2012-2013初三英语能力训练(六)

2012-2013初三英语能力训练（六）2012.11.22

一、阅读理解

Have you ever heard an echo of your voice?

An echo is a reflected(反射)sound. Stand in a very large, empty hall with nothing on the walls. Then shout. The sounds you make will hit the walls and come back to you. The walls reflect the sounds. These reflected sounds are called “echoes”.

We can use reflected sound to make sound travel farther. Hold a watch about fifty centimeters from your ear. You cannot hear it. The sound of the watch travels a short way in all does not travel as far as your ear. You can make it travel to your ear by using a roll of cardboard(纸板筒).

Make the roll of cardboard about fifty centimeters long. Put one end over your ear and hold the watch at the other. Now you can hear the watch because the sound has not gone in all is reflected down the roll to your ear.

A megaphone(喇叭筒)works in the same way. It makes sound travel reflects the sound into a beam which can travel a long way. In the ship, the sailor uses the megaphone to make his voice travel. Without the megaphone, his voice cannot travel far.

We use reflected sound in many ways. We use it to measure the depth of the sea, for example. Among the animals, bat(蝙蝠) and whales use reflected sound to tell them where they are and what things are near them.

( ) 1. What is called “echo”?

A. Very loud voices.

B. Very loud voices that are made by man.

C. Very loud voices that are made by animals.

D. The sound that is made by man or animals comes back from some place. ( ) 2. We can hear our echoes if we __________.

A. shout in a small room

B. shout in a large house full of things

C. shout in narrow valleys(山谷)

D. shout in the open air

( ) 3. Which is the right order of hearing our echo in a very large, empty hall?

a. We hear the reflected sound

b. The sound returns to us

c. The sound hits the walls

d. We make a sound

A. c. b, a, d

B. c, a, b, d

C. d, c, b, a

D. d, b, c, a ( ) 4. From the text we learn that _________.

A. reflected sound is useful only to blind people

B .people haven‟t made use of reflected sound yet

C. Bats use reflected sound to fly and get food

D.Whales don‟t use reflected sound as they live in the sea

( ) 5. If you haven‟t got a megaphone, _____ will help you to make your voice travel farther.

A. a long piece of wood

B. a roll of cardboard

C. a thin thread

D. a long piece of silk

二、完形填空

Success means different things for __1__ people. Some may connect it __2__ fame, some with wealth and still some with achievements. __3__ me, it means that one‟s dreams __4__ true.

Whatever your dreams are, you have a goal there and then __5__ all your attention on it. Dreams bring you hope and happiness. In the process of struggling for it, you cry, sweat, complain or even curse(诅咒), but the joy of harvesting makes you __6__ all the pains and troubles you have __7__ through. So an old proverb says that the sweetest fruit is one that has undergone(经历) the bitterest ordeal(考验).

There are several keys to success. First, your goal must be __8__. If you set your goal too high, changes are that you will never reach it. Next, you have to make a __9__ of doing it. You can take some steps to realize it. Since the process is quite tough, you need to be wise, patient and persevering(有毅力). Even if you meet with some difficulties, you can always tell yourself that there is nothing impossible. With this will and determination, __10__ is sure to wait for you at the end of the tunnel! ( ) 1. A. all B. some C. same D. different

( ) 2. A. on B. with C. as D. to be

( ) 3. A. To B. With C. For D. Of

( ) 4. A. come B. be C. become D. are

( ) 5. A. focus B. pay C. take D. have

( ) 6. A. to forget B. forget C. remember D. to remember

( ) 7. A. gone B. come C. taken D. had

( ) 8. A. real B. wise C. medium D. practical

( ) 9. A. way B. plan C. map D. decision

( ) 10.A. failure B. success C. future D. life

三、首字母填空

Nearly 2,000 years ago, during the Han Dynasty, there was a person called Ying Chen. One day, he invited Du Xuan to his house and treated him with wine. On the wall of the room h________ a bow(弓). Its shadow appeared in Du Xuan‟s cup. Du Xuan took the shadow for a snake. He was f_______ but he didn‟t refuse out of politeness. He drank the wine w________ his eyes closed.

When he was back at home he felt so sick that he could h _______ eat and drink any more. He sent for the doctor and took some m_________, but nothing could cure him. W________ Ying Chen went to ask Du Xuan how he got so seriously ill, Du told him about the snake in the wine. Chen returned home, thought hard, b________ he could not find an answer. S_______ the bow on the wall caught his eyes. “That‟s it!”he shouted. He immediately sent for Du Xuan. He seated him where he sat before and offered him a cup of win. Du Xuan saw the snake-like shadow again. Ying Chen said, pointing at the shadow,”The …snake‟ in the cup is n_______ but a shadow of the bow on the wall!” Now that Du Xuan knew w_______ it was, he felt much easier. And strange enough, his illness disappeared the next moment.

This story turned out to be the idiom “Bei Gong She Ying”.

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