上海中考英语首字母填空专项练习

上海中考英语首字母填空专项练习

‎ 模块十九：首字母填空 一、首字母填空解题技巧 首字母填空是阅读体中的一个重点和难点，但是只要掌握良好的解题技巧，静下心来认真对待，细心捉摸就一定能攻克这一堡垒。在做这道题是一般应该把握好如下步骤：‎ 1、 通读全文，理解短文大意，判断需填选项的词性，同时将一眼能够得出的答案迅速填上。‎ 2、 在理解作者的写作意图上进行换位思考，把自己想象成作者去努力使文章完整、通顺。对于一下子拿不定主意的空项要及时跳过，而不能在上面纠缠，因为往往后面的内容会给予更好的提示。‎ 3、 进一步阅读全文，力求整篇文章完整通顺，且符合情理，否则宁缺勿乱。‎ 4、 检查每一个答案的正确性，包括名词的数、动词的时态、形容词和副词的准确运用等等。‎ 二、例题分析：‎ A The earth moves round the s 1 . When our part of the earth turns to the sun, it is d  2  .When our part of the earth turns a  3   from the sun, it is night. The sun is much bigger than the moon. But sometimes the moon looks bigger than the sun, because it is much n  4   to the earth.The sun is very bright. It gives very strong l  5  . The moon looks quite bright, but it d  6   give any light at all. The light from the moon comes f  7   the sun. The moon looks much bigger and brighter t  8   the stars. But in fact the stars are a lot bigger and brighter than the m  9  . They look smaller than the moon because they are f  10   away from the earth.‎ ‎【解题指导】     本文是一篇科普文章。第一段说明了地球因自转而产生昼夜交替。第二、四两段说明了人们观看月亮、太阳和星星时发生的近大远小的视觉现象，第三段说明了太阳与月亮发光与反光的特征。本文每一个考点都是对天文知识的考查。因此，没有一定的天文常识，则不易读懂本文，更不用说解题了。近年来，中考完形填空的题材趋于多样化。人物、科普、史地、故事、政治、经济、风土人情，均为选材范围，这就要求考生知识广博、视野开阔、广泛涉猎。‎ ‎【答案及简析】     1. sun. 地球围绕太阳运转是天文常识。     2. day. 地球面对太阳的半个球面是白天。     3. away. turn away from意为“背离”。地球上背对太阳的一面是夜晚。     4. nearer. much 后接比较级。和太阳比起来月亮离地球近多了。     5. light. give light意为“发光”。太阳是发光体。     6. doesn’t. 月亮不发光。     7. from. 月亮反射太阳的光，人们所看到的月亮的光来自于太阳。     8. than. 由空前的bigger and brighter 可知，此处应填表示比较的连词than。     9. moon. 根据文意，下句的they代指空格所在句子的主语the stars。因此两句中than后的应是同一物，即moon。     10. farther. 恒星看起来比月亮小，是因为它们离地球比月亮远。从句中的than the moon承前省略。此空仍应该用比较级。‎ ‎ B Dogs are good pets. They are very f  1   to people and also very beautiful. Most dogs get on very well with c  2   and their parents. Others are good watch-dogs because they cry loudly when a s  3arrives.  When you buy a dog, an important thing to think about is its s  4  ---buy a small dog if your home is small and a bigger one if y  5   is larger. Many people don’t know how much to feed their dogs. Dogs eat a  6   anything! They like meat, rice and lots of other things. You can buy lots of food  m  7   for dogs in shops. Don’t let your dogs eat too much. Feed it only once a day. Always l  8   water for your dog. It can get thirsty very quickly, especially in s  9  .  Remember that dogs need e  10  . You should take it for a walk every day. Don’t keep your dog inside all day.‎ ‎【解题指导】‎ 本文最突出的一个特点就是决大多数需填词的后面都有一句或两句话的内容是对所填词的内容进行补充说明的。因此，同学们在做这种类型的题时，一定要注意分析上下文的内容，进行推理和归纳，正确的理解句意，最后决定出最佳的词及其正确形式。 ‎ ‎【答案及简析】     1. friendly. 人们之所以把狗作为宠物来养，主要是因为它们比较通人性，且对人很友好，能给人们带来欢乐。根据“be very f  1   to people”来分析，此空应填一个形容词，表明狗对人的态度。friend是名词，friendly是形容词，故friendly是正确答案。     2. children. 宠物狗自然是在家中养， 它们除了听主人的话以外，与家中的小主人即孩子也是好朋友。由于是指大多数家庭的情况，并受their一词的提示，此处应填“孩子”的复数形式，即children。     3. stranger. 狗的天性是护家。文中的watch-dogs意为“看家狗”，专门指有生人来时发出叫喊的狗。“生人”在英文中即为stranger。     4. size. 这个空略微有点难。一是size一词平时用得较少，二是一般家庭都养小型犬，供狗活动的空间一般不成问题，因此，对狗的体积问题考虑的较少。从后面的句子来看，此处是在谈狗的体积的问题——“如果你的家小，就买一只小狗；如果你的家大，就买一只大狗。”     5. yours. 这是一个名词性物主代词，代替上半句的your home。此句完整的说法应是buy a small dog if your home is small and buy a bigger one if your home is larger. 为避免词的重复使用，在英文句子中常用名词性物主代词代替前面的那个名词。 6. almost. “狗几乎什么都吃。”这一点我们从日常生活中也都知道，而且本句话的后面也进行了进一步的解释说明，“他们喜欢吃肉，米饭和其它的东西。”     7. made. 这是make的过去分词，在这里与for dogs一起做定语，修饰food，整句的意思是“你可以在食品店买到许多为狗做的食物。”这个空也是一个难点。若没有正确理解句意，很容易写成meat。     8. leave. 有养狗经验的同学都知道，每天一定要给狗留下供它喝的水。狗是靠舌头来散热的，因此它极易渴，特别是在夏天。     9. summer. 如果了解了狗的这一生理功能（靠舌头来散热），就不难填出summer一词。     10. exercise. 如果想让狗养成好习惯并不生病的话，就必须每天带它出去散步。从下面的句子You should take it for a walk every day. Don’t keep your dog inside all day. 来看，说明狗也需要运动。exercise当“运动”讲时， 是一个不可数名词，不能在词尾加s。 ‎ ‎【基础题】‎ ‎1‎ A driver stopped his car on a street side to have a rest. He lay down in the seat and c_____ his eyes. A man came up and k_____ at the window to ask the time. The driver o______ his eyes and looked at his watch. "It's 8 am. " he said. Then he went to sleep again.‎ But soon he woke up b________ a second person was knocking at the window. "Sir, do you have the time?" he asked. The driver looked at his watch again, and told the man it was 8:30am.‎ At this rate, he could not have a good rest, so he wrote a short n_______ and put it upon the window for all to see. It s_______: "I don't have the time. "‎ Again the man lay down in the seat for his sleep. A few minutes later, a t______ person came along and began knocking at the window. “Hay, sir,” he said. "It is a quarter to nine."‎ Keys: closed, knocked, opened, because, note, said, third.‎ ‎2‎ It was Sunday. I never get up e________ on Sundays. I sometime s_____ in bed until lunch time. Last Sunday I got up very l_______. I looked out of the window. It was d______ outside. "What a day!" I thought. "It is raining again." Just then, the telephone rang. It was my Aunt Lucy. "I have just arrived by train," she said. "I am c_____ to see you."‎ But I am s_____ having my breakfast," I said. " "What are you doing?" she asked.‎ I am having breakfast," I r______. "Dear me.‎" she said. "Do you always get up so late? It's one o'clock!"‎ Keys: early, stay, late, dark, coming, still, replied.‎ ‎3‎ Until a few years ago, only boys could become s________ at the University of Ruritania (鲁里坦尼亚). Later the university decided to take girls in. But one of the teachers, Mr. Goller was not pleased at all. He had not wanted to l_____ girl students in.‎ Mr. Goiter always began his lesson with the word Gentlemen". What could he do now? Well, when the girt students came to his lesson for the f________ time, he still began with the word. For him the girls were j________ not there. Then one day there was only one boy in his class among a lot of girls. For a moment, Mr. Goller didn't k____ what to do. Then he began. "Sir!"‎ F_______, a terrible day came when there were no boys in his class. He came into the room, looked at the girls and said, "Oh, nobody's here today!" He turned and went out w_______ giving his lessons.‎ Keys: students, let, first, just, know, finally, without.‎ ‎4‎ In 1995, Ray Kroc v________ a small restaurant in California. The o________ of it was the McDonald brothers. They built it b______ the road, so people could drive up to the restaurant, buy food without g______ out of their cars and drive away easily. They called it "drive-in" restaurant.‎ Ray Kroc saw the bright f________ of the restaurant of this kind. He bought the restaurant and used the brothers' family name for his new r________. The first McDonald's restaurant chain was born.‎ Now in the United States, there are more than 5.000 restaurants and it has its chain restaurants in ‎ 60 other countries. The l________ McDonald's restaurant is in Beijing. China. It has 1,000 workers. About 700 people can sit and eat there at one time.‎ Keys: visited, owners, beside, going, future, restaurant, largest.‎ ‎ ‎ ‎5.‎ Millions and millions of years ago, the world was much w________ than it is now. There was never any winter or snow. Warm rain fell on the land. Even the sea was warm. In this warm world lived some beasts called dinosaurs. They were the kings of the world for a long time.‎ In the days of the dinosaurs there were no human beings. So no man has ever seen a r________ dinosaur. But we found a lot about the dinosaurs after years of study. Some dinosaurs lived near the water w_______ some lived on land. Some ate only plants and some ate other a________.‎ After millions of years, something h________ to the dinosaurs. They began to die out at once. No one knows what happened. But we know that the world grew a little colder. Maybe the dinosaurs could live when it was very warm, and they died out when it became cold. But we are not sure. All we know is that the dinosaurs were the kings of the world for a long time. And no animals like them have ever been seen a______.‎ Keys: warmer, real, while, animals, happened, once, again.‎ ‎6.‎ A woman saw three old men sitting in front of the house. She said. "You must be h_______.‎ come in and have something to eat."‎ ‎"We do not go into a house together." they replied. "Why is that?" asked the woman. One of the old men e________, "His name is Wealth, this is Success, and I am Love." Then he went on to say. "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home."‎ Then the woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband said. "Let's invite Wealth! Let him come and fill our home with wealth!" His wife d_______, "My dear, why don't we invite Success?" Then the daughter made a s________, "Would it be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!" "Let's take our daughter's advice," said the father.‎ Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other two also got up and f_______ him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success, "I only invite Love. Why are you coming in with him?"‎ The old men answered t________, "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would have stayed out, s_______ you invited Love, there is also Wealth and Success!"‎ Keys: hungry, explained, disagreed, suggestion, followed, together, since ‎7.‎ When you want to go s________, decide how much money you can s_____ on new clothes. Think about the kind of clothes you really need. Then look for those clothes on sale.‎ There are labels(标签)inside all new clothes. The labels tell you how to take care of your clothes. The label for a shirt may tell you to wash it in w________ water. A sweater label may tell you to wash it in cold water The label on a coat may say "dry clean only". If you do as the d_________ say on the label, you can keep your clothes looking their best. Many clothes must be dry cleaned. Dry cleaning is expensive. When buying new clothes, check to see if they will need to be dry cleaned. You will save money if you buy clothes that can be washed.‎ You can save money if you buy clothes that are well made. Well-made clothes l_______ longer. They look good even after they have been washed many times. Clothes that c________ more money are not always better made. They do not always fit better. Sometimes l______ expensive clothes look and fit better than more expensive clothes.‎ Keys: shopping, spend, warm, directions, money, last, cost, less, ‎ ‎8.‎ When Albert Einstein started to work in America, someone asked him what he needed. He said he needed a desk, some paper and pencils. He also asked for a big waste-paper basket to hold a_____ of his mistakes. This meant that he knew even the cleverest man in the world can only learn by making m________. Einstein regarded time as something very i________. He never wore socks and he thought p________ on socks was a waste of time as people already wore shoes. He also thought it was a waste of time remembering things that could quickly be found in a b________. That is w______ he never remembered his own phone number, which was in the phone book. He knew what was worth remembering. It is that if we are going to do great things in our lives, we cannot waste our time.‎ Einstein liked to j_______ too. Once in an examination a student asked him why all the questions were the same as last year's. Einstein said the questions were the same but the answers were d____‎ Keys: any, mistakes, important, putting, book, why, true, joke, different ‎9.‎ Now satellites are to forecast the weather. They are in s______, and they can reach any part of the world. The satellites take the pictures of the atmosphere, because this is where the weather forms. They send these pictures to the weather station. So the scientists there can see the weather of any part of the world and tell how the weather will c______. Today, n_______ 500 weather stations in 60 countries can receive satellite pictures. When they receive the new pictures, they compare them with the e_______ ones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have changed d_____ the last few hours. This may m______ that the weather on the ground may soon change, too. In their next weather forecast, they can tell people about it.‎ So the weather satellites are of great h______ to the scientists at the station. In the past they could forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours. Now they can make good forecast for 3 or 5 days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather for a week or m_______ ahead.‎ Keys: space, change, nearly, earlier, during, mean, help, more.‎ ‎10.‎ Most parents always think that they have offered the best things they can to make their children live in a c________ world. They buy their children pretty clothes, cool shoes, strange but e______ school things, and a thousand-yuan-cost bike. They think that they have done e they can for their dear little children. In _______, they only want their children to give them good results in the examinations.‎ But their little children still can't understand them. Why? Does it m_______ that they still want more material things? No! As a matter of fact, what they want is a true family. What does a true family mean? I think it means a place where we can hide o_____ from the outside cold world. From here, we can get warmth. We can get consolation(安慰), and we can get h______. And one ‎ important thing is that we should be stronger and more confident in the outside world because we know that we have a family.‎ Keys: comfortable, expensive, everything, return, mean, ourselves, help, ‎ ‎11.‎ In Spain there once l ______ a king and he was very fond of joke. "I will give a bag full of gold." he said, "to the person who can tell me the best story. There is only one r____, it must be a story which I can not believe. If I can believe it. then I won't give away the bag of gold."‎ People came to the king from all parts of the c_______. They brought strange and w________ stories. The king sat in his palace and listen to all the stories. He e_______ them very much, but to each person he said. "I can believe that story. It could h________ and it may be true. So I won't give you the bag of gold."‎ At last a poor old man came to the palace. He was carrying a huge stone jar. The old man went into the king's room and said. "Oh, King, your good father was once a poor man and my father was rich. They were very good friends. My father gave your father a large bag like this one.‎ and it was full of gold. Your father p________ to give back the gold when he became rich. But he didn't give it back. Now I am poor and you are rich. And I want the gold. ‎ The king didn't believe the story and he had to give the poor old man the bag of gold.‎ Keys: lived, joke, country, wonderful, enjoyed, happen, promised. ‎ ‎12‎ Dear Smith,‎ Thank you very much for your letter. I am glad that you enjoyed your h________ with me. We enjoyed having you and your sister here. We hope that you will b______ be able to come again next year. Perhaps you'll be able to s______ longer next time you come. A week is not really long e________, is it? If your school has five weeks holiday next year, perhaps you will be able to stay with us for two or three weeks.‎ We have been long b________ at school for three weeks. It feels like three months! I know that you are working very hard now that you are in Grade One. I shall have to work hard next year when I am in Grade One.‎ Tom and Ann went for a picnic yesterday but I did not go with them b________ I cut my foot and I couldn't walk very well. They went to an island and enjoyed themselves there. Do you still remember the island? That is where all five of us s________ the last day of our holiday.‎ We send our best wishes to Betty and you. We hope to see you soon.‎ Yours sincerely. Michael KEYS: holiday, both, stay, enough, back, because, spent ‎13.‎ We know the mosquito very well. Mosquitoes fly everywhere. They can be found almost all over the world, and there are more than 2,500 k______ of them. No one 1________the mosquito. But the mosquito may decide what she loves. She? Yes, she. It is true that male mosquito doesn't bite and only the female mosquito bites because she needs blood to lay e______. She is always looking for things or p________ she wants to bite. If she likes what she finds, she bites. But if she doesn't like your blood, she will turn to someone e________ for more delicious blood. Next time a ‎ mosquito bites you just remember you are c_______. You are different from the others.‎ If the mosquito likes you, she lands on your body w________ letting you know. She bites you so quickly and q________ that you may not feel anything different.‎ Keys: kind, likes, eggs, people, else, chosen, without, quietly ‎14.‎ My grandfather was a teacher. He was the headmaster of a school for boys between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. I know that he was a kind man when I was young (and he was old), he gave me presents, and sat me on his k______ and told me s_______. But I believe the boys at his school were a_______ of him. At school, when he walked into a room full of naughty boys, they stopped t______ at once. When he looked at a boy with a certain look in his eyes, that boy was red in the face, and looked down at his s_______. If a boy brought him p______ homework, my grandfather would pick up the boy's book and throw it across the room, shouting.‎ ‎"Do it again, and bring it back first thing in the morning!" If the boy was late, or if he f______ to bring his work, he had to do it again, and again, and yet again.‎ Keys: knees, stories, afraid, talking, shoes, poor, forgot ‎15.‎ No one knows why we sleep, but it is certain that we need to. People who are prevented from sleeping begin to suffer obvious effects after a few days---they think l_____ clearly, and they fall asleep d_____ the working hours. There are no rules about sleep. Generally speaking, grown-ups sleep about 7 and a half hours each night, and probably more than 60% get b______ seven and eight hours. But perhaps eight percent are quite happy with 5 hours or less, and four percent or so feel that they want ten hours or more. If you feel all right, you are probably getting e______ sleep. The important thing is not how much other people get. Their need may be different. Exercise doesn't seem to increase the need for sleep. Office workers, for example, sleep for about as long as people doing physically active work. C_____ sleep more than grown-ups do. Sleep patterns also tend to be different in the old people, who may sleep less at night than they did w_____ they were younger. They find sleep getting more broken, and often make it a rest to sleep during the d______.‎ Keys: less, during, between, enough, Children, when, daytime ‎16.‎ The police do many things for us. They help keep our things and us safe. They help keep cars m______ safely. They take care of people who are h________, then they see these people get to a doctor. The police go around town to see that everything is all right. They get around town in many w______. Some of them walk or go by car. In some big cities, some of the police e_____ ride on horses. It is strange to see these animals in the street.