完形填空(本题有15个小题,每小题1分,共15分)
阅读下面短文,掌握大意,然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
One will feel happy when others flatter( 奉承) him in his face. It is said that the best way of flattering someone is to give him a “top hat” .
A student was going to leave the capital to become official (官员) in a city far away. Before he started, he came to say to his teacher.
“It is job to be a good official.” his teacher said. “ you must be strict yourself and never be careless.”
“Don’t worry about me, sir.” The student answered. “I have already anyone hundred top hats, which will those people quite happy.”
“But we are really gentlemen! could a real gentleman do such a thing ? ” His teacher was a bit _ . “ Never forget I taught you in class!”
“ are always right, sir. I also hate such things. But, sir, no one really gentleman like you can be seen in the world now.” said the student. It seemed that he had to do so.
hearing this, the teacher was pleased. “What you said is true!”
“I have one top hat already. Now I have ninety-nine .” the student said to his friend later on when he asked the student what he had talked with the teacher about.
A.to dress B.dressing C.wearing D.to wear
A.a B.the C.an D./
A.hello B.goodbye C.OK D.thanks
A.not an easy B.not easy C.a good D.difficult
A.about B.with C.from D.to
A.made B.bought C.prepared D.repaired
A.give B.let C.keep D.make
A.How B.What C.Why D.When
A.pleased B.angry C.excited D.sorry
A.that B.how C.why D.what
A.You B.We C.They D.Us
A.hardly B.about C.almost D.nearly
A.Before B.After C.Because D.If
A.sent out B.bought C.sold D.borrowed
A.left B.already C.yet D.else
阅读下面短文,掌握大意,然后从A.B.C.D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项.
It was a lovely spring afternoon. My classmates and I were playing happily on the playground when I let out a cry, “Ow!Ow! Something in my shoe is biting* me.”
Everyone was shocked by the cry. They took me into a classroom and were about to take off my____. “Which foot is it?”One asked “let us have a look.”
Suddenly, I remembered the holes in____socks.My family was very poor during those years. I wore welfare socks, which cost only a little, but those____welfare socks didn’t last long. They soon had ____at he bottom.
I refused to take off my shoe. I____stand others seeing the holes in my sock. I tried to hold back my tears Yet, each time the thing____my shoe bit me, tears raced down my face.
My teacher, Miss Diane, hurried into the_____, “What’s wrong? ”She asked.
“Something is biting her right foot,__ __she doesn’t let us take off her shoe,”One of my classmates answered.
Miss Diane lived next door to me.She_____everything about my family .She put both hands on my shaking shoulders and ____into my painful and hopeless eyes.
“Oh,yes,it must be a sock-eating ant,” She said, as if she had____seen the thing inside the shoe. “I had a bite from one of those ants. By the time I got my shoe off ,it had____almost the whole bottom off my sock.” My classmates nodded while they were listening to the teacher____,although they all looked a little puzzled*.
Miss Diane took off my right shoe and sock and shook them over the dustbin*.Two red ants ____it.
“Just what I thought it.The ants have eaten part of her sock.”When she stroked an alcohol* cotton ball on the bites,she added, “You are such a ____girl to take so many bites.”
The alcohol felt cool on the bites and a little girl’s pride was saved by the “sock-eating ant ” story.
A.shoe B.shirt C.hat D.coat
A.his B.her C.my D.your
A.free B.wet C.dirty D.cheap
A.holes B.boxes C.stones D.pockets
A.could B.couldn’t C.must D.mustn’t
A.on B.near C.under D.in
A.office B.playground C.classroom D.toilet
A.because B.but C.or D.so
A.knew B.forgot C.taught D.borrowed
A.looked B.dropped C.ran D.got
A.hardly B.already C.still D.only
A.turned B.put C.taken D.eaten
A.angrily B.sadly C.carefully D.happily
A.lived on B.fell into C.went over D.turned to
A.lucky B.friendly C.brave D.clever
通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后在各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出一个最佳选项。
At a day care centre in Texas, Jessica McClure was playing outside. Jessica’s mother,____worked at the day care centre, was watching her. Suddenly Jessica____ and disappeared. Jessica’s mother cried and ran to her.
The well in the yard was only eight inches across, and a rock always____it.But children had moved the rock.__ __ Jessica fell, she fell right into the well.
Jessica’s mother ran to a phone and called 911 for ____.Men from the fire department arrived. They ____that Jessica was about 20 feet down in the well. Then they told Jessica’s parents their____. “We can’t go down into the well”they said,” It’s so small. So we are going to dig a hole ______well.We’ll dig down about 20 feet. Then we’ll dig a tunnel(通道) across to Jessica. When we reach her, we’ll bring her through the tunnel. Then we’ll bring her up through our____.”
The men began to dig the hole on a Wednesday morning. Two days later, on Friday morning, they were____digging.And Jessica McClure was still in the well.
All over the world people waited for news of Jessica. They read about her in newspapers and watched her rescue(营救)on TV.Everyone___ the little girl in the well.
