科目：初中英语 来源：2013届江苏南京溧水县六校九年级12月学情调研联考测试英语卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality(现实) of life.
In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable(不合情理的) thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it’s sent sprawling(四脚朝天).
When it doesn’t get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky(摇晃的) legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there’s safety.
Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.
Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They’re beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they’ve realized some small parts of what they set out(着手) to do .”
【小题1】What does the underlined part “a tall order” in Paragraph 1 mean?
| A．A happy thing. | B．A difficult task. |
| C．A big dream. | D．A beautiful scene. |
| A．A new-born giraffe’s first lesson. |
| B．A mother giraffe’s story. |
| C．The lives of some great people. |
| D．The way for a giraffe to stand up. |
| A．Because they all worked hard. |
| B．Because they all liked to read some special stories. |
| C．Because they were born with some illnesses. |
| D．Because they were similar to giraffes in some ways. |
| A．This passage is a description of giraffes’ living habits. |
| B．Baby giraffes can’t stand up until three months old. |
| C．Irving Stone spent a lifetime studying and writing stories about great people. |
| D．The great people can’t stand up after they’re knocked down for years. |
| A．How to Raise a Baby Giraffe. |
| B．Learning to Get Back Up. |
| C．Stories about the great people. |
| D．A Mother Giraffe and Its Baby Giraffe. |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2013届江苏省无锡市惠山区九年级下学期期中考试英语卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality of life.
In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it’s sent sprawling(四脚朝天).
When it doesn’t get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there’s safety.
Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.
Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They’re beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they’ve realized some small parts of what they set out to do .”
【小题1】What does the underlined part “a tall order” in Paragraph 1 mean?
| A．A happy thing. | B．A difficult task. |
| C．A big dream. | D．A beautiful scene. |
| A．This passage is a description of giraffes’ living habits. |
| B．Baby giraffes can’t stand up until three months old. |
| C．Irving Stone spent a lifetime studying and writing stories about great people. |
| D．The great people can’t stand up after they’re knocked down for years. |
| A．How to keep a baby giraffe. |
| B．Learning to Get Back Up. |
| C．Stories about the great people. |
| D．A mother giraffe and its baby giraffe. |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2011-2012学年黑龙江省虎林市八五零农场学校初二期中英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight．When George was fourteen, he became his father's helper．He spent a lot of time learning about engines（发动机）．And on holidays he often made one engine to pieces and studied each piece carefully．Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write．He began to learn English letters when he was seventeen years old．Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young school teacher. On his eighteenth birthday，he wrote his own name for the first time in his life．George invented（发明） many things in his life．The train was the greatest one among them．Today when we take trains from one place to another，we'll think of this great man---George Stephenson．
【小题1】In which year did George Stephenson start to help his father？________．
| A．In 1781 | B．In 1789 | C．In 1795 | D．In 1798 |
| A．through reading and writing |
| B．by making it to pieces and studying each piece carefully |
| C．at lessons from a young teacher |
| D．by asking a lot of questions |
| A．a great man | B．a good maker | C．a good worker | D．a good student |
| A．the train | B．the telephone | C．the car | D．the computer |
| A．workers | B．writers | C．learners | D．inventors |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2013-2014学年浙江省温州市六校九年级上学期期末联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：其他题
George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a 1. （贫穷的） family.
He had to start work when he was only 2. （八）.
When George was fourteen, he became his father’s helper. He spent a lot of time
3. （学习）about engines. And on
holidays he often made one engine to pieces and studied each piece 4. （仔细地）. Soon he
became a very good
worker 5. （虽然）he could not read or
write. He began to learn English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every
day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked along way to have 6. （功课） from a young school
teacher. On his eighteenth 7.
（生日）, he wrote his own name for the first time
in his life. George 8.
（发明） many things in his life. The train was the greatest
one among 9. （他们）. Today
when we take trains from one place to 10. （另一个）,we’ll think of this great man —George Stephenson.
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科目：初中英语 来源：2011年四川省内江市中考英语试卷 题型：其他题
阅读下列短文，完成短文后面的表格内容。（各小题不超过5个词）
George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight. When George was fourteen, he became his father’s helper. He spent a lot of time learning about engines. On holidays, he often took engines into pieces and studied each piece carefully. Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write.
He began to learn the English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young teacher.
On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George invented many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among them. Today when we watch or take trains from one place to another, we will think of this great man ------George Stephenson.
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Great Inventor: 1. |
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In 2. |
He started work. |
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In1795 |
He spent much time 3. . |
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In 1798 |
He began to learn the English letters. |
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In 1799 |
He could 4.for the first time. |
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In his life |
He invented many things, including 5. . |
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