‎ As they go around town, the police help people. Sometimes they find 1_____children. They take the children home. If the police see a fight, they put an end to it right away. Sometimes people will ask the police how to get to a p________ in town. The police can always tell the people which way to go. They know all the streets and roads well.‎ Some police stand at crossings. They tell the cars when to go and when to stop. They make sure that the cars do not go too fast. They help children cross the street. They also help people who ‎ can't walk too well.‎ W______ the police, our streets would not be safe. Cars might go too fast and hurt people. Lost people might never be f________. The police do a great job.‎ Keys: moving, hurt, ways, even, lost, place, Without, found ‎17.‎ About 97% of water on the earth is sea water, or salty water. Man can only drink or use the other 3% of f______ water which comes from rivers, lakes and u_______.‎ The sea is very big. Look at the m________ of the world. There is more sea than land. It covers three quarters of the earth. It looks very beautiful when the sun is shining on it. But it can be t_____ when there is a strong wind.‎ Some parts of the sea are very deep. There is one place near Japan. It is n________ 11 kilometers deep. The highest mountain in the world is about 9 kilometers high. If we put that mountain into the sea at that place, there would be 2 kilometers of water a________ it!‎ The Dead Sea is not a sea. It is a big lake. It is the saltiest lake. The sun is hot there and the water is salty. Fish can't live in the Dead Sea and p______ can't grow near it.‎ People can't swim well in the Dead Sea, but they can f_______ on the water. The water is very blue and the air is clean. In winter, people come to the Dead Sea to enjoy the sunshine.‎ Keys: fresh, underground, map, terrible, nearly, above, plants, float, ‎ ‎18.‎ Mr. Smith stood at the bus stop and w_______ the cars going by. Many of the cars were new Bluebirds, and most of them were w_______. Mr. Smith always wore the same clothes, ate the same food, and did the same things as the other people. Mr. Smith did not like to be d______.‎ The f______ week. Mr. Smith bought a new white Bluebird car. He was very pleased with it and drove to work in it the next day. He was even more pleased with his new car when he saw all the other Bluebirds, in front, behind, and on both side of him.‎ Mr. Smith p______ his car in a big car-park near his office. But when he came back f______ work, there were so many bright white Bluebirds in the car-park that Mr. Smith did not know which car was his. He tried his k______ in some of the cars, but people passing by gave him a s______ look, so he stopped. Mr. Smith had to wait nearly two hours u______ his car was the only white Bluebird.‎ Keys: watched, white, following, parked, from, key, strange, until.‎ ‎19.‎ Everybody gives a lot of time doing something about the weather. You get dressed every day. You wear warm clothes in winter and put on light clothes in s_____. You take an u______ when it looks like rain, and you put on boots when it snows. If it is cold at night, you put on more blanket on your bed. If it is hot, you take them a___. Every time you do any of those things, you have done just about the weather.‎ There are lots of people who make a 1_____by doing something about the weather, such as the people who make raincoats and umbrellas, the ones who make air-conditioners, the people who sell these things or fix or deliver them, the people who help to build buildings and the ones who make the tools and materials.‎ People s_______ lots of money doing something the weather. They buy clothes, they pay rents or buy houses, they buy coal, oil or gas to w_____ the houses and they also buy air-conditioners to cool them in hot summer.‎ Can people change the weather by doing these? No, but they change what weather does to people. Weather is one of the main things that make us live the w________ we do.‎ Keys: summer, umbrella, away, living, spend , warm, way.‎ ‎20.‎ Bill was fourteen years old and in the ninth grade. He had a p_____ job which got him up at five o'clock. He was a newspaper boy.‎ Each morning. Bill left the house at five fifteen to go to the corner. The newspapers had been sent to the corner by truck at m_______. He always rode a bicycle to carry them.‎ In the winter it was still d_______ when he got up. But during the rest of the year it was bright. Bill had to send newspapers to the house of people in all kinds of w_______. He tried to put each paper in the box where it would be kept s________ from wind and rain or snow. His customers thought he did a good j_______. Sometimes they gave him tips .‎ Bill made about $‎70 a month, and he was saving some of the money to go to college. He spent the rest on tapes and clothes. Once a month he had to get the money from his customers together. Since many of them worked during the day. Bill had to get the money at night.‎ Sometimes, when Bill was ill. his elder brother had to send the newspaper. O____ Bill's father had to help him.‎ Keys: part-time, midnight, dark, weather, safe, job, Once. ‎ ‎21.‎ In Britain you are a_______ to drive a car when you are seventeen. You have to get a two-year driving license before you can start. When you're learning, someone with a full license always has to be in the car with you because you are not allowed to drive the car on the road a_____. You don't have to go to a driving school—a friend can teach you. The person with you isn't allowed to take money for the lesson u______ he's got a teacher's license.‎ B_______ you're allowed to have a full license you have to take a driving test. You can take a test in your own car. In the test you have to drive round for about half an hour and then answer a few questions. If you don't p______ the test, you're allowed to take it again a few weeks later if you want to. Once there was a woman who passed her fortieth test after 280 driving lessons!‎ When you've passed your test you don't have to take it again, and you're allowed to go on driving as long as you l________, if you are healthy. Britain's o________ driver was a man who drove at the age of 100.‎ Keys: allowed, alone, Before, unless, pass, like, oldest.‎ ‎22.‎ How old is "old"? The answer has covered over the years. Two hundred years ago, you were old at 35. At the b________ of the 20th century, the average life span was 45. In 1950, a 70-year-old was really old. Today, a h________70-year-old person is still thought young.‎ So how old is old? The answer is one you've had many times, from all kinds of people, "You're as old (or young) as you feel." Your age simply tells you how many years you have lived. Your body ‎ tells you how w you've lived.‎ ‎"Nobody grows old by living a number of years," wrote a writer. "People grow old when they don't have their ideas." People shouldn't have the wrong ideas about ages. S_____ older minds can be as bright as young minds. Alice Brophy once said, "It makes me unhappy when people say: ' You look young for your a_____.' What does that m ? You k ______you can die old at 30 and live young at 80."‎ Keys: beginning, healthy, well, Some, age, mean, know.‎ ‎23.‎ Have you ever wondered where these nice little Teddy Bears came from? They were n_____ for President Roosevelt in 1902. When President Roosevelt was on a h_______ trip in Mississippi with others, one person caught a black bear and tied it up to a tree. President Roosevelt was asked to shoot the bear, but he r______ to do so and said it was nothing great to shoot a tied-up animal.‎ Then there was a picture and an animal in the next day's newspaper which showed the President refusing to shoot the bear. People all over America saw the picture . Morris Michtom. a shopkeeper in New York put two toy bears made by his wife in the w________ of his shop. The President allowed Mr. Michtom to call them "Teddy Bear". Children everywhere liked the sweet little bears with black eyes. soon Mr. Michtom started a f_______ to make Teddy Bears, and he m______ a lot of money.‎ T________, children all over the world still like Teddy Bear toys very much. They are also collected by people and many are on show in museums. Teddy Bears are s_______ in almost every toy shop.‎ Keys: named, holiday, refused, window, factory, made, Today, sold.‎ ‎24.‎ In August, it is very hot and w______ in the southern part of the United States. People there have heart trouble and other kinds of health problems during this month. In the Northeast and the Middle West, it is very hot at some times and very cold at other times. People in these states have more heart trouble after the weather c_____ in February or March.‎ The weather can a______ influence intelligence. For example, in a 1983 report by scientists, the IQ of a group students were very h_______, when a very strong wind came, but after the strong wind, their IQ was 10% lower. The wind can help people have more intelligence. Very hot weather, on the other hand, can make it lower. Students in many schools of the United States often get w_______ on exams in the hot months of the year.‎ Low air pressure may make people f________. People, leave many bags on buses and in shops on low-pressure days. There is a "good weather" for work and health. People f_______ best at a temperature of about 18 centigrade.‎ Keys: wet, changes, also, high, worse, forgetful, feel.‎ ‎25.‎ When some plates(板块)of the earth move suddenly, an earthquake happens. Many earthquakes begin under the sea. Earthquakes may happen a_______ on the earth. They often happen near the m_______. During an earthquake, the shaking m_ rocks rise suddenly and even crack, open. Houses fall, people are k_______ or hurt, and sometimes the whole v_______ or cities are ‎ destroyed.‎ Can we do something to keep o_______ safe from earthquakes? Scientists have studied earthquakes and made maps that show the "earthquake belts". In the areas of these belts, it's p_______ for an earthquake to happen. In these areas we should build s houses to fight against earthquakes.‎ In the future, scientists will be able to tell when and where an earthquake will happen before it does. They can also tell people what to do and how to do it.‎ keys: anywhere, mountains, makes, killed, villages, ourselves, possible, strong ‎26.‎ Mr. Evans works in Sydney. Last week he had a two-week h_______, but he didn't know where to go. He said to his friend Robert. "I hate the hot weather here, but I can not find a comfortable place in Australia. How will I take my holiday?‎ ‎"That is easy." said Robert. "You'd better go to Moscow. Snow and ice are covering the ground now."‎ Mr. Evans a with his friend. He bought an air ticket and soon arrived in Moscow. He made a happy journey there. But one day he got into t . After lunch he went to a park outside the city. He saw a dog following him while he was walking past a house. It was h________ and hoped he would give it some food to eat. Bad luck! He had no piece of bread or cake in his pockets. He tried to send it away. It began to bark at him. He wanted to look for a stick but couldn't find anything e______ snow and ice. Suddenly he saw a stone on the ground. He tried to pick it up. but he f______.‎ ‎"How strange Russians are!" Mr. Evans said to himself. 'They do not tie their dogs, but firmly tie the s_______.‎ Keys: holiday, agreed, trouble, hungry, except, failed, stones.‎ ‎27.‎ Jim is a boy of fifteen. His parents died three years ago and he had to m________ a living by himself. One day when he was walking in the street he found a wallet full of money. He found the o______, Mr. Jackson, and returned it to him. Mr. Jackson t_______ the boy very much. When he knew Jim didn't have a job, he hired him to work for him at his home. Jim worked hard and n____ touched anything expensive in the rooms. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson were satisfied with him,.‎ Mr. Jackson loved planting trees. There were a lot of trees in his garden. When he was f ____, he always watered them c_______.‎ The week before last, Mr. Jackson brought a few trees home, planted them in the garden and watered them every day. Several days later, he left for another city. Before he started, he said to Jim. "Take good care of the trees when I am away from home." Six days passed and Mr. Jackson came back. As soon as he saw Jim, he asked, "Has anyone come to steal the trees?" "No, sir," said Jim, "To stop someone from s_______ the trees, I pulled them up six days ago. I have hidden them for almost a week. ‎ Keys: make, owner, thanked, never, free, carefully, from, stealing.‎ ‎28.‎ In most part of the world, many students hope their school make less p_______. They j_______‎ ‎ "environment clubs". In an environment club, people work together to make our environment clean.‎ Here are some things students often do.‎ No-garbage lunches. How much do you throw away after lunch? Environment clubs ask students to bring their lunches in bags that can be used a_______. Every week they will choose the classes that make the least garbage and report them to the whole school.‎ No-car day. On a no-car day, n________ comes to school in a car. Not the students and not the teacher! Cars give pollution to our air, so remember: walk, bike or run. Use your l_____! It's lots of fun.‎ Turn off the water! Did you know that some toilets can waste twenty to forty cubic(立方) meters of water an hour? In a year, that would fill a small r_______! In environment clubs, students mend those broken toilets. We love our environment. Let's work t_______ to make it clean.‎ Keys: pollution, join, again, nobody, legs, river, together.‎ ‎29.‎ Different culture and different people have different manners. We must find out their customs so that they will not think us ill-mannered. Here are e_______ of the things that a person with good e______ does or does not do.‎ If you visit a Chinese family, you should knock at the door f____. When the door opens, you will not move before the host says "Come in, please." After you enter the room, you would not sit down until the host asks you to take a seat. When a cup of tea is put on a tea table before you or sent to your hand, you will say "Thank you" and receive it with t________ hands, not one hand, or they will think you are ill-mannered. Before e_______ a house in Japan, it is a good manner to take off your shoes. In European countries, even though shoes sometimes become very dirty, this is not done. In a Malay house, a visitor never finishes the food on the table. He leaves a little to show that he has had e________. In England, a visitor always finished a drink or the food to show that he has e________ it. This will make the host pleased.‎ Keys: examples, education, first, two, entering, enough, enjoyed.‎ ‎30. ‎ Johnny Kelley is 86 years old. He has just run the last eleven kilometers of the Boston Marathon. It t_____ him one hour and fifteen minutes to run the eleven kilometers. After his run, he went to the hospital center. The nurse was s_______ and pleased to see that his blood pressure (血压) was 139 over 84. She told him that his blood pressure was very good. Then she said, "I wish mine was that good."‎ Johnny Kelley is known as the great grandfather of the Boston Marathon. He ran all 42 kilometers of Marathon 61t______. This year is the second time that he has cut back and run only part of it. Kelley holds the record for running more Boston Marathon than a________ else.‎ Thousands of people cried "come on" to him as he ran. Today an 11-year-old boy called out to Kelley, "Hey, Mr. Kelley, you are great. Great man!" Kelley s______ and thanked people as he ran. " It's wonderful, he said. "People come out to shake my hand. I am welcomed by thousands and thousands. I think a lot of them thought I ran the w race. And maybe they send congratulations to me b______ they know me after all these years and then don't know the other runners.‎ Keys: took, surprised, times, anyone/anybody, smiled, whole, because.‎ ‎31.‎ It seems to be strange to you that there is a blind spot(盲点) on the eyes. Here is an interesting e_____ that can make something disappear, when one eye is open.‎ Make a card about the s_____ of a postcard and write two English letters L and R on it. L on the left and R on the right. First, hold the card about ‎80cm away and you see b______ the letters. Then close your right eye and look at the letter R only with your left eye. And now, as you m____ the card slowly towards you, you'll find the letter L disappearing. B____ if you move the card nearer to your face, the letter will be seen a_______. Now do the same experiment with your left eye closed, you'll find the letter R disappearing.‎ Why does the letter disappear. It is because there is a blind spot on the eye. When the i______ of the letter falls on the blind spot, it won't be seen.‎ Keys: experiment, size, both, move, But, again, image.‎ ‎32.‎ We've talked about snails and their slow m_____. But much of the time snails don't move at all. They are in their shells——s_______.‎ Hot sun will dry out a snail's body. So at the least sign of hot sun, a snail draws its body into its shell. A snail will die in a h______ rain. So when it rains, a snail does the same thing, too. A snail can sleep for as long as it needs. It spends all the w____ months in its shell, asleep.‎ In the spring the snail wakes up. Its body, about three inches long, comes out from the shell. When h_____. the snail looks for food. Its eyes, at the end of the top feelers(触角)，are very w_____. But its sense of smell is very strong. It helps the snail to find food and the new greens.‎ A snail' s mouth is not b_______ than the point of a pin. Yet it has 256,000 teeth! The teeth are very small, and you can't see them. If you put a snail in a hard paper box, it will eat its way out! And if a snail wears out its teeth, it will grow new o_____.‎ Keys: movement, sleeping, heavy, winter, hungry, weak, bigger, ones.‎ ‎33.‎ Perhaps you have heard a lot about the Internet, but what is it, do you know? The Internet is a network. It uses the telephone to join millions of c______ together around the world.‎ Maybe that doesn't sound very interesting. But when you are c_______ with the Internet, there are lots and lots of things you can do. You can send E-mails to your friends , and they can get them in a few seconds. You can also deal with all kinds of i________ on the World Wide Web (WWW).‎ There are many different kinds of computers now. They all can be linked to the Internet. Most of them are small machines sitting on people's desks at home, but there are still many others in schools, offices or large c________. These computers are owned by people and firms, but no one really owns the Internet itself.‎ Thanks to the Internet, the world is becoming smaller and smaller. It is p_____ for you to work at home with a computer in front, getting and s_____ the information you need. You can buy or sell w____ you want by the Internet.‎ Keys: computers, connected, information, companies, possible, sending, whatever.‎ ‎34. ‎ A famous American writer was v_______ Japan last year. He went to a school to talk to a large group of students. Most of them could not u_______ English, so he had to have an interpreter(口译员).