One of my fondest memories as a child is going by the river and sitting idly on the bank. There I would enjoy the peace and quiet, watch the water rush downstream and listen to the singing of birds and the rustling of leaves in the trees. I would also watch the bamboo trees bend under pressure from the wind and watch them return gracefully to their original position after the wind had died down.
When I think    about the  bamboo trees’ ability to bounce back  or return  to its original position, the word “resilience” comes to my mind. When used in reference to a person, this word means the ability to readily recover from shock, depression or any other negative situation that stretches the limits of a person’s emotions.
Have you ever felt like you are about to lose control of your emotions? Have you ever felt like you are at your breaking point? Thankfully, you have survived the experience to live to talk about it.
During the  experience you probably    felt a  mix of emotions    that threatened your health.You felt emotionally
tired, mentally exhausted and   you most likely bored unpleasant physical symptoms.
Life is a mixture of good times and bad times, happy moments and unhappy moments. The next time you are experiencing one of those bad times or unhappy moments that take you close to your breaking point, bend, but don’t break. Try your best not to let the situation get the best of you.
A measure of hope will take you through the unpleasant moments. Will hope for a better tomorrow or a better situation, things may not be as bad as they seem to be. The unpleasant moment may be easier to deal with if the end result is worth having.
If the situation gets tough and    you    are at your breaking point, show resilience. Like the bamboo trees, bend, but don’t break!
小題1:What does the underlined word “resilience” mean in Paragraph 2?
A．The ability to overcome any difficulty.
B．The quality of hoping for a better tomorrow.
C．The quality of being brave at the breaking point.
D．The ability to recover easily and quickly from unpleasant or damaging events.
小題2:Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A．Life is like a bamboo tree that never breaks.
B．Whatever difficulties we may meet with in our life, we can bend, but can never break.
C．Life is a mixture of good times and bad times, happy moments and unhappy moments.
D．If you get over your breaking point, you can survive to live longer and more happily than others.
小題3:According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A．The author was an idle child when he was living near the river.
B．We should try our best not to let our bad times get the best of us.
C．Our being likely to lose control of our emotions is common in our life.
D．We should always believe things may not be as bad as they seem to be.
小題4:Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?
A．Bend, but don’t break.B． My wonderful childhood.
C．The bamboo trees.D． Love the bamboo trees and your life.

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:A

試題分析： 我最美好的回憶，就是兒時靜靜地坐在河邊享受著安寧。河邊的竹子——被大風(fēng)吹彎的竹子——給我留下了極深刻的印象。彈性，不僅僅代表了物品的彈力，還可以表示人在經(jīng)受了打擊和挫折后的恢復(fù)能力。
小題1:詞義猜測題。由下文可知這用來形容人時指的是在經(jīng)歷打擊和震驚后的恢復(fù)速度。故選D。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由“The next time you are experiencing one of those bad times or unhappy moments that take you close to your breaking point, bend, but don’t break.”可知我們會不停的遇見困難，但我們只會暫時被壓彎，不會折斷。故選B。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由“One of my fondest memories as a child is going by the river and sitting idly on the bank.”可知我并不是住在河邊，而是我經(jīng)常走去河邊。故選A。
小題4:主旨大意題。文章由自己小時候在河邊見到的竹子引出對人生的思考，認(rèn)為人也應(yīng)該有竹子的韌性（彈性），我們會被生活的壓力壓彎，但是我們不會折斷，不會屈服。故選A。
練習(xí)冊系列答案
相關(guān)習(xí)題

