There once was a king in a faraway country. One day, he decided to 36 a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of 37. So many artists 38 . The king looked at all the pictures. 39 there were only two he really liked, and he had to 40 between them. One picture was of a 41 lake. The lake was a perfect mirror with peaceful huge mountains all around it. Above was a 42 sky with light white clouds. All who 43 this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace.
The other picture had 44 , too. But these were not flat at all. Above was an 45 sky, from which rain fell heavily and in which lightning played __46___. Down the side of the mountain was a waterfall with loud sound. This did not look __47___ at all.
But when the king looked 48, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush 49 in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had 50 her nest. There, with the current of angry water, the mother bird was ___51___ her hungry children in the nest, taking no attention to its __52___ surroundings — in perfect peace.
Which picture do you think 53 the prize? The king chose the second picture. Do you know why?
“Because,” said the king. “Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no 54, trouble or hard work. Peace means although you are surrounded by noisy things you 55 keep calm in the heart. That is the real meaning of peace.”
A. take B. offer C. send D. leave
A. peace B. silence C. beauty D. honesty
A. managed B. tried C. succeeded D. went
A. And B. Or C. Yet D. But
A. like B. choose C. give D. need
A. calm B. noisy C. beautiful D. dirty
A. black B. blue C. gray D. dark
A. saw B. liked C. painted D. had
A. sky B. mountains C. peace D. clouds
A. gentle B. angry C. calm D. sunny
A. wildly B. gently C. slowly D. happily
A. peaceful B. noisy C. happy D. beautiful
A. closely B. strictly C. quickly D. seriously
A. planting B. growing C. rising D. coming
A. created B. built C. left D. lain
A. beating B. touching C. feeding D. speaking
A. silent B. beautiful C. noisy D. faraway
A. want B. lost C. won D. received
A. silence B. noise C. shock D. joy
A. still B. again C. even D. just
閱讀快車系列答案科目：高中英語 來源：2012屆廣東省普寧二中高三上學期11月月考英語卷（解析版） 題型：完型填空
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從1~15各題所給的A、B、C和D項中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
There once lived a young man who was always unhappy and complained about his poverty. One day, he went to see a fortune teller to inquire how to become_____1____. The fortune teller said, "Young man, you are already wealthy now."
"Where is my wealth?" the young man asked _______2____.
"It is with you. Your _______3___ is (are) your wealth. You use them to see this world. You use them to see all the ______4______things in this world. You can read, study and learn. Your hands are your wealth. You can use them to work. You can use them to hug your beloved ones. Your ____5_____are your wealth. You can go to any places..." the fortune teller said.
"You call these wealth? Everyone has them," the young man said.
"These are wealth. What you have now are not what others can luckily have. Are you ______6___ to give your eyes to me? I am willing to give you a lot of money to _____7_____ for them," the fortune teller said.
"No, are you crazy? I am not going to exchange my eyes for money! They are _____8____ to me!" the young man ____9_______.
"Precisely, these are wealth to you. You will not exchange them for money. Furthermore, although a lot of people have their wealthy things, they do not ____10_____ them or treasure them. They are not _______11____ to Heaven for giving them their wealth. They even complain that Heaven is unfair to them. Do you want to _____12_____one of them before you will treasure them?" the fortune teller said.
Everyone is wealthy. But we should not ____13______it for granted. We need to treasure our wealth, take care of it and use it _____14_____. We should not overuse it because once it is ____15____, it is gone forever. Remember it is our wealth that we do not want to lose.
1. A. happy B. young C. wealthy D. poor
2. A. anxiously B. sadly C. quietly D. patiently
3. A. knowledge B. skills C. brain D. eyes
4. A. ugly B. beautiful C. strange D. useful
5. A. legs B. cars C. jewels D. banknotes
6. A. lovely B. optimistic C. angry D. willing
7. A. charge B. buy C. exchange D. change
8. A. precious B. useless C. extra D. special
9. A. wept B. demonstrated C. smiled D. yelled
10. A. see B. realize C. keep D. hold
11. A. grateful B. careful C. meaningful D. faithful
12. A. get B. grasp C. have D. lose
13. A. take B. make C. set D. sell
14. A. wrongly B. wisely C. naturally D. really
15. A. old B. used C. 
gone D. dead
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科目：高中英語 來源：2013屆湖南省懷化市高三上學期期末考試英語試卷（帶解析） 題型：閱讀理解
America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while — then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending sometimes deeply into both families.
ericans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily. Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.
For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home.
【小題1】In which part of a newspaper can this article be found?
| A．Culture. | B．News. | C．Story. | D．Travel. |
| A．Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families. |
| B．Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives. |
| C．Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy. |
| D．Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break. |
| A．weaken | B．develop | C．stretch | D．disappear |
| A．treated hospitably at his home | B．offered a ride to his home |
| C． warmly welcomed at the airport | D．treated to dinner in a restaurant |
| A．friendships between Chinese | B．Americans’ hospitality |
| C．different views of friendship | D．friendships between Americans |
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科目：高中英語 來源：江西省安福中學2009-2010學年度高二下學期期中考試英語試題 題型：閱讀理解
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Edwin Powell Hubble was born in 1889 in Marshfield , Missouri . He spent his early years in the state of Kentucky . Then he moved with his family to Chicago , Illinois . He attended the University of Chicago . He studied mathematics and astronomy .
