【福建省福州市2015年中考英语试题】阅读下面短文，把A—D四个句子填人文中空缺处，使短文内容完整、正确，然后完成小题。
Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai is the youngest ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She has become the voice of girls throughout the world.
Born in Swat Valley in Pakistan in 1997, Malala lived a quiet life until 2009, when the Taliban（塔利班）, an Islamic organization of violence（暴力）took control of her village. they believe educating girls is against Islam. But Malala didn’t agree. She wouldn’t give up her education and kept going to school.
“What is wrong with us girl students? We want all girls to get their schools back," she wrote. Her hard work encouraged many young girls in Swat Valley.
On Oct 9, 2012, when Malala was taking a bus home, a Taliban man got on the bus with a gun in hand. A bullet immediately hit her in the face. Luckily, the shot didn’t kill her. She was taken to a hospital in the UK. The shot didn’t kill her courage, either.
Her courage made her famous.
She has spoken at the United Nations, met world leaders and written a book, I Am Malala.
On Oct 10, 2013, the EU awarded Malala their top human rights prize. They said, “She is an icon（符号）of courage for all teenagers who dare to follow their aspirations（愿望).”
| A. However, her actions also put her in danger. B. They stopped girls from getting an education. C. Now she is still calling for education rights for girls. D. And she started to write a blog against the Taliban. |
What may be the best title for this passage?
| A．Dreams of peace |
| B．A gun shot in Pakistan |
| C．Voice of courage |
| D．Education rights for girls |
Once a tiger was in a cage(笼). Soon a good man went by. As soon as the tiger saw the man, the tiger began to cry. “Please! Please!” the tiger called. “Please, let me out.” “No,” said the good man. “If I do, you will eat me.” “I will not eat you,” the tiger said. “Please let me out.”
The good man believed the tiger. He opened the door of the cage. The tiger jumped out. “How silly you are,” the tiger laughed. “Now I am going to eat you.” “Wait!” the man cried. “You ought not to eat me. Let us ask others what they think.” “You may ask three others. ” the tiger said.
The good man asked a tree. The tree said, “I give shade (树荫). And yet I am cut down. Let the tiger eat you.”
Next, the good man asked a bird. The bird said, “I hurt no one. Yet people hunt and kill me. Let the tiger eat you.”
The last one that the good man asked was a road. The road said, “I don’t care if the tiger eats you. People could not get along too well without me. Yet all day and all night people step on me without even a ‘thank you’.”
The tiger was ready to eat the good man. Just then a dog came by. “What is happening?”
asked the dog. The man told the dog the whole story.
“I don’t understand,” said the dog. “The tiger wants to eat you because you put him in a cage?”
“No, no,” said the man. “Some other men put him in a cage.”
“Oh,” the dog said. “He is going to eat you because you do not have a cage.”
“Silly dog!” the tiger cried. “Don’t you understand? I was in the cage. This man let me out.”
“Oh, I see,” the dog said. “When the man was in the cage, you let him out.”
“I was in the cage!” the tiger cried. “In this way!” with that, he jumped back into the cage.
At once, the dog closed the door of the cage. “Oh,” the dog laughed. “At last I understand!”
The good man and the dog walked off. The tiger looked sad in the cage. If he waited long enough, perhaps another good man would come by.When the tiger saw the man, he began to cry, because ________.
| A．he wanted the man to help him out of the cage |
| B．he wanted to eat the man |
| C．he wanted to eat the dog |
| D．he wanted to eat the bird |
After the tiger jumped out of the cage, he wanted ________.
| A．to thank the man | B．to eat the man |
| C．to ask the others | D．to run away |
The tree ________ with the tiger because _______ to the tree.
| A．agreed; humans were kind |
| B．agreed; humans were not kind |
| C．disagreed; humans were kind |
| D．disagreed; humans were not kind |
The bird let the tiger eat the man because __________.
