初中英語星級訓(xùn)練閱讀理解+完形填空

1、Test CIn 1885, a young doctor named Arthur Conan Doyle opened offices in London. He wanted to be a successful doctor, but for somereasons he never found enough _1_ the time, he began to write stories and send them to the newspapers.Conan Doyles stories were about a clever detective, Sherlock Doyle w

2、rote that Sherlock Holmes lived at 221 b Baker Street in London, and people with problems came to his for _2_. Often police detectives came to Sherlock Holmes with their problems, was able to solve mysteries that the cleverest policemen in England were _3_ to figure out.Sometimes Sherlock Holmes cou

3、ld solve a mystery without leaving his listened carefully to the information his client ( 委托人 ) gave and figured out the other times he spent days or weeks looking for clues. Sherlock Holmes travelled to different cities and countries to solve the mysteries. _4_ he wore disguises, pretending to be a

4、n old man, or a sailor. Holmes did anything to find out the answer to the mysteries he was working on.Sherlock Holmes is the most _5_ detective in English literature,but many people dont understand that he is a fictional ( 虛構(gòu)的 ) character, not a real English post offices report( ) 6. A. visitors dir

5、ectionsthat people still send mail to Sherlock Holmes in Baker he gets more than 2,000 _6_ every year.() 1.A. keepB. changeC.passD. mention( ) 2. helpA. practiceB. thinkingC. trustD.() 3.A. willingB. suitableC.likelyD. unable() 4.A. SeldomB. NeverC.SometimesD. Always( ) 5. A. tired famousB. relaxedC

6、. nervousD.B. lettersC. callsD.Test 13EGreen is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is the color of most growing plants, too.Sometimes, the word green meansyoung, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet finished or plants th

7、at are not ripe. For example, a greenhorn is someonewhohas no experience, whois new to a situation. In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed. A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in war.By the eightee

8、nth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today-a person whois newin a one hundred years ago, greenhorn was a popular expression in the American west. Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities in the east. The greenhorn didnt have the skills that he w

9、ould need to live in the hard, rough country.Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb.The expression comes from the early nineteen hundreds. A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the wo

10、mannext door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.The Green Revolution is the namewhich was given someyears ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops.The Green Revolution was the result of har

11、d work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs.Green is also the color used to describe the powerful feeling - jealousy. Thegreen-eyed monster is not a frightening creature from outer space. It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his pl

12、ayOthello. It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something that he wants to get. A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else.What does a“ greenhorn ” now refer to?Is the person with a green thumb good at growing

13、plants?Who works hard and helps to develop new kinds of rice and other grains?People don t use green to describe people s feeling, do they?When was the expression “ the green-eyed monster ” probably firstly used?What kind of person with the green-eyed monster do you think he/she is?Test DWith so man

14、y things going on in your life and the pressure of work and society, you may start thinking it is not wise at all to start a hobby. But the reason that stops you from getting into a hobby is the s_1_ reason why you should surely take up a hobby.Hobby can r_2_ pressure. There is nothing wrong with fo

15、cusing on your job.After all, it is your way of making money. H_3_, when you focus on work too much, you may forget about other aspects （ 方面 ） of your life. That is when things start to go wrong. What you have to think about is: even the richest people are not pleased with money or material things a

16、_4_. We all need a space where we can become ourselves, without any pressure.Hobbies can help recover （ 恢復(fù) ） not only your p_5_ energy but also your emotional energy. And that will be shown in all aspects of your life. Although you can relax by sleeping or doing nothing, a hobby has a different rela

17、xing effect. Doing nothing can relax your tired body, but it is no solution to a tired m_6_ . That is the big difference between the two.A hobby is a great way to spend time on your enjoyment. But if you are thinking that a hobby is all about being quiet, then you are wrong. In fact, hobbies can als

18、o be h_7_ to your social skills. Hobbies can even help to expand （拓展 ） your network, and that can become an advantage to your job.5. 3. 4.6. 7. When Matty Sallin, 34, was studying art and technology at New York University, he got an interesting task for the final exam: Create something for the ordin

19、ary family. He decided to create an alarm clock.To get up in time, many people have to use an alarm clock every morning. But the sound of the clock is extremely noisy and unpleasant, he says. So before he started to design the new clock, he asked different people what theyd like to wake up to in the

20、 morning. A lot of them said, The smell of bacon （培根肉 ）.So Sallin and his two classmates invented a new kind of alarm clock: a wooden box with a pig face and a digital clock that uses the smell of cooking bacon to wake people up. He explains, Theres no danger of burning, because I built it carefully

21、. It uses special light bulbs （燈泡 ） instead of a fire for cooking and rums offautomatically after ten minutes. Just a few easy steps are required to set the alarm.What you do is to put a few pieces of bacon meat inside the box the night before, then you set the alarm, says Sallin. If you set the ala

22、rm for 8:00, it will turn on at 7:50 and slow cook for ten minutes under the bulbs. Then the bulbs rum off and a fan blows the smell out through the nose of the pig.So the pleasant smell of bacon will wake you up. There will be no more noisy alarms, says Sallin. Then you can open the door on the sid

