1、高一英语上学期期末复习专题练习（阅读理解）AAs the oldest of three children, I never had any hand-me-downs to wear like other poor kids. Instead, Mom got my wardrobe (行头) from neighborhood mothers. Imagine the fun other kids had when they saw me wearing their used clothing.Perhaps my biggest challenge came from Charlie.
2、As far as I was concerned, Charlies main fun was to make fun of me. During those years, I slowly learned to hate. I hated Charlie, but I also hated myself for not being able to change my situation.But situations do change. That opportunity came after high school when I joined the Navy. The Navy made
3、 me a social equal for the first time in my life, and the GI Bill gave me a college education. Hard work and a few lucky career (职业) choices finally lifted me into the middle class. I found myself living the American Dream.One beautiful summer afternoon, my friend and I celebrated Friday in Jacksons
4、 Steak House. For the first time in almost twenty years, I saw Charlie. Not only did I see him, but he spoke to me. I could tell he didnt recognize me, but I surely recognized my childhood tormentor (摧残者). His words were short, but Ill never forget them. He said, “Sir, what kind of dressing would yo
5、u like with your salad?”The tables had turned. Charlie was calling me “Sir”. While hundreds of improper ideas raced through my mind, I could only give a two-word reply “Blue cheese”.Although I wanted to taste the sweet taste of revenge (复仇), I refused to do it. I wouldnt put another person through w
6、hat I had gone through as a child. It was time to put childish things behind me and make use of the new opportunity that life had given me. I left him a good tip and I didnt say one word about recognizing him.1Where did the author usually get his clothes as a kid?A. His mum bought them for him. B. T
7、hey were from other families.C. Other poor kids collected them for him. D. They were handed down by his brothers.2Which word best describes the authors childhood?A. Painful B. Funny. C. Strange. D. Lucky.3What job did Charlie probably do?A. A hairdresser. B. A waiter. C. A soldier. D. A cook.4What i
8、s the best title of the passage?A. Live your own American Dream. B. Best memories in childhood.C. Dont hate but love your enemy. D. Growing up and letting go. BTeenagers who spend hours in front of the television may have a poorer diet (日常饮食) as young adults. A study, which included nearly 1, 400 hi
9、gh school students, found those who watched TV for five hours or more per day had less healthy diets than peers (同龄人) five years later. Why does this happen? Should the parents take any measures? On the one hand, people who spend a lot of time in front of the TV, especially teenagers, may snack more
10、, and that may influence their long-term diet quality. On the other hand, TV ads for fast food, sweets and snacks tempt teenagers to eat more of those foods. And TV time might also replace exercise time for some kids. Lead researcher Dr. Daheia J. Barr-Anderson, of the University of Minnesota in Min
11、neapolis, told Reuters Health a clear relationship between TV time during high school and diet quality in young adulthood. While the heaviest TV viewers were eating the most junk food, those whod watched less than two hours per day had the highest intake (摄入量) of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and
12、 high-calcium food. In her opinion, parents should limit and monitor TV viewing. As far as I am concerned, children should watch not more than two hours of television per day. And parents should set a good example by eating right, being physically active and controlling their own TV time.5.What does
13、 the underlined word tempt probably mean? A. Help. B. Allow. C. Attract. D. Invite.6.What do the heavy TV viewers tend to do according to the text? A. Take in high-calcium food. B. Take in fewer vegetables.C. Eat less junk food. D. Eat more fruits.7.What suggestion does the author give the parents?
14、A. They should behave well in front of their children.B. They should encourage their children to exercise more.C. They should stop the children from watching TV.D. They should pay attention to nutrition in diets.8.Whats the best title for this text? A. Teenagers TV Time May Influence Their Diets Lat
15、erB. People Should Keep Away from TV to Keep HealthyC. Parents Own Habits May Influence Children LaterD. Why Do Teenagers Like TV CI have never understood why we keep a garden and why years ago when I bought my first house, I started digging up a small land for vegetables before doing anything else.
