中考英语短文填词专题练习

中考英语短文填词专题练习

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Do you know the word brunch? In the west, many people like to have brunch—late breakfast or early lunch. People u 1 have brunch between 10.a.m and 2.p.m on Sunday because they p 2 to get up late after a w 3 hard work or want to enjoy brunch with their parents, children or friends. That is a relaxing and interesting way of eating for most f 4 Today brunch has become most p 5 in big hotels. One can either ask for or c 6 it himself. To make it look like b 7 breakfast and lunch. People choose to have

l 8 of dishes. You can often see the f 9 food on the table：meat, eggs, fruit, v 10 , orange juice, tea and bacon.

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Here’s a story about Ming’s life on the waters. Ming has lived all his life on a wide r 1 in china. His home is a large

house-boat with a roof, One of hundreds that move up and down. For about six years he has not once been on l 2 , but he is never lonely. He is a strong swimmer. In fact, he could swim before he could walk. When he wants to play with his f 3 . he just swims across to their boats or asks them to v 4 him. Ming’s father is a fishman, but he never u 5 a line or a net , Great black birds called cormorants do the fishing for him. Rings have been put around the birds’n 6 so that they cannot eat the fish they catch. They have been taught to b 7 the fish to people. And the people reward(奖励)them with a fine big fish as soon as their work is f 8 . Ming loves watching the cormorants, but better still he likes going s 9 with his mother. The shops, of course, are boats very like his o 10 .

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Do you have a pet? Are you i___1 in taking care of animals? Girls and boys who like animals may want to study to be animal doctors, They’re often c___2“vets”. Many of them work in animal h___3. Others may work on farms or at a z___4. Some study animal diseases and try to find w___5 to keep the animals from getting i___6. They do studied in m___7 for animals, Vets listen to an animal h___8. They check its ear, eyes, mouth and blood, They o___9 on animals when they need to. They may give the animals shots(注射)and tell the pet’s o___10 what food is best.

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British Milkman Steve Leech saved some shops and flats(公寓)with milk and won a National Bravery Award(国家勇敢奖). Leech, 35 years old, said that when he was sending out milk as u___1 along Pine Street, he s___2 heard a loud strange sound behind him and then he saw smoke coming out of a shop in Comwall, Southern England, “That must be a fire, I t___3”, Leech said, “Then I quickly d___4 to do something, So I p___5 the door in and then I s___6 for the people inside. Then I started pouring milk e___7. He used 320 pints of milk to stop the fire, when firefighters r___8 the shop, the fire was under control(控制). Leech helped save the l___9 of eight people in the flats above the shops, “It was hard work o___10 all those bottles. But was even harder trying to tell my boss where all the milk had gone” Leech said jokingly.

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Jim Burden was back at the office after a two-week holiday aboard, “Did you have a nice holiday?” asked his friend, Dick. “A nice holiday? I make a big m___1 this time, I should have stayed at home .” said Jim.“What h___2 then?” asked Dick.“Well, it was one of the w___3 holidays I ever had, The h___4 I stayed at was a busy road and could hardly sleep for the n___5, The food they gave us made us ill and the d___6 were expensive. The places we visited were f___7 of tourists and we were l___8 in the sunshine for quite a few hours. But tell me, how did things go with you? “Maybe I was l___9 than you. I had no trouble at all.” Was the answer. “I had b___10 to do so I stayed at home.”

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Can a boy have a MAMA and not a MOTHER? Tex Clark did. He didn’t have a r___1 home. His father and mother were dead, He had to work from an early a___2. Then one day a circus(马戏

团)found him and let him j___3 it. He was luckier than many children without p___4. The only place for him to sleep was an e lephant’s pen(棚), There Tex found the elephant named Mama, Mama seemed f___5 to him and liked after him. Tex had to work hard. At night he was always very t___6. He would return to the pen. And Mama would cover him with hay(干草)and touch his face with her trunk(象鼻). Tex felt better, Mama c___7! Tex left the circus after a while, He was asked to work at a zoo in Kansas city. He was very good with

a___8. And very soon he became the t___9 man. Tex made the zoo one of the best in the country. The children of Kansas city liked the zoo, And they liked the man who brought them such a nice place to e___10 themselves.

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Catherine and Martin met in England before they came to Australia, At that time, Martin was a minister(牧师)in a church, and it was three v___1 away fro m Catherine’s, One evening , they happened to have dinner t___2 in a restaurant. They e___3 their talk and laughed a lot. The young man soon won Catherine’s h___4, so she asked him whether he would marry her in church. The minister was very surprised and said that her q___5 came quite unexpected. Catherine realized that he had not under- stood her c___6, so she laughed and said , “what I m___7 is , when I get married in church, will you be the minister who marrie s me and my busband ?” They both laughed, and they had a nice evening. However, their talk that evening put an idea into Martin’s head, He realized that he had a___8 fallen in love with Catherine and he wanted to marry her. So a few days later, he visited her and asked her to marry him. Catherine felt proud and pleased, and a___9 it, Soon after they were married, they m___10 to Australia.

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Jerry and Carla were asked to choose a person for class president. As they looked through the list of k___1 in the room, they stopped at Tina’s name, Tina had lots of ideas, and she never said unkind things about other people.“I really like Tina, and most of the classmates will accept her. I i___2” said Carla, “but she looks t___3! She puts on too much makeup(化妆品) and she wears strange and

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u___4 clothes. Sometimes she wears things that don’t even f___5 her.” “Do you think we could get her to use l___6 makeup and never wear decent(讲究的)clothes?” Carla asked.“We couldn’t, It would ma ke us and her not feel c___7.” replied Jerry, “She goes around with high school girls, and she must know by now how she looks, my mother says it is wrong for eighth graders to look those m___8 stars!”“Yes,” Carla a___9,”and what will the teachers think if we s___10 Tian?”

