中考英语短文填空20篇

中考英语短文填空20篇

初中英语短文填空专练

1 Yesterday morning, Li Hua got up early and____1____breakfast he went to school._____2_____his way to school he saw some____3____ coming from the ____4___ of a house. “There must be something on ____5_____,” he thought. Then

he ___6____ as fast as he could to get some water, after a short time, he carried a bucket of ___7____. Quickly he poured the water into the fire. The smoke was put___8_____. To his surprise, he saw an old

____9____out of the window, with a smoke in his hand. He shouted at Li Hua___10______,“ See what you are doing! You

bad boy!”

2 More and more people are___1_____the life with computers. Using computers you can send E-mail ____2___ and easily. You are able to send a letter with pictures and sounds to someone___3____in the world without putting a stamp. E-mail can send its message to the other side of the world____4_____seconds.E-mail is easy to use and it_____5___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____6____.Can you imagine(想象) the

future without teachers____7_____computures? Students will teach themselves in the schools of the future. Computers help students develop

their own ways of____8___. Students will follow the learning programmes by looking at on line libraries and _____9____lessons by world-class teachers. If they don’t understand something, they

will ask other students online or E-mail their teachers. Computers

are becoming more and more_____10_____indeed.

3 It is easier to go downhill than to climb uphill, so it is easier

to _____1____ into bad habits(习惯)than into good ones. Bad habits

don’t come ___2_____. They come little

by little(逐渐的)____3___people do not notice(注意)their danger(危险). Schoolboys

first pick up little____4_____habit in school and on the streets. When they can’t

finish their lessons, they copy(抄袭) from their ___5______. If they see bigger

boys____6___, they also want to learn to smoke. When they get bigger, the habits become so ___7_____that they can no longer get ride of___8___. From copying, they fall behind, then they learn to steal, and smoking is bad for their _______9___. At last, they become worse and worse. How necessary

(必要) it is that we get rid of the bad habits in the ___10_____.

4 Here’s a part of an e-mail _____1______from Joe, giving some

___2______to his son in college.” when I was young, I often met

___3____”about what to do and what

not to do. My grandmother told me not to ____4____about those things because I only did them once a year or once a lifetime. ____5_______, I should try to do well those things which I do every day. For example, I need to eat every day, so I should learn how to ____6____. I need to

talk____7_____ , so I should learn how to work with _______8____people and know how to speak well. I walk every day, so my

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____9___ should be all right and know comfortable(舒服). Every night I sleep, so my

bed should let me have a good rest. Taking care of the___10____

things means that you do a better job of the one-in-a-lifetime things as well.”

5 The computer was one of the most important_____1___of last century. The first computer was as large as a room. Now some computers are as small as television sets. Some computers can even made smaller ___2_____ a book. About 20 years ago, the computer was a ____3___machine in china, not many people understood it and said yes to it. Today much of that is changing. In 1984, Deng Xiaoping ___4____two pupils working on the computers in Shanghai, he said that computer lessons _____5____start

from child. So there was the first computer book for middle school students. Now in Shanghai _____6____all middle schools have classrooms

for computer courses(课程). Some of the students now have their

___7______comptuers at home. With the help of internet, they can send

and ________8_____messages and e-mails. They can learn about the world

more, quickly. Now computers are____9____used in banks, factories, airports and so on. The c omputer coming into everyone’s_____10____, so it is important for us to learn how to use a computer freely.

6 Climbing a mountain is hard work, but one step after another

finally brings a person to the_____1_____. Along the way, he can stop

and look___2_____. And the ______3____he climbs, the more wonderful his view(视野)is. If he keeps climbing,

he will have a new world before him. He will have a new way

of___4______everything.Now learning _____5____language is something like climbing a mountain. This new language can give you a new view of life. And it is more than a look at the surface(表面)of things. It can open the way into people’s

minds and hearts, into a culture(文化)very ______6____from the one

of your own.

This will make you richer,____7_____in thin gs that money can’t buy. Even though

you never set foot on a ship or a plane, you can be an armchair

___8_______through books. Like the mountain climber who stops now and then to __9_____the scenery around him, everyone who is interested in reading will find_____10____in books as he fights on to learn more and more of that new language.

