阅读理解 Once there was a piano player in a bar. People came just to hear him play. But one night, a——青夏教育精英家教网——

     Once there was a piano player in a bar(酒吧). People came just to hear him play. But one night, a
lady asked him to sing a song. "I don't sing,"said the man.
     But the lady told the waiter, "I'm tired of listening to the piano. I want the player to sing !"
     The waiter shouted across the room, "Hey, friend! If you want to get paid, sing a song!"
     So he did. He had never sung in public before. Now he was singing for the very first time! Nobody
had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung so beautifully!
     He had talent(天赋) he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano
player in a no-name bar. But once he found, by accident, that he could sing well, he went on working
hard and became one of the best-known singers in the US. His name was Nat King Cole.
    You, too, have skills and abilities. You may not feel that your talent is great, but it may be better than
you think. With hard work, most skills can be improved.  Besides, you may have no success at all if you
just sit on your talent.
1. The lady asked the player to sing a song because _       .
A. she had paid him for this
B. she knew him very well
C. she wanted to have a change
D. she enjoyed his singing
2. Nat King Cole succeeded because _       .
A. the lady helped him a lot
B. he caught the chance
C. he continued to play in the bar
D. he stopped playing the piano
3. The words "sit on"  in the passage probably mean "_       "
A. fail to realize
B. forget to use
C. try to develop
D. manage to show
4. From the story we know if you have some talent, you should _
A. hide it and wait
B. ask others for help
C. pay no attention to it
D. work hard to improve yourself
5. Which could be the best title(标题) for the passage?
A. Sing in the Bar
B. Achieve Success in Life
C. Never Lose Heart
D. Find Your Hidden Talent

完形填空。

     A group of frogs were traveling through the forests, but unluckily two of them fell into a hole. The other frogs tried to help them. When they saw how   l   the hole was, they cried to the two frogs that they could
not be saved. The two frogs didn't       2   and tried their best to jump up out of the hole. The other frogs   3        saying that they were sure to die.    4    , one of the two frogs, who heard what the other frogs were
saying,   5   . Then he fell down and died.
     The other frogs, however,    6    to jump as hard as he could, and at last made it out. When he   7 ,the
other frogs asked, “Didn't you hear us?”The frog, who had a poor        8       ,  explained,  “I thought you were encouraging me all the timid.
     The story teaches us a    9     ： There is power(力量) of life and death in the tongue.  An 10    word to those who are down can help them out while a discouraging word can kill them.

(     ) 1. A. small
(     ) 2. A. care
(     ) 3. A. kept
(     ) 4. A. Luckily
(     ) 5. A. went on
(     ) 6. A. happened
(     ) 7. A. got out
(     ) 8. A. smelling
(     ) 9. A. way
(     ) 10.A. interesting

B. deep
B. refuse
B. finished
B. Finally
B. ran away
B. continued
B. ran away
B. eyesight
B. skill
B. exciting

C. big
C. insist
C. practiced
C. Suddenly
C. jumped out
C. planned
C. got off
C. hearing
C. sentence
C. excellent

D. wide
D. think
D. stopped
D. Happily
D. gave up
D. wanted
D. woke up
D. looking
D. lesson
D. encouraging

完形填空。

     Mr Chen is a farmer who 1 in western China with his wife and two sons. One year ago, he discovered that he had cancer. The doctor told him that he needed 2    at once. And he said the operation would _3   thousands of yuan. It was too much money for Mr Chen and his wife. They had no job and   4      were at school. The situation seemed   5  .
     Two weeks later, however, Mr Chen got some  6 news. He was told about a health care project which provides medical treatment for poor patients in    7 China. They 8    to pay only half the cost or even less. Thanks to the project and the kindness of 9        family and neighbors, he was able to receive an operation just 10 to prevent the illness from getting worse.   11 he has returned to his family.
     The     12    of this health care project is to improve the situation for poor people in western China. So far, the project has helped more than 5 000 people     13   medical aid. The Chinese government is     14   working together with other countries and international organizations to do this.   They hope to develop a new health care model   15 China. As our country develops, we must remember the responsibilities (责任) of caring for the weakest members.

