小卷速测(十九) 完形+阅读C+D
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Ⅰ.[2020·原创] 完形填空
Sixteen-year-old Kaung Khant Lin is crazy about soccer. His favorite team is England's Manchester United. He likes the team's star player, Lionel Messi. And Kaung Khant Lin plays 1 , too. In a recent competition, he was named the best player.
That is a big success for Kaung Khant Lin 2 he was born with only part of his right 3 . He uses a crutch(拐杖) to play. Kaung Khant Lin is the only soccer player on his team who has a physical problem.
“Whenever I play, I forget about my legs,” he says.
Kaung Khant Lin is from Myanmar. Kaung Khant Lin plays in the city of Yangon. He dribbles(运,带) a ball 4 and turns rapidly on the crutch. When he is ready to score, he kicks 5 his left foot.
He remembers first kicking a ball around the streets when he was 5 years old. He kept his balance using a wooden crutch made by his uncle. Now, he 6 himself as pretty skillful on the soccer field. He does not 7 his missing leg as a weakness.“Nobody can get past me,” he says.
He 8 to local fame in a recent soccer competition. He scored two goals that helped his team win and was named “player of the competition”.
Moe Sat Han is one of Kaung Khant Lin's teammates. He says 9 players used to worry about Kaung Khant Lin. They feared his 10 leg could get broken. There was no way they could stop him 11 playing, though. Kaung Khant Lin was determined(有决心的).
“The team 12 plays from morning until night. Sometimes they even forget to eat. That makes Kaung Khant Lin's dad 13 ,” Moe Sat Han says.
Kaung Khant Lin's father said he cannot watch his son play.
“I don't want to see him get hurt,” he explains. He wants his son to go to college.
14 , Kaung Khant Lin dreams of becoming a soccer coach someday.
In the meantime, he will keep trying to play like his 15 , soccer star Lionel Messi. “He's left-handed and I am too,” Kaung Khant Lin says. “I practice free kicks just like he does.”
( )1.A.basketball B.soccer C.volleyball D.tennis
( )2.A.so B.because C.and D.then
( )3.A.leg B.foot C.hand D.arm
( )4.A.quickly B.slowly C.beautifully D.friendly
( )5.A.with B.in C.by D.at
( )6.A.looks B.watches C.sees D.notices
( )7.A.think of B.think up C.think about D.think over
( )8.A.raised B.grew C.rose D.increased
( )9.A.other B.the others C.another D.others
( )10.A.right B.left C.both D.neither
( )11.A.at B.from C.to D.in
( )12.A.often B.never C.seldom D.hardly
( )13.A.happy B.worried C.relaxed D.satisfied
( )14.A.But B.Later C.However D.And
( )15.A.teammates B.coach C.friend D.hero
Ⅱ. 阅读理解
Passage 1 [2020·原创]
Cressida Cowell is the writer and illustrator(插图画家) of “How to Train Your Dragon”. She is the new Waterstones children's laureate. A laureate is someone who receives an award for some kind of honor. Cowell will be laureate for two years. She plans to share the magic of books.
Cowell wrote stories about Hiccup and his dragon, Toothless. She has sold more than 11 million books around the world. The stories have also been made into movies.
The reading group BookTrust runs the laureate program in the United Kingdom. The program is supported by Waterstones, which sells books. The program began 20 years ago. Every two years, it honors a children's writer or illustrator.
Big Plans For Books
