--Do you still remember when we went to Australia?
--I can’t remember now but ______ sometime last winter?
A. might it be B. could it be
C. could it have been D. should it have been
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年黑龙江大庆一中高二下假期验收英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
My grandmother Adele loved culture and was generous with its gifts. When I was a child, she took me to museums, restaurants, dances. She showered me with gifts from her travels around the world. But I can only remember her giving me one book—a book that, to this day, I have not read. She presented me with her own favorite childhood book: Hans Brinker. My grandmother was happy to share this book with me. She even decorated the title page with her proud writing.
I tried to read it. I adored reading, and would dive into a new pile of books from the library all at once. But something about Hans Brinker just wouldn’t let me in. The story was set in Holland, a long time ago. It felt dull and unfamiliar—even though I was a fan of classics of other times and places. I simply read the first pages over and over. I could not progress.
Standing on a bookshelf in our living room, the book was like something I avoided. It scolded me for not being interested, for not trying hard enough, for disappointing my grandmother.
The book started to fit in, almost forgotten, until Adele asked. Had I read it? Did I like it? Always determined, she wanted to know the answer. I would make some kind of excuse, feel bad, and open it again, hoping for a new reaction. The book weighed on me.
Years passed and finally Adele and I both accepted that I would never read Hans Brinker. Eventually I cleared the book from the shelf. The Hans Brinker experience led me to set a rule that I’ve lived by ever since: Do not ask about a book given as a gift. Don’t ask, despite your desire to discuss it to grow closer. The desire for such connection is what gives book-giving with special meaning—and increases the owner’s possibility to be a letdown.
Guilt is basically the same as for all gifts, though. If the giver doesn’t have the pleasure of seeing or hearing about the gift being enjoyed, and asks whether it is, then the owner—unless she can truthfully say “yes”—either has to admit to not liking the present, or else lie on the spot. Neither is pleasant. So, don’t ask.
1.When the author was a kid, his grandmother ________.
A. took him to travel around the world a lot
B. loved to take him to museums and stores
C. shared her childhood stories with him
D. gave him many gifts
2.What does the author think about the book his grandmother gave him?
A. Boring. B. Interesting.
C. Puzzling. D. Disappointing.
3.The underlined sentence “The book weighed on me” in Paragraph 4 probably means _______.
A. the book is too heavy for the author to carry
B. the author feels stressful facing the book
C. the book is full of powerful viewpoints
D. the author keeps reading the book
4.The author learns from the Hans Brinker’s experience that never________.
A. give others books as gifts
B. lie to people who give you gifts
C. get close to others through gifts
D. talk about the books given as gifts
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届重庆市高三3月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
My father was always a good gardener. One of my earliest memories is standing without shoes in the freshly tilled（翻耕的）soil, my hands blackened from digging in the ground.
As a child, I loved following Dad around in the garden, I remember Dad pushing the tiller（耕作机）ahead in perfectly straight lines. Dad loved growing all sorts of things: yellow and green onions, watermelons almost as big as me, rows of yellow com, and our favorite --- red tomatoes.
As I grew into a teenager, I didn't get so excited about gardening with Dad. Instead of magical land of possibility, it had turned into some kind of prison. As Dad grew older, his love for gardening never disappeared. After all the kids were grown and had started families of their own, Dad turned to gardening like never before. Even when he was diagnosed with cancer, he still took care of his garden.But then, the cancer, bit by bit, invaded his body. I had to do the things he used to do. What really convinced me that Dad was dying was the state of his garden that year. The rows and rows of multicolored vegetables were gone. Too tired to weed them, he simply let them be. He only planted tomatoes.
For the first few years after he died, I couldn't even bear to look at anyone's garden without having strong memories pour over me like cold water from a bucket. Three years ago, I decided to plant my own garden and started out with just a few tomatoes. That morning, after breaking up a fair amount of soil, something caught the comer of my eye and I had to smile, It was my eight-year-old son Nathan, happily playing in the freshly tilled soil.
1.Why did the author like the garden when he was a child?
A. The garden was planted with colorful flowers.
B. The garden was just freshly tilled by his father.
C. He loved what his father grew in the garden.
D. He enjoyed being in the garden with his father.
2.When all the kids started their own families, the author's father .
A. stopped his gardening
B. turned to other hobbies
C. devoted more to gardening
D. focused on planting tomatoes
3.What happened to the garden when the author's father was seriously ill?
