2005年安徽省中考英语试卷(2)

56 him in the village. One day he said to them, “I know you don’t like me. When I 57 ,

I will give everything to you. Then everyone will be 58 .”

Even then nobody believed him. The rich man couldn’t 59 why they didn’t believe him. One day he went for a walk. Under a tree he happened to hear a pig and a cow 60 .

The pig said t o the cow, “Everybody likes you 61 nobody likes me. Why? When I provide people with meat, ham（火腿）and so on, I give three or four things to them. But you give only

one thing-milk. Why do people like you 62 and not me?”

The cow answered, “Look, I give them milk while I’m 63 . They see that I am gnerous

（慷慨） with what I 64 . But yo u don’t give them anything while you’re alive. Only after you’re dead do you give meat, ham and so on. People don’t believe in the 65 , they believe

in the present（现在）. If you give while you are alive, people will like you.”

From that moment on, the rich man wasn’t tightfisted any more. Everyone began to like him. And he felt quite happy.

56. A. believed B. liked C. hated D. knew

57. A. die B. leave C. retum D. arrive

58. A. frightened B. happy C. angry D. safe

59. A. agree B. understand C. remember D. forget

60. A. crying B. laughing C. singing D. talking

61. A. because B. so C. and D. or

62. A. sometimes B. all the time C. at the beginning

D. in the end

63. A. alive B. dead C. busy D. free

64. A. like B. have C. eat D. say

65. A. lifetime B. competition C. friendship D. future

第三部分阅读理解（共一大题，满分40分）

VIII. 阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分；满分40分）

通读下列短文，根据短文内容，从每题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。

A

Van Gogh was born in Holland（荷兰）in 1853. He enjoyed drawing as a child. His first connection with paintings came in 1869. He worked for an art dealer（经营者）in London and Paris for four years, before he became a teacher in England for a short time. He moved back to France in 1877 and soon began to Paint. He didn’t stay long in Paris. He was attracted by the colours of the countryside and in 1888, he moved to Arles, a small town in the south of France. There, he painted his most famous paintings.

He enjoyed painting people, farms, flowers, and other natural things. Some of his most famous paintings are The Potato Eaters, The Starry Night,and several different Sunflower paintings. The Starry Night is now kept in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. There is a quiet village and a tall black, tree under an angry sky. Some people say that it shows a war in Van Gogh’s mind between peace（和平）and anger. It was finished on 19 June, 1889. Scientists say that it is a true picture of the stars on that day.

He was poor most of his life. He made hundreds of paintings, but only sold one of them while he lived. He was a lonely, unhappy man who died at the early age of 37.

Today, people love Van Gogh’s use of colour and the emotional power（激情）of his work. Van Gogh’s paintings are world fa mous and worth millions of dollars. Museums around the world proudly show paintings by the great artist.

66. Van Gogh began to paint in ______.

A. Holland

B. France

C. London

D. New York

67. Van Gogh moved to Arles because _______.

A. it was a famous small town

B. it was in the south of France

C. he liked teaching in the countryside

D. he enjoyed the colours of the countryside

68. In Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, we can see _______.

A. some people

B. some flowers

C. a village

D. a factory

69. Van Gogh died in _________.

A. 1890

B. 1888

C. 1877

D. 1869

70. His paintings are world famous for ________.

A. his poor life

B. the high prices

C. the use of colour and the emotional power

D. the war in his mind between peace and anger

B

Malls are popular places for Americans to go. Some people spend so much time at malls that they are called “mall rats（老鼠）”. Mall rats shop until they drop in the hundreds of stores.

People like malls for many reasons. They feel safe because malls have police stations. Parking is usually free, and the weather inside is always fine. The newest malls have beautiful rest places with waterfalls（瀑布）and large green trees.

The largest mall in the United States is the Mall of America in Minnesota. It covers 4.2 million square feet（英尺）. It has 350 stores, eight nightclubs, and a large park! There are parking spaces for 12,750 cars. About 750,000 people shop here every week.

The first indoor mall in the United States was built in 1965 in Edina Minnesota. People love doing all their shopping in one place. More malls are built around the country. Now malls are like town centers where people come to do many things. They shop, of course, they also eat in food courts（广场）that have food from all over the world. They see films at theaters. one people even get their exercise by doing the new sport of “mall walking”. Others go to malls to meet friends.

In some malls, people can see a doctor and even go to the church. In other words, people can do just about everything in malls. Now people can live in their favorite shopping center in fact.

71. Here “mall” means “__________”.

A. a large park

B. a big church

C. a square

D. a shopping center

72. Why do people like malls? ________.

A. Because they can plant green trees there

B. Because they enjoy the waterfalls there

C. Because they feel safe and comfortable there

D. Because they can do exercise there

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