初中英语动词填空专项训练

填空练习专项训练

(一)Tom arrived at the bus station quite early for Paris. The bus

for Paris would not leave until five to twelve. He saw a lot of people (1)______(wait) in the station. Some (2)______(stand) in line, others were walking around. There was a group of schoolgirls. Their teacher (3)_____(try) to keep them in line. Tom (4)______(look) around but there were no place for him to sit.

He walked into the station cafe(咖啡馆). He looked up at the clock there. It was only twenty to twelve. He

found a seat and sat down before a large mirror on the wall. Just then, Mike, one of Tom’s workmates came in and

sat with him.

“What time (5)____(be)your bus?” asked Mike.

“There’s plenty of time yet.” Answered Tom.

“Well, I (6)______(get) you some more tea then.” said Mike.

They talked while drinking. Then Tom looked at the clock again.” Oh! It (7)______(go) backward(倒行)!” he

cried. “A few minutes ago it (8)______(be) twenty to twelve and now it’s a half past eleven.

“You (9)______(look) at the clock in the mirror,” said Mike. Tom was so sad, for the next bus was not (10)______(leave) for another hour. Since then Tom has never liked mirrors.

(二)The telephone rang while Mrs Hunt (1)______(cook) lunch. Her son Bruce went (2)______(answer) it. His aunt said she (3)______(come) to see them with her daughter that afternoon. Mrs Hunt was happy because she (4)______(not see) her sister for several months. She knew the

girl(5)______(like) bananas very much, so she gave Bruce some money and told him (6)______(buy) two kilos of bananas.

Bruce loved bananas, too. He went out happily. Half an hour later he came back with a bag in his hand. Mrs Hunt weighed the bananas and

(7)______(find) they were half a kilo short(少). She took the bag to the shopkeeper

and said, “I sent my son for two kilos of bananas, why (8)______he only ______ (give) 1.5 kilos?”

“(9)______ you ______ (weigh) your son yet, madam?” asked the shopkeeper, “My scales(称)(10)______(be)

all right.

(三)Mrs Smith often felt lonely when her husband went to work. The room was small and it took her only half an hour (1)______(tidy) it. She couldn’t get up early in the morning, so Mr Smith had to cook breakfast himself. She usually had some bread and milk for lunch and only

(2)______ (cook) supper for herself and her husband. They had no television. Mr Smith always went to bed at nine.

It was a winter morning. The sun (3)______ (shine) and it was warmer outside than it in the room. The woman sat on the step of a shop,

looking at the busy traffic. At that moment a man with a map in his hand (4)______ (come) towards her.

“Excuse me, madam,” said the man. “Could you tell me how

(5)______ (get) to the nearest hospital, please?”

Mrs Smith didn’t answer until she looked at him up and down. “He

(6)______ (seem) a f armer,” the woman said to herself. “Let me

(7)______ (laugh) at him.

Then she turned to him and said, “Lie down in the middle of the

street and you (8) ______ soon ______ (send) to a hospital.

“Please set an example to me, then.” Said the man.

She had t o tell the way to him and then she said, “I think you

(9)______ (be) in a city for the first time. It’s much more beautiful than the field. Is that right?”

“Yes, madam,” said the farmer with a smile. “But I think it

(10)______ (build) on the field.”

(四)I (1)______ (be) here in Beijing for half a year now. Beijing is in the north of China, so it (2) ______ (be) quite cold in winter. It (3) ______ (snow) twice here. I’m going to have the first “White Christmas” in my life. It’s hard to believe, isn’t it? --- so warm in Australia and so cold here?

Thank you for the wonderful stamps! I’ve collected over three hundred Chinese stamps since I (4) ______ (come) here. I (5) ______ (send) some Monkey King stamps to you. I think you will like them.

I (6) ______ (no t like) swimming. Instead, I’m learning to skate on real ice! I have had so many falls that I’m black and blue all over. But I (7) ______ (learn) fast.

I have to (8) ______ (finish) this letter now. Ask Uncle John and Aunt Alice (9) ______ (bring) you to Beijing when they come in August. We (10) ______ (have) a good time together then.

Yours Mike

(五)Bob and Jim once (1) ______ (work) in the same factory. One day, Bob (2) ______ (lend) Jim ten pounds, but then Jim (3) ______ (lose) his job and went (4) ______ (work) in another town without (5) ______ (pay) back the ten pounds.

