初中英语短文填空专练附答案

1、初中英语短文填空专练附答案英语专题练习-短文填空 (10 篇)passage 1heres a story about mings on the waters. ming has lived all his life on a wide r 1in china. his home is a large house-boat with a roof, one of hundreds that move up and down. in about six years he has not once been on l 2 ,but he is never lonely. he is a stron

2、g swimmer. in fact（实际上）,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.mings father is a fisherman, but he never u 5 a line or a net （网）. great black birds called cormorants(鸬鹚) do the fishing for him. rings（圈）have

3、been put around the birdsn 6 so that they cannot eat the fish they catch. they have been taught to b 7 the fish to people. and then people reward（奖励）them with a fine big fish as soon sa their work is f 8 . ming loves watching the cormorants, but better still he likes going s 9 with his mother. the s

4、hops, of course, are boats very like his o 10 .1. r 2. l 3. f 4. v 5. u6. n 7. b 8. f 9. s 10. opassage 2can animals be made to work for people? some scientists think that one day animals may be trained（训练）to do a number of simple jobs i 1 of people. they say that at a circus（杂技 场）,for example, we m

5、ay see elephants, monkeys, dogs and other animals doing q 2 skillful （熟练的）things. perhaps you have seen them on the television or in a film. if you watch closely, you may find that the trainer（驯兽员）always g 3 the animal some sugar o 4 a piece of fruit as a reward（报酬）. the scientists say that many d 5

6、 animals may be trained to do a lot of simple things if they know they will get a reward f 6 doing that.of course, as we know, dogs can be trained to look after a house, and soldiers in both old and modern t 7 have u 8 geese to give warning （警报）by m 9 a lot of noise when an enemy comes near. and als

7、o it may be possible to train animals to work in families or f 10 . 1. i 2. q 3. g 4. o 5. d6. f 7. t 8. u 9. m 10. fpassage 3in recent years, playing kite board seems to become more and more popular in alaska in america. it is a new and old game. the game has w 1 the interest of many young people.1

8、 / 5初中英语短文填空专练附答案the game is interesting but a little d 2 . one needs to play it very c 3 .a kiteboard is in fact a skateboard（滑雪板）drawn（拉）by a few big flying kites. the old game was p 4 by some young people in holand and spain as e 5 as the last century. since the board was hard to control（控制）,f 6

9、people dared（敢）to play it. with the development of the design（设计）of kite and skateboard, many people can l 7 .how to play it. a kite board may go as f 8 as about 50 kilometres an hour. if you havent had any practice, youd better not play it. it is not s 9 .it is said that the game can exercise not o

10、nly your b 10 , but also the sensitivity of your brain（大脑的敏捷）.1. w 2. d 3. c 4. p 5. e6. f 7. l 8. f 9.s 10. bpassage 4british 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

11、pine street, he s 2 heard a loud, strange sound behind him and then he saw smoke coming out of a shop in cornwall, 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

12、e 7 .” he used 320 pints of milk to stop the fire. when firefighters r 8 the shop, the fire was under control（得到控制）.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 it was even harder trying to tell my boss where all the milk had go

13、ne,” leech said jokingly.1. u 2. s 3. t 4. d 5. p6. s 7. e 8. r 9. l 10. opassage 5while traveling in russia, ed jackson ran shout of （缺少）money. so he wrote t 1 his brother, asking for 500. “send the m 2 by telegram（电报）to the bank （银行）here,” he wrote. after a week ed began v 3 the bank. he s 4 his p

14、assport （护照）to the bank clerk2 / 5初中英语短文填空专练附答案（职员）. “nothing has come for you, mr. jackson,” he was told.this went o 5 for three weeks, and mr. jackson got very w 6 . he then phoned his brother, asking w 7 the money was. the brother said it had been sent three weeks b 8 . that evening ed jackson wa

15、s arrested（被捕）for failing to p 9 his hotel bill（账单）. he tried to tell the police what his problem was, but no one would believe him. at last he was s 10 to the police station for fifteen days.1. t 2. m 3. v 4. s 5. o6. w 7. w 8. b 9. p 10. spassage 6april fools day is on april 1st. people can play j

16、 1 on others on this special d 2 . if you succeed, you usually laugh and say “april fool! ” the person who has been fooled by you l 3 , too, and he will never be angry with you.mothers day is on the second sunday of may. its a day to t 4 mothers. on that day mothers usually receive flowers and cards

17、 from their children. fathers and children do the housework so that mothers can have a r 5 .easter day falls on the first sunday after the full moon which is on or after march 21 st. it s also called easter sunday. it is said that on that day jesus christ comes back to l 6 . many people go to church

18、 and children often get p 7 such as toy rabbits.thanksgiving day is on the fourth thursday in november. its a day when people give thanks for the good things in life. usually families all get t 8 and have a big dinner.christmas day comes on d 9 25th. its the most important festival in a year. the be

19、autiful things can be s 10 everywhere. people exchange gifts, send christmas cards and visit friends.1. j 2. d 3. l 4. t 5. r6. l 7. p 8. t 9. d 10. spassage 7a delicious bookmr king taught english in a middle school. he was very b all the time and couldn t do some r . so he left the school and open

20、ed a book shop in the c of the town. it wasn t big enough but all the books were nice and most people liked to buy some there. when the shop was c , he could read at home. he knew a lot and the learned（有学问的）person were glad to make f with him.3 / 5初中英语短文填空专练附答案it was sunday and it was cold outside.

21、mr king was very busy. at nine in the evening all the buyers left e a girl. she was dressed up and waited for s there. standing by the shelves, she looked over the books one after a . it made them in a fearful mess（凌乱不堪）. mr king came up to her and asked, “excuse me, madam. what can i do for you? ”

22、“your books are all dull （乏味的）,” said the girl, “i want a d one.” “thats easy,” mr king smiled. he t out a cookbook（烹调书）and said, “here you are, madam.”passage 8once effendi had a joke with the prime minister（首相）. he said the minister wdie the next day. the next day, the minister really f off the ho

23、rse and died. when the king h of this, he got angry and sent his men to c effendi at once.w effendi came, the king shouted a ,”effendi, since you knew when my minister would die, you must also know the date of your own death. say it out, or youll die today.”effendi l at the king and answered, “but h

24、ow can i know? ill die two days ethan you.”the king was a that he would die if he killed effendi. he thought he must keep effendi alive（活着）as long as he could. so he l him go.passage 9roy trenton drove a taxi before. a short while ago, however, he b a bus-driver and he feels no sorry about it. he is

25、 finding his new work far more i .when he was driving along catford street recently, he saw two thieves r out of a shop and run towards a waiting car. one of them was carrying a bag f of money. roy acted quickly and drove the bus straight at the thieves. the one w the money got so afraid that he dro

26、pped the bag. as the thieves were trying to get a in their car, roy drove his bus into the bof it. while the car was moving away, roy stopped his bus and t the police. the thieves car was badly damaged（损坏）and e to recognize（辨认）. shortly afterwards, the police stopped the car and both men were c .pas

27、sage 10now, lets begin our sports report. heres a really good game, the b one i have seen this year. its the last five minutes of the g .henry plays football f france. he has the ball now. he p the ball to david. david k it over the heads of the englishmen towards the goal. but he s too far a . france and england still have one goal each and there are only two m left of the game