ago I asked my sons" governess (女家庭教师) Julia to come into m - 高中英语试题 - 超级试练试题库

阅读理解。     A few days ago I asked my sons" governess (女家庭教师) Julia to come into my study. "Be seated,
Julia," I said, "Let"s settle our accounts. I guess you most likely need some money, but maybe you"re
too polite to mention it. Now then, we agreed on thirty dollars a month..."
     "Forty."
     "No, thirty. I made a note of it. I always pay our governess thirty. Well, um, you"ve been here two
months, so..."
     "Two months and five days."
     "Exactly two months. I made a special note of it. That means you have sixty dollars coming to you.
Take off nine Sundays... you know you didn"t work with Tom on Sundays, you only took walks. And
three holidays..."Julia was biting her finger nail nervously, her face red, but-not a word.
      "Three holidays, therefore take off twelve dollars. Four days Tom was sick and there were no lessons,
as you were occupied only with Dick. Three days you had a toothache and my wife gave you permission
not to work after lunch. Twelve and seven-nineteen. Take nineteen off... that leaves. hmm.... forty one
dollars. Correct?"
     Julia"s left eye reddened with tears welling up. Her chin trembled; she coughed nervously and blew
her nose, but-still not a word.
    "Around New Year"s Day you broke a teacup and a saucer; take off two dollars. The cup cost more,
it was a treasure of the family, but- forget it. Then, due to your neglect (疏忽), Tom climbed a tree and
tore his jacket; take away ten. Also due to your carelessness the maid stole Dick"s shoes. You ought to
watch everything! You get paid for it. So, that means five more dollars off. The tenth of January I gave
you ten dollars."
     "You didn"t." sobbed Julia.
     "But I made a note of it."
     "Well... if you say so."
     "Take twenty seven from forty one -that leaves fourteen."
    Both her eyes were filled with tears. Beads of sweat stood on the thin pretty little nose. Poor girl!
     "Only once was I given any money," she whispered, her voice trembling,"and that was by your wife.
Three dollars, nothing more."
     "Really? You see now, and I didn"t know that! Take three from fourteen.. leaves eleven. Here"s your
money, my dear. Three, three, three, one and one. Here it is!"
     I handed her eleven dollars. She took them and pocketed them.
     "Merci (法语: 谢谢)," she whispered.
    I jumped to my feet and started pacing the room. I was overcome with anger. "For what, this-"merci"?"
I asked.
     "For the money."
     "But you know I"ve cheated you-robbed you! I have actually stolen from you! Why this"merci"?"
     "In my other places they didn"t give me anything at all."
     "They didn"t give you anything? No wonder! I played a little joke on you, a cruel lesson, just to teach
you... I m going to give you all the eighty dollars! Here they are in the envelope all ready for you... Is it
really possible to be so spineless (懦弱)? Why didn"t you protest? Why were you silent? Is it possible in
this world to be without teeth and claws (爪)-to be such a fool?"
     Embarrassed, she smiled. And I could read her expression, "It is possible."
     I asked her pardon for the cruel lesson and, to her great surprise, gave her the eighty dollars. She
murmured her little "merci" several times and went out. I looked after her and thought, "How easy it is
to crush the weak in this world!" 1. While talking to Julia, the wrier expected from her _____. A. a protest　　
B. gratitude
C. obedience　　　
D. an explanation 2. What shocked the writer was Julia"s _____.A. nervousness in front of her boss
B. acceptance of injustice
C. shyness when talking about money
D. reluctance to express herself 3. The writer said, "Is it possible in this world to be without teeth and claws?" He was actually telling
    the governess _____. A. to be more aggressive
B. to be more careful in her work
C. to protect her right
D. to live independently 4. At the end of the story, the writer said, "How easy it is to crush the weak in this world!" to show _____. A. his understanding of Julia"s anxiety
B. his worry about Julia"s future
C. his concern on the living condition of working-class people
D. his sympathy for the weak

