2017包头新题型 短文填空

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（一）

Many years ago, in a small village, an old man was hired to clear the spring（泉水）up on the mountain. He ______________(照顾) the spring every day, and s______away all the leaves and other things ______ would make the water dirty. Soon, beautiful swans（天鹅）came to the clear spring ,and the village became a popular attraction for visitors.

Years passed, One evening the town leaders held a meeting, As they looked at the salary list, one of them said “Why do we keep these old man o n _____________(一年又一年), I don’t think we need him or his work.” So the old man was t______to leave.

For several weeks, nothing_________[t?e?nd?d]. When early a_______ came, the leaves began ____________(落下)the trees, and the spring was covered with leaves. A few days later, the water was much darker. Only a few months a______ the old man left, all the swans left, and the t_______ didn’t come ,either.

Then they r_______ their mistake and rehired the old man. a few weeks _______, the spring began to clear up. Soon new life r________ to the village.

So, my friends, do you see? No matter how small your work seems to be, never_____________ (看不起) it. Anything we can do will ____________________(起重要的作用).

（二）

The world of the-out-of door_____________(充满) secrets. There are so many secrets, and they are so interesting that thousands of men and w________, boys and girls _____________（忙着研究）them. All around us are birds, animals, trees and _________[?fla??z]. The facts about how they live and grow are interesting.

Do you know that one of the great presidents of the US s________hours and hours studying birds? A businessman lives near New York City. He became so interested in insects that he b________ to collect them. He now has over one thousand d_________ kinds of them. He keeps________ carefully in glass boxes.

Now come with me, and I will help you _________（弄清楚）some of n ature’s secrets. Let us go qu ietly _______ the forests and fields. Here we shall find how a hare tells the other hares _______ there is danger. We shall follow a mother bear and her young ones when they try to look for food and ______________(为…做准备)their long sleep. We shall watch bees dancing ______________(在空中) to let the ________ bees know where they can find food. I will show you many interesting things, but the best thing _______ I can teach you is to keep your eyes and ears o________ when you go outdoors.

(三)

A man walked i________a doctor’ s examining room. "__________________(伸出你的舌头)." The doctor said.

"OK. There is nothing s________." the doctor said. "It's clear _______________(你怎么啦)！You need more exercise. " "But, doctor," the man said. "I don't think ..."

"D on’t tell me _______you think." the doctor said. "I am the doctor, not you. I know what you need. I see people like you. N______of them get any exercise. They sit in the office all day and ____________(在…前面) the television in the evening. What you need is to walk quickly ____________(至少) twenty minutes a day. "

"Doctor, you don't understand." the man said. "I..."

"There is no _________[?k?skju:s]." the doctor said. "You must find time ______exercise. If you don't, you will ___________(发胖) and have health problems _______ you are old. ".

"But I walk every day," the man said.

"Oh, yes, and I know what kind of walking that is. You walk a few meters to the office from your house, and a few more meters to a r________ for lunch and back. "

"Please listen to me, doctor!" the man s_______at the doctor angrily. "I' m a mailman." the man w______ on, "I walk for seven hours every day. "

For a moment the doctor was silent, then he said quietly, "Put your tongue out a_________, will you?"

（四）

___________(上周五) a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories, destroying fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged that their o________ had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or broken roofs. One person was killed, several were badly h______and taken to hospital, and _____ number of other people received smaller hurt. Altogether ___________________(二百多)people were h________ after the storm.

A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm b________ early in the morning and___________________(持续了一个小时).

“I was eating with my wife and children,” he said, “When we _______ a loud noise. A few m________ later our house______________(倒塌) on top of us. We ________________(尽力) to climb out but then I saw that one of my children was missing. I went back inside and ________[fa?nd] him, safe but very frightened.”

Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that ______ husband had just left for work when she felt that her house was moving. She ran outside at once ______ her children. “There was no time to take anything,” she said, “soon the roof came down.”

(五)

I had a part-time job as a w________ in a Chinese restaurant. One time, when I was serving food to a middle-aged couple, the wife asked me how the food could be served so quickly. I told her that I had ___________(确保) they got their food quickly b_______ I always respect the elderly. ____________(一…就)I said that, her face showed great displeasure. My manager, who happened to hear what I said,took me aside and gave me_______ long lecture about how sensitive(敏感)Americans are and how they dislike the description “old”.

I then walked back to the table and apologized to the wife. After the couple heard my reason, they understood that the problem _________(cause) by cultural differences, so they laughed and were ___________(不再)angry.

In my village in China, people ____________(对…感到自豪) being old. Not so many people live to be seventy or eighty, and people _______ reach such an age have the most knowledge and experience. Young people always respect older people because they know they can learn from their rich experience.

________, in the United States, people think “growing old” is a problem since “old” shows that a person is going to retire or that the body is not working well. Here many people try to keep themselves away from growing old by ____________（做运动）or jogging, and women put on makeup, _______(hope)to look young. When I told the couple in the restaurant that I respect the elderly, they got angry because this caused them _______(feel)they had failed to stay young. I had told them something they didn’t want to hear.

After that, I c_______the way I had been with older people. It is not that I don’t respect them any more; I still respect them, but now I don’t show my feelings t_________words.