中考完型练习Chapter 3 历史地理

Chapter 3 历史地理

Text 1 迷宫般的古镇

A. Warming up exercise: Fill in the blanks with a proper word and its part of speech.

The Chinese people have c________ their National Day on October 1st every year since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. But the one in 2009 is extremely s________ because it marks the country’s 60th birthday, which Chinese philosophy (哲学) regards as a milestone (里程碑) indicating the end of one big cycle of life and the b________ of a new one. 1. c________ 2. s________ 3. b________

B. Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.

A Maze of Ancient Streets

Do you think that you have a good sense of direction? Come to Fez, and test yourself.

The most popular tourist attraction in Fez, Morocco is the city’s oldest section, called the Medina. Everyone wants to see the (1) h________ buildings and thousands of local shops. But the Medina is perhaps the most confusing (使迷惑) place on earth.

What makes it so confusing? The streets are very narrow, and they are not (2) s________. Where you walk, you are always turning corners. It is like an unplanned (3) j________ into the past. You never know what you will find. That’s why people like the Medina.

The Medina covers an area of 10 square kilometres, and around 200,000 people live (4) i________. There are more than 30,000 homes and over 10,000 small businesses. It is enclosed (围绕) by city walls that were built hundreds of years ago.

There is a logic (条理性) to the Medina, however. Each product has its (5) o________ area. The silk businessmen are here. The slippers sellers,there. Further on, you can find cotton fabrics (棉质品). And so on — wool, leather, pottery, woodwork, ironwork... it’s all there. And to the local people, it all makes sense.

There are maps of the area, but they aren’t very (6) u________. Some visitors have tried using a compass, but it doesn’t help,e________. A guide is your only help. 1. h________ 2. s________ 3. j________ 4. i________ 5. o________ 6. u________ 7. e________

C. Answer the following questions according to the above passage. 1. How big is the Medina?

______________________________________________________________ 2. A compass can help you find the way in the Medina, can’t it?

______________________________________________________________ 3. What is the advice the writer gives to you?

______________________________________________________________

Text 2 城市印象

A. Warming up exercise: Fill in the blanks with a proper word and its part of speech.

1. About 964,000 migrant workers (外来务工人员) 1__________ Shanghai for their homes

across China by train during the first 15 days before Lunar New Year’s Day.

2. I can accept the price increase since it is too tiring to prepare NIANYEFAN or New Year’s

Eve dinner at home. But I hope the dish quality (质量) and s__________ can he improved. 3. The government paid all the medical e__________ for people injured in the accident. 1. 1__________ 2. s__________ 3. e__________,

B. Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.

My Impression of the City

A tour guide took us around the city. She was very talkative (健谈的). She gave us a lot of information about the city’s buildings.

The people who live in the city are always moving fast. They don’t seem very (1) p__________. For example, we saw a white car that was long. It was blocking the crossing road, when people were trying to cross the street. I think that the (2) d__________ was rude.

There’s a lot of crime (犯罪) in the city. We even saw a thief who was very clever. He was taking a picture of some tourists when suddenly he ran away with their (3) c__________.

We saw a man who selling gold watches for $10. He was very persuasive (说服力). Some people actually bought watches from him!

Of course, some people were (4) f__________. A police officer who was on horseback allowed some children to pet (抚摸) his horse.

Many people are hardworking. I saw a woman who sold hot dogs on the street. She had to make the hot dogs and give change — all very quickly. She was very (5) e__________.

And there was some (6) f__________. A boy was dancing while a group of street musicians were playing. And many people were standing in line to see a movie that had some big movie stars.

I was just watching while all these things were happening (7) a__________ me. I’m glad I live in a small town. 1. p__________ 2. d__________ 3. c__________ 4. f__________ 5. e__________ 6. f__________ 7. a__________

美言金句 城市印象，你可能也经历过文中提到的各种事情。

You have probably experienced or heard of suck things as the writer describes in the passage.

C. Answer the following questions according to the above passage. 1. What was the tour guide like?

______________________________________________________________ 2. What did the police officer allow some children to do?

______________________________________________________________ 3. The writer doesn’t like living in a big city, does he? How do you know that? ______________________________________________________________

Text 3 金门大桥

A. Warming up exercise: Fill in the blanks with a proper word and its part of speech.

1. I think basketball player Yao Ming and Olympic hurdle champion Liu Xiang d__________

the award — the National Model Workers (全国劳模).

2. Acres and acres of rape flowers (油菜花) reach blossoming season in the countryside,

attracting crowds of t__________.

3. Primary and secondary school teachers should be entitled to (赋予) the same rights

a__________ civil servants (公务员). 1. d__________ 2. t__________ 3. a__________

B. Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.

The Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge joins the beautiful city of San Francisco with suburbs (郊区) to the north. Each day, about one hundred thousand automobiles cross the bridge taking people ___1___ the city. More than half of them cross the bridge during the morning and evening rush hours; with traffic so heavy, the trip is not ___2____.

However, there is at least one group of happy commuters (上班族). These are the people who travel under the bridge instead of on it. They go to work by boat and enjoy it so much that ___3___ say they will never go by car again.

The ferry they take is the roomy, quiet, comfortable “Golden Gate”. Commuters can enjoy the sun on deck (甲板). In the morning they can have breakfast in the coffee shop, and in the evening they can order a drink in the bar ___4___ looking at San Francisco’s famous skyline and the nearby hills.

