Unit 5 A story by MarkTwain 同步练习（含答案）

九年级英语寒假班（教师版）


1. 9B U5 基础预习


Presentation

9B Unit 5 A story by Mark Twain
Fill in the blanks with proper words. The first letter is given.
Jenny wanted to encourage students to read more famous books, and so she decided to include in the school newspaper this funny story from a book called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
Tom Sawyer Paints the Fence
Saturday morning came and everything was bright and fresh. Every boy in town was happy, e 1 Tom Sawyer.
Tom stood on the sidewalk with a bucket of white paint and a brush with a long handle in his hands. He looked at the fence that his aunt had told him to paint, and felt very d 2 . It was thirty yards long and three yards high! He dipped his brush in the paint and painted a corner of the fence. Then he
stood back and looked at it. The section he had painted was so small, and the u 3 section was so huge! He sat down under a tree to have a rest.
He began to think of the games which he had planned for this day. Soon the boys who were free would come along and make fun of him. But just then, he had a wonderful idea. He picked up his brush and went b 4 to work.
Ben Rogers came along the road, singing happily and carrying an apple. He stopped and looked at Tom. Tom went on painting and ignored Ben.
“I'm going swimming,” said Ben. “Do you want to go swimming, Tom? But I g 5 you can't.
You have to stay and work, don't you?”
Tom went on painting. “Work?” he said. “This isn't work. I'm enjoying myself. Does a boy get a chance to paint a fence like this every day?”
Ben thought about this. Tom went on painting, carefully. Sometimes he stopped and stood back to look at the fence, and then added a bit more paint in just the right place. Ben was watching every move. He was getting more and more interested.
After a while he said, “Tom, will you let me do some painting?”




Tom thought about it, and said, “No, Ben, I can't. You see, Aunt Polly wants it to be done properly. I'm the o 6 one who can do it right.
“Oh, please, Tom,” begged Ben. “I can do it. I'll be really careful. Just let me try. I'll give you half of my apple. I'll give you all of it!”
“Well, all right, Ben,” said Tom. “But you must be careful.”
He gave Ben his brush with w 7 on his face but joy in his heart. He sat down a 8 under the tree, and started to eat the apple that Ben had given him.
All day, boys came to make fun, but they ended up staying to paint. When Ben got tired, Billy Fisher was waiting. He gave Tom a kite for a chance to paint. Then Johnny Miller offered him twelve marbles, and so on.
By late afternoon Tom had gained all sorts of toys, and the fence had gained three coats of paint. Later Aunt Polly came to look at Tom's work. She was so pleased when she saw the painted fence that she gave Tom a large cake!

【答案】1. except 2. depressed 3. unpainted 4. back 5. guess 6. only 7. worry 8. again

（1）9B U5 词性转换整理


序号 单词 词性 释义
1 include v. 使成为……的一部分
including prep. 包含，包括


2 paint v. 绘画；上色
painted adj. 上色的
unpainted adj. 未上色的
painting n. 油画；绘画


3 proper adj. 正确的；适当的
improper adj. 不正确的；不恰当的
properly adv. 正确地；适当地


4 true adj. 真的；正确的
truly adv. 真正地；正确地；非常
truth n. 真相；真理


5 worry n. 担心
worry v. 为……而担心
worried adj. 担心的


6 fool v. 欺骗；愚弄
foolish adj. 愚蠢的，傻乎乎的


7 think v. 认为；思索 (p.t. thought)
thought n. 想法

(1) 9B U5 知识点整理（重点词组）
1. encourage sb. to do sth. 鼓励某人做某事
2. decide to do sth. 决定做某事
3. make a decision=make up one’s mind 决定
4. tell sb. to do sth. (tell sb. not to do sth.) 告诉某人做某事
5. feel depressed 觉得沮丧
6. have a rest 休息
7. think of 想起
think about 考虑（做某事的可能性）
think over 仔细考虑
8. come along 到达；出现
9. come upmake fun of 走到跟前嘲弄；拿。。。开玩笑
（= laugh at / make jokes about / play a trick on）
10. just then 那时；正当那时
11. pick up 捡起
12. go on doing=continue doing 继续做某事
13. think about 考虑
14. add a bit more paint 再一点油漆
15. get more and more interested 变得越来越有兴趣
16. after a while 过了一会
17. worry about=be worried about 为。。。。担忧；
18. offer sb sth. 提供某人某物
19. all sorts of toys = all kinds of toys 各种玩具
20. trick….. into doing sth. 诱使。。。。。做某事
21. tell the truth 讲实话
22. no problem 没问题
23. have a rest （= have a break） 休息一下
24. except 除了（不包括）
except for 除了（后面跟的词与前面提到的不是同一类别）
except that 除了（后接从句）
besides 除了（包括）



