03. 2014届各区英语一模阅读理解（C篇15套）

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words: (1)

Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly while you are trying to work or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?

If you do, you need to take control of your feelings. Getting angry with others can cause you to l __1 friends.

Gray Egeberg, an American high school teacher, has written a book named My Feelings Are Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. The book tells how to stay cool when b 2 things happen.

The book says that getting angry only makes problems w 3 . It can never make them better. ―Getting angry is not a natural way to act,‖ the book says. ― It‘s just a habit, like smoking. ‖

The book says you can control your feelings e 4 ... all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry.

The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry frequently. Here are the top three. ● Keep a r 5 . Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry so often.

● Ask your friends to s 6 talking to you when you get angry. Leave you alone. This will teach you not to be angry.

● Do something d 7 . When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh.

1. l_________________ 2. b___________________ 3. w____________________ 4. e______________ 5. r________________ 6. s____________________ 7. d___________________

1. lose 2. bad 3. worse 4. easily 5. record 6. stop 7. different

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words: (2)

I heard a story about an older woman who stood in line at the Post Office. She c___1___ with a young man next to her. The young man n___2___ that she had no package to mail, and asked why she was standing in line. She said that she just needed a few stamps.

―Ma‘am, you must be tired standing here. Do you know there‘s a stamp machine over there in the corner?‖ He p____3____ to the machine built into the wall. ―Thank you,‖ the lady replied, ―but I‘ll just wait here a little l____4____. I‘m getting close to the window.‖

―But it would be so much e___5___ for you not to stand in this long line and buy your stamps from the machine.‖

The woman smiled and answered, ―Oh, I know. But that old machine would n___6___ ask me how my grandchildren are getting along.‖

She had a need greater than the need f___7___ postage stamps－a need to feel connected to other people. And it was a need that could not be met by a stamp machine.

1. c__________________ 2. n___________________ 3. p__________________ 4. l________________ 5. e__________________ 6. n____________________ 7. f___________________ C: 1. chatted 2. noticed 3. pointed 4. longer 5. easy/easier 6. never 7. for

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words: (3)

How can I win a Nobel Prize for writing? Here‘s the secret from this year‘s winner: make it short, keep it real, and work hard.

Canadian author Alice Munro, 82, was a 1 the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature (文学). She is known for her short stories about personal relationships of ordinary people, usually women.

Munro was born in a farmer family in Ontario. The family was very poor. Munro did a lot of physical work a 2 a young girl.

But she decided to be a w 3 when she was 12. She turns her hard childhood into great writing ideas.

The story Dear Life, for example, opens with a description of the neighborhood in which Munro grew up.

B 4 , she talked about her poor relationship with her mother in many of her stories, such as Lives of Girls and Women and Friend of My Youth.

Since she p 5 her first book in 1968, Munro has won many awards, with the Nobel Prize as her biggest honor. But Munro doesn‘t see h 6 as a talented writer.

―I‘m the opposite of a writer with a quick gift. I don‘t grasp it very readily (轻而易举地) at all, the ?it‘ being whatever I‘m trying to do,‖ she said.

Do you d 7 of becoming a writer while sadly admitting you are not that talented? Munro has a tip for you: use notebooks and write a lot.

―I have lots of notebooks that contain this terribly clumsy (蹩脚的) writing,‖ she said. But it helps her sort out her mind. ―Stories would just be working in my head for so long that when I started to write I was deep into them.‖

1. a___________________ 2. a__________________ 3. w_________________ 4. B________________ 5. p___________________ 6. h__________________ 7. d___________________

1. awarded 2. as 3. writer 4. Besides 5. published 6. herself 7. dream

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words. (4)

Mary and her husband, Richard Goldman, loved books. Like many lovers of books, they s___1___ walked past a bookstore without stopping to look inside. They often talked of opening their own store one day.

In order to realize their w___2___, they started by talking to bookstore owners and researching book business. One figure caught her attention: She had read somewhere that about 20 percent of books sold were mysteries (推理小说), and many buyers of mysteries spent more than $300 a year on books. She and Richard were mystery r__3___ and had a big collection of such books.

On Halloween 1992, they opened the Mystery Lovers Bookshop and Café near their home. With three children in college, it was i__4__ for the couple to spend all the family‘s money to start a shop. To cover the $100,000 cost, they used some of their savings, borrowed from relatives and from a bank.

In order to a__5___ customers, Mary always had new ways. The shop had a coffee bar and it offered presents to mystery lovers and served dinner for book clubs that met in the …… 此处隐藏：7593字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……