The trip takes only thirty minutes and is not very costly. But best of all, being on a boat seems to make people feel ___5___ toward each other. There has already been a marriage of two commuters who met on the “Golden Gate”.

Because the ferry has been so successful, there are plans to use other, still larger boats. There is also a suggestion for a high-speed boat that will make the trip in only ___6___ minutes. ___7___ is happy about that. “A lot of people don’t want to get back and forth faster,” said one commuter. “They feel that half an hour is just enough time to relax.” 1. A) to B) from C) to and from D) in 2. A) busy B) pleasant C) boring D) amazing 3. A) most of them B) few of them C) none of them D) all of them 4. A) while B) after C) before D) as soon as 5. A) more beautiful B) more friendly C) more enjoyable D) more unhappy 6. A) fifty B) thirty C) fifteen D) forty 7. A) Everyone B) Nobody C) None of them D) Not everyone

美言金句 位于旧金山的金门大桥闻名世界，上下班高峰时间拥堵严重。上班族们乘坐宽敞舒适的“金门号”游轮，往来于城郊之间，享受着旅途的愉悦。

The Golden Gate Bridge is famous in the world. During the rush hours, people always get

into serious traffic jams on the bridge. However, some of the commuters take the roomy, quiet, comfortable ferry — “Golden Gate”— to or from the beautiful city. They really enjoy the journey.

C. Answer the following questions according to the above passage.

1. How many automobiles cross the bridge during the morning and evening rush hours every

day?

______________________________________________________________ 2. How long do the commuters spend by taking “Golden Gate”?

______________________________________________________________ 3. A high-speed boat will be more popular among passengers, won’t it?

______________________________________________________________

Text 4 旅游

A. Warming up exercise: Fill in the blanks with a proper word and its part of speech.

1. I usually read several novels at the same time. It is very convenient. I don’t have to go to

bookshops, but need only to s__________ online to find the works I like. Pay-online reading has become a part of my life. It does not cost m__________, but it is a kind of respect for the authors.

2. By the end of 2008, qidian, com (起点中文网) had p__________ 30 million copies of more

than 500 titles.

1. s__________; m__________ 2. p__________

B. Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.

Traveling

Modern life is impossible without traveling. The fastest way of traveling is by plane. With a modern airliner you can travel in one day to places, which it (1) t__________ a month or more to get to a hundred years ago.

Traveling by train is (2) s__________ than by plane, it seldom has accidents. You can see the country you are traveling through. Modern trains have (3) c__________ seats and dining-cars. They make even the longest journey (4) e__________.

Some people (5) p__________ to travel by sea when possible. There are large liners and river boats. You can visit many other countries and different parts of your country on them. Ships are not (6) s__________ fast as trains or planes, but traveling by sea is a very pleasant way to spend a holiday.

Many people like to travel by car. You can make your own timetable. You can travel three or four hundred miles or only fifty or one hundred miles a day, just as you like. You can stop wherever you wish where there is something interesting to see, at a good (7) r__________ where you can enjoy a good meal, or at a hotel to spend the night. That is why traveling by car is popular for pleasant trips, while people usually take a train or a plane when they are traveling on business. 1. t__________ 2. s__________ 3. c__________ 4. e__________ 5. p__________ 6. s__________ 7. r__________

美言金句 驴友们，让我们一起旅游去吧。 Friends, let s go on an outing together.

C. Answer the following questions according to the above passage. 1. Why is traveling by train safer than traveling by plan?

______________________________________________________________ 2. What means of transport do people usually take when they are on business? ______________________________________________________________ 3. Do you like traveling? Why?

______________________________________________________________

Text 5 吉尼斯史话

A. Warming up exercise: Fill in the blanks with a proper word and its part of speech.

Squares are always good exhibits of the city’s characteristics. People’s Square is one of the

most famous city squares in China. It is 1__________ in the center of Shanghai. In the square’s northeast stands the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall. The Shanghai Grand Theatre is in the northwest of the square. B__________ the two buildings stands the City Hall. In the south stands the Shanghai Museum. People’s Avenue runs through the square and a large lawn (草坪) sits in the middle. Many pigeons (鸽子) can be seen flying here and t__________. Below the square sits China’s largest underground shopping mall. 1. l ; 2.B__________; 3. t__________

B. Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.

The History of the Guinness Book of World Records

Are you interested in world records? Do you want to know who the oldest person is in the world? Or the largest cake? Or the heaviest newspaper? Well, if you do, you can find all the answers from a fancy book: the Guinness Book of World Records.

The ___1___ for this book started from an argument. Hugh Beaver worked for Guinness (金氏啤酒) Company in Britain. One day he went out for a walk with his friends. When some birds flew across the sky, he said they were the fastest birds in the world. ___2___ agreed with him. He made a bet with his friends. The next day, he tried to solve the problem by reading some books in a ___3___. To his disappointment, he found out that none of the books had the ___4___ he needed. He suffered a heavy loss (损失), but came up with a good idea: if his company could publish such a book with all the world records, he was sure that he could make a lot of money.

Everything was ___5___ at the beginning. Beaver had great difficulty in collecting the___6___ records. But when the first Guinness Book came out in 1955, it sold like hot cakes. In fact, his book remained (保持) one of the best sellers for many years.

Today, the book is published worldwide. Every year, a new book is published to keep up with the ___7___ records. It is one of the most popular books in the world. By now almost everyone agrees that reading the book is not only a lot of fun, but also an eye-opener.

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