初三（上）英语阅读竞赛试题
(考试时间：120分钟)
完形填空（在Ａ、Ｂ、Ｃ、Ｄ四个选项中，选出一个使短文通顺的最佳答案，并把它前面的字母编号填在答卷纸上。）40%
A
comes form . She is 18 years old. She’s going to 1 with the Black family for a year. comes to because she wants to study English. She helps Mrs Black in the 2 and goes to English classes every Wednesday and Friday afternoon.
is new in . 3 is strange to her. She finds life is 4 from that in . Some things are , 6 things are not so nice. The shops are bigger in than in . But it’s 7 dear to enjoy yourself in . It’s dear to meal at a restaurant or go to a cinema.
Alice can’t get used to (习惯) England. “You eat so much in the morning,” she often says. “Fruit, porridge, eggs, tea and bread. 10 can you face all that food so early in the day?”
A. stay B. talk C. move D. play
A. shop B. house C. school D.
A. Something B. Anything C. Nothing D. Everything
A. interesting B. hard C. same D. different
A. nice B. cheap C. bad D. right
A. another B. other C. others D. the other
A. quite B. too C. also D. yet
A. cook B. drink C. have D. wash
A. breakfast B. lunch C. supper D. dinner
10．A. How B. What C. Why D. When
B
A man went into a bar（酒巴）, sat down, called the barman（男招待）and said to him, “Give me a drink before the trouble starts.”
The barman was busy 1 other people, so he did not say 2 , but gave the man the drink, and the man drank it 3 . Then he put his 4 down, called the barman again and said to him, “ Give me 5 one before the trouble starts.”
Again the barman was too 6 to say anything. So he gave the man his drink and went sway. The man drank that, too. And then he called the barman and said to him, “One 7 drink before the trouble starts, please.”
This time the barman was not very busy, so when he brought the man his 8 drink, he said to him, “ What trouble are you 9 ?”
The man answered, “I don’t have any 10 .”
( ) 1. A. to B. with C. for D. on
( ) 2. A. something B. nothing C. anything D. everything
( ) 3. A. quickly B. happy C. angrily D. badly
( ) 4. A. shirt B. bag C. glasses D. glass
( ) 5. A. the other B. other C. another D. an another
( ) 6. A. free B. happy C. busy D. kind
( ) 7. A. any B. much C. another D. more
( ) 8. A. fourth B. first C. second D. third
( ) 9. A. talking B. talking about C. saying to D. telling
( )10.A. money B. glass C. drink D. bars
C
One day, some children were playing hide-and-seek（捉迷藏）happily. In front of the 1 , Jim found the door of the letter box was 2 and climbed in. He 3 closed the door. When he knew 4 he had locked(锁) himself in it, he began to 5 help, but nobody could 6 . He was 7 and began to cry. At that time, his sister was 8 for him. She happened to hear him. She , of course, wasn’t able to open it.
When the 9 helped him out, he couldn’t keep back his tears（眼泪）. He is in the box for nearly an hour.
“Don’t forget stamp on yourself next time,” said the postman.
( ) 1. A. shop B. park C. post office D. hospital
( ) 2. A. open B. closed C. big D. broken
( ) 3. A. slowly B. easily C. quickly D. hardly
( ) 4. A. that B. what C. why D. if
( ) 5. A. find out B. ask for C. think about D.look after
( ) 6. A. open B. help C. see D. hear
( ) 7. A. angry B. hungry C. afraid D. happy
( ) 8. A. asking B. looking C. waiting D. shouting
( ) 9. A. policeman B. friend C. postman D. cleaner
( ) 10. A. to draw B. to put C. to make D. to buy
根据首字母填空，使短文通顺，并把答案填在答卷纸上
D
Which is the best way to learn a language? We know that we all learned our o______1 language well when we were children. If we learn a s___________2 language in the same way, it w_______3 be so hard. How does a small child do this? It l__________4 to what people say, and it tries to guess what it hears. When it wants some things, it h________5 to ask for them. It is using the l__________6 , thinking in it and t__________ it all the time, they will learn it quickly.
In s_________8 , you learn to read, to write, to hear and to speak, it is b_________9 to learn all new words through the ears. You c______10 read them, spell them and write them later.