He was a member of the University of Chicago championship basketball team in 1909 . He was also an excellent boxer . Several people urged him to train for the world heavyweight boxing championship after college . Instead , he decided to continue his studies . He went to Queen’s College at Oxford , England . At Oxford , Hubble studied law . He was interested in British Common Law , because his family had come to America from England many years before . He spent 7 years at Oxford .
In 1913 , Hubble returned to the United States . He opened a law office in Louisville , Kentucky . After a short time , however , he decided he did not want to be a lawyer . He returned to the University of Chicago . There , once again , he studied astronomy .
Hubble watched the night sky with instruments at the university’s Yerkes Observatory . His research involved a major question astronomers could not answer : What are nebulae（星云）?
In his research paper , Hubble said the issue could be decided only by more powerful instruments . And those instruments had not yet been developed .
Soon after , Hubble bagan working with a larger and more powerful telescope at Mount Wilson . Its mirror was 250 centimeters across . It was the most powerful telescope in the world for 25 years .It had the power Hubble needed to make his major discoveries .
From 1922 on , Edwin Hubble began examining more and more distant objects . His first great discovery was made when he recognized a Cepheid variable star . It was in the outer area of the great nebula called Andromeda . Cepheid variable stars are stars whose brightness changes at regular periods .
Hubble’s discovery ended a long dispute . He proved wrong those who believed nebulae lay inside the Millky Way . And he proved that nebulae were galaxies themselves . Astronomers now agree that far distant galaxies do exist .
72. Why did Hubble close his law office ?
A. Because it could not bring him fortune .
B. Because he was tired of office work .
C. Because he wanted to be devoted to astronomy .
D. Because he couldn’t control himself sometimes .
73. The larger and more powerful telescope at Mount Wilson_______.
A. belonged to the state of Kentucky
B. was once the most powerful
C. cost Hubble all his money
D. was of little help to Hubble’s research
74. Which of the following statements is NOT true about Edwin Powell Hubble ?
A. He studied law for three years at Oxford , England .
B. He corrected people’s wrong idea about nebulae .
C. He made some important discoveries at Mount Wilson .
D. He showed little interest in sports while studying astronomy at college .
75. Cepheid variable stars’ brightness can be described as__________.
A. changeable B. fixed C. weak D. colorful
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科目：高中英語 來源：四川省資陽市2010屆高三下學期第二次模擬考試 題型：填空題
第二卷（非選擇題 共50分）
第三部分 寫作（共兩節，滿分50分）
第一節 短文改錯（共10小題；每小題1.5分，滿分15分）
此題要求改正所給短文中的錯誤。對標有題號的每一行做出判斷：如無錯誤，在該行右邊橫線上畫一個勾（√）；如有錯誤（每行只有一個錯誤），則按下列情況改正：
該行多一個詞：把多余的詞用斜線（﹨）劃掉，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞，并也用斜線劃掉。
該行缺一個詞：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號（∧），在該行右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞。
該行錯一個詞：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。
注意：原行沒有錯的不要改。
There once were a goat and a donkey that lived on a farm. The donkey
worked the hardest so the farmer fed it the most food. Sometime 66. ____________
the donkey was given much food than it could eat. This made the goat 67. ____________
so jealous that they began plotting (謀劃) against the donkey. 68. ____________
“Hey,” the goat said one day, “I thought you do too much work on 69. ____________
this farm. You carry such heavy thing from morning to night. Why don’t 70. ____________
you pretend to get sick but you can take a day off?” The donkey thought 71. ____________
it great idea. The next morning, the donkey lay in the stable (畜欄) on 72. ____________
its side with its eyes close. Then the farmer sent for a doctor, who said 73. ____________
it was needed a special medicine made from the heart of a goat. So the 74. ____________
farmer killed the goat and gave the donkey the medicine made from its heart. 75. ____________
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科目：高中英語 來源：2012-2013學年湖南省懷化市高三上學期期末考試英語試卷（解析版） 題型：閱讀理解
America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while — then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending sometimes deeply into both families.
ericans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily. Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.
For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home.
1.In which part of a newspaper can this article be found?
A．Culture. B．News. C．Story. D．Travel.
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.
B．Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.
C．Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.
D．Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.
3.The underlined words “flower”(in Line 5) probably means ___________.
A．weaken B．develop C．stretch D．disappear
4.From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will probably be___________.
A．treated hospitably at his home B．offered a ride to his home
C． warmly welcomed at the airport D．treated to dinner in a restaurant
5.The writer mainly talks about ___________ in the text.
A．friendships between Chinese B．Americans’ hospitality
C．different views of friendship D．friendships between Americans
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