阅读理解。 Joanne was stuck in a traffic jam in central Birmingham at 5:30, and a - 高中英语试题 - 超级试练试题库

阅读理解。     Joanne was stuck in a traffic jam in central Birmingham at 5:30, and at 6:30 she was expected to be
chairing a meeting of the tennis club. At last, the traffic was moving. She swung quickly racing to her
house. As she opened the door, she nearly tripped over Sheba.
     "Hey, Sheba" she said, "I"ve got no time for you now, but I"ll take you out as soon as I get back from
tennis club." Then she noticed Sheba seemed to be coughing or choking. Obviously, she could hardly
breathe. Immediately Joanne realized she would have to take her to the vet (兽医). When she got there,
the vet was just about to close for the day. Seeing the state of Sheba, Dr. Sterne brought her quickly into
his office.
     "Listen, doctor, I"m really in a rush to get to a meeting. Can I leave her with you, and go and get changed?
I"ll be back in ten minutes to pick her up, and then I"ll take her on to the meeting with me. Is that OK?"
     "Sure." said the doctor.
     Joanne made the quick trip back to her house in a couple of minutes. As she was once more entering
the hallway, the phone by the door began to ring.
     "This is Dr. Sterne," said an anxious voice. "I want you to get out of that house immediately," said the
doctor"s voice. "I"m coming round soon, and the police will be there any time now. Wait outside!"
     At that moment, a police car screeched to a stop outside the house. Two policemen got out and ran into
the house. Joanne was by now completely confused and very frightened. Then the doctor arrived.
     "Where"s Sheba? Is she OK?" shouted Joanne.
     "She"s fine, Joanne. I took out the thing which was choking her, and she"s OK now."
     Just then, the two policemen reappeared from the house, half-carrying a white-faced man, who could
hardly walk. There was blood all over him.
     "My God," said Joanne, "how did he get in there? And how did you know he was there?"
     "I think he must be a burglar," said the doctor. "I knew he was there because when I finally removed
what was stuck in Sheba"s throat: it turned out to be three human fingers." 1. What was Joanne supposed to do at 6:30? [     ]
A. To walk her dog.
B. To see her doctor.
C. To attend a club meeting.
D. To play tennis with her friends. 2. Joanne wanted to get back to her home again _____.[     ]
A. to phone the police station
B. to dress up for the meeting
C. to catch the badly hurt burglar
D. to wait for her dog to be cured 3. From the passage, we can infer that _____. [     ]
A. Sheba fought against the burglar
B. the police found the burglar had broken in
C. Joanne had planned to take her dog to the meeting
D. the doctor performed a difficult operation on the dog 4. In this passage, the writer intends to tell us that the dog is _____.[     ]
A. clever
B. friendly
C. frightening
D. devoted

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阅读理解。     The sun shone in through the dining room window, lighting up the hardwood floor. We had been talking
there for nearly two hours. The phone of the "Nightline" rang yet again and Morrie asked his helper, Connie,
to get it. She had been taking down the callers" names in Morrie"s small black appointment book. It was clear
I was not the only one interested in visiting my old professor-the "Nightline" appearance had made him
something of a big figure-but I was impressed with, perhaps even a bit envious of, all the friends that Morrie
seemed to have.
     "You know, Mitch, now that I"m dying, I"ve become much more interesting to people. I"m on the last great
journey here-and people want me to tell them what to pack."
     The phone rang again. "Morrie, can you talk?" Connie asked.
     "I"m visiting with my old friend now," he announced, "Let them call back."
     I cannot tell you why he received me so warmly. I was hardly the promising student who had left him
sixteen years earlier. Had it not been for "Nightline", Morrie might have died without ever seeing me again.
     What happened to me? The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat
and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing
it. Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I"d simply been on a long vacation.
     "Have you found someone to share your heart with?" he asked. "Are you at peace with yourself?" "Are you
trying to be as human as you can be?"
     I felt ashamed, wanting to show I had been trying hard to work out such questions. What happened to me?
I once promised myself I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, and that I would
live in beautiful, inspirational places.
     Instead, I had been in Detroit for ten years, at the same workplace, using the same bank, visiting the same
barber. I was thirty-seven, more mature than in college, tied to computers and modems and cell phones. I was
no longer young, nor did I walk around in gray sweatshirts with unlit cigarettes in my mouth. I did not have
long discussions over egg salad sandwiches about the meaning of life.
     My days were full, yet I remained, much of the time, unsatisfied. What happened to me? 1. When did the author graduate from Morrie"s college? [     ]
A. In the eighties.
B. In the nineties.
C. When he was 16.
D. When he was 21. 2. What do we know about the "Nightline"? [     ]
A. Morrie started it by himself.
B. It helped Morrie earn a fame.
C. The author helped Morrie start it.
D. It was only operated at night. 3. What can we infer from the passage? [     ]
A. Both the author and Morrie liked travelling.
B. Morrie liked helping people pack things for their journeys.
C. The author envied Morrie"s friends the help they got from him.
D. The author earned a lot of money at the cost of his dreams. 4. What"s the author"s feeling when he writes this passage? [     ]
A. Regretful.
B. Enthusiastic.
C. Sympathetic.
D. Humorous.

