题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
2016-2017学年江苏苏州吴江区初二上期末考试英语试卷
先通读下面的短文,掌握其大意,然后在每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
An old carpenter(工匠)was ready to retire(退休).His boss was 1 to see the good worker leave. He asked the carpenter if he could build just one more 2 . The carpenter said yes, but his mind was not on his work any more. He used poor materials and 3worked on the house. When the carpenter finished his work, the boss 4 the front-door key to him and said, "This is your house. It's a 5 for you."
What a surprise! If he had known he was 6 his own house, he would have done it differently. Now he had to live in the house he poorly built.
So it is with us. Sometimes we build our 7 carelessly. At important points we do not try our best. Then with a shame we look at the things we did. We find that we are living in the house we have poorly built 8we don't have a chance(机会)to make it all over again.
Think of 9as the carpenter. Think about your life. Build it carefully and wisely. It is the only life you will ever build because life is a do-it-yourself project.
Your life today is the 10 of your attitudes(态度)and choices(选择)you made in the past. Your life tomorrow will be that of your attitude and choices you make today.
“Reading makes a full man,” novels written by famous writers help us to know more about our history, culture and many other things.
Jane Austen was one of the most well-known women writers of the world. She was born in England in 1775. Jane liked reading and writing. She wrote a number of famous novels in her life. Among them, Pride and Prejudice written in 1779 was the most popular.
Ernest Hemingway, an outstanding American writer and reporter, was born in 1899. His life experience had a great influence on his writing style. Hemingway lived in France and Italy between the 1920s and 1950s. Most of his books such as The Sun Also Rises were written at that time. He won the Nobel Prize in 1954 mainly because of the novel The Old Man and the Sea.
Writer | Jane Austen | Ernest Hemingway |
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Fame | One of the most well-known women writers of the world | An outstanding American writer, reporter and the Nobel Prize{#blank#}2{#/blank#}in 1954 |
Other facts | Be{#blank#}3{#/blank#}of reading and writing | Be full of rich life{#blank#}4{#/blank#}which had a great influence on his writing style |
Achievement in common | Help us to know more about our history,{#blank#}5{#/blank#}and many other things |
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