初中三年级上学期英语期末配题：专项2.完形填空

2012-2013第一学期期末完形填空配题

（一）

My life as a roofing（屋顶）salesman began almost sixty years ago. I happened to meet Johnny Brown, the manager of a small company. He told me he needed a young man like myself.

“The war is over, and everyone 1 a new roof,” Johnny said. “But if you just go out and ask people if they want a new roof, they will just say no. 2 you have to make up a story they’re willing to listen to.”

“What’s the story?” I asked.

“The story is that you are working for the RZ Advertising Company. You are 3 a home in the neighborhood to put on a new roof. If the family allows you to put this new roof 4 , your company will photograph it, advertise it, and bring around people to look at it. For the inconvenience（不便）that was 5 to the family the company will make a plan to have the roof put on at a very low price.”

“Which,” I said 6 , “is probably the same price that any roof would cost.”

“You’ve 7 it.” Johnny said. “Now I don’t want you to think we’re doing anything dishonest. The people do get a good roof, and besides, they have something to tell the neighbors. It makes them feel 8 on thei r street.”

“What am I supposed to do?”

“You give your 9 to the wife and the husband. If they are both interested, you tell them your 10 will come by and talk to them, and you set up a meeting. Then I go in to 11 . If they buy a roof, you get 10% on the sale.”

The next afternoon I was out ringing doorbells in Los Angeles. It took a week before I made a sale, but the pay was $30. And when Johnny paid me, I was so 12 that I decided I might make the roofing business my life work.

（）1. A. makes B. needs C. protect s D. refuses

（）2. A. But B. If C. So D. Because

（）3. A. giving up B. worrying about C. talking about D. looking for

（）4. A. on B. out C. away D. off

（）5. A. caused B. failed C. proved D. allowed

（）6. A. politely B. brightly C. kindly D. carelessly

（）7. A. afforded B. expected C. got D. offered

（）8. A. terrible B. boring C. strange D. special

（）9. A. hope B. story C. money D. house

（）10. A. manager B. photographer C. neighbor D. parents

（）11. A. pay B. decide C. sell D. borrow

（）12. A. nervous B. lazy C. famous D. excited

（二）

My father couldn’t read or write. He started school in the first grade, where the punishment for a wrong answer was ten ruler beats on a hand. For some reason, right shapes and letters just did not fall into his six-year-old mind. His father took him out of 1 after several months.

Y ears later, his wife, with her fourth-grade 2 , would try to teach him to read. And later I would hold his big hand and help him to copy the letters of his name. He accepted unwillingly, but soon grew 3 and would say that he had had enough. One night, when he thought no one saw, he 4 with my second grade reader and worked on the words until they became too difficult. He pressed his head into the 5 and cried. After that, nothing could bring him to sit with pen and paper.

From the farm to road building and later to factory work, his hands served him well. His energetic interest and ability brought 6 to become a line boss.

After Mother died years later, he insisted on staying in the small house 7 the garden and a few farm animals close by . His health began to fail, and he was in and out of the hospital.

My last memory of Dad was watching him walk across the hillside with my two children. Three weeks 8 my family flew back to our own home, Dad was dead because of a heart attack.

I returned for the funeral. Doctor Green told me Dad had been given a bottle of pills. Y et it had not been found on Dad’s person. Doctor Green felt that a pill might have kept him 9

long enough to call for help.

In Dad’s garden I stopped to pass my fingers in the earth where he had reached the end of his life. My hand came to rest on a half-buried stone. I lifted it and noticed 10 it the hit, yet unbroken bottle that had been beaten into the soft earth.

When I saw the bottle, the scene of Dad 11 to remove the cap and in desperation(绝望) breaking it with the stone flashed before my eyes. With great sorrow and deep pain I knew why those big hands had lost in their fight with 12 . For there, printed on the cap, were the words:“Child-proof cap—Push down and twist to unlock.”

( ) 1. A. school B. class C. farm D. home

( ) 2. A. knowledge B. memory C. experience D. education

( ) 3. A. bored B. nervous C. worried D. angry

( ) 4. A. ran away B. stole away C. moved away D. walked away ( ) 5. A. pages B. books C. copies D. papers

( ) 6. A. a success B. a decision C. an opinion D. an offer

( ) 7. A. by B. behind C. at D. with

( ) 8. A. when B. after C. until D. before

( ) 9. A. alive B. awake C. asleep D. active

( ) 10. A. behind B. below C. under D. beside

( ) 11. A. expecting B. wanting C. trying D. deciding

( ) 12. A. the bottle B. the cap C. death D. illness