A. The author's son took charge of it.
B. No plant grew in the garden at all.
C. The garden was almost deserted.
D. It brought the author a great harvest.
4.We can infer from the last paragraph that .
A. the author's son played happily in the garden
B. the author's son reminded him of his own father
C. the author's son was very glad to help the author
D. the author's son will continue gardening as well
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届河北武邑中学高三下学期周考3英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
A very close friend phoned me this weekend and asked a specific question about earning a few extra dollars each month online. For the benefit of keeping her name and details secret, I will call her Annie in this article. You see Annie suffers from a severe form of inaction syndrome; she is full of great ideas that never materialize into cash and she is having a problem finding the link that will achieve this.
Somebody once said that knowledge is power, yet we constantly find from readers of our website that they have knowledge to burn and still do not have power. Just look at the academics in universities all around the world; they have so much knowledge that they should control the wealth of the world. In truth they work for peanuts and very few of them ever achieve the power of independence. So knowledge certainly isn’t power. Therefore, we should change that “wise” statement to:“Power is the ability to use knowledge to your own benefit.”
That paragraph was inserted because Annie is a typical academic—strong on talk and plans but a little weaker on actions. In the period of a twenty-minute conversation, she expounded（阐述）a whole list of plans and ideas to make the extra few hundred dollars each month she was seeking. Any one of her many ideas was a potential money maker, but she had taken action on none of them. At one time she said, “I’m lost as to what to do next.”
That was my cue（提示）to get involved. “Take action,” I advised.
All that is wrong is that Annie was inactive without knowing it. In five minutes we drew up a plan of action and agreed to talk again in a month to review progress. When we finished the conversation, she sounded much happier and more motivated than when we started. Annie just needs a little nudge into beneficial action.
1.What’s the problem with Annie?
A. She has too many great ideas.
B. She never puts her ideas into practice.
C. She suffers from a strange illness.
D. She knows little about making money online.
2.What is the most important according to the author?
A. The ability to use one’s knowledge.
B. The ability to acquire knowledge.
C. A great deal of knowledge.
D. A good understanding of oneself.
3.What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. Annie will succeed in later life.
B. Annie is going towards success.
C. Annie doesn’t realize her problems.
D. Annie talks too much in daily life.
4.The underlined word “nudge” in the last paragraph probably means________.
A. push B. advice C. training D. Power
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届江苏省扬州市高三上学期期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Every year, countless nonprofit organizations want to double their donations. Many companies in the United States have a Matching Gift program, which offers certain amount of money to these organizations when its employee makes a personal donation. The following list includes information on four major companies matching gift programs.
The Coca-Cola Limitation | Coca-Cola offers a matching gift program for employees through which the company triples (三倍于)donations to educational organizations, arts& cultural organizations and environmental groups. If you have donors who work for Coke, then make sure they’re submitting these grant requests , as the tripling of employee donations can go a long way. |
GE Foundation | The GE Foundation matches at a 1:1 ratio with a minimum required donation of $ 25 and a maximum donation of $25,000 per year. Employees (both part and full-time), spouses ,and retires are all eligible for their matching gift program. |
Google offers a generous matching gift program through which the company matches donations form employees to a wide range of organizations. This is through either the company’s personal matching gift program or through the matching of fundraising efforts for events such as walks , marathons, bike rides, etc. Each Google employee can request up to $12,000 in matching funds annually through its different matching gift programs. | |
Verizon | Verizon has a solid matching gift program in place for its full-time and part-time employees and for its retires. Verizon matches donations at a 1：1 ratio, with a minimum gift requirement of $25 and a maximum gift requirements of $ 1,000 per year, per donor . The company will match a maximum of $5,000 per year , per donor for donation to higher education. |
1.When a company’s employee makes a donation to a nonprofit, the Matching Gift programs will _________.
A. compensate the employee
B. donate instead of the employee
C. give certain donations as well
D. organize some voluntary events
2.From the list ,we know that __________.
A. Coca-Cola offers three times donations of its employees’ to religious groups.
B. Coca-Cola handles its employees’ donations request quickly.
C.GE and Verizon will give the same amount, if an employee donates $20.
D. Google’s employees can claim matching gift in various forms.
3.The purpose of this passage is _______.
A. to inform B. to entertain
C.to explain D. to persuade
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届江苏省扬州市高三上学期期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
To get promoted, I must _____ my colleagues, who are committed to their jobs.
