高二暑假英语阅读专练（六）

1、高二暑假英语阅读专练（六）AHello, everyone .Because of the high rate of school violence in some areas, teenagers safety becomes a serious problems. We are planning to set up an organization named School Watch to make sure that students have a safe school environment. Please be part of our plan!What is School Wat

2、ch?School Watch is a volunteer project in our school .It helps us stop violence and improve the quality of school life .It will keep yourself and your schoolmates safe .The other members of School Watch care for you and your classroom and you do the same for them.Is it for everyone?Anybody can becom

3、e a member of School Watch because everyone has something to offer.What else can it do ?School Watch makes it possible for us not only to help each other but also to make friends with each other .Some members may offer to help schoolmates who have problems with their homework.Who is the Best School

4、Watcher?Our school will look for the Best School Watcher and give him or her lots of prizes. You could be the one ! How do you start?To be part of this plan, the only thing you need to do is to talk to the director of the plan in your grade. If you want to get more information, check the official we

5、bsite at www,.1. The members of School Watch are probably A . parents B. teenagers C. policeman D. teachers2. School Watch can help its members A .to save the environment B. to organize sports activities C. to get better results in exams D. to improve the quality of school life .3. The Best School W

6、atcher will get a lot of prizes from every year.A . the organization B. the website C. the school D. the classBAbout more than one hundred and fifty years ago, Napoleon was the king of France. At that time France and Russia were at war. Napoleon was going to take the city of Moscow. It was a long wa

7、y from France to Russia. The French soldiers went on for many days, fighting as they went. They passed through many countries and many cities. At last they came to the city quickly. They were all happy for the French flag was waving over Moscow. The Russians didnt fight. But when it was late at nigh

8、t, the French soldiers were fast asleep after drinking and dancing. The whole city was quiet and still. Suddenly there came a great cry: Moscow is on fire! The Russians had set fire to the city in many places. The French couldnt put the fire out quickly. The city was burnt to the ground. What were t

9、he French soldiers to do now? They couldnt stay in Moscow any longer because there was not enough food. They had to go back to France. It was winter. The weather in Russia was very cold. Every place was covered with thick snow. The French soldiers feared the long journey back to France. Napoleon and

10、 his men went on through the snow day after day. Men fell down dead by the roadside because of cold and hunger. Very few came out of Russia alive and reached their homes in France.4. During the France-Russia War, _. A. Russian army died of hunger and cold B. The French soldiers won in the end C. The

11、 Russians were defeated at first D. The Russian soldiers went on to France5. What happened after the French soldiers took over Moscow? A. The Russian soldiers fought back bravely B. The Russians left Moscow at night. C. The French soldiers set fire to the city D. The city was burnt to ground 6. Whic

12、h of the following can be the best title for the passage? A. War between France and Russian B. Napoleons Ending C. Fire in Moscow D. A Great City -Moscow C.Ben Carson, a doctor at Johns Hopkins Childrens center, talks about how he grew up in a poor Detroit Neighborhood, when peer (同龄人) pressure almo

13、st controlled his behavior and even his clothes. He wanted so badly to be considered cool that he begged his mother to buy him an expensive Italian shirt.“My mother made me a deal,” Carson remembers, “She said, Ill give you all the money I make next week. Youll be in charge of the family finance (财务

14、)buying food and other necessities and paying the bills. Whatever you have left over you can spend on whatever you want.”“I thought, this is going to be great,” Carson says, “I bought things we needed most and then began going through the bills. Of course I ran completely out of money long before ev

15、erything was paid.”Then I realized my mother, with her third-grade education, was a financial genius (理财能手)just to keep food on our table and clothes on our backs with such a small sum of money. Id been a fool. I wanted her to buy me a 75 shirt when she only took home 100 a week, cleaning other peop

16、les floors and washing their toilets. I took a hard look at my behavior and wondered how I could be so selfish.”“I started studying again. My grades went back up to As. Some of my peers laughed at me because I did not follow their pattern. But I refused to let that trouble me, because I had a goal.”

17、The experience had a lasting effect, “I not only saw and felt the difference my mother made in my life, I am living out that difference as a man.”7.When Ben Carson was young, he _.A. was fond of improving family financeB. tried to attract girls with his cool mannerC. wanted to be as cool as other bo

18、ys of his age sD. was seldom good at his lessons8.By saying “My mother made me a deal”, Ben Carson meant that his mother _.A. refused to buy him the shirtB. showed him how to save moneyC. asked him to deal with the problemD. made an agreement with him 9.Ben Carson started studying hard again and rose back to the top because_.A. he had a better goal to run after B. he go