阅读理解。 The summer I was ten, my mother decided to bring us to the world of ar - 高中英语试题 - 超级试练试题库

阅读理解。     The summer I was ten, my mother decided to bring us to the world of art. My brother and I were not
very excited when we realized what my mother meant. What she meant was not that we could take drawing
classes or painting classes but that we would have to spend one afternoon a week with her at the Fine Arts
Museum. Before each visit to the museum, she made us read about artists and painting styles (风格). It was
almost as bad as being in school. Who wants to spend the summer thinking about artists when you could be
with your friends at the swimming pool?
     First we had to read about ancient Egyptians (古埃及人) and their strange way of painting faces and then
go to look at them at the museum. My 12-year-old brother thought this was so funny, but I was not interested.
Later we had to learn about artists in the Middle Ages who painted people wearing strange long clothing. We
had to look at pictures of fat babies with wings and curly (鬈曲的) hair and with no clothes on flying around
the edges of paintings. I certainly couldn"t see what was so great about art.
     On our last visit to the museum, something happened when I saw a painting by a woman called Mary. In it,
a woman was reading to a child. The colors were soft and gentle, and you could tell by the mother"s expression
how happy she was just to be with the child. I couldn"t stop looking at this painting! I wanted to see every
painting Mary had ever made! It was really worth looking at so many paintings to find a painter who could
interest me so much. 1. The aim of the mother"s plan was to _____. A. take them to visit the museum
B. introduce them to the world of art
C. ask them to read about artists
D. show them different painting styles 2. What was the writer"s experience in the museum before the last visit? A. She came to feel her mother"s love.
B. She liked many paintings.
C. She hardly enjoyed herself.
D. She could understand the pictures of fat babies. 4. What was the writer"s experience in the museum before the last visit? A. She came to feel her mother"s love.
B. She liked many paintings.
C. She hardly enjoyed herself.
D. She could understand the pictures of fat babies. 5. From the text, we can see _____. A. the importance of curiosity
B. the effect of art
C. the value of learning
D. the power of family education

1-4: B C A B

完形填空。     Many years ago, I owned a service station and roadhouse on the main road between Melbourne and
Adelaide.
     One very cold, wet night at about 3:30 a.m., there was a   1    on the front door of our house. A young
man, wet from    2 to toe, explained that he had   3   out of petrol about 30 km up the road. He had left his
pregnant (怀孕的)wife and his two children   4 at the car and said that he would hitchhike (搭便车) back.
     Once I had   5 a can with petrol, I took him back to his car where his two-year-old and four-year-old
children were both   6 , saying that they were cold. Once the car had started, I suggested that he   7 me
back.
     Before leaving, I had turned the heater   8    in the roadhouse, so that when we went in, it was nice and
  9   . While the little ones played and ran  10  , I prepared bread and butter for the children, and hot chocolate
for the 11 .
     It was about 5 a. m. before they  12 . The young fellow asked me how much he   13 me and I told him
that the petrol pump (加油泵) had   14 $ 15. He offered to pay "call-out fee", but I wouldn"t accept it.
     About a month later, I received a  15  from interstate, a large bus company that we bad been trying to  16
to stop off at our roadhouse for a long time, It  17   out that the young fellow I had helped was its general
manager, the most  18  person in the company.
     In his letter, he thanked me again and   19 me that, from then on, all their buses would stop at my service
station, In this  20 , a little bit of kindness was rewarded with a huge amount of benefits.

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(     )1. A. kick
(     )2. A. finger
(     )3. A. driven
(     )4. A. away
(     )5. A. supplied
(     )6. A. sleeping
(     )7. A. allow
(     )8. A. on
(     )9. A. heat
(     )10. A. around
(     )11. A. drivers
(     )12. A. left
(     )13. A. gave
(     )14. A. appeared
(     )15. A. call
(     )16. A. get
(     )17. A. pointed
(     )18. A. generous
(     )19. A. praised
(     )20. A. lesson

B. hit
B. shoulder
B. used
B. behind
B. poured
B. crying
B. ring
B. off
B. hot
B. inside
B. guests
B. arrived
B. paid
B. exhibited
B. letter
B. force
B. turned
B. successful
B. persuaded
B. business

C. beat
C. head
C. come
C. over
C. equipped
C. quarrelling
C. lead
C. in
C. warm
C. nearby
C. customers
C. ate
C. owed
C. calculated
C. check
C. require
C. worked
C. serious
C. informed
C. aspect

D. knock
D. hand
D. run
D. out
D. filled
D. fighting
D. follow
D. over
D. attractive
D. along
D. adults
D. disappeared
D. offered
D. shown
D. notice
D. hope
D. found
D. powerful
D. convinced
D. case