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Who give us life，raise us and are our constant support and well­wishers？Our mothers.That’s why millions of people across the world take Mother’s Day as an opportunity to express thanks and send best wishes to their moms.
However，the celebration of Mother’s Day is not the recent thing that many believe it to be.It was the ancient Greeks who started the tradition by celebrating their annual spring festival in honor of Rhea，the mother of many gods and goddesses.
Later，in the 1600s，Mothering Sunday came to be celebrated in England.On the fourth Sunday of Lent (大齋期)，children brought flowers and special fruitcakes to show their respect for their mothers.It may be the root of the modern Mother’s Day.
Thanks to the great efforts of Julia Ward Howe and Anna Jarvis，Mother’s Day became an official festival in the US.It is celebrated on the second Sunday in May.Later，many countries began to celebrate this day as Mother’s Day.
Today，Mother’s Day is an international festival honoring mothers.It is celebrated all over the world in different ways.In Western countries，the most common way is to treat mothers with breakfast in bed.Kids often allow their mothers to sleep till late in the morning while they prepare her favorite breakfast with their fathers.Some also make hand­made gifts or buy beautiful carnations (康乃馨)．It is the day when you acknowledge your mothers contribution in your life and pay a tribute (禮品) to her，often with flowers and gifts.It complements Father’s Day，the celebration honoring fathers.
Today，Mother’s Day is a day celebrated on various days in many places around the world.
小題1:Why do people across the world celebrate Mother’s Day?
A．Because they want to express thanks and send best wishes to their mothers.
B．Because they want to express thanks and send best wishes to Rhea.
C．Because Mother’s Day is an official festival in the US.
D．Because Mother’s Day is an international festival.
小題2:The modern Mother’s Day came from________.
A．GreeceB．England
C．AmericaD．China
小題3:From the passage we can learn that________.
A．Rhea is the mother of many gods and goddesses of England
B．many people wrongly believe Mother’s Day has a short history
C．in America Mother’s day is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent
D．on Mother’s day fathers have to get up early to prepare breakfast
小題4:The passage mainly wants to tell us________.
A．how to celebrate Mother’s day
B．what to do on Mother’s day
C．the historical change of Mother’s day
D．the meaning of Mother’s day

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：完形填空

One sunny afternoon，a seven?year?old girl went for a walk.She crossed a large area of grassland into the woods ____ she realised that she was lost.
Sitting on a rock and ____ what to do，she began crying.After a while，she ___ to walk along a wide path lined with tall trees and thick bushes. ____ it was getting dark，she saw a small，dark wooden house.She opened the door and ____ stepped in.Suddenly，she heard a strange noise，and she ran out the door and back to the ____.Cold and tired，she fell asleep near a ____.
The girl's parents were out and her dog，Laddy, was at home.Laddy ____ that his mistress(女主人) was in danger.He jumped ____ a window，breaking the glass.He looked in the fields，but he couldn't find his mistress anywhere.However，from the ground came a ___ scent(氣味)as he lowered his head.He ____ the scent and walked across the grassland.Barking ____ into the air，the dog ____ through the woods until he found the ___.But the girl was not there，so he headed back to the woods.Much to his ____，he saw his mistress'blue shirt in the distance.He ____ over some bushes and saw the little stream，where the girl was ____.
When she opened her eyes and ____ her dog standing beside her，the girl said，“You ____ me, Laddy.”and she kissed him several times.Seeing their daughter and dog coming back，the parents burst into tears of ____.That night Laddy had a hero's supper：a huge meal of steak.
小題1:
A．beforeB．sinceC．whileD．a(chǎn)s
小題2:
A．wonderingB．forgetting
C．rememberingD．regretting
小題3:
A．preferredB．expected
C．failedD．decided
小題4:
A．WhenB．UntilC．IfD．Because
小題5:
A．carelesslyB．cautiously
C．hopelesslyD．unwillingly
小題6:
A．treesB．bushesC．woodsD．grasses
小題7:
A．streamB．rockC．treeD．house
小題8:
A．foundB．sensedC．heardD．smelt
小題9:
A．a(chǎn)tB．throughC．inD．onto
小題10:
A．terribleB．strangeC．pleasantD．familiar
小題11:
A．missedB．discoveredC．followedD．ignored
小題12:
A．calmlyB．loudlyC．merrilyD．gently
小題13:
A．searchedB．wanderedC．lookedD．travelled
小題14:
A．windowB．girlC．houseD．hero
小題15:
A．satisfactionB．disappointment
C．embarrassmentD．delight
小題16:
A．jumpedB．climbedC．walkedD．flew
小題17:
A．a(chǎn)wakeB．a(chǎn)bandoned
C．a(chǎn)vailableD．a(chǎn)sleep
小題18:
A．spottedB．watchedC．observedD．saw
小題19:
A．disturbedB．comforted
C．rescuedD．scared
小題20:
A．painB．shockC．sorrowD．relief

