高中阅读竞赛练习卷

高一竞赛试卷（一）一：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）阅读下面的短文，在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中单词的正确形式。

AOnce upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel. All thought that they were the most _____1_____, the most useful, the most beautiful and the best.Green said: "Clearly I am the most important. I am the ___2____ of life and of hope. I‟m the color of grass, trees, leaves.Without me, all animals would die.”Blue ____3___(interrupt): "Don‟t just think about the earth. What is the color of the sky and the sea? Isn‟t water the most important thing for life?”Yellow laughed: "You are all so serious! I bring laughter and warmth into the world. Every time people look at a yellow sunflower, they start to smile. ____4_____me, there would be no fun!"O r a n g e s a i d a t t h e____5___o f h i s v o i c e: "I a m t h e c o l o r o f ____6___ a n d s t r e n g t h. I c a r r y t h e mo s t i mp o r t a n t vitamins. Think of carrots, pumpkins and oranges. When I fill the sky at sunrise or sunset, everyone is shocked at my beauty and nobody gives another thought to any of you.R e d c o u l d____7__i t n o l o n g e r,s o h e s h o u t e d:"I a m t h e c o l o r o f d a n g e r a n d o f b r a v e r y.I a m w i l l i n g t o f i g h t f o r a cause. I bring fire into the blood.”And so the colors went on quarreling. Their voices became louder and louder. The thunder got angry and the rain started to pour. ____8____the colors began to cool, the rain said,” You foolish colors. Don‟t you know that each of you is unique?Join hands and follow me.”They did what they_____9_____(tell) and together made the most beautiful rainbow,___10______ is a sign of hope of tomorrow." And whenever a good rain washes the world and a rainbow appears in the sky, we should remember to appreciate one another.BWhen I was first old enough to visit the barber on my own, I would make twice-monthly trips to Charlie’s shop in Hairfax Drive. Charlie’s was a dusty little place. It wasn’t that much fun going there,___11____it was always kind of cozy(舒适的)the way everything seemed to stay the same. On a recent visit to my old neighborhood, I decided to stop at Charlie’s____ 12____a haircut and see if anything had changed. As it turned out, old Charlie’s place wasn’t ever there. The ____13____(close) thing I could find to Charlie’s was Mr. Charles’Hair Masters Salon(发廊). Curious and anxious, I opened the large glass door and a young man came up to ask if ____14____could help me. When I said something about needing a haircut, Mr. Charles explained that appointments ____15____(expect) but he would make an exception just this once. I followed him to a chair and began to give familiar orders: “A little off the top and sides, leave enough to comb....”But Mr. Charles paid ____16____attention. Instead, he gently lowered my head into the basin(水盆). For the next forty-five minutes, silently and efficiently. Mr. Charles mastered my hair. Only when he was finally finished ____17____he speak, and that was to invite me to examine his craftsmanship(手艺) in a pocket mirror, I wasn’t dissatisfied with ____18____I saw, just surprised: this twenty-dollar styling looked so much the ____19____as the haircut Charlie used to give me for a dollar and half fifteen years ago.I miss old Charlie. Not ____20___ he was such a talented barber--he wasn’t . I miss him because he was a barber, plain and simple .All I want is a haircut, please.二、阅读理解（第一节20小题，第二节5小题；每小题2分，满分50分）第一节：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

AComputer games have been criticised for quite some time over a whole range of issues. Some people say they are overly violent and encourage violent behaviour particularly in children. Others say that they make children unsociable and are bad for their eyes. Some have even attributed falling standards of literacy and a lack of interest in reading on them. Now, however, it seems that computer games have also become a feminist(女权主义者) issue.Game manufacturers have, for some time, been looking to increase the number of female game players. The vast majority of computer games still sell to a mainly male market. Perhaps this is because the violent nature of many of the games appeals more to males or perhaps because many of the main characters in the games are male. Manufacturers' attempts to produce more female characters increase their share of the female gaming market which has met with serious criticism from many women's groups.While heroines(女英雄) such as Lara Croft of the Tomb Raider game are seen as providing positive role models of strong women, many believe that the character's unrealistic Barbies are subconsciously setting unattainable standards in the minds of young women. Perhaps a stronger criticism is that although many games now include female characters, their role is often secondary and they support the main, male, action characters within the games. Of course the nature of many of the games remains violent and destructive and this in itself could well continue to put off female gamers.There are now, however, a number of web sites springing up on the World Wide Web to help women deal with this issue. Sites such as Game Girlz, Women Gamers and Game Gal offer game reviews, articles, discussion forums and even employment opportunities for women interested in becoming part of the rapidly expanding games industry. The games are reviewed by women from a very female perspective. Some