‎ In his talk, he told an interesting story. He spoke for a long time and then stopped for the interpreter to put it into Japanese. But he was very s_______ that the interpreter did this in a very few words, and all the students began to l______. After the talk, the writer thanked the interpreter for his good work, and then he said to him, "Now, tell me, young man, how could you put my long story into very few Japanese words and e_____ can understand my interesting story?" "I didn't tell the story at all." the man answered with a s _ _. "I only said to the students. ‘Our American f______ has just told us a very interesting story. Now please laugh.’"‎ Keys: visiting, understand, surprised, laugh, everyone/everybody, smile, friend.‎ ‎35.‎ Many years ago milk was sold on the streets out of milk cans. The milk seller was often a f_____. He kept the cows. Each of the women ran out of her house with a pan. The man took out the milk with a smaller can and p_______ it into the pans. One day a doctor watched a farmer selling his milk. The farmer put his large milk can on the ground. People stood around the can with their pans to buy the milk. They were waiting to buy the milk.‎ The big can stood o____. A little girl holding a dirty doll ran up to the can. She wanted to see what was in the can. She looked in. Suddenly she c________, "My doll! I dropped it into the milk!"‎ Did the farmer throw away the r______ of the milk? Oh. No! He put his h_______ into the milk and felt around for the doll. Soon he brought it out. But the farmer didn't stop s______ the milk. He sold it all.‎ The doctor said to him, "The milk is now as dirty as the doll. It is not s______ to drink dirty milk." The doctor thought about this, and he tried to find out a better way for drinking clean milk. After that he thought of bottles for milk.‎ We can say that the doctor helped all of us, because we can get clean milk now and keep ourselves healthy.‎ Keys: farmer, poured, open, cried, rest, hand, selling, safe.‎ ‎36.‎ Basketball is still a y______ game. It is not yet a hundred years. In the winter of 1891. a certain college was troubled with its boy students. The weather was so terrible that the students had to stay indoors. Since they could not e_____ their sports outside as usual, they were unhappy, and some of them even got into f_______ from time to time.‎ Finally one of the teachers at the college, J. E. Naismith was asked to invent a new game for the students. It was not an easy job because such a game had to be played i________ and the court was not very 1arge.‎ Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of b_____ game. It was a fast, e________ game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was a game played between two teams. To make a score, the ball had to be thrown into a basket ten feet high above the floor on the wall.‎ At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first, Naismith had planned to have the ball ‎ thrown into a box. As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets i_____. That's how the game got its n________.‎ Keys: young, enjoy, fight, indoors, ball, exciting, instead, name.‎ ‎37.‎ It seems to us that the earth stands quite still. But it is really m______ all the time. It turns around a make-believe line through its center. We call this make-believe line the earth's axis(地轴). The two e_______ of the earth's axis are called its poles (极). The earth travels twenty-four hours around its axis o_____.‎ We look at the sun and say it " travels" across the sky, but the sun doesn't r______ do so. The turning of the earth makes us feel as if the sun were moving across the sky. We can't see that the earth is moving b_______ everything else on the earth is turning with us. As the earth turns around every twenty-four hours, first one half f_______ the sun and then the other half does. When our half of the earth is facing the sun. we say it is "day". When our half is a_______ from the sun. we say it is "night". It is the turning of the earth that t______ us when to go to bed and when to get up.‎ Keys: moving, ends, once, really, because, faces, away, tells.‎ ‎38. ‎ Do you remember your dreams? Do people have same dreams? Why do we dream? There are many q_______ about dreams. We dream during the REM (rapid eye movement) stage of sleep. We have about five periods of REM sleep during the night. The first REM cycle lasts about 10 minutes. As the night goeson, the REM cycle gets longer. By early morning, the REM cycle can l_______ up to 90 minutes. Usually, it is in this last REM cycle that we r______ our dreams.‎ Dreams change as p________ age. People may have several dreams each night. Some are l______ films and usually in color. They come to us over and over again. That may be because the d_____ is worrying about something and trying to find the a_____. Sometimes we wake up with a good feeling from a dream. But o___ we can't remember the dreams c_____.‎ Keys: questions, last, remember, people’s, like, dreamer, answer, often, clearly.‎ ‎39.‎ If you go into the f______ with friends, stay with them. If you don't, you may get lost. If you get lost, this is w you should do. Sit down and stay w______ you are. Don't try to find your friends but let them find you. You can help them find you by s______ in one place. There is a way to help your friends or other people to find you. You can shout or whistle three times stop, then shout or whistle three times again. Any signal given three times is a call for help.‎ Keep up shouting or whistling. Always three times t______. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making a noise for fun. They will let you know that they have heard your signal. They will give you two shouts or two whistles. When a signal is given twice it is an answer to a call for help.‎ When you need water, you have to leave your little branch house to look for it. Don't j_____ walk away. Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk in order to go back again.‎ Keys: forest, what, where, staying, another, together, just.‎ ‎40. ‎ Mr. Brown was going away for a week. Before he left. he said to his son. "If a________ asks for me, you can tell him that your father has been out for d______ something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea."‎ ‎"OK, Dad," said his son. But he was a_______ his son couldn’t remember this. He wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it every now and then.‎ Four days p________, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man to come and the piece of paper was of no more u________ for him. so he burnt it that evening.‎ The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was s________ at the door and said, "Where is your father?" The boy put his hand into his pocket at once and looked for the piece of the paper. He could not find it. He s________ remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted. "No more."‎ The man was very s________. He asked. "No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen?" ‎ ‎"Burnt yesterday evening."‎ Keys: anyone/anybody, doing, afraid, passed, use, standing, surprised, suddenly, ‎ ‎41.‎ ‎'Depend on yourself" is what nature says to e______ person. Parents can help you. Teachers can help you. O_____ still can help you. But all these people only help you to help yourself.‎ There have been many great men in (4) h . Many of them were very p_______ when they were young, and had no uncles, aunts, or friends to help them. Schools were few and not very good. They could not depend on them for e______. They tried their best to learn something and never gave up till they became well-known. One of the most famous teachers in England used to tell his students. "I cannot make worthy men of you. but I can help you make men of yourselves." Some young men don't try their best to make themselves valuable to the human being. If they see their weak points and change their ways, they can be s______. They are nothing now, and will be nothing as long as they live, unless they accept the a_______ of their parents and teachers, and depend on themselves.‎ Keys: every, Others, history, poor, education, successful, advice.‎ ‎42.‎ We have been in Australia for three days. We are having a great time here. Australia is the sixth largest country in the world. There is so much to see that is i_______ for me to tell you everything. Sydney is a beautiful city. There are also some special a______ in Australia, such as kangaroos and koalas. They are really l______. ‎ D______ the past five days we’ve visited many places of interest around Sydney. I’d like to spend more time here, but we will f_____ to another city, Cairns, to see coral beds tomorrow. It is said that words cannot d______ the beauty of the colorful corals. Many famous cartoon films were m______ there. Now we are beginning packing our bags so that we will not lose time when we leave. We can enjoy o______ in Cairns this time tomorrow. I am looking forward to going there!‎ Keys: impossible, animals, lovely, During, fly, describe, made, ourselves.‎ ‎43. ‎ Dick was born in a r_____ family. His parents often traveled in the world when he was young. So his father learned English, German and Arabic. He could talk with the foreigners and knew a lot about the countries which he traveled in.‎ Now his father was too old to go on traveling. Dick had to go abroad a_____. He could speak only French. It brought him a lot of t______. He thought English is w______ spoken in many countries, so he decided to learn the language. He went to one of the famous professors in Paris and asked the man to teach him. Half a year l______ the young man thought he had learned English. He called on his teacher and said, “You are the b_____ teacher in the world! I’m leaving now, but you’ll be my teacher f_______. Could you tell me how to thank you?”‎ ‎“Well, then,” said the professor, “I wish you could do one thing: Don’t tell a______ that I’ve taught you.”‎ Keys: rich, alone, trouble, widely, later, best, forever, anyone/anybody.‎ ‎44.‎ Newspapers are very important in our d______ life. Many people begin their day by r______ the paper. In this way they learn w_____ is going on in the world. Sometimes, however, they don’t have the time to read the news carefully and must be pleased with a quick look at the front page. At other times they may be in such a hurry that they have time o____ to have a quick look at the headlines.‎ There are newspapers to please every reader. In big cities there are many types with several different editions every day. In some towns there are fewer newspapers and perhaps only edition each day. In some places the paper is printed w_______.‎ Most newspaper have several editions, especially on Sundays when the edition is larger than u_____. There are beside the front page with the most i______ news, the sports news, the a______ page, the business page and so on.‎ Keys: daily, reading, what, only, weekly, usual, important, amusement.‎ ‎45. ‎ Life on the earth d______ on the sun. Day after day we see its light and feel its warmth. The sun is far away from the earth. It is ninety-three million miles away from the earth.‎ The sun is a large star. The earth is very small among its p______. Every day the sun sends out a great deal of heat and makes us feel hot. But we receive only a small part of the heat, b______ the sun is so far away from us and its light l_____ more of its energy when it reaches the earth. We also receive a very small part of its l_____. This is e_____ for the growth of trees, plants and h_____. On the other hand, much heat and light would be h_____ to them. The heat and light from the sun come in just the right quantities for l_____ on the earth.‎ Keys: depends, planets, because, loses, light, enough, humans, harmful, life.‎ ‎【中等题】‎ ‎（一）‎ Do you have a pet? Are you i_____________ in taking care of animals? Girls and boys who like animals may want to study to be animal doctors. They’re often c____________ “vets”. Many ‎ of them work in animal h_____________. Others may work on farms or at a z____________. Some study animal diseases and try to find w____________ to keep the animals from getting i__________. They do studies in m_____________ for animals.‎ Vets listen to an animal’s h____________. They check (检查) its ears, eyes, mouth and blood. They o___________ on animals when they need to. They may give the animals shots (注射) and tell the pet’s o ____________ what food is best.‎ ‎（二）‎ Dear Tom:‎ Are you surprised to hear from me? I have not heard from you s____________ the beginning of the summer h______________. How are you getting on with your s___________? How are your parents? Is your brother Bill b______________ f______________ Canada yet?‎ My stamp collection is g___________ bigger and bigger. I have collected stamps of more than forty d_______________ countries. In my stamp books. I usually put the stamps from each country together. I have got a pen-friend from Britain. She gave me some B___________ stamps. My American teacher has given me some beautiful American and Canadian stamps. I’m glad to know you are going to give me some foreign stamps, but I still have not r_____________ the stamps of Nepal which you said to p_____________ me. Have you sent them off yet?‎ Please write to me. Have you sent them off yet?‎ ‎ Yours ‎ ‎ Zhou Wen ‎（三）‎ When Martin was a small boy, he lived in the little town of Holtham. Then he thought the town was a big p_____________. Well, Martin went back to Holtham last week. “It’s a small town!” he thought.‎ Holtham has changed little during the p____________ forty years. B___________ Martin has changed a lot. He has g____________ into a man. He is now in m______________ life. His thoughts are a man’s thoughts, and he sees things through a m______________ eyes.‎ Martin s______________ in Holtham for five years. He walked from street t___________ street. He could see no friends. Was Holtham, then, a town of strangers? No, Martin suddenly u________________ it all. Only he h_____________ was a stranger in the town.‎ ‎（四）‎ I got an answering machine for my birthday and I soon realized（意识到）what a u____________ machine this is. I am not at home m____________ of the day, so someone can leave a message and I can ring them b_______________. They have no way to say they c_____________ get in touch with (联系) me. S_____________ when I am at home and have work to do, the phone never s_____________. Now I put the machine on. I am not troubled. So I can do a lot m______________ work. There are some people I j_____________ do not want to ‎ talk to. So I put the machine on and I don’t have to s_______________ to them. In conclusion(总之)，I really don’t know how I lived w________________ this wonderful machine.‎ ‎(五)‎ Near the North Pole (北极) there are two s______________, winter and summer. The winter nights are long. For more t____________ two months, you can’t s____________ the sun, e___________ at noon. The summer days are also long. For more than two months, the sun n___________ goes down and there are no n______________.‎ The people there have warm clothes. They make most of these clothes by t____________. They make them from the skins (皮) of a_____________. From skins they make coats and hats and even shoes. In this cold weather, trees can’t g____________. The people there have to build their houses from skins, earth or snow. Life is h____________ for the people there.‎ ‎ ‎ ‎(六)‎ How do you like to go to school like one in Oxford(牛津大学), England ? There are no r_____________ classes. The students go from one group to a _____________ when they want to. You may find students of fourteen, sixteen or twenty-five years old all in the s______________ group. They work at their o______________ studies. Nobody tells them what they should or shouldn’t be doing.‎ The day I visited, school b______________ at nine. Some students were working at a tape recorder and listening to their lessons. Others were watching TV on maths. A group was reading in the school l_______________. I didn’t see anybody just sit doing n______________. Everybody was studying.‎ At lunch time I could see students w______________, too. They were talking about their lessons while they were e______________. When you think of these students you can be sure it is one of the best s ________________ in the world. ‎ ‎(七)‎ One day when Nasreddin was having a bath, he began to s_____________. The bathroom was small with a stone floor. His song was very b______________, he thought.‎ ‎“Oh”,he said, “I sing very well. I will sing to o______________ people, too, and maybe I’ll be a famous s______________, and most people will want to hear me.”‎ So after his bath Nasreddin went up onto the roof (屋顶) of the house and began to sing his song very l____________. ‎ A man was w_____________ in front of the house and he h______________ Nasreddin, he said, “What are you doing? You are m_____________ a terrible noise. Nobody wants to hear it.”‎ ‎“Oh, you think so, don’t you?” answered Nasreddin, “Well, I r____________ sing very beautifully. Come to my bathroom and you’ll hear h_____________ beautiful I can sing.”‎ ‎（八）‎ One day Mike was playing near a river. S_____________ his knife fell into the river. He felt very sad because the knife was g______________ to him by his father as a birthday present, but it was lost. Then all at once, a k______________ old woman came up and asked Mike what was the m______________.‎ ‎“I had lost my knife,” he said, “ it fell into the water when I was playing here.”‎ The old woman s_____________ him a gold (金) knife and asked, “is this y__________?” “No.” said the boy.‎ The old woman then showed him a silver (银) knife and asked a____________, “Is this yours?” “No”, again answered the boy.‎ Then she showed him an iron (铁) knife. “Yes, that’s mine,” c____________ out the happy boy. “I know it well e_____________.” said the old woman.. “Now I will give you the gold knife and the silver knife b_____________ you are an honest (诚实的) boy.”‎ ‎（九）‎ Tom liked to play at school. He had not been doing w____________ in the exam.. So the a__________ teacher decided to ask his father to come to school to have a t___________ with him. When his father came, the teacher said to him, “ Your son didn’t work hard, and e_________ worse, he cheated (作弊) in the exam.”‎ ‎“ How do you l___________ it?” Tom’s father said. “Since Tom has the s___________ answer as the girl’s. The girl sits next to him.” The teacher said. Then the father said, “ Then m__________ the girl copied my son’s answer.”‎ ‎“Oh no! There are ten questions on the paper. Your son’s answer t__________ the first nine questions are just the same as the g____________. To the last question the girl answered, ‘I don’t know’. And your son write ‘N___________ do I’ ”.‎ ‎（十）‎ A shop owner c____________ his shop and went home. He was very t___________ ,but j____________ as he went to bed, the telephone rang . A man asked, “What time do you o_____________ your shop?”