初三英语阅读理解与完型填空练习题及答案

完形填空 A)

Do you know the history of bowling(保龄球)? Scientists think that a game like bowling was ___ 1 in Egypt thousands of years ago. Things look like the balls and bowling pins were found buried(埋葬) with a child who __2 around 5,200 B. C.

People who study history know that the game was popular in Germany around 200-300 A.D. It was played in some churches in order to __3__ that they were very good Christians. When people bowled poorly, they had to go to church more ___4__ than the others.

The first bowling place was built inside a very big building and __5__ in England in 1455. Then the game was taken to the United States where most people played it outside just for fun.

During the 1800s, many people in the United States began to bowl for ___6__, so several cities made the game illegal(违法的. And later, a group ____7__ the American Bowling Congress (ABC) began around 1900. The job of this group was to clean up bowling and make it a gentleman’s game again. At that time, the game was mostly played by men. If women played, they ____8__a curtain up so that the men were not able to see them.

Then, in 1916, a woman’s ___9___ named the Women’s International Bowling Congress (WIBC) made a point of showing that the game was fine for ___10___ men and women.

1. A. done B. played C. seen D. watched

2. A. died B. was dying C. dead D. death

3. A. tell B. show C. look D. say

4. A. possible B. often C. time D. chance

5. A. closed B. built C. opened D. stopped

6. A. fun B. pleasure C. money D. health

7. A. calling B. calls C. naming D. named

8. A. hanged B. hang C. hung D. hunged

9. A. party B. group C. class D. kind

10. A. between B. both C. all D. whole

B)How often one hears children wishing they were grown-ups. And old people wishing they were 1 again. Each age has its pleasure and its pains, and the happiest person always enjoys what each age 2 him without wasting his time in useless regrets.

Childhood is a time when there are 3 responsibilities(责任)to make life better. If a child has good parents, he is raised, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is 4 that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. But a child has his 5 . He is not so free to do what he wishes to do. He is 6 being told not to do something, or being punished for what he has wrongly done.
 

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