逍遥右脑 2014-06-27 12:02
初三英语期末复习三
完型专项练习
(I)
When I was in the 8th grade in Ohio, a girl naed Alice in y class had a terrible accident. As she was running to the bus in order not to ___1___ it, she slipped on soe ice and fell under the rear wheels of the bus. She ___2___ the accident, but was paralyzed fro the waist down. I went to see her, in y 13-year-old ind thinking she wouldn’t live ___3___ fro then on.
Over the years, I oved and didn’t think uch about Alice after that. Three years ago, in Florida, y oldest son was hit by a car while riding his bike, causing a terrible brain injury. While I was looking after y son, a lady who said she was the hospital’s social worker ___4___. It was a particularly ___5___ day. I burst into tears for no reason and hung up.
A short tie later, a beautiful woan, in a wheelchair, ___6___ into y son’s roo with a box of tissues. After 16 years, I still recognized Alice. She siled, handed e the tissues and hugged e. I told her who I was, and after we both got ___7___ the shock of that, she began to tell e about her life since we last saw each other. She had arried, had children and gotten her degree ___8___ she could sooth the path for those less fortunate than her. She told e that if there was anything she could give e, it would be ___9___.
Looking at this wonderful, giving person, I felt ___10___. But I also felt the first hope I had felt since ___11___ that y son was hurt. Fro this person that I thought would have no quality of life, I learned that where there is ___12___, there is hope. y son iraculously recovered and we oved back north, but I owe Alice a debt that I can never repay.
( )1. A. catchB. followC. issD. break
( )2. A. forgotB. reeberedC. diedD. survived
( )3. A. healthilyB. happilyC. norallyD. successfully
( )4. A. calledB. caeC. helpedD. returned
( )5. A. workingB. tryingC. hopingD. oving
( )6.A. walkedB. rolledC. rushedD. went
( )7. A. throughB. aroundC. aheadD. about
( )8. A. becauseB. untilC so thatD. although
( )9. A. loveB. hopeC. sileD. oney
( )10. A. happyB. excitedC. sallD. proud
( )11. A. discoveringB. hearingC. showingD. learning
( )12. A. failyB. loveC. friendshipD. life
(II)
I should say I owe y success to y other. y belief began when I was just a kid. I 1 becoing a doctor.
y other was a servant. Through her work, she found that 2 people spent a lot ore tie reading than they 3 watching television. She told y brother and e to watch only two to three pre-selected TV progras during the week. In our free tie, we had to read two books fro the Detroit Public Library and 4 written book reports to her. She would ark the up with check arks and highlights. Years later we realized her arks were a trick because y other was uneducated.
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for 5 . I wanted the brightly coloured clothes and I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went fro being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student. One night y other cae hoe fro 6 her various jobs and I coplained about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, “Okay, I’ll give you all the oney I 7 this week by scrubbing floors and cleaning bathroos, and you can buy the faily food and pay the bills. With everything paid off, you can have all the Italian knit shirts you want.” I was very 8 with that arrangeent but once I got through allocating (分配) oney, there was 9 left.
I realized y other was a great woan to be able to keep a roof over our heads and any kind of food on the table, let alone buy clothes. I also realized that iediate satisfaction wasn’t going to get e anywhere. Success required intellectual preparation. I went back to y 10 and becae an A-student again, and at last I 11 y drea and I becae a doctor.
y other is a woan with 12 foral education or property who used her position as a parent to change the lives of her children. There is no job ore iportant than parenting.
( )1 A．dreaed of B．depended on C．gave up D．thought of
( )2．A．strictB．easy-going C．successfulD．careful
( )3．A．cost B．paidC．took D．did
( )4．A．read B．presentC．teachD．explain
( )5．A．soon B．farC．longD．often
( )6．A．working B．shoppingC．akingD．getting
( )7．A．accept B．winC．spendD．ake
( )8．A．excited B．pleasedC disappointedD．bored
( )9．A．anything B．everythingC．soethingD．nothing
( )10. A．guy B．otherC．studiesD．play
( )11. A．expected B．realizedC．changedD．tried
( )12. A．little B．uchC．fewD．high
(III)
A daughter told her father about her life and said things were so hard for her. It seeed that, as one __1__was gone, a new one appeared. Her father, a cook, took __2__to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots cae to a boil（沸腾）. In one pot he __3__carrots, in the second he put soe eggs, and in the last he put soe coffee. He let the just boil, __4__saying a word.