16、 It is so easy and cheap to buy carrots; why raise them? When April comes, I always find myself looking at that miserable land, resolving not to plant it again. But unavoidably a morning arrives when, just as I am awakening, a refreshing scent (香味), as if from the very center of this planet, comes t
17、hrough the window. And the sun suddenly, seems to have a different, deeper yellow in its light on the carpet.It is not only pleasure sending me back to stare at that plot of soil, it is real conflict. The question is the same each yearwhat method should we use? The last few years we put black plasti
18、c between the rows, and it worked perfectly. But plastic looks so industrial, so unromantic, that I have gradually moved over to hay. We cut a lot of hay and it does improve the soil. Besides, it looks lovely and comes to us free.The attractions of gardening, I think, at least for some gardeners, ar
19、e moral. Whenever life seems pointless and difficult to grasp, you can always get out in the garden and get something done. Also, your parental instinct comes into play because helpless living things are depending on you, requiring training and protection from enemies. In some cases, as with beans a
20、nd cucumbers, your childrenas it were, begin to turn upon on you in great numbers, growing more and more each morning and threatening to follow you into the house.9.What does the underlined word “resolving” probably mean?A. pretendingB. refusingC. decidingD. managing10.What drove the author to aband
21、on plastic?A. High price.B. Environmental concern.C. Poor function.D. Personal preference.11.Why does the author say the attractions of gardening are moral?A. Gardening requires wisdom.B. Gardening offers moral advice.C. Gardening brings spiritual content.D. Gardening improves parenting.12.What is t
22、he best title for the text?A. To Garden or NotB. What I Garden forC. How to GardenD. Wisdom from Gardens DYou may have heard of Dude Perfect. They are 5 guys who make crazy trick (技巧) shots and have fun for a living! They are so good at what they do. They have one of the top 10 channels (频道) on YouT
23、ube. It all sounds good. But their real story is much deeper and better. It is a story of trust, friendship, hard work, passion and giving back.Dude Perfect is made up of 5 best friends who met while at college at Texas A&M University. Their names are Coby, Cory Cotton, Garrett Hilbert, Cody Jones,
24、and Tyler Toney. At college, they became friends through their love of sports. They enjoyed spending time with each other so much that they all became roommates.One day， in their backyard, they said they could make a trick basketball shot. They started to take video of their crazy shots. Within one
25、week, the video received over 200,000 views! Soon, they received a call from the TV show Good Morning America who wanted to interview them. That was their first interview, the one that started everything! As Dude Perfect started to catch on, they started to attract star athletes to shoot videos with
26、 them.Despite all their success, they have never taken their eyes off their bigger goal to spread good worldwide. Their message of the power of faith and friendship is at the heart of what they do.Their videos show the history of Dude Perfect and the values that drive them. There is a great example
27、of how they use their fame (名声) to spread good. They also show how they invite children from the Make a Wish Foundation to be a “Dude for a Day”!Dude Perfects tricks are so good that some people question whether they are real. Well, they are. The secret is simply hard work and persistence (坚持). Thei
28、r videos show how they do what they do!13. What is the key to setting up Dude Perfect?A. The star athletes love for it,B. The members common interest.C. The popularity of social media.D. The trust between different people.14. Which of the following can best describe Dude Perfect?A. Strong but shy.B.
