江苏省盐城市初级中学2023-2024学年九年级英语上册第12周周末提优练习

2023—2024学年度第一学期 九年级英语第12周周末提优练习 (练习时间:60分钟 分值:100分 练习形式:独立闭卷) 1、 完形填空。(共15小题,每小题1分,计15分) Another person’s enthusiasm (热情) was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my 1 . I was nine years old when she entered our home in rural Virginia. My father 2 me to her with these words: “I would like you to meet the fellow who is known for being the 3 boy in this county and will probably start throwing rocks at you no later than tomorrow morning.” My stepmother walked over to me, raised my head slightly upward, and looked at me right in the 4 . Then she looked at my father and replied, “You are 5 . This is not the worst boy at all, but the 6 one who hasn’t yet found an outlet(释放的途径)for his enthusiasm.” That statement began a friendship between us. No one had ever called me smart. My family and neighbors had built me up in my 7 as a bad boy. My stepmother changed all that. She changed many things. She advised my father to go to a dental (牙科) school, from which he graduated with honors. She moved our family into the county seat, where my father’s career could be more 8 and my brother and I could be better 9 . When I turned fourteen, she bought me a second-hand 10 and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I 11 her for her enthusiasm because I thought it had already improved our lives. I accepted her belief and began to write for local newspapers. One day I was doing the same kind of 12 when I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and received the task which became my life’s work later. And above all, I wasn’t the 13 beneficiary(受益者). My father became the richest man in our town. My brother and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college president. What power 14 has! When that power is there to support the certainty of one’s purpose and is 15 strengthened by faith (信念), it becomes an irresistible (不可抗拒的) force which poverty and temporary failure can never match. You can communicate the power with anyone who n