高考英语复习 短文填空

(1)My kids and I were going to the supermarket on the weekend.On the way,we saw a man holding a sign that said,“Lost my job.Family to feed.”The man felt embarrassed but helpless.My 10-year-old child told me how bad it must be to have to stand outside in the 1. _____ wind.While we were in the store,I asked each of the 2.____ to pick something for the man.They picked a couple of apples,a sandwich,some cheese and a bottle of juice.Then my 7-year-old child asked,“Can we g ive 3.____a gift card?”“That’s a good idea.4._____ we need to talk about it,because we don’t have enough money,”I said.I told them that we might have to give 5. _______ some of the things we were going to buy if we bought a gift card.All the kids 6. _____.They said,“Hurry, Mom! Let’s give him these things before he gets too cold and leaves.”We drove to the man quickly and handed him the coffee and the bag of food.He thanked us 7. _____ tears in his eyes.When I handed him the gift card and said he could 8.____ it for whatever his might need,he cried.This experience has been such 9.______ wonderful opportunity for our family.We not only 10. _____ a man in need，but also it gave my kids the sweet taste of helping others.(2)Last Saturday morning,I went camping with my friends.We were excited because it was a 1. _____day.On the way,we kept singing and making jokes 2. ____ the sun shining.However,in the afternoon,it was dark and windy.Soon,it started to 3. ______.Unluckily,none of us brought an 4. _______.We ran about but could find no place to hide.Twenty minutes 5. ________ and it was still raining.There were hours to go before we could 6. _____at the campsite (营地).It was even 7. _____that our compass (指南针) showed that we went to the wrong way.We had lost 8. _______ way!At about five o’clock,it stopped raining when we 9. ________ got to the campsite.Though we were very tired,we set up our tents quickly.This camping trip was probably not very successful 10. _______ we got to know each other better.(3)There was an emperor.He loved nothing 1_________ new clothes.Two cheats told the emperor that they were the best weavers (织布工) in the world.They said they could make the most 2. _beautiful____cloth.The cloth was magical.Stupid people c ouldn’t 3. ________ it.A few days later,the cheats made the new clothes.The emperor took off all his clothes 4. _____a pair of shorts.Then the cheats 5. _____ him up with the invisible (看不见的) new clothes.The parade (游行) began.Everyone praised the emperor’s new 6. ___ .“But he has nothing on but a pair of shorts!” 7. _______ child said. People began to whisper,“The emperor is 8. _____ nothing but a pair of shorts.” The emperor 9. ________ the people’s words.“The weavers 10. ______ me,” he thought.But he had no choice but to finish the parade.(4)One day,Tina sat 1. _______the chair and watched her mother do the dishes in the 2.______.Tina noticed that her mother had some 3. ____ hairs on her head.She looked at her mother and 4. _____ ,“Why do you have some white hairs,Mom?”Her mother answered,“Well,every time you do something wrong and make 5. ______sad,one hair turns white.6. _____ you don’t make me sad anymore,I will have black hair.”The little girl thought for 7. ____while and then said,“Mo m,I am going to listen to your words carefully from today on and I would like to be a 8._____ kid.Then you will not have so many white hairs,will you?” Her mother smiled and nodded (点头).Tina’s grandma was 9. _____TV in the living room.Tina glanced (看一眼) at her grandma and asked,“Mom,why is 10. _____ hair all white? Her children aren’t good ones,are they?”English is an international language.As a student in China,you work 1._______ to learn English.Do you know American kids are trying to learn 2. _______? About 50,000 American students now study Chinese. “3. ______ of China’s fast growth,Chinese is more useful tha n other 4. _____ ,”said Scott McGinnis,a Washington language expert.5. _______ example,in 1999,only three Chicago schools had Chinese classes.This year more than twenty schools do.In many US6. ______like New York,students take Chinese lessons at school7. ______at weekends.But Chicago schools teach Chinese on school st year China gave them 3,000 textbooks because they had8. _____a good job.Although Chinese classes are becoming popular,it is one of the9. ____ difficult languages.10. ______ takes an English speaker about 1,320 hours to become good at Chinese,but he needs only 480 hours for French,Spanish or Italian.How do you feel about your Chinese?Is it good or bad?If you think you are 1. ______ at Chinese,you can take part in the competition 2._______ the “Chinese Characters Dictation Competition(中国汉字听写大会)”.The competition became popular 3.