初中英语星级训练阅读理解+完形填空文档格式.docx

1、t understand that he is a fictional （虚构的） character, not a real person.The English post offices reportthat people still send mail to Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street.Even he gets more than 2,000 _6_ every year.（ ） 1. A. keep B. change C. pass D. mention （ ） 2. A. practice B. thinking C. trust D. help

2、 （ ） 3. A. willing B. suitable C. likely D. unable （ ） 4. A. Seldom B. Never C. Sometimes D. Always （ ） 5. A. tired B. relaxed C. nervous D. famous （ ） 6. A. visitors B. letters C. calls D. directions Test 13EGreen is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It

3、 is the color of most growing plants, too.Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet finished or plants that are not ripe. For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the fifteenth century,

4、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 eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today-a person who is new in a job.About one hundred years ago, greenhorn was

5、 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 would need to live in the hard, rough country.Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a gr

6、een 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 woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.The Green Revol

7、ution is the name which was given some years 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 hard work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs.Green is also the color used to describe the powerful

8、 feeling - jealousy. The green-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 play Othello. It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something that he wants to ge

9、t. A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else.1. What does a “greenhorn” now refer to?_2. Is the person with a green thumb good at growing plants?3. Who works hard and helps to develop new kinds of rice and other grains?4. People dont use

10、green to describe peoples feeling, do they?5. When was the expression “the green-eyed monster” probably firstly used?6. What kind of person with the green-eyed monster do you think he/she is?Test 14DWith so many things going on in your life and the pressure of work and society, you may start thinkin

11、g 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 focusing on your job. After all, it is your way of making money. H_3_, when you focus on wor

12、k 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_4_. We all need a space where we can become ourselves, without any pressure.Hobbies can he

13、lp recover （恢复） 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 relaxing effect. Doing nothing can relax your tired body, but it is no solution to a tired m_6_ .

14、 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 also be h_7_ to your social skills. Hobbies can even help to expand （拓展） your network, and that

15、can become an advantage to your job.1. _ 2. _ 3. _ 4. _5. _ 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 ordinary family. He decided to create an alarm clock.To get up in time, many pe

16、ople 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 morning. A lot of them said, The smell of bacon （培根肉）.So Sallin and his t

17、wo 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. It uses special light bulbs （灯泡） instead of a fire for cooking and rums o

18、ff automatically 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 alarm for 8:00, it will turn on at 7:50 and slow cook for ten minutes under th

19、e 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,Then you can open the door on the side and pull the bacon out and eat it.When Sallin was a kid, he spent a lot of time making

20、drawings of inventions. I wanted to make a 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 thingsbut people continue to email him every day asking where they can buy his alarm clo

21、ck. If he decides to produce and sell his special alarm clock, maybe he can build a successful business out of it.1. What was Matty Sallin?2. How many people worked together on the new alarm clock? 3. How long did it take to cook the bacon?4. Why are light bulbs used for cooking bacon instead of a f

22、ire?5. Whats special about Sallins alarm clock?_ wakes people up instead of the loud alarm.6. What do you think of the new alarm clock?Test 26BWhen I arrived,it was early morning and it was raining.I got out of the car,went through a gate and walked along a path.In the east,the sky was becoming ligh

23、t,but beside the path,it was still very dark.I knew it was there,but there was nothing to see.After about a kilometre, a stranger appeared in front of me. “Am I going the right way?” I asked.He knew where I was going. “Yes,” he replied, “you will get there in five minutes.” Finally, I came to some r

24、ocks, and stopped.I 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 Grand Canyon, one of th

25、e 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 will not reach the top. Then I looked across to the other side of the canyon. How far is it?It is 20 kilometres,maybe more.finally,I looked to my left and to my right, and on both sides the canyon disappeared into the