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科目:初中英语 来源:2013-2014学年江苏省姜堰市九年级学业水平测试英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor, Dr. Gibbs. He didn't look like any doctor I'd ever known. He never invited us to play in his yard, but he was a very kind person. When Dr. Gibbs wasn't saving lives, he was planting trees. He owned a large field and wanted to make it a forest. The good doctor had some interesting ideas about planting trees. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled(毁坏) them, and that if you watered them, each baby tree would grow weaker and weaker, so you had to make things difficult for them and pick out the weaker trees early on.
He talked about how watering trees made for shallow(浅的) roots(根), and how trees that weren't watered had to grow deep roots in search of water under the earth by themselves. Deep roots were very important. So he never watered his trees. He'd planted an oak(橡树)and instead of watering it every morning, he'd beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree's attention.
Dr. Gibbs died several years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I watched him plant about twenty-five years ago. They're very big and strong now. I planted some trees a few years back and carried water to them for a whole summer. After two years of caring too much, whenever a cold wind blows in, they shake a lot.
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. Mostly I pray (祈祷) that their lives will be easy. But lately I've been thinking that it's time to change my prayer. I know my children are going to face difficulties. There's always a cold wind blowing somewhere, so what we need to do is to pray for roots that reach deep into the brave heart, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we could face it strongly and won't be beaten down.
1.We know from the passage, the doctor______.
A. didn't know how to plant trees at all
B. wasn't good at his own medical job
C. had his own ways of planting trees
D. had nothing to do but plant trees
2.When Dr. Gibbs said "... pick out the weaker trees early on.", he meant that______.
A. some weak trees would be easily found out at the beginning
B. he would choose the weak trees to water earlier
C. the weak trees would be sent to his patients later
D. he would not plant weak trees so early anymore
3.The passage tells us that the writer 。
A.should beat his trees with a rolled-up newspaper
B.didn’t often water his trees
C.didn’t have a large field
D.took too much care of his trees
4.The writer wants to change his prayer,hoping that .
A.his trees will be stronger than Dr.Gibbs′
B. his trees will not be beaten down
C.his sons will be better at planting trees
D. his sons will be able to face difficulties
5.Which can be the best title of the reading?
A. Watering Trees B. Growing Roots
C. Doctor and his Neighbor D. Father and his Children
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科目:初中英语 来源:2013年初中毕业升学考试(河南卷)英语(解析版) 题型:完型填空
King Akbar was in the habit of putting riddles and puzzles to his people. He often asked ___36___ which were strange. His people had to use words in a ___37___ way to answer these questions.
Once Akbar asked a very strange question. He looked at his people. ___38___ he looked, one by one the heads began to hang low in search of an answer. It was at this moment that Bridal entered the palace. Birbal ___39___ the habit of the king. He understood the ___40___ at once and asked, “May I know the question so that I can ____41___ for an answer?”
Akbar said, “How many crows(乌鸦) are there in the city?”
___42___ even a moment’s thought, Birbal replied, “There are fifty thousand five hundred and eighty nine crows, My Lord.”
“How can you be so ___43____?” asked Akbar.
Birbal said, “Make your men ___44___, My Lord. If you find more crows it means some have come to visit their relatives(亲戚) here. If you find ___45___ crows it means some have gone to visit their relatives somewhere else.”
Akbar was pleased very much by Birbal’s wise answer.
1. A.questions B.help C.promises D.advice
2. A.common B.friendly C.clever D.silent
3. A.Though B.Because C.If D.As
4. A.knew B.developed C.hated D.doubted
5. A.order B.information C.danger D.situation
6. A.ask B.wait C.try D.reach
7. A.before B.without C.Through D.In
8. A.smart B.brave C.funny D.sure
9. A.catch B.discuss C.count D.visit
10. A.fewer B.larger C.faster D.older
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科目:初中英语 来源:2012-2013学年北京市门头沟区中考二模英语卷(解析版) 题型:完型填空
An old man lived in a nice house with a large garden. He took care of his 1 all the time, watering and fertilizing(施肥)them.
One day a young man went by the garden. He looked at the beautiful flowers, imagining how happy he could be 2 he lived in such a beautiful place. Then, suddenly he found the old gardener was 3 . He was very surprised about this and asked, “You can’t see these flowers. 4 are you busy taking care of them every day?”
The old man smiled and said “I can tell you four reasons. First, I was a gardener when I was young, and I really like this job. Second, 5 I can’t see these flowers, I can touch them. 6 , I can smell the sweetness of them. As to the last one, that’s you.”
“Me? But you don’t know me,” said the young man.
“Yeah, it’s 7 that I don’t know you. But I know that flowers are angels(天使) that everybody 8 . We enjoy the happiness these flowers have brought us.”
The blind man’s work opened our eyes and 9 our hearts, which also made his life 10 . It was just like Beethoven, who became deaf in his later life and wrote many great musical works. Beethoven himself couldn’t 11 his wonderful music, but his music has 12 millions of people to face their difficulties bravely. Isn’t it one kind of happiness?
1. A.flowers B.trees C.vegetables D.grass
2. A.after B.as C.before D.if
3. A.deaf B.blind C.smart D.strange
4. A.What B.Who C.Why D.Which
5. A.although B.since C.because D.unless
6. A.First B.Second C.Third D.Fourth
7. A.true B.hard C.cool D.fair
8. A.greets B.knows C.meets D.doubts
9. A.broke B.hurt C.pleased D.treated
10. A.emptier B.busier C.luckier D.happier
11. A.write B.hear C.play D.believe
12. A.changed B.directed C.discovered D.encouraged
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