The daughter waited, __5__what he was doing. Twenty inutes later he turned off the fire. He fished the carrots out and placed the in a bowl. Then he poured the coffee out and placed it in a cup. Turning to her he asked, “Dear, what do you see?” “Carrots, eggs and coffee,” She replied.
He brought her closer and asked her to __6__the carrots. She did and found that they were soft. Then he asked her to take an egg and __7__it. After pulling off the shell （外壳）, she saw the hardboiled egg. Finally he asked her to drink the coffee. She siled. As she tasted it, “What do you ean, Father?”
He explained that each of the had __8__the sae trouble, boiling water, but each reacted（回应） differently. The carrot went in strong and hard __9__after being in boiling water, it softened and becae weak. The egg had been easy to break. But after sitting through the boiling water, its inside becae hardened. The coffee was __10__ , however. After it was in the boiling water, it __11__the water. “ __12__are you?” he asked his daughter. “When trouble knocks on your door, what do you do? Are you a carrot, an egg, or just coffee?”
( )1. A. questionB. accidentC. probleD. business
( )2. A. her B. hiC. theD. it
( )3. A. threwB. placedC. took D. dropped
( )4. A. for B. by C. with D. without
( )5. A. knowingB. thinkingC. wonderingD. asking
( )6. A. sell B. accept C. countD. feel
( )7. A. openB. break C. cutD. play
( )8. A. faced B. calledC. decidedD. chosen
( )9. A. becauseB. though C. or D. but
( )10. A. useful B. differentC. deliciousD. expensive
( )11. A. becae B. kept C. changedD. ade
( )12. A. Which B. WhatC. Where D. Who
(IV)
There is a woan naed Atsuko Saeki. When she was a teenager, she dreaed of going to the United States. ost of what she knew about Aerican 1 was fro the textbooks she had read. “I had a 2 in ind: Daddy watching TV in the living roo, uy baking cakes and their teenage daughter off to the cinea with her boyfriend.”
Atsuko 3 to attend college in California. When she arrived，however，she found it was not her 4 world. “People had difficulty in doing soething and often seeed uneasy,” she said. “I felt very alone.”
One of her hardest 5 was physical education. “We played volleyball，”she said. “The other students were good at it，but I wasn’t.”
One afternoon，the instructor asked Atsuko to 6 the ball to her teaates so they could knock it 7 the net. No proble for ost people，but it frightened Atsuko. She was afraid of losing face 8 she failed.
A young an on her tea realised what she was going through. “He walked up to e and said, ‘Coe on. You can do that.’ ”
“You will never understand how those words of 9 ade e feel... Four words：You can do that．I felt like crying with happiness.”
She ade it through the class. Perhaps she thanked the young an；she is not 10 .
Six years has passed. Atsuko is back in her country，working as a salesclerk. “I have never forgotten the words,” she said. “When things are not going so well, I think of the.”
She is sure the young an had no idea how uch his kindness 11 to her. “He probably doesn’t even reeber it,” she said. That ay be the lesson. Whenever you say soething to a person — cruel or kind — you have no idea how long the words will 12 . She’s all the way over in Japan, but still she hears those four siple words: You can do that．
( )1. A. way B. life C. education D. spirit
( )2. A. photo B. painting C. picture D. drawing
( )3. A. anaged B. hoped C. liked D. accepted
( )4. A. described B. iagined C. created D. discovered
( )5. A. ties B. questions C. classes D. projects
( )6. A. kick B. pass C. carry D. hit
( )7. A. through B. into C. over D. past
( )8. A. before B. if C. because D. until
( )9. A. suggestion B. exciteent C. sadness D. encourageent
( )10. A. interested B. doubtful C. worried D. sure
( )11. A. eant B. took C. seeed D. happened
( )12. A. continue B. stay C. get D. leave
(V)
It seeed that all the seniors（高年级学生）at Hillside School really wanted to
leave and ove on to high school--- everyone except Neil. Neil had no real idea of high school except fro the look of the 1 and the fact that there seeed to be thousands of kids---big kids. Neil also didn’t find 2 easy and had to read and re-read things any ties before he 3 what was written on the page. One of the teachers at Hillside had sent hi to a special teacher for 4 so that he wouldn’t find school so 5 . It didn’t ake uch difference. The 6 still kept oving about the page.