Bob didn’t see Jim for a year, and then he (6) _______ (learn) from another friend that Jim was still in town and (7) ______ (stay) at a hotel, so he went there (8) ______ (see) him late in the evening. From the waiter at the desk downstairs, he knew which Jim’s room was and went up to look for him. When he got to the room, he saw Jim’s shoes near the door.

“Well, he must be in.” he (9) ______ (think) and knocked at the door. There was no answer.

“I (10)______ (go) out in my boots,” answered a voice from inside the room.

(六)Kate and Peter (1)______ (like) sports. In summer they swim and in winter they ski. They (2) ______ (plan) a ski trip for this weekend,

but they (3) ______ (know) about the weather. It’s 7:30 now, and they (4) ______

(listen) to the weather report on the radio. The weatherman (5)

______ (give) the weather for the weekend.

“Friday will be cold and cloudy, but it (6) ______ (rain). The temperature will be minus 4. It (7) ______ (snow)

on Friday night. Saturday and Sunday (8) _____ (be) clear, cold and sunny.”

Now Kate and Peter (9) ______ (be) excited. The weather is going to

be for a ski trip. They (10) ______ (have) a wonderful weekend.

(七)Mr Jenkins has s everal big shops in the city. He’s very rich

but hi does his best (1)_______ (pay) the persons who work in his shops less. And they all hate him.

Several months ago a young woman borrowed thirty thousand dollars

from him. But she couldn’t return the

money to him in time. He went to her and made her (2)______ (give)

her ring to him which cost more than fifty thousand dollars. He put it into his wallet and went home happily. But when he got to the bus stop, the bus (3)______ (leave). He hurried to get on and left his wallet outside. He didn’t find it until he got home. He hurried (4)______(make) promise, “If someone finds my wallet and returns it to me, I (5)______ (give) half the money to

him.”

An old woman (6)______ (wait) for another bus that day and found the wallet. She sent it back to Mr Jenkins. But he change his mind.

“There are two rings in my wallet,” said Mr Jenkins, “I won’t

give half the money in my wallet to you until you

return the other ring to me.”

“I (7)______ (see) only a ring in the wallet,” the old woman said and took the man to a judge and told him what (8)______ (happen) to them. The judge said to Mr Jenkins, “I’m sure you have lost a wallet in

which there’re two rings and some money. But there is only one ring in this wallet. I (9)______ (not think) it’s yours. Wait for some days. Perhaps someone will be able to return your wallet to you.”

Then the judge turned to the old woman and said, “Take the wallet home. If the loser doesn’t go to get it back

in three days, it ______ (belong) to (属于)you.”

(八)Mark Twain (1)______ (ask) one day if he could (2)______ (remember) the first money he ever made.

He (3)______ (think) for a long time and then said. “Yes, it was at school when I was a small boy, I can remember everything about it. Schoolboys in those days (4)______ (not take) good care of things of the school. They often (5)_____ (break) their desks. There was a rule in our school if any boy damaged his desk with a pencil or a knife he would (6)______ (beat) in front of the whole school, or would have to pay five dollars. One day I damaged my desk in some other way. I told my father that I had broken the school rule and had to pay five dollars or be

beaten before the whole school. My father said it would be too bad for our family (7)_____(lose) face in front of the whole school. He

(8)______ (agree) to give me five dollars to hand over to the teacher. But before he gave me the money, he took me downstairs and gave me a good beating. But as I had had one beating at home, I decided (9)______ (take) another beating at school. Then I can keep the five dollars, so that’s what I did. That (10)______ (be) the first money I ever made.”

(九)A young boy was playing with a ball in the street. He (1)______ (throw) it too hard, and it broke the window of a house and (2)______ (fall) inside. A woman came to the window and shouted at him. The boy (3)______ (be) very afraid and ran away. A few minutes later, he

returned and knocked at the door, and said, “My

father (4)______ (come) and mend your window v ery soon.” After a while, a man came to the door with tools in his hands, and the woman let the boy (5)______ (take) away his ball away. Ten minutes later the man (6)______ (stop) and said to woman, “I (7)______ (finish) mending the window. Please (8)______ (pay) me ten dollars.” “But (9)______ (not be) you the father of the boy?” the woman was very surprised and asked. “No.” he answered. “and I (10)______ (tell) that you were his mother, madam!”