小卷速测(十四) 语法填空+阅读B+D+任务阅读
(限时:30分钟)
Ⅰ.[2019·淄博改编] 语法填空
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Ernest Hemingway, the son of a doctor and a music teacher, was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. Hemingway's father 1. (teach) him early on how to hunt and fish, two activities Hemingway loved throughout his life.
Instead of going to college, Hemingway became a reporter for the Kansas City Star. Later, in Europe, he worked 2. a driver for the Italian army until he was wounded and shipped home, where he again wrote for newspapers. Two years later, he moved to Paris, where he hoped 3. (improve) his writing. There he became friends with other American writers, including Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Hemingway developed a style of writing 4. was simple and direct. He chose words sparingly(俭省地), avoided using adjectives, 5. trusted the reader to understand the 6. (mean) of his writing. This style 7. (continue) to influence writers today. In his career(生涯), which lasted some 40 years, Hemingway earned the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize. He was one of 8. (fine) writers of the 20th century.
For a while Ernest Hemingway lived in Key West, Florida, where he had nearly 50 cats. One of them was a cat with six toes(脚趾), which a ship's captain had given him. Today his Key West home is 9. museum, and many cats still live there. Some of 10. (they) are children of Hemingway's six-toed cat. Hemingway was married four times and had three sons. He died in 1961.
Ⅱ. 阅读理解
Passage 1 [2019·江西改编]
I am Turere. I come from Kitengela, a farming community on the edge(边缘) of Nairobi National Park of Kenya(肯尼亚). Since the age of nine, I have helped to look after my family's cows. As a child, in my free time, I enjoyed playing with electronics. I made my own inventions, such as electronic toys from car parts and other things. I also built other electronic devices(仪器) for my neighbors.
At the age of 13, I invented something that changed my life. It also changed the lives of many people in my community. One night, a lion from the park came into my family's farm and killed one of our cows. I was angry. However, killing the lion, I thought, was not the best way to solve the problem. Instead, I decided to invent a solution.
The first idea I got was to use fire, because I thought lions were scared of fire. But I came to realize that didn't really help, because it was even helping the lions to see through the cowshed(牛棚). So I didn't give up. I continued.
And a second idea I got was to use a scarecrow(稻草人). I was trying to trick the lions into thinking that I was standing near the cowshed. But lions are very clever. They will come the first day and they see the scarecrow, and they go back. But the second day, they'll come and they say, this thing is not moving here, it is always here! So he jumps in and kills the animals.
So one night, I was walking around the cowshed with a torch(手电筒), and that day the lions didn't come. And I discovered that lions were afraid of a moving light. So I had an idea.
1.What was Turere interested in when he was a child? ( )
A.Tricking the neighbors.
B.Looking after cows.
C.Playing with electronics.
D.Making car parts.
2.The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 refers to . ( )
A.the lion B.the scarecrow
C.the cow D.the cowshed
3.What's the solution to driving the lion away? ( )
A.Using a moving light. B.Using a torch.
C.Using a scarecrow. D.Using fire.
