小卷速测(五) 完形填空+阅读理解C+回答问题
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Ⅰ. 完形填空
Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are busy trying to make money in order to pay for my brother’s education and mine. They don’t act in the romantic ways that I read in books or I see on TV. My father has a bad temper. It’s easy for him to lose his temper.
One day, my mother was sewing a quilt (被子). I 1 sat down beside her and looked at her. “Is there love between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice. My mother stopped her work and raised her head with 2 in her eyes. She didn’t answer my question immediately. Then she 3 her head and continued to sew the quilt. I was afraid that I had hurt her feelings.
I felt so embarrassed that I didn’t know what to do. But at last I heard my mother say the following words: “Look at this thread (线). Sometimes it 4 , but most of the time, it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt strong and durable. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be 5 anywhere or anytime, but it’s really there.”
I listened carefully but I couldn’t 6 until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly got sick seriously. After they were back from the hospital, my mother 7 him to walk slowly on the beautiful country road every morning. My father had never been so gentle. But after two months he still couldn’t walk by himself. All of us were worried about him. “Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.
“Susan, don’t worry about me,” he said gently.“To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom.” Reading his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.
Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. But from this 8 , I understand that love is just a thread in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.
( )1.A.quickly B.silently C.carelessly D.directly
( )2.A.light B.tears C.surprise D.anger
( )3.A.bowed B.raised C.nodded D.shook
( )4.A.hides B.appears C.links D.reaches
( )5.A.touched B.felt C.seen D.heard
( )6.A.answer B.wait C.promise D.understand
( )7.A.asked B.helped C.told D.ordered
( )8.A.suggestion B.thought C.experience D.action
Ⅱ. 阅读理解
Discover Sharks
Sharks have lived in the oceans for over 450 million years, long before dinosaurs appeared. There are now about 360 kinds of sharks, whose size, behavior, and other characteristics differ widely.
Every year, people catch and kill over 100 million sharks. They hunt sharks for sport, food, medicine and their skin. Experts say the international market for some kinds of sharks has increased because many parts of a shark are valuable. Collectors pay thousands of dollars for the jaws of a shark. Shark liver oil is a popular source of vitamin A. The skin of a shark can be used like leather. In Asia, people enjoy a kind of soup made from shark fins.
It takes most kinds of sharks 10 to 15 years to begin reproducing(繁殖) and most sharks reproduce only every two years. And they give birth to fewer than ten young sharks. For this reason, over-fishing of sharks is the special danger to the future of the animal.
Influenced by movies and popular novels, most people see sharks as people-eating monsters. This is far from the truth. Every year, a few types of shark injure about 100 people worldwide and kill about 25. Most attacks are by great white sharks, which often feed on sea mammals, just like sea lions, sea dogs and dolphins. They sometimes mistake human swimmers for their food, especially if they are wearing black wetsuits.
If you are a typical ocean-goer, your chances of being killed by a shark are about 1 in 100 million. You are more likely to be killed by a pig than a shark and thousands of times more likely to get killed when you drive a car.
