深圳市2024年初中学业水平考试
英 语
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一、完形填空
William grew up in a poor family in Africa. His family lived in a village with no ___1___. At night, they used oil lamps for light. However, oil was too expensive for his parents to afford.
William wanted to ___2___ life there but he had no idea how to realize it. One day, he read a book on how to turn wind into electricity with a windmill.
“That is ___3___!” Though he didn’t know what a windmill was, he decided to give it a try.
First he had to ___4___ all the materials. He dug through the rubbish with his cousin in the villages nearby and ___5___ his goal until he got what he wanted.
Then he started to make the windmill. The moment his farm work finished in the fields, he threw himself on studying the materials, staying ___6___ till midnight. Finally, he made it after many ___7___. He fixed the windmill on the top of a wood tower to catch wind. The villagers came to look. A long wire was used to connect to a bulb to the windmill. The wind blew and the windmill ___8___. To their amazement, the bulb lit up. The villagers cheered. William threw his hands in the air and jumped ___9___. To produce more energy, he built another windmill for his village.
Bored into poverty William didn’t give up in the face of difficulties. He kept reading, taught himself and lit up the whole ___10___.
1. A. gas B. water C. Internet D. electricity
2. A. protect B. improve C. create D. understand
3. A. amazing B. surprised C. worried D. important
4. A. buy B. invent C. collect D. borrow
5. A. stuck to B. went over C. looked into D. learn about
6. A. calm B. awake C. relaxed D. free
7. A. tells B. excuses C. failures D. meeting
8. A. fell B. flew C. opened D. turned
9. A. excitedly B. hurriedly C. carefully D. worriedly
10. A. team B. club C. school D. village
二、阅读理解
A
When he was a teenager, Hunter Adams was very unhappy and he spent many years in a special hospital for people with mental (精神的) health problems.
When he left the hospital, Adams decided to become a doctor, so he went to a medical school in Virginia, the USA. But when he was there, he did things in a different way. For example, he didn’t like the doctors’ white coats, so he wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients and he tried to make them laugh. The doctors at the medical school didn’t like Adams because he was too different.
But Adams believed that people in hospital need more than medicine. He saw unhappy and lonely people, and he tried to help them. He spent a lot of time with children in hospital and often dressed up like a clown to make the children laugh. When he finished medical school and became a doctor, Adams opened his own hospital, called “The Gesundheit Institute”, together with some other doctors. They wanted it to be a place with a different way of working with sick people.
Hunter Adams became famous during the 1980s, and in 1998, Universal Pictures made a film about his life. It was very successful. In the film (called Patch Adams), Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said, “Adams is a really warm person, who believes that patients need a doctor who is a friend. I enjoyed playing him.”
11 When did Adams have mental health problems?
A. After he left medical school. B. During the 1980s.
C. When he was a teenage boy. D. After the film came out.
12. Why did the doctors at the medical school dislike Adams?
A. Because he was a warm person. B. Because he had mental health problems.
C. Because he was a clown. D. Because he wasn’t the same as others.
13. The Gesundheit Institute _________.
A. was a hospital B. belonged to Universal Pictures
C. could make films D. was a medical school
14. According to the passage, which statement is NOT true?
