牛津英语译林版初中英语中考短文强化训练 5 - 教师版 - 副本

短文强化训练5

一、完形填空

One evening a young woman walked on the beach. She turned to see the ___1___ she had left in the sand, but they had already been ___2___ by the water. When she turned to continue her walk, she was surprised to see an old woman ___3___ by a fire.

She walked up to the old ___4___ and asked, “Where did you come from? I didn’t see you here a minute ago.”

___5___ answering her question, the old woman said, “Sit with me, my child. I have something to show you.”

As the young woman sat down beside the fire, the old woman handed her a ___6___. She turned the pages of the book one by one and was ___7___ to discover they told the story of her whole life, from the early days of childhood to the present. But when she turned to the next page, she found it ___8___. And the rest of the pages in the book were all empty.

“Does this mean my life ends tonight?” she asked.

“No, my child. It means tonight your life ___9___.”

At that time the old woman took the book into her hands ___10___ began to tear (撕掉)each of the pages that had words out of the book. She then threw ___11___ into the fire until all left were empty pages. She handed the book of empty pages to the young woman.

“You see,” she said, “just as the water washed away your footsteps i n the sand, your past is forever gone. What you ___12___ have is here arid now. Each moment is the beginning of the ___13___ of your life and you should live it to the fullest, because you won’t live that moment a(n) ___14___ time. For your future, you are free to shape it as you wish, ___15___ it has not yet been written.”

(B )1.

A. rubbish

B. footsteps

C. water

D. shells

(D )2.

A. picked up

B. taken back

C. put out

D. washed away

(A )3.

A. sitting

B. dying

C. sleeping

D. cooking

(D )4.

A. house

B. tree

C. man

D. woman

(B )5.

A. Thanks to

B. Instead of

C. As for

D. According to

(D )6.

A. newspaper

B. magazine

C. notebook

D. book

(D )7.

A. tired

B. sad

C. glad

D. amazed

(D )8.

A. dirty

B. clean

C. full

D. empty

(C )9.

A. ends

B. stops

C. begins

D. falls

(B )10.

A. but

B. and

C. dr

D. so

(A )11.

A. them

B. it

C. her

D. us

(C )12.

A. hardly

B. lately

C. truly

D. nearly

(D )13.

A. last

B. first

C. most

D. rest

(C )14.

A. other

B. another

C. second

D. first

(B )15.

A. whether

B. because

C. unless

D. until

二、阅读理解

A

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