______teenagers.Nowadays,more and more computers and smartphones are used by teenagers.They 4. _____ too much time on the Internet in playing or chatting.They are used to sending messages by computers and smart phones.As a result,some teenagers forget 5. ____ to write the Chinese Characters by hand.The teachers and parents are very 6. ______ about it.Not long ago,they found an interesting game called the Chinese Characters Dictation Competition.The program was similar to the American 7._____“National Spelling Bee”.In this program,middle school students competed among themselves and wrote down the Chinese Characters by dictation.Over two hundred competitors were 8. ____ forty-six middle schools.The audiences loved this new kind of competitions,too.They tried to write down the Chinese characters 9. _______ the competitors were writing them.But they found it was also 10._______ for them to write down all the Chinese Characters.Jimmy was the top student in his class before he went to a boarding school (寄宿学校).But he 1. ______when he was there.His grades started dropping.He hated being in a group.He was2. ______ all the time.He felt no one loved him.His parents were very worried,so his father decided to go to the school and 3.______with him. They stood 4. ______ the shore (岸) of the lake near the school.His father started 5. ______him casual questions about his classes,sports and teachers.After some time his father said,“Do you know 6. _____ I am here today?”The boy answered,“To check my grades?”“No,no,”his father replied.“I am here to tell you that you are the 7. ____ important person to me.I don’t care about 8. _____ .I care about you,9. ______ your happiness.”Now the boy has everything he wants.He knows 10. ______is someone on earth who loves him deeply.Today this young man is at the top of his class in college and no one has ever seen him get sad!Dear Mummy and Daddy,I’m sending you the photos you asked for.First you’ll find a photo 1. ______ the house I’m staying in.It’s a very typical Eng lish house.You won’t see many blocks of flats in England.The English 2. ____ houses to flats.Sometimes you see 3.____of houses and they are all exactly 4. ____same. I enclose(附上) some pictures of the family I’m staying with.You can see Sandy and Sue (the children I told you in my 5. ______ letter),Mr.and Mrs.Clark.They have all become very good friends of 6. ____.There are some pictures of the garden,too.Every English house has a small garden.The English people work very 7.____ in their gardens.Mr.Clark 8._has___ a lovely lawn (草坪) and lots of rose bushes and he grows all his vegetables.Everything is 9. ____green in England.Mr.Clark rarely(罕见地) has to water the garden because it 10._______so often here!When it rains,my English friends say,“Nice weather—for the ducks!”I’ll write to you again soon.In a national spelling competition,1.______11-year-old girl,Sara,was asked to spell a word.But because of her low voice,the judges (裁判) were not sure if the girl spelled the word with B 2. ______ D.They asked her to repeat what she said.By then,Sara realized that she had made a mistake.Instead of 3. ______ a lie,she told them that she said the wrong letter.As a 4. _______,she lost the competition.As the girl 5. _____back to her seat,all the people stood up and cheered for what she said.She smiled.Many newspapers 6. ______the girl’s story the next day.In fact,she won great respect from others 7. _______she was honest.The young girl could simply tell a lie and nobody would find it out except 8. _______.But she was brave enough to tell the 9. ______ .She made the right choice.It’s true that the choices we make today will decide what we are like tomorrow.Our children will follow us.So if you want them to grow up to be 10. _____,we must show them that we are honest ourselves.(10)There was a little boy on a farm.He had to 1. ______ up before the sunrise every morning to start his work on the farm.At sunrise he could 2. _______a house with golden windows far away from the farm.He thought how great it would be to live there！