7 A storm dropped heavy rains on central and southern parts of china. The radio says that___1_____ the Xiangjiang River in Hunan, flood caused by terrible___2______in the past weeks killed 25 people and 13 others

were missing. The Chinese government warned some parts in Yunnan and the city of Chongqing of possible heavy rains over the____3_____few days. In Changsha, water levers rose to 38 meters early Monday morning about 3 meters _____4_____ the danger life. In Guangdong, at ______5______21 people have been killed, while three were____6_____hurt and 7 went

missing_______7___ heavy floods hit northern parts by Saturday. The

cities of Shaoguan ,Meizhou and Heyuan_____8______hardest hit and many people were left homeless(无家可归)。A bout 620 million yuan has been

lost in the floods. The local government of Guangdong has sent

something_____9______to Meizhou, Heyuan and

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Shaoguan to help people who had lost homes build their

_____10______again.

8 When Martin was a small boy , he lived in the a little town of Holtham. Then , he thought the town was a big_____1_____. When Martin

went back to Holtham last week , he thought“ it’s a small town!” Holtham has changed little during the

____2____forty years. ____3_____Martin has changed a lot. He has

____4____into a man. He is now in his _____5_______age. His thoughts are

a man’s thoughts, and

He sees things through a____6______eyes. Martin ___7_____in Holtham

for five hours, He walked from street_____8_______street. He could see

no friends. Was Holtham then a town of strangers? No , Martin

suddenly______9_____it al, Only he _____10____was a stranger in the town.

9 One day, Mark Twain_____1_____his father that he had ___2______the rule of the school. According to the rule, he had to ___3______for five dollars or was ____4____before the whole school. His father said it was too bad to_____5_____their family shamed in front of the whole school. His ____6_____to give Mark Twain five dollars to _____7____ over the teacher. But before_____8______him the money, he gave him a good beating. As he ___9_____one beating at home and had got used of it, he decided to ___10______another beating at school and kept the five dollars. Thus he earned his first bit of money in his life.

10 I often by train to some____1____of interest. This summer I decided to take a train trip to the countryside. I got on the train and ____2______a seat by the window. When the bell rang, the train started moving. The train moved along_____3___and gradually gained______4____. We went through a number of tunnels, crossed some bridges and traveled

in the countryside. It was a _____5_____day and the scenery outside was ______6_____. There were fields everywhere. We could see farmers

working____7_____in the fields. Some children who were playing under trees waved

to us as the train went by. The train ____8_____ over a bridge under which a group of ducks were enjoying themselves. They were frightened by the noise of our train and __9_______off. I looked out of the window, after while, I closed my eyes and started to make ___10______for my next holiday.

错误～未找到引用源。Children’s schooling is changing very fast today. In the past, teachers_____1______children sitting for hours. They made them

remember____2___kinds of things. In other ______3_____, the children had to go on repeating things until they knew them” by heart”. Today, many teachers want to

know if it is _____4_____to make children learn at all. They say you can ___5_____help them learn. They say you must let children learn and find out things by____6____. But for these children, school is a kind of prison(监狱). They are there

only because their_______7_______make them go. They get out of the classroom as soon as the teacher lets them_____8_______. Many of them want to find work, but the law(法律) will not let them work until they reach a certain ___9______. And so , they have to stay in school. Often they do not learn anything at all

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and___10_____every moment.

The men came to London for holidays. They came to a very large hotel and ___1_____in a room on the forty-fifth floor. One day they__2______ to a theatre and came____3____to the hotel very late. “I’m sorry,” said the waiter of the hotel,“ but

our lift doesn’t work tonight.” One of _____4______said to his two friends, “we

have to _____5__up to our room. It’s very difficult. I think I know how to make it

easier. On our way to the room, I shall tell you _____6____jokes, john will sing us some songs. Then you Peter will tell us

some____7_______stories.” So they began

to walk toward their room. Tom told them many jokes. John sang some songs. At last they came to the fortieth floor. They were tired and

_____8___to have a rest. “well,”

said Tom, “Peter, will you tell us a ____9______story with a sad end?” “ I shall tell

you a sad story,” said Peter. “it’s short, but it is sad enough. We left key in the

__10_____room just now. what shall we do?”

Many people like to play_____1_______. Here is one. It make your classmates______2____. And it is ____3_____, too. For this trick you need a five-fen coin and a piece of paper. On the paper draw a

____4_____smaller than the coin. Then cut out the little circle you drew just now. now give the paper and coin to one of your friends. Ask him or her to ___5_______through the hole but do not get the paper

_______6_______. Of course he or she can’t do it. Then ask your friend to give you

back the paper and the coin, and tell him that you will show him

_____7______to do the trick. Put your finger through the hole and push

the coin_____8_____your finger. It will be ___9_______to you have pushed the coin____10___the hole in the paper!