‎ The shop owner was u______________ about this phone call. He put down the receiver(听筒) without a_____________ and went back to bed. A few minutes later the telephone rang again and the man asked the s_____________ question. The shop owner became very angry and shouted, “ You needn’t ask me when I open the shop, f____________ I won’t let you i___________.”‎ ‎“Oh, no, I don’t want to get in,” the man said, “I want to go o___________.”‎ ‎(十一)‎ Lenin learned some English at school. B_____________ when he got to England, he met with such d_______________ that he could not make himself u______________ and he couldn’t understand the Englishmen, e_______________. Later he found he wasn’t sure of s____________ English and his friends gave him some advice o____________ how to i_____________ it. He decided to learn English by other ways. He went on l______________ English for several months. Finally he learned it so well that he was able to express（表达）himself freely. He was praised b____________ his friends f______________ his great progress in English.‎ ‎（十二）‎ Len and Jim worked for the same company. One day, Len l__________ Jim 80 dollars, but then Jim left his job and went to work in another town w___________paying Len back his 80 dollars.‎ Len had not seen Jim for a year, and then he heard from a__________ friend that Jim was in town and s__________ at Cantral Hotel, so he went to see him there l________ in the evening.‎ He found out the number of Jim’s room from the hotel g___________ at the desk downstairs and went up to find him. When he got to the room, he saw Jim’s shoes o___________ the door, w_____________to be cleaned.‎ ‎“ Well, he m____________ be in,” he thought, and knocked at the door. No one answered.‎ He knocked again. Then he said, “I know you’re in. Your shoes are out here.”‎ ‎“I went out in my slippers,” answered a voice i____________ the room..‎ ‎（十三）‎ A foolish (傻) man went to a food shop to buy a fish. As he didn’t know h___________ to cook fish, he asked the shopkeeper to tell the way of c____________ it. The shopkeeper did so.‎ ‎“But I can’t remember your w____________,” the foolish man said, “Will you please w___________ them down for me?” The shopkeeper was kind e_____________ to write his words down for the man. The foolish man left happily w_____________ the fish in his basket and the note in his pocket. On his way home, a cat saw the fish and f_____________ the man.‎ Suddenly the cat jumped at him, took the fish away from the basket q_____________ and ran off at once. The foolish man stood there, not k_____________ what to do. Then he laughed to the cat, “Never mind. You don ‘t know how to eat it. The note is s_____________ in my pocket.”‎ ‎(十四)‎ Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant (佣人). He and the servant l__________ wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man l__________ his house, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew w___________ his servant did, b___________ he had never caught his servant doing that. One morning when he left home, he said to the servant, “ Here are two bottles of poison (毒药) and ‎ some nice food in the house. You must take care of them.” W________ these words, he went out.‎ But the servant knew that what the rich man had said was u____________. After the rich man was away from his home, he e_____________ a nice meal. S____________ he drank too much, he was tipsy (醉) and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldn’t find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had catch up everything. He was a____________ to be punished（惩罚）,so he drank the poison to kill h_____________.‎ ‎(十五)‎ Bill Jenkins worked in a big office in the city and he often went to the barber’s (理发店) d____________ working hours to have his hair cut, t____________ this was a___________ the rules (规定): Office workers had to have their hair cut in their o___________ time.‎ While Bill was at the barber’s one day, the manager of the office came in to have his o___________ hair cut. Bill saw him and tried to cover his face w__________ a newspaper, but the manager came up and sat beside him, so he soon found him.‎ ‎“Hello, Jenkins,” the manager said, “I see that you are having your hair cut in o___________ time.”‎ ‎“Yes, sir, I am,” answered Bill, “You see, sir, my hair g___________ in office time.”‎ ‎“Not all of it.” said the manager of the office at once, “ M___________ of it grows in your own time.”‎ ‎“Yes, sir, that’s quite true,” answered Bill politely, “but I’m not having it a___________ cut off.”‎ ‎（十六）‎ A lady once wrote a long story. She sent to a f_____________ editor (编辑). After a few weeks the editor r_______________ the story to her. The lady was angry. She wrote back to the editor:‎ ‎“ Dear Sir,‎ Yesterday you sent back a story of mine. H______________ do you know that the story is not good? You did not read it. B______________ I sent you the story, I pasted (粘贴) together page 18, 19 and 20. This was a t________________ to see whether you would read the story. When the story came back yesterday, the pages were s________________ pasted together. Is this the w_____________ you read all the stories that are sent to you?”‎ The editor wrote back:‎ ‎“Dear Madam,‎ At breakfast then I have an egg, I don’t h_______________ to eat the w_____________ egg in order to d________________ that it is bad.”‎ ‎（十七）‎ When Mary Smith was a student, she wanted to be a teacher, b______________ she liked children. When she was twenty, she began t _____________ in a small school. She was a good teacher, and she laughed a lot with the children in her class. They e_____________ her teaching.‎ One day one of the g________________ in her class said to her, “Miss Smith, w_____________ does a man’s hair become gray before his beard (胡子) does?”‎ Mary laughed and laughed, “I don’t know. Helen, do you know?”‎ ‎“I don’t know, e_____________, Miss Smith.” said Helen, “but it h_____________ to my father.” The o_____________ children in the class laughed when they heard this.‎ Then a boy said , “I know, Miss Smith! A man’s hair becomes gray f_____________ because it’s sixteen years o________________ than his beard.”‎ ‎(十八)‎ It was a r________________ day. I was on my way home. I hadn’t been back for weeks.‎ When I got home, to my s_________________, I found my mother wasn’t busy doing her housework as she u________________ to be. I_____________, She was reading. And I saw some books on her desk . Some years ago, there were no books in my home except my textbook. I took one of the books from the desk. It was about h____________ to raise chicks. At supper time, my father came home. After supper he told me he was going to learn English because he w____________ to run chicken farm. He said that he must learn something more from foreign countries. He also told me that one could do n_______________ without knowledge. It was late. The light in my parents’ room were still o_____________. I was l______________ in bed. l________________ to the drops of rain outside, as if they were saying, “ You must study harder than before.”‎ ‎（十九）‎ Have you heard a_____________ that a cow can dance? This cow belongs to (属于) Farmer James. One evening Farmer James gave a p______________ at his house, and he asked all his friends to come to the party. the weather was hot that evening, and many people danced o______________ in the garden. That was near the place w_______________ the cows s______________. One cow c_____________ sleep that night. The music k______________ her a______________, perhaps. So she got up and came into the garden and started to dance. She danced a_______________, of course, but she danced n______________. And now many people on the farm are talking about her.‎ ‎(二十)‎ I went to the d_____________ yesterday. I had to wait for half an hour before he ‎ c___________ see me. “I’m going a______________ next week,” I said, “I shall go to America on b_____________. But I’ve had a p_____________ for two days. Do you think I’ll be well e_____________ to go?” “When I have examine (检查) you, I’ll be a____________ to tell you.” the doctor said.‎ ‎“I was working in the garden when I suddenly f____________ the pain.” I told the doctor, “If I stopped at once it would be all right, I think. But I never get any e_____________ in my job so I went on working.” After examining me c_______________, the doctor said, “ You may hurt your back. I would like to send you to hospital for an X-ray.”‎ ‎(二十一)‎ One day a pig went to the stable (马棚) to see his good friend, an old horse, and was going to stay there for the n_____________.‎ Night came and it was time for sleep. The pig went into the straw heap (稻草堆) and lay comfortably. A long time p____________, but the horse was s___________ standing there and did not move. So the pig asked the horse w_____________ he did not go to sleep.‎ ‎“Standing like this is the b_____________ of sleeping.” answered the horse.‎ The pig found it h_____________ to believe and said, “How can you stand there s____________? It is not comfortable at a_____________.”‎ The horse answered, “Comfort is your habit (习性). A___________ horses we have the habit of r_____________ quickly. So we are always ready to run quickly even if we are asleep.‎ ‎（二十二）‎ Venice‎ is a beautiful city in Italy. It’s one of the most u_________________ cities in the world. It’s b_______________ on a group of small i______________. Hundreds of stone bridges cross the rivers b______________ the islands. On the rivers there are m______________ boats. They are the “ water buses” of Venice. If we travel a_______________ the rivers in a boat. Italians may tell about the beautiful p_______________. Italians may tell us about the rivers. We can see on b___________ sides of the rivers. We can also see many old buildings and the church‎ of ‎St. Mark. W____________ a beautiful city Venice is! I w_____________ I could visit it one day, but it’s so far away.‎ ‎(二十三)‎ A young officer (军官) was at a railway station. He was going to v____________ his mother in another town, and he wanted to t______________ her to tell her the time of his train so that she could meet him at the station in her car. He looked in all his pockets, but found that he did not have the right money for the telephone, so he went o_____________ and looked a____________ for someone to help him.‎ At last an old soldier came b___________, and the young officer stopped him and said,‎ ‎ “ Have you got change for ten pence (便士)？”‎ ‎“ Wait a moment,” the old soldier answered, and b_____________ to put his hand in his pocket, “I’ll see w_____________ I can help you.”‎ ‎“ Don’t you know h___________ to speak to an officer?” the young man said a____________, “Now, let’s start again. Have you got change for ten pence?”‎ ‎“ No, sir.” the old soldier answered q____________.‎ ‎（二十四）‎ When Bob was three years old, he suddenly f_____________ ill one evening. The next day he got m______________ worse. His parents could do n_____________ but take him to a Negro（黑人） doctor. The doctor said that Bob was b______________ ill and must be s_____________ to a hospital at once. In a hurry, his father took him to a hospital n______________, but the hospital refused (拒绝) to take him in because it was for the w______________ only. Bob’s father took him to a______________ hospital. The same thing h_______________ to him. At last his father has to drive him to a black hospital far away. But it was too late. Little Bob d______________ on the way.‎ ‎（二十五）‎ Mark Twain was a______________ one day if he could remember the first money he earned (赚得). He thought a long time before a________________ and then said, “Yes, it was at school. There was a rule in our school that anybody w_______________ damaged (破坏) his desk with a pencil or a knife would be b________________ in front of the whole school o_____________ would have to pay five dollars. One day I damaged my desk in some way. I had to tell my father I had b_____________ the rule, and had to pay five dollars, or be beaten before the whole school. He agreed to pay. But before g________________ me the money he took me upstairs and gave me a b____________. Now as I had had one beating and got used to it. I decided I would take a________________ beating at school and k_______________ the five dollars. So that is what I did. That was the first money I ever earned.”‎ ‎（二十六）‎ One day a poor farmer was taking a bag of wheat to town. Suddenly the bag fell from his horse onto the road. He did not know w____________ to do about it because it was too heavy for him to lift by himself. He only hoped that someone would soon pass by and l_____________ him a hand.‎ Just at this moment a man r_________________ a horse camp up to him. But the farmer’s heart went down when he saw who he was. It was the great man living n______________. The farmer had hoped to ask another farmer or a poor man like him to come along and help him. He couldn’t ask s_______________ a great man to help him. But to his s________________, the ‎ great man got off his horse as soon as he came nearer. He said to the farmer. “I see you n_____________ help, friend. How good it is that I’m here just at the right time.” Then he took one end of the bag, the farmer the other, they t_________________ raised it and put it on the horse.‎ ‎“Sir”, asked the farmer, “How can I p____________ you?”‎ ‎“It’s quite easy,” the great man replied with a smile.‎ ‎“Wherever you see anyone e________________ in trouble, do the same for him.”‎ ‎(二十七)‎ There was an old man who loved money very much. He n______________ gave anything to a______________. After some years he became rich.‎ One day he was walking near the river with his friends. When he fell into the river. His friends ran to help him. One of them held out his hand and cried, “G____________ me your hand and I’ll pull you out!” The rich m______________ head went u______________ the water and then came up again, but he didn’t give his hand to his friend. Again a______________ friend tried, but again the s__________ thing happened.‎ Then another friend, Nasreddin, said, “T_____________ my hand and I’ll pull you out!” the rich man gave his hand and Nasreddin pulled him out of the water.‎ ‎“You don’t know your friend well.” Nasreddin said to the others, “When you say ‘give’ to him, he do n______________, but when you say ‘take’, he a_______________ takes.”‎ ‎（二十八）‎ All men n_____________ air. When you put your h______________ under water you cannot keep it i_____________ long.‎ A swimmer can’t swim under water very long. He needs air.‎ A good swimmer may swim w_______________ his face in the water, if so he keeps raising his head to take a breath t______________ his mouth. If he goes down under the water, he has to come up for air e_____________ twenty or thirty seconds.‎ He does not take in air t_______________ his nose under the water, b_____________ water could get in through his nose with the air and go to his lungs (肺). W___________ water in his lungs a man c_____________ go on living.‎ ‎（二十九）‎ Computers are very important to m______________ life. Many people think that the f_____________ computers will be used in lots of everyday life. It is thought that we won’t have to go shopping because we will be able to get most things which are sold in shops on the I_____________. There will be no more books because we will be able to get all texts from computers. The Internet will be used to play g_______________, see films and buy food. Most ‎ telephone calls will be made by computers, too.‎ Some people are glad about these new ways of shopping and communicating (交际). Others do not think that computers will replace (代替) our old ways.‎ Let’s look at books, for example. Some people think that one day we will not read books m____________ of paper. Instead, we will buy and read books using computers. We will read texts on small personal computers. The computers will k_____________ many different books in them at the s______________ time. We won’t need to turn lots of pages and paper will be s______________. Computerized (计算机化) Books will be used more and more.‎ Is Internet shopping such a pleasure as going to the shop? Many people say it is p____________ to go into shops and look at things you want to buy. It is also unlikely (不大可能) that many people will want to read large texts on our computers. Because paper books will perhaps be more friendly. Maybe computers won’t c_______________ these two habits (习惯).‎ ‎（三十）‎ Susan was c____________ in the rain on her way home after school. It was only half a kilometer from her home. She r ____________faster and hoped to go back as soon as possible. The rain got h____________ and she didn’t find a fallen tree on the road. She fell off her bike and was badly hurt. Mr Hunt found her and c_____________ her in his car and two hours later she came to h_____________. Her relatives were standing n______________ her bed. She felt p_____________ in her leg. Her mother told her to take some medicine and a nurse gave her an i_____________. The next day Miss King and her classmates came to see her w____________ some flowers and fruit. They told her not to worry about her lessons. They said they would help her after she healed.‎ ‎(三十一)‎ American people like to say “Thank you”, when other people help them or say something kind to them. People of many o_______________ countries do so, too. It is a very good habit.‎ You should say “Thank you” when someone passes you the salt on the table, when someone walking before you k_______________ the door open for you, when someone s________________ you have done your work well, or you have bought a nice thing, or your city is very beautiful.‎ ‎“Thank you” is u________________ not only between friends, but also between parents and children, brothers and sisters, husbands and w_____________.‎ ‎“Excuse me” is a______________ short sentence they use. When you hear someone say so b_______________ you, you know that somebody wants to walk past you.‎ It is not p______________ to interrupt others while they are talking. If you want to speak to one of them, say “Excuse me” first, and then begin t________________. You should also do so when you want to cough or make any unpleasant n_______________ before others.‎ ‎( 三十二)‎ Here’s a story about Ming’s life on the water. Ming has lived all his life on a wide r_____________ in China. His home is a large house-boat with a roof. In about six years he has not once been on l__________, but he is never lonely. Ming is a strong swimmer. In fact, he could swim before he could walk. When he wants to play with his f______________, he just swims across to their boats or asks them to v________________ them.‎ Ming’s father is a fisherman, but he never u_____________ a line or a net（网）. Great black birds called cormorants do the fishing for him. Rings have been put around the birds’ n____________ so that they cannot eat the fish they catch. They have been taught to b_____________ the fish to people. And then people reward them with a fine big fish as soon as their work is f______________. Ming loves watching the cormorants, but better still he likes going s________________ with his mother. The shops, of course, are boats very like his o________________.