A. take after B. take to C. take in D. take on
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年浙江三市高一下九次联考英语卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
完型填空
A businessman, with a large amount of money, was walking through a remote (偏远的) area. Upon ________ this, a thief followed him, planning to________ his money at a certain time. The businessman noticed something was ________, and he started to pay much more ________to the thief.
The businessman soon asked the thief if he________help find some water nearby, and when the thief went to________ the water, the businessman put all of his________into the thief’s bag. Then the thief returned and told the businessman________ the water was. ________the businessman left to get some water, the thief quickly________the businessman’s bag. Certainly, there was nothing that the thief________ .
The thief was ________, but he still did not give up hope. After some time, the businessman returned and they both ________for a long time. Then the businessman got tired and________ under a big tree. The thief again checked the businessman’s bag and still did not find any money. So the thief ________that the businessman did not actually have any money with him.
Finally, they arrived at a city. When the thief went after a job and left his own bag behind, the businessman ________in and took back all of his own money he had put there ________ When the thief came back, he was surprised to see that the businessman was________ some jewels with the money in his bag. The thief couldn’t ________ asking the question, “I didn’t know you had money on the________ .” The businessman smiled to him, “Of course you didn’t, because it is not yours.”
1.A. talking B. learning C. thinking D. speaking
2.A. keep B. borrow C. steal D. put
3.A. new B. common C. strange D. dangerous
4.A. care B. mercy C. need D. attention
5.A. would B. could C. should D. must
6.A. carry on B. look for C. watch over D. bring along
7.A. goods B. food C. money D. clothes
8.A. how B. what C. that D. where
9.A. As soon as B. As far as C. As well as D. As long as
10.A. hid B. searched C. explored D. changed
11.A. saved B. planned C. owned D. wanted
12.A. frightened B. angry C. surprised D. nervous
13.A. drank B. walked C. rested D. discussed
14.A. sat B. stood C. slept D. stopped
15.A. agreed B. wished C. doubted D. believed
16.A. put B. got C. reached D. broke
17.A. rightly B. luckily C. really D. formerly
18.A. buying B. wearing C. having D. showing
19.A. keep B. help C. enjoy D. avoid
20.A. trip B. visit C. holiday D. business
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年黑龙江友谊红兴隆管理局第一中学高一下开学考英语卷（解析版） 题型：单词拼写
单词拼写(注意使用适当形式)
1.There is no clear _________（证据）that these chemicals are damaging the environment.
2.The courts were asked to ____________ (采用) a more flexible approach to young offenders.
3.It started as a hobby, but it got so ___________ (上瘾的) that I had to keep on doing it.
4.It’s about time we were __________ (朝……方向前进) home.
5.What was Jeff’s __________ (反应) when you told him about the job?
6.They hurried there (立即，即刻)when they heard the news.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年河北广平第一中学高一下学期第一次月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Dear Betty,
My roommate’s family wants me to celebrate Thanksgiving Day with them in their home. I accepted the invitation, and I’m excited about going, but I’m a little nervous about it, too. The social customs in my country are different from those here, so I’m a little worried about making mistakes.
Should I bring a gift, such as candy or flowers? Should I arrive on time or a little late? At the dinner table, how can I know which fork or knife to use? How can I let the family know that I’m thankful for their kindness?
Yours,
Knowing Nothing
Dear Knowing Nothing,
It’s a good idea to bring a gift when you go to a dinner party. Flowers are always welcome, or you can bring a bottle of wine if you know the family drink it.
You should arrive on time or five to ten minutes late. Don’t get there early. If you are going to be more than fifteen minutes late, you should call and tell them.
Try to relax at the dinner table. If you don’t know how to use the right fork, knife or spoon, just watch the other guests, and follow them. If you still have no idea of what to do, don’t be shy about asking the person next to you; it’s better to ask them than to be silently uncomfortable and nervous.
If you like the food, say so. Of course, you’ll thank the host and hostess for the meal and for their kindness. It’s also a good idea to send a card to thank them the day after.
Yours,
Betty
1.Knowing Nothing wrote a letter to Betty to _____.
A. tell Betty some good news B. ask for some advice
C. answer some questions D. invite her to dinner
2. According to Betty, Knowing Nothing ______ when going to a dinner party.
A. can only bring some flowers
B. can’t bring wine
C. should arrive on time or five to ten minutes late
D. should arrive twenty minutes late
3.Betty does NOT advise Knowing Nothing to _____.
A. relax at the dinner table
B. watch the other guests
C. ask the person beside him
D. keep silent at table
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