中考英语-完形填空和阅读理解专项训练-外研版

完形填空、阅读理解专项训练

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

A

These days computer games have become more and more popular in many cities and towns. A lot of small shops along busy __1__ have changed into computer game houses to get more __2__. These places are always crowded with people.

In the computer game houses, people__3__ a lot of money matching on the machines. It’s __4__ for one to beat a computer, but one can do well after trying again and again. People want to __5__ when they play computer games. The more they __6__, the more they want to win, and at last they even can’t __7__ without it.

The result is that some people don’t want to __8__ and they play in computer game houses for hours and hours. For school boys, things are __9__. They don’t want to have __10__. When school is over, they rush to the computer game houses near their __11__.

Some of them can get enough money from their __12__. Some of them are not __13__ enough to get the money. So they have to steal or rob others’ and become __14__.

Computer game addiction(上瘾) is a __15__ problem in our life. Something has to be done to stop it.

1. A. streets B. schools C. towns D. cities

2. A. boys B. money C. computers D. students

3. A. take B. spend C. cost D. pay

4. A. possible B. easy C. good D. hard

5. A. read B. learn C. win D. download

6. A. lose B. try C. waste D. watch

7. A. come B. live C. study D. eat

8. A. watch TV B. go out C. stay there D. work

9. A. better B. exciting C. even worse D. interesting

10. A. lessons B. games C. families D. sports

11. A. classes B. rooms C. schools D. shops

12. A. classmates B. teachers C. sisters D. parents

13. A. lucky B. unlucky C. careful D. polite

14. A. good B. bad C. rich D. poor

15. A. important B. wonderful C. unusual D. serious

B.

Concorde’s Birthday

CONCORDE, the world’s fastest traveler plane, will soon be over 33 years old.

It first __1__ on 2 March, 1969 in France. Concorde was developed __2__ both France

and Britain. From 1956 these two countries had a __3__ of a supersonic（超声速的）traveler plane. In 1962 they started to __4__ together on the plan. The plane __5__

over 1.5 billion pounds to develop. It is the most tested plane in the history. It

__6__over 5,000 hours of testing. Concorde flies at twice the speed of __7__. This means that it __8__ only 3 hours 25 minutes to fly between London and New York, compare

with 7-8 hours in other traveler planes. __9__ the five-hour time difference between

the USA and Britain, it is __10__ to travel west on Concorde and arrive in New York before you leave London! You can catch the 10:30a.m. __11__ from London, Heathrow

and start work in New York an hour __12__! Concorde is much used by business people

and film stars. Each Concorde is built __13__ a cost of 55 million pounds. Twenty have been built __14__. Air France and British Airway __15__ the most. They each have seven planes.

1. A. invented B. produced C. flew D. took off

2. A. for B. by C. from D. with

3. A. talk B. fight C. meeting D. dream

4. A. work B. do C. carry D. finish

5. A. paid B. wanted C. needed D. cost

6. A. gave B. was giving C. was given D. had given

7. A. sound B. voice C. noise D. shout

8. A. spends B. takes C. costs D. travels

9. A. Because of B. Thanks to C. Give up D. Think of

10. A. possible B. impossible C. real D. unreal

11. A. plane B. passenger C. flight D. airline

12. A. later B. late C. earlier D. early

13. A. with B. at C. for D. on

14. A. so well B. so soon C. so expensive D. so far

15. A. build B. own C. sell D. make

C

One afternoon just before Christmas, an old man was walking __1__ the city center.