2015年中考英语短文填词练习(2)

（一）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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（二）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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（三）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 elephant’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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（三）One day Harvey’s wife was cleaning out a cupboard, “Look 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 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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（四）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.”