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2020-2021 学年度第二学期开学考试初三年级英语试卷
第一卷 选择题(50分)
I. 完型填空(10分)
阅读下面的短文,从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
There was once young man who begin to feel self-satisfied after making some small achievements.
One day, the young man took a walk with a wise man from his town. The young man was bragging (吹嘘) about himself, ___1___ the wise man didn’t say a word. When they ___2___ a mountain (山峰), the wise man asked, “Look down. What do you see?”
“I see trees, farmland, houses and people as small as ants working in the fields,” the young man said.
“What do you feel?” the wise man asked.
“Everything is below me, I feel I rule the world,” the young man answered.
The wise man said ___3___. After a minute, he asked the young man to look ___4___. “What do you see this time?” the wise man asked.
“I see birds ___5___ high mountains, the white clouds above the mountains and the blue sky above the white clouds,” the young man answered. Then he asked about the wise man’s ___6___.
“I feel small and powerless,” the wise man answered. “A person who knows to look upward can ___7___ understand his position. When a person knows the blue sky is always overhead, he won’t be so ___8___ as to believe he rules over the world or other people.”
The young man felt foolish for his ___9___. From then on, ___10___ he began to feel as if the world owed (亏欠) him something, he looked up at the sky and remembered how small he really was. Try to look upward when you feel too good about yourself.
1. A. if
B. but
C. so
D. or
2. A. got to
B. got off
C. got over
D. got into
3. A. everything
B. anything
C. something
D. nothing
4. A. up
B. down
C. out
D. after
5. A. looking around
B. showing around
C. turning around
D. flying around
6. A. health
B. name
C. feelings
D. job
7. A. badly
B. quickly
C. hardly
D. clearly
8. A. clever
B. smart
C. silly
D. useful
9. A. pride
B. success
C. luck
D. courage
10. A. whatever
B. whenever
C. wherever
D. however
II. 阅读理解(40分)
第一节 阅读下面的短文,从每小题所给的A,B,C,D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
A
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