初中英语7年级星级阅读训练 Test 38
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Test 38 A Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each word can only be used once (将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次)： A. rest B. noticed C. because of D. drawing E.show Some people believe that when you are old you cannot start doing something new. Grandma Moses proved that this is not true. One day, when she was seventy-eight years old, Anna Moses decided to start a hobby. She had liked ____1___ when she was a little girl, so she began painting pictures. An engineer who was also an collector ___2____some of Anna’s paintings in a drugstore window. He put them in an art show in New York City. Everyone liked them, and Anna Mores became famous. Her paintings were exhibited all over the United States. The newspapers gave Anna the name “Grandma Mores”____3____ her age. She kept painting for the ___4___ of her life. Grandma Mores lived to be 101 years old. A. pain B. almost C. except D. a number of E. steps The most poisonous fish in the world lives in the waters of the western Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is called the stonefish. It looks very much like a stone, ____1___ that it has 13 thin spins, or needles, that stick upward. The stonefish hardly ever moves. Touch it with a pole and nothing happens. But if a swimmer ___2____ on it, the stonefish sends out its poison. The poison causes great ___3___ and can even cause death. The stonefish is ____4__ the scorpion fish family. There are about 250 kinds of scorpion fish, all of which can cause great pain. Luckily, not all are poisonous. B Choose the best answer (根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案): Emily Mason and George Peters have lived next door to each other as long as they can remember. When they were little children, they used to play together. They were good friends, though they sometimes fought over toys or quarreled about what game they would play. As they grew older, they played together less. Emily preferred to be with girls, and George preferred to play with boys. When they were about fifteen years old, they almost stopped speaking to each other, not because they had disagreed with each other about anything, but just because they belonged to different groups. For one thing, Emily was developing into a very good student, while George was more interested in sports. Emily had begun to study French, and she liked French so much that she began to write short plays in French. She also liked television programmes, and for some reason, she enjoyed watching football games very much. Her mother used to say, “Emily, I’ve never heard of a girl who likes football as much as you do.” Mrs Mason simply did not approve of（赞同） her daughter’s interest. Football, she felt, was for men and boys. While Emily was working on her French lessons or watching football games on TV, George was working for his father in his store after school. He liked selling things to people. Mr Peters found George so helpful that he thought about offering him a higher pay. When George wasn’t working at the store. He would like to be with a group of his boy friends who were organizing a sports team. In fact, it was football that brought Emily and George back together. When George was going home one afternoon, he looked in the window of Emily’s living-room and he saw that she was watching a football game on TV. He walked up and knocked at the door. Emily was surprised to see him, but she asked him to come in, and they watched the rest of the game together. At some time during the afternoon, George looked at Emily, and he noticed that she had become a very pretty young lady. Emily and George are good friends again. They still have different ideas about things sometimes, but they agree with each other that football is the world’s best game. Mrs Mason doesn’t seem to disapprove of her daughter’s interest in football as much as she used to. 1.When Emily and George were little children, they__________ A. lived close to each other B. never fought over toys C. usually quarreled D. didn’t speak to each other 2. Emily and George played together less as they grew older because ________ A. they didn’t like each other B. they belonged to different groups C. their parents didn’t let them D. they want to different schools 3. When they grew older, ________. A. Emily worked as an assistant in a store B. Emily became a good student C. George began to learn French D. George wrote short plays in French. 4.While Emily was watching football games on TV, George was ________. A. working on his French lessons B. running a store C. working part-time for his father D. in charge of a sports team 5. Why didn’t Mrs. Mason approve of her daughter’s interest in football _______ A. Because she thought football was for men and women B. Because she didn’t want her daughter to quarrel with George C. Because she wanted Emily to go on learning French. D. Because she wanted her daughter to get higher pay 6. Which of the following is NOT true? A. Football made Emily and George good friends again. B.. Emily and George have different interests, but they both agree football is the world’s best games. C. George was a good helper to his father D. Mrs Mason approves of her daughter’s interest in football