阅读理解。 Some time ago, I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I - 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 (接待). 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 went into 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?" He looked it over carefully and said, "Yes, not a bad chair. How much do you
want for it, Sir?" "20 pounds," I said, "OK," he said, "I will give you 20 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 will buy it," I said. "What do you mean? You have just
sold it to me," he said. "Yes, I know. But I have changed my mind. I am sorry; I will give you 27 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 are 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 will mend this for you, shall we say for a five?" 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. "Then, suddenly 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 writer3. How much did the writer pay for the mending? [     ]
A. ￡5
B. ￡7
C. ￡20
D. ￡27 4. From the text, we can learn that the writer was _____. [     ]
A. honest
B. smart
C. careful
D. kind

1-4: DCAB

完形填空。     Adults usually do not remember most of the things that are taught by their teachers at school. But this
story is one such lesson that I will never   1 . Every time I drift off course, I think of this story.
     It was a normal Monday morning, and my teacher was teaching us on   2   things in life and about
devoting ourselves to   3   is important to us. This is how the story went:
     An old man lived in a certain part of London, and he would   4 every morning and go to the sub-way.
He would get onto the train right to Central London, and then sit at the street corner and   5  . He would do
this every single day of his life. He sat at   6   street corner and begged for almost 20 years.
     His   7   was dirty, and a stench (恶臭) came out and it smelled terrible. The neighbors could not stand
the smell any more,   8   they called for the police officers to clear the place. The officers knocked down the
door and cleaned the house. There were small bags of   9   all over the house that he had collected over the
years.
     The police counted the money, and they soon  10  that the old man was a millionaire (百万富翁). They
waited outside his house expecting to  11  the good news with him. When the old man arrived home that
evening, one of the officers told him that there was no need for him to beg any more as he was a  12  man
now, a millionaire.
     But the old man said  13 ; he went into his house and locked the door. The next morning he woke up  14 ,
went to the subway, sat at the street corner and continued to beg.
   Clearly, this old man had no great plans,  15  or anything significant (有意义的) for his life. We learn
nothing from this story other than staying focused on the things we enjoy doing.

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(     )1. A. remember
(     )2. A. interesting
(     )3. A. what
(     )4. A. wake up
(     )5. A. sing
(     )6. A. a different
(     )7. A. house
(     )8. A. but
(     )9. A.food
(     )10. A.recognized
(     )11. A. tell
(    )12. A.rich
(     )13. A.thanks
(     )14. A. much later
(     )15. A. friends

B. forget
B. special
B. that
B. go up
B. sleep
B. another
B. coat
B. so
B. money
B. said
B. share
B. poor
B. something
B. much earlier
B. jobs

C. teach
C. important
C. how
C. stay up
C. think
C. the same
C. cap
C. if
C. books
C. realized
C. cover
C. nice
C. nothing
C. so quickly
C. chances

D. give
D. necessary
D. where
D. come up
D. beg
D. a strange
D. bag
D. because
D. clothes
D. thought
D. discuss
D. bad
D. much
D. as usual
D. dreams

阅读理解。

    Andy was still traveling in Spain when he realized he had to confirm (确认) his flight home with the airline
company (航空公司). He was visiting Spain in order to improve his Spanish. When he was speaking to people
face to face, he had no difficulty understanding what they said. However, when he was speaking on the phone,
he still had a problem. Andy called the airline. And the clerk confirmed that his plane was leaving at nine o"clock
three days from that day. She also told Andy to be at the airport two hours earlier in order to check in his
luggage and get a seat.
    Since he was leaving in three days, Andy didn"t lose any time. He visited as many places as he could. He
thought that it would probably be a while before he had enough money again. He wished he could come back
and spend a year in Spain.
    Too quickly, the final day arrived. Andy left early for the airport to arrive two hours before take-off. He
hated to rush. He went to the clerk to show his ticket. The clerk looked at the ticket in surprise. "Why, sir, but
your flight was at nine o"clock in the morning, and now it is eight in the evening." "But I confirmed my flight,"
insisted Andy. "Will I have to pay for another ticket?"
    "No, sir. However, the next flight out will be three days from now."
    Andy"s look of shock turned to pleasure as he realized that now he could continue his vacation.

