初中英语讲义

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A

The story was a true one and still moved me deeply. Thirty years ago, I got to know a __1__ lady named Rose. She had no kids and lived alone. __2__ I went to visit her, I always took Rose some coffee and food. One day she said she __3__ me to have lunch.

We walked from my work place to a little restaurant on David Street. __4__ the way, I began to worry: I knew that she had no money, but if I offered to __5__ the lunch, I was afraid I would hurt her.

There were many people in the __6__ and all of them were happy. Rose told me to sit and drink coffee by the window. Then she went to __7__ in the kitchen. After about 20 minutes, she came out and sat with me. She just paid for one meal and we started to __8__ the delicious food together. She told me that the restaurant let people work for a meal if they had no money, or would give them a free meal if they were not able to work. To my surprise, she also explained that the workers __9__ were working there were all volunteers.

I __10__ remember the beautiful afternoon I shared with Rose. __11__ we had a meal together only once, it was paid by Rose’s work. The weather was __12__ and bright, and everyone’s smile was warm and bright as well.

I’m still thinking that life cannot be easy to us, but we can still do __13__ for out friends and neighbors. The world will be __14__ if everybody would like to share happiness with others. It will never be dark if there is a light in everyone’s heart.

1.A.rich B.poor C.strange D.crazy

2.A.When B.After C.Until D.Unless

3.A.will invite B.was inviting C.is inviting D.to invite

4.A.By B.In C.On D.Out of

5.A.pay for B.ask for C.look for D.care for

6.A.park B.restaurant C.hotel D.bar

7.A.sit B.rest C.stay D.work

8.A.buy B.cook C.enjoy D.drink

9.A.her B.him C.me D.you

10.A.who B.whom C.which D.whose

11.A.never B.still C.hardly D.already

12.A.So B.But C.Though D.Because

13.A.hotter B.cold C.cool D.warm

14.A.something B.anything C.nothing D.everything

15.A.colder B.nicer C.harder D.worse

B

Twin sisters from Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province got the same scores on last year’s National College Entrance Examination.People started to __1__ if the girls could read one another’s minds. The twin sisters, Zhang Jiahuan and Zhang Jiale, __2__ the college entrance exams at the beginning of June, 2009. When they received the results, they were __3__ because they both scored 644 points.

A reporter asked __4__ anything like this had ever happened before. “We __5__ expected it,”the girls said. “This is the only case”.

The reporter became __6__ more curious when he found the two said the __7__ sentences at the same time.

To find out if the twins really have telepathy(心灵感应), the reporter did __8__ on them. When asked questions about their lives, the sisters always __9__ in one voice, which made the reporter __10__ that telepathy did exist between the sisters.

However, Xu Yi, a doctor from Zhejiang No.1 Hospital didn’t believe __11__. He said it was not __12__ for twins to get the same or similar scores on tests __13__ identical twins(同卵双胞胎) are born with the same genes, which __14__ their personality, intelligence and ways of thinking.

Xu __15__ that the twins also have the same family and education background; therefore, they would find the same ways to solve problems in the exams.

1.A.wonder B.know C.see D.get

2.A.made B.took C.did D.joined

3.A.shocked B.careful C.sad D.hurried

4.A.since B.and C.but D.if

5.A.ever B.always C.never D.often

6.A.quite B.very C.too D.even

7.A.same B.different C.whole D.several

8.A.a report B.a mark C.an experiment D.a work

9.A.asked B.thought C.answered D.sounded

10.A.thank B.believe C.care D.respect

11.A.that B.them C.which D.he

12.A.unusual mon C.glad eful

13.A.until B.because C.so D.but

14.A.include B.share C.decide D.act

15.A.added B.heard C.spoke D.operated

C

“Never give up!” It is my law of my life. It has brought me __1__. I learned the law from my father’s __2__ story.

My father was __3__ in a poor village in North China. When he was a young boy, he went to school in the morning, then __4__ in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework __5__ midnight. Life was hard, because they had no __6__!

At the age of 14, my father heard of the United States of America. It was the land of gold, the land where __7__ people can become rich.

“__8__ don’t I go to America?” he thought to himself, full of hope.

So, my father came to America. “I had thought it was easy to __9__ money in America,” he told me. “But when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire me because I spoke __10__ English. Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables, __11__ dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was __12__ for the first few years. I worked from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was impossible. I couldn’t __13__ the schooling.”

My father __14__ working hard, and reached his goal.

“Alan,” he often says to me.“If you want something, you have to work for it and never give