| A．people helped birds |
| B．it liked tigers |
| C．it liked the man |
| D．people hunted and killed him |
In England nobody under eighteen years old is allowed (允许) to drink in a bar (酒吧)．
Mr Thompson often went to a bar near his house．But he never took his son, Tom, because he was too young．Then when Tom had his eighteenth birthday, Mr Thompson took him to his usual bar for the first time．They drank for an hour．Tom drank a bit．Then Mr Thompson said to his son,“Now, Tom, I want to teach you a useful（有用的） lesson．How do you know when you’ve had enough（足够的）? Well, I’ll tell you．Do you see those two lights（灯） at the end of the bar? When they seem（好象） to become four, you’ve had enough and should go home．”
“But, Dad,” said Tom, “I can only see one light at the end of the bar．” Young people ______ allowed to drink in a bar until eighteen．
| A．is not | B．are not | C．may | D．must |
When Tom was_______, his father often went to a nearby bar without taking him．
| A．a girl | B．man | C．woman | D．a child |
On Tom’s eighteenth birthday, he drank together with his father in that bar for ______．
| A．the first time | B．once |
| C．many times | D．eighteen times |
Father wanted to tell his son ______．
| A．the time to drink |
| B．something about the light |
| C．when to stop drinking |
| D．something about the bar |
Visit Dongqian Lake Zoo
Come and see big elephants from Yunnan and tigers from the northeast. The African giraffes are waiting for you. Clever monkeys are going to make you laugh. A lot of other animals you have never seen are waiting to meet you.
Tickets:
Grown-ups: ￥80
Children: ￥40
Under Six: Free
Opening Hours
From Monday to Friday: 8:30 a.m.－－－4：30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 8:00 a.m.－－－5：30 p.m.
Keep the zoo clean.
Do not feed or go near to the animals.Now Mr. and Mrs. King are going to the zoo with their seven-year-old son and five-year-old daughter. How much will they pay for the tickets?
| A．One hundred and twenty yuan. |
| B．One hundred and sixty yuan. |
| C．Two hundred yuan. |
| D．Eighty yuan. |
Which is the visiting time?
| A．8:00 a.m. on Monday. |
| B．5:00 p.m. on Thursday. |
| C．8:30 a.m. on Saturday |
| D．7:30 p.m. on Sunday. |
We can _______ in the zoo.
| A．throw dirty things |
| B．not go close to the animals |
| C．not laugh |
| D．give food to the animals |
Each morning a rich man found a poor man sitting on a park bench (长凳). The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich man lived. One day the rich man got out of his car and said to the poor man, “Excuse me, but I just want to know why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning.” “Sir”, said the poor man, “I am a failure (失败者). I have no money, no family, no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I'll sleep in that hotel.” The rich man said, “Tonight your dream will come true. I'll pay for the best room in that hotel for you for a whole month.
A few days later, the rich man went by the poor man's room to ask him how he was enjoying himself. To his surprise, he found that the man had moved out of the hotel, back to his park bench. When the rich man asked why, the poor man said, “you see, when I am down here sleeping on my bench, I dream I'm up there, in that big hotel. It's a wonderful dream. But when I was up there, I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream, and I couldn't get any sleep at all.”The poor man lived in ________ before he met the rich man.
| A．the hotel | B．his home | C．the park | D．the car |
Every morning, the poor man sat on the bench and __________.
| A．waited for the rich man |
| B．looked at the rich man's hotel |
| C．looked at the rich man's car |
| D．enjoyed the clean air |
Every night the poor man dreamed of _____________.
| A．sleeping in that hotel |
| B．becoming rich |
| C．owning that hotel |
| D．being the rich man's friend |
The poor man moved out of the hotel because __________.
| A．he didn't want to live in such a fine room |
| B．he didn't like the rich man |
| C．he couldn't pay for the room |
| D．he couldn't get any sleep at all there |
Michael Jordan is the most famous basketball player in the world. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He didn't like to talk to other people about himself. He was also very short. He didn't play very well when he joined the basketball team in his high school at first. But the next year things changed greatly for him as he grew much taller.
Michael Jordan became famous when he joined the university basketball team in North Carolina. Michael used his speed and strength (力量) to reach the basket again. He played so well that people called him “Air Jordan”.
After college, Michael became a basketball team member in the Chicago Bulls. The NBA was very surprised at this high-flying player. He was named “Rookie” (新秀) of the year in 1985 and “Most Valuable (价值的) Player” in 1987. He once set a record (创纪录) by getting 63 points in one game.He began to become famous in _____________.
| A．the university basketball team |
| B．the NBA |
| C．his high school at first |
| D．the Chicago Bulls |
He is often called“__________”.
| A．Rookie | B．the NBA |
| C．Air Jordan | D．Most Valuable Player |
The NBA was very surprised at the superstar when _________.
| A．he was young |
| B．he joined the basketball team in his high school |
| C．he joined the university basketball team |
| D．he joined the Chicago Bulls |
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