rate the games from one to ten across a range of criteria which include the appearance of the female characters, the degree of intelligence attributed to them in the game and even the marketing attitude adopted by the company. The sites are obviously looking for games that move away from the very male dominated and violent nature of the majority of computer games. Many of them review games that are more constructive and developmental. Although the common fantasy themes of knights(骑士), witches and goblins（妖精）still exist within these games, the aims are often very different. Instead of destroying opposing armies，the aim of the game can be to make peace with them.With this increased degree of awareness and involvement from women in the games industry many positive changes could be made that could encourage more women and young girls to become enthusiastic about technology. Perhaps we may even find more male gamers moving away from the traditional violent and destructive games towards the more positive values promoted by these more feminine role models, after all Tomb Raider is still one of the most popular computer games on the market, but perhaps that's too much to ask.1. What is paragraph 1 mainly about ?A. The violence in computer games.B. Common criticisms of computer games.C. Children‟s feeling in computer games.D. The computer issues.2. Manufacturers want to produce more female characters in order to _________________________.A. increase sales in the male marketB. help women learn how to play computer gamesC. encourage more women to buy computer gamesD. increase the number of male game players3. From the passage we know that Tomb Raider is ________________________________.A. a film which provides positive role models of strong womenB. a site which helps women to deal with many issuesC. a female role which is secondary in many gamesD. a computer game which is very popular on the market4. The underlined phrase“spring up” in the fourth paragraph is closest in meaning to ________.A. grow rapidlyB. disappear rapidlyC. begin slowlyD. appear slowly5.Which would be the best title for the passage ?A. Gi rls‟ GamesB. Computer GamesC. Children‟s GamesD. Games IndustryBDuring her junior year of high school, Diane Ray's teacher handed her a worksheet and instructed the 17-year-old to map out her future financial life. Ray pretended to buy a car, rent an apartment, and apply for a credit card. Then, she and her classmates played the "stock market game", investing（投资) the hypothetical（虚拟的）earnings from their hypothetical jobs in the market in the disastrous fall of 2008. "Our pretend investments crashed," Ray says, still frightened. "We got to know how it felt to lose money."That pain of earning and losing money is a feeling that public schools increasingly want to teach. Forty states now offer some type of financial instruction at the high-school level, teaching students how to ba lance checkbooks and buy stock in math and social-studies classes. Though it's too early tomeasure the full influence of the Great Recession（大萧条）, the interest in personal-finance classes has risen since 2007 when bank failures started to occur regularly. Now, many states including Missouri, Utah, and Tennessee require teenagers to take financial classes to graduate from high school. School districts such as Chicago are encouraging money-management classes for kids as young as primary school, and about 300 colleges or universities now offer online personal-finance classes for incoming students. "These classes really say, 'This is how you live independently,' " says Ted Beck, president of National Endowment for Financial Education.Rather than teach investment methods or financial skills, these courses offer a back-to-the-basics approach to handling money: Don't spend what you don't have. Put part of your monthly salary into a savings account, and invest in the stock market for the long-term rather than short-term gains. For Ray, this means dividing her earnings from her part-time job at a fast-food restaurant into separate envelopes for paying bills, spending and saving. "Money is so hard to make but so easy to spend," she says one weekday after school. "That is the big takeaway."Teaching kids about the value of cash certainly is one of the programs' goals, but teachers also want students to think hard about their finances long term. It's easy for teenagers to get annoyed about gas prices because many of them drive cars. But the hard part is urging them to put off the instant satisfaction of buying a new T-shirt or an iPod. "Investing and retirement aren't things teenagers are thinking about. For them, the future is this weekend," says Gayle Whitefield, a business and marketing teacher at Uth‟s Riverton High School.That‟s a big goal for these classes: preventing kids from making the same financial missteps their parents did when it comes to saving, spending, and debt. Though the personal savings rate has increased up to 4. 2 percent, that‟s still a far distance from 1982, when Americans saved 11. 