And at lunchtie, when the other kids 7 the exciting things they hoped to do next year at high school, Neil felt left out. He only thought of the hard work and the 8 . He’d heard about the long copositions he would have to write at high school and the thick books to read, and he knew he’d 9 again.
Neil shut hiself off fro the conversations, 10 soeone entioned haers and nails（锤子钉子）. “Soething that didn’t involve（涉及）reading!” he said to hiself. “aybe high school wasn’t all that bad.”
He started listening ore 11 to the excited conversation going on aong the kids in his class. Every one of the seeed to be looking forward to oving on. To Neil, it was still the great 12 , and hard to understand. But, soething deep down told hi that high school wouldn’t be so bad, so trying his best would certainly be a good start.
( )1. A. hotelsB. useusC. buildingsD. gardens
( )2. A. shoppingB. learning C. teachingD. driving
( )3. A. agreedB. thoughtC. hopedD. understood
( )4. A. helpB. foodC. oneyD. work
( )5. A. sallB. cleanC. difficultD. bright
( )6. A. wordsB. booksC. teachersD. kids
( )7. A. discoveredB. enjoyedC. iaginedD. discussed
( )8. A. playingB. readingC. speakingD. listening
( )9. A. doB. failC. startD. forget
( )10. A. becauseB. ifC. untilD. unless
( )11. A. quicklyB. carefullyC. politelyD. silently
( )12. A. iportanceB. chanceC. encourageentD. unknown
(VI)
The train shook back and forth, its wheels aking a loud noise. Outside the window the freezing cold of winter ruled. The train was filled with cold, tired passengers.
Suddenly a little boy __1__ his way through the grown-up’s legs and sat down by the windo He was all alone aong the unfriendly grown-ups. What a brave child, I thought. His father __2__ to stay by the door behind us. The train began to ove slowly into a tunnel. Then soething very __3_ happened suddenly. The serious little boy slid(滑) down fro the seat and leaned (斜靠) his hand on y knee. For a oent, I thought that he wanted to __4__ e and returned to his father, so I helped hi to stand up. But instead he leaned forward and held his head __5__ towards ine. He wanted to say soething to e, I thought. I lowered y head to receive the __6__. Wrong again! What I received was a loud kiss on the face.
The boy quietly returned to his seat, leaned back and continued looking out of the windo I was so surprised. What just happened? A child kissed an __7__ grown-up on the train. How could anybody want to kiss such a an that had so uch beard( 胡子)？Nervous and a little surprised, we siled at the father. __8__ he saw our questioning looks as he got ready for his stop, he offered a clue ( soe inforation).
“He’s so happy to be alive,” the father said, “ He has been very sick.” Father and son __9__ into the crowd oving toward the exit. Then doors closed and the train went on. On y face I could still __10__ the child’s kiss ? a kiss that has started soe soul-search (深思) inside e. How any grown-ups go around kissing each other __11__ the joy of being alive? How any even give uch thought to the special right of __12__?
The little kisser has taught us a sweet but serious lesson ? You don’t let yourself die before your heart stops!
( )1. A. lost B. oved C. fought D. pushed
( )2. A. preferred B. chose C. agreed D. hoped
( )3. A. interesting B. strange C. funny D. exciting
( )4. A. kiss B. beat C. pass D. ask
( )5. A. up B. on C. back D. out
( )6. A. news B. idea C. essage D. thought
( )7. A. unsafe B. uniportant C. unfailiar D. unfriendly
( )8. A. Before B. When C. Unless D. Since
( )9. A. disappeared B. ran C. looked D. cae
( )10. A. touch B. sell C. have D. feel
( )11. A. in B. about C. for D. after
( )12. A. hope B. kiss C. death D. life