‎ ‎(三十三)‎ All life on our earth depends, in one way or a_______________, on the sun. W______________ its light and warmth, there would be no life. The sun gives us our food and our clothing material (衣料). It e______________ gives us our coal (煤), too.‎ The sun also m______________ our day and our night. Light travels in s______________ lines. It comes from the sun, 95,000,000 miles a________________.‎ The sun lights half the earth at a time. It is day on the lighted side. It is night on the dark side of the earth. Almost every part of the earth turns from day to night d______________ 24 hours.‎ A sunny day in winter is colder than a sunny day in summer. This is because the summer day is longer, everything has a longer time to warm up and the sun shines more directly on the earth. In winter, the day is short, there is l_____________ time for everything to get warm and the sun doesn’t shine more directly on the earth.‎ Land, just like the sand, warms up more quickly than water but it also l______________ its heat (热量) more quickly. So on a hot summer’s day on the beach, you can feel how hot the sand gets. The water is cool to the feet when you go for a paddle.‎ The sun makes our earth b_______________. It gives us light. It keeps us warm. It makes things grow. We can not live without the sun.‎ ‎(三十四)‎ Many people think the more time is s_____________, the more work will be done. So students have to spend the whole day doing school work e_______________ the three meals. They always work b_______________ at school and at home.‎ Modern students usually have many h________________. They love music and sports. They like reading and watching TV. But a two-day weekend is often f______________ with too much homework. What can they do? Many students have to do their homework all day. Some of them don’t do their homework u________________ Sunday night. So they have to finish much homework carelessly in a short time and the homework often m______________ teachers very angry.‎ Things always get w______________ without right ideas. Too much homework makes students l______________ interest in learning. It’s also bad for their health. Such a condition should be changed to give students both pleasure and k_______________. Please give students more free time.‎ ‎(三十五)‎ When women got married in some western countries, they change part of their n___________. That is, they take their husband’s last names as t______________.‎ Miss Surrey r_________________ to teaching in September after she got married. She told the first-grade students that they were to c_______________ her Mrs White. Most of the s____________ were the ones she had taught before and quite a few of them looked confused (困惑的).‎ When school was over in the a________________, a girl went home and told her mother, “ We have a new t______________, Mum. Her name is Mrs White, but she l_____________ like Miss Surrey so m_______________ that it will be very difficult to t____________ one from the other.”‎ ‎(三十六)‎ Scientists are trying to turn d_______________ into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts, s________________ people can live and grow food there. However, more and more land is b________________ desert. Why? Scientists think that people are doing bad things to t______________ good land into desert.‎ Some places on the earth do not get very m_______________ rain, but they still do not become desert. This is b_______________ green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very important to dry places. Plants do not let the hot sun make them even d____________. plants do not let the wind b_____________ the soil away. When rain falls, plants hold the water. W______________ plants land can become desert much more e________________.‎ ‎(三十七)‎ An old man was going home late one night w______________ his horse and cart after a day’s hard work. When he was not far from his house, the light of the cart went out. He ‎ t____________ but failed.‎ ‎“ Where’s your light?” a cool voice came from the dark.. it was a p______________. “I had one but it has just g____________ out.” The carter said.‎ ‎“I don’t b____________ your story.” Said the policeman angrily, with a book in his hand, g_____________ ready to write, “What’s your name and address?”‎ ‎“Please don’t take my name, my house is just there. I had a light nearly the w_____________ way.”‎ ‎“You came all the way without a light. Tell me your…”‎ the carter q_____________ took the policeman’s hand and put it down on the top of the light. The light was still hot and b______________ the man’s hand. The man jumped and got even a______________.‎ ‎(三十八)‎ There is nothing more i______________ to life than the sun. W_______________ the sun, all living things on the earth would die. The sun is a star. In the sky there are t_______________ of stars like the sun. they are as large as the sun and as h______________ as the sun. at night you can see many stars, but in the day you can only see one star------ the sun.‎ The sun is much n_____________ to us than any other star. That is w_______________ it looks the biggest and brightest of all the stars. The distance (距离) of the sun from the earth is as m______________ as 150,000,000 kilometers. Most stars are thousands of light-years a____________ from the earth.‎ Do you know what a light-year is? N______________ in the world travels faster than light. It travels 300,000 kilometers per second. And one light-year is the distance that light can travel in one y_____________.‎ ‎(三十九)‎ There is a one-day h______________ in most countries on New Years Day. The real celebration foe New Year h_______________ on the night before – on New Year’s Eve. There are several interesting customs（风俗）in the West, and there are many d_______________ from country to country. T_____________ Christmas is family get-together, New Year for some is a time to be with friends, too. P_____________ are most often held to w_____________ New Year. At such parties, there is food and drink and dancing until the time near for the c______________ of New Year.‎ At midnight, people often say “Happy New Year” to each other. Champagne (香槟) is a f____________ drink for New Tear. In many western countries fireworks (烟火) are let off, and many people like to make a n______________, possibly to drive away bad spirits. ‎ One important song is often s_______________ at New Year, the Scottinsh Song of Auld Lang Syne (good times long ago).‎ ‎(四十)‎ ‎　I’m sure you have heard of the name of “Yao Ming”. He is now a famous basketball p_____________. He was b______________ in Shanghai,1980. at the a_____________ of 4, he had to pay for tickets because of his height. Even t______________ his parents are very good at basketball, he didn’t love this game at first. And he had no confidence I h______________. He was too thin, and his friends jokingly c_____________ him “chopsticks”.‎ ‎“Don’t g_______________ up! Just try!” his coach （教练）encourages him all the time.‎ In 1998, he became a m______________ of the National Men’s Team. (国家男蓝). Four years l____________, he was picked by NBA. Now all the Chinese are very p____________ of Yao Ming.‎ 参考答案 ‎1. interested , called, hospitals, zoo, ways, ill, medicine ,heart, operate , owner ‎ ‎2. since, holidays, studies, back, from, getting, different, British , received, post ‎3. place, past, But, grown, middle, man’s, stayed, to, understood, himself ‎4. useful, most, back, can’t, stops, more, just, speak, without ‎5. seasons, than, see, even, never, night, themselves, animals, grow, hard ‎6. real, another, same, own, began, library, nothing, working, eating, schools ‎7. sing, beautiful, other, singer, loudly, walking, heard, making, really, how ‎8. Suddenly, given, kind, matter, showed, yours, again, cried, enough, because ‎9. well. angry, talk, even, learn, same, maybe, to, girl’s, Neither.‎ ‎10. closed, tired, just, open, unhappy, answering, same, for, in, out ‎11. but, difficulties, understand, either, spoken, on，improve, learning, by, for ‎12. lent, without, another, staying, late, girl, outside, waiting, must, inside ‎13. how ,cooking, words, write, enough, with, followed, quickly, knowing, still ‎14. loved, left, what, but, with, untrue, enjoyed, since, afraid, himself ‎15. during, though, against, own, own, with, office, grows, Most, all ‎16. famous, returned, How, before, test, still, way, have, whole, discover ‎17. because, teaching, enjoyed, girls, why, either, happened, other, first, older ‎18. rainy, surprised, used, instead, how, wanted, nothing, on, lying, listening ‎19. about, party, outside, where, slept, couldn’t, kept, awake, alone, nicely ‎20. doctor’s, could, abroad, business, pain, enough, able, felt, exercise, carefully ‎21. night, passed, still, why, beginning, hard, sleeping, all , as, running ‎22. . unusual, built, islands, between, little, long, places, both, what, wish ‎23. visit, telephone, outside, around, by, began, whether, how, angrily, quickly ‎24. fell, much, nothing, badly, sent, nearby, white, another, happened, died ‎25. asked, answering, who, beaten, or, broken, giving, beating, another, keep ‎26. what, lend, riding, nearly, such, surprise, need, together, pay, else ‎27. never, anybody, Give, man’s under, another, same, Take, nothing, always.‎ ‎28. need, head, in, with, through, every, through, because, with, can’t ‎29. modern, future, Internet, games, made, keep, same, saved, pleasant, change ‎30. caught, rode, heavier, carried, herself, near, painful, injection, with ‎31. other, keeps, says, used, wives, another, before polite, talking, noise ‎32. river, land, friends, visit, uses, neck, bring, finished, shopping, own ‎33. another, without, even, makes, straight, away, during, less, leaves, bright ‎34. spent, except, both, hobbies, filled, until, makes, worse, lose, knowledge ‎35. names, theirs, returned, call students, afternoon, teacher, looks, much, tell ‎ ‎36. desert, so being, turn, much, because, driver, blow, without, easily ‎37. with, tried, policeman, gone, believe, getting, whole, quickly, burned, angrier ‎38. important, Without, thousands, hot, nearer, why, much, away, Nothing, year ‎39. holiday, happens, differences, Traditional, Parties, wish, coming, first, noise, sung ‎40. player, born, age, though, himself, called, give, member, later, proud ‎【提高题】‎ ‎1‎ ‎ Yesterday I visited the Hong Shan Forest Zoo. I was s_____ to find few people there. Zoos are very important places. They p_____ homes for many endangered animals. They also help to educate the public about caring f______ them. If we don’t visit our zoos, they won’t have e______ money to take care of so many fine animals. Therefore, people should go and visit the zoos m______ often to learn about animals and help to protect them better. ‎ H_____, some people don't think so. They think zoos are t______ places for animals to live. “I’ve visited a lot of zoos in my life, and I have never seen o______ I liked or one that was suitable for animals to live in.” Jenny said. ‘The animals are kept in small cages and can h______ move at all. What’s more, they are only given food once a week. That’s terrible.”‎ Keys: surprise, provide, for, enough, more, however, terrible, one, hardly ‎2‎ ‎ Why do people drink often? Because they are t_______, but this can’t be the o______reason, there m ______ be other reasons. In many countries, when friends see e ______ other, they often have a drink while they sit and talk. Many English people don’t need a______ else, they drink tea ‎ several t______ a day even if they are alone.‎ ‎ In most countries people say something i______ when they drink together. In all countries there are many places (cafes, bars, etc.) where they want to sell d______. Since there are so many places for people to drink, it seems that many people drink more often than they really w______ to.‎ Key: only, may, each, anybody, times, important, drinks, want ‎3‎ Can animals be made to work for us ? Some scientists think that one day animals may be t____ to do a number of simple jobs .They s____ that in a film or on TV we may see elephants , monkeys ,dogs ,bears ,or other animals doing a lot of things .If you w_____ carefully , you may find that those animals are given something to eat as a reward. The scientists say that many d_____ animals may be taught to do a number of simple jobs if they will get something to eat . Of course, as we know , dogs can be used to guard a house ,and elephants can be used to do some heavy j___ . And we can also teach animals to work in f____ . Apes ,for example, have b____ used in America to help make cars, and scientists b_____ that these monkeys may one day get in crops and e____ drive trains. ‎ Keys: taught, say, watch, different, jobs, factories, been, believe, even.‎ ‎4‎ Do you have a pet? Are you i_____ in taking care of animals? Girls and boys who like animals may want to study to be animal doctors. They are often c_____ “vets ”. Many of them work in animal h_____. Others may work on farms or at a z_____. Some study animal diseases and try to find w_____ to keep the animals from getting i______. Vets listen to an animals’s h______. They check its ears, eyes, mouth and blood. They o______ on animals when they need to. They may give the animals shots(注射) and tell the pets’ o_____ what food is best.‎ Key: interested, called, hospitals, zoo, ways, ill, hearts, operate, owners.‎ ‎ 5 When I was walking down the street one day , I s______ a small bag on the ground . I picked it up and opened it to see w_______ I could find out the owner’s name . There was n_______ inside it except some dollars and a picture of a woman and a young girl about twelve years old . I put the photo back and took the bag to the police station . Before I left , the policeman wrote down ‎ my name and my a_______ . He thought the owner might want to thank me .    That evening I went to have dinner with my aunt and uncle . They had also asked a young woman to have dinner with us . Her face was familiar , but I couldn’t r_______ where I had seen her . D________ our talk , the young woman happened to say that she had l_______ her bag that afternoon . All at once I remembered w_______ I had seen her . She was the young girl in the photo . though she looked now much o______ than the girl in the picture . She was very s_______ , of course , when I told her about the bag . After dinner we went to the police station and got back her bag . The policeman said to me , “It’s a wonderful thing . You found not only the bag , but also the owner of the bag .”  ‎ Key: saw, whether, nothing, address, remember, during, lost, where, older, similar.‎ ‎6 Only mother love is true love. It gives everything all her life. When you are still a baby, mother takes good care of you as much as possible. In your waking hours she always holds you in her arms. When you are ill, she stops her work right now to look after you day and n__________ and forgets about herself. When you are growing up day by day, she feels very happy. When you are old e__________ to go to school, mother still looks after you all the t_______ . On cold winter days, she always tells you to p_______ on more clothes. She always stands in the wind waiting for you back from school every day. When you hurry to leave home for school with little b_________  . She always feels worried about you at home. She u________ knows about you study and spend much money on your school things. When you do well at school , you will see the brightest s__________ on her face. Mother can do everything for you day after day. Mother is always ready to give everything she has to her children, not to receive. What true love that is in the w________ ! We will r____________ Mother Love for ever!‎ Key: night, enough, time, put, breakfast, usually, smiles, world, remember.‎ ‎ 7 Seumas Mcsporran is a very b____ man. He is 60 years old and he has thirteen jobs. He is a postman, a policeman, a fireman, a taxi driver, a school-bus driver, a boatman, an ambulance man, an accountant, a petrol attendant, a barman, and an undertaker. Also, he and his wife, Margaret, have a shop and a small hotel. Seumas l_____ and works on the island of Gigha in the west of Scotland. Only 120 people live on Gigha but in s_____ 150 tourists come by b_____ every day.‎ ‎ Every weekday Seumas gets up at six and makes b_____ for the hotel guests. At eight he drives the island’s children to s_____.  At nine he collects the post from the boat and delivers it to all the houses on the island. He also delivers the beer to the island’s only pub. Then he helps Margaret in the s_____.He says：“Margaret likes being busy, too. We n_____ have holidays and we don’t like w_____ television. In the evening Margaret makes supper and I do the accounts. At ten we have a glass of wine and then we go to bed. P_____  our life isn’t very exciting, but we like it.”‎ KEYS: 1. busy   2. lives  3. summer  4. boat  5. breakfast  6. school  7. shop  8. never  9. watching  10. Perhaps ‎ ‎ 8 Spending in a bookshop can be enjoyable . If you go to a good s________ , no assistant will come near to you and say , “Can I h______ you ?” You needn’t buy a________ you don’t want . You may try to find out where the book you want is . But if you w_______ , the assistant will lead you there and then he will go away . It seems that he is not interested i_____ selling any books at all .    There is a story which t_______ us about a good shop . A medical student found a very useful book in a shop , but it is too expensive for him to b______ . He couldn’t get it from the library , e_______ . So every afternoon he went there to r______ a little at a time . One day , however , he couldn’t find the book from its usual place and was leaving when he saw an assistant smiling to him. To his s________ , the assistant pointed to the book in a corner , “I put it there so as not to be sold out .”said the assistant . Then he let the student go on with his reading .‎ Key: shop, help, anything, want, in, tells, buy, either, read, surprise, ‎ ‎ 9‎ Henry was worried. This was his first time to go traveling by air. He did not know h_____ to find his seat, so he went to the air hostess and asked, “Could you help me? I can’t find my seat.” The air hostess s_____ him the seat and told him to sit d_____ and fasten the seat belt. She told Henry not to m______ about when the plane was going up. And she also said that Henry’s ears might feel a little s______, but he didn’t need to worry about it b_______ many people felt like that. When the plane was f_______ very high, Henry could stand up and walk round. He could e______ read books, newspapers or see films. The air hostess would b_____ food and drinks.‎ ‎ Henry could e______ the flight and arrived home soon.‎ KEYS: how, showed, down, move, strange, because, flying, either, bring, enjoy ‎ 10‎ ‎ When you go to England you may find the traffic there is different from ours. As a f_______ (1) you must be c_______ (2) in the streets, because the traffic d______ (3) on the left. You must look to the right and then the left before you cross a street.‎ ‎    In the morning and in the evening when people go to or come back from work, the streets are very b______ (4). Traffic is most d_______ (5) then.