完形填空。

     When Alice started to cycle home from Jenny"s house, she wasn"t nervous. She was certainly not afraid
of the dark.   1 , it was only a 15-minute ride home. But halfway there, she began to wish that she hadn"t
been so   2  .
     As she rounded a sharp bend, it suddenly   3   cold-very cold. Alice"s breath became puffs of white cloud
and her legs were so cold that it became hard to ride.
     With her heart beating fast, she struggled so hard to move   4   that she didn"t hear the car which suddenly
appeared beside her. She stopped by the road. The big black car also   5  . Slowly, the passenger-window
began to slide down. Alice held her breath. In the soft light inside the car, something   6 . Then, the light
brightened and Alice was staring at a sweet, grey-haired old lady. "Hello, dear," said the old lady. "I need   7  .
I"m afraid I"m lost. I need to find the nearest airport. I must be there in the next five minutes."
     "Airport? You   8   are lost," Alice said. "You need to go back five kilometers   9   you reach the T-junction.
Turn left and  10  for about another 10 kilometers to the main highway. From there, just follow the  11  to the
airport. But I"m afraid there"s no  12  you"ll get there in five minutes!"
     "Thank you very much, dear," replied the old lady. "Don"t worry-I"ll  13  in time."
     The  14  moved up and the car started off. A little way ahead, it  15  and with headlights flashing, it drove
past Alice. But then, something  16  happened. The car began changing. First, its color  17  from black to
silvery-grey. Then, the wheels began disappearing, but the car continued to move forward,  18  just above the
ground. As the car  19  into the dark sky, the big red tail-lights grew larger and larger and glowed more and
more brightly. With a faint whistling  20 , the car was gone in seconds, leaving Alice shaking her head in
disbelief…

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(     )1. A. However
(     )2. A. brave
(     )3. A. fell
(     )4. A. aside
(     )5. A. arrived
(     )6. A. gathered
(     )7. A. help
(     )8. A. necessarily
(     )9. A. if
(     )10. A. drive
(     )11. A. address
(     )12. A. doubt
(     )13. A. have it
(     )14. A. door
(     )15. A. passed
(     )16. A. strange
(     )17. A. developed
(     )18. A. rolling
(     )19. A. pointed
(     )20. A. tune

B. Besides
B. excited
B. seemed
B. around
B. stopped
B. existed
B. gas
B. normally
B. until
B. walk
B. signs
B. room
B. get it
B. window
B. rushed
B. sensitive
B. appeared
B. floating
B. returned
B. voice

C. Therefore
C. curious
C. proved
C. forward
C. stayed
C. dropped
C. rest
C. basically
C. unless
C. follow
C. notices
C. time
C. make it
C. headlight
C. turned
C. imaginable
C. spread
C. drawing
C. broke
C. sound

D. Otherwise
D. stubborn
D. grew
D. backward
D. started
D. moved
D. water
D. certainly
D. as
D. march
D. guidance
D. way
D. finish it
D. wheel
D. continued
D. horrible
D. faded
D. flashing
D. rose
D. tone

阅读理解。

     Andy rode slowly on his way to school, day-dreaming about the fishing trip that his father had promised
him. He was so busy dreaming about all the fish he would catch that he was unaware of everything else
around him.
     He rode along until a strange sound drew him to the present. He came to a stop and looked curiously up
to the heavens. What he saw shocked and terrified him. A huge swarm of bees filled the sky like a black
cloud and the buzzing mass seemed to be heading angrily towards him.
     With no time to waste, Andy sped off in the opposite direction, riding furiously-but without knowing how
to escape the swarm. With a rapidly beating heart and his legs pumping furiously, he sped down the rough
road. As the bees came closer, his panic increased. Andy knew that he was sensitive to bee stings (蜇). The
last sting had landed him in hospital-and that was only one bee sting! He had been forced to stay in bed for
two whole days. Suddenly, his father"s words came to him. "When you are in a tight situation, don"t panic.
Use your brain and think your way out of it."
    On a nearby hill, he could see smoke waving slowly skywards from the chimney of the Nelson family
home. "Bees don"t like smoke," he thought. "They couldn"t get into the house." Andy raced towards the Nelson
house, but the bees were gaining ground. Andy knew he could not reach the house in time. He estimated that
the bees would catch up with him soon.
    Suddenly, out of the corner of his eyes, he spotted a small dam used by Mr. Nelson to irrigate his vegetable
garden. Off his bike and into the cool water he lived, disappearing below the surface and away from the savage
insects. After holding his breath for as long as he could, Andy came up for air and noticed the bees had gone.
Dragging himself out of the dam, he struggled up the hilly slope and rang the doorbell. Mrs. Nelson took him
inside and rang his mother.
     "You"ll really need that fishing break to help you recover," laughed his mother with relief. "Thank goodness
you didn"t panic!" But Andy did not hear her. He was dreaming once again of the fish he would catch
tomorrow.

1. Why did Andy fail to notice the swarm of bees earlier?

A. He was riding to school.
B. He was listening to a strange sound.
C. He was going fishing with his father.
D. He was lost in the thought of the fishing trip.

