高一英语阅读限时训练(9.24)
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A man wanted to give his mother a birthday present. He bought a parrot. The parrot was very expensive. It was $50.000. This was because the bird could talk in English, Japanese, Chinese and other nine languages. It could also sing ten famous songs. On her birthday, the mother got the bird. However, she did not know all this. Early the next morning, the telephone rang in her house, and the woman answered. It was her son.
“Do you like the bird, Mother?”these came her son‟s voice on the ot her side.
“Oh, yes, very much!” answer the mother. “It was delicious!”
1. The man gave his mother _______ as her birthday present.
A. a parrot
B. some money
C. a birthday cake
D. some new clothes
2. A parrot is __________.
A. a kind of car
B. a bird which can do housework for you
C. a bird that can speak
D. a robot that can speak nine foreign languages.
3. Why was the bird so dear?______________
A. Because it was very friendly to people.
B. Because it could speak twelve languages.
C. Because it could sing ten famous songs.
D. Both B and C
4. What was the end of the bird?____________
A. It flew away.
B. It was dead.
C. It talked with the old woman in different languages.
D. Other people liked the bird very much and took it away.
5. How do you think the man felt when he heard the news?___________
A. He was angry.
B. He was unhappy.
C. He was very surprised.
D. All of the above.
B
A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign (标牌) which said, “I am blind. Please help me.” There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put it back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. More and more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see the boy again. The boy recognize his footst eps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?” The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way. I wrote, …Today is a beautiful day, but I can‟t see it.‟”
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind, but the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.
6. The blind boy held up the sign to ______.
A. ask the way
B. find the man
C. ask for money
D. find his family
7. What does the underlined word “it” refer to (指的是) __________？
A. the word
B. the sign
C. the coin
D. the hat
8. The boy recognized the man from his _______.
A. footsteps
B. voice
C. words
D. coins
