初三英语(2014.1.22)

完形填空 (10分)

通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。 I used to watch a little girl playing basketball every day. One day I asked her why she practiced so 16 . She said, “I like basketball and I want to be the 17 player. My dad told me, „If the dream is big enough, the facts don‟t count.‟”

She never changed her mind. She practiced basketball every day. 18 one day before she graduated from high school, I saw her sitting on the grass 19 . I asked her what was wrong. She told me that her coach said she was 20 short to be a good basketball player. She was heartbroken. Then her father said to her, “If you 21 want to be a good basketball player, nothing but you 22 can stop your dream.” He told her 23 , “If the dream is big enough, the facts don‟t count.”

The next year, she and her team went to a big match. She was 24 by a coach of a famous team and was given a chance to the 25 basketball team.

( )16. A. few B. little C. much D. hardly ( )17. A. good B. better C. well D. best

( )18. A. And B. But C. So D. First of all ( )19. A. happily B. sleepily C. sadly D. noisily ( )20. A. so B. very C. quite D. too

( )21. A. really B. possibly C. badly D. successfully ( )22. A. himself B. yourself C. herself D. yourselves ( )23. A. often B. again C. always D. ever ( )24. A. allowed B. taught C. refused D. noticed ( )25. A. men‟s B. women‟s C. children‟s D. adults‟

阅读理解 （30分）

根据材料内容，选择正确答案。 A

The youngest international player

The youngest international player was an 8-year-old table tennis player from Jamaica. Her name was Joy Forster. She wan the Jamaican table tennis champion in 1985 and she played in the Jamaican international team that year. The most popular sport

Yes, you guessed right! The most popular team game in the world is football. People play football in villages, streets and stadiums all over the world. The most famous football competition is the World Cup. It happens every four years. In the past, football was a game just for men, but now half the countries in the world have an international women‟s team, too. The first Women‟s World Cup was in 1991.

( )26. Joy Forster was _______ table tennis player in the world.

A. the youngest B. the best C. the most popular D. the oldest ( )27. She played _______.

A. tennis B. for her country C. against Jamaica D. football

( )28. People play football in _______.

A. villages B. streets C. stadiums D. A, B and C ( )29. The World Cup _______. A. is held every year

B. is well-known all over the world

C. is a game just for men now D. is a game just for students

( )30. There was no World Cup for women players_______ 1991. A. before B. in C. after D. to B

Jeff Keith has only one leg. When he was 12 years old, Jeff had cancer(癌症). Doctors had to cut off most of his right leg.

Every day Jeff puts on an artificial leg(假腿). With the plastic artificial leg Jeff can ride a bicycle, swim, and play soccer. He can also run.

Jeff made a plan with his friends who had plastic legs, too. They decided to run across America. When he was 22 years old, Jeff Keith ran across the United States from the east to the west. He started running in Boston. Seven months later, he stopped running in Los Angeles. He ran 3,200 miles. Jeff stopped in cities on the way to Los Angeles. In every city people gave Jeff money. The money was not for Jeff, but for the American Cancer Society.

Jeff is disabled, but he can do many things. He is studying to be a lawyer(律师). Jeff says, “People can do anything they want to do. I want people to know that. I ran not only for disabled people. I ran for everybody.”

( )31. Jeff‟s right leg was cut off because he had_______. A. TB（肺结核） B. an accident C. cancer D. a serious injury

( )32. From the passage we know that Boston is _______. A. in the west B. half between the east and west C. near Los Angeles D. in the east

( )33. It took Jeff _______ to run from Boston to Los Angeles. A. about four and a half months B. over two hundred days

C. almost twenty-five weeks D. less than half a year

( )34. The underlined word “disabled” means _______. A. 优秀的 B. 劳累的 C. 残疾的 D. 为力的

( )35. The fifth passage tells us that _______. A. people should give him more money B. people can do anything they want to do C. some disabled men will become lawyers D. disabled people also can run