1-4: ABCD

完型填空。     He lost his arms in an accident that caused the death of his father. Then his   1   became his shadow, never
leaving him alone for years.   2   writing with his toes, he was completely unable to do anything in his life.
    As the two brothers grew up together, they had their   3   of problems and they would often quarrel. Then
one day, his younger brother decided to   4   separate from him, living his own life as many   5   people do. So
he was heart-broken and didn"t know what to do.
    A   6   misfortune happened to a girl, too. One night she tried to   7   meals for her sick mother, only to
overturn the kerosene light on the stove, resulting in a fire which took her   8   away.
     Though her elder sister in another city   9   her willingness to take care of her, she was  10  to learn to be
completely independent. At school, she  11  studied hard.
     One day, the boy and the girl were both invited to  12  on a television interview program and asked to  13
something on a piece of paper with their toes. The boy wrote; My younger brother"s arms are my arms;  14
the girl wrote: Broken wings, flying heart.
     They had both  15  the same pain, but their different attitudes determined the nature of their lives. It is true
that life is unpredictable (难以预料). Disasters can strike at  16  time. If you choose only to complain and  17 ,
it will always follow you  18  you go. But if you decide to be  19 , the hard moment will  20  to be one when
new hopes will arise.

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(     )1. A.older sister
(     )2. A.Instead of
(     )3. A.share
(     )4. A.live
(     )5. A.rich
(     )6. A.different
(     )7. A.prepare
(     )8. A.ears
(     )9. A.explained
(     )10. A.satisfied
(     )11. A.hardly
(     )12. A.sing
(     )13. A.say
(     )14. A.while
(     )15. A.hidden
(     )16. A.one
(     )17. A.comfort
(     )18. A.whenever
(     )19. A.silent
(     )20. A.turn out

B. uncle
B. Except for
B. goal
B. tell
B. normal
B. strange
B. offer
B. toes
B. showed
B. excited
B. seldom
B. dance
B. draw
B. when
B. suffered
B. no
B. discourage
B. wherever
B. noisy
B. bring about

C. younger brother
C. Thanks to
C. agreement
C. come
C. unlucky
C. special
C. have
C. feet
C. pointed
C. determined
C. always
C. turn
C. write
C. since
C. discovered
C. any
C. watch
C. if
C. weak
C. come up

D. mother
D. In spite of
D. enjoyment
D. learn
D. disabled
D. similar
D. order
D. hands
D. discussed
D. disappointed
D. sometimes
D. appear
D. copy
D. unless
D. overcome
D. this
D. escape
D. because
D. strong
D. give off

阅读理解诶。

     "Good evening, everybody!" said the teacher, Donna. "Where is everybody?" That was sort of a daily
joke by Donna. Usually the class started with only two or three students present, and then filled up as the
minutes went by. It was summertime. Summer school was only eight weeks long. Class attendance was
always smaller than during fall and spring semesters.
    "I don"t know, teacher. Maybe they late or no come," said one student. "Maybe watching TV football
tonight."
     "Is there a soccer game tonight? It seems like there"s a soccer game every night. Oh, well. Let"s get
started, okay? We"re on page 36 in the workbook. Tonight we"re studying participles as adjectives. Students
are always confused when they learn about the present and past participles, so we will practice this a lot.
Tonight, we"re just going to practice the present participle.
     "The present participle tells us what emotion or feeling the subject is causing. For example, "Grammar
is boring" means that the subject-grammar-causes an emotion of boredom. If we say, "The movie is
interesting," we are saying that the movie causes a feeling of interest. If we say, "The roller coaster is exciting,"
we are saying that the roller coaster causes a feeling of excitement. Any questions so far? Am I confusing
you? Is everyone confused?"
     The classroom was quiet. Donna looked at blank faces. They were confused. She knew this would take
a while. But eventually, the faster students would grasp it, and then they would help the slower students. By
the end of the evening, most of the class would feel comfortable using the present participle.
     Donna erased the board and put some new examples on it. She loved guiding her students through difficult
topics like this one. She always felt a little bit thrilled when the look of understanding came to their faces.

1. What do you think the class is about?

A. Going over homework.
B. English grammar.
C. Football.
D. British culture.

2. We can infer from the first paragraph that _____ in summer time.

A. some students are often late for school
B. some students often watch football games with the teacher
C. more students often ask for leave
D. more students often go to school

3. The underlined work "blank" probably means _____.

A. excited
B. interested
C. confused
D. pleased

4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Donna was experienced in teaching English grammar.
B. Donna made the students practice using the present participle.
C. Donna didn"t use any examples to help the students.
D. Donna made herself understood at last.