1. Why was Andy in Spain?

[ ]

A. He was there on a business trip.
B. He hoped to learn Spanish better.
C. He liked to visit places of interest in Spain.
D. He was visiting friends there

2. Andy missed his flight because _____.

[ ]

A. he forgot his flight time
B. the clerk gave him the wrong time of his flight
C. the clerk misunderstood him
D. he misunderstood the clerk

3. Which word can best describe the feeling of Andy when he came to know that his stay in Spain would
be longer?

[ ]

A. happy
B. shocked
C. upset
D. angry

4. What can we infer from the passage?

[ ]

A. Travellers always have to confirm the time of flight with airline companies by phone call.
B. It"s more difficult for Andy to understand others in Spanish face to face than on the phone.
C. Andy was enjoying himself when visiting places in Spain.
D. Andy would spend the next three days at the airport.

完形填空。

     Soon it would be the holidays, but before that, there were year exams. All the   1   were reviewing (复习)
their lessons for the exams. If they didn"t   2  , they would have to retake (重考). Usually a few students   3  ,
but Jane didn"t want to be one of them. She had worked hard all year,   4   just before the exams she was
working so hard that her sister Barbara was   5   about her. She went to bed too   6 . The night before the
exam, Barbara   7   her to go to bed early and take a   8 pill (安眠药). She promised to wake   9   up in the
morning.
     When Jane was in the bed. Her  10  kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, with the help of  11 ,
she went to sleep. Then she had a dream: she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the examination
12 , but she couldn"t answer any of the questions.  13  around her was writing pages and gages.  14  she
thought hard (认真思考), she couldn"t find anything to write  15 . She kept looking at her  16 . Time was
running out. There was only an hour to go. She started one question, wrote two sentences,  17  and tried
another one. With only half an hour left she wrote another two sentences. By this time she was so worried
that she started  18 . Her whole body shook (颤抖). It shook so much that she  19  up. She was still in bed
and it had all been a  20  dream. A minute later, Barbara called her name.

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阅读理解。
An old friend from California called from the airport to tell me that he had arrived. I was not able to leave the office, but I had made plans for his arrival. After explaining where my new house was, I told him that I had left the key under the doormat (门前的擦鞋垫). Since I knew it would be quite late before I could get back, I suggested that he make himself at home and help himself to anything that was kept in the refrigerator (冰箱). Two hours later my friend phoned me from the house. At the moment, he said, he was listening to some of my records after having had a nice meal. He had found the pan and meat in the refrigerator. Now, he was drinking a cup of tea and hoped that I would join him soon. When I asked him if he had any difficulty finding the house,he answered that the only problem was that he had not been able to find the key under the doormat, but luckily, the living room window by the apple tree had been left open and he had climbed in through the window. I listened to all this in great surprise. There is no apple tree outside my window, but there is one by the living room window of my next-door neighbor"s house!
1. When my friend arrived,I could not go to meet him because _____.
[ ]
A. we were not good friends B. I was busy at work C. he had not told me that he would come D. I did not want to see him
2. I listened to my friend"s phone call in great surprise because _____.
[ ]
A. he had not waited for me to eat together B. he had eaten too much of the food C. he mistook my neighbor"s house for mine D. he had left the house with the window open
3. In fact my friend _____.
[ ]
A. did not enter my house B. entered my house after he opened the door C. entered my house by climbing through the window D. entered my house with the help of my neighbor
4. The writer left the key under the doormat so that _____.
[ ]
A. nobody would find it B. he might not lose it C. his family could use the same key D. his friend could easily get it
阅读理解。
Mr Brown was going away for a week. Before he left, he said to his son, "if anyone asks for me, you can tell him that your father has been out for doing something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea." "OK, Dad," said his son. But he was afraid his son couldn"t remember this, he wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it every now and then. Four days passed, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man to come and that the piece of paper was of no more use for him, so he burnt it that evening. The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was standing at the door and said, "Where is your father?" The boy put his hand into his pocket at once and looked for the piece of paper. He could not find it. He suddenly remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted, "No more." The man was very surprised. He asked, "No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen?" "Burnt yesterday evening."
1. Mr Brown told his son that _____.
[ ]
A. he would be away from home for four days B. he would be back in seven days C. he would be back in a month D. he liked a cup of tea
2. Mr Brown wrote the words down on _____.
[ ]
A. the wall B. the door C. a piece of paper D. his son"s pocket
3. A man came to visit the boy"s father on _____.
[ ]
A. the second day B. the third day C. the fourth day D. the fifth day
4. The man was very surprised because _____.
[ ]
A. he thought the child"s father was dead B. the child didn"t ask him to sit down C. the child gave him a cup of tea D. he couldn"t find that piece of paper