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“What are you busy with yourself, Mom?” the girl of six years old asked her mother.“Making dinner for the neighbor aunt.”“Why?”“Because the other day the aunt l___1 her dear daughter in the earthquake and is so sad now, We must take

g___2 care of her these days.”“Why n___3 our care?”“Because from then on the aunt can’t do what she liked to along with her daughter, Making dinner and doing housework are also becoming so d___4, I don’t know what to do, My dear, can you come up w ith an i___5 to make the aunt feel better?”All of a sudden, the girl went to the neighbors house and k___6 at the door.“What can I do for you?” asked the neighbor.“I h___7 my mother say you’re very sad without your daughter…” The girl handed the hand-aid(创可

贴)tightly h___8 in her hand to the neighbor.Tears ran down from the neighbor’s eyes, She took the girl in her a___9 and said, “Thank you, your hand-aid will h___10.”

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Last spring I was walking in a park. In front of me there was a mum and her 5-year-old daughter. The little girl was holding a string, which had a balloon at the other e___1. All of a sudden, a l___2 wind took the balloon from the little girl, I thought she would cry, But, no! As the little girl turned to watch her balloon rise to the s___3, She cheerfully shouted out “wow!” That little girl t___4 me something, later that day, I received a phone call from my friend , he told me an unexpected problem, I felt like r___5 with, “Oh no, what should we do?” But remembering that little g irl, I found m___6 saying：“Wow, that is interesting! How can I help you?”One thing is for sure-life is always going to make us f___7 unexpected problems, However, how to deal with them is our choice, We can choose to be annoyed or

i___8. No matter what the situation is, a “wow!” will always b___9 “Oh no.”So the next time you meet one of life’s unexpected

g___10. remember that little girl and make it a “wow!” experience. The “wow!” always works.

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One day Harvey’s wife was cleaning out a cupboard, “Lo ok at all these umbrellas,” Harvey’s wife said to him, “There are eight and they are all b___1.” I’ll take them all to the umbrella shop and have them repaired,” Harvey said, “They are too good to t___2 away”Harvey took the eight umbrellas to the shop and l___3 the there. The shopkeeper said, “They’ll be r___4 tomorrow.”That evening Harvey went home from the office by bus as he u___5 did, He sat next to an old woman, She had an umbrella on the floor between the

s___6, when the bus reached his stop, he picked up her umbrella and stood up.“Hey” the woman said, “That umbrella b___7 to me.”“I’m sorry.” Harvey said, giving it to her, “Please excuse me for

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taking your umbrella by m___8.The next day he collected the umbrellas from the umbrella shop and got on the bus, As he sat down, a v___9 behind said, “ You have certainly had a s___10 day!”He turned around and saw the woman whose umbrella he had almost taken the day before.

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Les Brown, a famous speaker tells the story one of his friends, a salesman. His friend was in t___1 with money because sales dropped by 60% Les asked him, “How many phone c___2 are you making a day?” His friend answered, “Twenty-five”Les kept s___3 for a while, And the he gave him his a___4. “Double them,” he said, “Make fifty, or seventy-five, or one h___5.”The salesman answered：“Aw, man. That’s too much, I’d rather w___6 and see.”“Too much!” r___7 Les. “You tell me you are running out of money and then you say it’s too much, you know, one way for you to get back is to p___8 first. Then your sales will increase. How can you say anything is too much when you l___9 every thing?”Today, many people say they have t___10, but in fact they haven’t touched the surface of their potential(潜力), Then , why not make a promise to achieve your personal best?

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When Mr. Smith got home from work, his flat would be clear and look as good as new, A d___ 1 dinner would be ready for him on the table. After dinner, the robot would wash the dishes, While Mr. Smith r____2 himself. Watching his favorite TV programs, Mr. Smith was very p____3 with his robot. A few weeks later, however, things started to go w____4. The robot caught a virus(病毒)and

c____5 a lot of problems, It no longer knew when it should cook breakfast and sometimes it woke Mr. Smith would find his breakfast in the washing m____6 and his clean shirts in the dustbin, while Mr. Smith was at work, the robot would move around the house and

k____7 things over , when Mr. Smith got home, he would find his flat in a mess：food was on the bed, books were in the rice cooker, mirrors were b____8,and coins were spread all over the floor. Mr. Smith

w____9 what he would do with the robot. In the end, Mr. Smith decided to r____10 the robot to the robot shop. The robot was just too much trouble.

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Pearl Carson was shaken awake at 3:30a.m by a forceful pull. King, the family dog was trying to pull her out of bed. Then she

s____1 smoke and heard the sound of fire from her parents’ room. Pearl’s screams(尖叫) awaked her mother, Fern. And father Howard, who had r____2 been in a hospital for lung disease, Helping Howard to a first-floor window, Fern told him to climb out and then ran to her daughter.Still inside, King a____3 at Pearl’s window, making screaming sound, when running toward Pearl’s bedroom, Fern realized her husband hadn’t yet e____4, She make her way b___5 through the smoke and flames, f____6 King’s sound to where Howard lay still in the floor. Fern helped him get outside, King came out only after the other two were s__7

As day dawned, the Carsons saw that King’s paws were badly burned, and his entire body was burned too, His chain collar(项圈)had gotten so h___8 that it burned his throat, making it impossible for him to

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bark n___9, only after the seven-year-old dog refused food did they find pieces wood in his mouth and realized that King, who slept outside, had bitten through a wood door to w____10 his family.

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