课时训练(十五) Modules 3—4(九上)
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Ⅰ.[2018·达州改编]完形填空
On March 14th, 2018, the scientist Stephen Hawking 1 in Cambridge, UK.
After leaving high school, Hawking went first to Oxford University 2 he studied physics and then went to Cambridge University where he studied cosmology(宇宙学). As he himself said, he didn’t work hard. And he did 3 work. However, he always enjoyed thinking everything around him, especially the universe. Today, he is called the King of the Universe.
It was at the age of 21 that Hawking first 4 something was wrong with him. He started to bump into some things. When he visited his family at Christmas time, his mother was so worried that she 5 him see a doctor. He 6 to have motor neuron disease(运动神经元病), an illness which would make him unable to speak, breathe or move 7 the help of a machine. Doctors said they had no ways to help him. He might die before 23.
8 , Hawking became very sad. As he later wrote, “After my illness was diagnosed(诊断), I was very 9 with life. There had not seemed to be anything worth doing. But shortly after I came out of hospital, I suddenly realised that there were a lot of worthwhile(值得做的)things I could do.” Then Hawking got married and found a job at Cambridge University as a professor. We strongly believe that his story shows that 10 should lose hope. “Life is not fair,” he once said. “You just have to do the best you can in your own situation.”
1.A.has been dead B.died
C.has died D.was died
2.A.which B.when
C.that D.where
3.A.much B.lots of
C.little D.few
4.A.noticed B.heard
C.thought D.watched
5.A.advised B.made
C.told D.wanted
6.A.found B.was founded
C.was found D.founded
7.A.without B.with
C.under D.by
8.A.At last B.At first
C.However D.So
9.A.boring B.excited
C.interested D.bored
10.A.nobody B.somebody
C.anybody D.everybody
Ⅱ.[2018·台州]阅读理解
WHICH FAMOUS PERSON IN HISTORY WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE MET AND WHY?
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For me it would clearly be Leonardo da Vinci. I’dlove to have met him. He was such a creative talent and not just an artist. He seems to have predicted a number of inventions that only came true about hundreds of years later, like flying machines and so on. I’d like to tell him he really did see the future.
Naomi, Chicago
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