【湖北省荆州市2015年中考英语试题】阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
One cold winter night in Shanghai, I was walking home at one in the morning after long tiring work. I was having trouble with my job in the bank. As I walked, I thought seriously about giving up living there. City life had become too much for me.
As I walked down empty streets, I felt very small and cold. I began running, both to keep warm and to keep away any possible danger. Very few people were still out except a few sad-looking homeless people under blankets（毛毯）.
Suddenly, I heard a sound behind me. I turned quickly, all I saw was a shining streetlight. Still, the noise had made me nervous, so I started to run faster. When I reached home, I realized what the noise had been. It had been my wallet falling to the sidewalk.
Now I wasn’t cold or tired anymore. I ran back to where I’d heard the noise. Although I searched carefully for fifteen minutes, my wallet was nowhere to be found.
Just as I was about to give up the search, I heard the garbage truck（垃圾车）come to me. When a voice called from the inside, “Alisa Chen?” I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? The door opened, and out jumped a small red-haired man “Is this what you’re looking for?” he asked, holding up a small square shape.
It was nearly 3 a. m. by the time I got into bed. But I had got my wallet back. I also had got back some enjoyment of city life. I realized that the city couldn’t be a bad place as long as people were willing to help each other.
One cold winter night, the writer felt when she was back home after work.
| A．cold and sick |
| B．lucky and helpful |
| C．excited and cheerful |
| D．disappointed and helpless |
What happened when the writer was running down the empty streets?
| A．She lost her wallet unknowingly. |
| B．Someone had stolen her wallet. |
| C．She was stopped by a garbage truck driver. |
| D．She found some homeless people following her |
In the fifth paragraph, why did the writer say she was dreaming?
A. Someone offered to take her back home.
B. A. red-haired man came to see her.
C. She heard someone call her name.
D. Her wallet was found in a garbage truck.
From the reading, we can infer(推断) that the writer_____.
| A．would stop working at night |
| B．would stay on in Shanghai |
| C．would make friends with cleaners |
| D．would give up her job at the bank。 |
Height is just one of the features your genes (基因) decide. In fact, because
you have two parents, your genes provide you a height that usually lands somewhere
between the height of each parent. If both your parents are tall, then most probably
you will be tall, too. But if you have questions about how tall you’re going to be,
ask your doctor if he or she can help you find them out.
But genes don’t decide everything. For example, eating an unhealthy diet can keep you from growing to your full potential (潜力). Getting plenty of sleep and enough exercise will help you grow to the expected height.
It’s natural that you’re wondering how fast you should grow. There’s no perfect or right answer. Generally speaking, kids grow about 6 cm a year between age 3 and the time when they start puberty.
Your doctor will know how your growth has been going over the years. 2 cm here and 3 cm there make a little difference to the height you’re at now. How have you been growing up to this height? What other changes may your body be going through?
Don’t be amazed if you seem to have grown a lot in a very short time. Everyone has a growth spurt (高峰) during puberty. The age for starting puberty is about 10 for girls and about 11 for boys. But it can be earlier or later — between 7 and 13 for girls and 9 and 15 for boys.
You’ll usually begin to notice that you’re growing faster about a year after your body starts to show the first changes of puberty.
If you want to know how tall you should grow, _______.
| A．you should have enough exercise |
| B．you can record your growth during puberty |
| C．you should take some special medicine |
| D．you can ask doctors for help |
The Chinese for the word “puberty” is _______.
| A．童年时期 | B．婴幼儿时期 |
| C．生长发育期 | D．习惯养成期 |
This passage is mainly about ______.
| A．how the genes work in your body |
| B．how your parents’ height influence you |
| C．how you look like your parents |
| D．how you grow to a certain height |
After reading this passage, we can explain ______.
| A．how good it is to be a doctor |
| B．how much sleep time we need |
| C．why genes can’t decide everything |
| D．what healthy diet is |
Which is NOT mentioned in the passage?
| A．Girls’ age for starting puberty is usually earlier than that for boys’. |
| B．Your height most probably depends on how tall your parents are. |
| C．The features showing the first changes of puberty between boys and girls are different. |
| D．You may be amazed sometimes when you grow too fast. |
In their last moment before the flight took off, I heard a father saying to his daughter, “I love you, I wish you enough.” The daughter said, “Daddy, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough to.” They kissed goodbye and the daughter left. I could see the father was very sad.
Suddenly the father walked towards me and asked me, “Did you ever say goodbye to someone knowing it would be the last time?”
His words made me think of my father. Realizing that my father’s days were limited (有限的), I took the time to tell him face to face how much he meant to me. So I understood what this father was experiencing.
