内容正文:
初三英语(测试时长20分钟,满分40分)
1、 完型填空(共15小题,每小题1分,满分15分)。
I have the bad habit of skipping to the last pages of a book to see how it ends while I’m still in the middle of it. This habit ___1___ people around me. Often my ___2___ wouldn’t be confined(局限) just to the books I read but also to what others were reading as well. Finally, one day my daughter told me with a little ____3___. “Dad, please just read a book one page at a time like everyone else!”
At times I didn’t ___4___ this bad habit to just reading books either. I also tried to skip ahead in my life and ___5__ what to do months and even years from now ___6___ enjoying each day as it is intended. I knew that the book of my life wasn’t done yet and that I had many ___7___ left to go. ____8____, that didn’t stop me from trying to write the ending half-way through. Time and again, I would foolishly jump ahead and try to solve every potential problem before it ___9___ so I could reach that storybook happily ever after ending. Life, however, doesn’t ___10___ like that. It loves to ___11___ us, and you never know what new problem or opportunity each new day will bring.
Life has often had to ___12___ me to slow down. Recently, when I found myself ___13___ to that bad habit of rushing ahead and living in the ___14___ again, I felt a special voice gently telling me, “Live one day at a time.” Then I smiled, and turned the book of my life back to the right page. Each of us has to live the book of life one page and one day at a time. Each of us has to write it ___15___ and moment by moment. We have to trust that it will bring our story to its perfect end.
1. A. concerned B. annoyed C. frightened D. embarrassed
2. A. impatience B. difficulty C. influence D. effort
3. A. interest B. excitement C. anger D. sadness
4. A. extend B. spread C. limit D. devote
5. A. bring out B. let out C. try out D. figure out
6. A. instead of B. along with C. in line with D. in addition to
7. A. pages B. things C. reports D. novel