23、e and pull the baconoutand eat it.When Sallin was a kid, he spent a lot of time making drawings of inventions. I wanted to makea lift in my back yard and a special tree house, he says. But I never really thought Id become an inventor!Sallin got an A for his alarm clock and went on to invent other th

24、ings but people continue to email him every day asking where they can buy his alarm clock. If he decides to produce and sell his special alarm clock, maybehe can build a successful business out of it.What was Matty Sallin?How many people worked together on the new alarm clock?How long did it take to

25、 cook the bacon?Why are light bulbs used for cooking bacon instead of a fire?Whats special about Sallins alarm clock?wakes people up instead of the loud alarm.What do you think of the new alarm clock?Test 26BWhen I arrived,it was early morning and it was got out of the car,went through a gate and wa

26、lked along a the east,the sky was becoming light,but beside the path,it was still very knew it was there,but there was nothing to see.After about a kilometre, a stranger appeared in front of me.“Am I going theright way? ” I knew where I was going. “Yes, ” he replied, “ you will get there in five min

27、utes. ” Finally, I cameto somerocks, and looked carefully over them,but it was still too dark to see anything.Suddenly, the clouds cleared and the rain stopped. The sun rose behind me and beyond the rocks. I saw that the ground fell away and down to a river, far below me. I was on the edge of the Gr

28、and Canyon, one of the wonders of the natural world.I looked down to the Colorado River about 2 kilometres below me. If you put the three tallest buildings in the world at the bottom of the canyon, they still willnot reach the top. Then I looked across to the other side of the canyon. How far is it?

29、It is 20 kilometres,maybe ,I looked to my left and to my right, and on both sides the canyon disappeared into the distance over 400 kilometres long. The GrandCanyon is not just big. It is big！That morning on the edge of the canyon, I asked myself a question. It is not “ How deep is it? ” or “ Howwid

30、e is it? ” or “ Howlong is it? ” but “ Is the Grang Canyon the greatest wonder anywhere in the natural world? ” I know the answer. But what do you think?( ) 1. The passage may come from .A. a guidebookB. a grammar bookC. a dictionaryD. a diary( ) 2. There was nothing to see because .A. there was not

31、hingB.it was too darkC. it was rainingD.it was in themorning( ) 3. The writer was facing to the on the edge of the Grand Canyon.A. southB. northC.eastD.west( ) 4. The writer asked himself a question about theGrand Canyon.A. How deep is it?B.How wide isit?C. How long is it?D. Is it the greatest wonde

32、r?( ) 5. According to the passage, which sentence is not rightThe Grand Canyon is taller than three tallest buildings in the world.The Grand Canyon is much longer than 400 kilometres.The Colorado River was about 2 kilometres below the winter.The writer thinks the Colorado River is the greatest wonde

33、r of the natural world.( ) 6. The writer s purpose in writing this passage is .to give facts about the Grand Canyonto tell how he feels about the Grand Canyonto describe the Grand Canyonto tell people to visit the Grand CanyonTest 27BA steel bridge collapsed （ 倒塌 ） during evening rush hour. Dozens o

34、f cars fell down60 feet into the Mississippi River. Ten people died, and more than 50 were seriously injured. The bridge was being repaired because it was found to be structurallydeficient （ 結(jié)構(gòu)缺陷 ）; it needed to be repaired. Like manybridges throughout America, the bridge was built more than 40 year

35、s ago. Traffic was muchlighter then. Nowadays, cars, buses, and big trucks cross the bridge every day, even late at night.“I heard a terrific sound. said Miss Turner to the disaster. She ran out of her car to see what was happening. She saw cars falling into the river and heard people screaming. She

36、 heard the loud sounds of the bridge collapsing and sounds as the parts of the bridge and cars hit the water.It was horrible, “ she said.Engineers had no explanation for the collapse. They said the bridge had been inspected recently. The report said that, although it was structurally deficient, the

37、bridge was not unsafe. Since the report did not say that the bridge was unsafe, the decision was to simply repaired it at some locations.Americans were shocked (震驚)that an American bridge could simply collapse. The news was all over TV, radio, and most newspapers. One newspaper survey showed that al

38、most 10 percent (about 59,000) of America s bridges were structurally deficient.At first, some people thought that terrorists (恐怖分子)might have put a bomb ( 炸彈)into the bridge. One driver said that, before he drove over another bridge in America, he would make sure that a life jacket was in the front

39、 seat next to him.()1. Where did the disaster happen?A. In Canada.B. In America.C. In England.D. InChina.( )2. How many people died in the disaster?A. 50.B. 10.C. 60.D. 40.()3. When was the bridge built?B. Less than 50 years ago.D. More than 50 years agoLess than 40 years ago.C. More than 40 years a

40、go( )4. Miss Turner was when the bridge collapsed.A. in her carB. in the officeC. on the bridgeD.in a boat ( )5. The underlined word inspected probably means.A. builtB. foundC. printedD.examined( )6. How did Americans feel after the disaster?A. They were excited about the news.None of them dared to

