肇庆市2013对口升学英语基础知识训练题一（含答案）.docVIP

肇庆市2013对口升学英语基础知识训练题一（含答案） 一、完型填空 When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more____1____ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him so much in repairs that he decided that he had better ___2___it. 　　He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly___ 3___ to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so none of them had any desire to buy it. Daves friend Sam saw that he was ___4___ when they met one evening, and said, “Whats up, Dave?” Dave told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may ___5___ more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sams ___6___ was sensible(合理的), he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car, uses very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50.” 　　For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no ___7___. But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry. A man rang up and said he would like to___8___him about the car. “All right,” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten oclock the next morning would be___9___or not. “Fine,” the man said, “and Ill ___10___my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to ___11___ it.” 　　The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, ___2___ to wait there for the people who had ___13___ his advertisement. Even Dave had to ___14___ that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸).Then, soon after he had got the car as clean as it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Daves car and then said, “Have you reported this ___5___ to us yet, sir?” 　　1. A. directly B. safely C. properly D. easily 　　2. A. keep B. repair C. sell D. throw 　　3. A. anxious B. lucky C. ashamed D. generous 　　4. A. delighted B. upset C. calm D. astonished