‎ ‎    When you go by bus in England, you have to take care, too. Always r______ (6) the traffic m ______ (7) on the left. You have to t______ (8) a look first or you will go to the w_______ (9) way.     In many English cities there are big buses with two f______ (10). You can sit on the second one. From there you can see the city very well.‎ KEYS:1. foreigner      2. careful    3. drives     4. busy       5. dangerous  6. remember     ‎ ‎7. moves     8. take      9. wrong      10. floors ‎ 11‎ Which animal do we need m   1   ? Dogs? Horses? No! The a  2  to the question is cows. Why cows? Cows give us milk. And milk is one of our most important k  3  of food.‎ ‎    Suppose(假设)that all the milk cows make in one year were put i 4   bottles. And suppose these bottles were put side by side. The line of bottles would go all around the world 400 t 5   . That is a lot of milk, less than half of it is used for d   6   and cooking. Most of it is u7   to make butter cheese, ice cream and many other things. It takes many cows to give us that m  8    milk. A cow used to give only about 1,500 quarts(夸脱)of milk a year. Now a fine cow may g   9   more than 3,000 quarts in a year.   Why do cows give more milk today? Now farmers have better cows. The cows get better c  10   and better food.‎ KEYS：1. most   2. answer  3. kinds   4. into   5. times   6. drinking  7. used   8. much   ‎ ‎9. give  10. care ‎     12‎ Here’s a part of an e-mail answer from Joe giving some advice to his son in college. “When I was ‎ young, I often met t_________ (1) about what to do and what not to do. My grandmother told me not to worry about those things. I o________ (2) did them once a year or once a lifetime. I________ (3), I should try to do well those things, and I do them every day. For example, I need to eat every day, so I should learn how to c________ (4). I need to talk to o________ (5) every day, so I should learn how to work with d ________ (6) people and know how to s ________ (7) well. I walk every day, so my s _______(8) should be all right and comfortable. Every night I sleep, so my bed should let me have a good rest. Taking care of the e_________ (9) things m________ (10) that you do a better job of the one in a lifetime things as well.”‎ KEYS:1. trouble(s)   2. only  3. Instead    4. cook     5. others    6. different   7. speak     ‎ ‎8. shoes   9. everyday    10. means ‎ 13‎ Let me tell you a story. A good friend of mine lives with six hundred animals on an island. Ever s___1___ he left school, he has travelled all over the world l___2___ for animals for his own zoo. He writes books about his travels, and about his wonderful a___3___. The money for his books helps him to p___4____ for all the animal food. My friend told me that when he was looking for water last week (There is not enough water on the island, though there is a lot all around it ), he f___5___ oil. He n___6___ money for his travels and for his zoo, and a little oil would buy e___7___ water for a long time, but he knows that if he tells anybody else about it, it will be the e___8___ of his zoo and his life’s work. So I think he will not tell anybody e ___9___ you and me about what he found — because oil and water can’t be p___10___ together. Oil may bring greater trouble to his animals than not having enough water. Do you think so?‎ ‎ KEYS: 1. since     2. looking     3. animals     4.pay    5. found     6. needs     ‎ ‎7. enough     8. end       9. except      10.  put ‎ ‎14‎ The u________ means the earth, the sun, the moon and the stars and the space b________ them. Many of the stars are so f_____ away that we can not see them. The moon, our satellite, travels a______ the earth. It has already been visited b______ man from the earth. Man-made satellites have been sent up i______ space by many countries. They go round the earth. They are used for helping us to learn more a______ the earth, the weather and other things. They are also used for sending and r_______ messages. It makes people f_______ different countries understand each ‎ other much better. So people say the world itself is becoming a much s_____ place. People call the small place “the global village ”. ‎ KEYS: universe, between, far, around, by, into, about, receiving, from, smaller ‎ 15‎ If you don’t use your arms or your legs for some time, they will become weak; when you start using them again, they will gradually (逐渐地) become stronger again. Everybody knows this. Yet many people do not seem to know that it is the s____ with memory. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he d_____ give it enough chance to become stronger. ‎ ‎    If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we k_____ that it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his p_____ are to blame, and f_____ of us know that it is just his own fault. ‎ ‎    Have you e________ found some people can’t read or write but they usually have b_______ memories? This is b_______ they cannot read or write and they h_____ to remember things; they cannot write them down in a little notebook. They must remember dates, names, songs and stories; so their memory is the whole time being exercised.     So if you want a good memory, l________ from these people: practise remembering. ‎ KEYS: 1. same 2. doesn’t 3. know  4. parents 5. few 6. ever 7. better  8. because ‎ ‎9. have  10. learn ‎16‎ Dogs are good pets. They are very f  1   to people and also very beautiful. Most dogs get on very well with c  2   and their parents. Others are good watch-dogs because they cry loudly when a s  3   arrives.     When you buy a dog, an important thing to think about is its  s  4  ——buy a small dog if your home is small and a bigger one if y  5   is larger. Many people don’t know how much to feed their dogs. Dogs eat a  6   anything! They like meat, rice and lots of other things. You can buy lots of food  for dogs in shops. Don’t let your dogs eat too much. Feed it only once a day. Always l  7   water for your dog. It can get thirsty very quickly, especially in s  8  .     Remember that dogs need e  9  . You should take it for a walk every day. Don’t keep your dog inside all day.‎ Keys: friendly, children, size, stranger, yours, almost, leave, summer, exercise.‎ ‎17‎ There was an old man who loved money very much. He n  1   gave anything to anybody. After some years he became r  2  .     One day he was walking near the river with his friends when he fell into the river. His friends ran to help him. One of them held out his hand and cried, “Give me your hand, and I’ll p  3   you out！”The rich man’s head went down the water a  4   then came up again, but he did not g  5   his hand to his friend. Again another of his friends tried, but again the s  6  thing happened.     Then a  7   friend, Nasreddin, said, “Take my hand and I’ll pull you out!” The rich man took his hand and Nasreddin pulled him out of the water.     “You don’t know your friend very w 8  .” Nasreddin said to the others. “When you say ‘Give！’ to him, he d  9   nothing, but when you say ‘Take！’ he always takes.”‎ Keys: never, rich, pull, and, give, same, another, well, does.‎ ‎18‎ ‎ One day, a businessman was going to another town to sell his goods. He decided to t 1_______ ten servants(仆人) with him. They would carry his goods and some f 2 ______to eat on the way. In the morning, the businessman said to one of the servants, “You are the smallest and shortest one. You may carry the l 3_____ load(担子).” The servant thanked him but took the biggest load. The load was f 4 with the bread and water. The man said, “You are f 5_____. That is the heaviest load.” But the servant smiled and said n _____6_____. He took up the load happily, and then they set off. After four hours, they were all tired and stopped for a r 7_____. They all ate some of the bread and drank some water. Then there was l 8_____ bread and water for the servant to carry. Every time they ate some bread and drank some water, the load b 9_____ lighter and lighter. During the rest of the trip, the servant had nothing in his load, but all the other servants still had a lot of things to carry. What a s 10 _____servant he was! Key: 1. take 2. food 3. lightest 4. filled 5. foolish 6. nothing 7. rest 8. less 9. became 10. smart ‎19‎ Halloween is one of the most famous holidays in the U.S., and it’s on October 31. People carve ‎ pumpkins (雕刻南瓜) and make funny faces on them. These are (97) c “Jack-O-Lanterns”. On October 31, every child wears a (98) s costume (道具服) such as a witch, ghost, or clown. They go to many houses and they knock on the door saying, “Trick or Treat!” It means that if people don’t give them a treat, they will play some kind of trick on the household. So, (99) u people give candy to them.‎ I carved my first Halloween pumpkin at my Great Family’s house. First, I cut open the top of the pumpkin and pulled the seeds out. It was not good for me because it was sticky (粘的) and (100) s bad. I had never carved a pumpkin, so it was interesting for me. Next, I carved the eyes and the mouth. I wanted to make a face like a pirate (海盗). When I finished making the face, I put a candle (101) i it. It was very beautiful, so I was happy.‎ I had a good (102) e because I learned one new idea about American culture by taking part in it. I think Halloween is an interesting American holiday which involves (牵涉) all family (103) m and neighbors too!(07年闵行质量调研试卷)‎ ‎97. called 98. special 99. usually 100. smelled/smelt 101. inside/in/into ‎ ‎102. experience 103. members ‎20‎ 下面这一篇是08年无锡中考题目属于比较难的题目，适合成绩比较好的 In some countries in Western Europe, such as France, Belium and Britain, the countryside is c (1).‎ ‎ Life has become difficult for many villages, and some d (2). There are a numberof reasons for this. Firstly, young people from villages usually want to live s (3) livelier and they often move to the towns and do not r (4). Secondly, people move to the cities to find work, a_________ (5) there are often very few jobs in the countryside. Sometimes villages remain （留下）because people from the cities have b___________ (6) a “second home” in the village, where they come and s__________ (7) at weekends. The prices of houses go up and people from the area cannot a___________ (8) to buy a house there. Another p__________ (9) is that it is becoming more and more difficult for farmers to make money from the farms. So they sell their l__________ (10) and find another job.‎ ‎ All these things mean that many villages in western Europe are f__________ (11) to survive.‎ ‎ We can only hope that they will remain. The countryside would be a sadder and u_________ (12) place without them.‎ ‎1. changing ‎2. disappearing ‎3. somewhere ‎4. return ‎5. as ‎6. bought/ built ‎7. stay ‎ ‎8. afford ‎ ‎9. problem ‎ ‎10. land ‎11. fighting ‎12. uglier ‎ ‎21‎ Bedtime stories are one of the delights(喜悦) of early childhood. But a________(1) to Dr. Julie Spreadbury from Queensland, parents s________(2) not speed up reading to their children after they entered primary school. She says listening to, reading and d________(3) the stories help children’s relaxation. My theory (理论) is that when children can read t________(4), most parents stop reading to them, Dr. Spreadbury says. That may be at the end of the Year 1, which is far too informal (非正式). Dr. Spreadbury says bedtime reading n________(5) only gives children a good b________(6) at school, but also brings parents and their children closer. This makes it funnier for them to open up and talk to parents about things that are worrying them, o________(7) things they are reading in their everyday life. （03年上海中考题目） 提示：本文共有7个小题，重点是短文理解和词的确定。所填单词必须与所给首字母一致。 (1)【题解】according【考点】推断【分析】依上下文和句式结构，应用介词，according to 意指"根据------"。 (2)【题解】should【考点】推断【分析】所缺单词后有谓语动词，填入助动词或情态动词合适，should这里是情态动词，意思是"应该"。 (3)【题解】discussing【考点】语意搭配【分析】空白处应填与前面reading并列的单词。 (4)【题解】themselves【考点】句意理解【分析】本题有一定的难度。Read后必须接以"t"打头的宾语，能够想到用反身代词的恐怕不多。 (5)【题解】not【考点】句与句的联系【分析】后面有but also，前面与之相对的应该是"noy only"。 (6)【题解】beginning【考点】词义的搭配【分析】good后需填名词，依语意用beginning比较恰当。 (7)【题解】or【考点】语意的联系【分析】后面的句式结构与前面相同，填or，意思是"或 ‎22‎ I. 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)：(共6分)‎ Of ten, doctors tell some people to go on diets (节食). The doctors hope the diets will make the people feel b1 . They hope the diets will make the people healthy. ‎ Alana was on a diet, but she didn't like it at all. She was not a 2 to eat her favorite food by the doctor. While her brother Frank ate chocolate, she had to eat an apple. Alana was on the diet for two months. Her doctor was pleased with her. "You have been very good, "he said. "You can eat some of the foods you like best But only a little. Don't eat too many sweets. Don't eat too much ice cream. If you do, you will get a lot of weight a 3 . "‎ Then the doctor put Frank on a diet It was a different kind of diet "You c 4 eat chicken or eggs. Frank, "said the doctor.”These foods will make you in trouble. "‎ ‎"How long will I have to be on the diet?" asked Frank. ‎ ‎"A long time, " said the doctor. "Maybe for the r 5 of your life. "‎ ‎"But I really like chicken, “said Frank. "You said it is one of the best meats to eat "‎ ‎"It is a very good food for most people,” said the doctor. "But when you eat it, it makes you sick. It is not a good food for you. "‎ ‎"You're right, “said Frank "Well, I'll eat more cake i 6 . " （02年上海中考题）‎ III . 1. better 2. allowed 3. again 4. can 't/cannot 5. rest 6. instead ‎ ‎23‎ Christopher and Jeff had known each other since childhood. One day, Jeff told his friend that he'd fallen in love and planned to get married the n 89 month. He asked Christopher to lend him $ 1, 000 for the wedding party, and promised to pay him back a month later when he started his new job. Christopher knew that Jeff was not very good with money, but he s 90 agreed. As they were old friends, they didn't put anything in writing.‎ A month later, Christopher hadn't heard from Jeff or received any money, s 91 he phoned him. Jeff was very apologetic and said he would surely pay him back within a month. Six weeks later, Christopher tried to phone Jeff and f 92 he had moved and left no link address. B 93 this time, he was angry.‎ Then one month later, to his surprise, Christopher received a cheque( 支票)for $ 100 from Jeff and a letter giving his new address. He explained that he'd been having money p 94 , and wouldn't be ‎ able to pay back the remaining $ 900 for some time. Christopher wrote back telling Jeff to forget the r 95 of the money and never to reach him again by message or telephone.（04年上海中考题）‎ ‎89. next 90. still 91. so 92. found 93. By 94. problem(s) 95. rest ‎24‎ ‎　When the London Underground goes on strike(罢工),my journey to work can be terrible I remember a strike which happened a few years a__140__—the station near my house was closed and I had to use another station and take a different train. This a__105__about an hour to my journey, so I wasn't very happy．‎ E__106__ went wrong at the station. People were late and they were panicking(惊恐)! By the time I got on the train, I Was feeling upset and sorry for myself. Then I saw this man. There was something about him-he had such a familiar f__107__. A few minutes later, I realized that he was Jack, a friend from my school days in Scotland. At the same time he a__108__reallzed who I was. Then we started talking about school days and the people we both used to k__109__.I was even more surprised when the train came into my station and he started to get off too! I asked him w__110__he was going and he said he was going to work． He told me he worked in Fitzroy Street. You see, I work in Fitzroy Street, too. It's a small w__111__!It was such an amazing coincidence!（06年上海中考题）‎ ‎　104.ago 105.added 106.Everything 107.face108.also 109.know 110.where 111.world ‎25‎ As prices and building costs keep rising, the‘do-it-yourself’(DIY) trend (趋势) in the US continues to grow.‎ ‎“We needed furniture for our living room,” says John Ross, “and we just didn’t have enough money to buy it. So we decided to try making a few tables and c 97 . ” John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, he and his wife struggle to make a home at a time w 98 the cost of living is very high. The Rosses took a 2-week DIY course for $280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs a 99 the house.‎ Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a full-time job at home, as w 100 as in a shoe making factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $420. “I was deeply u 101 about it. Now I’ve finished a car repair course, I should be able to f 102 the car by myself.”‎ John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything they c 103 to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to become a “do-it-yourself” expert, you can go to DIY classes. And for those who don’t have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself.（06南汇）‎ ‎97. chairs 98. when 99. around 100. well 101. upset 102.fix 103. can ‎26‎ Do you have bright ideas? Ideas for inventions that change the world or, at least, make life easier for somebody? P 97 we all do sometimes, but we don’t often make the idea a real thing. Recently, there was a competition in a country, which encouraged young people to make their bright ideas come true. There were t 98 groups in the contest: Group A was for school children under 16; Group B was for those o 99 16. And there were eleven prize-winners altogether.‎ Neil Hunt, one of the prize-winners, was c 100 “Sunshine Superman” by one newspaper writing about his design. When people study the weather, it’s important to be able to record the sunshine accurately. We need to know how many h 101 of sunshine we have and how strong it is. Most sunshine recorders o 102 record direct (直接的) sunshine. Neil’s is more accurate and this is very important for research into ways of using solar power. Neil plans to keep inventing.