完形填空。

     In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the
first meeting of an introductory   1   course about 20 years ago.
     The professor   2   the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans (豆), and invited
the students to   3  how many beans the jar contained. After   4   shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor
smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the   5 answer, and went on saying, "You have just   6   an important
lesson about science. That is: Never   7   your own senses."
     Twenty years later, the   8   could guess what the professor had in mind. He   9   himself, perhaps, as
inviting his students to start an exciting  10  into an un- known world invisible (无形的) to the  11 , which can
be discovered only through scientific  12 . But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even  13  the
invitation She was just  14  to understand the world. And she  15 that her firsthand experience could be the
  16 . The professor, however, said that it was  17 . He was taking away her only  18  for knowing and was
providing her with no substitute (替代) "I remember feeling small and  19 ." the woman says, "and I did the
only thing I could do. I  20  the course that afternoon, and I haven"t gone near science since."

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阅读理解。
When milk arrived on the doorstep When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn"t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer. Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note-"Please add a bottle of butter- milk next delivery"-and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically (魔术般) appear. All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn"t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery. There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete (竞争). Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service. Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch (门廊). Every so often my son"s friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.
1. Mr. Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer _____.
A. to show his magical power B. to pay for the delivery C. to satisfy his curiosity D. to please his mother
2. What can be inferred from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boy"s house?
A. He wanted to have tea there. B. He was a respectable person. C. He was treated as a family member. D. He was fully trusted by the family.
3. Why does home milk delivery no longer exist?
A. Nobody wants to be a milkman now. B. It has been driven out of the market. C. Its service is getting poor. D. It is forbidden by law.
4. Why did the author bring back home an old milk box?
A. He missed the good old days. B. He wanted to tell interesting stories. C. He needed it for his milk bottles. D. He planted flowers in it.
阅读理解。
The host poured the tea into the cup and placed it on the small table in front of his guests, who were a father and his daughter, and put the lid on the cup with a clink. Obviously thinking of something, he hurried into the inner room, leaving the thermos (热水瓶) on the table. His two guests heard a chest of drawers opening and rustling. They remained sitting in the sitting room, the ten-year-old daughter looking at the flowers outside the window, the father just about to take his cup, when the crash came, right there in the sitting room. Something was hopelessly broken. It was the thermos, which had fallen to the floor. The girls looked over her shoulder suddenly, shocked, staring. It was mysterious; neither of them had touched it, not even a little bit. True, it hadn"t stood steadily when their host placed it on the table, but it hadn"t fallen then. The crash of the thermos caused the host, with a box of sugar cubes in his hand, to rush back from the inner room. He looked foolishly at the steaming floor and blurted out. "It doesn"t matter! It doesn"t matter!" The father started to say something. Then he said in a low voice, "Sorry I touched it and it fell." "It doesn"t matter," the host said. Later, when they left the house,the daughter said, "Daddy, did you touch it?" "No. But it stood so close to me." "But you didn"t touch it. I saw your reflection in the window. You were sitting perfectly still." The father laughed. "Then how would you explain the cause of its fall?" "The thermos fell by itself. The floor is uneven. It wasn"t steady when Mr. Li put it there. Daddy, why did you say that?" "That won"t do,girl. It sounds more acceptable when I say I knocked it down. There are things which people accept less true it sounds." The daughter was lost in silence for a while. Then she said, "Can you explain it only this way?" "Only this way." her father said.
1. Which statement is a possible main idea of this story?
A. People seldom tell the truth. B. You can"t always make people believe the truth. C. If you try to defend yourself,people will believe you. D. People never believe others.
2. It can be inferred from the story that the father _____.
A. didn"t know Mr. Li very well B. was sorry that he hadn"t told the host the truth C. didn"t think Mr. Li would believe the truth D. was glad that he had told the truth
3. From the story,we know that the daughter _____.
A. thought her father should have told the truth B. knew the thermos would fall and stepped out C. thought her father shouldn"t have told the truth D. thought her father must have known the cause
4. From the passage, we can see the reason why the thermos fell was that _____.
A. the table was too small B. the father sat too close to the thermos C. the father wanted to help himself with some water D. something impossible to explain happened