初三英语选句子补全短文

1、精品文档根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出适当的选项补全短文。my uncle has a very beautiful umbrella. hes had it for years. as he is very careful with it, so it still looks as good as new. 1 he shook his head. then how did you get it? i asked. well, he answered, there s a strange true story about the umbrella. about ten years ago

2、, i was walking along a quiet london street one evening whenit suddenly rained.i had no raincoat or umbrella. 2 and the people in the streets were fewer and fewer.as i was on my way to a party, i was afraid to get wet. so i stood in a doorway and waited for the rain to stop. 3 what was worse, there

3、even wasnt a person around, and still it rained and rained. at last a young man came to the place where i was standing. 4 as i hoped he would allow me to walk to the next corner with him, where i could get a taxi,i stepped out of the dark doorway where i had been standing. 5 as i suddenly appeared b

4、efore him, the young man was so shocked that he dropped the umbrella. he ran away and disappeared into the darkness. i picked up the umbrella and continued my walk. i knew it would be hard in this big city to find the owner, so ive kept it ever since. a. gradually, it grew quite dark.b. he held a la

5、rge umbrella over his head.c. i asked him where he was going with that umbrella.d. no buses ran through the street and there were no taxis.e. i asked my uncle if he bought it or some one sent him as a gift.gloria is a famous hostess of a tv station. whenshe was 15, she happened to walk into a bookst

6、ore in her hometown and began looking at thebooks on the shelves. the man behindthe counter, john smith, asked if shed like a job. she needed to start saving for college, so she said yes.gloria worked after school and during summer vacations, and the job helped pay for her first year of college. dur

7、ing college she would do many other jobs: she served coffee in the student union （学生会）,was a hotel cleaner and even mademaps for the forest service. 1one day a womancame into the bookstore and asked gloria for books on cancer. the woman seemed anxious. gloria showed her practically everything they h

8、ad and found other books they could order. the woman left the store less worried, 2years later, as a television hostess, gloria heard about a child who was born with problems with his fingers and hand. his family could not afford an operation, and the boy lived in shame, hiding his hand in his pocke

9、t all the time.3 after the story was broadcast, some doctors called, offering to perform the operation for free.gloria visited the boy in the hospital after the operation. the first thing he did was to hold up his repaired hand and say, thank you. 4 at smiths bookstore, gloria always realized she wa

10、s working for the customers, not the store. 5 the tv station pays her, but she feels that she should work for the people who watch the programs, helping them understand the world better.a. gloria persuaded （ 说明）her boss to agree to let her do the story.b. what a sweet sense of satisfaction gloria fe

11、lt!c. and gloria has always remembered the pride （自豪）she felt in having helped hercustomer.（顾客）.d. today it s the same.e. but selling books was one of the most satisfying jobs.i was born in new york, but i grew up in san francisco. 1 if i was asked now where i want to live forever, i would say londo

12、n. but i will always be american.san francisco, like london, has many parks. 2 i didn t go to school. i only had three hours of formal education when i was five. i was sent to school but came home at noon on the first day. i said i didnt enjoy it and hadn ;t learned anything. 3 ,soi never went back.

13、my mother then taught meand my two sisters in the way of an english lady who had good education. we learned languages and reading more than sciences and math. sometimes she taught us herself, but we also had other teachers. they asked us to take lessons every day. about once a week we walked to gold

14、en gate park. while we were walking, my mother taught me to read music. 4 and i remember now how id like to have it. i couldntsay my r when i was small. my mother said if i could say anf well, i would have thetoy train. i practiced and practiced. then one morning i woke everybody up with myr”s. i go

15、t the toy train and 5 - but i work hard for them.a. my parents thought that school was unsuitable（不适合的）for meb. every day my sisters and i were taken to play in the parks as children.c. one day i noticed a little toy train in the window of a shop.d. i began to live in london 25 years ago.e. i usuall

16、y get the things i want in life.四1 there are lending libraries where people, old and young, can borrow books if they are members. the largest library in singapore is the national library at stamford road.2 most of them are english books although there are also some chinese and malay books for chines

17、e and malay readers.3 to be a member you have to pay a certain fee. after you have paid the fee, you are given a card and you can use this card to borrow books for three weeks at a time.students do not need to pay membership fee. 4 for those who livefar away thereare extension libraries at toa payoh