‎ The ideas in the competition were so g 103 that we are surprised that the industry (工业界) doesn’t ask more school children for suggestions. （08年上海试运转题）-----（这套大家应该都有：） ‎ ‎ 97. Perhaps/Probably 98. two 99. over 100. called ‎ ‎101. hours 102. only 103. great/good ‎27 Mr. Smith worked in a company. He had neither a wife nor a child. And he lived in an old house a 11_____. He liked nothing but drinking. He almost spent all of his money on drinks. One evening, Mr. Smith met a friend of h 12_____ in the street. The man asked him to have dinner in a restaurant. He was happy and d 13 _____a lot. When they finished the meal, Mr. Smith could hardly walk. His friend had to s 14_____ a taxi and asked the driver to take him home. Soon the taxi a 15_____ at the door of his house. With the help of the driver, he got out. “Thank you, ‎ sir,” said Mr Smith. “And I can open the door by m 16_____.” The taxi driver then went a 17_____. But Mr. Smith couldn’t put the key into the keyhole. He tried many times, but f 18_____. At that time, a policeman passed there. “Can I help you o 19_____ the door, sir?” asked the policeman. “Thank you, sir,” said Mr. Smith. “My house is circling now. If you can stop it from m 20_____, I can open the door by myself.” ‎ Keys: 11. alone 12. his 13. drank 14. stop 15. arrived 16. myself 17. away 18. failed 19. open 20. moving 28 One afternoon, when I was walking down the street, I saw my father’s new car at the crossing. Then I went c 21_____ to it. But to my surprise, I found the driver was not my father, but a young woman. “H 22_____ strange! She must have stolen my father’s car,” I thought. At the same time, the car s 23_____. I quickly took a taxi to follow it. I told the taxi driver to c 24_____ the police. Soon the police appeared and stopped the car w 25_____ the young woman drove. My taxi stopped, too. I got out right away and ran to the woman. “It’s not your car. It’s my father’s,” I said excitedly. “Oh, you’re Mr. Johnson’s son, right? I’ve ever s 26_____ your photo at his office,” said the woman kindly. Before I could s 27_____ something else, the woman explained that she was my father’s new assistant. My father asked her to take his computer back to the shop. It ‎ n 28_____ repairing. My father lent his car to her. After h 29_____ the woman’s words, the police called my father and he told the police that what the woman said was t 30_____. In the end, the police and the taxi driver laughed. I felt very sorry. It was the first time for me to work as a detective. ‎ Keys: 21. close 22. How 23. started 24. call 25. which 26. seen 27. say 28. needed 29. hearing 30. true ‎29 Mozart was famous as a musician. One day, he saw a blind old street-performer p 31_____ the violin at the street corner with a hat in front of him. To his surprise, he ‎ f 32_____ the old man was playing one of his compositions(作品). The old man played for a w 33_____, but nobody put money into his hat. Mozart asked the old man, “Do you often play compositions by Mozart?” “Yes, sir,” answered the old man. “Now everyone knows Mozart and they love his ‎ m 34_____.” “Do you make a l 35_____ by playing the violin?” asked Mozart. “Yes, sir,” the old man said. Mozart took over the violin from the old man and b 36 to play. He played so ‎ w 37_____ that all the passers-by stopped to listen to the wonderful music and put their m 38_____ into the hat. The old man felt very s 39_____ and asked Mozart, “Who are you, sir?” “Your colleague(同行), a poor musician l 40_____ you,” said Mozart. He gave the violin back to the old man and left. keys: 31. playing 32. found 33. while 34. music 35. living 36. began 37. well 38. money 39. surprised 40. like ‎ ‎30‎ Mozart was famous as a musician. One day, he saw a blind old street-performer p 31_____ the violin at the street corner with a hat in front of him. To his surprise, he f 32_____ the old man was playing one of his compositions(作品). The old man played for a w 33_____, but nobody put money into his hat. Mozart asked the old man, “Do you often play compositions by Mozart?” “Yes, sir,” answered the old man. “Now everyone knows Mozart and they love his m 34_____.” “Do you make a l 35_____ by playing the violin?” asked Mozart. “Yes, sir,” the old man said. Mozart took over the violin from the old man and b 36 to play. He played so w 37_____ that all the passers-by stopped to listen to the wonderful music and put their m 38_____ into the hat. The old man felt very s 39_____ and asked Mozart, “Who are you, sir?” “Your colleague(同行), a poor musician l 40_____ you,” said Mozart. He gave the violin back to the old man and left. keys：31. playing 32. found 33. while 34. music 35. living 36. began 37. well 38. money ‎ ‎39. surprised 40. like ‎ ‎31‎ Some cities are crowded. They have bus or train s________ to help people travel through ‎ them. In these cities, many people do not have cars. For example, in New York, o________ about one third of the people drive to work. ‎ Why do people need to have a car? Some people need a car to get to work. Others like the freedom of having a car. But having a car can be e________. Many people take buses or trains instead. They don’t want to worry about the c________ of having a car.‎ How much would it need to o________ a car? Learn the prices of new and used by looking at ads in the newspaper. Then count how much you would have to pay each month for a car. If you buy a car, you have to pay for insurance and registration mark. You also have to take care of the car and buy gas. Put all the money you have to pay and compare it with w________ you pay for buses and trains.‎ Now do you s________ want to buy a car?‎ services, only, expensive, costs, own, what, still ‎32‎ Bob and Jim o________ worked in the same factory. One day, Bob l________ Jim ten dollars, but then Jim left his work w________ giving back the money.‎ Bob didn’t see Jim for a year. Then he l________ from a friend that Jim was in another town those days and s________ at a hotel . So he went there to see him late in the evening.‎ When he g________ to Jim’s room, he saw his shoes near the door . “Well, he must be in the room,” he thought, and knocked at the door. There was no a________. He knocked again and said, “I know you are in, Jim. Your shoes are out here.”‎ ‎“I’ve gone out in my boots.” answered Jim.‎ once, lent, without, learned, stayed, got, answer ‎ ‎33‎ One day two little boys played together. Soon they had a quarrel, then fought with each other. One of them was c________ and went home to tell his father about it. After a while, the two boys c________ back again with their fathers. Each man tried to say everything for his own s________. So a quarrel between them started. Now they began to fight each other. At first the boys stood b________ their father. And now they were on the s________ side. They w________ their fathers fighting . The man were fighting harder and harder. But the boys ‎ became f________ again. They were now happily playing stone chess on the ground.‎ Sometimes fathers do m________ foolish things than boys do.‎ crying, came, son, beside/behind, same, watched, friends, more ‎34‎ Mary, a 14-year-old girl from New York, had a bad heart so she was very w________. Her doctors said she must have a new heart or she would die soon. Tom was Mary’s friend. He liked Mary very much and he didn’t want Mary to die.‎ But Tom was not h________. He had terrible headaches sometimes. Tom said to his mother if he died, he would give his heart to Mary. But Tom’s mother didn’t take it serious. She thought he was strong.‎ One morning Tom woke up w________ a great pain in his head. His parents rushed him to the hospital. But the doctors said it was too late and they could do n________ to save him.‎ Tom’s parents were very sad. But they remembered Tom’s words. And they a________ to give Tom’s heart to Mary .‎ The doctors operated on Mary, and in a short time Tom’s heart began to beat in Mary’s body, but Mary didn’t know it. Her parents and doctors didn’t tell her. They waited u________ she was stronger. Then they told her about Tom. Mary felt very sad but she was a________ thankful to Tom. Three months after the operation, Mary went back to school.‎ weak, healthy, with, nothing, agreed, until, also ‎35‎ The stars we see at night are really huge suns like our sun, but they are much f________ away in space. Some of them have planets like our earth traveling round them.‎ The stars are so hot that they give off great light and h________ ---- more than the hottest, brightest fire you can imagine. As we know, light travels at 300,000 kilometers per second. But the stars are so far away that their light s________ takes years to reach us. The light we see coming from some far-off stars started more than a hundred years ago.‎ The moon is a ball of cold rock. It is smaller than the earth. It circles round the earth as the earth circles round the sun. The whole j________ of the moon round the earth takes twenty-eight days. We see it c________ from new moon to h________ to full and back to new moon every twenty-eight days. Our word “m________” comes from the word “moon”. ‎ farther, heat, still, journey, change, half, month ‎36‎ A chicken lays an egg．You feel sleepy．And a tree loses its leaves．All of these things，and many more，happen in a certain w___1__，at a certain time each day or each year．They take place beacuse of something c___2____ an internal clock．The word internal means“inside of”，and the internal clock is inside a certain p___3___ of every plant and animal．For example，there is an internal clock in the h___4____ of a chicken． ‎ The internal clock receives a signal，or message，from the world around it．Some of these signals include light，heat，darkness and c__5____．When the internal clock gets the signal，the body of the plant or animal produces a chemical that causes the l____6_____ thing to do different actions．For example，daylight signals the chicken's internal clock to make a chemical．Then this chemical causes the chicken to lay eggs． ‎ People are learning a lot about internal clocks．Farmers have even learned how to f___7____ a chicken's internal clock so that the chicken lays more eggs！‎ Keys：way, called, part, head, cold, living, fool.‎ ‎37‎ March 12 is China’s Tree Planting Day, so why not p_______ a tree? Don’t have time to plant a tree? Then why not adopt(领养) one? Nowadays , more and more Shanghai resident are choosing to adopt a tree to mark the day .‎ There are 19 places a _______the city where residents can plant trees, but only a few of them are located downtown. So ti’s inconvenient for most people to find a place to plant trees. H_____. People can adopt trees in 97 parks and gardens around the city, such as Yanzhong greenbelt.‎ You can adopt a tree and have a gardener to t_____ care of it for a year for only 30 yuan. If you want a rarer species, it will cost you 100 to 200 yuan. You can also put your n______ card on it to show that you are the tree’s father or mother and that the tree is y_______.‎ But if 30 yuan is too e________, you can buy one square meter of green land for only six yuan. I f you have enough money to adopt an area that covers at least 3,000 square meters, you can name it!‎ ‎ So why not be a tree parent?‎ Key: plant, around, however, take, name, yours, expensive.‎ ‎38‎ ‎ I studied in America for a year. I studied in a school in Atlanta, Georgia, called Henderson‎ ‎Middle school. There are many differences b________ Chinese schools and American ones. Even the school buildings are very different. School buildings are usually m_______ taller in China and we also have more w________ in our classrooms. Because of that , I think I p______ Chinese school buildings.‎ In America, instead of w______ for the teachers to come to your “homeroom”, you have to go to different classroom for different classes. It’s s_______ hard to find your way to the right classroom, especially the first time. You also h_____ to go to the lockers to get your stuff for the next class instead of just getting it from your own drawer.‎ Keys: between, much, windows, prefer, waiting, sometimes, have, ‎ ‎【较难题】‎ 1、 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): ‎ Here is some information about the activities that you can do during your stay in Granada. ‎ Theaters Going to the theater is the best way to experience Spanish culture. In Granada, the two most popular theaters are the Alhambra Theater and the Isabel la Catlica Theater.‎ In these theaters you can see all k__1__ of Spanish plays.‎ Cinemas ‎ If you want to learn Spanish in Spain, the cinema is a good place. All movies are translated into Spanish, which will help foreigners i__2__ their Spanish. Cinemas can be found all over Granada, in all the business centers and also the city center.‎ Amusement Parks ‎ The only amusement park located in the province‎ of ‎Granada is the water park. If you are willing to go a bit f__3__ away (1-2 hours by car) you can find several amusement parks in the province‎ of ‎Malaga.‎ Spanish Entertainment ‎ When travelling to Andalucía, don’t m__4__ the flamenco (弗拉门科舞) shows. Flamenco music and dance come from the gipsies (吉普赛人) and there are many good shows in Andalucía. In Granada town you can find several flamenco clubs. Most of them are l__5__ on the Camino Del Sacromonte Street. ‎ Others ‎ If you just want to go out and have fun, you can find many kinds of entertainment in several places in Granada. ‎ ‎1. kinds 2. improve 3. further 4. miss 5. located ‎ 2、 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): ‎ Traveling to any Disney World can be very expensive, but here are some ways to help you s__1__ money when you go.‎ Step 1:Don’t go during the hot season.‎ Try not to plan your trip during the hot season, such as Christmas time. During that time, hotel prices will be more e__2__ than usual. Some hotels at Disney World can be over 500 dollars a night. So if this is too expensive, don’t worry. The price can s__3__ fall to less than a hundred dollars, and this is decided by the time of year. ‎ Step 2: Restaurants.‎ Have a look at some restaurant menus b__4__ you go on holiday. Then you will know which ones you can afford. While you can get a hamburger for less than 10 dollars, in some places it can c__5__ more than 100 dollars. ‎ Step 3: Take snacks with you.‎ It is usually cheaper to eat something that you bought from a shop before going on holiday, such as snacks. Also, if you go to Wal-Mart and pick up some water and drinks, it will be much cheaper than buying them in the parks. ‎ Step 4: Use the bus system.‎ If you are staying at Disney World you can use their bus system. This is a great idea, especially when you do not know w__6__ you are going. Not only will they take you there, but you can use Disney’s gas i__7__ of your own.‎ ‎ ‎ ‎1. save 2. expensive 3. sometimes 4. before 5. cost 6. where 7. instead ‎ ‎3、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): ‎ What year were you born in, the year of Tiger or the year of Monkey or another animal? The C___1___ lunar calendar (阴历) has a history of about 5,000 years, and it cycles (循环) every twelve years. Each of the twelve years has an animal. It is said that only twelve a___2___ came to say goodbye to Buddha (佛) before he left Earth. As a prize to these twelve animals, Buddha named a year after each one in the order that they a___3___. Five twelve-year cycles is c___4___ a complete cycle, during the sixty-year cycle each animal is combined with one of the five Chinese elements (要素) —wood, fire, earth, metal and water. The Chinese lunar calendar starts at 11 pm and the twenty-four hours of a day are divided into twelve parts of two hours e___5___. An animal sign rules each one of these twelve parts.‎ The Chinese birth signs are as follows: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Boar.‎ As a point of interest, the animal that r___6___ your year is the animal that rules your heart. There are many i__7__ stories about these animals. For example, people born in the year of the Monkey tend to be good at mastering anything they put their hands to, and they are also very successful. People born in the year of the Tiger love to be the centre of attention and are often very lucky.‎ ‎1. Chinese 2. animals 3. arrived 4. called 5. each 6. rules 7. interesting ‎4、Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入恰当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)：（共14分） ‎ When you laugh, you will open your mouth and show your teeth. The healthier those teeth are, the h___1_____ you look. Why is that?‎ It’s because your teeth are important in many ways. If you take care of them, they’ll help to take care of you. Strong, healthy teeth help you eat the right food to help you g____2___. They also help you speak clearly.‎ You can take care of your teeth by doing like these:‎ Brush your teeth t_____3______ a day---after breakfast and before bedtime. If you can, brush after l___4_____ or after eating sweet cakes.‎ Brush all of your teeth, not just the front ones. Spend some time on the teeth along the sides and in the back.‎ Take your time while brushing. Spend at l_____5____ 3 minutes each time you brush.‎ Be sure your toothbrush is soft. Ask your parent to help you get a new toothbrush every three month.‎ Learn how to floss(用牙线清理) your teeth, which is a very important way to keep them healthy. It feels strange when you do it at first, but soon you’ll be u___6______ to doing it. The floss gets rid of food that’s hidden between your teeth.‎ Brushing and flossing keep your teeth healthy. You also need to care about w___7__ you eat and drink. Eat a lot of fruits and vegetables and drink water instead of drinks.‎ ‎1. happier 2. grow 3. twice 4. lunch 5. least 6. used 7. what ‎5、Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words. (本大题答案必须用黑墨水钢笔或黑色水笔填写，用圆珠笔或铅笔填写不给分。) (本篇每题2分)‎ For most of his life Joseph Turner lived in London and t 1 painting at The Royal Academy of Art（皇家艺术学院）.However, he walked all o 2 Britain and Europe, painting what he saw, especially mountains, ships and the sea.‎ ‎ His father was a barber(理发师) and had a shop. Joseph’s father was a very poor man and could not send him to school, s 3 Joseph sat in his shop drawing the men who came to have their hair cut. His father put Joseph’s drawings on the walls. One day a man came to the shop, saw Joseph’s paintings and asked him if he could copy other a 4 paintings. Joseph said that he could and for seven years he copied famous paintings for the man. In r 5 , he taught Joseph to read and write.‎ ‎ When Joseph was fourteen Joseph showed his paintings to a teacher at The Royal Academy. The teacher liked those paintings and said that Joseph could study at the Academy. Joseph Turner stayed there for the rest of his life, f 6 as a student and then as a teacher.‎ ‎ Joseph Turner became a very famous painter, especially for the w 7 he painted light. His most famous painting is of an old sailing ship. It is called The Fighting Temeraire.‎ ‎1. taught 2. over 3. so 4. artists’ 5. return 6. first 7. way ‎6、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）：（共14分）‎ A pop singer has to work very hard to become popular. He must e 1 give the public what they really want and need, or he must find a new way of singing that will attract their attention. Even when he has succeeded and his records（唱片）are sold everywhere, he can not r 2 . Then he must work harder than ever to remain(保持) popular, because there are a 3 younger singers trying to become famous and to steal some of the popularity. ‎ The l 4 of a successful pop singer isn’t easy at all. He can only relax when he is alone, because everything he does is watched and r 5 by the special newspaper written for the fans. The fans are the most important people in the world for the singer. They buy his records, they go to his concert, and they make him rich and famous. But they can be very dangerous, too. Sometimes they do a 6 to get a souvenir（纪念物）. They steal handkerchiefs, they tear off（撕掉）buttons, and they even cut off pieces of the unfortunate singer’s hair. Many singers have been forced to ride（即兴表演）. A pop singer has to spend a lot of money on clothes because he must always look s 7 , different. And most important, he must always keep smiling. ‎ ‎1. either 2. relax 3. always 4. life 5. reported 6. anything 7. smart ‎7、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)‎ Have you heard about Atlantis? More than two thousand years ago, in 360 BC, the Greek writer, Plato, d_____1______ a beautiful city in his book. He said that it was lost somewhere under the ocean. He called this city Atlantis. ‎ Plato said that the people of Atlantis had been rich and happy. There were some a______2______ palaces and ports(港口) in the city. The houses had fountains with hot and cold water, and the walls were covered with silver(银) and gold. Outside the city, farmers grew food for all the people. It was s______3______ to think that no one would go there again.