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完形填空。     I had an interesting experience playing ping-pong last year. I was playing against a    1    opponent (对手).
The score was 20 to 17 in her    2   . I won the next three points which made the score 20 to 20. I    3   my
paddle on the table and thanked my opponent and began to walk away. She called me    4   and said we had
to continue until one of us    5 .
     "Look," I said, "if we    6 , one of two events will take place, either you or I will win. If you win, I will
begin to    7   my skill. If I win, you will be unhappy. Isn"t it better to know that we both played    8 , that we
enjoyed the competition, and that we played an even (相等) score?" This was a    9   ending for my opponent
and for the persons watching this contest. It made   10   to me to leave with a tie (不分胜负) game, an impasse
(僵局): no winner, no   11 .
     So, my friends, here is the problem   12   me. Our present technology makes it possible for nations to   13
other nations for retaliatory (报复) strikes. In such a nuclear time, there   14   be no winners, only losers. Under
these conditions, the only choice to   15   global destruction is global impasse. This would be a   16   "tie game"
where no nation wins and no nation loses. An impasse reached through compromise (妥协). This is because
compromise becomes the only means of   17 . We cannot destroy this beautiful planet by holding on to   18
understanding of victory. The   19   victory is in achieving a desirable impasse. No one wins,   20   no one loses
either.

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(     )1.A.tiring
(     )2.A.favor
(     )3.A.threw
(     )4.A.up
(     )5.A.lost
(     )6.A.perform
(    )7.A.doubt
(     )8.A.hard
(     )9.A.close
(     )10.A.progress
(     )11.A.loser
(     )12.A.encouraging
(     )13.A.destroy
(     )14.A.may
(     )15.A.escape
(     )16.A.different
(     )17.A.surviving
(     )18.A.an old
(     )19.A.great
(     )20.A.where

B.poor
B.side
B.placed
B.over
B.won
B.stop
B.hate
B.fair
B.surprising
B.room
B.fighter
B.frightening
B.attack
B.should
B.flee
B.small
B.living
B.an unusual
B.only
B.but

C.fine
C.lead
C.stuck
C.on
C.gave up
C.continue
C.practise
C.poorly
C.satisfying
C.sense
C.success
C.shocking
C.seize
C.can
C.accept
C.huge
C.staying
C.the same
C.same
C.as

D.brave
D.place
D.dropped
D.back
D.tired out
D.leave
D.desert
D.well
D.reasonable
D.time
D.player
D.troubling
D.rule
D.must
D.avoid
D.familiar
D.pleasing
D.a complete
D.equal
D.since

阅读理解。

     I found out one time that doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of trouble. I was in the eighth
grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl sitting next to me whispered
something, but I didn"t understand. So I leaned over her way and found out that she was trying to ask me if I
had an extra pen. She showed me that hers was out of ink and would not write. I happened to have an extra
one, so I took it out of my pocket and put it on her desk.
     Later, after the test papers had been turned in, the teacher asked me to stay in the room when all the other
students were dismissed (解散). As soon as we were alone she began to talk to me about what it meant to
grow up; she talked about how important it was to stand on your own two feet and be responsible for your
own acts. For a long time, she talked about honesty and emphasized the fact that when people do something
dishonest, they are really cheating themselves. She made me promise that I would think seriously about all the
things she had said, and then she told me I could leave. I walked out of the room wondering why she had
chosen to talk to me about all those things.
     Later on, I found out that she thought I had cheated in the test. When she saw me lean over to talk to the
girl next to me, it looked as if I was copying answers from the girl"s test paper. I tried to explain about the pen,
but all she could say was it seemed very strange to her that I hadn"t talked of anything about the pen the day
she talked to me right after the test. Even if I tried to explain that I was just doing the girl a favor by letting her
use my pen, I am sure she continued to believe that I had cheated in the test.