“Yes, I did.” I answered, “But why is this a last goodbye?”
“I am old and my daughter lives much too far away. Maybe her next trip back will be for my funeral (葬礼),” he said.
“When you were saying goodbye, I heard you say ‘I wish you enough’. What does that mean?”
He began to smile. “My parents used to say it to me. When we say ‘I wish you enough’, we want the other person to have a life filled with enough good things.” He stopped for a moment and continued, “I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright. I wish you enough rain to appreciate (欣赏、感激) the sun more. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive. I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life seem much bigger… I wish you enough ‘Hellos’ to get you through the final ‘Goodbye’”.
He then said goodbye to me and walked away.Where did the story happen?
| A．In a hospital. | B．At a train station. |
| C．At an airport. | D．In a park. |
The word “joys” in Paragraph 7 is about _______.
| A．pleasure | B．happiness |
| C．enjoyment | D．all above |
In the passage, “I wish you enough” means that we wish _______.
| A．the other person as much sunshine as possible |
| B．each other a good life. |
| C．the other person as many good things as possible |
| D．it enough rain |
Which is NOT mentioned according to the passage?
| A．The father’s parents used to say “I wish you enough”. |
| B．The father was sad when his daughter left. |
| C．The writer was the father’s friend. |
| D．The father wished his daughter to live a happy life. |
According to the passage, why must we be wished enough pain?
| A．Because no pain, no gain. |
| B．Because we can keep our spirit alive. |
| C．Because the pleasures and pains in life are necessary. |
| D．Because the tiny happiness makes us feel like the great joys. |
______ can join the three-day summer program.
| A．A kid of 7 | B．A boy of 14 |
| C．A girl of 17 | D．A man of 26 |
If there is a rainstorm on 14th July, program A will start on ______.
| A．Sunday | B．Tuesday |
| C．Monday | D．Wednesday |
Two members and one non-member should pay ______ for the program.
| A．$690 | B．$730 | C．$710 | D．$750 |
Free lunches aren’t provided because ______.
| A．the lunches cost too much |
| B．they may bring lunch-boxes |
| C．there are many restaurants |
| D．people have different tastes |
What can we know from the passage?
| A．You need to hand in an application for the program. |
| B．More than 15 students are in each program. |
| C．We can see three kinds of animals in the program. |
| D．Youth Explorer is the name of the program. |
“Everything happens for the best，”my mother said whenever I faced disappointment (失望)．“If you carry on，one day something good will happen．”
Mother was right，as I discovered after graduating (毕业) from college in 1932，I had decided to try for a job in radio，then work my way up to a sports announcer．I hitchhiked (搭便车) to Chicago and knocked on the door of every station and got turneddown every time．In one studio，a kind lady told me that big stations couldn’t risk hiring an inexperienced person．“Go out in the sticks and find a small station that’ll give you a chance，”she said．I thumbed home to Dixon，Illinois．
While there were no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon，my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local sportsman to manage its sports department (部门)．Since Dixon was where I had played high school football，I applied．The job sounded just right for me．But I wasn’t hired．My mother noticed my disappointment．“Everything happens for the best．”Mom reminded me．Dad offered me the car to hunt a job．I tried WOC Radio in Davenport，Iowa．The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter Mac Arthur told me they had already hired an announcer．
As I left his office，I asked aloud，“How can a guy get to be a sports announcer if he can’t get a job in a radio station?”I was waiting for the lift when I heard Mac Arthur calling，“What did you mean about sports? Do you know anything about football?’’ Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to cover an imaginary (想象的) game．Last autumn，my team had won a game in the last 20 seconds with a 65-yard run．I did a 15-minute build-up to that play, and Peter told me I would cover Saturday’s game! On my way home，I thought of my mother’s words：“If you carry on，one day something good will happen．”
I often wonder what direction my life might have taken if I had gotten the job at Montgomery Ward．When did the writer first decide to take a radio-announcing job?
| A．After he applied for the job in a store． |
| B．Before he graduated from college． |
| C．After he came back from Chicago． |
| D．Before he was a football player． |
The underlined phrase“turned down”probably means．
| A．refused | B．accepted |
| C．hired | D．offered |
Why did the writermention his mother’s words over and again?
| A．Because his mother liked to talk a lot． |
| B．Because his mother’s words made him sad． |
| C．Because his mother’s words encouraged him． |
| D．Because his mother’s words disappointed him． |
The writer shows hisby saying“．．．if I had gotten the job at Montgomery Ward．”
| A．regret | B．happiness |
| C．thankfulness | D．disappointment |
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