湖北省武汉市2014届九年级元月模拟英语试题(4)

C. I don’t hear you. D. It’s your turn.

36. —Mike didn’t notice the sign ____ it was right in front of him.

—How careless he is!

A. because B. but C. though D. unless

37. —Could I use your phone?

—Yes, of course you ____ .

A. can B. could C. would D. will

38. —Do you know what the meeting is about？

—Yes, of course. It will _____some important rules we need to know

about our school.

A. talk B. cover C. achieve D. memorize

39. —As teenagers, we should _____ seats to anyone in need when taking

a bus.

—I agree with you.

A. refuse B. offer C. help D. send

40. —Could you tell me ____________ ?

--Sure. You can take the No3 bus to get there.

A. where is the airport

B. how soon can I get to the airport

C. how far is it from the airport

D. how I can get to the airport

三．完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A,B,C,D四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

“Never give up!” It is my law of my life. It has brought me ___41___. I learned the law from my father’s ___42___ story.

My father was ___43___ in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu, in China. When he was a young boy, he went to a school in the morning, then ___44___ in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework ___45___ midnight. Life was hard, because they had no ___46___!

At the age of 14, my father heard of the United States. It was the land of gold, the land where ___47___ people can become rich.

“___48___ don’t I go to America?” he thought to himself, full of hope.

So, my father came to America. “I had thought it was easy to ___49___ money in America,” he told me. “But when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire me because I spoke ___50___ English. Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables, ___51___ dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was ___52___ for the first few years. I worked from 10am to 11pm. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was impossible. I couldn’t ___53___ the schooling.”