1. The girl wanted to borrow a pen, because _____.

[ ]

A. she had not brought a pen with her
B. she had lost her own on her way to school
C. there was something wrong with her pen
D. her own had been taken away by someone

2. The teacher saw all this, so she asked the boy _____.

[ ]

A. to go on writing his paper
B. to stop whispering
C. to leave the room immediately
D. to stay behind after the exam

3. The thing(s) emphasized in her talk was(were) _____.

[ ]

A. honesty
B. sense of duty
C. seriousness
D. all of the above

4. The boy knew everything _____.

[ ]

A. the moment he was asked to stay behind
B. when the teacher started talking about honesty
C. only some time later
D. when he was walking out of the room

阅读理解。

     In 1909 an English newspaper offered ￡1,000 to the first man to fly across the English Channel in an
aeroplane. Today, modern jets cross it in minutes. But at that time it still seemed a good distance. The race
to win the money soon became a race between two men. Both were very colourful.
     One was Louis Bleriot. He owned a factory in France that made motor car lamps. He was already well
known as a pilot because he had had accidents several times. Some people laughed at him. One man said,
"He may not be the first to fly across the Channel but he will certainly be the first to die in an accident!"
But Bleriot was really a good and brave pilot. He also had many good ideas about aeroplane design.
    The other man was Hubert Latham. He was half French and half English. He took up flying when his
doctors told him he had only a year to live. "Oh, well," he said, "if I" m going to die soon, I think I shall
have a dangerous and interesting life now." Latham was the first to try the flight across the Channel. Ten
kilometres from the French coast, his plane had some trouble. It fell down into the water and began to sink
under the water. A boat reached Latham just in time. He was sitting calmly on the wing and was coolly
lighting a cigarette. Bleriot took off six days later. He flew into some very bad weather and very low cloud.
He somehow got to the English side and landed in a farmer"s field. When he did so, a customs (海关) officer
rushed up to his plane. Planes have changed since then, but customs officers have not. "Have you anything
to declare (报关)?" The officer demanded.

1. Bleriot was well known as a pilot because _____.

[ ]

A. he was unusually brave
B. he was quite rich
C. he had many good ideas about aeroplane design
D. he had had a few accidents

2. Why did Hubert Latham want to fly across the Channel?

[ ]

A. He thought he could manage it easily.
B. He wanted to be the first one to cross the Channel.
C. He knew he only had a year to live.
D. He had always been interested in flying.

3. Which of the following is NOT true?

[ ]

A. Latham became a pilot on the doctor"s advice.
B. He was told he could live another year.
C. His plane had some trouble.
D. He was saved by a boat when his plane was sinking.

完形填空。

     There was once a man named Goldsmith. He had a   1   heart. He was always   2   to help others and to
share with them   3 that he had. He   4   so much to the poor   5   he was always poor himself.
     He was sometimes called Doctor Goldsmith, for he had studied medicine. One day a poor woman asked
Doctor Goldsmith to go to see her husband,   6   was very ill and could not eat. Goldsmith found that the
family was in great need of   7 . The man   8   work for a long time, but he was not ill. He was hungry because
there was no food in the house.
     "  9   at my room this evening," said Goldsmith to the woman, "and I"ll give you some medicine for your
husband."
     In the evening the woman called. Goldsmith gave her  10  paper box that was very heavy.
     "Here is the medicine," he said, "Take it and it will  11  your husband a great deal of good. But don"t open
the box  12  you get home. You will find the directions inside the box." When the woman reached her home,
she sat down by her husband"s side, and they opened the box. It was  13  pieces of money. And on the top
14  the directions: "TO BE TAKEN WHEN NECESSARY."
      15  this way Goldsmith had given them all the money that he had.

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