成都中考英语B卷练习

成都中考英语B卷练习

Passage 1‎ opportunity use achieve me job quiet successful towards prepare treat care difference Opportunity don’t come often. They come every once in a while. Very often, they come ___1____and go by without being noticed. Therefore, it is advisable that you should value and treat them with ____2____. When an opportunity presents itself, it brings a promise but never realizes it on its own. If you want to ____3____something or intend to fulfill one of your ambitions you must work hard, make efforts and get ____4____. Otherwise, you will take no advantage of opportunities when they come to visit you. It is clear that in order to be highly qualified for our future ____5____, we should make every possible preparation. The difference between a man who succeeds and one each____6____opportunities. The successful person always makes full preparations to meet opportunities as they arrive on time. The ____7____person, on the other hand, works little and just wait to see them pass by. Obviously, the two different attitudes ____8____ opportunities may lead to quite different results. In ____9____ opinion, there are plenty of opportunities for everyone in our society. In our society, only those who are prepared adequately and qualified highly can make ____10____of them to achieve their purpose. opportunity use achieve me job quiet successful towards prepare treat care difference.‎ Passage 2‎ somebody feel day successfully lie you pleasant discover careful lose instruction embarrass One day, a student was talking with a professor (教授), who’s kind to those who waited on his ____1____. As they went along, they saw a pair of old shoes ____2____ on the path (小路), which, they supposed, belonged to a poor man working in a nearby field (田地). He had nearly finished his ____3____work. The student came to a stop, and said to the professor, “Let’s play a hoax on the man: we hide his shoes, hide ourselves and wait to see how ____4____ he would be when he finds that his shoes are ____5____ .” “My friend,” answered the professor, “We should never enjoy ourselves while making the poor sad. Now you are rich, why not give yourself a much greater ____6____ by helping the poor man? Put a coin into each shoe, hide ourselves and see what will happen to him.” The student did so, and they both places themselves behind the nearby trees. After finishing his work, Putting his foot into one of his shoes, he felt something unusual. He stopped ____7____what it was and he found the coin. He took out the coin, surprised, and looked at it ____8____ for a while. Then he looked around, but ____9____was there. Then he started to put on the other shoe. He got much more surprises when he found the other coin. The poor man then looked up into the sky and shouted “Thank You!” The student stood there with tears (眼泪) in his eyes. “Now,” said the professor, “aren’t you more pleased than if you had played ____10____ planned hoax?”‎ ‎“You’ve taught me a lesson which I will never forget,” answered the student.‎ Passage 3‎ hand out match send out start Europe play America one hobby exact receive them Have you ever dreamed of writing to your favorite sports stars and getting replies from them? Shi Menghui from Shi-jiazhuang Foreign Language Shool did ____1____ what most teenagers have thought about but never actually do. The 18-year-old girl ____2____ 140 letters to other countries and heard back from more than 40 foreign famous people so far. “It all ____3____with my love of football, especially ‎ German football,”Shi explained. “I could never have imagined how the game would change my life.” By the time of the ____4____Championships and the German Bundesliga(德甲）in 2004, Shi was a fan, especially of German clubs and players. She admired the ____5____ hard work. “Because the players went about the game with such speed and strength(速度与力量)， because they never give up, German football was sheer(十足的)entertainment from ____6____to last,”she said. But soon watching ____7____and reading football magazines weren’t enough for Shi. The teenager began to write letters, in English, to clubs, and a whole new part of her life began. In her first letter, to Bayern Munich, she explained how she admired its players’ talents and sporting attitude toward the game. She also wrote about her ____8____and school life. It felt just like talking to an old friend! She included her Chinese address in the letter in the hope of ‎____9____ a reply. “By writing these letters,my English has greatly improved,”said Shi. Shi wants to major in German in college. “I hope to meet German Chancellor(总理) Angela Merkel one day and talk with my favorite German stars in ____10____language,”said Shi, whose letter to Merkel received a reply at the end of last year.‎ Passage 4‎ succeed everyone afraid interest reply effect bring name show serve direct opportunity In our life, the first step of the lead(领先) usually means the final win, so the success or failure of your life may lie in whether you dare to ____1____ yourself. As a student, I was most ____2____to answer questions in class. Whenever the professor asked a question, I always lowered my head, for fear that the professor saw me. In a language class, an expert from the Commercial Bank gave a lecture. The speaker always wanted ____3____to follow him, so he asked how many students in the classroom learned Economics, but no one ____4____. The expert said with a smile, “Let me tell you a story first.” “When I first came to the United States to study, there are often lectures given in the university. Before the beginning of every lecture, I found an ____5____ phenomenon(现象). The students around me always took a cardboard folded(折叠）in half, wrote their ____6____with the most eye-catching color, and then put it on the seat. So when the speaker needed the students’ reaction, he could see and call the listener’s name ____7____. I couldn’t understand, so I asked the student in front of me. He told me with a smile: “The speakers are usually all top-ranking people,who can probably ____8____you opportunities. When your answer is to his satisfaction, it is very likely that he will give you more opportunities. This is a very simple reason. ” The fact was also like that, I really saw a few of my classmates went to ____9____ in the first-class company because of their excellent insights(洞察力). This thing had a great ____10____on me.