阅读理解。 Paula Radcliffe, chasing (角逐) a third London marathon title (冠军), says - 高中英语试题 - 超级试练试题库

阅读理解。    Paula Radcliffe, chasing (角逐) a third London marathon title (冠军), says she has
become a stronger person after her terrible experience at the 2004 Athens Games.
    Radcliffe, who failed to complete the Olympic marathon and the 10,000m last August,
said:"Athens made me a stronger person and it made me care about criticism (批评)."
    "In the past I wanted to please everyone, but now I am going to listen even more to
the people around me."
    She didn"t care about criticism made at the weekend by Liz McColgan, who felt Radcliffe
should have rested and let her body recover after her failure in Athens.
    "Liz is someone I look up to but she hasn"t spoken to me since last year and if she
really cared for me, I"m sure she would have contacted (联系) me."
    Instead Radcliffe won the New York City marathon just 11 weeks after Athens.
    "In New York I wasn"t in my best state but I did know I was good enough to win the
race."
    Radcliffe insisted her only goal in Sunday"s race would be winning a third title and
not chasing world records.
    However, Radcliffe has not ruled out (排除) in the future chasing her "final" world
record time and questioned sayings that marathon runners have the ability in their career
to produce only four or five world-class times.
    "I don"t think that-although I can"t put a number on it," said Radcliffe. "That changes
from person to person."
    Radcliffe is sure she can better her winning London 2003 performance some point in the
future. Following a successful three-month training period in the United States, the
31-year-old will chase a third title on Sunday after her first victory in 2002 and again
12 months later.
    Radcliffe clocked a time 2:18:56 in her first 42.2-kilometre race three years ago.
   Afterwards she set a "mixed course" mark of 2:17:18 five months later in Chicago before
lowering that to a time of 2:15:25 in the 2003 London event. 1. Radcliffe"s failure in Athens made her _____. [     ]
A. face criticism bravely
B. rest for five months
C. love people around her more
D. develop respect for Liz 2. Which of the following is true according to the passage? [     ]
A. Radcliffe broke the world record in the New York City marathon.
B. Radcliffe didn"t fully recover before the New York City marathon.
C. Radcliffe won her first marathon title in the 2004 Athens Games.
D. Radcliffe had a 3-month training before the New York City marathon. 3. According to the text, Radcliffe has won _____ London marathon title(s). [     ]
A. one
B. two
C. three
D. four 4. What can we learn from Radcliffe"s story? [     ]
A. Practice makes perfect. 　　　　　
B. Well begun is half done.
C. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
D. Where there is a will, there is a way.

1-4: ABBD

阅读理解。    There are two types of people in the world. Although they have equal degree of health
and wealth and other comforts of life, one becomes happy, the other becomes unhappy.
This arises from the different ways in which they consider things, persons, events and
the resulting effects upon their minds.
    People who are to be happy fix their attention on the convenience of things. The pleasant
parts of conversation, the well prepared dishes, the goodness of the wine, the fine weather.
They enjoy all the cheerful things. Those who are to be unhappy think and speak only of the
opposite things. Therefore, they are continually dissatisfied. By their remarks, they sour the
pleasure of society, offend (hurt) many people, and make themselves disagreeable everywhere.
If this turn of mind was founded in nature, such unhappy persons would be the more to be
pitied. The intention of criticizing and being disliked is perhaps taken up by imitation. It grows
into a habit, unknown to its possessors. The habit may be strong, but it may be cured when
those who have it realize its bad effects on their interests and tastes. I hope this little warning
may be of service to them, and help them change this habit.
    Although in fact it is chiefly an act of the imagination, it has serious results in life since it
brings on deep sorrow and bad luck. Those people offend many others; nobody loves them,
and no one treats them with more than the most common politeness and respect. This frequently
puts them in bad temper and draws them into arguments. If they aim at getting some advantages
in social position or fortune, nobody wishes them success. Nor will anyone start a step or speak
a word to favor their hopes. If they bring on themselves public objections, no one will defend
or excuse them, and many will join to criticize their wrong doings. These should change this bad
habit and be pleased with what is pleasing, with out worrying needlessly about themselves and
others. If they do not, it will be good for others to avoid any contact with them. Otherwise, it can
be disagreeable and sometimes very inconvenient, especially when one becomes mixed up in their
quarrels. 1. People who are unhappy _____. [     ]
A. always consider things differently from others
B. usually are affected by the results of certain things
C. usually misunderstand what others think or say
D. always discover the unpleasant side of certain things 2. The underlined phrase "sour the pleasure of society" most nearly means "_____". [     ]
A. have a good taste with social life
B. make others unhappy
C. tend to scold others openly
D. enjoy the pleasure of life 3. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage? [     ]
A. Pity all such unhappy people
B. The unhappy are dangerous
C. How to get rid of the habit of unhappiness
D. Try to understand the unhappy 4. If such unhappy persons insist on keeping the habit, the author suggests that people
    should _____. [     ]
A. prevent any communication with them
B. show no respect and politeness to them
C. persuade them to recognize the bad effects
D. quarrel with them until they realize the mistakes 5. In this passage, the writer mainly _____. [     ]
A. describes two types of people
B. laughs at the unhappy people
C. suggests ways to help the unhappy
D. tells people how to be happy in life

