阅读理解。 Almost a year after Michael Jackson"s death, the spirit of King of Pop - 高中英语试题 - 超级试练试题库

阅读理解。     Almost a year after Michael Jackson"s death, the spirit of King of Pop appears to live on a 4-year-old
Chinese boy, who is fast becoming internationally popular.
     Wang Yiming, who is known as Xiao Bao, has already been making waves across the world with his
dance moves.
     A favorite of Chinese media, Xiao Bao draws curious crowds whenever he breaks into a dance routine,
which his mother says happens almost every time he hears music. "When he was young, we just started
playing music to him andhe started moving round like this," his mother said. "When he was just a couple
of months old, we would let him listen to music and he would immediately stop crying and calm down,"
she told Reuters Television.
     Xiao Bao was born prematurely (早产), and doctors suggested moving his body to music would do
good to him, but his parents were surprised by how quickly and interestedly he took to the rhythm.
     Dancing since he was two years old, he has now mastered the moonwalk and other Jackson moves,
such as Beat It, Billie Jean and Dangerous.
     Before long, his passion turned into an obsession (着迷)-the family spends up t0 20 000 yuan a month
on dance training with a professional and outfits including tailor-made suits, hats and shirts.
    Xiao Bao is serious about his dancing career and says he will not mind becoming famous one day. But
his parents say that no matter how talented their son is, his schooling will be their first choice. 1. What Xiao Bao"s mother said suggested that _____. A. she didn"t expect her son to take up music
B. Xiao Bao had a strong love for music
C. she taught him music when Xiao Bao was young
D. she was very sad at the beginning 2. How did Xiao Bao"s parents feel when they saw his reaction to music? A. Amazed.
B. Happy.
C. Angry.
D. Anxious. 3. We can learn from the passage that _____. A. his parents taught him the moonwalk
B. he began to perform on stage at two
C. moonwalk moves were first done by Jackson
D. his parents found him hard to please 4. The underlined word "outfits" in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to _____. A. clothes
B. shoes
C. bags
D. tools

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完形填空。     A group of graduates, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.
They talked about the present-day   1 topic-Happiness. But the conversation soon turned into complaints
about   2   in work and in life. To offer his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and   3   with a
large pot of coffee and different types of   4   -plastic, glass, crystal, some nice-looking, some plain-looking,
some expensive, some cheap-telling them to help   5 to the coffee.   6   all the students had a cup of coffee
in hand, the professor said, "If you   7  , you might find all the nice-looking, expensive cups are taken up,
with the plain and cheap ones   8 . While it is   9   for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the
source of your  10  and stress. In fact, the cup itself adds no  11  to the coffee. What all of you  12  wanted
was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were  13 each other"s cups."
     "Now  14  this: Life is the coffee and the jobs, money and position in  15  are the cups. They are just tools
to  16  and contain life, and the types of cups do not decide or  17  the quality of life we live. Sometimes,
focusing on the cup makes us  18  to enjoy the coffee itself. So, don"t let the cups drive you. Enjoy the coffee
19 ."
     The  20  people don"t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

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(     )1. A. warm
(     )2. A. progress
(     )3. A. cooked
(     )4. A. cups
(     )5. A. them
(     )6. A. Before
(     )7. A. saw
(     )8. A. left behind
(     )9. A. helpful
(     )10. A. habit
(     )11. A. quality
(     )12. A. nearly
(     )13. A. looking
(     )14. A. consider
(     )15. A. school
(     )16. A. check
(     )17. A. correct
(     )18. A. fail
(     )19. A. too
(     )20. A. busiest

B. hot
B. plans
B. passed
B. plates
B. themselves
B. Since
B. suggested
B. got away
B. normal
B. courage
B. weight
B. finally
B. eyeing
B. repeat
B. thought
B. create
B. change
B. stop
B. either
B. cleverest

