黄浦区初三英语第一学期期末质量抽查试卷

D. Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题)：(12分)

On 3 July 2003, a 35-year-old Englishman called Doug Bruce walked into a police station in New York, and told the police that he did not know his own name. He had woken up a few minutes earlier on a subway train, with a headache, and had no idea where he was going or who he was. "I was frightened," he said later, when talking about the experience. "I didn't know anything. It was like being in the darkness."

Doug went to the police station because he had nowhere else to go. He was wearing a T-shirt, shorts and had a bag with something in it: a Spanish book, a bunch of keys and a map of New York. The police were confused. "We 'd never had anything like this before," said a policeman. They sent Doug to a hospital. On his name card the nurse wrote "unknown white man".

The doctors were surprised at his memory loss. Although Doug could make sentences without difficulty, he remembered nothing about his own past. One doctor at the hospital said that he only ever seen such a serious diseases "in the movies and books."

The hospital would not let Doug to go until he had come to himself. Finally, hospital staff came across a phone number in his Spanish book. It was the number of his friend. Doug phoned and she recognized his voice at once. "Is that you, Doug?" she said. His friend went to the hospital, told the doctors who Doug was, and took him home.

"Home" turned out to be a perfect flat in downtown Manhattan, which he shared with two dogs and three birds. Doug discovered that he had once lived in Paris, where he had made a lot of money working at a big company. Then he had got tired of the business world, and so he left and went to New York for a four-your course in photography.

Now that Doug and discovered himself, he had to deal with other difficulties. He was worried about meeting his family and friends. They seemed like strangers to him. His sisters told him that he had changed; before his memory loss, he seldom showed his feelings in public. Now he has become much more relaxed and doesn't fear showing his feelings.

93. Why did Doug Bruce go to a police station?

94. How did the doctors feel at Doug's case?

95. What could Doug Bruce do after he lost his memory?

96. Who recognized Doug and took him home?

97. Where did Doug live with two dogs and three birds?

98. What were the difficulties Doug had to deal with after he discovered himself?

嘉定区初三英语第一学期期末质量抽查试卷

D. Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题)：( 12分)

In the busy city of New York, such an astonishing thing ever happened.

On a Friday night, a poor young artist' stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. Many people slowed down their paces-and put some money into the hat of the young man.

The next day, the young artist came to the gate of the subway station, and put his hat on the ground gracefully. Different from the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it on me ground and put some stones on it. Before long, the young violinist ,was surrounded with people, who were all attracted by the words on that paper. It said, "Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put an important thing into my hat by mistake. Please come to claim it soon."

Seeing this, it caused a great excitement and people wondered what it could be. After about half an hour, a middle-aged man ran there in a hurry and rushed through the crowd to the violinist and grabbed his shoulders and said, "Yes, it's you. You did come here. I knew that you're an honest man and would certainly come here"

The young violinist asked calmly, “Are you Mr. George Sang?"

The man nodded. The violinist asked, "Did you lose something?"

"Lottery, it’s lottery," said the man.

The violinist took out a lottery ticket on which George Sang's name was seen. "Is it?" he asked.

George nodded promptly and seized the lottery ticket and kissed it, and then he danced with the violinist.

The story turned out to be this: George Sang is an office clerk. He bought a lottery ticket issued by a bank a few days ago. The awards opened yesterday and he won a prize of $500,000. So he felt very happy after work and felt the music was so wonderful, that he took out 50 dollars and put in the hat. However the lottery ticket was also thrown in. The violinist was a student at an Arts College and had planned to attend advanced studies in Vienna. He had booked the ticket and! would fly that morning. However when he was cleaning up he found the lottery ticket. Thinking that the owner would return to look for it, he cancelled-the flight and came pack to where he was given the lottery ticket.

Later someone asked the violinist: "At that time you were in needed to pay the tuition fee and you had to play the violin in the subway station every day to make the money. Then why didn't you take the lottery ticket for yourself?"

The violinist said, "Although I don't have much money, I live happily; but if I lose honesty I won't be happy forever."

93. Where did the poor young artist play the violin?

He played his violin               in New York.

94. What attracted the people, the music or the words on the paper?

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95. What did George Sang put into the young artist's hat on Friday?

He put into the hat.

96. Why did the young artist cancel the flight to Vienna?

Because he                                           .

97. The young artist didn't need money, did he?

________,                      .

98. What can we learn from the young artist?

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金山区初三英语第一学期期末质量抽查试卷

D. Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题): (12分)

This letter was sent to a newspaper in Germany.

13 October

Dear Editor

I am writing to ask what has happened to our youth. They are not as polite, hard-working or clever as my generation. I will give you two examples.

Last Friday, I got on the underground at 9.15 a.m. It was very busy so there were no free seats. There were some teenagers sitting on the seats nearest me. I don’t know why they were not at school. They were talking loudly and laughing. It was difficult to read my newspaper with all the noise. A heavily pregnant(怀孕的)woman and her daughter got on at the next stop, with lots of shopping bags. I expected the teenagers to let them sit down. They saw the woman but did nothing. I had to ask them to give her a seat. They reluctantly(勉强地)did so but gave me a rude look. I got off at the next stop and was glad that the teenagers didn’t follow me.

Last Saturday, I had dinner with my friend’s family. I was looking forward to meeting his children, who I hadn’t seen for ten years. During dinner, we started talking about world politics. It soon became clear that they didn’t know much. They couldn’t tell me the name of the King of Spain or the President of Italy. All they knew about was the internet and which singers were the most beautiful. In my day, students knew the kings, queens and presidents of every country in Europe.

I worry about the future of Germany. How could these young people become responsible workers and parents? They sit around Mcdonald’s after school instead of going to the library like I did at their age. Maybe they have too much money. Perhaps another reader can give us an idea about what to do with this ‘lost generation’.

Franz Vogts

Hamburg

93. Who was the letter sent to?

It was sent to ____________ of a newspaper in Germany.

94. How did Mr. Vogts travel last Friday?

He travelled ______________________________________.

95. During the dinner, the children seemed to know much about politics, didn't they?

____________,______________________________________.

96. What is the Mr. Vogts' worry?

_________________________________________ is Mr. Vogts' worry.

97. What did Mr. Vogts do after school when he was young?

___________________________________________________.

98. What do you think your generation? Why?

___________________________________________________.