2015年精编初中英语教学与评估（七） - 图文(2)

________ Feng________ 9, she fell in love with her first roller-skating shoes at first sight. 68 the railway, easier, makes, in China, of, travelling, much, the development (连词成句) ____________________________________________________

Part 3 Reading and Writing（第三部分读写） VI. Reading comprehension（阅读理解）（共 so分）

A. Choose the best answer (根据短文内容,选择最恰当的答案) (12分)

Have you ever heard of a car called the Mustang? It is named after a type of wild horse.

In the 1600s, Native Americans got horses from the Spanish explorers（探险者） who came to North America. Some of these horses escaped onto the grasslands. With no one to look after them or ride them, they became wild and their numbers quickly grew. They ran free and ate the grass on the grassland.

Later, when more people made homes in the west, they needed horses. They tried to catch the wild ones. This was hard to do. Wild horses could run very fast. They did not want to be caught.

Some men made their living by catching wild horses and then raising them and selling them. These men were called \

After cars were invented, people did not need as many horses. Not as many mustangers were needed to catch them. More and more wild horses ran free on the western grasslands. In 1925, about a million wild horses were running loose.