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上海市 2019 届各初中名校初三九年级英语试题题型分类专题汇编:阅读理解
One【2019 届上海市西南模范初三九年级上学期英语周测试题】
VI. Reading comprehension(阅读理解)(共 50 分)
A.Choose the best answer(根据短文内容,选择最恰当的答案)(共 12 分)
Many people decide to rebuild or redecorate their homes at some point, and sometimes the job
takes longer than expected. Very rarely, however, does it take as long as one house in the United
tates. The Winchester house, owned by Sarah Winchester in San Jose, California, was rebuilt twenty-four hours a day for over thirty-eight years.
he remarkable story of the Winchester house began in 1862 when Saran Pardee of Boston married William Winchester. William was the son of Oliver Winchester who had theright (权利) to make and sell the Winchester Rifle, one of the most popular guns of the time.
In 1866, Sarah and William had a daughter, Annie, who died form a disease as a baby. Sarah was sad about the death of her child. Then, tragedy (悲剧) struck Sarah again when William died of a
disease in 1882. Although her husband left her about $20 million in savings, and an income of a
thousand dollars a day, Sarah was again in extreme sadness, and on the advice of a friend visited a
fortune-teller(算命人). The fortune-teller told her that her bad luck was being caused by ghoststhe (鬼)
of all the people who had been killed by the Winchester Rifle. The fortune-teller also told her to sell her
home and head towards the setting sun. Sarah Winchester took the fortune-tellers advice and moved west to California, where she found the perfect house for her.
The original (原始的) house was a six-room farmhouse. As soon as she arrived, Sarah started
taking the fortune-tellers second piece of advice. She was told to never stop building her house.
Using the money her husband had left her, she employed over twenty builders who worked night and
day on the house. Every morning, Sarah would meet the head of the builders and give him hand-drawn building plans for the day. This went on until Sarahs death in 1921.
Today, the house has over 160 rooms,
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