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题型:阅读选择 题类:模拟题 难易度:普通

浙江省台州市2017年英语中考模拟考试试卷

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    A businessman was once deep in debt(债务)and could see no way out. He sat on a park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company.

    Suddenly an old man appeared in front of him. “I can see that something is troubling you,” he said. After listening to the businessman's trouble, the old man said, “I believe I can help you.”

    He asked the man his name, wrote out a check(支票)and pushed it into his hand, saying, “Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time.” Then he turned and disappeared.

    The businessman saw his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller. One of the richest man in the world.

    “It can solve my problem at once!” the businessman realized. But instead, he decided to put the check in his safe. Just knowing it was there that might give him the strength(力量)to work out a way to save his business, he thought.

    With renewed optimism(乐观精神), he did better in his business. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

    Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the check. At the agreed-upon(约定的)time, the old man appeared. But just as the businessman was about to hand back the check and share his successful story, a nurse came running up and caught the old man.

    “I'm so glad I caught him!” she cried. “I hope he hasn't been troubling you. He's always escaping from the hospital and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller.”

    And then she led the old man away by the arm. The businessman just stood there,________. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence(自信心)that gave him the strength to achieve anything he went after.

(1)、By saying “it can solve my problem at once”, the businessman wanted to show____________.
A、he didn't need the check B、he didn't need to work any more C、he must put the check in a safe place D、he could pay off the debts with the check
(2)、__________ is the correct order in which these events happened.

a. The businessman did better in his business and was out of debt soon.

b. A nurse told the businessman the old man always ran away from the hospital.

c. An old man gave the businessman a check for $500,000.

d. The businessman went back to the park to meet the old man.

A、d-c-b-a B、c-a-b-d C、c-a-d-b D、d-a-c-b
(3)、Which word can be put in the blank____________ in the last paragraph?
A、sad B、pleased C、worried D、shocked
(4)、The best title(标题)of the passage is ____________.
A、A rich old man B、A terrible experience C、A newfound self-confidence D、An unlucky businessman
举一反三
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C 和D 项中,选出最佳选项。

      Feeding a crowd of hundreds doesn't make Kenny Seals-Nutt nervous.

In fact, he does well and successfully in the kitchen. He's in his perfect place when dicing tomatoes, making salads and baking cakes.

      By the time Kenny, 16, reached his third year of high school at Hickory Grove,

      North Carolina, US, he had become president of his school's cooking club. He also opened his own food company, called Modern Fusion. 

      Kenny said he developed his love of cooking by watching his mother, and his grandmother, who owned a catering business(饮食业). Kenny helped them both in order to remember their tips: how long to cook chicken so it stays wet, and the right amount of tomatoes to add to the noodles or fishes.

      At the age of 5, he cooked his first dish. Taking it for his school lunch, he warmed it up in the school's microwave, while the other kids ate their sandwiches.

      “I love to eat, and it started to become more fun to cook than to use a microwave,” he said.

      Cooking came easy to Kenny, and he enjoyed adding new ingredients (作料) into common dishes. “It started with a strong interest and I wanted to know more,” he said.

      He began to watch the Food Network and read chef(大厨)blogs.

      Last summer, Kenny put his skills to the test by working with his grandmother to cater(备办食物)for his uncle's wedding. While she cooked traditional dishes, Kenny wanted to add something new to them.

      Now Kenny spends his weekends catering his own events: weddings, birthday parties, baby showers and so on. Kenny's dishes are always a hit.

 Chef Frederick Mookie Hicks, owner of a catering business, said Kenny's success comes from his ability in the kitchen. Hicks said he has asked Kenny to cook with him on jobs three times now, and he presents Kenny as a positive example of a good chef to the students in his cooking classes.

“He's so smart at cooking that he doesn't let anything stop him,” Hicks said. “I knew in the first five minutes of working with the kid that he is something special.”

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