(     )1. A. live
(     )2. A. a treatment
(     )3. A. pay
(     )4. A. both their sons
(     )5. A. hopeful
(     )6. A. sad
(     )7. A. eastern
(     )8. A. want
(     )9. A. my
(     )10.A. in time
(     )11.A. Already
(     )12.A. chance
(     )13.A. receive
(     )14.A. too
(     )15.A. to

B. lives
B. a rest
B. spend
B. both their daughters
B. hopeless
B. bad
B. southern
B. need
B. your
B. on time
B. Now
B. goal
B. receiving
B. also
B. at

C. are living
C. an operation
C. cost
C. all their sons
C. harmful
C. good
C. western
C. prefer
C. his
C. at the same time
C. Ever
C. example
C. received
C. either
C. for

完形填空。

         Mary Roda's parents came to New York from Australia. They lived in a tall building.
         A man named Donald Smith lived in the building, too. He    1 a. toy company. One day Donald gave Mary, the 4-year-old girl, a new _  2 _She played with the toy and said, "This is fun ! " A few weeks later Donald gave her _ 3 _toy. She played with it. She said, "I am not    4 _this toy. It doesn't work." She was a (n)     5   little girl. Donald liked her honesty, and they became friends. For years Donald gave Mary new
toys, and she gave him very good      6   about the toys.
        When Mary was thirteen years old, Donald      7    her a new ball. The ball had a balloon (气球) inside it. Mary wanted to fill the balloon with water. She wanted to paint the ball in crazy colors. She wanted to 8
rice or beans (豆子) in it to make it noisy.The company made these   9   Mary's ideas were a great success! The company      10     thousands of the balls.
      That Christmas Donald gave Mary a (n)      11    gift. He made her a vice - president (副董事长) of the toy company.     12     made $200, 000 a year. Her job was to see    13     the new toys were fun. She took a car from her school to her office. She worked for three or four hours a day at her job,     14    she had to do her homework. Mary was a busy teenager. She had    15   time to be with her family. Her parents taught her that working hard and doing her best is very important.
       Today Mary works at a college. The little vice - president with bright ideas helps students think about
their future.

(     )1. A. owned
(     )2. A. gift
(     )3. A. one
(     )4. A. angry with
(     )5. A. kind
(     )6. A. ideas
(     )7. A. lent
(     )8. A. grow
(     )9. A. inventions
(     )10. A. sent
(     )11. A. amazing
(     )12. A. He
(     )13. A. that
(     )14. A. so
(     )15. A. less

B. found
B. book
B. another
B. surprised at
B. honest
B. skills
B. showed
B. eat
B. changes
B. had
B. interesting
B. She
B. if
B. but
B. more

C. helped
C. toy
C. other
C. interested in
C. helpful
C. names
C. returned
C. put
C. mistakes
C. sold
C. beautiful
C. It
C. how
C. then
C. much

任务型阅读。

     The big red American car was much too wide for an English country road. When Jack saw it coming
towards him, he stopped his own car at the side of the road to make room for it to pass.  The American
car went slowly past, so close that he could see the driver's face quite clearly.
     "Where have I seen that face before ? " he thought.   " Wait a minute f  I remember now.  It was in the
newspaper! " He took out the newspaper from his bag, turned quickly to the middle page. There was a
picture of the face in it. Yes, he had a large mouth and small ears,   and his eyes were behind dark glasses.
     "Wanted by the police," read by Jack. "The City Bank will give a lot of money to anyone who helps the police to catch this man."
     "Call the police at once," he said to himself.  But a few minutes later, he was sad.  "This man was caught this morning", answered the police on the phone.

1. In which country did the story happen?
It happened _____________________________________.
2. Why did Jack stop his car?
Because _________________________________________.
3. Did Jack get a lot of money from the police?
4. What did Jack do when he had read the newspaper again?
________________________________________________________________
5. When was the man wanted by the police caught?
_________________________________________________________________

Long ago, there lived in Greece a learned man. He was so well-known for his good knowledge of
almost everything that lots of people from all over the country came to learn from him. The great man
taught his students whole-heartdely and answered their questions with great patience(耐心). One day a
student asked him, "My dear teacher, didn't you say you yourself have many,many more questions about
things than we do? But I think we students have far more than you. "
With a smile on his face, the teacher drew two circles(圈), one as large as a big cake, the other smaller. Then he said, "Of course, I've learned much more. But it's wrong to think that a teacher has fewer
questions than his students. Now, look at these two circles. The inside of the bigger one is my knowledge of things, and the inside of the smaller one is yours. Out of the circles is what is still unknown to us. Since
mine is larger, I have to use the longer line to draw the bigger circle. That means I have more opportunities(机会) to face what is still unknown. And that's why I have more questions than you do. The more you
learn, the more questions you have. You will never learn enough, you know. "

1. The learned man drew 2 circles to show ______.

A. he was good at drawing circles
B. his knowledge had something to do with the circles
C. why he had more questions than the students
D. how he could get more knowledge

2. The student didn't agree that _______ .

A. the teacher had so many questions as a learned man
B. the teacher had so many questions than the teacher
C. the students had fewer questions than the teacher
D. the students had more questions than the teacher