C. heavy
C. disasters
C. returned
C. bowls
C. you
C. When
C. proved
C. put away
C. safe
C. fear
C. colour
C. really
C. saying
C. do
C. society
C. measure
C. bring
C. dislike
C. also
C. happiest

D. sensitive
D. stress
D. provided
D. tables
D. yourselves
D. Because
D. noticed
D. sent back
D. popular
D. problem
D. cost
D. quickly
D. feeling
D. recite
D. dream
D. hold
D. record
D. struggle
D. instead
D. kindest

完形填空。

     Thanksgiving Day was near. Lucy, the first grade teacher, gave her class a fun   1   -to draw a picture of
somebody or something for which they were   2 . When the students   3 their assignment, she found most
of them drew some pictures of their family, teachers, friends or neighbors.
    Douglas, however, made a different kind of picture. He was a   4   boy. He didn"t act the same as others.
He always seemed to be shy and sad. He   5   played with other children during the break   6 they kindly invited
him to. Lucy treated him very well. She always helped him and   7   him to be confident. Yes, his picture was
different. He just drew a   8  . Nothing else. His abstract image   9   the imagination of his classmates. Whose
hand could it be? One guessed it was a mother"s hand, for mother"s hand gives children warmth and  10 .
Another child guessed it was a police officer"s hand, because the police  11  people and care for people. And so
the discussion  12 .
     When the children were discussing it, Lucy paused at Douglas" desk,  13  down, and asked him whose hand
it was. The little boy murmured, "It"s  14 , teacher." Douglas was most thankful for her hand. She was  15  and
felt tears in her eyes. She thought of the times she had taken his hand and walked with him here or there. She
16  how often she had said to him, "Take my  17 , Douglas. We"ll go outside." or "Let me show you how to hold
your pencil."
     The story speaks of  18  thankfulness. It also says something about teachers teaching and parents parenting
and friends showing friendship. They might not always say " 19 " out, but they"ll remember the hand that you
20  out to give them love and be grateful to you always.

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(     )1. A. assignment
(     )2. A. sorry
(     )3. A. gave in
(     )4. A. strong
(     )5. A. often
(     )6. A. because
(     )7. A. encouraged
(     )8. A. hand
(     )9. A. reduced
(     )10. A. comfort
(     )11. A. search
(     )12. A. ended
(     )13. A. broke
(     )14. A. his
(     )15. A. disappointed
(     )16. A. forgot
(     )17. A. hand
(     )18. A. rather than
(     )19. A. I"m sorry
(     )20. A. get

B. question
B. regretful
B. handed in
B. kind
B. usually
B. though
B. discouraged
B. face
B. ruined
B. praise
B. question
B. succeeded
B. pulled
B. yours
B. annoyed
B. regretted
B. book
B. more than
B. Take care
B. reach

C. suggestion
C. thankful
C. put off
C. different
C. seldom
C. as
C. cheered
C. ear
C. inspired
C. sorrow
C. meet
C. continued
C. looked
C. my mother"s
C. tired
C. recalled
C. lesson
C. anything but
C. I"m all right
C. put

D. solution
D. responsible
D. called off
D. humorous
D. ever
D. since
D. praised
D. leg
D. used
D. coldness
D. protect
D. failed
D. bent
D. my father"s
D. touched
D. understood
D. gift
D. nothing but
D. Thank you
D. make

阅读理解。

     One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one"s mistakes. It is
extremely hard sometimes to say a simple thing like "I was wrong about that," and it is even harder to say,
"I was wrong, and you were right about that."
     I had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago.
He told me he had been the manager of a certain grocery store in the neighbourhood where I grew up, and
he asked me if I remembered the egg boxes. Then he related an incident and I began to remember vaguely
the incident he was describing.
     I was about eight years old at the time, and I had gone into the store with my mother to do the weekly
grocery shopping. On that particular day, I must have found my way to the dairy food department where
the incident took place.
     There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there was an impressive display of eggs
in dozen and half-dozen boxes. The boxes were stacked three or four feet high. I must have stopped in front
of a display to admire the stacks. Just then a woman came by pushing her grocery cart and knocked off the
stacks of boxes. For some reason, I decided it was up to me to put the display back together, so I went to
work.
     The manager heard the noise and came rushing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was
on my knees inspecting some of the boxes to see if any of the eggs were broken, but to him it looked as if I
was the culprit (做婚事的人). He severely scolded me and wanted me to pay for any broken eggs. I tried to
explain it wasn"t me who had broken them, but it did no good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the
incident, obviously the manager did not.

