民营化初中英语8年级星级阅读训练 Test 30

2021年1月22日发(作者：eider)

Test 30
A
Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each word can only be used
once (
将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次
)
：

A. ride


B. in service

C. replaced


D. operated

E. part
Have you ever seen pictures of trolley cars(
有轨电车
)
？

For some reasons, they always seem
old-fashioned. Trolley cars once were a part of many cities. They could go quite fast, too. One trolley,

still in use near Philadelphia Pennsylvania, can_____1____ at almost 100 miles an hour.
What happened to trolleys? Many people felt that they got in the way cars and buses, so trolleys
were ______2______in many areas. Only a few remain ________3_______.
Today, however, some people want to bring them back. In San Diego, California, a trolley
already runs from that city all the way to Mexico. Perhaps we’ll soon be able to _____4_______trolleys
elsewhere, too.

A. raised

B. partner


C. search

D. far away from

E. name
Can you imagine having a comet named after you? All you have to do is ____5_____the skies and
be the first to discover one of these small, starlike bodies with a fiery tail. Carolyn Shoemaker did just that.
After Shoemaker grew up, she became a pilot and raised a family. When her children were grown ,
she began working with her husband, astronomer Eugene Shoemaker. In 1993, Carlyon, Eugene, and
their _____6_____David Levy set up a telescope on a mountaintop_________ city lights. They took
photographs with the telegraphs with the telescope. Later, while looking at the photographs in the lab,
Carolyn discovered their comet. They named the comet Shoemaker- Levy9(SL9).
By 1996,Shoemaker had discovered 32 comets, all of which bear her__________.


B
Choose the best answer (
根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案
):
Geoffrey Payne talks for the first time about the night his wife was killed. The judge thought it was
he who killed his wife.. Now he wrote to a magazine from the prison (
监狱
) about what happened on the
night of 13 October 1999.
I had to stay late at the hospital that night to do an operation. I finally left at about 11 p.m.
I drove home slowly because the weather was terrible
—
the wind was blowing and it was raining
heavily. I was turning into our road when a man suddenly ran in front of my car. I almost hit him but I
stopped just in time. I was frightened and the man looked frightened too. I got out of the car but he ran
away before I could ask if he was all right. It was very strange.
When I got home, the lights were on but it was very quiet. I called to my wife but there was no
answer. Then I remembered that she was out at a concert.
I was still very upset about what happened on the road, so I made myself a drink. Then I went
upstairs to have a bath. I saw that the window in the bedroom was open. This was strange because my
wife
always
locked
the
doors
and
windows
before
she
went
out.
She
was
afraid
of
burglars
(
夜
盗
者
).When I went to close it, I found Ellen. She was lying on the floor. There was blood everywhere. I
rushed over
and felt for
her pulse
but
she
was dead.I
sat on the floor
beside
her
body
and
was too
frightened to do anything.
The next thing I knew, the sky was getting light.
I can’t remember a thing about that night.
In the
morning I phoned the police. They arrived about half an hour after I phoned them. But it seemed like
hours. During that time I tried hard to remember anything I could about the night before.
I couldn’t stop
thinking about the man in the road. What was he doing at that time of night in our quiet neighbourhood?
Why did he look so frightened? Why did he run away?
1. Geoffrey Payne was a ______.
A. doctor





B. policeman






C. judge







D. taxi driver
2.______ while Payne was turning into his road that night.
A. A man suddenly ran in front of his car

B. His wife called him from the concert hall
C. A man stopped him and asked him the way
D.
A man hit Payne’s car with a big stone and ran away

3. When Payne got home, he found ______.
A.

Ellen waiting for him

















B. the bedroom window closed
C. Ellen lying on the floor, blood all over




D. a burglar in his house
4. After he found Ellen dead, Payne ______.
A. called the police at once
B. called out for help
C. tried to find out who killed his wife
D.
sat beside his wife’s body without knowing what to do

5 . Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A.

Payne called the police the next morning.
B.

Payne could remember clearly what had happened.
C.
The policemen arrived thirty minutes after Payne’s call.

D.

Payne wondered what the man was doing in his neighbourhood that night.
6. In this passage Payne tried to ___________.
A. say something about his family.
B. show he was very sorry for his wife’s death.

C. tell why his wife was killed that night.
D. make people believe the man in the road probably killed his wife.

C
Choose
the
words
or
expressions
and
complete
the
passage
(
选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短
文
):
Once a group of tourists who were staying at a hotel in Birmingham were having dinner in the restaurant..
Fish was brought in and while they were eating it, some of them told ____1_____stories about finding pearls
and other valuable things inside fish.

An old gentleman, who up to now had listened ________to their conversation, at last said:
“
I
’
ve heard all your stories, now I
’ll tell you one
. When I was a young man I was working in a large
importing factory in New York, and, as is usual with young persons, I fell in love with a pretty young girl. Very
soon we were engaged
（订婚）
. About two months before our marriage was to __________, I was suddenly


sent to Birmingham on a very important business. I left my sweetheart, intending
to write to her. ”

“

I was obliged to stay in Birmingham longer than I had expected . At last my work was done and I
could leave Birmingham. But just before I left for home, I bought a beautiful and very________diamond


ring, intending
to give it to my sweetheart. ”

“
On my way to New York, I was looking through the morning newspaper, which had been brought on
board by the pilot. Suddenly, I saw an announcement of my sw
eetheart’s marriage
with another. This made me