I. Choose the best answer.
1. The car was too big to fit into our garage.（★ ）
A. /?/ B. /ɑ/ C. /e/ D. /?/
2. We sat down to a wonderful meal prepared by my uncle. （★ ）
A. /e?/ B. /i?/ C. /e/ D. /i:? /
3. Jack is unusual boy. He has travelled to sixteen countries. （★ ）
A. the B. a C. an D. /
4. Kitty, a friend of , will come and join in the game. （★ ）
A. mine B. me C. I D. myself
5. He knows little English but he has English friends. （★ ）
A. a little B. few C. a few D. little
6. Sydney was home to 4.4 people more than ten years ago. （★ ）
A. million of B. millions of C. million D. millions



7. Wei Fang is better
English than any other student in her class. （★ ）



A. in B. at C. for D. of



8. She doesn't speak English
her friends, but her written work is excellent. （★★ ）



A. as well as B. so often as C. so much as D. as good as
9. The film is than that one （★★ ）
A. exciting B. much exciting
C. more exciting D. much more excited
10. interesting work this is! （★★ ）
A. What an B. What C. How D. How an
11. I want to know he is going to the cinema with us. （★★ ）
A. if B. what C. where D. who
12. The weather in China is different from .（★★ ）
A. in America B. that in America
C. America D. one in America
13. It seems to rain. You’d better the windows open when you leave the house. （★ ）
A. not leave B. leave C. not to leave D. to leave
14. —He’s seldom late for school, ? （★★ ）

—No, he is used to going to school early.
A. isn’t he B. has he C. hasn’t he D. is he
15. —Why do you turn down the radio? （★★ ）
—I’m waking the baby.
A. afraid of B. busy with C. careful for D. willing to
16. Could you tell me ? （★★ ）
A. why didn’t you do it B. what you like best
C. where was the exhibition D. when do you have sports
17. They flowers when I got to the garden. （★★ ）
A. watered B. were watering C. water D. are watering
18. the temperature is, water turns into steam. （★★ ）
A. The high; the fast B. Higher; faster
C. The high; the faster D. The higher; the faster
19. I bought two pairs of shoes and they me two hundred dollars. （★★ ）
A. took B. paid C. spent D. cost
20. —It’s eight o’clock now. I must go.
—It’s raining heavily outside. Don’t leave it stops. （★★ ）
A. since B. until C. when D. because
21. —Do you mind closing the window? （★★ ）
— . I’m a little bid cold, too.
A. Never mind B. You are welcome
C. Not really, you can do it D. Certainly not
【答案】1. A 2. A 3.C 4. A 5. C 6. C 7. B 8. A 9. C 10. B 11.A 12.B 13.A 14. D
15. A 16. B 17. B 18. D 19. D 20. B 21.D


II. Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each word or phrase 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）:（共 8 分）



Salmon(大马哈鱼) is a very strange fish. It is born in a river. But it takes the young salmon 2 years to swim down the rivers 1 the Pacific Ocean. For another 2 years it lives in the sea and become full grown. Then it returns to the river where it was born.

A grown-up salmon weighs about 25 pounds and is nearly three feet long. The female salmon will not
2 the eggs in the Pacific Ocean. When it is almost time to lay them, both male and female salmon begin a great 3 . Each salmon is heading for the river where it was born. A salmon may be a thousand miles away from where its life began, but it 4 return to that place.



As salmons swim, large fish attack them. The salmons are food for some other fish. Some are caught by fishermen. The salmons that are left keep 5 .
After they enter the rivers, they head upstream. If rocks and waterfalls are in their way, the salmons leap over them. A salmon can leap up a fall as 6 as ten feet. It leaps by swimming at full speed under water, then rising to the surface. Almost the whole body of a salmon is made of muscle. It is these power muscles that make the salmon fit for fast swimming, turning 7 and leaping high out of the water.
Some salmons reach their river in summer, 8 in the early autumn. They have come hundreds, even thousands of miles and it has taken them weeks and months.
【难度】★
【答案】 1. D 2. E 3. C 4. A 5. C 6. A 7. D 8. B


