阅读理解。 Some time ago I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I di - 高中英语试题 - 超级试练试题库

阅读理解。    Some time ago I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I didn"t think
there would be any difficulty in getting it mended, as there are a whole lot of antique
(古董) shops near my home. So I left home one morning carrying the chair with me.
I went into the first shop expecting a friendly reception. I was quite wrong. The man
wouldn"t even look at my chair.
    The second shop, though slightly more polite, was just the same, and the third and
the fourth-so I decided that my approach must be wrong.
    I entered the fifth shop with a plan in my mind. I placed the chair on the floor and
said to the shopkeeper, "Would you like to buy a chair?" "Twenty pounds," I said. "OK,"
he said. "I"ll give you twenty pounds." "It"s got a slightly broken leg," I said. "Yes,
I saw that. It"s nothing."
    Everything was going according to the plan and I was getting excited. "What will you
do with it?" I asked. "Oh, it will be easy to sell once the repair is done." "I"ll buy
it," I said. "What do you mean? You"ve just sold it to me," he said. "Yes, I know but I"ve
changed my mind. I am sorry. I"ll give you twenty-seven pounds for it." "You must be
crazy," he said. Then, suddenly the penny dropped. "I know what you want. You want
me to repair your chair." "You"re right," I said. "And what would you have done if I had
walked in and said, "Would you mend this chair for me?"" "I wouldn"t have agreed to do
it," he said. "We don"t do repairs, not enough money in it and too much trouble. But I"ll
mend this for you. Shall we say for a fiver?" He was a very nice man and was greatly
amused by the whole thing. 1. We can learn from the text that in the first shop the writer _____. [     ]
A. was rather impolite
B. was warmly received
C. asked the shopkeeper to buy his chair
D. asked the shopkeeper to repair his chair 2. The expression "the penny dropped" in the last paragraph means the shopkeeper _____. [     ]
A. changed his mind
B. accepted the offer
C. saw the writer"s purpose
D. decided to help the writer 3. How much did the writer pay? [     ]
A. ￡ 5.
B. ￡ 7.
C. ￡ 20.
D. ￡ 27. 4. From the text, we can learn that the writer was _____. [     ]
A. honest
B. careful
C. smart
D. funny

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完形填空。    Even though it was only October, my students were already whispering about Christmas
plans. With each passing day everyone became more   1   waiting for the final school bell.
Upon its   2   everyone would run for their coats and go home, everyone except David.
    David was a small boy in ragged clothes. I had often   3   what kind of home life
David had, and what kind of mother could send her son to school dressed so   4   for the
cold winter months, without a coat, boots, or gloves. But something made David   5  . I
can still remember he was always   6   a smile and willing to help. He always   7   after
school to straighten chairs and mop the floor. We never talked much. He   8   just smile
and ask what else he could do, then thank me for letting him stay and slowly   9 home.
    Weeks passed and the  10  ovre the coming Christmas grew into restlessness until the
last day of  11  before the holiday break. I smiled in  12  as the last of them hurried
out the door. Turning around I saw David  13  standing by my desk.
    "I have something for you" he said  14  from behind his back a small box.  15  it to
me, he said anxiously "Open it". I took the box from him, thanked him and slowly unwrapped
it. I lift the lid and to my  16  saw nothing. I looked at David"s smiling face and back
into the box and said. "The box is nice, David, but it"s  17 "
    "Oh, no, it isn"t", said David, "It"s full of love, my mum told me before she died
that love was something you couldn"t see or touch unless you know it"s there".
    Tears filled my eyes  18  I looked at the proud dirty face that I had rarely given
19  to. After that Christmas, David and I became good friends and I never forgot the
meaning  20  the little empty box set on my desk.

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(     )1. A. anxious
(     )2. A. warning
(     )3. A. scolded
(     )4. A. modestly
(     )5. A. popular
(     )6. A. expressing
(     )7. A. practiced
(     )8. A. would
(     )9. A. aim at
(     )10. A. argument
(     )11. A. school
(     )12. A. relief
(     )13. A. weakly
(     )14. A. searched
(     )15. A. Holding
(     )16. A. delight
(     )17. A. cheap
(     )18. A. as
(     )19. A. advice
(     )20. A. from

B. courageous
B. ringing
B. wondered
B. naturally
B. upset
B. delivering
B. wandered
B. should
B. turn to
B. excitement
B. year
B. return
B. sadly
B. found
B. Handing
B. expectation
B. empty
B. until
B. support
B. behind