He then made a promise to 3. ______，“Someday I will go there and see that wonderful place.”Then one morning he got a chance.He took a sandwich and started walking to the house 4. ________the golden windows.He walked for 5. _______long time and in the afternoon he got close to the house.But he saw 6.______ golden windows.There was a very old house.He went to the door and 7. ______ .A little boy of his age opened the door.He asked him 8. ______ he knew where the house with the golden windows was.The boy said，“Sure I know！”and invited him to sit in 9. ______of the door.As he sat there he looked back where he just came.He saw the sunset (日落) made the 10. _____ of his home golden.It’s 7:45 in the morning,and 26-year-old Steve Clarkson is going to work.He 1. _______ on his jacket,and picks up his mobile phone and laptop (笔记本电脑).As he leaves the house,he turns on his MP3 player 2. ______ puts on his headphone.He is ready to go.Today,for millions 3. ______ people,gadgets (小配件) like Clarkson’s are a normal part of life.“I’m a reporter for a magazine,and I’m usually not in the office.My mobile phone and laptop help me to do my work 4. ______on the road and at home,” says Clarkson.Today many people can check e-mails,send 5._____ ,or surf the web,using 6. ____ mobile phones.Tina Fang is studying photography in New York City.“Some of these gadgets are expensive,but they can 7._____your money in the long run.I have a digital camera.I can use it to take eighty pictures and shoot videos (record an image onto the video) at the 8. ________ time.I listen to 9. _______ on my MP3 player,and I can download and 10. ______books on it,too.I use the camera and MP3 for bot h learning and having fun.”Wu Dajing won the gold the Men’s 500m Short Track Speed Skating at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on February 22nd.Before this race, the Chinese short-track team got only silver and bronze(铜牌).They met 1. _____many troubles that it made Wu Dajing China’s last hope of 2._____ a gold medal(奖牌) at these Games.The 23-year-old entered the final with a lot of pressure. However, he didn’t give his competitors 3. ____ chance.He just kept his speed from the start.“I am just so 4._____ of myself to have been able to hold on and bring out my best in the race.I only realized I was the winner at the finish line and I’m very happy that I have won the 5._____ gold medal for China in these Games,” said Wu.Chinese tea m head coach Li Yan said excitedly, “Many thanks to our people for 6. ____ support.In 7.______ to get ready for the races, we have turned 8. _____ our social networks(网络), but still saw some reports from Chinese media(媒体).These reports are important 9. _______ they give us encouraging messages and now there are more people caring about this sport.It 10.____ never been easy for all of us, but we finally got our long-awaited gold medal on the last day of the short track competition.”Today,a number of people spend most of their free time watching their cell phones.These people are 1. _______the “Heads-down Tribe (低头族)”.Heads-down tribe members now can be seen 2. __________.More and more traffic accidents are happening 3. _______ more drivers use cell phones when they are driving.In order to make drivers drive more carefully,some traffic 4._____ have been made.For example,in Taiwan,if a driver watches his or her cell phone while driving,he or she will be fined.Keeping heads down and using cell phones may 5._______ accidents. Besides,more and more strange and interesting facts happen to the “Heads-down Tribe”.Let’s have a look at 6. ______ interesting TV report.A man in America kept using his cell phone on his way home.As a result,he bumped into a big lost bear.When he 7. _______his head,he was so frightened that he turned around and ran away as 8. ______ as possible.Cell phones are 9._______ and necessary tools for modern people.Are cell phones good or not? It depends 10. _____how people use them.Let’s be smart users and try to be the “Heads-up Tribe”.Today,people in the world have busy lives,and they often feel unhappy under so much pressure.In fact,keeping happy is 1. _____and necessary for everyone. Most people want to be happy,but few know how to be happy.Money and success can bring pleasure,however,it won’t 2. ______ long.Actually,happiness depends 3. ______ourselves.Here are some 4._______ to help you be happy.The first secret is to enjoy the 5. ______things in life.We often spend too much time thinking about the 6. ______,for example,going to a famous university or getting a good job after graduation.You should enjoy the simple pleasures in life,such 7. _____reading a good book,listening to your favorite music and spending time with good friends.The second secret is to be 8. _______.Many people enjoy dancing or playing sports.You can forget all your 9. _______and only think about the activity you are doing.The third secret is helping others. 