pleasure A. league B. ocean C. break D. breakfast
科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:阅读理解
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36~55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
I took home a briefcase full of troubles . As I sat down on that hot and damp 36 , there seemed to be no 37 to the problems hanging around in my brain . So I picked up a book , settled into a comfortable chair and 38 my own special therapy (疗法): 39 reading .
I 40 three or four hours on two short chapters of Personal History by Vincent Sheean—tasting each paragraph , staying over a sentence , a phrase , or even a single word , building a detailed mental picture of the scene . No longer was I in Sydney , Australia , on a sticky hot night . Enjoying every word , I 41 foreign journalist Vincent Sheean on a tour to China and another to Russia . I was 42 in the author’s world . And when finally I put it down , my mind was totally 43 .
Next morning , four words from the book—“take the long 44 ” were still in my mind . At my desk , I had a long-view look at my 45 . Once more , super-slow-reading had given me not only 46 but perspective (视角), and helped me in my everyday affairs .
I discovered its 47 years ago . Before that , if I had been really interested in a book , I would 48 from page to page , 49 to know what came next . Now , I decided , I had to become a miser (守财奴)with 50 and stretch every sentence like a poor man spending his last dollar .
I had started with the practical object of making my book last . But by the end of the second week I began to realize 51 I was getting from super-slow-reading itself . Sometimes just a particular phrase 52 my attention , sometimes a sentence . I would read it slowly, analyze it , read it again—perhaps changing down into an even 53 speed—and then sit for 20 minutes thinking about it before moving on . I was like a pianist 54 a piece of music , phrase by phrase , practicing it , trying to discover and 55 exactly what the composer(作曲家) was trying to convey.
A.day B.morning C.afternoon D.evening
A.solutions B.doubt C.wonder D.courses
A.tried on B.applied C.practiced D.managed
A.fast B.super fast C.super slow D.slow
A.spent B.wasted C.cost D.took
A.united B.attended C.attracted D.joined
A.found B.lost C.persuaded D.accepted
A.broken B.discouraged C.refreshed D.awakened
A.view B.care C.walk D.distance
A.therapy B.problems C.reading D.work
A.difficulty B.success C.achievement D.pleasure
A.use B.disadvantage C.value D.importance
A.look B.read C.analyze D.digest
A.worried B.eager C.glad D.anxious
A.books B.troubles C.words D.music
A.how well B.how long C.how many D.how much
A.caught B.missed C.escaped D.paid
A.faster B.higher C.lower D.slower
A.playing B.studying C.writing D.singing
A.realize B.recognize C.repay D.understand
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科目:高中英语 来源:2013-2014学年高考第二轮专题复习提分训练专题七非谓语动词英语试卷(解析版) 题型:单项填空
(2013·高考浙江卷)________ how others react to the book you have just read creates an added pleasure.
A.Hearing? B.Hear
C.Having heard??? D.To be hearing
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科目:高中英语 来源:江苏省教育集团2009-2010学年度高一下学期期中考试试卷(英语) 题型:单项填空
It is considered a good way for students to ________study with pleasure.
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A.combine |
B.join |
C.add |
D.link |
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科目:高中英语 来源:内蒙古09-10学年高一下学期期中考试(英语) 题型:单项填空
One advantage of playing the guitar is _____ it can give you a great deal of pleasure.
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A.how |
B.why |
C.that |
D.when |
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科目:高中英语 来源:2010-2011学年江苏省南京市白下区高三二模模拟考试英语卷 题型:完型填空
完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从下列各题所给的四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
Perhaps you’ve attended some parties. But like New York,where a party or dinner often __36__ business with pleasure, a Washington party is a __37__ part of the business of politics, the business of making __38__ connections.
Some Washington parties have a __39__ aura (气氛) about them, depending on who gives them and who is there, but most parties are open-house __40__ in fact, with the hosts not knowing most of the __41__ who are there.
I went to a few of these parties __42__ I wanted to see the inside of some of the Washington mansions (公馆) I had __43__ so much about. Almost every time during the evening some man would come close to talk with me __44__, we didn’t know each other at all. Such a __45__ exchange clearly proves “a gathering of friends” __46__ Washington party standards. You don’t even need an __47__ to attend many Washington parties. You just have to know about them. No Washington hostess would __48__ her servants to ask you who you were. Most of the bigger parties, those with 300 or 400 guests, __49__ to impress somebody, and Washingtonians __50__.
Most members of the Congress ,for example, __51__ middle-class backgrounds in smaller communities __52__ the country. They are dazzled (眼花缭乱的) by __53__. They are dazzled by big names. They are ready to help Washington __54__ hostesses. They go along with them because they are good friends or they don’t notice that they __55__ or they don’t care if they are.
1.. A. follows B. connects C. mixes D. goes
2.. A. daily B. necessary C. chief D. cheap
3.. A. still B. cruel C. mental D. important
4. A. social B. nervous C. terrible D. simple
5. A. events B. affairs C. conferences D. games
6. A. guests B. customers C. guards D. guides
7. A. so that B. in order that C. as if D. because
8. A. found B. noticed C. heard D. wrote
9. A. since B. though C. when D. whether
10. A. common B. strict C. public D. special
11. A. including B. comparing with C. according to D. depending on
12. A. invitation B. envelope C. instrument D. acceptance
13. A. refuse B. allow C. agree D. warn
14.A. are given B. give C. are supplied D. supply
15. A. easily forget B. hardly remember C. easily impress D. are easily impressed
16.A. hear from B. write to C. come from D. call out
17. A. over B. below C. between D. across
18.A. money B. equal C. freedom D. discussion
19. A. strange B. famous C. poor D. stupid
20. A. are using B. are being used C. are obeying D. are being obeyed
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