A bee went to a river to drink. As it was _____1_____, the bee was carried away by the running water. A kind bird saw that the bee was in danger. It picked a leaf off the tree and threw it into the ____2_____in front of the bee. The bee climbed onto the leaf, and it was

_____3____safely to the land. The bee___4_____the bird a lot and then flew away. Not long_______5___that,a bird was sitting on the branch of the tree. It did not_____6___a man was shooting(射击) at it. But bee saw_____7___the man

was doing. So it flew __8_____ the man’s eye and stung(刺)him. The pain(疼痛) in

the man’s eye was so ____9_____that he was n ot able to shoot the bird, and the bird flew away. In this_________, the bee, whose life had been saved by the bird, was able to save life of the bird.

Once a ____1______German writer visited Japan, he was ______2_____to give a lecture ____3_____of studen ts. Most of them couldn’t

_______4___spoken

German, so he had to have an interpreter(口译)。 _____5______his lecture he told an

amusing story. The story went to _____6________ for quite a long time. At last he stopped to let the interpreter to translate the long story into Japanese. He was ____7______ when the man did this in few seconds. When the man

______8_____translating it, all students laughed______9_____. The writer wondered what a simple language Japanese was. After the lecture, the writer thanked the

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interpreter for his good work and then said to him,“ now please

tell me how you

translated that long story of_____10____into such a short Japanese one? ”“ I didn’

t tell the story at all,” the interpreter answered with a

smile,“ the well_-known writer

has just told a funny story, you will all laugh, please. ”

A famous rich old man once gave a _____1______at an American university.” I’m

going to tell you how to live a long, _____2______life and how to get very rich,” he

said.“ you can’t ______3____or smoke. But you have to get up early every morning, work at____4______10 hours a day and save

every______5___sa well,” he said. A

young man____6______ stood up. “ my father did all those things and yet he

______7____a very poor man at the age of only 39. how do you

_____8_____that? ”

he asked. The rich old man thought for a ___9____. “It’s very simple. He didn’t do

them for long____10______,”he answered.

A woman saw three old men sitting in her front yard. She said,” I don’t think I know

you, but you must be ___1____.please come in and have something to eat. ”

“we do not go into a house together,” they answered at the

____2______time.

“____3_______is that?” she wanted to know. One of the old men explained,

“ his___4_____ is wealth, this is success,and I am love.” Then he added(补充) ,

“now go in and discuss with your husband____5______one of us you want in your home.” Then the women went in and told her

husband_______6___the old man said. her husband said,” let’s invite wealth, let him come and ________7________our home with wealth!” his wife agreed. Then the daughter said,” wouldn’t it be

_8_______ to invite love? Our home will then be _____9___with

love! ”“all

right,” said the father. So the woman went out and asked, “which one of you is love ?

p lease come in and be our guest.” love got up and started walking towards the house. The other two also got up and ____10______him. The woman was

____11_________and asked wealth and success,” I _____12_____invited love. Why

are you coming in?” the three old men answered together,” if you had invited

wealth_____13__success, the other two of us would have stay out.

But_____14_____you invited love, where he goes, we go with him, wherever there is love,_______15________is also wealth and success!”

Suppose you are going to Boston and you have_____1_____visited the city before. If someone tells you about the ___2_______places in this city, you ____3________to get some idea of what you will see. But you don’t have a ________4_______idea of

where these places are or of how to find them. However, if someone has a map of the city and ____5_______ you the main roads and buildings, you may say, “oh, now I

___6____i can find my way with no trouble at all. ” working in maths is somewhat

like trying to find your way ____7_______a new city. Perhaps in problems the words may tell you some things and you have heard about them, but you can’t see any clear

road____8___ the answers. Maybe you need to have a kind of map of

the ____9____roads in maths to help you find your way. Explore what goes on in maths, and try your best to find the main roads. They will lead you to answers. If you can

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find the road map, the maths problems will be___10_______worked out.