C. serious
C. calling
C. realized
C. inaccurately
C. special
C. wearing
C. studied
C. might
C. put off
C. movement
C. education
C. vain
C. quietly
C. raised
C. Sending
C. appreciation
C. useless
C. because
C. attention
C. over

D. cautious
D. yelling
D. learned
D. inappropriately
D. funny
D. sharing
D. stayed
D. could
D. head for
D. program
D. program
D. control
D. helplessly
D. pulled
D. Leaving
D. surprise
D. improper
D. though
D. command
D. towards

阅读理解。

    It seems that some people go out of their way to get into trouble. That"s more or less what
happened the night that Nashville Police Officer Floyd Hyde was on duty.
    "I was on the way to a personal-injury accident in West Nashville. As I got onto Highway 40,
blue lights and siren (警笛) going, I fell in behind a gold Pontiac Firebird that suddenly seemed
to take off quickly down the highway. The driver somehow panicked at the sight of me. He was
going more than a hundred miles an hour and began passing cars on the shoulder."
    But Hyde couldn"t go after him. Taking care of injured people is always more important than
worrying about speeders, so the officer had to stay on his way to the accident. But he did try to
keep the Firebird in sight as he drove, hoping another nearby unit would be able to step in and
stop the speeding car. As it turned out, keeping the Firebird in sightwas not that difficult. Every
turn the Pontiac made was the very turn the officer needed to get to the accident scene.
    Hyde followed the Pontiac all the way to his destination (目的地). At that point he found another
unit had already arrived at the accident scene. His help wasn"t needed. Now he was free to try to
stop the driver of the firebird, who by this time had developed something new to panick about.
    "Just about that time," Hyde says, "I saw fire coming out from under that car, with blue smoke
and oil going everywhere. He"s blown his engine. Now he had to stop."
    "After I arrested him, I asked him why he was running. He told me he didn"t have a driver"s license.
    That accident cost the driver of the Firebird plenty-a thousand dollars for the new engine-not to
mention the charges for driving without a license, attempting to run away, and dangerous driving.

1. The meaning of "panicked" in paragraph 2 is related to _____.

[ ]

A. happy
B. fear
C. anger
D. hate

2. Why did the driver of the Firebird suddenly speed down the highway?

[ ]

A. Because he was racing with another driver on the road.
B. Because he realized he had to hurry to the accident scene.
C. Because he thought the police officer wanted to stop him.
D. Because he wanted to overtake other cars on the shoulder.

3. The driver of the Firebird _____.

[ ]

A. took a wrong turn on the way
B. had some trouble with his car
C. was stopped by the police officer
D. paid for the expenses of the accident

4. What is probably the best title for the article?

[ ]

A. Losing His Way?
B. Going My Way?
C. Fun All the Way?
D. Help on the Way?

阅读理解。

    I"m sure you know the song "Happy Birthday". But do you know who wrote the song and
for whom it was written?
    The retired professor, Archibald A. Hill in Lousciville, USA could tell us the story. Ninety-
seven years ago, two of Mr. Archibald Hill"s aunts, Miss Patty Hill and Miss Mildred Hill were
asked to write some songs for a book called "Song Storied for the SundayMorning". Miss Patty
Hill and Miss Mildred Hill were both kindergarten teachers then. They loved children very much
and wrote many beautiful songs for the book. One of them was the famous "Good Morning to
You." The song said, "Good morning to you, good morning to you, dear children, good morning
to all." This song was very popular at that time among kindergarten children. But not many grown-
ups knew it. A few years later little Archibald was born. As his aunt, Miss Patty Hill sang the song
"Happy Birthday" to the melody (曲调)of "Good Morning to you" to her little nephew (侄子). She
sang the song like this: Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, dear Archie!
Happy birthday to you!
    Miss Patty Hill and her sister had never expected that this song would become so popular, but it
really did. People all over the world like the song because of its simplicity in tune (曲调简单) and
friendliness in words.