III. Complete the sentences with the given verbs in their proper forms.
1. To tell you the , I failed the history exam. (true)
2. I live on the floor of the building. (twelve)
3. Judy was happy to find that her little son could sing an English song all by . (he)
4. It is of you to waste so much time in watching TV. (fool)
5. Students are taught to use common software, word, excel and wed design.(include)
6. This large oil of Queen Victoria is very valuable. (paint)
7. The naughty boy should be taught to behave . (proper)
8. Not all parents understand their children. (true)
9. Don’t about him, he can handle it. (worried)
10. The wheelchair gives him the to go out on his own. (free)
【难度】★
【答案】1. truth 2. twelfth 3. himself 4. foolish 5. including
6. painting 7. properly 8. truly 9.worry 10.freedom

IV. Rewrite the sentences as required.
1. Tom has his breakfast at 7:00 a. m. (改为否定句)
Tom his breakfast at 7:00 a.m.
2. It is about 5 minutes’ walk from my home to school. (对划线部分提问)
is it from your home to school?
3. The child is so weak that he can’t lift the box. (保持句意基本不变) The child isn’t to lift the box.
4. The waste water pollutes the rivers. (改为被动语态) The rivers by the waste water.
5. What will the weather be like? Tom asked. (改为复合句) Tom asked the weather be like.
6. If you work hard, you will do well in physics. (保持句意基本不变)
, and you will do well in physics.
7. Susan said, “I prefer tea to coffee”. (改为宾语从句) Susan said that tea to coffee.
8. It is wrong to make fun of the disabled.（保持句意基本不变） It is wrong to the disabled.
9. The, that, can, not, difficult, out, math, work, problem, is, so, I, it. (连词成句)
.
【难度】★
【答案】
1. doesn’t have 2. How far 3. strong enough 4. are polluted 5. what would
6. Work hard 7. she preferred 8. laugh at
9. The math problem is so difficult that I can not work it out.


I. Choose the best answer.
1. The students have a 10-minute break between two classes. Which of the following is correct for the underlined word in the sentence? （★ ）


2. Which of the following underlined parts is different in pronunciation from others? （★ ）

A. When and where were you born?
B. Injury problems could shorten his career.
C. I'm looking forward to the winter holidays.
D. I'd like to drive around the world.
3. I think Tony doesn't play _ guitar as well as his cousin. （★ ）
A. / B. the C. an D. a
4. This toy bear be Jane's. She's the only kid at the picnic. （★ ）
A. must B. can C. need D. have to
5. of the answers is correct. Have try, please, Eddie. （★ ）
A. All...another B. Both...other C. Neither...another D. Either...other
6. - People are angry that Lunar New Year's Eve is not included in national holidays.
- Because the eve of the Spring Festival is actually time for family reunions. （★ ）
A. the more important B. the most important
C. most important D. a most important
7. The team is buying flowers and balloons to decorate the gym the coming Christmas. （★ ）
A. at B. with C. in D. for
8. Jenny needs to spend a week in the hospital because of the leg injury, she? （★ ）

A. needs B. needn't C. didn't D. doesn't
It was music that I lost myself in it.A. such a beautiful （★★ ） B. so beautiful a
C. so beautiful D. such beautiful
10. It's not easy for trail walkers to finish walking a trail within 48 hours. （★★ ）
A. 100-kilometer B. 100-kilometers
C. 100 kilometers D. 100 kilometers'
11. She used to with her parents, but now she is used to with her classmates at school.
（★★ ）
A. living.. .living B. live.. .live C. live.. .living D. living... live
12. Many fantastic photos during my last visit to Beijing. （★ ★ ）
A. took B. are taken C. were taken D. will be taken
13. The new regulation states ( 说 明 ) that passengers should not eat or drink on subway cars, it doesn't seem to work. （★ ）
A. or B. as C. but D. though
14. You a senior high school student in several months. Do you think it's exciting? （★ ）

