高二英语拓展卷
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I am reading a novel at the moment，a story set in Britain and India in the 19th century．It was written by an Indian author who now lives in Denmark，but neither in the language of Hindi nor Danish．Although the paperback edition I’m holding was published in New Delhi，India，four years ago，I(an American)purchased it recently from a second-hand bookshop in Tokyo，Japan．
That’s quite a history already．But there’s more．
The novel is a tale of various mysteries，all expertly put into a well-structured story by a very，skillful author．Yet my particular copy presents even more mysteries than the tale．
One summer morning in the year of my paperback’s publication—on July 15，2012—someone else was reading it while eating breakfast in a restaurant in Mumbai，India．
I know this because I found a receipt(收据)of coffee and bread inside．I also know that this person was not the owner of the paperback immediately before me．
In fact，the owner before me was not Indian at all，but Japanese．
I know this because in the book there are handwritten notes in Japanese—translations of English words which the reader was unfamiliar．Japanese being a language of characters，not letter，it is not easy to determine if the note writer was a man or a woman．But the care taken to write the translations neatly in the limited spaces available on each page bespeaks a woman’s hand．
So let us agree that it is a woman．What can we say of her? Well educated，obviously，and probably a university student，who would keep a dictionary at hand while reading a novel．
But why did she suddenly stop reading? The last translation in my paperback appears on Page 83，less than a third of the way through the novel．Did she give up because the book was proving too difficult? Or was there some other reason?
Many a novel presents mysteries，all of which are solved by the end of the tale．The mysteries presented by my little paperback，however，remain mysteries，all expertly put into a well-structured story，not by a skillful writer，but this time by the numberless vagaries(变幻莫测)of life itself． 32．What can we learn about the novel? A．It is well written．
B．It is about a world trip．
C．It was written in an American restaurant． D．It was first published in the 19th century．
33．The author assumes the Japanese owner of the book was a woman based on_______. A．the pretty handwriting
B．the food written on the receipt
D．the effort taken in writing the notes
C．the good condition of the book
34．Which of the following can best describe the author?
A．He is a great reader of historical fiction． B．He is a hard-working university student．
C．He is a productive writer with sensibility． D．He is a careful observer with imagination．
35．What’s the best title of theA．The Tale of a Paperback C．Unsolved Mysteries of Life
text?
B．Different Life Experiences D．A Book’s Exciting Adventure
七选五
How to avoid a boring conversation
What excuses should you use to avoid talking to people you don't want to talk to? Here are tips and non-offensive ways to get out of unwanted conversations.[来源:Z.xx.k.Com] 1. Go for a refill.
It is natural for anyone at a party to be excused to gel a refill. 1__ And once you excuse yourself, make a move fast beforethe person requests you to get a refill for him as well. 2. Pretend bad mood.
Cut off the conversation before it starts by saying something along the lines of“I’m not in a good mood. Can I talk to you later if you don’t mind?” 2 Say it firmly so that people get the message loud and clear. 3. Ask your friend to save you.
3 Simply text your friend and ask him or her to come for apparently something important. You will be able to skip a boring chat with a seemingly reasonable excuse. 4. 4
You are advised to look away from that person and don't make eye contact, so that you can give p
owerful hints(暗示）that you find the conversation extremely
boring. 5 Be sure to tune in to the conversation every now and then so you don't come across as rude.
A. Behave in an obviously careless way.
B. Just be sure that the person you are talking to does not offer to accompany you to do so.
C. Don't act too polite in an attempt to draw sympathy. D. Use body language to indicate boredom.
E. Your friend is bound to perform brilliantly in coping with the dull one. F.Look elsewhere and pretend that something else has caught your attention. G. Stuck in an unwanted conversation, how do you get out of it?
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I may be a bit old school but I think that people who store all of their pictures on their smart phones are missing out on something. There is 1 like seeing a loved one’s smiling face looking down
on you from a picture frame on your wall. It is
both 2 and assuring, almost like they are watching 3 you while you work at your desk.
As I work at my own desk I can see my Mom’s picture smiling down on me. She left us too soon. She was only 55 years old when cancer 4 her. If one’s years here were 5 on virtue then she should have lived to be over 100. My Dad’s kind smile is 6 hers. It has only been a f
ew years since he passed. Sometimes I still 7 the
telephone wanting to call him and tell him something that has just happened to me only to remember that he is gone. My Nana’s picture is there too, 8 the 90 years young sign at her birthday party 16 years ago. How I wish I 9 walk into her kitchen again, have a talk, and 10 a big slice of homemade Italian bread with her.
Sometimes looking at these pictures gives me a(an) 11 of sadness. I still miss them all and I don’t feel 12 to be the oldest generation yet. Most of the time, 13 , I only feel the warmth and joy that comes from a million loving memories 14 these pictures bring back. It makes me feel15 knowing that I had them all in my life for the years that I did. It makes me want to follow their loving example 16 in my own life as well.
A lot of people say that you have to have a 17 heart to get through life. Others say a soft heart is better. I myself think that a strong heart is best. We need a heart that loves through the18 . We need a heart that keeps loving19 when we lose the people we love the most.
We need a heart that knows that “Anyone who lives in love lives in God, and God lives in him.” May your heart be strong then. May your love20 from your pictures and from your life.
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