Can animals be made to work for people? Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs

____1_____.of people. They say that at a circus , for example, we may see elephants , monkeys ,dogs ,bears ,or other animals

doing_____2_______skillfull things .perhaps you have seen them on tv or in a film. If you watch closely, you may find that trainers ___3_____the animals some sugar_____4____a piece of fruit as reward. The scientists say that many _______5______ animals may be trained to do a lot of simple things if they know they will get a reward ____6____doing that.Of course, as we know , dogs can be trained to guard a house ,and soldiers in both old and

modern______7____have_____8_____geese to give warning by___9_____a

lot of noise when an enemy comes near. And also it may be possible to train animals to work in families or______10_____.

With the ____1________ of the material prosperity, advertisement have become more and more ____2_____in our daily life. Advertisements give the

________3______information about products. If there were no advertising, consumers could not____4______about goods in there nearby shops. Advertisements help sell at a bigger market. Therefore, as more goods are sold, they are cheaper. Advertisement also provides

________5____for newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations, etc. but there are also some opinions _____6____advertising. Some people think

that advertisements do not give much information but only try to

____7_____you to buy. They create a demand for goods that are not ______8_____needed. Besides, advertising adds to the price of goods. Actually, every coin______9____two sides. Advertising is with out exception. But in today’s world,

advertising is not only necessary, but also_______10_____.

Western country music is very old. It came from the United States, Canada, Ireland, and Great Britain. Western country music is a mixture of music from all of these __________1_____. In the American west, cowboys had to take care of the cattle. They had to watch them all day and all night because the cattle______2_____nervous and sometimes ran away. A cowboy’s life was______3____and dangerous. When he was alone in the desert with the cattle, he ____4______strong coffee to stay awake at night. He sang about the_____5______and the moon, about his family and his friends. The cattle listened to the cowboy and went to ________6___. They did not run away if he sang beautiful music. The cowboys also sang music they ________7________to town. Sometimes they played either guitars or harmonicas(口琴)。Later, they used violins and other instruments(乐器)。In the American south, many people came from

Ireland, Scotland; other people came from France, Canada.

They___8______their own kind of music. They also added(添加) instruments from their homes. When they

visited their friends and families on holidays like Christmas, they usually sang and played country music. Western country music

describes(描述)life. It

___9___________about love, jobs and money. People in many parts of

the world like

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western country music because everyone knows something about these ideas. Also, many western country music fans wear western____10_____and dance together to western country music.

I can’t remember when I _____1_____in love with music. Maybe it happened when I was feeling blue sometime long ago. I can’t tell you exactly how

music_____2_____me feel better. But when I listen to music,

especially light music, it makes me feel calm and peaceful. Now I am listening to a song _____3_____moon river. It really is a fantastic song. It inspired(激励)me to writ e this article. I didn’t like

this song at the ______4______, but_____5___found its slow melody(旋律)and

______6_______lyrics(曲调)deeply touching(感人的).“Oh, dream maker, you heart

breaker. Wherever you’re going I’m going your way. Two drifters(流

浪者) off to see

the world. There’s such a lot of world to see.”

Yes.____7______there is a long way

to go for drifter and maybe there are many troubles ahead, he seems_____8____ of nothing. I like music. Music reminds me that human beings have a lot in common_____9________if come from different countries or backgrounds, because we all have the same feeling or

________10_______of melodies and words.

23 While traveling in Russia. Ed Jackson ran short of (缺少) money. So he wrote

______(1) his brother, asking for $ 500. "Send the ________(2) by telegram (电报) to

the bank (银行) here." he wrote. After a week Ed began ________ (3) the bank. He ________(4) his passport (护照)to the bank clerk (职员). "Nothing has come for you,

Mr Jackson." he was told.

