高一英语初高中衔接练习(二)阅读专练

1、练习（一）完型专练阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。These days computer games have become more and mor e popular in many cities and towns. A lot of small shops along busy 1 have changed into computer game houses to get more 2 . These places are always crowded with people.In the computer game houses, people

2、 3 a lot of money matching on the machines. It，s4 for one to beat a computer, but one can do well afte rr trying again and again. People want to 5 when they play computer games. The more they 6 , t he more they want to win, and at last they even can 7 without tt.The result is that some people don

3、9; want to 8 and they play in computer game houses for hours and hours. For school boys, things are 9 . They don' w ant to have 10 . When school is over, they rush to the computer game houses near their 11 .Some of them can get enough money from their 12 . Some of them are not 13 enough to get t

4、he money. So they have to steal or rob others'and become _14_.Computer game addiction（上瘾）is a 15 problem in our life. Something has to be done to stop it.1. A. streetsB. schoolsC. townsD. cities2. A. boysB. moneyC. computersD. students3. A. takeB.spendC. costD. pay4. A. possibleB. easyC.goodD. h

5、ard5. A. readB. learnC. winD. download6. A. loseB. tryC. wasteD. watch7. A. comeB. liveC. studyD. eat8. A. watch TVB. go outC. stay thereD. work9. A. betterB. excitingC. even worseD. interesting10. A. lessonsB. gamesC. familiesD. sports11. A. classesB. roomsC. schoolsD. shops12. A. classmatesB. teac

6、hersC. sistersD. parents13. A. luckyB. unluckyC. carefulD. polite14. A. goodB. badC. richD. poor15. A. importantB. wonderfulC. unusualD.seriousConcorde s BirthdayCONCORDE, the world ' s fastest traveler plane, will soon be over 33 years old. It first 1 on 2 March, 1969 in France. Concorde was de

7、veloped 2 both France and Britain.From 1956 these two countries had a 3 of a supersonic （超声速的） traveler plane. In 1962 they started to 4 together on the plan. The plane 5 over 1.5 billion pounds to develop. It is the most tested plane in the history. It 6 over 5,000 hours of testing. Concorde flies

8、at twice the speed of 7 . This means that it _8only 3 hours25 minutes to fly between London and New York, compare with 7-8 hours in other traveler planes. 9 the five-hour time difference between the USA and Britain, it is _10 to travel west on Concorde and arrive in New York before you leave London!

9、 You can catch the 10:30a.m. 11 from London, Heathrow and start work in New York an hour _12! Con-corde is much used by business people and film stars. Each Concorde is built 13 a cost of 55 million pounds. Twenty have been built _14 . Air France and British Airway 5_ the most. They each have seven

10、planes.1. A. inventedB. producedC. flewD.took off2. A. forB. byC. fromD. with3. A. talkB.fightC. meetingD. dream4. A. workB. doC. carryD. finish5. A. paidB. wantedC. neededD. cost6. A. gaveB. was givingC. was givenD. ha d given7. A. soundB. voiceC. noiseD.shout8. A. spendsB. takesC. costsD. travels9

11、. A. Because ofB. Thanks toC. Give upD. Think of10. A. possibleB. impossibleC. realD. unreal11. A. planeB. passengerC. flightD. airline12. A. laterB.lateC. earlierD. early13. A. withB. atC. forD. on14. A. so wellB. so soonC. so expensiveD. so far15. A. buildB. own-C. sellD. makeOne afternoon just be

12、fore Christmas, an old man was walking 1 the city center. The shops were all full of good things and they 2 with cheerful shoppers. Suddenly he saw a dirty boy sitting on the ground crying sadly. When the 3 old man asked him why he 4 , the little boy told him that he had 5 a ten penny piece that his

13、 uncle_6him.At once the old man pulled out a handful of coins. He 7 out a shining new ten penny piece and handed it to the child. "Thankyou very much, “ said the little boy, drying his 8. He cheered up at once.An hour or so later, the old man was making his way 9 home by the same road. Tohis 10

14、 he saw the dirty little boy in the same place, crying sadly as 11 . He went up to the boy and asked him 12 he had lost the ten penny piece he had 13 given him as well. The boy told him that he had not lost the second coin 14 he still couldn 'theffirst one.The world“15 I could find my own piece,

15、" he cried, “I would have twenty pence now.1. A. byB. betweenC. throughD. over2. A .were crowdedB. were crowdingC. crowdedD. had crowded3. A. angryB. sadC.happyD. kind4. A. criedB. had criedC. was cryingD. would cry5. A. spentB. leftC. paidD. lost6. A. had takenB. had broughtC. had givenD. had

16、borrowed7. A. pickedB. madeC. gaveD. left8. A. mouthB.eyesC. feetD. ears9. A. onB. backC. toD. for10. A. surpriseB. joyC. sadnessD. excitement11. A. usuallyB. usualC. beforeD. well12. A. whereB. whenC. whyD. if13. A. justB. just nowC. right nowD. now14. A. andB. butC. whileD. as15. A. WhenB. SinceC.

17、 IfD. Ascommunication means （通讯设备）itself is becoming much smaller by using modern traffic and modern 1_ today is much easier than it was hundreds ofyears ago, but it has brought new 2. One of the biggest is pollution . To pollute meansto make things dirty . Pollution comes in many ways . We see it,3

18、 it, drink it and evenhear it.Man has been polluting the earth . The 4 people, the more pollution . Many years ago, the pollution was not so serious 5 there were not so many people . When the land was used up or the river was dirty in one place , man 6 to another place. But this is no longer true. M

19、an is now sl rowly polluting the whole world .Air pollution is now the most serious . It ' s 7 for all living things in the world , but it is not the only one kind of pollution . Water pollution 8 our fish and pollutes our drinking water . Noise pollution makes us become 9 more easily.Many count

20、ries are making rules to fight pollution . They 10 people from burning coal （煤）in houses and factories in the city , and from putting dirty 11 into the air.Pollution by SO2 is now the most 12 kind of air pollution . It is caused by heavy traffic . It is true that if there are fewer people 13 , there

21、 will be less air pollution .The earth is our home . We must take care of it. That means 14 the land , water and air clean. And we must take care of the 15 in pollution at the same time .1. A. FlightB. SleepingC.LifeD. Meeting2. A . difficultiesB. businessC.jobsD. problems3. A . smellB. touchC.dreamD . want4.