2 percent of their incomes. “It‟s hard for schools to reach strict money-management skills when teenagers go home and watch their parents increase credit-card debt. It‟s like telling your kids not to smoke and then lighting up a cigarette in front of them,” Beck says.Even with these challenges, students such as Ray say learning about money in school is worthwhile. After Ray finished her financial class, she opened up a savings acc ount at her local bank and started to think more about how she and her family would pay for college. “She just has a better understanding of mone y and how it affects the world,” says her mother, Darleen－and that‟s sown to the details of how money is spent from daily expenses to various taxes. All of this talk of money can make Ray worry, she says, but luckily, she feels prepared to face it.6. The “stock market game” mentioned in Paragraph 1 is meant to.A. introduce a new course to studentsB. help students learn about investmentC. teach how to apply for a credit cardD. encourage students‟ personal savings7.How does the writer show us that schools‟ interest in teaching financial classes has increasedin paragraph 2_________?A. By giving examples.B. By providing data.C. By raising questions.D. By making comparisons.8. According to the passage, taking money-management courses will .A. better students‟ learning methodsB. prevent students going into debtC. help students get accepted by collegesD. make students become very wealthy9.After completing the financial class, Diane Ray is likely to .A. pay off all her debts.B. handle her money betterC. find a job in a bank.D. manage the family income10. The passage is mainly about .A. ways to teach students to earn moneyB. how Diane Ray learns to value moneyC. the push to teach personal finance in schoolD. how students choose a proper financial classCEveryone in the apartment complex I lived in knew who Ugly was. Ugly was the resident tomcat. Ugly loved three things in this world: fighting, eating garbage, and, shall we say, love.The combination of these things combined with a life spent outside had their effect on Ugly. To start with, he had only one eye and where the other should have been was a gaping hole. He was also missing his ear on the same side, his left foot appeared to have been badly broken at one time, and had healed at an unnatural angle, making him look like he was always turning the corner. His tail has long ago been lost, leaving only the smallest stub, which he would constantly jerk and twitch.Ugly would have been a dark grey tabby, striped-type, except for the sores covering hi s head, neck, even his shoulders with thick, yellowing scabs. Every time someone saw Ugly there was the same reaction. "That's one UGLY cat!!"All the children were warned not to touch him, the adults threw rocks at him, hosed him down, squirted him when he tried to come in their home or shut his paws in the door when he would not leave. Ugly always had the same reaction. If you turned the hose on him, he would stand there, getting soaked（浸湿）until you gave up and quit. If you threw things at him, he would curl his lanky body around feet in forgiveness.Whenever he spied children, he would come running, meowing frantically and bump his head against their hand begging for their love. If you ever picked him up, he would immediately begin suckling on your shirt, earring whatever he could find.One day Ugly shared his love with the neighbor's huskies. They did not respond kindly, and Ugly was badly attacked. From my apartment I could hear his scream and I tried to rush to his aid. By the time I got to where he was laying, it was obvious Ugly's sad life was almost at an end. Ugly lay in a wet circle, his back legs and lower back twisted grossly out of shape, a gaping tear in the white strip of fur that ran down his front. As I picked him up and tried to carry him home, I could hear him wheezing and gasping, and could feel him struggling. It must be hurting him terribly, I thought. Then I felt a familiar tugging, sucking sensation on my ear. Ugly, in so much pain, suffering and obviously dying, was trying to suckle my ear. I pulled him closer to me, and he bumped the palm of my hand with his head, then he turned his one golden eye towards me, and I could hear the distinct sound of purring. Even in the greatest pain, that ugly battled-scarred cat was asking only for a little affection, perhaps some compassion.At that moment I thought Ugly was the most beautiful, loving creature I had ever seen. Never once did he try to bite or scratch me, or even try to get away from me, or struggle in any way. Ugly just looked up at me completely trusting in me to relieve his pain.Ugly died in my arms before I could get inside, but I sat and held him for a long time afterward thinking about how one scarred, deformed little stray could so alter my opinion about what it means to have true pureness of spirit, to love so totally and truly. Ugly taught me more about giving and compassion than a thousand book lecture or talk show specials ever could, and for that I will always be thankful. He had been scarred on the outside, but I was scarred on the inside, and it was time for me to move on and learn to love truly and deeply. To give my total to those I cared f or.Many people want to be richer, more successful, well liked, beautiful, but for me, I will always try to be Ugly.11、Why did the tomcat get 3 things with him?A、Because his mother deserted him.B、Because the residents disliked himC、Because other animals always attacked him.D、Because he spent his life outside, which affected him..12、Children were always warned not to touch tomcat, because ___?A、the tomcat was not kind to the childrenB、the tomcat sometimes bit young childrenC、the tomcat was really dirty and nasty.D、the tomcat might carry some viruses with him13、Which caused the tomcat to die?A、The adults threw rocks