This went ________(5) for three weeks, and Mr Jackson got very ___ (6), he phoned his brother, asking __________(7) the money was. The brother said it had been sent three weeks________(8). That evening Ed Jackson was arrested (被捕) for

failing to _________(9) his hotel bill (帐单). He tried to tell the police what his

problem was, but no one would believe him. At last he was

________(10) to the police station for fifteen.

he programs Sun Xiaomei hosts(主持)might be among the shortest on CCTV. “on

Screen_____1_____week”is once a week for 15 minutes. And “TV You, He and I”

comes for 5 minutes each time too.“___2______these programs are short, I have

many___3_______to make them lively for the audience,” she said. Sun was___4_______in music in her childhood(童年). She played the violin since the age

of 5until she finished middle school. At first her father wanted her to ______5______a music school, however,16-year-old Sun Xiaomei became a _____6______in Beijing Broadcasting College(北京广播学院). Sun loves her job

as a hostess(女主持人)very much. She plays______7________attention

to(注意)

learning from her comrades, especially Zhao Zhongxiang. When Zhao hosted” The

Animal World”, Sun would _______8_____beside him to learn.” I am sure when I

am seen by hundreds of _____9_____of audiences on the weekend, I can make friends with them________10____my warm and easy talk,” she said.

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Traveling to all corners of the world gets easier and easier, but how well do we do know and ______1_______each other? ____2______at four o’clock, what time

should you ___3__your foreign business friends to come? If they are German, they will ___4______on time. If they are American, they’ll probably be 15 minutes early.

If they are British, they’ll be 15 minutes late. The British seemed to think that since the English______5____was widely used in the world, what they did was certain to be widely understood. Very _____6____they were completely wrong. For ___7______, the British are happy to have a business lunch and discuss matters with a drink during the meal. But the Japanese_____8_____ not to work while eating. Lunch is a time for them to relax and get to know____9_____other, and they don’t drink at lunch. The German like to talkbusiness___10_____dinner. They French like to eat first and talk afterwards. They have to be well fed and watered before they discuss anything.

A young man was going to spend his holiday in a mountain village. That night he ___1______ at a small hotel near the railway

station._______2_______going to bed, he went to the owner of the hotel and sai d, “Excuse me, sir. Will you

please_____3______me up at a quarter to five tomorrow morning?”

“I’ll take five

o’clock___4_____.”“Oh,sorry,”the owner said ____5_____a

hurry.“ I’m afraid

I can’t. I won’t be able to get up _____6____early.” The man was about to return to

his____7_____when he stopped and asked,” Have you got an alarm

clock?____8____it can help me.” yes, here you are , young man.” The young man

thanked the owner happily. But when he looked at the alarm clock closely, it seemed there was som ething___9____with it.” will it

ring____10___time?”he asked.“ sure!

You just give it a good shake(摇晃)at a quarter to five. And it will ring.”

No man can change the weather. Nobody can control(控制)the weather. But if we

study carefully the signs around us, we can tell the

important_____1_____in weather. This way of______2____what the weather will be like on the_____3_____day or two is called weather forecasting. For many centuries and in all countries people have_______4___the weather and tried to make weather forecasting. Sometimes the objects far away such as hills and tall trees seem to be very_____5_____and near. This is a sign of much water vapor(蒸汽)in the air, and

so______6_____may come.

Rings(光环)round the sun are the sign of the _____7_____rain. Many people fell pain in their bones(骨头). This is a sign of the coming of wet weather. Some birds fly____8_____if fine weather is coming. They fly near the ____9_____if rain and storm is on the _____10______. If you see a rainbow(彩虹)rainy weather, this sign

shows that the weather will become clear and fine. If a fog comes

out in the morning just about sunrise, then the day will be warm.

In the long summer holiday, Jack and Peter spent a lot of time in

the forest. They built a house with the wood from a dead ____1______. They cooked and ate their_____2_____in the house. When it rained, they stayed_____3______. One day , Jack said,” Shall we bring some bed clothes from home and ____4____here

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tonight?” So they brought the bed clothes, made beds and____5____t o bed in the forest. It was all______6____for a time. Then it grew dark. The____7_____of night birds and animals were loud and near. The two boys were ____8____. At eleven o’

clock____9_____got up and went____10______to their families.

The Hope Project is a national charity(慈善组织)that_____1_____young dropouts in

_____2______areas go back to school. The Hope Project was

___3_______in 1990 by the China Youth Development Fund. It

has____4______over 1.78 billion yuan in donations(捐助) ____5____2.29 million children back to school over the past ten years. Many people inside our country and____6______have given

their______7________to help poor children go back to

school._____8_______you like to help poor children? If you

would,____9________action(行动) right now. you

cab give your old books or your____10____money to them.

Ladies and Gentlemen:, thank you for coming to this concert. I hope you have_____1_____the music. We had this concert to_____2_____money for