题目内容
These days computer games have become more and more popular in many cities and towns. A lot of small shops along busy streets have ___1___ into computer game houses in order to get more ___2___. These places are always crowded with people.
In the computer game houses, people ___3___ a lot of money matching on the machines. It’s ___4___ for one to beat a computer, but one can get ahead after trying again and again. People want to win when they play computer games. The more they ___5___, the more they want to win, and at last they even can’t live ___6___ it.
They result is that some people don’t want to ___7___ and take days off to play in computer game houses for hours and hours. For school boys, things are ___8___. They couldn’t set their mind on their lessons. When school is over, they rush to the computer game houses near their schools. Some of them can get enough money from their parents. Some of them are not ___9___ to get the money. So they steal others’ money and become bad.
Computer game addiction (上瘾) is a serous problem in our life. Something has to be done to ___10___ it.
( ) 1. A. got B. became C. changed D. gone
( ) 2. A. boys B. money C. computers D. houses
( ) 3. A. take B. spend C. cost D. pay
( ) 4. A. time B. easy C. good D. hard
( ) 5. A. lose B. make C. pay D. miss
( ) 6. A. with B. for C. without D. by
( ) 7. A. live B. play C. win D. work
( ) 8. A. even worse B. changed C. better D. well
( ) 9. A. happy enough B. enough lucky C. enough happy D. lucky enough
( ) 10. A. close B. keep C. develop D. stop
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The American expression “shoo-in” means someone or something that seems sure to win a race or competition.
Before a big football game, supporters of each are certain to argue about which side will win.
Sometimes, however, one team appears so much stronger than the others that everyone agrees it will win.. The stronger team is a shoo-in. There is no way that it can lose.
The expression “shoo-in” comes from horse racing. It comes from the world “shoo”. That is not the shoe we wear on our feet. It’s another word, S-H-O-O. To shoo is an expression hundreds of years old that means to force an animal to move in a desired direction.
Many years ago dishonest riders sometimes agreed secretly to control their horses so that one chosen horse would win the race. but one of the riders would hold back their horses. The chosen rider would shoo his horse ahead of the others, and win the race.
The other riders would secretly bet large amounts of money that the chosen horse would win. The public soon learned about such about such race. They began to call the winners of such a race a “shoo-in”
These days, people use shoo into describe any athlete or competition that seems certain to win, even without cheating.
American runner Edewin Moses won more than hundred races before he ran the hurdle race in the 1984 Olympic Games. Everyone said Moses was a shoo-in, and that he could not lost. And they were right. He won the gold medal.
阅读上面的短文,从每题所给的四个选项中,选出一个最佳答案
【小题1】One of the dishonest riders was sure to win the race because_______.
A.be used to be the best in riding |
B.the pubic had belief in him |
C.he could not control his horse easily |
D.the other riders had agreed to fail in the race |
“Shoo-in” is _________.
A.due to his honest in the races he ran in |
B.duo to his great effort(努力) shown in more than one hundred races |
C.that he won over 100 competitions before the 1984 Olympic Games |
D.that the old meaning of “shoo-in’ had changed |
A.“Shoo-in” came from the word “shoo”. |
B.The US runner Moses was worthy of (配得上 ) a shoo-in. |
C.The public did not know they were being cheated |
D.Some riders bet a lot of money on the chosen horse. |
A.used for anyone or anything that is certain to win a game |
B.used to admire( 钦佩 ) a person who seems to be sure to win a race |
C.A word used to describe a dishonest person |
D.used for any athlete or competitor that too clever to be cheated |
A.who Edewin Moses was |
B.Moses won a lot of races |
C.Moses was the best runners in America |
D.We can use “shoo-in” to describe an excellent runner. |