18、, queenstown and other places which also have books for readers to borrow.reading is a good habit. 5 .a. more than thousands of books can be found.b. you can borrow books from the library if you are a member.c. all they need is a letter from their school principals and they can become members of the

19、 library.d. not all people can afford to buy expensive books.e it can increase our knowledge and improve our language.五are you the only child in the family? 1 parents are the closed people to youin the world. 2 they feel they re not as close to their parents as before. they even dont think their par

20、ents are fair(公平的)to them.3 some say their parents dont allow them to play computer games when otherclassmates are playing that. other say when they re making phones to friends, their parents like ask if they are speaking to a boy or a girl. 4 some students even decide to leave home because they re

21、afraid to tell their parents when they have done something wrong, especially when they do badly in exams. then they think running away is the best choice. 5problems are parts of life. here are some suggestions for you to solve your problems.1) .find a good chance to talk with your parents. dont be a

22、fraid to tell them yourfeeling.2) .get help from others like good friends or teachers.3) .keep a diary to help you understand more about yourself and your feelings.4) .show your parents youre growing up, then they ll feel youre no longer a small child. if you follow the advice, you ll have a happy l

23、ife and never think of running away. a. some students complain that their parents often say a lot to them, but never listen to them.b. but a lot of middle school students have a problem.c. these make them very unhappy.d. but they don t know running away may bring them more problems.e. if so, you are

24、 the most important in your family.六there are two days we shouldnt worry about in our life. one is yesterday, 1 . yesterday is gone forever. 2 . so it is useless to worry about it.wecannot control tomorrow. 3 , maybe something good or bad. no matter tomorrow is sunny or cloudy, the sun will rise as

25、usual.so we have only one day left. what is it? 4 . today is the most important for everyone. it is the only day for us to fight for ourselves. we can control it. we can choose what to do and what not to do. we can choose how to do it. treasure today, 5 .a. we cannot change what you said or what you

26、 did yesterdayb. we dont know what will happen next dayc. yes, it is todayd. because it is our wealth in our hande. and the other one is tomorrow七basketball is a young game. in the year of 1891, 1 . the weather was bad. they couldn t play outside. so they were unhappy. sometimes they even got into f

27、ights.finally, 2dr. naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. 3 . it was played between two teams. in order to make a score, the ball had to be thrown into a basket ten feet above the floor on the wall.at first, 4 . as he couldnt find boxes of the right size, 5 . that is howt

28、he game got its name basketball. the history of this game is over 100 years.a. a famous college was having some trouble with its boy studentsb. it was a fast, exciting game with much moving and passing of the ballc. dr. naismith had planned to have the ball thrown into a box.d. he had to use fruit b

29、asket instead.e. some teachers asked dr. naismith to invent a game so that the students might have something to play in doors.八mrs. daives was a teacher in india. one summer she got a job as a teacher in an international school. 1 after she discussed with her husband, they decided to move to landon.

30、 2 he didnt want to leave his friends. he said that he would rather live withhis classmate, mike. his parents thought that he would change his mind later. soon it was august. mr. and mrs. daives were busy packing. 3when the day came for them to leave india, mr. and mrs. daives found their son lost.t

31、hey were anxious and they called mike, but he didnt know where matt was, either. 4 he walked past a park. he remembered that he and his father often played tennis in the park. he walked past a supermarket. it reminded him of shopping with his mother. he realized that those things would be meaningles

32、s（毫无意义的 ）without his family. 5 he toldthem he was looking forward to living in london with them and making new friends there.a. matt quickly ran home to say sorry to his parents.b. but the school was in london.c. in fact, at that time matt was walking alone on the street.d. however, matt refused to

33、go with his parents.e. the boy felt surprised and upset.九in almost every big university in the usa, football is a favorite sport. american football is not like soccer. players sometimes kick the ball, but they also throw the ball and run with it. 1 theyhave four chances to move the ball ten yards. t

34、hey can carryit or throw it. 2 this is called a touch-down.it is difficult to move the ball. eleven men in the team try to stop the man who has the ball. if the man does not move the ball ten yards, his team kicks the ball to the other team.3 thousands of people come to watch. they all yell（为力口油）for

35、 their favorite team. young men and women called cheerleaders（拉拉队员 ）come on the field to help the peopleyell more. 4every team plays ten or eleven games each season which begins in september and ends in november. 5 the best teams play again on january 1, the first day of the new year. many people go to see