A. become B. will become
C. became D. have become
15. - Would you like to play badminton with me tonight?
-I don't feel like it. I would rather at home and watch TV. （★ ）
A. stay B. to stay C. staying D. stayed
16. About of the architects in the company were born in the .（★★ ）
A. two-thirds... 1970 B. two-thirds... 1970s
C. two-third... 1970 D. second-third... 1970s
17. I don't know when Jim . I'll meet him at the airport when he .（★★ ）
A. will return... return B. returns... will return
C. returned... returned D. will return... returns
18. - Excuse me, could you tell me ?（★★ ）
- There's an e-shop on the third floor. You can make it there.
A. where can I have my MP4 repaired
B. where I can have my MP4 repaired
C. how can I go to the e-shop
D. if there was an e-shop nearby
19. -I am going to spend my summer holiday in Hainan Island. （★★ ）
- How lucky you are! And don't forget to e-mail me.
A. Congratulations! B. Have a wonderful time!
C. Come on! D. Good-bye!
20. - My deskmate was hit by a motorcycle on the way. He was taken to the hospital. （★★ ）
- How did it happen?
A. Don't mention it. B. It doesn't matter.
C. I'm sorry to hear that. D. It sounds quite strange.
【答案】 1. C 2. D 3. B 4. A 5. C 6. B 7. D 8. D 9. D 10. A 11. C 12. C 13. C
14. B 15. A 16. B 17. D 18. B 19. B 20. C


II. Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each word or phrase 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）:（共 8 分）
Nowadays the name of Jeremy Lin ( 林 书 豪 ) is on every person’s lips. He graduated from Harvard

University and he is the 1 Chinese-American NBA player. But when you watch him on the court, there is no doubt that he belongs there. He is a really great player. Lin's enjoyment of basketball 2 began in Taiwan, where his father started watching it. Lin's father moved to U.S., and passed on this love of basketball to his son. The young Lin spent much of his youth playing basketball for fun, 3 from his father and older brother. But his family taught him about more than basketball. After games, his parents would discuss not only his score but also his work with other players in the game. This taught Lin that character was more important than playing well. In high school, Lin 4 playing in the NBA but did not really expect to do so.
When he entered college, he was offered a place on its college basketball team. During Lin's time at Harvard, his basketball career began to take off. He scored 1,482 points, making him one of the highest scorers. When he first graduated, He played well and became a 5 of the Golden State Warriors.
At first，playing in professional games filled Lin with excitement. He met players who he had been
watching on TV for years. He had the chance to ride a 6 plane, and gave interviews before thousands of people. But slowly, the excitement wore off (逐渐消失) and was replaced by anxiety. Lin was afraid of playing 7 . He always compared himself to other players and gave himself no time to rest up. For the first time in his life, he no longer enjoyed playing basketball.
After a few very difficult months, he realized that much of his stress (精神压力) came from
self-centered 8 like wanting to be famous. He changed his idea. He sees basketball as a way of being happy. Now Lin tries to play each game with joy.
【难度】★
【答案】 1. E 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. D 6. A 7. E 8. B


III. Complete the sentences with the given verbs in their proper forms
1. Being too shy is one of the biggest to stop you from winning the game.(enemy)
2. I left my dictionary at home. Luckily Wendy lent to me.(she)
3. My sister is on the left and I’m the one on the right.(ten)
4. This kind of furniture was sold out. (paint)
5. The use of medicine can cause death. (proper)
6. Don't be by his appearance (外貌). (fool)
7. Everything I had heard about it was . (truth)
8. My main was not the medical charge but her health. (worry)




9. He pushed the unhappy from his mind. (think)
10. Mr. Jones didn’t know was very precious until he was behind bars.(free)
【难度】★
【答案】1. enemies 2. hers 3. tenth 4. unpainted 5. improper
6. fooled 7. true 8. worry 9. thought 10.freedom


IV. Rewrite the sentences as required.
1. Jack did lots of housework with his mother yesterday (改为否定句)
Jack lots of housework with his mother yesterday.
2. Kitty was very excited to open her birthday presents. (改为感叹句)
Kitty was to open her birthday presents!
3. Some kids rarely know how to control themselves in front of a computer, (改为反义疑问句)
Some kids rarely know how to control themselves in front of a computer, ?
4. The exchange students will get to New York in about two weeks. （对划线部分提问）
will the exchange students get to New York?
5. The singer not only writes his own song but also plays the guitar. (保持句意不变) The singer writes his own songs and plays the guitar .
6. The government has built many parking places for car owners this year. (改为被动语态)
Many parking places for car owners built by the government this year.
7. “Will you take part in the sports meeting this year, Jimmy?” Susan asked. (改为宾语从句) Susan asked Jimmy he take part in the sports meeting this year.
8. My friend Peter looked after my pet dog while I was on holiday last month. (保持句意不变) My friend Peter my pet dog while I was on holiday last month.
9. The speaker spoke loudly. All audience could hear him.(合并为一句)
The speaker spoke loudly all the audience could hear him.
10. him, told, not, Mary, worry about, to, the operation. (连词成句)
.
【难度】★
【答案】
1. didn’t do 2. How excited 3. do they 4. How soon 5. as well 6. have been
7. if/ whether would 8. cared for 9. so that
10. Mary told him not to worry about the operation.




