11年西城区初三一模英语试题

• What’s the main idea of the passage? • A story about that a mother wanted to make her child a prodigy.
• What’s the best title of the passage? • The prodigy I could be. • What does the writer want to tell us? • Everyone can be the prodigy he could be, but it takes time and should be achieved step by step in his own way.
• And then I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me – because I have never seen that face before. I looked at myself in the mirror, blinking so I could see more _⑼_. The girl looking back at me was angry, strong. This girl and I were the same. I had new thoughts. I won’t let her _⑽_ me. I won’t be what I’m not.
express: to tell or show what you are feeling or thinking by using words, looks, or actions 3. A. surprising B. foreign C. interesting D. special 4. A. pronounce B. express C. spell D. read
• The tests got _⑸_. One One night nightIIhad hadto tolook look at at aa page the Bible Biblefor for three minutes and then page from from the three minutes and then report everythingI I could remember I said all report everything could remember. I. said all I I remembered. And _⑹_ I saw my mother’s disappointed face once again, something something inside inside of of me began to _⑺_.
9. A. easily B. quickly 10. A. trouble B. change C. clearly C. help D. differently D. teach
• “What’s the capital of Finland?” my mother asked me, looking at the magazine story. • All I knew was the capital of California. “Nairobi!” I guessed, saying the most _____ word I could think of. She checked to see if that was possibly one way to _____ “Helsinki” before showing me the answer. • The tests got _____. One night I had to look at a page from the Bible for three minutes and then report everything I could remember. I said all I remembered. And _____ I saw my mother’s disappointed face once again, something inside of me began to ____.
I hated the tests, the raised hopes and failed expectations.
and that it would always be this _⑻_ face
5. A. longer 6. A. before 7. A. rise B. newer B. after B. fall C. better C. if C. die D. harder D. although D. run
1. A. examples B. lessons 2. A. perhaps B. even C. notes C. almost D. ideas 对象：me D. still
• “What’s the capital of Finland ?”my mymother motherasked asked Finland?” me, looking at the magazine story. • All I knew was the capital of California. California.“Nairobi!” “Nairobi!” I guessed, I guessed, saying saying the the most most _⑶ _⑶ __ word word I could I could think think of. She checked to see if that was possibly one way to _⑷_ “Helsinki” before showing me the answer.
Cloze
• Every night after dinner, my mother and I would sit at kitchen table. She would present new test, taking her _____ from stories of amazing children she had read in newspapers and magazines. • The first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capitals of all the states in our country and _____ most of the European countries. A teacher also said the little boy could also pronounce the names of fo源自文库eign cities correctly.
• I hated the tests, the raised hopes and failed expectations. Before going to bed that night, I looked in the mirror in the bathroom and when I saw only my face looking back – and that it would always be this _⑻_ face – I began to cry. I made loud noises like a mad animal.
• Every night after dinner, my mother and I would sit at kitchen table. She would present present new new test, test, taking her _⑴_ from stories of amazing children she had read in newspapers and magazines. • The first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capitals of all the states in our country and _⑵_ most of the European countries. A teacher teacher also also said said the the little little boy could also pronounce the names of foreign cities correctly.
• I hated the tests, the raised hopes and failed expectations. Before going to bed that night, I looked in the mirror in the bathroom and when I saw only my face looking back – and that it would always be this _____ face – I began to cry. I made loud noises like a mad animal. • And then I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me – because I have never seen that face before. I looked at myself in the mirror, blinking so I could see more _____. The girl looking back at me was angry, strong. This girl and I were the same. I had new thoughts. I won’t let her _____ me. I won’t be what I’m not.
• So the following nights when my mother presented _____ tests, I performed listlessly, my head on one arm. I pretended to be bored. And I was. I started to _____ other things. Soon, she noticed I was absent-minded. We had talk and I told her what I thought and how I felt about the tests. Then the whole evening, she seemed to be thinking. • The next day, she presented me some easier tests. I found my pleasure and confidence back again, and we started to be on the way to make me a prodigy I could be.
I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me
stories of amazing children she had read in newspapers and magazines. 8. A. strange B. unhappy C. ugly D. ordinary