科目:初中英语 来源:云南省昆明市2018年中考英语试卷 题型:语法填空
根据句意,用括号中所给词的适当形式填空,并将答案写在答题卡的相应位置上。
The most interesting museum I’ve ever been to is the American Computer Museum. They have 1.(information) about different computers and who invented them. The old computers were much bigger. It’s unbelievable that technology has progressed in such a rapid way! I’ve also learned that there was a special computer. It could play chess even 2.(well) than humans. I wonder how much more computers 3.(are) able to do in the future.
I’ve 4.(recent) been to a very unusual museum in India, the International Museum of Toilets. I just 5.(could) believe my eyes when I saw so many different kinds of toilets there. The museum 6.(teach) people about the history and development of toilets. It also encourages governments and social groups 7.(think) about ways to improve toilets in the future.
Last year I went to the Hangzhou 8.(national) Tea Museum. It’s a relaxing and peaceful place near a lake. The tea art performances show how to make a perfect cup of tea with beautiful tea sets. Watching the tea preparation is just as enjoyable as drinking the tea 9.(it). I’ve finally realized why my grandpa loves drinking tea and 10.(collect) tea sets.
1.information 2.better 3.will be 4.recently 5.couldn't 6.teaches 7.to think 8.National 9.itself 10.collecting 【解析】 本文简单介绍了作者曾去过的三家令其印象深刻的博物馆,一家是美国电脑博物馆,一家是国际厕所博物馆,还有一家...查看答案和解析>>
科目:初中英语 来源:杭州市2018年九上英语Unit 5单元检测试卷 题型:阅读单选
Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks (积木). His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.
Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty(自由女神像) to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait (自画像). It took him two days just to build the eyes.
Nathan's work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan's exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.
"I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it," says Nathan. "To do what you love in life is the most important thing."
1.What did Nathan put on his desk at college?
A. The Statue of Liberty. B. Superman.
C. His serf-portrait. D. A Greenwich Village modal.
2.Why did Nathan give up his job as a lawyer?
A. Because he made little money out of a lawyer.
B. Because he wanted to make toys for the children.
C. Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks.
D. Because he was going to work in the museum instead.
3.What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Nathan's work. B. Nathan's exhibition.
C. Nathan's art. D. Nathan's self-portrait
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. The Brick Artist B. The Brick Exhibition
C. Toy Bricks for Adults D. The Artist's Childhood
1. D 2. C 3. B 4. A 【解析】 试题这篇短文主要讲述了一个艺术家从小因为喜欢搭积木,长大后放弃了有高薪的律师工作,选择艺术做为自己的职业,并且他的作品深受儿童与家长们的喜欢的故事。 1. 2. 3. 4.查看答案和解析>>
科目:初中英语 来源:江苏省苏州市2018年中考英语试卷 题型:单选题
—Why are you so late today?
—Three buses went by without stopping while I at the bus stop.
A. am waiting B. waited C. have waited D. was waiting
D 【解析】 句意:-你今天为什么怎么晚?-当我正在公交车站等车的时候,有三辆车经过但都没有停。am waiting正在等,现在进行时态;waited是过去式,一般过去时态;have waited现在完成时;was waiting过去进行时。根据对话的意思可知,等车是过去发生的事情,并且这里表示“正在等车的时候…”,故应用过去进行时,选D。查看答案和解析>>
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