now. C Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage (选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文): The other day, I happened to meet someone i hadn't seen for many years. i couldn't believe the change in him. In fact, he didn’t even seem like the same person. When I first knew Bill, back in ___1___ he was one of the most carefree people I had ever met. He was always ready to have a party. He thought nothing of going out for beer at three o’clock in the morning or driving 50 miles to see an old movie he really liked. Bill and I were in the same class in college, and ___2____ was never dull when he was around. With him there was one wild adventure after another. Sometimes I wondered how we ___3____ to study for our exams. Last week, I was in Housto on business and I run into Bill in the bar at the hotel. ____4___, I wasn’t even sure it was him. Was this short-haired businessman really the same person? I wasn’t really sure until I came near him but it indeed was Bill. Now he works for a bank. He talked most of the evening about his job, his new car and his house. How he had changed! Back when were in college, the last thing Bill cared about was possessions. Now they seemed to be his main ___5____. Although I have changed quite a bit myself, somehow, I never imagined Bill changing so much. My image of him remained the one I had formed at the time when we were college students together. I suppose it’s foolish to expect people to remain the same, especially ___6___ I have changed so much myself. But I must say that I enjoyed the old Bill much more than the new Bill. Maybe he felt the same way about me. 1 2 3 4 5 6 D A A A A A A college learning decided First of all interest because B B B B B B childhood life intended At first event that C C C C C C bank work managed subject how D D D D D party homework hoped All the time problem when Now and then D Read the passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words (在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺。每空格限填一词，首字母已给): Many of the small animals are very clever and they have to h__1___ from an enemy. It isn’t often safe to be small in a world full of larger, more dangerous creatures(生物).A small skunk(黄鼠狼),however,will f___2__ bravely just about any danger. Even though a skunk has short teeth and small claws(爪子),most humans and other animals will leave a skunk a___3___. What power does the skunk have to frighten an enemy away? It can give out a liquid(液体) that smells terrible into the air. When an enemy c____4___ too close ,the skunk puts up its tail and gives a warning with its front claw. If the enemy still s___5___ around, the skunk gives out a liquid. Its smell is so bad that even the skunk leaves the scene in a hurry. If the skunk gives out the liquid into another animal’s eyes, that other animal will have t___6___ in seeing for a while.The smell of a skunk can be smelled from a distance of h___7___ a kilometre or more E Answer the questions (根据短文内容，回答下列问题): Stella was born on September 13, 1971 in London, England. She was the daughter of Paul McCartney, a member of the world-famous band “the Beatles.” Though she was born famous, her parents wanted her to live a normal and independent life. She went to state school and earned pocket money on her own. She didn’t get the kind of allowance other kids of her age might have. When she wanted pocket money, she had to clean dishes at a restaurant near her home. Though Stella had the look to become a model, she was most interested in becoming a fashion designer. At the age of twelve, she made her first jacket. Three years later, she started working on her first fashion design collection. When she attended college, some students called her “Daddy’s Girl.” But when her graduation fashion show came out, she made them shut up. Later, she worked for some famous brands and achieved great success. In 2001, she started her own label. She opened her first fashion house the same year, and began to have some famous customers like Liv Tyler. Now she is a world-famous fashion designer. She amazed the world not only by her great success at such a young age, but also by the fact that she made it on her own. 根据短文内容回答下列问题 1. When and where was Stella McCartney born? ______________________________________________________________ 2. What kind of life did Mr. and Mrs. McCartnry want their daughter to live? _______________________________________________________________ 3. How did Stella earn her pocket money? _______________________________________________________________ 4. What did Stella work on when she was fifteen years old? _______________________________________________________________ 5. When did she open her first fashion house? _______________________________________________________________ 6. Why are people amazed by Stella? _______________________________________________________________ 参考答案 A. DBCACEAD B. ABBCAD C. ABCBAD D. hide; face; alone; comes; stays; trouble; half E. 1 .She was born on September 13,1971 in London, England. 2. A normal and independent life. 3. By cleaning dishes at a restaurant near her home. 4. She worked on her first fashion design collection. 5. In 2001. 6. Because she succeeded at such a young age and she made it on her own. 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/b18c45095a0102020740be1e650e52ea5518ce2b.html