音阶天津市高考英语阅读、完形填空(四月)冲刺自练(2)

2021年1月24日发(作者：赴)
2015
天津市高考英语阅读、完形填空（四月）冲刺自练（
2
）答案

阅读理解

Bill Javis took over our village’s news
-agency at a time of life when most of us only wanted to relax.
He
just
thought
he
would
like
something
but
not
too
much
to
do,
and
the
news-agency
was
ready-made. The business produced little enough for him, but Bill was a man who only wanted the
simplicity and order and regularity of the job. He had been a long-serving sailor, and all his life had
done everything by the clock.
Every
day
he
opened
his
shop
at
6:00
a.
m.
to
catch
the
early
trade;
the
papers
arrived
on
his
doorstep before that. Many of Bill’s customers were city workers, and the shop was convenient for
the station. Business was tailing off by 10 o’clock, so at eleven sharp Bill closed for lunch. It was
hard luck on anybody who wanted a paper or magazine in the afternoon, for most likely Bill would
be down on the river bank, fishing, and his neatest competitor was five kilometers away. Sometimes
in
the
afternoon-
,
the evening
paper
landed
on
the
doorway,
and
at 4
o’
c
lock
Bill
reopened
his
shop. The evening rush lasted till seven, and it was worthwhile.
He lived in a flat above the ship, alone. Except in the very bad weather, you always knew where to
find him in the afternoon, as I have said. Once, on a sunny afternoon, I walked home along the river
bank from a shopping trip to the village. By my watch it was three minutes past four, so I was aston-
ished to see Bill sitting there on his little chair with a line in the, water. He had no luck, I could, see,
but he was making no effort to move.
“What’s wrong, Bill?” I called out from the path.

For answer, he put a hand in his jacket and took out a big, golden object. For a moment I had no
idea what it could be, and then it suddenly went off with a noise like a fire engine. Stopping the bell,
Bill held the thing up and called back,
I had never known anyone carrying a brass alarm clock round with him before.
5. Bill Javis became a news-agent when ________.
A. he need the money.





B. he decided to take things easy
C. he was quite an old man



D. he gave up clock- repairing
6. Bill opened the shop so early in the day because ________.
A. he liked to do as much as possible before he went to work
B. the shop had to be open when the morning papers came
C. he was never sure of time
D. it was then that he did a lot of business
7. On that sunny afternoon, the writer was surprised when he saw Bill because ________.
A. he thought it was late for Bill to be still fishing
B. he thought Bill was ill, since he was not moving at all
C. Bill had not caught anything, and that seemed strange
D. Bill stayed in his flat
8. From the information given in the passage, who or what do you think was wrong?
A. The bell was; it must have gone off at the wrong time.
B. Bill was; he had dropped off to sleep.
C. The writer’s watch was fast.

D. Bill’s clock was wrong; it was old.

5. C
推断题。
at a time of life when most of us only wanted to relax
和
He had been a long-serving

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sailor
这两点说明他已上了年纪。

6. D
推断题。
第二段开头说他
6
点开门，
报纸在这之 前已送到，
而且还可以
catch the early trade
。

7.
A
推断题。
Bill
通常
4
点会重新开店 ，而那天作者的表已过
4
点，
Bill
还没有离开的意思，
所以他非 常惊讶。

8. C
细节题。
A
项中
go off
是爆发，产生很大声音；
B
项中
drop off to sleep
是不知不觉入睡；
文章中倒数第二段最后一句话
this is dead right
中
dead
是
“
非常，完全
”
的意思 ，可见，
Bill
的
clock
没错。




阅读理解


The Western has been the favorite type for American adventure story since the nineteenth century.
While
the
American
West
was
being
settled,
newspapers
and

novels
could
depend
on
stories of the frontier settlements and tell tales about living in the untamed wilderness to sell. The
public back East was eager to read about the West, even if the stories were more fiction than fact.
In 1902, Owen Wister published his novel The Virginian, which was one of the first novels to treat
the Western as a serious literary form; the novel still sold well and had inspired several movies and
a
television
series.
In 1905,
Bertha
H. Bower and
Zane
Grey
published
their
first
novels,
and
the
popular Western novels had continued to flourish from that day on, with current novels by Luke
Short, Max Br
and, and Louis L’ Amour carrying on the tradition.

The first Western movie appeared even earlier than these serious Western novels. Before the turn
of the century, an associate of Edison’s had filmed Cripple Creek Barroom Scene, a few seconds of
film showing the inside of a saloon, to help publicize the invention of the movie camera. In 1903 the
Edison’ company filmed the first
-length
—
The Great Train Robbery. The film lasts
less than fifteen minutes, but a story is told its entirety. In the movie, bandits (
强盗
) rob a train and
its passengers, killing the engineer, and find themselves tracked down by a posse. Audiences loved
the movie. Some theaters were actually opened for the single purpose of showing The Great Train
Robbery and only later realized that they could do equally well showing other movies. The film was
so
successful
that
other
companies,
and
finally
even
the
Edison
company
itself,
began
producing
copies and other versions of The Great Train Robbery. Ironically, in
very real
—
-Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma were all territories rather than states in 1903
—

The Great Train Robbery was filmed in New Jersey.



9. The purpose of this passage is to________.
A. discuss the making of the movie The Great Train Robbery
B. discuss the early Western novels
C. discuss the art of movie making
D. trace the development of the Western as an American adventure story tradition
10. We can conclude from this passage that________.
A. people lost interest in the West after 1903
B. Owen Wister was an ex-cowboy
C. New Jersey was still
D. films were fairly uncommon at the time The Great Train Robbery was made
11. The passage suggests that________.
A. Edison’s invention of the movie camera happened;by accident


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