2. Which of the following is NOT mentioned about the swarm of bees in the passage?

A. They crowded like a black cloud.
B. They shocked and terrified Andy.
C. They tried to attack Andy in a mass.
D. They made Andy stay in hospital for two days.

3. How did Andy avoid the bees in the end?

A. He asked Mr. Nelson for help.
B. He did himself under the water.
C. He rushed into the Nelson house.
D. He rode off in the opposite direction.

4. Which of the following can best describe Andy"s escape from the bees?

A. No pains, no gains.
B. Once bitten, twice shy.
C. Where there is a will, there is a way.
D. In time of danger, one"s mind works fast.

完形填空。

     Carolyn Stradley is the founder of C&S Paving Inc. (铺路公司) in Atlanta, USA. In the following account,
she recalls the job that challenged her   1 and skill but left her flying high.
    "When the Atlanta Airport was under   2 in 1979, we were a new company struggling to make it. National
Car Rental wanted to have 2,500 square meters of dirt paved   3 the cars could be on site   4 the airport
opened, and the official opening was only ten days away!   5 other local paving company wanted to do the
job,   6 it couldn"t be done in such a short time.
     "Because we were new and really needed the work, we were   7   to try harder. We gave National Car
Rental our offer and   8 our best effort to get the job finished within ten days. We also   9 them that if we
failed, they would be no worse off,  10 they had plenty to gain if we succeeded.
     "We got the job and immediately went into 11 . Working at night needed lights, so I rented a machine to
produce electricity for the site. Our  12 challenge was to keep the rock mixture  13 enough. All the available
water wagons (洒水车) were rented out for the airport construction, and we certainly couldn"t afford to buy
a new one.
14 , I got a special  15 to rent fire engine hoses (消防水龙带) and connect them to nearby hydrants (消防栓);
then I  16 held one of those hoses to   17 down the rock.
    "Those ten days were filled with challenges that  18  one creative idea after another. Nine days later, the night
before the airport opened, National Car Rental was the   19 company that had cars on the parking lot.
     "The key to our success was having the   20 to take on any job and then being creative in our approach to
getting it done."

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(     )1. A. kindness
(     )2. A. construction
(     )3. A. after
(     )4. A. while
(     )5. A. Some
(     )6. A. stating
(     )7. A. able
(     )8. A. supported
(     )9. A. asked
(     )10. A. though
(     )11. A. discussion
(     )12. A. next
(     )13. A. cold
(     )14. A. Naturally
(     )15. A. excuse
(     )16. A. exactly
(     )17. A. pull
(     )18. A. required
(     )19. A. best
(     )20. A. courage

B. patience
B. repair
B. as
B. since
B. Any
B. reporting
B. nervous
B. promised
B. surprised
B. but
B. action
B. first
B. wet
B. Obviously
B. order
B. personally
B. knock
B. mixed
B. last
B. interest

C. imagination
C. control
C. for
C. where
C. No
C. telling
C. afraid
C. continued
C. reminded
C. as
C. practice
C. past
C. loose
C. Meanwhile
C. permit
C. angrily
C. hit
C. followed
C. second
C. hope

D. experience
D. development
D. so
D. when
D. Every
D. warning
D. willing
D. improved
D. demanded
D. unless
D. production
D. previous
D. clean
D. Instead
D. reason
D. hardly
D. water
D. formed
D. only
D. chance

完形填空。

                                                                 Ban the Band (乐队)
     Every year, our school has a dance for all the students. It"s a little funny seeing friends in clean shoes and
trousers or colorful   1  , instead of the usual school uniform.
     Most of us think the dance is great   2   -even the teachers enjoy being there.   3  , two weeks ago someone
said that there would be no   4   band this year-only CDs.
     "I don"t   5   it!" Amy cried out during the lunch break.
     "Someone said the school couldn"t   6   a band, and they think it"s too noisy anyway." added Daniel.
     "Well, I don"t think it"s   7   enough without a band!"declared Angela."and I"m going to see what can be
done."
     Angela was as good as her   8 . In the afternoon she went to see the school headmaster who agreed to give
the   9   some more thought. And he suggested that one  10  for having a band was to increase the price of each
ticket from $5 to $10. Angela had to  11  out whether the students would like to do that.
     "I need all of you to help me," she  12  to our group before school the next day. "Mr. Berry gave me a list of
all the names, and suggested we ask each one their  13  about the band and the extra cost."
      14  the day we asked around as Angela suggested, and wrote down people"s feelings about the band and the
cost. We were amazed how much  15  there was for the band and everyone agreed to pay the extra $5.
     "I"m surprised," smiled Mr. Berry, when we gave him the  16 . "I realty thought that only a few people  17
their band and that the cost would be too high. OK. Angela, your next  18  is to find a good band and line them
up for the dance."
     Angela was all smiles and  19  the news to Amy and Daniel. "You"re  20 ," smiled Daniel to Angela as he
thought how close they came to having a less than perfect dance.

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