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阅读理解。    When it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who possess
wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities illuminate
(照亮) me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve the glowing
hours, too good not to share.
    When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and "too serious" about
our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable
social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would
sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say:"Let"s start with a train whistle
today." We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out
of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too,
were changing into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.
    When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend. He was in despair (失望) and I was
in despair. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry
later if we did not explore this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met
every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked until our despairs
disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each other.
    For almost four years I have had remarkable friend whose imagination illuminates mine.
We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves.Each of us appears,
sometimes in a funny way, in the other"s dreams.She and I agree that, at certain times, we
seem to be parts of the same mind. In my most interesting moments, I often think:"Yes, I
must tell…." We have never met.
    It is such comforting companions I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is
worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist (心理学家), who will only
fill up the healing (愈合的) silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would
rather be my own best friend. 1. In the eighth grade, what the author did before developing proper social behavior was
   to _____. [     ]
A. become serious about her study
B. go to her friend"s house regularly
C. learn from her classmates at school
D. share poems and stories with her friend 2. In Paragraph 3, "We gave London to each other" probably means _____. [     ]
A. our exploration of London was a memorable gift to both of us
B. we were unwilling to tear ourselves away from London
C. our unpleasant feeling about London disappeared
D. we parted with each other in London 3. According to Paragraph 4, the author and her friend _____. [     ]
A. call each other regularly
B. have similar personalities
C. enjoy writing to each other
D. dream of meeting each other 4. In the darkest moments, the author would prefer to _____. [     ]
A. seek professional help
B. be left alone
C. stay with her best friend
D. break the silence

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完形填空。    I was fifteen months old, a happy kid until the day I fell. It was a   1   fall. I landed
on a glass rabbit which cut my eye badly enough to make it blind. Trying to save the
eye, the doctors stitched (缝合) the eyeball together where it was   2  , leaving a big
ugly scar (疤痕) in the middle of my eye. The attempt   3  , but my mother, in all of
her wisdom, found another doctor who knew that if the eye were removed   4  , my
face would grow up badly distorted (扭曲),   5   my scarred, sightless, cloudy and
gray eye lived on with me. As I grew,this sightless eye in so many ways   6   me.
    I walked with my face looking at the   7   so that people would not see the   8 me.
Yet my mother would say to me, at every turn, "Hold your head up high and   9   the
world. If you hold your head up high, it will be OK, and people will see your  10  soul."
She continued this  11  whenever I was trying to hide.
    Mama"s words were of great help for me to face the world  12 . As a teenager, even
though I tended to look down to hide my shame, I found that sometime when I held my
head up high and let people know me, they  13  me. In high school, I was  14  both
academically and socially. I was  15  elected class president. My mother"s words helped
me begin to realize that by letting people look at my face, I let them  16  the intelligence
and beauty behind both eyes, even if they couldn"t see it on the  17 .
    Now I"m a happy wife and great mother. The message "Hold your head up high" has
been  18  many times in my  19  home. Each of my children has felt  20  invitation, and
the gift my mother gave me has lived on in another generation.