41、cross any bridge.They were frightened and worried.They were angry and sad.Test 28B“ Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country. ” It s a famous quote from US president John F. Kennedy s inaugural ( 就職的 ) speech in 1961.Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the social net

42、working site Facebook, must agree with Kennedy. The 26-year-old American recently donated $100 million (670 million yuan) to the public schools in New Jersey, US.Who is this young billionaire? How did he make his fortune?Six years ago, Zuckerberg was a computer geek ( 怪才)at Harvard University. As a

43、second-year student, he set up a website to put the “face books” -photos of incoming first-year students-online.The website, where people were able to share personal information, was a success at once.Zuckerberg first opened Facebook to high school students and then to everyone.Greetings such as“Hav

44、e you checked your Facebook page today? ” and “Do yourfriends know what you ate for breakfast? ” became a part of American life. NowFacebook is the most popular site in the world with 500 million users. If Facebook were a country, it would be the world s third largest.“I could have never imagined al

45、l of the ways people would use Facebook when we were getting started six years ago, “ Zuckerberg wrote in a recent blog.Zuckerberg s dream is to makethe Internet a more connected place. That mission (任務(wù))could become profitable ( 有禾潤的 )for Facebook: The more people share information about themselves

46、online, the more money Facebook will make selling advertising. Zuckerberg is already worth $ billion (46 billion yuan), according to Forbes.Yet the billionaire keeps his own life out of the public eye. At the company, it s said that he sits among a sea of desks like hundreds of workers. A visitor to

47、 Facebook might not even spot Zuckerberg in T-shirt and jeans. He usually takes one two-week vacation each year with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan, a Chinese American student at Harvard. On the weekends, it s reported that he roasts pig and goat in his backyard for friends and takes Mandarin lessons

48、.The Social Network, a movie based on Zuckerberg s story, came out last month. It has become one of the popular films of the year.( )1. At the very beginning, Mark Zuckberg set up the website in order to A. communicate with more peopleB. make a lot of moneyC. put the photos of first-year students on

49、line D. become a famous person()2. Recently Mark Zuckerberg donated $100 million to.A. Harvard UniversityB. FacebookC. the public schools in New JerseyD. high school students( )3. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook.when he was a first-year student at Harvard University.when he was 26 years oldsix year

50、s agoas soon as he graduated( ) 4. The sentence “Yet the billionaire keeps his own life out of the public _ _ eye. ” means .Mark Zuckerberg doesn t want to attract people s attention.Mark Zuckerberg doesn t like to live in public places.Mark Zuckerberg is afraid to meet people.Mark Zuckerberg lives

51、in a place far away from people.( ) 5. In his daily life, Mark Zuckerberg _.likes to roast pig and goat for friends on weekdayssometimes takes Mandarin lessonsis quite different from other peoplemakes some movies.( ) 6. Which of the following about Mark Zuckerberg is NOT TRUE?NowFacebook is the most

52、 popular website in the world with 500 million users.He has a Chinese American girlfriend.He usually takes a vacation each year.He knew he would make a lot of money when he first set up the website.Test 39DChildren have their own rules in playing games. They s_1_ need a referee（裁判 ）and rarely troubl

53、e to keep scores. They don t c_2_ muchabout who wins or loses, and it doesn t seem to worry them if the game is not finished. Yet, theylike gamesthat depend a lot on l_3_, so that their personal abilities cannot be directly compare. They also enjoyed gamesthat movein stages, in which each stage, the

54、 choosing of leaders, the picking-up of sides, or the determining of which side shall start, is almost a game in itself.Parents can hardly find children s gamei_4_, and they often don t understand why their kids play such simple game again and again. However, it is found that a child plays gamesfor

55、very important reasons. He can be a good player without having to think whether he is a popular person, and he can find himself being a useful partner to someone of whom he is ordinary afraid. He becomes a leader when it comes to his turn. He can be c_5_, too, in particular games, that it is his pla

56、ce to g_6_ orders, to pretend to be dead, to throw a ball actually at someone, or to kiss someone he has caught.It appears to us that when children play a game they imagine a situation under their control. Everyone knows the rules, and more importantly, everyone plays according to the rules. Those r

57、ules may be childish, but they make sure that every child has a c_7_ to win.1. 2. 3. .Test 36( ) 3. A. whereB. whyC. whenD. how( ) 6. A. hardB. luckyC. happyD. easyCreativity is the key to a bright future. Here is how schools and parents can help their children to develop their creativity.Dre

58、w worked for a companyin 1925. At work he invented a kind of material _1_ enough to hold things together. But his boss told him not to think more about the idea. Drew didn t stop and finally, using his own time, made a kind of tape, which now is used everywhere by many people. And his company learne

59、d from its thought.Now the company asked its workers to spend 15 percent of their work time just _2_ and developing new ideas.Creativity is not something one is just born with. A person with high intelligence does not mean that he uses it creatively. Creativity is the matter of _3_ your intelligence

60、 to think of new ideas that are good for something.We know that many schools have tried to develop students creativity, but some teachers only want to develop students reading, writing and math skills, and have to give up creativity for correct answers. Children from such schools can give correct an