3. The teacher was famous for his _________

A. kindness
B. knowledge
C. patience
D. questions

4. From the passage we can learn that _____________.

A. the more questions we have, the more knowledge we may get
B. it's never too old to learn
C. every one of us should try to be a learned man
D. a teacher should have many questions

短文填空。
     Tell me what you are      1      (go) to do on Sunday morning, Jim, "Mr. Wang asks: "I am going to
see a new film. It's an English film about the life of the _   2    _ (student) in America. Bill tells me it's
very _   3    _ (interest)."
     "After _  4    _ (see) the film, what are you going to do?" Mr. Wang wants to know. "I am going
to read Chinese," Jim says. "Do you like it?" asks Mr. Wang." Chinese is not easy for me, but I like it
very much. I am going to work hard at it. After lunch I am going to have English and other subjects. I
think I can do      5      (good) than before. "

认真阅读下面的短文,根据短文内短文后的各个问题。
     Wang Fei, a Chinese student, and Mary, an American student studying Chinese in China, were in
supermarket. They saw a young man walking down the stairs. In his hurry, he missed the last two steps
and onto the ground. He tried to stand up while people around him laughed. Luckily, he seemed to be
OK.
     Mary found Wang Fei smiling a little and was not happy about it. "Tell me, Fei, how could people
laugh when someone fell like that? Why didn't they go up and ask him if he was hurt?"
     Wang Fei said, "Because they knew he wasn't hurt too much. "
     "But I still don't understand. A fall is a fall. In my culture, people would never laugh! "
     This is an example. The Chinese and the westener will think and act differently when seeing such a
thing. Chinese people are used to laughing or smiling. Very often the person who is in embarrassing
(困窘的) situation would also laugh or smile to get out of it. However, if someone gets hurt seriously, it
will not laughing matter any more. People will help him or her instead.
     But, in that case, a westerner will rush over and help the person get up. If a westener falls, he or like
a Chinese person, may try to make a joke if he or she is not hurt. If two close friends are walking
together, and one falls but clearly isn't hurt, a common joke is to say "Have a nice trip".
     So different people have different habits and different countries have different cultures.
1. Will Wang Fei and Mary think and act in the same way if they see a young man falling down?
    ________________________________________________
2. Why didn't people go up and ask the young man if he was hurt?
    ________________________________________________
3. What do Chinese people often do when they find themselves in embarrassing situation?
    ________________________________________________
4. What is a westener likely to do when he or she sees someone fall down?
    ________________________________________________
5.What might Mary say to Wang Fei if he fell but clearly was not hurt?
    ________________________________________________

完形填空。

     It is the middle of the day. Mother and Jack at table for __1___. There is some rice, bread and meat
__2___ the table. "I don't like any ___3___ . I don't want to eat it." says Jack. Mother says, "All right.
Don't ___4___ it."
     After lunch mother goes to work in the field (田地) and Jack goes to school. __5___ supper mother
gives a bowl of rice to Jack again.
     "Oh, it is great!" says Jack.
     "It is the same rice." says Mother.
     "Is that so?" asks Jack.

(     )1. A. breakfast
(     )2. A. in
(     )3. A. bread
(     )4. A. eat
(     )5. A. At

B. lunch
B. under
B. meat
B. give
B. For

C. supper
C. on
C. rice
C. want
C. Have

D. eat
D. behind
D. noodles
D. like
D. Has

     It's Sunday afternoon, Mary and her mother 1 to do shopping. Her mother wants to buy some   2
for dinner. Mary wants to buy a new skirts and some other things.
     "What does your shop 3   ?" Mary asks, "   4 things." The girl in the shop says." You can buy
food, drinks, clothes and school things, too." Mary and her mother go in, There are many people in it.
Mary wants a skirt.
     "   5 do you want?" asks the girl in the shop. "white." "Have a look 6 this one. It's nice." "How
much is the skirts?" " 7 eight  yuan." "That's too dear. Can I find a    8   one?" "What about the green
one? It's   9   thirty yuan." "OK, I'll 10 it, Thank you ." "You're welcome ."
     At last, Mary and her mother get home very late with many things.

(     )1.A. going
(     )2.A. apple
(     )3.A. sell
(     )4.A. Some
(     )5.A. What
(     )6.A. on
(     )7.A They're
(     )8.A. cheap
(     )9.A. too
(     )10A. take

B. go
B. hamburger
B. sale
B. Other
B. What color
B. for
B. It's
B. dear
B. no
B. bring

C. wants
C. food
C. buy
C. Lot of
C. How
C. at
C. Is
C. good
C. not
C. want

D. likes
D. ice cream
D. want
D. Lots of
D. How much
D. in
D. It
D. big
D. only
D. like

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