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1、1初三英语质量抽查试卷C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给): (14 分)The Economist Intelligence Unit (经济学人情报组) is the worlds leading resource for economic and business research . Every year, the EIU makes a list of the best cities to live in a_86_the wor
2、ld. It has its own ideas for scoring, for example: Is the city s_87_? Is the air clean? Are the schools good? Melbourne is at the t _88_of the list in every category. people get along well there. Trees and grass c_89_ 40 percent of the city. People ride streetcars (有轨电车) and there arent many cars ,s
3、_90_ the air is clean .As a result, according to the EIUs survey, Melbourne is the best city in the world to live in.Vienna is NO.2 on the list. It is the capital of Austria. The city is famous for its culture and art. As the city of music, Vienna has a lot of big c_91_.The third city on the list is
4、 Vancouver, Canada. It used to be No.1 on the list .But this time , the city got f_92_ points because of its traffic jams .Will it get its place back next year ?初三英语质量抽查试卷C) Read the passage and fill the blanks with proper words (在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给) (14 分)The Empire State Building(帝国大
5、厦 ) has held a special place in the hearts of Americans since it was completed in 1931.It r_86_ more than 443 metres into the sky. For more than forty years , it was the tallest building in the world.It has one hundred and three levels and six thousand five hundred windows. Visitors can ride in one
6、of seventy-three elevators that take them from the b_87_ to very near the top of the building. Some of these elevators are very fast, reaching the eightieth floor in only forty-five seconds.The heads of government of almost every n_88_ in the world have visited the Empire State Building. These impor
7、tant people are just a few of million who have ridden to the observation area near the top of the building each year. From there, visitors can see almost all of New York City. They can see the view a _89_ the Hudson River into the state of New Jersey. They can see ships in the East River.Even if you
8、 have never visited New York, there is a good chance for you to see the Empire State Building. It has been photographed c _90_ times. It has even played parts in movies. One is about a huge ape(猿)that escapes and climbs to the top of the building. The movie is “King Kong”(金刚). It was made in 1933. T
9、he Empire State Building also appeared in the love story “An Affair to Remember”(金玉盟).Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr play a man and a woman who meet and fall in love on a ship. They are looking at the New York City skyline from the ship when they plan a future meeting. More recently, in “Sleepless in S
10、eattle(西雅图未眠夜)”，two people in love agree to meet at the Observation Deck on Valentines Day(情人节). B_91_ do arrive, but one is a little later. They almost m _92_each other.In the early nineteen seventies, the Empire State Building lost its place as the tallest building in New York. People in the city
11、then had the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center to look up to. Tragically that all changed on the morning of September 11,2001. Terrorists hijacked(劫持) passenger airplanes into the Twin Towers and destroyed them. The Empire State Building again has become the citys tallest building. 2初三英语质量抽查试卷CR
12、ead the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)：(14 分)What would you choose, if you were sitting in front of a TV and there was a book right next to you? The answer will most p 86 be the TV! Young people would certainly choose the TV, but you will be surp
13、rised to find out that the older o 87 will at least hesitate about choosing it. Why is this? Are the books not as interesting as they used to be? Is it that the world has changed so much in recent years that our habits are not the same anymore?Nowadays many people have no interest in literature(文学).
14、 This may be a possible explanation. Another r 88 might be the change of lifestyle (生活方式). We are more 1 89 to visit a club or a bar to relax ourselves after a long days work, rather than read a book in the comfort of our own homes. People are more outgoing than they used to be. All the stress(压力 )o
15、f work makes us want a quick relaxing means. Perhaps, most of us do not have the patience to read anymore. It is much s 90 to turn on the TV and watch the latest news around the world than read 19th century literature!With all the TV programs, every one of us can find an interesting show or movie to
16、 watch. Whats better than getting into b 91 with the remote control(遥控器 ) and falling asleep whenever you wish? You are the master of all the TV programs. The only disadvantage is that TV will never p 92 you with all the facts that a book can do. TV is much more superficial (肤浅的)than books, even if it does get you relaxed in just a moment!初三英语质量抽查试卷C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with the proper words(在短文的空格
