天津高考英语阅读表达练习

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My high school, like many others, was extremely competitive not only in sports but also in academic subjects. The pressure of trying to get excellent grades while joining in extra-curricular activities could be great. Sometimes it seemed like I lived at school! When I was at home my time was spent doing homework. Some days I was so busy finishing a project that I could hardly see my families.

I have a brother and a sister named Sally. She was nine years old. We used to see each other, but after I graduated from the primary school she attended, I saw her less and less.

Then one day I came home, an empty house and I found a note from my mom. She was at my brother’s baseball game. However my sister was at

At five o’clock I went to turn on the light on the front porch and saw my sister walking towards the door with her friend and her friend’s father. I heard them talking.“Is anyone at home?” the father asked.

“Just my mean elder sister, Sara, and she’s proba bly in her room as usual,” my sister replied. I couldn’t believe it. I opened the door, thanked the father for bringing her home then shut the door and started to cry.

To make a long story short, a huge fight followed that ended with me driving my sister to her room. But I realized that what was worse than the fight was that I really hadn’t been a good elder sister.

I had lost track of what was important, and what really mattered. I had been fallen into a whirlpool（漩涡）of pressure and competition, and it took my sister’s honest observation to show me that the grades I got didn’t matter to everyone---certainly not to her. All that matters to her is that I’m her elder sister, and that’s what matters to me, too.

1:What kind of life did the author live at high school? ( no more than 5 words )

________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 2: What does the underlined phrase “dropped off” in Paragraph 3 means?( no more than 3 words )

________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 3:Why did the author’s sister consider her as a mean sister? (No more than 8 words)

________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 4:What happened to the two sisters one day according to the passage? ( no more than 5 words )

________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 5:What lesson do you learn from the author;s experience? ( no more than 20 words )

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Before he sailed round the world single-already surprised his friends several times world but failed. That was in 1931.

The years passed. He gave up flying an greatly. Chichester was already 58 years trans-Atlantic sailing race. His old dream back, but this time he would sail. His frien could do it, as he had lung cancer. But Chic out his plan. In August, 1966, at the age of n men retire, he began his greatest voyage of h Chichester covered 14,100 miles before This was more than twice the distance any On shore, he could not walk without help. he had done enough; he must not go any fur After resting in Sydney for a few weeks, spite of his friends’ attempt to dissuade him was by far the more dangerous part, during Cape Horn. After succeeding in sailing rou the following radio message to London:“I f horrible dream. Even a wild horse could n and that rough Southern Ocean again.”Just before 9 o’clock on Sunday evening in England, where a quarter of a million p him. The whole voyage from England and It had taken him nine months, of which th had done what he wanted to accomplish. 56.What is the main idea of the passage? (N _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 57.What did Chichester achieve at the age _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 58.The underlined word “dissuade” in Pa _______.(One word)

_____________________________________ _____________________________________ 59.What did Chichester mean by saying th 4 ?(No more than 10 words)

_____________________________________ _____________________________________ 60.Please explain how you are inspired by words)

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