1. Archibald A. Hill was _____.

[ ]

A. English
B. American
C. Russian
D. Australian

2. Professor Archibald A. Hill was Miss Mildred Hill"s _____.

[ ]

A. son
B. student
C. brother
D. nephew

3. The song "Happy Birthday" has a history of _____ years.

[ ]

A. 97
B. more than 90
C. less than 90
D. about 90

4. The sentence "it really did" means _____.

[ ]

A. The song really became popular
B. Their wish would really come true
C. People all over the world like to listen to the song
D. Yes, but the song didn"t become popular

完形填空。

    I ran across an old photo of him the other day, thinking of some old things. He"s
been dead for 25 years. His name was Rex.
     1  was his favorite recreation (娱乐). He had so much  2  in the water as any person
I have known. You didn"t have to throw a stick in the water to  3  him to go in. Of course,
he would bring back a stick to you if you  4  throw one in.
    That  5  me of that night,  6  he brought back a small box that he found somewhere-
how  7  nobody ever knew. Since it was Rex, it  8  easily have been half a race. The box
wasn"t a good one. It was just a  9  old piece that somebody  10 . Still it was something
he wanted, probably  11  there was some difficulty in transportation (运输). And that he
thought could test his courage. We first knew about his achievement when, deep in the
night, we  12  him trying to get the box up onto the porch (门厅). It sounded  13  two
or three people were trying to tear the house  14 . We came downstairs and turned on the
15  light. Rex was on the top step trying to pull the thing up, but it had  16  somehow.
And he was just holding his own (坚持着). I suppose he would have held his own  17
dawn if we hadn"t helped him. The next day we carried the box miles away and threw it
out. If we had thrown it out in a  18  place, he would have brought it home again, as a
small token (象征) of his strength in such matters.  19 , he had been taught to carry heavy
wooden objects about and he was  20  of his skill.

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(     )1. A. Fighting
(     )2. A. fun
(     )3. A. stop
(     )4. A. will
(     )5. A. reminds
(     )6. A. which
(     )7. A. far
(     )8. A. could
(     )9. A. priceless
(     )10. A. kept
(     )11. A. because
(     )12. A. saw
(     )13. A. like
(     )14. A. up
(     )15. A. hall
(     )16. A. rolled
(     )17. A. at
(     )18. A. distant
(     )19. A. In all
(     )20. A. proud

B. Swimming
B. trouble
B. make
B. do
B. warns
B. while
B. long
B. can
B. worthless
B. forgot
B. only if
B. heard
B. that
B. in
B. kitchen
B. stopped
B. before
B. nearby
B. As a result
B. tired

C. Barking
C. danger
C. get
C. did
C. tells
C. as
C. old
C. should
C. valuable
C. deserted (遗弃)
C. even if
C. watched
C. as if
C. away
C. bedroom
C. caught
C. till
C. silent
C. At last
C. ashamed

D. Running
D. difficulty
D. have
D. would
D. suggests
D. when
D. heavy
D. would
D. important
D. remained
D. in case
D. caught
D. at least
D. down
D. porch
D. broken
D. during
D. busy
D. After all
D. doubtful

完形填空。

    Mr. Dawson was an old grouch (脾气坏的人), and everyone in town knew it.  1  knew
not to go into his yard to pick an apple, because old Dawson would come after you with his
gun.
    One Friday, 12-year-old Janet was walking out with her friend Amy. They  2  go by
Dawson"s house, but as they got close Janet saw him  3  on his front porch (门廊) and
suggested they cross over the street. Like most, she was  4  of the old man.
    Amy said not to worry. When they got close enough, Dawson looked up with his usual
frown,  5  when he saw it was Amy, he gave a(n)  6  smile. Amy smiled back and told him
Janet was  7  overnight with her to listen to music and play games. Dawson told them that
sounded fun, and gave them each a(n)  8 .
    Later, Janet asked Amy:"Everyone says he"s the meanest man in town.  9  he was so nice
to us?" Amy explained that when she  10  started walking past his house he wasn"t very friendly,
but she pretended he was wearing a(n)  11  smile and so she always smiled. It took a while,
but one day he half-smiled  12 . After a while, he started smiling real smiles and then talked to
her. She said he always  14  her an apple now, and is always very kind.
    "An invisible smile?" questioned Janet. "Yes," answered Amy, "My grandma told me that if I
pretended I wasn"t  14  and pretended he was smiling an invisible smile at me and I smiled back
at him,  15 he would really smile."
    If we remember that  16  wears an invisible smile, we too will find that most people can"t  17
our sunniness after a while. We"re always on the go trying to  18  so much, aren"t we? It"s so easy
to get caught up in everyday life that we forget how easily we can bring  19  to ourselves and others.
Giving a smile  20  so little efforts; let"s make sure that we"re not the ones that others have to pretend
are wearing invisible smiles.

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