完形填空练习

完形填空练习1. A Bald Head and a Friendly SmileI was born in the United States in 1947. Life looked b______ and was filled with hopes for my parents and me. My mother and father were m______ in 1946, and my birth the next year was a great occasion for my parents. I was their first-born son. I was not a spoiled child. However, I was given all the support possible, and e________ to be the best that I could be.As I g_______into a man, I often looked to my father for a_______ and support. There were many things about his character that I truly admired, but like any young boy, I often thought that my father’s ideas were from the p_______ and out of date.I did well as a student and was the first person in my family to g_______ from university. I went on to be a university professor and writer, and most people would say that I have had a very s________ life.My father lived to be 91 years old. I think of him often since he passed a_______. Much of my success as a man and as a father is because of the l________ and characteristics that he passed on to me.On Father’s Day, I will look in the m______ and smile. My dad gave me many gifts, including my now bald head, and the big f_______ smile that people say I have. Thank you again, dad. I miss yo u. Happy Father’s Day.2. Love bottled water?Many people love drinking bottled water because of the c_________. They believe that it is better to drink bottled water than to drink water out of the tap.However, all those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and also pollute the e________. For example, Americans buy more bottled water, 29 million bottles a year, than any other nation in the world. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That’s e nough oil to keep a m______cars going for twelve months.As we know, r_______ plastic bottles can help a lot. Instead of being thrown out with the trash, plastic bottles can be t_______ into items like carpeting or clothing. Unfortunately, for every six plastic bottles we use, only one of them is put into the recycling bin. The rest are sent to landfills. Or, e______ worse, they end up as trash on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. The fact is that plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.Water is good for you. But think about how often you use plastic bottles, and see if you can make a c_______: if you take one to school, don’t throw it away —bring it home and refill it for the next day.3. Is this America’s most talented kid?If you listen to her singing, you will be a________ at the voice that you hear. You may w_______: Isn’t it the voice of an angel? The full and rich sounds actually come from a 12-year-old girl called Gabi Wilson.Gabi has already been called one of the most talented kids in America for her a________on piano, bass, drums, and g_______ — and she sings p______ well, too.“When I was still in my mom’s stomach, I heard my dad and his band play musica lot,” Gabi said. She had great i______ in music even before she was born.Now, Gabi is famous in America. She is always travelling around to sing and p______. But this busy girl is also a straight-A student and has a lot of good friends. “My friends aren’t jealous of my fame. They’re r______ proud of me. They s_______ me a lot and go to my concerts. Sometimes they ask me to sing for them,” Gabi said. And now, it s______ that everybody is making the same request.4.Beach holidays lead to skin cancer?Do you like swimming? Or do your parents like taking you out for a b_______ holiday?A recent r______ found that holidays at the beach or other waterside resorts could increase kids’ future risk of getting melanoma(黑色素瘤). Melanoma is the most d_______ form of skin cancer.According to the research, the number of “nevi” in our bodies is a risk factor for malignant melanoma. Most of them develop during c________. When studying 7-year-old children, researchers found that beach holidays led to at least a 5 percent increase in the number of nevi in their bodies. In America, more than 62,000 people are diagnosed（被诊断为） with malignant melanoma every year. O_______ 8,000 die of it every year.So it is good to keep yourselves i_______from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. to decrease the risk. If you must be outside, be s______to wear shirts with long sleeves(袖子) when you are exposed in the sun.5.Let’s learn Chinese!British girl Daisy Raffan not only can speak f_______ Chinese, but also runs a website to teach kids Chinese.The 17-year-old girl e______ the website — —on January 26, 2009. She had the brainwave after her mom took her to lessons to learn the language when she was just five.On Daisy’s website, kids can log on and tune in to Daisy’s lessons whenever they like, either at home or in the classroom. Each lesson has four d_______ parts: L_____: Kids will learn new words.Writing: Kids will learn to write new words and n_______.Culture: In this part, Daisy will tell you something about Chinese culture, such as the people and the food.Practice: kids can hear, r______, and then practice the words they’ve learned.Each week, “Kids Chinese Club” will c______ it s “Stars of the Week” — the kids that have done a good job in the past week.The website is f_____, and it also helps British kids learn Chinese. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has already p______ Daisy and said that learning Chinese is important for Britain’s future generations.。