2. 话题阅读



10 年奉贤区一模
A. Answer the questions（根据以下内容回答问题）
Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. His father was a doctor. His mother was a singer who had given up her career to marry. When Hemingway was young, the family owned a house on a lake where they spent the summers. Hemingway learned to hunt, fish and camp in the woods and lakes. And he was soon able to shoot, fish, and swim very well. He entered first grade a year younger than usual, so he had to work hard to keep up with his older classmates. Ernest read a great deal. He especially liked adventure stories and science. He learned to play the cello(大提琴) so he could take part in family concerts.
In high school he got straight A's, edited the school paper, and played in the orchestra(管弦乐队). Some of
his stories were printed in the school annual(年报).
After graduating from high school in 1917, Hemingway got a job as a reporter for the Kansas City Star, a newspaper. During World War I, Hemingway, at the age of 19, volunteered to become an ambulance
driver for the Red Cross in Italy. He got wounded in a battle and was sent to a hospital in Milan. He fell in love with Agnes, a Red Cross nurse seven years older than he. They planned to marry; however, Agnes married someone else in 1919.
Later, Hemingway began writing and travelling around the world. In 1925, his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, came out. It is widely considered his best work. Four years later, he wrote A Farewell to Arms, a sad love story of an American soldier and a British nurse. The plot( 情 节 ) was inspired by his earlier relationship with Agnes in Milan. In 1939, Hemingway moved to Cuba. He wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls the same year. In 1952, his last novel, The Old Man and the Sea was published; it made Hemingway famous and gained him the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Because of bad health and illness of the mind, Hemingway killed himself in July, 1961. The influence of his writings on American literature was great and continues today.
1. What was Hemingway’s father?


【难度】★
【解析】细节题，文中第一行给出；
2. Was Hemingway a dortor during World War I?






【难度】★
【解析】细节题，第二段；“During World War I, Hemingway, at the age of 19, volunteered to become an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in Italy.”说明他是一名开救护车的司机；
3. Which novel is widely considered Hemingway’s best work?


【难度】★
【解析】细节题，第三段“his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, came out. It is widely considered his best work.”
4. In which year did Hemingway write A Farewell to Arms?


【难度】★
【解析】细节题，第三段 “In 1939, Hemingway moved to Cuba. He wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls the same year.” 作品和搬去古巴是同一年，因此 1939 年；
5. What did Hemingway get in 1954, the Pulitzer Prize or the Nobel Prize in Literature?


【难度】★
【解析】细节题，第三段“the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.”
6. What do you think of Hemingway?


【难度】★★
【解析】主观题，用形容词修饰 Hemingway 的成就或者品质，He was a geat/ famous/ successful writer.
【答案】
1. He was a doctor. 2.No, he wasn’t.
3. The Sun Also Rises.
4. In 1929.
5. The Nobel Prize in literature.
He was a geat/ famous/ successful writer.
11 二模(浦东新区)
B. Answer the questions（根据以下内容回答问题）
Mark Twain was a famous American writer. He wrote many stories and many of them were very funny stories. These stories are still read by many people all over the world. Besides writing, he also liked hunting and fishing very much, so one year he went to Maine for a holiday and spent three very pleasant weeks in the woods there.
Then he had to go back home, he drove to the station with his luggage. There he asked a porter to put into the train. Then he got into the smoking car and sat down in one of the comfortable seats there. The car was empty when he got in, but a few minutes later, another man got in and sat down on the seats opposite his. Mark twain looked sat the man and thought that this man looked quite unpleasant. However, it would be impolite to say nothing in that situation, so he said good morning to the man and they begin to talk.
First they talked about the weather and then they talked about Maine. The stranger said, “We have some beautiful woods in Maine. It would be a pity to come to Marine without spending some time there. I suppose you have been in our woods, haven’t you?”“Yes, I have,” answer Mark Twain. “I’ve just spent three weeks there and I had a very good time, too. And let me tell you something. Although fishing isn’t allowed in Maine in this season, I’ve got two hundred pounds of beautiful fish with my luggage in this train. I like to eat fish, so I packed it in ice to take it home with me. May I ask who you are, sir?”
The stranger looked at Mark Twain for several seconds and then answered, “I’m a police officer. My job is to catch people who hunt and fish during the wrong seasons. And who you are?” Mark Twain was surprised and frightened when he heard this. He thought quickly and then answered, “Well, I will tell you, sir, I am the men who tells the biggest lies in America.”
1. What is Mark Twain famous for?