at himB、The neighbors wanted to drive him with a pipeC、The owners would get his paws trapped in the doorsD、The tomcat was killed by some dog14、What did the tomcat do when coming to death?A、He shared his love with the writerB、He struggled to stand upC、He shouted at the writerD、He begged the writer to save him.15、Why did the writer say he would try to be Ugly?A、Because he loved Ugly so deeplyB、Because the Ugly taught him to love totally and trulyC、Because he hated it that his neighbors were so cruelD、Because he found some similarities between themDIn 1974, after filling out fifty applications, going through four interviews, and winning one offer,I took what I could get—a teaching job at what I considered a distant wild area: western New Jersey. My characteristic optimism was alive only when I reminded myself that I would be doing what I had wanted to do since I was fourteen—teaching English.School started, but I felt more and more as if I were in a foreign country. Was this rural area really New Jersey? My students took a week off when hunting season began. I was told they were also frequently absent in late October to help their fathers make hay on the farms. I was a young woman from New York C ity, who thought that “Make hay while the sun shines” just meant to have a good time.But, still, I was teaching English. I worked hard, taking time off only to eat and sleep. And then there was my sixth-grade class—seventeen boys and five girls who were only six years younger than me. I had a problem long before I knew it. I was struggling in my work as a young idealistic teacher. I wanted to make literature come alive and to promote a love of the written word. The students wanted to throw spitballs and whisper dirty words in the back of the room.In college I had been taught that a successful educator should ignore bad behavior. So I did, confident that, as the textbook had said, the bad behavior would disappear as I gave my students positive attention. It sounds reasonable, but the text evidently ignored the fact that humans, particularly teenagers, rarely seems reasonable. By the time my boss, who was also my taskmaster, known to be the strictest, most demanding, most quick to fire inexperienced teachers, came into the classroom to observe me, the students exhibited very little good behavior to praise.My boss sat in the back of the room. The boys in the class were making animal noises, hitting each other while the girls filed their nails or read magazines. I just pretended it all wasn‟t happening, and went on lecturing and tried to ask some inspiring questions. My boss, sitting in the back of the room, seemed to be growing bigger and bigger. After twenty minutes he left, silently. Visions of unemployment marched before my eyes.I felt mildly victorious that I got through the rest of class without crying, but at my next free period I had to face him. I wondered if he would let me finish out the day. I walked to his office, took a deep breath, and opened the door.He was sitting in his chair, and he looked at me long and hard. I said nothing. All I could think of was that I was not an English teacher; I had been lying to myself, pretending that everything was fine.When he spoke, he said simply, without accusa tion, “You had nothing to say to them.”“You had nothing to say to them.” he repeated. “No wonder they are bored. Why not get to the meat of literature and stop talking about symbolism. Talk with them, not at them. And more important, why do you ignore the ir bad behavior?” We talked. He named my problems and offered solutions. We role-played. He was the bad student, and I was the forceful, yet, warm, teacher.As the year progressed, we spent many hours discussing literature and ideas about human beings and their motivations. He helped me identify my weaknesses and strengths. In short, he made a teacher of me by teaching me the reality of Emerson‟s words: “The secret to education lies in respecting the pupil.”Fifteen years later I still drive that same winding road to the same school. Thanks to the help I received that difficult first year, the school is my home now.16. It can be inferred from the story that in 1974 __________.A. the writer became an optimistic personB. the writer was very happy about her new jobC. it was rather difficult to get a job in the USAD. it was easy to get a teaching job in New Jersey17. According to the passage, which of the following is most probably the writer‟s problem as a new teacher?A. She had blind trust in what she learnt at college.B. She didn‟t ask experienced teachers for advice.C. She took too much time off to eat and sleep.D. She didn‟t like teaching English literature.18. What is the writer‟s biggest worry after her taskmaster‟s observation of her clas s?A. She might lose her teaching job.B. She might lose her students‟ respect.C. She couldn‟t teach the same class any more.D. She couldn‟t ignore her students‟ bad behavior any more.19. Which of the following gives the writer a sense of mild victory?A. Her talk about symbolism sounded convincing.B. Her students behaved a little better than usual.C. She managed to finish the class without crying.D. She was invited for a talk by her boss after class.20.The students behaved badly in the wri ter‟s classes because __________.A. they were eager to embarrass her.B. she didn‟t really understand them.C. they didn‟t regard her as a good teacher.D. she didn‟t have a good command of English.第二节：下面文章中有5处需要添加小标题。