1. How old was the author when he wrote this article?

A. About 8.
B. About 18.
C. About 23.
D. About 15.

2. Who was to blame for knocking off the stacks of boxes?

A. The author.
B. The manager.
C. A woman.
D. The author"s mother.

3. Which of the following statements is not true?

A. The woman who knocked off the stacks of boxes was seriously criticized by the manager.
B. The author was severely criticized by the manager.
C. A woman carelessly knocked off the stacks of boxes.
D. It was the author who put the display back together.

4. The tone of the article expresses the author"s _____.

A. regret for the mistake he made in the store
B. admiration for the manager"s willingness to admit mistakes
C. anger against the woman who knocked off the stacks of boxes
D. anger to the manager for his wrong accusation

阅读理解。

     A middle-aged stranger visited us late on a dark rainy night when my father was working the night shift
(a job for a period during the night). The stranger asked if he could wait under the eaves of our roof for the
rain to stop. Then he disappeared, and we started hearing footsteps and creaking boards in the attic (the space
or room at the top of a building, under the roof, often used for storing things). Was the stranger inside our
house? My whole body couldn"t help but stiffen. In my mind"s eye, I could imagine the stranger pushing
through the attic door and approaching US.
     We immediately called Jerry, our neighbor, for help. He searched everywhere, but the visitor was nowhere
to be found. As Jerry looked in the garage, he found the stranger lying underneath the car. Jerry exclaimed
with fright, "You are not allowed to enter the house. Get off the property right now."
     We were determined to leave the house immediately. As we drove away, we saw the man blocking our
way on the road and staring at us. We had to change the direction to avoid meeting him. After that, I never
saw the stranger again.

1. The text is mainly about _____.

A. the neighbor Jerry
B. a strange dream
C. a strange visitor.
D. footsteps in the attic

2. Based on the text, which of the following statements is true?

A. The family hit the stranger with their car.
B. The stranger pushed through the family"s door.
C. Jerry was hurrying back from the night shift.
D. The author"s father wasn"t at home that night.

3. Why did the family leave their house on a late, dark night?

A. It was raining hard and the eaves of their roof were broken.
B. There was a ghost wandering around the house.
C. They did not feel safe in their house.
D. The stranger was still somewhere inside the house.

4. The text was written in order of _____.

A. time
B. space
C. importance
D. age of the family

完形填空。

     Some years ago I was offered a writing assignment that would require three months of travel through
Europe. I had been   1   a couple of times, but I could hardly   2 to know my ways around the continent.
   3 , my knowledge of foreign languages was   4   to a little college French.
     I   5 . How would I, unable to speak the language,   6 familiar with local geography or transportation
systems, conduct interviews and do   7 ? It seemed impossible, and with considerable   8 I sat down to
write a letter rejecting the   9 . Halfway through, a  10  ran through my mind: you can"t learn if you don"t
try. So I  11  the assignment. There were some bad  12 . But by the time I had finished the trip, I was an
experienced traveler. And ever since, I have never hesitated to head for even the most  13 places, without
guides or  14  advanced bookings, confident that somehow I will  15 .
     The point is that the new, the different, is almost by definition  16 . But each time you try something,
you learn, and as the learning  17 , the World opens to you.
     I"ve learned to ski at 40, and flown up the Rhine River in a(n)  18 . And I know I"ll go on doing such
things. It"s not because I"m braver or more daring than others. I"m not. But I"ll accept worry as another
name for  19  and I believe I can  20  wonders.

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