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

It does not have to be January 1st to give yourself a chance to make the most out of your day — and your life. Every day is a new day and a fresh start to learn, grow, develop your strengths, heal yourself from past regrets or hurts, and move forward older and wiser. Every day gives you a chance to reinvent yourself, to fine-tune who you are, and build on lessons of what you have learned. It is never too late to change things that are not working in your life and switch gears, instead of thinking in the same old ways, hoping for a different outcome.
Be intelligent, be flexible, and keep and open mind to start each day anew! Flexibility is the key!
Ask yourself: How do you wake up each day? Do you start your day going already feeling pressured and rushed? Do you go through the morning routine without much thought at all, doing what you "have to do" to start your day?
How about starting each new day with a moment to stop, breathe and think of a positive intention for the day.
Think not just what you want to DO, but how you want to BE today?
Each day is a new beginning and a blank slate. How would you like to create your day? Think of it as a blank canvas — what would you like to paint on it. What can you create? If you wake up in a negative mindset, you are more likely to paint a dark picture throughout the day, and your canvas will not reflect hope, happiness and joy.
If you take each day to think positively, and have a positive intention for how you would like to create your day, how would your life be different? What positive outcome can reflect your positive intention?
What can daily positive intentions do for you? Every day you will give yourself the gift of an "attitude of gratitude."
Visualizing how you would like your day will help release positive energy from within you and you will attract more positive energy from those around you. Instead of spinning your wheels in an old way of thinking, each day is a chance to reframe and re-look at things in a different way.
You can experience each day an awe （敬畏）in the beauty and creation of the world — and the beauty of you who is in it!
You find yourself shifting from an "I can't mindset" to an "I can" mindset.
With a focus on positive intentions, you feel more empowered and more like a "victor" than a "victim."
You are more mindful of the present, and will be more likely to live fully in the present each moment of each day. After all, the past is a great place to visit, but you don't want to live there!
So how about starting each day taking a moment to think of a positive intention for the day? Each morning, write it down and reflect each evening on how you did!
Here are examples of Positive Intentions:
"Today I would like to replace my feelings of annoyance towards my co-worker to feelings of acceptance."
"I am looking forward today to focusing on what I am grateful for in my life, rather than what is missing, and express gratefulness to others."
"Today I want to slow my life down and take time to savor the moment, especially with my children".。
Using each day to recommit yourself to positive thinking and intention will help you create the life you want and that you deserve!
小題1:According to the writer, which is the most important?
A．changeableB．positiveC．forgettableD．a(chǎn)ctive
小題2:When you get up, what is the right way to start?
A．Just do as you do regularly
B．Brushing teeth and washing as quickly as possible
C．Stopping for a short while and planning some active things
D．Doing morning exercise to build up your body
小題3:Which of the followings is considered to be positive intention?
A．The boss told me to finish the task, so I have to hurry today
B．Mr. Smith treated me to dinner, so I’d like to send him a card.
C．I have finished all the tasks ,so I’m free today.
D．I didn’t sleep well last night, but it’s time to go to work..
小題4:What can daily intention do for you ,except______?
A．You can live fully
B．You will become mindful everyday
C．You will feel powerful
D．You can spend your day happily

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

What do you want to be when you grow up? A teacher? A doctor? How about an ice-cream taster?
　　Yes, there really is a job where you can get paid to taste ice-cream. Just ask John Harrison, an＂Official Taste Tester＂for the past 21 years. Testing helps manufacturers to be sure of a product’s quality. During his career Harrison has been responsible for approving large quantities of the sweet ice cream－－as well as for developing over 75 flavors (味道).
　Some people think that it would be easy to do this job: after all, you just have to like ice cream, right? No－－there’s more to the job than that, says Harrison, who has a degree in chemistry. He points out that a dairy or food-science degree would be very useful to someone wanting a career in this＂cool＂field.
　　In a typical morning on the job, Harrison tastes and assesses 60 ice-cream samples. He lets the ice cream warm up to about 12℉. Harrison explains,＂You get more flavor from warmer ice cream, which is why some kids like to stir it, creating ice-cream soup.＂
　　While the ice cream warms up, Harrison looks over the samples and grades each one on its appearance.＂Tasting begins with the eyes,＂he explains. He checks to see if the ice cream is attractive and asks himself,＂Does the product have the color expected from that flavor?＂Next it’s time to taste!
Continuing to think up new ideas, try out new flavors, and test samples from so many kinds of ice cream each day keeps Harrison busy but happy－－working at one cool job.
小題1:What is John Harrison’s job?
A．An official.B．An ice-cream taster.
C．A chemist.D．An ice-cream manufacturer.
小題2:According to John Harrison, to be qualified in the＂cool field＂, it is helpful to ______.
A．keep a diary of workB．have a degree in related subjects
C．have new ideas every day D．find out new flavors each day
小題3:What does Harrison do first when testing ice cream?
A．He stirs the ice cream.
B．He examines the color of the ice cream.
C．He tastes the flavor of the ice cream.
D．He lets the ice cream warm up.
小題4:Which of the following is probably the best title of the passage?
A．Tasting with EyesB．Flavors of Ice Cream
C．John Harrison’s Life D．One Cool Job

