中考复习英语短文填空练习短文填空
中考复习英语短文填空练习短文填空
A Only Mother Love is true love . It gives everybody everything all 1. life. When you are still a baby mother takes good 2. of you as possible . you are waking hours she 3. holds you in her arms. When you are ill she stops her work right now to look after you day and night 4. forgets about herself. When you are growing up day 5. day she feels very happy. When you are old enough to go to school mother still looks after you all the time. On cold winter days she always tells you to put on more clothes. She always stands in the wind 6. for you back from school. When you hurry to leave home for school with little breakfast she always feels7. about you at home. She usually knows about your study and spends much money on your school things. When you do well at school you will see the brightest smile on her face. Mother is always ready to give everything she 8. to her children9. to receive. What true love that is in the 10. We will remember Mother Love for ever 1h_______ 2p______ 3w_______ 4a________ 5b_______ 6w_______ 7w______ 8h_______ 9n________ 10w_______
II.短文填空1x10 阅读下面的短文并根据其内容在空白处填入一个适当的词使其完整通顺More and more people are__________ the life with computers. Using computers you can send E-mail__________ and easily. You are able to send a letter with pictures and sounds to someone ___________in the world without putting a stamp. E-mail can send its message to the other side of the world__________ seconds秒. E-mail is easy to use and it________ time and money. It serves服务for twenty-four hours. So it doesn’t matter if your friends are in bed when you send E-mail to them or you are seeing a film at the cinema when they send E-mail________. Can you imagine想象the future without teachers_________ computers Students will teach themselves in the schools of the future. Computers help students develop their own ways of________. Students will follow the learning programes by looking at online libraries and_________ lessons by world-class teachers. If they don’t understand something they will ask other students___________ or E-mail their teachers. Computers are becoming more and more popular indeed. 1. _______ 2. ________ 3. _________ 4. ________ 5. _________ 6. _______ 7. ________ 8. _________ 9. ________ 10. _________
III. 阅读下面短文给改写后的短文空白处填人一个适当的词使其完整通顺
1x10。甘肃省2005年中考382test12 All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports are good for peoples health. Many people like to watch others play sports games. They buy tickets or turn on their TV sets to sit in front of them. Sports change with the seasons. People play different games in different seasons. Sometimes they play inside the room. Sometimes they play outside. We can find sports here and there. Some sports are rather interesting and people everywhere like them.. Football for example is very popular in the world. People from different countries cannot understand each other but after a game they often become very friendly to each other. You know _________1 the world people enjoy sports. Sports are _________2 for people in ___________3 seasons. People can do sports inside or __________4 the room. Some people like to watch __________5people play sports games. They buy_________6 or turn on their TV sets to ___________7 the games. Some sports are so__________8 that people all enjoy them. Football is very ___________9in the world. People often become good ____________10after a game. 1. _______ 2. ________ 3. _________ 4. ________ 5. _________ 6. _______ 7. ________ 8. _________ 9. ________ 10. ________
_ IV.阅读短文根据短文内容用所给词的适当形式填空。每词只能使用一次2005年大连市中考help late early policeman sing problems but how lost smile Paula was going to a birthday party.
The party was at a friend’s house from work. Paula’s friend carefully wrote the directions 路线to the party. She didn’t know the town where her friend lived so she left her house 1_______. For 20 minutes she followed the directions carefully and got off at Exit 14. Then she began to have 2______ . She couldn’t find the street. She drove around and around and soon she was 3______. She stopped and asked people for directions 4______ no one knew that street. Paula didn’t have her mobile phone with her. She left it at home on the kitchen table. Suddenly she saw a 5______ . She stopped and asked him for 6______ . He looked at the directions and 7______ . “You wanted Exit 15 not Exit 14.”. He showed Paula 8______ to get back on the highway 公路. She got off at Exit 15 and easily found the house. She was very 9_______ When she walked in everyone was 10______ “Happy Birthday” to her fr iend. After a few minutes Paula relaxed and began to enjoy the party. 1. _______ 2. ________ 3. _________ 4. ________ 5. _________ 6. _______ 7. ________ 8. _________ 9. ________ 10. _________
V.阅读短文并用括号中所给动词的适当形式填空。山西省2005年中考大纲John likes 1 read very much. His father has a library and the boy 2 read most of the books in it. So he often 3 borrow books from the school library. He reads books when he 4 be free and does nothing but reading at home on Weekends. Once he even 5 read a novel in class because it was very interesting. Of course he couldn’t hear what the teacher 6 say. So he 7 fall behind. The headmaster had a talk with him and told him 8 not read novels in class. At last he realized that he was wrong and said “I’m sorry I 9 not do it again.” And now he reads books after he finishes 10 do all his homework.. 1. _______ 2. ________ 3. _________ 4. ________ 5. _________ 6. _______ 7. ________ 8. _________ 9. ________ 10. _________
