2015年苏教版初三英语家庭作业精选试题

　　阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的四个选项(A,B,C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

　　A

　　Jack London is a famous writer,his most well-known book is called The Call of the Wild. Jack London was born on January 12th,1876,in the United States.His family was poor and he had to leave school to make money . He worked hard in many different jobs.Later Jack returned to school,but he didn’t stay. He wrote Life and pocket books were too short.

　　In 1897,he went to Alaska to find gold.Instead he found ideas there for his books and stories,he returned home and started to write,and he became rich and famous in his twenties.

　　Jack London was not a happy man,and he took his own life in 1916.

　　( ) 1. Jack London was a famous ______ writer.

　　A. American B. English C. London D. Alaska

　　( )2. In Alaska,Jack London ________ .

　　A didn’t get much money but get something important for his writing.

　　B wrote his famous and became rich.

　　C became well—known but then died

　　D found a lot of gold and became rich

　　( ) 3. He became rich and famous in the year around_______.

　　A 1905 B 1921 C 1879 D 1898

　　( ) 4. In 1916,Jack London______.

　　A started a new life B was ill and then died.

　　C. began to write a new story D killed himself

　　B

　　Snakes and Jewels

　　Tokyo: Three snakes,whose poison could kill a person in ten minutes,are guarding a blue star sapphire(蓝宝石) worth nearly six hundred thousand dollars at a Japanese exhibition of jewels sent from an Indan museum.

　　Usually it would be forbidden(禁止) to let these poisonous snakes guard exhibition objects,but it’s different this time because the jewels are being exhibited at a hotel, a policeman said.

　　Exhibition official said that a person bitten by one of these snakes would need at least 80 ml of an anti—poison medicine to be saved. Medicine was being kept ready at a nearly hospital.

　　Star sapphire and other valuable jewels worth a total of one million dollars are on show behind glass.Hundreds of visitors came to see the special blue star sapphire and were surprised when they said the sixty centimeters(厘米) long brown guards.

　　( ) 5. Using snakes at exhibition of valuable objects is ________.

　　A quite normal B usually forbbiden C often necessary D never allowed

　　( ) 6. The jewels were being shown in________.

　　A an Indian hotel B. an Indian museum

　　C a Japanese museum D a Japanese hotel

　　( ) 7.Why were the snakes and jewels at the same exhibition?

　　A They were both special things from Indai

　　B The organizers wanted to do something unusual.

　　C The snakes were there to keep the jewels safe.

　　D People like to visit an exhibition guarded by snakes.

　　( ) 8 Many visitors came to the exibition because______.

　　A the snakes were on show

　　B they were interested in seeing a famous jewels.

　　C so many jewels were being exhibited

　　D exhibition officiajs said it was special