29、 Humorous but crazy.C. Kind and hard-working.D. Handsome and easy-going.15. What can we learn from Dude Perfect?A. It is never too old to learn.B. Never forget why you started.C. You cant judge a book by its cover.D. Be prepared for danger in times of peace.16. What may be the best title for the tex
30、t?A. Dude Perfect, an amazing teamB. Dude Perfects tricks are realC. Dude Perfect built on friendshipD. Dude Perfect achieved their goal EResearch shows that in the United States a great number of teenagers who once enjoyed sports no longer participate in middle or high school sports team. These tee
31、nagers say its just not worth it. Why do promising athletes walk away from middle school or high school sports, and what should you do if your athlete decides not to play team sports?Take Madeline for example. When she was living with her family in Texas a couple of years ago, Madeline joined her mi
32、ddle schools track team. She was new to the sport, but she was fast, She worked hard, and she won medals. Then one day. Madeline fell and cracked a bone in her wrist. Her track season was over. Her coaches were upset, but probably not in the way youd expect. Rather than comforting their promising at
33、hlete suffering from a disappointing sports injury or encouraging her to return next season, they turned their back on her. They shunned me for the rest of the year, recalls Madeline who has since moved to the East Coast. I guess because I would no longer be winning them any medals.Sports lost their
34、 appeal for me, says Madeline. I did end up trying out for the track team last year, but I actually found myself overwhelmed with memories and emotions from my experience the previous year and ended up dropping out.Talk to coaches, parents and teenagers about the downside of sports, and youll hear t
35、he same answer: by middle school and certainly by high school, it has more often than not become a game of medals. Not the plain old fun of playing. Not the extra benefits that sports offer. But winning.17. What happened to Madeline?A. She dropped out of school. B. She got injured in the wrist.C. Sh
36、e failed to make the track team. D. She fell behind others in her studies.18. What does the word shunned in paragraph 3 mean?A. Stayed away from.B. Got on with.C. Made an apology to.D. Ended up with.19. What might Madeline think of her coaches behavior?A. DisappointingB. Comforting.C. Understandable
37、.D. Reasonable.20. Why do many athletes quit team sports in middle or high school?A. Medals no longer attract them.B. Team sports are not exciting.C. Sports are more about winning.D. Injuries are more likely to happen FIf the crust（外壳）of the earth were not pretty solid（坚固的）, it would be shaking and
38、moving up and down frequently. However, there are places in the rocks of the earths crust where it isnt strongly held togetherwhere faults exist. Along the faults, one rock might push against another with great force. The energy is changed to vibration in the rocks, so they begin to shake and we hav
39、e an earthquake!The most famous one in North America was the Sin Francisco earthquake of 1906. Seven hundred people died and property（财产）damage amounted to about $425,000,000. The greatest destruction came from the fires that followed the quake.One of the most famous earthquakes in Europe took place
40、 in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1755. The city was destroyed and at least thirty thousand people were killed. In 1908, in Calabria and Sicily, a quake killed about seventy-five thousand people. In 1915, in central Italy, hundreds of towns and villages were damaged and thirty thousand people were killed. Tw
41、o great earthquakes that caused great damage in Asia took place in Tokyo, Japan, and in Gansu Province in China. The Tokyo quake of 1923 killed more than one hundred thousand people and destroyed the city and the city of Yokohama, too. The Chinese quake in 1920 covered more than three hundred square
42、 miles and killed about two hundred thousand people.21. The first paragraph mainly tells us_.A. where earthquakes happenB. the damage caused by earthquakesC. how earthquakes happenD. famous earthquakes in the world22. The underlined word “vibration” in the first paragraph probably means “_”.A. force
43、B. shakingC. energy.D. losing23. Which of the following is the correct order of the years when the earthquakes happened?the San Francisco earthquakethe earthquake in Lisbon, Portugalthe earthquake in Calabria and Sicilythe earthquake in central Italythe earthquake in Gansu Provincethe Tokyo quakeA.
44、B. C. D. 24. We can infer from the passage that_.A. the fires following the San Francisco earthquake caused more damage than the earthquake didB. the earths crust in Europe is weaker than that in other placesC. there were 75,000 people killed in the San Francisco earthquakeD. the city of Yokohama wa
45、s not greatly influenced by the Tokyo quake GHe leaves his briefcase(公文包) beside the driver and finds a seat in the middle of a group of bored teenagers. He sits forward, looks at the driver, sits back, and repeats the process. The teenagers stare at him. They dont realize Porters afraid someone wil
46、l steal his briefcase.Porter came to Portland when he was 13. Heattended a school for the disabled and then Lincoln High School, where he was placed in a class for slow kids. But he wasnt slow. He wanted to be a salesman and his mother was certain that he could one day make it. With herencouragement
47、, he applied for different jobsonly to be turned down. He began reading help-wanted ads in the newspaper and read about Watkins, a company that sold household products. His mother set up a meeting with a representative (代表). The man said no, but Porter wouldnt listen. He just wanted a chance. The ma
48、n gave in and offered Porter an area of the city that no salesman wanted.That night Porter discovered the products of the company were guaranteed (保障) . He would sell that promise.On the first day, people told him to go away. However, if a customer turned him down, Porter kept coming back until they heard him. And he s
