山东省济南市中考英语冲刺基础练习 倒计时（第12天）. 选择填空1. By the time of last week, they more than 2，000 stamps. A. have collected B. collected C. had collected D. collecting2. Is it true that some colors can make us feel relaxed? Yes. Colors do have the to change our feelings and moods. A. secret B. power C. idea D. experience3. Doctor, do you think I have got a bad cold? Maybe. But I cant say that before I you. A. create B. warn C. examine D. prove4. Tina and I are good friends. Our began 10 years ago. A. message B. friendship C. suggestion D. education5. Our teacher makes us more confident. A. to feel B. feeling C. feel D. felt6. The concert for 10 minutes when I arrived. A. had started B. had been on C. had begun D. has been on7. We should go to school by bus instead of by car. Yeah, cars we use, pollution there will be. A. fewer; less B. less; fewer C. the less; the fewer D. the fewer; the less8. Tom wont e unless he . A. was invited B. invites C. is invited D. will be invited9. Dont people like that. Its rude. A. give up B. stare at C. take place D. talk 10. My most moment was trying to introduce a person whose name I couldnt remember. Every time this kind of thing happens, I feel . A. embarrassing; embarrassing B. embarrassing; embarrassed C. embarrassed; embarrassed D. embarrassed; embarrassingII. 完形填空 请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A,B,C,D四个选项中，选出最佳选项填入空白处。 Could we look back some day and say that Warren Buffetts greatest genius(天才) was finding two talented people to replace(代替)him? These two people are Ted Weschler, aged 56，and Todd bs，aged 46，who have been chosen by Buffett as money managers to begin to 11 the key investment(投资)operations of Berkshire Hathaway. But how did Ted and Todd catch Buffetts 12 ? These are the only two persons I could find. who read as 13 as I did, Buffett says with a laugh. Actually hes not really kidding. Both Ted and Todd spend lots of time 14 . Ted spends half a day reading many materials like 15 and trade periodicals(期刊). In a recent interview，Ted 16 that to bee a successful investor, one needs to be hungry, curious and read all the time. Different kinds of reading will allow you to 17 things that might give you an insight(洞察力)to where a business is going in five years. And Todd describes himself as a book with legs. He gets up at around 7 or 8 a.m. and reads 18 about 7 or 8 p. m. . After dinner; he also leads for 19 hour or two in bed. Whats the secret for financial success? It seems that 20 a habit of reading really matters.11. A. take off B. take over C. take in D. take down12. A. leg B. hand C. eye D. breath13. A. many B. little C. few D. much14. A. working B. reading C. sleeping D. thinking15. A. newspapers B. films C. TV series D. cartoons16.A. turned out B. pointed to C. pointed out D. turned to17. A. connect B. contact C. municate D. plete18. A. at B. for C. until D. during19. A. the other B. another C. other D.the others20. A. developing B. growing C. raising D. plantingIII阅读理解Housework is an endless argument between lazy husbands and their hard-working wives, but women are warned not to expect men to share housework any time soon. A study from Oxford University has found it seems impossible for men to be doing an equal share of housework before 2050. Mothers will continue to shoulder the burden(负担) of childcare and housework for the next forty years, largely because housework such as cleaning and cooking is still thought of to be “womens work”. The gap(鸿沟) has narrowed slowly over the past 40 years. Women expect true equality(平等). But what makes them down is that it will take another forty years before it is achieved. The research found that in the northern Europe, the burden of housework is shared more equally between men and women. In the UK, a woman spends around four hours and forty minutes each day on housework, pared with two hours and twenty-eight minutes for men. This is an improvement from the 1960s, when British women typically(典型地) spent six hours a day on housework, while men spent just 90 minutes every day. But progress towards housework equality appears to be slowing in some countries. Dr Oriel Sullivan,a research reader, said, “weve looked at what is influencing the equality in the home, and we have found that certain tasks