中考英语语篇和作文专项强化训练(四)

中考英语语篇和作文专项强化训练（四）

一、完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15 分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从各题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

Do you have the ability to live cheaply? Now here' s a true story of an American girl, Sarah.

1 Sarah left university，she began to live in New York City on her own. She

2 a job in a publishing house, but the salary （薪水）was

3 $30, 000 a year・ Her parents thought her life would be hard, but Sarah

4 live on her salary and still saved $5, 000 in a year. How was that

5 in one of the most expensive cities in the world?

Cheap living 6 starts with keeping the big cost smal 1. For most people, that 7 housing. So Sarah chose to share a flat with three other friends・Her next biggest cost was 8 . When she ate out, she went to cheap

restaurants・ 9 she bought a $9, a local restaurant. She then 10

头） home and made soup out of people often 11a lot of money 99 whole chicken at

the chicken bones （骨them. Nowadays young on entertainment （娱

乐)・ But Sarah said, “I enjoy walking 12 in New York City. I love going to museums and parks ・ ” Did Sarah feel poor 13 cheap living ? Not really. She even managed to take two trips, one to the Netherlands, 14 to Portland.

“Don， t think of saving money as something 15 ・ It' s a kind of game, ” said Sarah ・

()1. A. Until B. Because C. After D. Unless

()2. A. found B. tried C. asked for D. looked for

()3・ A. more than B. less than C. shorter than D. higher than

()4. A. can B. may C. could D. might

( )5. A. difficuIt B. possible C. useful D.

different

()13. A. by B. up C. at D. between

()14. A. another B. the other C. others D ・ the others

helps B. becomes C. makes D. means

7A ( ( 6. A. already sometimes C. hardly D. always

()15. A. hard B. interesting C. nice D. great 二、阅读理解(共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下列材料，从各小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

A

Several days ago, while I was logging onto QQ, my cousin，s QQ head popped out online・ We hadn? t seen each other for a few months, so I decided to start a conversation with her. My cousin is studyin£ in a college of our city. Her hobby is surfing the Internet. Every time I am on the computer, she is always online, listening to music or decora ting her "personal space” ・ I like visiting her space・ It， s creative and modern and wor th a vis it. I can" t imagine my designing such a colorful web page・When I read the sentences

she sent to me, I noticed that the Chinese characters had been changed , but I could still guess their meanings・I took a strong interest in this type of new characters・ Further observation made me realize that they added some common Chinese radicals (咅卩首)to the original characters， making them more vivid, a little like Japanese・My cousin said this gave new life to the Chinese language and culture・

It is true that the Internet has reinvented our language, but I still can，t accept this new cultural change・Some Chinese