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(     )1.A.surprising
(     )2.A.separated
(     )3.A.failed
(     )4.A.quickly　　
(     )5.A.then
(     )6.A.protected
(     )7.A.floor　　　
(     )8.A.shy
(     )9.A.deal with
(     )10.A.different
(     )11.A.sentence
(     )12.A.bravely
(     )13.A.disliked
(     )14.A.comfortable
(     )15.A.nearly
(     )16.A.touch
(     )17.A.surface
(     )18.A.discussed
(     )19.A.brave
(     )20.A.their

B.sudden
B.destroyed
B.tried
B.entirely
B.if
B.affected
B.world
B.elderly
B.see
B.beautiful
B.passage
B.proudly
B.liked
B.valuable
B.even
B.observe
B.outing
B.heard
B.peaceful
B.my

C.big
C.cut
C.succeeded
C.carefully
C.still
C.stopped
C.front
C.ugly
C.laugh at
C.lonely
C.opinion
C.simply
C.hated
C.successful
C.hardly
C.watch
C.head
C.talked
C.sweet
C.its

D.bad
D.hurt
D.managed
D.slowly
D.so
D.interrupted
D.people
D.strange
D.face
D.honest
D.message
D.fairly
D.noticed
D.special
D.still
D.recognize
D.scar
D.written
D.exciting
D.her

阅读理解。

    Both my parents came from towns in Mexico. Then I was born in El Paso, Texas,
and when I was four, my family moved to a housing project in East Los Angeles.
    Even though we struggled to make ends meet, my parents stressed to me and my
four brothers and sisters how fortunate we were to live in a great country with limitless
opportunities. They influenced us with the concepts of family, faith and nationalism.
    I got my first real job when I was ten. My dad injured his back working in a cardboard-
box factory and was retrained as a hairstylist. He rented space in a little shopping mall
and gave his shop the fancy name of Mr Ben"s Coiffure.
    The owner of the shopping center gave Dad a discount on his rent for cleaning the
parking lot three nights a week, which meant getting up at 3 a.m.. To pick up rubbish,
Dad used a little machine that looked like a lawn mower. Mom and I emptied garbage
cans and picked up litter by hand. It took two to three hours to clean the lot. I"d sleep
in the car on the way home.
    I did this for two years, but the lessons I learned have lasted a lifetime. I acquired
discipline and a strong work ethic (道德), and learned at an early age the importance of
balancing life"s competing interests-in my case, school, homework and a job. This really
helped during my senior year of a high school, when I worked 40 hours a week flipping
burgers at a fast-food joint while taking a full load of college preparation courses.
    The hard work paid off. I attended the US Military Academy and went on to receive
graduate degrees in law and business from Harvard. Later, I joined a big Los Angeles
law firm and was elected to the California State Assembly (州议会). In these jobs and
in everything else I"ve done, I have never forgotten those nights in the parking lot. The
experience taught me that there is dignity in all work and that if people are working to
provide for themselves and their families that is something we should honor.

1. Before my father got injured，we _____.

[ ]

A. didn"t like living in the USA
B. lived a poor but happy life
C. were lucky to move to the USA
D. had many ways to make money

2. When he recovered，to make a living my father _____.

[ ]

A. ran a small shopping mall
B. did a part-time job
C. worked as a barber
D. became a street cleaner

3. Working in the parking lot for two years had taught me _____.

[ ]

A. how to obey school discipline
B. how to do two things well at a time
C. that discipline and work were of equal value
D. that I must do as many things as possible at a time

4. The author tells us in the last paragraph that we should be proud of those who _____.

[ ]

A. have done all kinds of jobs
B. are cleaning the parking lot
C. have achieved a lot in their lives
D. are bearing their responsibilities

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D.
Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

     Growing old is something that nobody can understand until they experience it for themselves. I may not be
"old" but I am certainly beginning to    1    it? turned 18 just over a week ago. I am now an adult.
     As a child you    2    adults-or "grown-ups" as I used to call them-to always be in control to know what is
right and wrong.    3    as a teenager, I thought that when I reached 18 I would be far more    4    in many
aspects of life. But now that I am 18, 1 know that is not true. It is clear to me now that you do not    5    learning
when you are 18．Every day you learn something    6   , no matter what your age. However, I do understand
when you become an adult you have to    7    more responsibility.
     Whereas before I seldom had to clean the dishes, set the table or help out around the house, now I do all of
those. I have already    8    myself the nickname "housekeeper".
     I can even drive now, which is pretty    9   , because of the frequency of accidents. But that"s not to say that
18 is not   10   to be. Not only can I drink alcohol, but I can also   11 . In fact, being 18 has made me really
interested in politics because it now means that I can change things on   12   Day. More and more of my friends
want to become politicians, and it is great to think that they can change things for the better.

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