‎ Passage 5‎ shop make good throw how they many give bag about use what I would like to make a comment(说明) on the plastic bags which we use in our daily life . I thought that a bad effect from all these ____1____on our environment was well-known and that most people know they should not keep____2____ them but collect them in the dustbin. However, one of the ____3____near my house seems to use ____4____of these bags than ever before. Red ones,white ones and blue ones--it ____5____no difference. They don’t care _____6____ the problems of environment. They still use plastic bags to wrap most of things every day . When I went shopping the other day, I bought two things, and I _____7_____three bags to wrap ____8____. Is it necessary ____9____so many bags? Everyone should realize ____10____important it is to clean our environment Passage 6‎ take hurry break recent fail exciting slow successful often bring hear there A boy who was nervous on his first day of school climbed onto a third-floor balcony(阳台) and put his legs over the side. His mother and teachers tried their best ____1____ him down, but failed. However , a firefighter(消防员）who dressed as “Mr. Spider-man” ____2____in saving him. Firefighter David Smith was called in after the six-year-old’s teachers and mother ____3____ to9 get him down from the balcony. “He was asking for his mother,” Mr. Smith said. “He was crying and wouldn’t let any of us get near him.” After ____4____a conversation between the boy’s mother and his teachers about his love of superheroes, Mr. Smith ____5____ home to get his Spider-man clothes. “I told him Spider-man is ____6____ to save him. No one will hurt him now,” Mr. Smith said. “Then I told him to walk slowly towards me. I was really nervous that he might fall if he got too ____7____ and started running.” Then the crying boy____8____into a smile and walked into the firefighter’s arms. The fictional superhero was created by writer Stan Lee in the early 1960s. It has ____10____become popular again through a series of movies made about him. In them he is acted by superstar Tobey Maguire, who acted with Kirsten Dunst and James Franco.‎ Passage 7 ‎ close do mean them lucky spell disappoint other think bad worry but Many children feel tempted(诱惑的) to cheat(欺骗)sometimes. Most can refuse to do it and do the work by ____1____. Some children cheat once and feel so bad that they never do it again. ____2____ get caught and decide it isn’t worth it. ____3____, some children start cheating and feel like they can’t stop. Whether children are caught or not when they cheat in a test, they may feel bad. Even if the cheater feels fine or doesn’t get caught, that doesn’t ____4____ it’s OK. If you see someone____5____this or if someone asks to copy your work, you can tell a teacher or another adult. If a child get caught cheating, the teacher may give the child a “zero”, sand him or her to the headmaster’s office, and tell his or her parents about it. And it is ____6____than the bad grade that makes other people ____7____, like parents and teachers. Parents may worry that the child is not honest and a teacher may be ____8____ to him or her next time. Karen, an English teacher in New Jersey, says, “It is always disappointing when students cheat because it makes me ____9____the student doesn’t believe in himself. I hope students can do their best.” Cheaters cheat themselves in a way because they don’t make an honest try to learn as much as they can. For instance, if you cheat your way through spelling tests, you won’t learn how ____10____. That can catch up with you when you get older.‎ Passage 8 ‎ ‎ angry well song also relax think clean when finger medicine they while ‎ ‎ ‎ I am a doctor. People often come to see me because they have colds or coughs. People ____1____come to see me because they are sad or nervous. Sometimes ____2____helps. But many doctors_____3____ that music can help people feel better. I asked a few of my patients(病人)how music helps them. “Sometimes I was____4____when I was a child．My family said, “Play your feelings on the piano! ”‎ Sometimes I play a loud____5____on the piano. Soon I feel calm(平静的）. I can laugh and cry through my____6____ on the piano. It’s natural for me. “It’s like breathing(呼吸).” ‎ ‎“Listening to music helps me feel____7_____. I like to listen to music and dance when I_____8____my house.” ‎ ‎ “I play the violin. I like playing at night____9____it is quiet. After playing I am tired and I am happy. I always sleep____10_____after playing my violin．” ‎ ‎ Are you a musician? Good! Keep playing．If you are not a musician, listen to music and sing or dance. It’s good medicine．‎ Passage 9‎ but country feel form influence or play pleasant popular two sad write One of America’s most important cultural products is her modern music. American popular music is ____1____all over the world. It is enjoyed by people of all ages in all countries. The reasons for its ____2____are its fast pace and rhythmic beat. The music has many origins in the United States. Country music coming from the____3____ in the Southern United States is one source. Country music has the characteristics of simple themes and melodies, emotions expressed by country music songs. A ____5____origin of American popular music is the Blues. It is mostly about the ____6____feelings of the difficult lives of American blacks. It is usually played and sung by black musicians ____7____it is popular with all Americans. Rock music is a newer form of music. This music style with fast and repetitious rhythm was ____8____by the Blues and Country music. It was first known as rock-and-roll in the 1950s. Since then, there have been many ____9____of rock music:hard rock, soft rock, pop rock, disco music and others. Many performers of popular rock music are young musicians. New popular songs are heard on the radio several times a day. People hear these songs sung in either English ____10____other languages. The words may differ but the enjoyment of music is belonging to all.‎ Passage 10‎ ‎ high good succeed reach three arrive exact fit somewhere us bear do The boy was 1.7 meters tall when he just started his1._______ year at primary school．2. _______ in 1980, even his father’s shoes were too small for him when he was a teenager. And his parents couldn’t find size-46 shoes 3. _______． At 16, he had the 4. _______ of 2．2 meters. In the whole China, no shop or market had size -53 shoes for his big feet．His parents were worried. And the young tall man felt sorry for his parents. Many times he told his best greatest dream,“I will do my 5. _______. Once I entered the Shanghai No.1 Team, I won’t have to worry about my shoes.” That boy was Yao Ming．Today’s Yao is a great basketball star．At that time, however, his dream was not to be a star． He trained hard only to find a pair of shoes that 6. _______his feet, and to relieve his parents of their worry about his shoes．What a simple dream! Yet it was 7. _______ the simple dream that made Yao Ming today’s 8. _______. He only sets the goal for his life and tries 9. _______it. ‎ ‎ It is not a difficult thing to set a goal． The most difficult part is to know how to reach it．When we want to give up, we should tell 10. _______: travelers first need a fitting pair of shoes, and then a step at a time towards their goals． ‎