题型:阅读判断 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
上海市宝山区初中英语八年级上学期期末测试卷(含听力音频)
A young man once went into town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went upstairs to his bedroom and put them on. He found that they were about two inches too long.
He went downstairs to the kitchen. His mother and two sisters were washing up the tea-things there. "The new trousers are too long, "he said. "They need shortening by about two inches. Could one of you do it for me, please? "His mother and sisters were busy and none of them said anything.
But as soon as his mother had finished washing up, she went quietly upstairs to her son's bedroom and shortened the trousers by two inches. She came downstairs without saying anything to her daughters.
Later on, after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother's trousers. She was a kind-hearted girl, so she went quietly upstairs without saying anything to anyone, and shortened the trousers by two inches.
The younger sister went to the cinema, but when she came home, she also remembered her brother's trousers. So she ran upstairs and did as her mother and elder sister had done.
You can imagine the look on the young man's face when he put the trousers on the next morning.
Amy was 5 when her parents signed her up for many sports: gymnastics (体操), swimming, etc. She says, "I was always the youngest person in my class. " Gymnastics was no different. She started out in a class and she loved it. She was so talented in gymnastics that at 6 she joined the "Y Team", and started competing two years later. And when she competed, she won easily. Her father, who was a nurse, decided to move to Georgia, because he wanted Amy to enter the Atlanta School of Gymnastics. In the 8th grade, Amy spent 36 hours a week training to be an Olympic winner and trying to reach her father's standards. Under pressure, Amy soon began losing all the pleasure she once felt in practicing. "At 13 I was afraid of going to the gym. I hated having to do what everyone expected me to, but I was too afraid to tell my parents I wanted to give up. " After being the best junior gymnast in her country, it wasn't easy for Amy to throw it all away. However, one night, Amy finally found the courage to tell her father she wanted to give up. For seven years gymnastics had controlled her life, and suddenly she had all this free time. She threw away all her medals (奖牌), "I just felt like those medals were my dad's, not mine. I hated gymnastics and I hated them. Now I feel free. " |
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