阅读理解, 根据短文内容,选择最佳选项. The nine-year-old Marc Yu is called Little Mozart. He is - 初中英语试题 - 超级试练试题库

阅读理解, 根据短文内容,选择最佳选项.    The nine-year-old Marc Yu is called Little Mozart. He is too short to reach the pedals (踏板) of a
piano. Marc, from California, USA, says, "The problem is that my legs aren"t straight enough, so I have
to get very close to the piano."
    Marc"s 34-year-old mother played Beethoven"s CDs to him when she was pregnant (***的). Marc
started playing the piano at a birthday party when he was only two. While the other children were singing "Twinkle, twinkle, little star …", he walked over to the piano and started playing the song. It astonished
his mother, because that was the first time he"d been near a piano. Marc gave his first public performance,
playing Beethoven, at six, the same age as Mozart. After that concert, Marc won a ￡225,000 university
scholarship (奖学金).
    At present he practices the piano eight hours a day. He also studies part-time at the famous Colbum
Music School in Los Angeles, and flies once a month to China for lessons at Shanghai Music School.
Marc says, "I like playing the piano because it makes me have a lot of different feelings - sadness,
excitement, happiness and so on. I like playing difficult pieces, especially those that my teacher says I
shouldn"t."1. The nine-year-old Marc Yu is from       .A. China
B. France
C. Canada
D. the United States2. Marc played the piano at the age of       for the first time.A. two
B. five
C. six
D. nine3. According to the passage, the underlined word "astonished" means "     " in Chinese.A. 使……理解
B. 使……担心
C. 使……惊奇
D. 使……难过4. At present Marc practices playing the piano       .A. once a month
B. eight hours a day
C. in his free time
D. only on weekends5. What Marc says in the last paragraph tells us that      .A. he likes challenges
B. he doesn"t like challenges
C. he is afraid of challenges
D. he wants to give up music

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任务型阅读.     The outstanding woman physician (内科医生), Jerry Nielsen, spent a year at the Amundsen-Scott
South Pole Station as the only doctor in 1998 when she was 47.
     In early March 1999, she discovered that there was something wrong with her right breast (乳房).
She was sure it was cancer (癌症), but she wasn"t able to go to a doctor for help. She couldn"t leave the
station for the next seven months until the snow turned back into water. Rather than wait for the death,
Dr. Nielsen decided to fight against the cancer. But without the proper medical help, she wouldn"t live for
long. Soon a USA Air Force jet came to provide her with some help. She started her own treatments
(治疗) after getting instructions from American doctors. She finally returned home that October. Since
then, she had become helpful to cancer charities.
    Sadly, Dr. Nielsen"s cancer got worse and worse. She passed away on June 23, 2009. She once
wrote to her parents, "I understand what life really is: It is not when or how you die but how you truly
were ever alive."1. 文中划线词组passed away的汉语意思是:

2. 将文中划线句子翻译成汉语.

3. 从文中找出与下列句子意义相近的句子.
    Dr. Nielsen decided to fight against the cancer instead of waiting for the death.

4. 根据短文内容,回答下列问题.
    How old was Dr. Jerry Nielsen when she passed away?

5. 用文中两个形容词描述一下Jerry Nielsen.
   (1)                      (2)

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完形填空。 Thomas Edison wore __1__ caps during his life, __2__ thinking caps, the caps of many famous schools
and colleges. But the most important cap was his thinking cap. It had saved his mother"s __3__. One day
when he was a boy his mother fell ill. The doctor wanted __4__ her an operation (手术). But the light in
the room was not bright. Edison quickly __5__ his thinking cap and he found a way __6__ his mother.
Edison was good at __7__ his hands and his head. He was the most interested __8__ electricity. We can
see his __9__ everywhere because they are very common. They were __10__ by Edison"s thinking cap.

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Sandwich is an Englishman. He lives in the 18th century. Sandwich is rich, but he likes to played cards for money. He often play for 24 hours, and doesn"t even stop to have his meals. He orders his servants to bring him some meat and bread. He puts the meat between the two pieces of bread and holds the food in his left hand while he play cards with his right hand. People like Sandwich"d idea, and from then on they eat bread and meat as Sandwich does. From the name of the man, Sandwich, we have the word of the food"sandwich"today.
1．Which country does Sandwich live in? __________________________________________________________________________ 2．What does Sandwich like to do? __________________________________________________________________________ 3．Why does Sandwich let others bring him something to eat? __________________________________________________________________________ 4．How does Sandwich eat bread and meat when he plays cards? __________________________________________________________________________ 5．Can you say something about the food "sandwich"? __________________________________________________________________________
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