【难度】★
【解析】细节题，第一段，“He wrote many stories and many of them were very funny stories. These stories are still read by many people all over the world.”
2. Why did he go to Maine for a three-week holiday?


【难度】★
【解析】细节题，第一段提到去度假的原因；
3. How did he get his luggage into the train?


【难度】★
【解析】细节题，第二段“he drove to the station with his luggage. There he asked a porter to put into the train.”需注意答题规范，可以完整回答，也可用 by+doing 形式进行简答；
4. When did Mark Twain and the stranger opposite begin to talk?


【难度】★★
【解析】归纳题，第二段，根据文章提供的细心进行适当的总结，After Mark Twain said good morning to the man.
5. People aren’t allowed to catch fish in the wrong seasons in Maine, are they?


【难度】★
【解析】细节题，第三段“Although fishing isn’t allowed in Maine in this season,”因此是不被允许；
6. Why did Mark Twain tell the man that he told the biggest lies in America?


【难度】★★
【解析】主观题，根据理解文中的内容进行简单的总结，Because Mark Twain /he wanted to/To make the man believe /his words, /what he had said was a lie. /Because Mark Twain /he wouldn't want to be arrested/punished...
7. In your opinion what kind of person is Mark Twain?


【难度】★ ★
【解析】主观题，用形容词修饰 Mark Twain 的品质，He was cute/clever... (Any reasonable answer is OK.)
【答案】
1. His (funny) stories.
2. Because Mark Twain /he liked hunting and fishing very much.
3. Mark Twain /He asked a porter to put it into the train.
4. After Mark Twain said good morning to the man.
5. No, they aren't.
6. Because Mark Twain /he wanted to/To make the man believe /his words, /what he had said was a lie.

/Because Mark Twain /he wouldn't want to be arrested/punished...
7. Mark Twain /He was cute/clever... (Any reasonable answer is OK.)

09 年闵行区一模
C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words (在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)
In most American hearts, Mark Twain is a great famous writer. Many of his books are still translated and printed in America or the other countries in the world now. However, he was e 1 a printer, river pilot, soldier and lived a hard life before he became a famous writer.
When Mark Twain was a little boy, his parents called him Sam. Little Sam had two good friends, Tom and John. Sam admired Tom most. He could sleep a 2 he liked—in the street or in the woods, and he could do what he wanted. Then the three fellows would set off in search of some adventures. In this way, Mark Twain ranged（浪迹）across the nation for more than a third of his l 3 .
Though Mark Twain lived a hard life in most of his life, he was famous for his h 4 . One day he
was on the train, the conductor asked him for his ticket. Mark Twain looked for the ticket in all his pockets, but f 5 to find it. At last the conductor said, “It doesn’t really matter. If you can’t find it, there is no harm done.” However, Mark Twin said, “Oh, but there is. I must find the dammed（该死的）thing, or how will I know where I’m going?”
Another day, a millionaire replaced his unable left eye with a b 6 glass eye. He felt very proud and happy. When he met Mark Twain, he could not help asking, “Can you guess which eye of m 7 is the glass one?” Mark Twain pointed to the millionaire’s left eye. The millionaire was very surprised, “How
do you know that?” Mark Twain replied, “Because in your left eye, there still has been a little mercy（仁慈）.
【难度】★★
【答案】1. ever 2. anywhere 3. life 4. humour 5 failed 6. beautiful 7. mine
【解析】1.词性判断，副词修饰句子，根据前文提示，并有转折关系，说明在陈述之前做过的职业；
2. 词性判断为副词，根据文章结构，破折号后面解释说明，出现地点，因此为 anywhere；
3. 词性判断为名词，文章句意为 life;
4. 词性判断为名词，根据文章结构，段首句为总结，根据后面的含义，体现马克吐温的幽默；
5. 词性判断为动词，句意判断为转折关系，因此是“没有找到票”选择动词 fail,注意动词时态；
6. 词性判断为形容词，修饰眼睛；因此为beautiful；
7. 词性判断为代词，指代眼睛的所有关系，选择mine；

2014 西南模 3 月月考卷
A. Choose the best answer (根据以下内容，选择最恰当的答案)
In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what “keeping up with the Joneses” is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbors.
The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighborhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors.
It was like a race, but one could never finish his race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City.




Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbors. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it "Keeping up with the Joneses” because “Jones” is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses”came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.
People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are “Jonses” in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.
1. Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because they .
A. want to be as rich as their neighbors
B. want others to know or to think that they are rich
C. don’t want others to know they are rich
D. want to be happy
2. It can be inferred (推断) from the story that rich people like to .
A. live outside New York City B. live in New York city
C. live in apartments D. have many neighbors
3. Arthur Momand used the name “Jones” in his series of short stories because “Jones” is .
A. an important name B. a popular name in the United States
C. his neighbor’s name D. not a good name
4. If a person who keeps up with the Joneses, he would .
A. do as the poor persons around him do
B. do everything he likes to do
C. do as his neighbors do
D. do as the rich people around him do
5. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. “Keeping up with the Joneses” was first used in 1913 by a young American called Jones.
B. “Keeping up with the Joneses” means keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you.
C. “Keeping up with the Joneses” is like a race and people feel pleased when they finish this race.
D. It’s difficult to find a “Jones” in our life.
6. According to the writer, it is to keep up with the Joneses.
A. correct B. interesting C. impossible D. wrong
【难度】★★
【答案】1. B 2. A 3. B 4. D 5. B 6. D



Translate the following phrases or words.
get tired of get tired of
keep up with wealthy


2014 西南模 3 月月考卷
B. Choose the best answer and complete the passage (选择最恰当的选项完成短文)
Martin Henfield talks about some of his experience as a twin: when we were small my mother dressed us 1 the same clothes. That was bad enough and we didn’t like it. But we went on our first camping trip, it was even worse. We were only ten years old, and while all the other boys went into their sleeping bags for the night , we were 2 to snuggle( 偎 依 ) inside a double sleeping bag my mother made for us.
At school, people 3 even see our difference according to our initials because both of us were
M.H. It was only when I went to holiday and began to have my own friends that I started to feel my own freedom of identity.
Before I went to college, during my secondary school holiday, I 4 a job on a building site. My twin brother, Mike Henfield, didn’t work. One day I asked my boss, “Can I have a week 5 ?” “Certainly,” he said, “but you won’t have the job when you are back.” I didn’t want to lose the job. So on Monday morning, Mike went there in my trousers, jacket and hat and he worked for me for one week while
6 of them knew the difference.

1. A. in2.A. upsetA. shouldn’tA. earned B. forB. displeasedB. couldB. got C. onC. happyC. mightC. paid D. withD. excitedD. couldn’tD. prepared for
5. A. off B. free C. on D. back
6. A. None【难度】★ ★ ★ B. Nobody C. neither D. all
【答案】1. A 2. B 3. D 4. B 5. A 6. A




2014 西南模 3 月月考卷
C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words (在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)
One Sunday, Mark decided to go sailing in his boat with his friend Dan, but Dan h 1 to be away. Dan’s brother John offered to go i 2 though he did not know anything about sailing. Mark agreed and they set out to sea.
Soon they found t 3 in a thick fog. Mark was sure they would be hit by a big ship. Fortunately he saw a large buoy ( 浮 标 ) through the fog and decided to t 4 the boat to it for safety. As he was getting onto the buoy, however, he dropped the wet rope. The boat moved away in the fog c 5 John, Who did not know how to use the radio. He drifted (漂流) about and was not seen until twelve hours later.
Mark spent the night on the buoy. In the early morning he fell asleep. He was having a bad dream
when a shout woke him up. A ship, the Good Hope, came up and he climbed onto it and t 6 the captain. The captain told him that John had been picked up by another ship and the ship’s captain had sent out a m 7 . “Without the message I would not have found you on the buoy,” he said.
【难度】★ ★ ★
【答案】1. happened 2. instead 3. themselves 4. tie 5 carrying 6. thanked 7. message