‎ For two thousand years, everybody thought that Atlantis was j_____4______ a fantastic story. They thought that Plato had invented it. But then in 1882 an American called Ignatius Donnelly wrote a book about Atlantis. He believed that there really was a beautiful lost city. T_____5______ of people read his book and wanted to find the lost city. ‎ A lot of people believed that Atlantis was on an island in Greece called Santorini. Santorini used to be much bigger than it is today. About 3,500 years ago, a h_____6______ volcano (火山）erupted (喷发) and most of the island sank under the ocean. Some people say it was in Spain, Asia o_____7______ even in England. People have been looking for the lost city for more than a hundred years, but nobody has ever found it.‎ ‎1. described 2. amazing 3. sad 4. just 5. thousands 6. huge 7. or ‎8、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）‎ Mr and Mrs Williams had always spent their summer holidays in England in the past, in a small boarding-house at the seaside. One year, however, Mr Williams made a lot of money in his business, so they decided to go to Rome and stay at a really good h 97__ while they went around and saw the s 98__ of that famous city.‎ They f 99__ to Rome, and arrived at their hotel late one evening. They expected that they would have to go to bed hungry, because in the boarding-houses they had been used to in the past, ‎ n 100 meals were served after seven o’clock in the evening. But they were s 101__ when the clerk who received them in the hall of the hotel asked them whether they would be taking dinner there at night.‎ ‎“Are you still serving dinner then?” asked Mrs Williams.‎ ‎“Yes, certainly, madam,” answered the clerk. “We serve it until half-past nine” ‎ ‎“What are the t 102 of meals then?” asked Mr Williams. ‎ ‎“Well, sir,” answered the clerk, “we serve breakfast from seven to half-past eleven in the morning, lunch from twelve to three in the afternoon, tea from four to five, and dinner from six to half-past nine.”‎ ‎“But that h 103 leaves any time for us to see the sights of Rome!” said Mrs Williams in a disappointed voice.‎ ‎97 hotel 98 sights 99 flew 100 no 101 surprised 102 times 103 hardly ‎9、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)‎ Happiness is for everyone. In fact, happiness is always a 97 you if you put your heart into it. When you are in t 98 at school, your friends will help you; when you study hard at your lessons, your parents are always taking good care of your life and your health; when you get s 99 , your friends will congratulate you; when you do something wrong, people around you will help you to c 100 it. And when you do something good to o 101 , you will feel happy,too. All these are your happiness. If you notice a bit of them, you can find that happiness is always with you.‎ Happiness is not the same as money, it's a feeling of your heart. When you are poor,you can ‎ a 102 be very happy, because you have something else that can't be bought with money.When you meet with difficulties, you can say l 103 you are very happy, because you have more chances to challenge (挑战) yourself. So you cannot always say you are poor and you have bad luck. If you take every chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person.‎ ‎97. around 98. trouble 99. success 100. correct 101. others 102. also 103. loudly ‎10、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）‎ People in Shanghai feel happy and excited when it snows. They rush out to let the snow fall on their faces. They make snowmen and take lots of photos. They know that the snow will soon d 97 and become just a memory. ‎ Yes, for many people in Shanghai, snow is a good thing. At least it was good u 98 this Spring Festival. This year it snowed and snowed and snowed. And then ... it snowed some more! It had the most snow and was the c 99 weather that Shanghai had had in fifty years. People were not ready. They didn’t know how to deal with so much snow. Police said there were many car accidents b 100 of slippery (滑的) roads. Hospitals reported many people fell on sidewalks. In the other places of China, the snow caused even bigger problems, including many d 101 . ‎ This year, the beautiful snow was changed into a t 102 disaster (灾难). I think that’s true for most things that we like and enjoy. We can’t have too much of a good thing. We like to eat sweets, but too many will make us sick. We like to eat fast food, but too much fast food will make us unhealthy. We like to play computer games, but too much time in front of the computer screen will c 103 hurt your studies and your health. ‎ ‎97. disappear 98. until 99. coldest 100. because 101. deaths 102. terrible 103. certainly ‎11、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)‎ Do you know something about rings (年轮) ? Do you know they can tell us what the weather was like, sometimes even hundreds of years ago?‎ A tree will grow well in a climate with lots of sunshine and rainfall. And little sunshine or rainfall will limit the growth of a tree. We can see the c 97 of climate by studying the tree rings. For example, to find out the w 98 of ten years ago, we can count the rings of a tree from the o 99 to the inside. If the tenth ring is far from the eleventh ring, then we’re sure that it was sunny and rainy m 100 of that year. If it is near to the eleventh ring, then the climate that year was bad. ‎ Tree rings are important not only for studying the history of weather but also for studying the history of m 101 . Many centuries ago there l ‎102 a lot of people at a place in New Mexico. But now you can find only sand there—no trees and no people. What happened?‎ A scientist studied the rings of dead trees there. He found that the people had to leave because they had cut down all the trees to m 103 fires and buildings. As all the trees had gone, the people there had to move. ‎ ‎97. changes 98. weather 99. outside 100. most 101. man 102. lived 103. make ‎12、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） ‎ Time is money. This means that every moment (if we spent it well) may put some money into our pockets. If our time is carefully u 92 , it will either turn to some important piece of work, or it will add to our experience and increase our knowledge so as to enable us to get more money. Let those, who think nothing of w 93 time, remember this.‎ Our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is therefore a form of losing life. We are f 94 when we think of death. But we are too careless to notice the loss (丢失) of an hour or a day, forgetting that our life is made up of the days and of the hours we live. A day or an hour is wasted. Therefore, so much life is lost. Now the a 95 life span (寿命) is over seventy years. But nearly one-third of this has to be spent in s 96 ; some years have to be spent over our meals, some in making trips on land or by sea, some in watching over the sick beds of our dearest r 97 . All time is precious (珍贵的), but the time of our childhood and of our youth (青少年时代) is more precious than any other time of our life. During that time we can get knowledge and develop our abilities. If we allow these morning hours of life to run a 98 , we shall never be able to call it back.‎ ‎1. used 2. wasting 3. frightened 4. average 5. sleeping 6. relatives 7. away ‎13、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）‎ A teenage girl couldn't stand her parents' family rules, so she left home.‎ She wanted to be f 92 . But she had poor education and several years later she had to ask for food in the street for a l 93 . Now her father has died. Her mother is an old woman. But she is still looking for her daughter. She has been to e 94 corner of the city. Everywhere she goes, she puts up a big photo of herself on the wall. At the lower part of the photo she writes, " I still love you... , come back home !"‎ One day, the daughter saw one of the photos. The face was familiar. “Is that my mother?” She moved closer and r 95 the words: I still love you... She cried.‎ When she got home, it was early morning. She knocked at the door. The door opened itself. She rushed to her mother's b 96 . Her mother was sleeping. She woke her mother up, "It's me! Your daughter is back home!" The mother and daughter held each other, full of happy tears (眼泪). The daughter asked, "Why is the door not l 97 ? A thief could get in." The mother answered s 98 , "The door has never been locked since you left. "‎ The door of parents' love for their children will never be closed.‎ ‎92. famous 93. living 94.every 95.read 96. bedroom 97. locked 98. softly ‎14、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）‎ In most American hearts, Mark Twain is a great famous writer. Many of his books are still translated and printed in America or the other countries in the world now. However, he was e ‎92 a printer, river pilot, soldier and lived a hard life before he became a famous writer. When Mark Twain was a little boy, his parents called him Sam. Little Sam had two good friends, Tom and John. Sam admired Tom most. He could sleep a 93 he liked—in the street or in the woods, and he could do what he wanted. Then the three fellows would set off in search of some adventures. In this way, Mark Twain ranged（浪迹）across the nation for more than a third of his l 94 . Though Mark Twain lived a hard life in most of his life, he was famous for his h 95 . One day he was on the train, the conductor asked him for his ticket. Mark Twain looked for the ticket in all his pockets, but f 96 to find it. At last the conductor said, “It doesn’t really matter. If you can’t find it, there is no harm done.” However, Mark Twin said, “Oh, but there is. I must find the dammed（该死的）thing, or how will I know where I’m going?” Another day, a millionaire replaced his unable left eye with a b 97 glass eye. He felt very proud and happy. When he met Mark Twain, he could not help asking, “Can you guess which eye of m 98 is the glass one?” Mark Twain pointed to the millionaire’s left eye. The millionaire was very surprised, “How do you know that?” Mark Twain replied, “Because in your left eye, there still has been a little mercy（仁慈）.‎ ‎92. ever 93. anywhere 94. life 95. humour 96. failed 97. beautiful 98. mine ‎15、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）‎ Friendship is one of the greatest pleasures that people can enjoy．It is very (92) d to find a better definition（定义）of friendship．A true friend does indeed find pleasure in our joy and share sadness. He or she is always at our side to (93) g us his or her help and comfort．A true friend can always be ‎ trusted，loved and respected．Friends help each other when they are in (94)t ，and cheer each other up when they are sad．My friends will listen to me when I want to speak, will wipe my eyes when I cry, will take care of me when I am sick.‎ Every one of us, rich or poor, should at least have one or (95) t good friends. If you tell a friend your secrets, he or she won’t tell anyone else. The most important thing is that a friend always (96) u you. Friendship is a kind of treasure in our lives. It is actually like a bottle of wine, the (97) l it is kept, the sweeter it will be. It is also like a cup of tea. When we are thirsty, it will be our best choice, but when we have enough time to enjoy (98)o , it is also the most fragrant(芬芳的) drink. In conclusion，when you have made a good friend，don’t forget him or her. Knowing how valuable friendship is, we should be very careful in our choice of a friend through the journey of life.‎ ‎92. difficult 93. give 94. trouble 95. two 96. understands 97. longer 98. ourselves;‎ ‎16、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）‎ It’s time to go back to school and hit the books. The long lazy summer days are over and now we have another school year. So how can we make this year a w 92 one? The answer to that lies in our friends.‎ Friends play a big role in our lives. We want to share our thoughts and feelings, experience new things and create memories, and friends can help us do that.‎ Friends are there to listen to you and to share your ‎ m 93 of joy and sadness. But most importantly friends are there to support(鼓励、支持) you. Throughout middle school, I was the only foreign student in the school. It was difficult at times to deal with other students. A 94 I started my school year, I began to meet new classmates. I s 95 realized that it was good to have new friends. All of a sudden, I was crowded by a group of people who o 96 me support and gave me strength to face my difficulties.‎ The best part of having those new friends is the memories that we created. We shared many laughs and studied t 97 . We shared our experiences. At the end of each day, we would look back and smile realizing that we had made it t 98 another day.‎ Thanks to God, I have been very lucky in meeting my new friends. I realize now the importance of having friends and being part of a community(社会、社区). I would advise you to get to know as many friends as you can this year and to form a strong circle of friends that can support one anther.‎ ‎92. wonderful 93. moments (moment) 94. As (After) 95. slowly(sometimes) (soon) 96. offered 97. together 98. through ‎17、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): (7%)‎ There was once a man called Mr. Flowers, and flowers were his only joy in life. He spent all his spare time in one of his four glass-houses and grew flowers of every kind, with l 73 and difficult names. For competitions, he tried to grow a rose of a new c 74 to win the silver cup for the Rose of the Year.‎ Mr. Flowers’ glass-houses were very close to a middle school. Boys of around thirteen years of age were often tempted (诱使) to throw a stone or t 75 at one of Mr. Flowers’ glass-houses. So Mr. Flowers did his best to be in or close by his glass-houses at the beginning and end of the school day.‎ But it was not always possible to be on watch at those times. Mr. Flowers had tried in many ways to p 76 his glass, but nothing had been useful. He had tried to drive away the boys when they threw stones into his garden; but the boys could run faster than he did, and they laughed at him from far away. He had e 77 picked up all the stones around his garden, so that the boys would have nothing to throw; but they soon found o 78 .‎ At last Mr. Flowers had a good idea. He put up a large notice. It was made of good, strong wood. It was some metres away from the glass-houses. On it he had written the words: DO NOT THROW STONES AT THIS NOTICE. After that, Mr. Flowers had no f 79 trouble: the boys were much more tempted to throw stones at the notice than at the glass-houses.‎ ‎73. long 74. colour 75. two 76. protect 77. even 78. others 79. further ‎18、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）‎ Do you plan to go to Hong Kong Disneyland with your family this summer? If your dad smokes, you may want to ask him to be careful. From January 1, Hong Kong banned（禁止）smoking in most p 1 places.‎ The places include restaurants, workplaces, h 2 , schools or karaoke lounges (卡拉OK厅). Even smoking at some outdoor places is a 3 the law. For example, beaches, sports grounds, museums and most areas of public parks.‎ Hong Kong‎ hopes the ban can prevent passive smoking. What is passive smoking? When people smoke in a restaurant or on a bus, others are forced(被迫地) to breathe the smoke too. They don't want to smoke but they have no c 4 . This is passive smoking. It does great h 5 to people's health . And it'll be better if more people in Hong Kong give up smoking because of ‎ the ban. Hong Kong has 7 million people. Among them, about 840,000 people aged 15 or above are s 6 .‎ Amy Choi, 27, a student, agrees to the smoking ban. "I don't like people smoking next to me. It's so smoky and smelly (臭的)," she said. If someone breaks the ban, he will have to p 7 for HK$5,000.The ban does not include nightclubs, bars or bathhouses (浴室) yet. But these places will have to ban smoking by July 1, 2009. Hong Kong is not the first Asian city to have a smoking ban.‎ ‎1. public 2. hospitals 3. against 4. choice 5. harm 6. smokers 7. pay ‎ ‎19、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）：（共16分）‎ Now many middle school students have got a mobile phone. Because a lot of parents think i___1___ their children have mobile phones, it is easier for parents to k___2___ in touch with their children at any time. If a child is in d ___3___or lost, they can help him or her in time. ‎ But some teachers don’t t___4___ it is a good idea for students to carry mobile phones to school. They say students depend too much on them. For example, if they forget something, they may phone home and tell their parents to b___5___ it to school. Some other teachers say students shouldn’t have mobile phones at school because some students send short m___6___ or play games and don’t listen to the teachers carefully in class. These make teachers feel a___7___ and they are bad for studying. ‎ So mobile phones have become a problem for middle schools. Many teachers think it isn’t necessary to bring them to school. Some middle schools have stopped students from using mobile phones d___8___ school hours.‎ ‎1. if 2. keep 3.danger 4. think 5. bring 6. messages 7. angry 8. during ‎20、Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words. （本篇每题2分） (本篇答案必须用黑墨水钢笔或黑色水笔填写，用圆珠笔或铅笔填写不给分。)‎ ‎ One day last June I was walking along the beach of a small seaside town where I live. I was looking at the ships in the harbour. Though the weather was sunny, it was a very cold day, and I could h__1__ feel the sunshine on the beach. I planned to have a swim when I left home, but now I changed my mind. Just when I was hesitating w__2__ I should go back home, I came to a shelter made of glass. I decided to sit for a while. When I entered, I found that I was so w__3__ to have made such a decision. The shelter protected me from the cold wind and I could enjoy the sunshine. But soon after I sat down, a large friendly dog suddenly appeared and lay down at my feet. No matter how hard I tried to get rid of him, he r__4__ to leave. It seemed that he had decided to go home with me. He was wearing a collar (颈圈)but there was no name or a__5___ on it. Finally I had to ring the local police station and explained what had happened. I promised to keep the dog until they found the owner.‎ Several days later a lady appeared at my house to say the dog was h_6___. She said he jumped on a bus and rode away while she was talking to a friend at the bus stop. He sat and ‎ listened quietly. When she finished and called him in a soft voice, he got up and f_7___ her away happily. I was quite upset to have to give back such a friendly animal.‎ ‎1. hardly 2. when 3. wise 4. refused 5. adress 6. hers 7. followed