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上学期九年级英语组合训练（
11
）
【完型填空】
In
a history class, our teacher, Mrs. Bartlett asked
us to make a poster (
海报
) in
groups
about the culture that we were
studying. She told us to write the names of three
friends we wanted
in one group and she
would think about our __1___.
The next day, I was told to be in a
group I would __2__ want ---the boy who was too
weak
in English, and the two girls who
wore strange clothes. Oh, how I wanted to be with
my __3__!
With tears in my eyes, I
walked up to Mrs. Bartlett. She __4__ me and
seemed to know
what I was there for. I
told her I should be in the “good” group. She
gently (
轻轻地
) __5___ a
hand on my shoulder
(
肩膀
). “I know what you want,
Karma,” she said, “but your group needs
you.
I
need
you
to
help
them.
Only
you
can
help
them
.”
I
was
__6__
and
moved.
Her
words
encouraged me.
“Will you help them?” she asked. “Yes,”
I replied. Then I __7__ walked over to my group. I
sat
down and we started. Each of us did
a part according to our interests. Halfway through
the week, I
felt __8_
_
enjoying our group. We did a good job together. My
group members weren’t thought to
be
good just because no one cared enough about them
__9__ Mrs. Bartlett.
At last, our group got an
A. But I think we should hand the A back to Mrs.
Bartlett. She was
the one who should
truly ___10___ it. Mrs. Bartlett brought out the
potential (
潜能
) in four of
her
students.
1. A. classes
B. books
C. choices
D. clothes
2. A.
often
B.
never
C.
always
D. sometimes
3. A. boys
B. girls
C. friends
D. teachers
4.
A. laughed at
B. looked at
C. lived with
D.
agreed with
5. A. placed
B. pushed
C. washed
D. pulled
6. A.
useful
B.
surprised
C. thirsty
D. asleep
7. A. hardly
B. deeply
C. lazily
D. bravely
8. A.
myself
B.
herself
C.
yourself
D. himself
9. A.
around
B. with
C. for
D.
except
10. A. receive
B. start
C. give
D. throw
【阅读理解】
Hold your
head up high
I was 15 months
old
，
a happy and carefree
kid
，
until the day I
fell
．
It was a bad
fall
．
I landed
on
a piece of glass that cut my eye
badly
．
From then
on
，
my injured
，
sightless
，
cloudy
gray eye
lived on with
me
．
Sometimes
people asked me embarrassing(
使人难堪的
)questions
．
Whenever
kids played
games
．
I was the
“
monster
”
．
I was always imagining that everyone
looked down on(
瞧不起
)me
．
Yet mum would say to
me
，
“
Hold your
head up high and face the
world
．
”
I began to
depend on
that
saying
．
As
a child
，
I thought mum
meant
，
“
Be
careful
，
or you will fall
down or bump into something
because you
are not
looking
．
”
As a
teenager
，
I usually looked
down to hide my shame
．
But I
found
that when I held my head up
high
，
people liked
me
．
In high school
I even became the class
president
．
but on the inside
I still felt like a
monster
．
All I
really wanted was to look like everyone
else
．
When things got really
bad
，
I would
cry
to my mum and she would look at me with loving
eyes and
say
，
“
Hold your
head up high and
face the
world
．
Let them see the
beauty that is inside instead of your appearance(<
/p>
外貌
)
．
”
My mum’s love was the
sunshine that made me
bright
．
I had faced hard
times
，
and learned
not only to be
confident(
自信的
)but also to
have deep compassion(
同情
)for
others
．
“Hold your head up high”has
be
en heard many times in my
home
．
I say it to my
children
．
The gift
my mum gave me will live on
．
1
．
The
world
“
carefree
”
in the first line probably means
“
________
”
in
Chinese
．
A
．无忧无虑的
B
．无拘无束的
C
．小心翼翼的
D
．与众不同的
2
．
Why did the
writer imagine that everyone looked down on her?
A
．
She felt bad
about her appearance
．
B
．
She found it
hard to act as a monster
．
C
．
Kids refused to
play games with her
．
D
．
People always
asked her embarrassing
questions
．
3
．
Why did the
writer's mum say
“
Hold your
head up
high”to
her?
A
．
To tell her to
be careful
．
B
．
To help her
hide the shame
．
C
．
To stop her
from getting hurt
．
D
．
T0 make her
more confident
．
4
．
From the
story
，
we can know
that_______
．
A
．
the writer
understood the saying very well as a child
B
．
the writer felt
like everyone else in high
school
．
C
．
the writer is
living with a warm and brave heart now
D
．
the writer has
deep compassion for others all her life
5
．
The
passage is mainly
about________
．
A
．
what the writer
experienced when she was 15
B
．
what the writer
did to show thanks for mum
’
s
girl
C
．
how
the writer changed herself with
mum
’
s love
D
．
how the writer
became confident with her great efforts
【阅读表达】
A
mother planted many kinds of vegetables in her
garden
．
One morning she said
to her
daughter
．
“
Betty
，
come
here
．
Look at all these
little yellow marks on the leaves of the
cabbages
．
They are
eggs of a kind of
insects
．
They are very
beautiful but very bad for
cabbages
．
This
afternoon you must find all the eggs on the leaves
and kill them
．
In this
way
，
you
will help
us have better greener and bigger
cabbages
．
Betty didn’t think she
should do it at once and in the
end she
forgot all about it
．
Her
mother was
ill for a few days and
couldn
’
t work in her
garden
．
When she was
well
，
she took Betty to the