精品中考考前模拟测试《英语试题》含答案.doc

英语中考模拟测试 学校________ 班级________ 姓名________ 成绩________ 一、完形填空 1. 阅读下面短文,掌握大意,然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项. 阅读下面短文,掌握大意,然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项. Mr. Smith had a small supermarket in a small town. All the people who lived nearby ___1___ to go to his supermarket and buy things there. But several years ago, a big chained store ___2___ in that area and it sold all kinds of things from the toothbrush to TV and, above all, the price was pretty ___3___. So a lot of small shops ___4___ except Mr. Smith’s. The manager of the chained store wanted to explore ___5___ was hidden behind Mr. Smith’s success, so he decided to drop into Mr. Smith’s supermarket and he saw a lady buying things there. He stopped her ___6___ and asked “Madam, why don’t you go to the big chained store?” With a smile, the lady told him it was because of a pair of shoes. She told him a story. Three years ago, ___7___ her divorce (离婚), she worked hard to raise her family and one day when she bought things in a supermarket, Tom, one of her little children, ___8___ the supermarket and asked her to buy him a new pair of shoes. He cried, “Today I had a basketball match, but all the people ___9___ me because of the shoes.” She wanted to buy him a pair of shoes but the money in her pocket was ___10___ enough for a milk. “I am sorry but I ___11___ when we have money,” the mother said. Seeing that there was no hope, Tom ran away. The woman stood there weeping (哭泣). Later she realized that ___12___ was patting on her back. ___13___, she found it was Mr. Smith. He took a pair of shoes that the son wanted to buy. “Take them,” he said. “But I don’t have enough money,” the woman shook her head. “Take them your son can’t wait. You can pay me later,” Mr. Smith told her. Now the manager of the chained store knew the ___14___ for Mr. Smith’s success. He decided that he would follow in Mr. Smith’s footsteps putting his heart into whatever he did with the hope of attracting more customers. And he did so after the years that fol