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

The other day when I was passing a clothing store, I fell in love with a skirt. I knew it would suit me best at first sight. But when I looked at the price tag (標(biāo)簽), I knew I had to give it up.
The love for beautiful clothes has been planted in my heart the day when I was born to be a woman. Several years ago I read an article in a magazine. The article stated that when a woman is at her best time, she is usually poor or tasteless, so she can’t get the right clothes; when she can afford to buy the clothes she likes, she often finds that they do not suit her anymore.
On the way home, I was quite disturbed by such thoughts. It was just a pity, like many other pities. I thought to myself this way. But when I was about to enter the building where I was living, I saw the big mirror placed in the entrance. I saw a girl in it who was in cheap but cleanly washed sweater and jeans. She was rather young, healthy and energetic. For quite a while I was touched by what I had seen in the mirror.
Then I almost forgot the tale: A person without shoes cried until he saw a man without feet. Being young without good clothes is like the person without shoes. I should have felt grateful that I haven’t lost my feet.
小題1:How did the author feel when she decided not to buy the skirt?
A．Embarrassed.B．Wise. C．Regretful.D．Relieved.
小題2:The underlined word “She” in Paragraph 3 refers to       .
A．the author’s friend B．a(chǎn) stranger
C．the author’s roommateD．the author
小題3:Why was the author touched by what she saw in the mirror?
A．She came to realize what she really possessed.
B．She was reminded of her devotion to beauty.
C．She didn’t feel at ease when looking into a mirror.
D．She never thought over the other side of a person.
小題4:We can learn from the text that the author considered her love for beautiful clothes as       .
A．funnyB．naturalC．sillyD．simple

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

There is a problem each of us faces in following advice on emotional healing: apologizing is difficult. We are trapped in what we think of ourselves by holding onto our pride. We can be selfish and not willing to admit our most obvious mistakes. Pride eats away at us as we argue or ignore the mistake.
It's happened to me. I have had too much pride and selfishness to apologize to a loved one I hurt. When I did want to apologize, I couldn't bring myself to face the other person. This is the pride I'm talking about. Maybe apologies come difficult for men because they're expected to be dominant. It's like the joke that a man never asks for directions when lost. Ladies are more emotionally open than guys and are willing to express it. Still, both genders wonder how to correctly apologize.
In shifting the focus on apologizing away from you, what does not apologizing do to other people? They feel hurt that you are not willing to communicate your mistake. They lose trust in you as you hide behind your mistake avoiding reality. They become angry with you, wondering why you do not tell them the truth. They may begin to counter your lack of apologies by not apologizing themselves and from this the relationship goes downhill as the two of you get caught in a power struggle.
You need to communicate your mistakes. A mistake you made is like a scratch and by not apologizing you are making the scratch a deeper wound and rubbing salt into it. You need to stop hurting the other person and yourself by learning to apologize. There is real power in apologizing and emotional healing.
小題1:Why are men more unwilling to make apologies?
A．They don't intend to hurt other people.
B．They expect others to forgive them.
C．They don't want to be considered weak.
D．They aren't good at expressing themselves.
小題2:What bad effect will there be if you refuse to apologize for your mistakes?
A．Other people won't pay attention to you.
B．You will lose confidence in yourself.
C．You won't be forgiven even if you tell the truth.
D．The friendship will get hurt and go worse.
小題3:From the last paragraph, it can be inferred that              .
A．communication can stop you making mistakes
B．mistakes would turn into deeper scratches
C．a(chǎn)pologizing is good for you and other people
D．a(chǎn)pologizing is the most powerful in emotional healing