VI.短文填空根据上下文和括号里的汉语提示在下面短文的空白处写出正确的单词或短语使短文意思完整。2005陕西省中考Florence Nightingal was the first great nurse in the world. She1____ 出生于in a rich family on May 12 1820. She was very kind-hearted and enjoyed helping others especially people who were 2________有病的. She thought that helping patients was both a duty and a pleasure. So she decided to be a nurse when she was 24. But her parents didn’t 3_____ 同意. Her family had lots of money so they thought it was not necessary for her to work. Besides nurses were not well respected at that time. But Nightingal didn’t 4______改变her mind. She believed that her dream would 5_______实现. Later she went to Germany and France to learn to be a nurse. At that time there were no nursing schools. So she had to learn a lot of nursing knowledge through practice. During the war she went to the front hospitals to look after soldiers. She used her own money to buy clothes beds 6______药品and food for the patients. She always took good care of the soldiers with a lamp in her hands 7_______在晚上and soldiers 8______称呼叫her “The lady with the lamp”. After the war Nightingal opened the world’s first nursing school. She 9______继续serving the others through her work as a nurse. In 1910 she died quietly in her sleep 10_______在90岁时. In 1974 her birthday became International Nurses Day because of the great love and help she gave to people. 1. _______ 2. ________ 3. _________ 4. ________ 5. _________ 6. _______ 7. ________ 8. _________ 9. ________ 10. _________
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popular 10. friends IV.阅读短文根据短文内容用所给词的适当形式填空。每词只能使用一次1. early 2. problems 3. lost 4. but 5. policeman 6. help 7. smiled 8. how 9. late 10. singing V.阅读短文并用括号中所给动词的适当形式填空1. reading 2. has read 3. borrows 4. is 5. read 6. said 7. fel l 8. not to read 9. won’t do 10. doing VI.短文填空根据上下文和括号里的汉语提示在下面短文的空白处写出正确的单词或短语使短文意思完整。1. was born 2. ill/sick 3. agree 4. change 5. come true/be realized 6. medicine/medicines 7. at night/in the evening 8. called 9. went on/carried on 10. at ninety/at the age of ninety
About 3 years ago I felt very lonely. I didn’t like my classmates my parents or anyone else.My classmates didn’t want to talk __77____ me and my parents were always saying that other kids were better than me. I thought I was the ____78__ unlucky person in the world. One day I had a fight with one of my classmates. I was so angry ____79__ that I hit him in his face. Just at that moment a boy stood up and ___80___ the fight. He was the monitor of our class. After that he often helped me and we became good __81____ . Whenever I got angry or sad he would help ____82__ to cool dome. My life began to change because of the boy my best friend. As _83____ goes by I have become happier with people and things. And it ___84____ that people around me h ave changed too. My parents don’t shout at me ___85___ more and my classmates become friendly to me. But now I cant often see my best friend because he is seriously ___86__ and staying in hospital. How I miss the days when we were together I hope he will be all right and come back to school soon. 77.withto 78.most 79.that 80.stopped 81.friends 82.me 83.time 83.seems 85.any 86.illsick
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最新中考英语综合填空 最新中考英语综合填空（1） 阅读下列短文，在每个空格处填入一个适当的英语单词，使短文在结构和意义上完整。 The Beautiful Spring City—Kunming Kunming is the c________(1) city of Yunnan. It’s a city with a long h______(2). Kunming has a p_______(3)of more than 5,000,000. Though the weather in Yunnan changes from place to place, Kunming is famous for her beautiful weather. It’s neither too hot in summer nor too cold in winter. That’s why more and more people like to travel and even to live there. You can see that great c_____(4) have taken place there. A lot of tall buildings, cinemas and hospitals have been built. You can cross the streets on footbridges(人行桥) in the city. You can almost buy w_____(5) you want in shops and s_______(6) in or around the city. People’s life is becoming better and better. At weekends or on holidays, people like to r_____(7) themselves in different places and in different ways. In winter, people, especially old people, would like to climb the Western Hills. From the tops of the hills, you can have a good look at the beautiful s______(8) of Kunming. People in Kunming are really friendly. They often invite their friends home to try d_______(9)food, like rice noodles. If you want to know more about Kunming and taste her food, please visit her y_______(10)! 最新中考英语综合填空（2） 阅读下列短文，在每个空格处填入一个适当的英语单词，使短文在结构和意义上完整。 Zhao Ruirui, meters tall, was the t______(1) player in the Women's Volleyball World Cup in 2003. Thanks to her baby face, she was also the most b________(20 player. But, more importantly（更为重要）, she was also the Cup's best player! She a_______(3) quickly, scored（得分） lots of points, and was a great striker(扣球手). “She is young, but she's already an e________(4) attacker（攻击手）,” says Chen Zhonghe, the team's head coach（教练）. Being tall sometimes makes Zhao's life d_______(5). The 25-year-old girl finds it hard to buy t_______(6) long enough. And sometimes people think she's a boy. Still, she would never want to be short. “It's a pity I can't grow any taller,” she says.“I hope to be e_____(7) taller, so I would be a better player.”
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中考英语短文填空训练题库1 1 When you go to a c 1 or a high school sporting event, you can see cheerleaders. Cheerleaders dress in the colours of their team. They jump and dance in front of the crowd and s 2 the name of their team. Their job is to excite the crowd. Everybody makes a lot of n 3 . They want their team to win the game. The f 4 cheerleader was a man. In 1898, Johnny Campbell jumped in front of the crowd at the University of Minnesota and shouted for his team. He shouted, “Hooray Minnesota!” This was the first organized shout, or “yell”. For the n 5 thirty-two years cheerleaders were men only. Women were not cheerleaders u 6 1930. Today cheerleaders work in t 7 . They practise special shouts, dances, and athletic shows. Often the women work separately from the men, but cheerleaders are the most e 8 when men and women work together. The men throw the women high in the air and then catch them. The team members climb on each other’s shoulders to make a human pyram id. They yell and dance, too. Cheerleaders now have their o 9 contests. Every year there are local, state, and national contests for cheerleaders. The teams make newer, faster, and more exciting shows to be the best, and the crowd shouts. They want their cheerleaders to w 10 . __________ __________ 1. college 6. until | 2