高一英语阅读竞赛试题

高2012级高一英语阅读竞赛试题

时间：40分钟总分：100分

一．根据上下文猜测划线词汇的意思，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。(共15小题，每小题2分，共30分)

1.It will be very hard but also very brittle－that is, it will break easily.

A.easily broken

B.soft inside

C.very hard

D.expensive

2.The herdsman , who looks after sheep, earns about 650 yuan a year.

A. keeper of a group of animals, esp. cattles

B. a butcher

C. a man who sell sheep

D. a person who looks after and kill animals

3. The word “adolescence” mean s the period between children and adulthood.

A.少儿期

B.幼儿期

C.青春期

D.成人期

4.Twelve-year-old Sally was an active girl，but her sister was quite sedate．

A. pretty

B. calm

C. protective

D. energetic

5.Most of us agreed, however, Bill dissented.

A .have a different opinion B.support

C.like it very much

D.doesn’t show his ideas

6.The lack of movement caused the muscles to weaken. Sometimes the weakness was permanent. So the player could never play the sport again.

A .going on for a long time B. that may be permitted

C. not very strong

D. in a bad condition

7.That museum is so immense that it will be impossible to see all the exhibits in one day.

A. very large

B. crowed

C.noisy

D.good

8. William Shakespeare said. “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn （纱线），good and ill together.”

A.simple

B.mixed

C.sad

D.happy

9.We must safeguard the world peace.

A. protect

B. care or custody

C. prevent

D. to keep safe with a burglar-alarm

10.Don’t listen to his nonsense.

A. havig no meaning

B. meaningless words

C. humorous speech

D. not making sense

11.He felt very alone; he had lived in Baltimore City for a month and had met no

one in the inhospitable city.

A. unfriendly

B. uncomfortable

C. unhealthy

D. enormous

12.The official asked the man what his occupation was. The man told him that he worked as an engineer.

A.work

B. study

C. name

D. interest

13.The lady asked the waitress to get her a clean saucer to put her coffee cup on．

A.a glass

B.a cake

C.a small plate

D. a table

14.A child’s birthday party doesn’t have to be a hassle; it can be a bask

-et of fun.

A.a party designed by specialists

B.a plan requiring careful thought

C.a situation causing difficulty or trouble

D.a demand made by guests

15.The family’s old farm house has become a chicken house, its residents

arriving next month.

A. chickens

B. tomatoes

C. garden

D. people

二. 阅读理解（共20小题，每小题3分，共60分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

I needed to get some money so, after Christmas, I took a job in the clothes department at Graham’s for the first fortnight of the January sale. I can’t say that I enjoyed it, but it was an experience I’ll never forget.

I could never understand why there were so many things in the sales; where did they all come from? Now I know the secret! Firstly, there is the special winter stock (货物) and the stock that people buy all the year round; some of these things are slightly reduced. Secondly, there are the summer clothes they couldn’t sell last year; these are heavily reduced to clear them. Thirdly, there are cheap clothes bought in specially for the sales; these are put out at high prices ten days before the sale begins and then are reduced by 60% in the sale. Clever! Lastly, they buy in “seconds? (clothes not in perfect condition) for the sale and they are sold very cheaply.

When I arrived half an hour before opening on the first day of the sale, there was already a queue around three sides of the building. This made me very nervous.