速测(七) 完形填空+阅读理解D+任务型阅读+词语运用
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Ⅰ.完形填空
“Never give up!” is my law of my life. It has brought me 1 . I learned the law from my father's story.
My father was born in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu, China. When he was a young boy, he went to school in the morning, and then 2 in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework until midnight. Life was hard, because they had no money!
At the age of 14, my father heard of 3 . It was the land of gold, the land where 4 people can become rich.
“ 5 don't I go to America?” he thought to himself, full of hope.
So, my father came to America. “I had thought it was easy to 6 money in America,” he told me. “ 7 when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They didn't like hiring(雇佣) me because I spoke little English. Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables, washing the dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was 8 for the first few years; I worked from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was impossible. I couldn't 9 the schooling.”
My father kept working hard, and reached his goal!
“Alan,” he often says to me, “if you want something, you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come 10 in life.” That is what I learned from my father.
( )1.A.sadness B.loss
C.success D.failure
( )2.A.taught B.worked
C.studied D.slept
( )3.A.China B.France
C.America D.the UK
( )4.A.weak B.poor
C.clever D.lazy
( )5.A.What B.How
C.Why D.When
( )6.A.discover B.make
C.collect D.spend
( )7.A.But B.If
C.So D.Because
( )8.A.comfortable B.cheerful
C.nice D.hard
( )9.A.borrow B.need
C.afford D.pay
( )10.A.really B.easily
C.quietly D.slowly
Ⅱ.阅读理解
When the great library of Alexandria burned, the story goes, one book was saved. But it was not a valuable book, and a poor man got it.
The book wasn't very interesting, but between its pages there was something very interesting indeed. It was a thin strip of vellum(羊皮纸) on which was written the secret of the “Touchstone”. The touchstone was a small pebble(鹅卵石) that could turn any common metal into pure gold.
The writing explained that it was lying among thousands and thousands of other pebbles that looked exactly like it. But the secret was this: The real stone would feel warm, while ordinary pebbles are cold.
So the man sold his house, bought a tent, camped on the seashore, and began testing pebbles. He knew that if he picked up normal pebbles and threw them down again because they were cold, he might pick up the same pebbles hundreds of times. So, when he felt one that was cold, he threw it into the sea. He spent a whole day doing this but none of them was the touchstone. Yet he went on and on this way. Pick up a pebble. Cold—throw it into the sea. Pick up another. Throw it into the sea. The days stretched into months and the months into years.
