湖北省武汉市2014届九年级元月模拟英语试题(5)

My father ___54___ working hard, and reached his goal!

“Alan,” he often says to me, “If you want something, you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come___55___ in life.” That is what I learned from my father.

( ) 41. A.disaster B.loss C.success D.pity

( ) 42. A.life B. fashion C. danger D. history

( ) 43. A.famous B.lucky C. rich D.born

( ) 44. A.taught B.worked C.studied D.slept

( ) 45. A.until B.toward C.for D.during

( ) 46. A.experience B.energy C.time D.money

( ) 47. A.kind B.poor C.strong zy

( ) 48. A.What B.How C.Why D.When

( ) 49. A.discover B.make C.collect D.spend

( ) 50. A.little B.good C.much D.excellent

( ) 51. A.giving B.running C.washing D.receiving

( ) 52. fortable B.cheerful C.nice D.hard

( ) 53. A.borrow B.need C.afford D.pay

( ) 54. A.kept B.finished C.minded D.stopped

( ) 55. A.really B.easily C.quietly D.slowly

四． 阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列材料，从每题所给的A,B,C,D四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

A

Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The next building only was a few feet away from mine. They was a woman lived there, and I had never met her, yet I could see she sat by her window each afternoon, drinking or reading. After a few months, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself. “I wonder why that woman doesn’t clean her window. It really looks terrible.”

One sunny morning I decided to clean my house, including washing the window.

Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible (看见). Her window was clean! It dawned on me. I had been criticizing (批评) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.

That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at others through the dirty window of my heart?

Since then, whenever I wanted to judge (评判) someone, I asked myself first, “Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.

56. The writer couldn’t see everything clearly through the window because