At 8:00 p.m. On Friday, the men____ reached Jessica and brought her up from the well. Then doctors rushed her to the hospital. Jessica was badly injured but she was still____.A doctor at the hospital said, “Jessica is lucky she is very____.She’s not going to remember this very well.”
Maybe Jessica will not remember her days in the well. But her parents, her rescuers, and many other people around the world will not forget____.
After Jessica’s rescue, one of the rescuers made a metal cover for the well. On the cover he wrote, “To Jessica, with love from all of us.”
A.she B.who C.whom D.which
A.fell B.slept C.stopped D.rose
A.broke B.hid C.covered D.opened
A.Because B.Although C.If D.When
A.advice B.money C.help D.information
A.promised B.discovered C.hoped D.agreed
A.dream B.study C.lesson D.plan
A.next to B.along with C.far from D.out of
A.well B.tunnel C.hole D.yard
A.still B.already C.always D.almost
A.looked after B.worried about C.made friends with D.stayed away from
A.immediately B.usually C.quickly D.finally
A.alone B.asleep C.alive D.afraid
A.young B.popular C.clever D.pretty
A.it B.them C.him D.us
Many years ago, when I was a student, the radio studio manager at WXBN interviewed me and it changed my life.
“How old are you?”he looked down at _______.
“Fifteen,” I said.
“And you want a job in radio?” Shouldn’t you be _______?”he asked.
How could I explain? I’ve always _______ the radio. When I was four or five years old, I remember sitting close to the radio in the living room, listening to my favourite programmes, and the voices of my favourite presenters. It seemed that they were speaking to me in person. _______ the age of nine, I asked for jobs in small radio stations.
As I grew older, my _______ in radio grew. One day I learned about Internet radio. Once a week, I played my favoutite music from my father’s computer to the listeners, talked about life at school, and then closed down and did my homework.
Soon my friends at junior high school started to listen, and then they wanted to _______. We prepared the weekly programmes, articles about music, sports news, jokes and the weather report.
“OK, _______ with me,” the WXBN manager said, I followed him into the studio. Then I sat down in front of a microphone. He was in another room, behind the glass wall.
“OK, let’s do a second check. Just tell me _______ you had for breakfast.”
All radio presenters begin work with the same _______.
“I had eggs, fruit and some milk.”
“OK, that’s great,” the man behind the glass said.
And this was how my first real job in radio began.
A.me B.her C.you D.him
A.on the news B.on business C.at school D.at work
A.repaired B.loved C.sold D.cleaned
A.At B.In C.With D.For
A.trouble B.habit C.collection D.interest
A.fight B.refuse C.help D.laugh
A.speak B.sing C.read D.come
A.what B.how C.that D.why
A.station B.advertisement C.question D.time
A.game B.job C.joke D.report
Early last year, two young brothers in Jiangsu Province badly burned while playing. The“game”they were playing was they had watched in the cartoon Pleasant Goat and the Big Big Wolf (《喜羊羊和灰太狼》).The brothers were two little goats while their friend was playing a bad wolf . Their friend tied them a tree and set fire to the grass around them.
The sad story is an example of how many children follow the violence(暴力) they see on television, especially cartoons. It is that violent cartoons can make children more aggressive(具有攻击性的). In a survey, researchers the children after watching non-violent and violent cartoons. They found that the kids who watched violent cartoons fought with others and class rules more often.
Children under the age of seven are too to understand that the violence on TV can bring real harm. It is parents’ job them understand it.
A.are B.is C.were D.was
A.something B.anything C.everything D.nothing
A.eating B.buying C.watching D.playing
A.with B.to C.in D.at
A.report B.reporter C.reported D.reporting
A.advised B.asked C.called D.compared
A.broke B.followed C.obeyed D.made
A.young B.old C.small D.little
A.him B.them C.we D.you
A.help B.to help C.helping D.helped
Math is one of the most boring classes for many students. But recently, at the University of California in the US, a class got 400 students interested. There were even another 35 from behind windows.
could make a boring subject so interesting? Terence Tao, the 31-year-old university teacher, is known as “the Mozart of Math”. Tao, born in Hong Kong, spent his childhood in Australia. He showed his great in math when he was very young. At the age of two, he could read. At nine, he went to college math classes. At twenty, he got his doctor’s degree(博士学位). Last summer, Tao a Fields Medal which is known as the “Noble Prize of Math”. he was talented, Terence Tao didn’t go to college until he was fourteen. “In my opinion, it’s not to go to college too young. ” said Tao. He added, “ , studying is like building a large tower. It must have a strong base(基础). Then it can be built higher. ”
People don’t think Tao is the rest of us. He wears a T-shirt and an old pair of sports shoes. He reads Japanese comic books, too. But he loves math. “In many ways, my work is my hobby. ” he said.A. math B. music C. Japanese
A. passing B. watching C. shouting
A. What B. Which C. Who
A. talent B. importance C. need
A. made B. won C. found
A. If B. Although C. Because
A. necessary B. convenient C. difficult
A. So far B. At times C. In fact
A. the same as B. different from C. similar to
A. even B. also C. still