完形填空
通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个可以填入短文空白处的最佳选项。
Do you like sports? All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports can help people to keep healthy, happy and to live 1 . What sports do you like? People often play different games in 2 winter and summer. Summer is good 3 swimming. And in winter people often go skating. Some sports are very popular around the world 4 basketball, football and running. Do you often run? Are you good at it? Here is a funny story about running!
Peter and Mike are in the same class. Peter was born 5 a poor family. But Mike’s father is a shopkeeper and is 6 . When Peter gets into trouble, Mike always 7 him. Peter likes to have sports. And he is good at running. 8 can catch up with him in his school and he often wins the 400-meter race.
It was Sunday. Mike and Peter went to a forest to have a picnic. Mike took a lot of 9 there. They ate and drank and then began to go fishing in the river. The two boys enjoyed 10 themselves there. Suddenly they 11 a great noise. They looked around and found it was 12 behind a big tree. They were both very 13 . Peter put on his shoesand was going to run away. Mike 14 him and said, “It’s no use for us. The tiger runs 15 than us. Let’s find a way.’ “It doesn’t matter,’ said Peter. “ I’m sure I’ll run faster than you!”
Don’t you think you should learn to run fast?
1．A. shorter B. longer C. slower D. faster
2．A. all B. every C. both D. each
3．A. at B. in C. for D. on
4．A. for example B. such as C. so on D. for short
5．A. in B. for C. on D. with
6．A. hard B. poor C. rich D. unhappy
7．A. helps B. asks C. wants D. teaches
8．A. Nobody B. Everyone C. Anybody D. Someone
9．A. books B. clothes C. food D. movies
10．A. listened B. listened to C. heard D. watched
11．A. a lion B. a tiger C. a man D. a runner
12．A. excited B. bored C. tired D. afraid
13．A. slowly B. asked C. wondered D. told
14．A. stopped B. asked C. wondered D. told
15．A. more slowly B. much faster C. less faster D. much slowly