10. ____ is a good way to keep happy.（14）Learn to shareOne day,while I was sitting in my car in a parking area,I noticed a young boy in front of my car.“What is the boy doing?” I asked myself and looked closely.“Oh,he is 1. ____________ up a coin from the ground.” When he stood 2. ____________,we saw each other clearly.He was not 3. ____________than ten and was wearing one blue glove and one brown glove.His coat was too 4. ____________for him.As he walked away,I saw his shoes,which were 5. ____________ old to wear.I rolled down my window and called him over.I asked him if he 6. ______ some money.He replied, “No.That’s okay.”The parking area was wet.I could tell that his 7. ________were cold because he kept moving his weight from one foot to the other. “Please,” I held o ut a five-dollar bill.“It’s not much,but when the money is shared,it is 8. ______more useful,” I said.He took off 9. _______of his gloves and took the money from my hand.His small hand was red and cold. He smiled and went away after saying “Thank you!”10. ___ me. That smile made me feel warm in the cold winter.（15）Mr.Green liked junk food so much that he 1._________on so much weight.One day he went to see a doctor and asked the doctor to help him 2. ____________weight.The doctor looked over him 3. ____________and said,“Oh,you’ll die 4. ____________forty days.”The fat man was very sad.After he returned home,he lay in bed all day long.He didn’t do 5. ____________and just waited for his death.With each passing day,he 6. ____________ less and less and was becoming thinner and thinner.Forty days passed,but he didn’t die.He waited for another day.Then he went to the 7. ________and asked,“Fo rty days have passed,but I’m still 8. ______.Why did you cheat (欺骗)me?” The doctor smiled and asked the man, “Didn’t you ask me to help you lose weight?” “Yes,I did,” the man answered. “Then,” said the doctor.“Look at 9. ____________.” The man looked down and laughed. In the 10. ____________ ,he always chose healthy food instead.（16）Boys and girls, this summer vacation is the time for you to prepare yourself for the future. The following is some 1. ________on how to have a wonderful vacation.Exercise. You have worked hard most of the time. So you need to 2. _______ in outdoor activities. They can bring your whole body into action. You can benefit (受益) from different kinds of exercise 3. _______ as swimming, running and mountain climbing.Learn some life skills. One day, you will live alone. You can’t 4. ___ ______on your family any longer. So, you should learn to cook, wash and other 5. _________.Go for a journey. Travel to places of 6.__interest________.In this way, you’ll understand cultures that are 7.____________ from that of your hometown. Beautiful sights can also make you 8. ____.Enjoy family time. Don’t always 9._______ in front of a computer alone. It’s great fun for you to spend time with your family.If you follow the advice above, your summer vacation will be filled 10. ______joy and success.(17)Tomorrow is the last day of school. I’m thankful for all the lessons I’ve learned,but I think that one thing I’ll always 1. __ _____ is the importance of friendship.When I first came to junior high school, I hung out a lot with the most 2. _____ people in school. I was so 3. ______to be accepted. However, when I got into 4. _______ ,all of my friends disappeared. I had never 5. _______ more alone in my life.But one day, as I was walking to school, a girl who I hardly talked to before smiled and 6. __ ____hello to me. She asked about my day and she was a good listener. Now, we are 7. _ ____ friends. She introduced me to a few of her friends.8.__ ____may not be the most popular people, or the best-looking, or the funniest ones,9. ______they are always there for me and I’ve finally found a place I belong 10. _________ .We may be separated from each other after junior high school, but I know that we will be friends forever.。