科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:053
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Tom Dyson tried to find out what his new machine could do. One day he fixed the small box to a flowering plant that was growing in a pot. He didn't say anything at all, but he began to think some cruel thoughts.
“I'm going to cut off these flowers. They're getting old and ugly. So I'll cut them off…”
The needle on the machine climbed quickly from zero to 8, then 10, 12, 15. It stopped at 17. The plant was in trouble! Something was worrying it. Was it fear or sadness? The thought of being cut? The flowers bent their heads. They suddenly looked old and tired, and Tom felt sorry for them.
“No, no!” he cried.“I won't cut you. You're my friends. I just want you to grow and be lovely. I'll take you outside, into the sunshine. You'll like that, won't you?”
The flowers lifted their heads slowly and seemed to smile at him. The needle returned to zero. Tom put away the machine, picked up the plant and walked outside. It was very nice in the garden that morning.
All plants enjoy their owner's love and care and kindness. They know the sound of their voice. They also seem to understand people's thoughts. So if you have flowers of your own, think about them with love. They will return your kindness in the only way they can: they will grow strong and beautiful.
1.Choose the right order of the events given in the passage.
[ ]
a.The needle pointed to 17.
b.Tom felt sorry for the flowers.
c.Tom thought of cutting off the flowers.
d.The flowers looked old and tired.
e.Tom fixed the machine to a plant.
f.Tom took the plant outside.
g.The needle returned to zero.
h.Tom cried, “I won't cut you.”
[ ]
A.e; a; g; h; d; b; c; f
B.c; e; d; a; b; h; g; f
C.e; c; a; d; h; b; f; g
D.e; c; a; d; b; h; g; f
2.The only way in which plants can show their love is ________.
[ ]
A.enjoying their owner's love
B.bringing up nicely
C.holding up their heads
D.smiling at their owners
3.According to the passage, which of the following is true?
[ ]
A.Tom wanted to cut off the flowers.
B.Tom said nothing, but the flowers could understand him.
C.The machine didn't work properly.
D.The flowers were getting bad - looking
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科目:高中英語 來源:2013年全國普通高等學(xué)校招生統(tǒng)一考試英語(江蘇卷帶解析) 題型:閱讀理解
Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. And he surely deserves additional praise: the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.
I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War. H. B. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is only the most famous example. These early stories dealt directly with slavery. With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely. He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.
Again and again, in the postwar years, Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race. Consider the most controversial, at least today, of Twain’s novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twain’s most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck them as rude. Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums (貧民窟).” More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim, the escaped slave, and many occurences of the word nigger. (The term Nigger Jim, for which the novel is often severely criticized, never appears in it.)
But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point. The novel is strongly anti-slavery. Jim’s search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic. As J. Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual: Jim, the father and the man.”
There is much more. Twain’s mystery novel Pudd’nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior (低等的) to whites, especially in intelligence, Twain’s tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth to her master’s baby and, for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the master’s baby by his wife. The slave’s lightskinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class. The master’s wife’s baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.
The point was difficult to miss: nurture (養(yǎng)育), not nature, was the key to social status. The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice—manner of speech, for example— were, to Twain, indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.
Twain’s racial tone was not perfect. One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography (自傳) about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youth—mostly with white men performing in black-face—and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them. Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality. His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.
Was Twain a racist? Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln. If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black man the inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.
【小題1】 How do Twain’s novels on slavery differ from Stowe’s?
A.Twain was more willing to deal with racism. |
B.Twain’s attack on racism was much less open. |
C.Twain’s themes seemed to agree with plots. |
D.Twain was openly concerned with racism. |
A.target readers at the bottom |
B.a(chǎn)nti-slavery attitude |
C.rather impolite language |
D.frequent use of “nigger” |
A.Jim’s search for his family was described in detail. |
B.The slave’s voice was first heard in American novels. |
C.Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture. |
D.Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent. |
A.slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters |
B.slaves’ babies could pick up slave-holders’ way of speaking |
C.blacks’ social position was shaped by how they were brought up |
D.blacks were born with certain features of prejudice |
A.The attacks. | B.Slavery and prejudice. |
C.White men. | D.The shows. |
A.Twain had done more than his contemporary writers to attack racism. |
B.Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln. |
C.Twain’s works had been banned on unreasonable grounds. |
D.Twain’s works should be read from a historical point of view. |
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科目:高中英語 來源:2011-2012學(xué)年安徽省蚌埠四校聯(lián)盟高一自主招生考試英語試卷(帶解析) 題型:填空題
根據(jù)首字母或漢語提示,完成下列單詞的拼寫,使句意通順。
【小題1】Joan wants to a______ her dream.
【小題2】There are many ______ (景點) in Bengbu.
【小題3】Tom and Lucy got _______ (結(jié)婚) in 2000.
【小題4】Mr. Wang is an h_______ man that we all trust him.
【小題5】A cat has some d________ from a tiger.
【小題6】My school is about 35 _______ (分鐘)walk from the park.
【小題7】It' is too noisy outside. I want to know what is ________(發(fā)生).
【小題8】________(相信)in ourselves is the first step on the road to success.
【小題9】New school year usually begins on the first day of S _______ in China.
【小題10】Henry left his homework at home again. He is always doing everything c_________.
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科目:高中英語 來源:2011-2012學(xué)年安徽省蚌埠四校聯(lián)盟高一自主招生考試英語試卷(解析版) 題型:單詞拼寫
根據(jù)首字母或漢語提示,完成下列單詞的拼寫,使句意通順。
1.Joan wants to a______ her dream.
2.There are many ______ (景點) in Bengbu.
3.Tom and Lucy got _______ (結(jié)婚) in 2000.
4.Mr. Wang is an h_______ man that we all trust him.
5.A cat has some d________ from a tiger.
6.My school is about 35 _______ (分鐘)walk from the park.
7.It' is too noisy outside. I want to know what is ________(發(fā)生).
8.________(相信)in ourselves is the first step on the road to success.
9.New school year usually begins on the first day of S _______ in China.
10.Henry left his homework at home again. He is always doing everything c_________.
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科目:高中英語 來源:2010年江西省吉安市高一下學(xué)期期末考試英語卷 題型:單詞拼寫
根據(jù)句意及首字母或漢語提示,寫出各句中所缺單詞的正確形式。(每空一詞,共10分)
76.Tom hurt Mary so deeply that she would never f him.
77.She has been taking exercise to lose w and stay slim.
78.Everyone knows smoking is h to their health and they try to give it up.
79.A v earthquake hit Yushu and caused more than 1,000 deaths.
80.Whoever isn’t c with what he has always feels disappointed.
81.Mary spent her (童年)in the countryside.
82.If the goes on working hard, he is (可能) to succeed.
83.It is large organization with offices (遍及)the world.
84.Sicuak (風(fēng)俗)differ greatly from country to country.
85.Most information comes from the direct (觀察)of the stars in outer space.
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