初中英语完形阅读练习

练习一Wings of Angel

I used to hate myself because I wasn’t “normal”. Everyone else could play on the monkey bars and ride on a bicycle, but not 1 . I had a severe spinal cord disorder(脊髓病) and I knew I would always be much 2 than others.

I hated going to school and I hated looking at me. I hated seeing others smiling broadly and standing 4 and tall. And most of all, I hated looking in the 3 and seeing an ugly and hunchback(驼背).

My friends found me distant because I didn’t l et others get 5 to me. I thought I was going to go on like this for the rest of my life 6 Angela appeared.

That afternoon, I was sitting by myself in a corner of the school—a spot where no one would disturb me. That’s when I first heard her voice.

“Hi. Can I sit down?”

I raised my head and there she was, with an irresistible smile on her round face.

“What are you looking at?” you asked.

“Ants.”

“What are they doing?”

“No idea.”

“I bet they’re playing games and make friends. Don’t you think so?”

That was how our 7 started and it didn’t stop. We talked about everything under the sun—the ants, the clouds, my little niche(处境)—until it was sunset.

Then suddenly, she saw my back. She just stared.

My heart 8 . What I feared most had happened and I knew for sure she would look down up me now.

She stood up, pointed at my back and said, “I know why your back is hunched.”

I closed my eyes like a criminal waiting to be sentenced. I begged in my heart for her to 9 , but she just kept on going. “I know what you’ve got in there. Do you?”

“No,” I answered 10 .

She bent and whispered in my ears.

“Your back is bunched because you’ve got a pair of wings from the angels.”

I was surprised. I looked into her eyes and her 11 touched my heart. Fro m that day on, I started to learn to 12 myself because I have the wings of an angel and a kind – hearted friend.

1．A．them B．it C．me D．her 2．A．sadder B．shorter C．weaker D．slower 3．A．still B．alone C．straight D．together 4．A．street B．sun C．corner D．mirror 5．A．close B．next C．open D．kind 6．A．after B．before C．since D．until 7．A．connection B．competition C．conversation D．comprehension 8．A．sank B．beat C．broke D．ached 9．A．relax B．leave C．stop D．pause 10．A．shyly B．weakly C．proudly D．firmly 11．A．wisdom B．generosity C．honesty D．kindness 12．A．control B．like C．comfort D．enjoy

At the age of sixteen, I joined a volunteer group with my dad. I went on my first volunteer project in West Virginia. On the night we arrived, we discovered that “our family” was living in a trailer(拖车) that was in poor condition. A crew had been working on it for two weeks, but every time they finished one problem, another surfaced.

We decided the only reasonable solution was to build a new house – something unusual but necessary under these circumstances. The family was overjoyed with their new house that was twenty by thirty feet with three bedrooms, a bath and a kitchen.

On Tuesday of that week, while we ate lunch together, I asked the family’s three boys, Josh, Eric and Ryan, "What do you want for your new room?" Expecting toys and other gadgets that children usually ask for, we were surprised when Josh responded, "I just want a bed."

The boys had never slept in a bed! They were accustomed to plastic mats. That night we had a meeting and decided that beds would be the perfect gift. On Thursday night, a few adults in our group drove to the nearest city and bought beds and new bedding.

When we saw the delivery truck coming, we told the family about the surprise. We could hardly contain ourselves. It was like watching excited children on Christmas morning.

That afternoon, as we fitted the frames of the beds tog tether, Eric ran into the house to watch us. Too dirty to enter his room, he observed with wide-eyed enthusiasm from the doorway.

As my father slipped a pillowcase onto one of the pillows, Eric asked, "What is that?"

"A pillow," he replied.

"What do you do with it?" Eric continued to ask.

"When you go to sleep, you put your head on it,” I answered softly. Tears came to our eyes as he handed Eric the pillow.

"Oh . . . that's soft," he said, hugging it tightly.

Now, when my sister or I start to ask for something that seems urgent, my Dad gently asks, "Do you have a pillow?" We know exactly what he means.

1．The writer’s first volunteer project was .

A．working on a poor trailer B．helping a poor family

C．donating beds and bedding D．dealing with a housing problem 2．On bearing Josh’s answer, the writer was shocked because .

A．the family lived in a trailer B．he expected to get some toys

C．he didn’t know what a bed was D．the boys had no bed to sleep in 3．From the passage, we can learn that Eric had never seen before.

A．a trailer B．a truck C．a pillow D．a house

4．By saying “Do you have a pillow?”, the writer’s father means th at .

A．what they want to get may be unnecessary

B．they should not waste money on small things

C．they should do more volunteer work for the poor

D．what he will buy is not what they want but a pillow