2016 西南位育周末卷六 2016.11.24

D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words (在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)
November 11, the weird holiday known as “Singles Day (光棍节),”has grown into China’s, and p 1 the world’s, busiest online shopping day.
Singles Day was c 2 by Chinese college students in the 1990s as a version of Valentine s Day for people without romantic partners. The timing was based on the date: November 11, or “11.11,” w 3 represents four singles. Unattached (单身的) young people would treat each other with dinner or give gifts to chase that special someone and end their single status.
That gift-giving helped to turn it into a major shopping event as sellers of everything from jewelry to cars saw a marketing o 4 and started Singles Day sales. It is China’s response to Cyber Monday in the United States, the day after Thanksgiving weekend, when online shopping for Christmas begins and merchants (商人) have their busiest sales day.
Last year, over 50,000 merchants on Alibaba’s consumer-oriented Taobao and Tmall.com platforms
t 5 in a total of 19.1 billion yuan (about $3 billion) on Singles Day. This figure exceeded( 超 过 ) the total of $1.25 billion that U.S. online retailers (零售商) took on Cyber Monday and made Singles Day the biggest e-commerce sales day on record.
China has the biggest population of Internet users in the world, w 6 538 million people online. Its population of online shoppers also is the b 7 at 193 million, versus(与之相对) 170 million for the United States. Now, it follows the U.S. and Japan in online spending and is forecasted to rise to first place as early as 2015.
【难度】★ ★ ★
【 答 案 】 1. possibly 2. created 3. which 4. opportunity 5 take 6. with 7. biggest
2014 西南模 3 月月考卷
E. Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题)：(12 分）

I once found out that doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of trouble. I was in the eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl next to me whispered something, but I didn't quite catch it. So I leaned over her way and found out she was trying to ask me if I had an extra pen. She showed me that hers was out of ink and would not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I took it out of my pocket and put it on her desk.
Later, after the test papers had been turned in, the teacher asked me to stay in the room when all the other students were dismissed. As soon as we were alone, she began to talk to me about what it meant to grow up, and how important it was to stand on your own feet and be responsible for your own acts. For a long time, she talked about honest and emphasized the fact that when people do something dishonest, they are really cheating themselves. She made me promised that I would think seriously about all the things she had said, and then she told me I could leave. I walked out of the room wondering why she had chosen to talk to me about all those things.
Later on, I found out that she thought I had done some cheating in the test. When she saw me lean over to talk to the girl next to me, it looked as if I was copying answer from the girl’s test paper. I tried to explain about the pen, but all she could say was it seemed very strange to her that I hadn’t talked of anything about the pen the day she talked to me right after the test. Even if I tried to explain that I was just doing the girl a favor by letting her use my pen, I am sure she continued to believe that I had cheated on the test.
1. Did the story take place in an exam room or in the teachers’ office?

2. Why did the girl want to borrow a pen？

3. What did the teacher ask the boy to do when the test was over?


4. Why do you think the teacher emphasized honesty in her talk to the boy?


5. The boy didn’t realize everything at first, did he?


6. If you are the boy, how will you deal with the situation when the girl asks you for help?


【难度】★★
【答案】
1. (It took place) in an exam room.

2. Because her pen was out of ink and would not write.
3. The teacher asked the boy to stay in the room when all the other students were dismissed.
4. Because she believed that he had cheated on the test.
5. No, he didn’t.
Any reasonable answer.
Translate the following sentences.
So I leaned over her way and found out she was trying to ask me if I had an extra pen.
①
She began to talk to me about what it meant to grow up, and how important it was to stand on your own feet and be responsible for your own acts.
②
For a long time, she talked about honest and emphasized the fact that when people do something dishonest, they are really cheating themselves.
③ When she saw me lean over to talk to the girl next to me, it looked as if I was copying answer from the girl’s test paper.
○4
【答案】
1. 所以我身子向前倾，发现她在询问我是否有支笔多余的笔。
2. 她开始跟我谈成长意味着什么，依靠自己是多么的重要，对自己行为负责是多么的重要。
3. 很长一段时间，她谈论诚实，强调这个道理：那些做事不诚实的人，真的是欺骗他们自己。
4. 当她（老师）看到我倾向前与我旁边的女孩聊天时，她以为我在抄袭这个女孩试卷上的答案。




3. 作文 看图写话


为了迎接父亲节的到来，《21 世纪报》正在开展有关“父子（女）亲情”的征文活动。假如你叫周泰（Zhou Tai），下列几幅图片描述的是你和父亲之间发生的一件往事，请你根据图片
及所给文字信息，展开合理想象，写一篇短文，并谈谈你现在对此事的感想。要求：1. 语句通顺，行文连贯，书写整洁；
2. 字数不少于 60；
3. 开头已给出，不计入总词数。提示词：net bar, think of, feel sorry

(注意：短．文．中．不．得．出．现．任．何．真．实．的．人．名．、校．名．及．其．它．相．关．信．息．，否．则．不．予．评．分．。)

Father's Day is coming, I'm going to tell a story between my father and me. One day


Practice

A. is able to B. the other C. journey D. towards E. lay

A. high B. others C. swimming D. quickly E. some


Homework

A. learning from B actually C dreamed of D alone E only

A private B desire C similar D member E badly


Practice