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题型:阅读还原 题类:真题 难易度:普通

湖北省随州市2018年中考英语试卷

阅读下面短文,从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,每个选项只能用一次。

Money VS Family

    Rama's family is very big. He has three kids, two sons and a daughter.

    He works for more than 16 hours a day. The kids cannot see him as he leaves home early in the morning before they wake up, and he reaches home around midnight when kids have slept every day.

    Though Rama's family is one of the richest families in the city, he still works so hard. One day, Rama's family went to their beach house to spend their vacation. His daughter asked, ""

    Rama replied, "Yes, my dear, tomorrow for sure, I'm tired of work and need refreshment!"

    The whole family became very happy.

    Unfortunately, the next day, none in Rama's family were alive as they were washed out in the tsunami(海啸)!

    When he tried to reach his beach house, he saw sea and water everywhere and screamed for his family. He could not even find the dead bodies of his family.

    He remembered his wife's words, "Why are you running for money? We can be happy with what we have now."

A. Dad, will you please spend one day at home and stay with us here?

B. Rama was too busy even to hear the news about the tsunami.

C. The whole family eagerly wait to spend quality time with him and the kids miss him so much.

D. He can never have them again, cannot even see them and even by paying millions he cannot get them back to life!

E.I will join you for the lunch and be with you all for next few days.

举一反三
阅读短文及文后A~E选项,选出可以填入各题空白处的最佳选项。

    Most of us think the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}In fact, an Italian named Antonio Meucci was officially recognised(认定)as the inventor a few years ago. Who is Meucci and why wasn't he known for his invention at the time?

    Antonio Meucci was born in Italy in 1808. He studied engineering and drawing. During his studies, Meucci started to experiment with electricity. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}When two places were connected with wire, people in those places could hear each other talk.

    In 1850, Meucci and his wife. Ester, moved to New York. Meucci was worried about his wife, because she had become very ill. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}To solve this problem, he connected metal cables between his home and his workshop. This way, they could talk to each other conveniently.

    Meucci invited a group of people to see his new invention. They listened in amazement as the voice of a singer was heard through the wires.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Even worse, Meucci never applied for a patent (专利) on his invention. Meanwhile, Alexander Graham Bell was working on the same idea and in 1876 the patent for the telephone was given to him.

    In 2002, more than a century after Meucci's death, his work was finally recognised by the government. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}

A. He discovered that sound could travel through metal cables.

B. However, he wasn't the first person to think of the idea.

C. Unfortunately, only a few people attended this talk.

D. He will now be known all over the world as the telephone's inventor.

E. He needed to keep in touch with her at all times.

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