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

A person, like a commodity, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration(夸張) will do no harm when it shows the person’s unique qualities to their advantages. To show personal attractiveness in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A skilled packager knows how to add art to nature without any signs of embellishment so that the person so packaged is not a commodity, but a human being, lively and lovely.
A young person, especially a female, shining with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted. Youth however, comes and goes in a flash. Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to hide the marks made by years. If you still enjoy life enough to keep self-confidence and work at pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities, and your attractiveness and grace will remain. Elderly people are beautiful if their river of life has been, through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life, which now arrives at a self - satisfied stage of quietness and calmness with no interest in fame or wealth. There is no need to make use of hair dyeing. The snow-capped mountain itself is a beautiful scene of fairyland. Let your looks change from young to old in step with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness. To be in the company of the elderly is like reading a thick book of good edition, which attracts one so much that one is unwilling to part with it. As long as one finds where one stands, one knows how to package oneself, just as a commodity sets up its brand by the right packaging.
小題1:The underlined word in the first paragraph is closest to the word ______ in meaning.
A．decorationB．clarificationC．movementD．identification
小題2:It can be concluded from the text that ______.
A．people should be packaged at all ages
B．people should be packaged in a special way
C．elderly people also care about packaging
D．proper packaging makes people attractive
小題3:For the middle-aged, attractiveness ______ .
A．hardly existsB．is the strongest
C．comes from the insideD．comes from the appearance
小題4:According to the author, if you want to keep in harmony with nature, you should ______.
A．dye your hairB．make up at a young age
C．follow the ageing processD．give up fame and wealth
小題5:The underlined sentence means that elderly people ______.
A．a(chǎn)re usually packaged like a finely-made book
B．experience a lot and have rich knowledge of life
C．do a lot of traveling and can give you much information
D．enjoy reading thick books about beautiful nature and fairyland

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：完形填空

Starting a new book is a risk, just like falling in love. You have to ____ to it. You open the pages knowing a little bit about it, maybe from the back or from a blurb（宣傳信息）on the front. But who ____, right? Those bits and pieces aren’t always right.
Sometimes people ____ themselves as one thing and then when you get deep into it you realize that they’re something completely different. Either there was some good marketing ____ to a terrible book, or the story was only explained in a(n) ____ way and once you reach the middle of the book, you realize there’s so much more to this book than anyone could ever have told you.
You start off slow. The story is beginning to ____. You’re unsure. It’s a big commitment reading this tome(巨著). Maybe this book won’t be that great but you’ll feel ____ about putting it down. Maybe it’ll be so awful you’ll set it down immediately and never pick it up again. Or maybe you’ll come back to it some night, drunk or lonely—needing something to ____ the time, but it won’t be any better than it was when you first started reading it.
Maybe you’re ____. You’ve read tons of books before. Maybe you’ve taken some time off from reading because the last few books you read just weren’t ____ it. Do they even write new, great works of literature anymore? Maybe it’s a once in a lifetime feeling and you’re never going to find it again.
Or something ____ could happen. Maybe this will become your new favorite book. There’s always a possibility, right? That’s the ____ of risk. You ____ your time and your brain power in the words and what you get back is a new understanding and pure wonder.
How could someone possibly know you like this? Some stranger, some author, some character. It’s like they’re seeing inside your ____. This book existed inside some book store, on a shelf, maybe handled by other people and really it was just ____ for you to pick it up. It was waiting to speak to you. To say, “You are not ____.”
You just want more of the story. You want to keep reading, maybe everything this author has ever ____. You wish it would never end. The closer it gets to the smaller side of the pages, the  ____ you read, wanting to savor(品味) it all. This book is now one of your favorites forever. You will always wish you could go back to ____ having read it and pick it up fresh again, but also you know you’re better for having this close, inside you, ____ your heart and mind.
Reading a book is just like falling in love. Once you get in deep enough, you know you could never put this book down.
小題1:
A．contribute B．commitC．subscribe D．react
小題2:
A．tellsB．caresC．writesD．knows
小題3:
A．a(chǎn)dvertiseB．believeC．behaveD．mistake
小題4:
A．a(chǎn)ttached B．comparedC．usedD．related
小題5:
A．a(chǎn)rtificialB．superficialC．theoreticalD．confidential
小題6:
A．repeatB．changeC．conflictD．unfold
小題7:
A．worried B．contentC．guiltyD．serious
小題8:
A．fill B．spareC．saveD．take
小題9:
A．worn outB．run outC．given outD．made out
小題10:
A．likeB．worthC．beyondD．beneath
小題11:
A．excitingB．familiarC．rareD．tough
小題12:
A．price B．beautyC．dangerD．style
小題13:
A．balanceB．wasteC．harvestD．invest
小題14:
A．soulB．bookC．bodyD．eyes
小題15:
A．a(chǎn)skingB．lookingC．standingD．waiting
小題16:
A．a(chǎn)loneB．yourselfC．busy D．crazy
小題17:
A．devotedB．a(chǎn)greedC．writtenD．enjoyed
小題18:
A．slowerB．fasterC．moreD．less
小題19:
A．a(chǎn)lwaysB．everC．onceD．never
小題20:
A．coveringB．breakingC．separatingD．blocking

查看答案和解析>>

同步練習(xí)冊答案