中考英语缺词填空

1、缺词填空1. While travelling in Russia, Ed Jackson ran short of （缺少）（缺少）money. So he wrote his brother, asking for 500. “Send the by telegram （电报）（电报）to the bank here,” he wrote. After a week Ed began the bank. He his passport to the bank clerk(职员职员). “Nothing has come for you, Mr. Jackson,” he was told.

2、This went for three weeks, and Mr. Jackson got very . He then phoned his brother, asking the money was. The brother said it had been sent three weeks . That evening Ed Jackson was arrested(被捕被捕) for failing to his hotel bill. He tried to tell the police what his problem was, but no one would believe

3、 him. At last he was to the police station for fifteen days.tomoneyvisitingshowedonworriedwherebeforepaysent2.Once there was a king. He liked to write . He thought his stories were good, so he liked to show them to his people. As his people were afraid to criticize(批评) the kings stories, they all sa

4、id that his stories were very good. One day, the king showed some of his best stories to a famous writer. He wanted the writer to praise(表扬) those stories. But the writer said his stories were so that he should throw them into the fire. The king got very angry him and sent him to prison(监狱). After t

5、ime the king had pity on the writer and set him free. When the writer returned from prison, the king ordered him to come to his palace. Again he showed him some of his new stories and asked him what he thought of them. After them, the writer at once turned to the soldier and said, “Take me back to p

6、rison, please.”storiesbadwithsomereading3. Last May I stayed in Santo Lusa for a week. That was my trip there. One morning I out to visit a famous museum, but I didnt know way to go, so I stopped a strange and asked, “ Excuse me, does this street lead(通向) to the Grand Museum?” “Yes,” he answered. “G

7、o along this street and turn left and turn left at the second crossing. You cant it.” So I two blocks(街区) and turned to my left, but the museum there. Then I asked a second stranger. He said, “Go along this street and turn left at the second crossing.” But I couldnt find the museum. I asked a third

8、stranger and he said the same thing. This time I found the Grand Museum. Just then walked up and said. “Excuse me, wheres the nearest b ?” I answered , “Go along this street and turn left at the second crossing!”firstsetwhichmisswalkedWasntagainsomeonebankquickly4 Why does the leaning Tower of Pisa

9、in Italy lean ?It leas because of a mistake .It has leaned almost since the day the tower was _ .In 1174,the people of Pisa ,Italy wanted to build a bell tower .They wanted the tower to be the _ beautiful bell tower in Italy .The city _ needed a bell tower because the church did not have _.As soon a

10、s the first floor of the building was finished ,the tower started to lean .Builders tried to make the building _ _ again as they added more floors ,but the leaning tower got _ as the tower grew .It took about 180 years to finish the tower .Today ,the leaning tower has eight _.It is 54.5 meters _. An

11、d it leans almost 4 meters to one _.The tower is also sinking into the _. On which it was built.every year ,the tower leans another 1.7 cm.builtmostalsoonestraightworsefloorstallsideground5. Climbing a mountain is hard work .But one step after another finally brings a person to the _.Along the way,h

12、e can stop and look _ _.And the _ he climbs ,the more wonderful his view is .If he keeps climbing ,he will have a new world before him .He will have a new way of _ everything .Now learning _ language is something like climbing a mountain , This new language can give you a new view of life .And it is

13、 more than a book at he surface of things .It can open the way into peoples minds and hearts ,into a culture very _ _ from the one of your own. This will make you _in things that money cant buy. Even though you never set foot on a ship or plane ,you can be an armchair _ through books . Like the moun

14、tain climber who stops now and then to _ the scenery around him ,everyone who is interested in reading will find _ in books as he fights on to learn more and more of that new language. toparoundhigherseeinganotherdifferentrichertravellerenjoyfun6. In the past few months two important _e_ have taken

15、place in the world . The war on Iraq _ thousands of people lose their homes . How people all over the world _ they could live a peaceful（和平的）（和平的） life ! Many people died on SARS .Its _ duty to make a contribution _ fighting SARS . We all believe _ we work with one heart , world peace is _ one day a

16、nd science is able to win _ SARS ,just like the Chinese climbers who overcame（克服）（克服） _ and finally _ the top of Mount Qomolangma on May 21,2003.eventsmadewisheveryonestoifcomingagainstdifficultiesreached7. Wang Yani was born in 1975 in GongCheng ,China ._ a baby ,she loved to draw .She drew lines e

17、verywhere .She o_ drew on the walls ! Her father was an artist . Yani wanted to be like _. So she tried to stand like her father _ he painted .This made him laugh .One day ,she _ lines on his painting .She was only two and a half years _, but her father got angry .She cried and said ,”I want to pain

18、t like you !”_ her father thought about his own children .He also wanted to draw and paint .But his parents _ understand him .They just got angry .He decided to help his daughter _ an artist .Wang Yani was famous at a young age ,_ she still has a normal （常人的）（常人的）life .So the Wang family lives like

19、everyone else.Asoftenhimwhendrewoldthendidntbecomebut8. A storm dropped heavy rains on central and southern parts of China .The radio says that _ the Xiangjiang River in Hunan ,Floods caused by terrible _ in the past weeks killed 25 people and 13 others were missing . The Chinese Government warned s

20、ome parts in Yunan and the city of Chongqing of possible heavy rains over the _ few days .In Changsha ,water levels rose to 38 metres early Monday morning , about 3 metres _ the danger line .In Guangdong , at _ 21 people have been killed , while they were _ hurt and seven went missing _ heavy floods

21、 hit northern parts by Saturday .The cities of Shaoguang ,Meizhou and Heyuan _ hardest hit and many people were left homeless .About 620 million yuan has been lost in the floods .Guangdong has sent something _ to Meizhou ,Heyuan and Shaoguang to help the people who had lost homes build their _ again

22、 .alongrainsnextaboveleastbadlywhenwereusefulhomes9. Most people have flown a kite or have seen one in strong spring wind .Not so many people know that kites were _ made in China thousands of years ago .The ancient Chinese were making and flying kites even _ they were writing .A long time ago , the

23、Chinese made kites to use in _ . They would fly these war kites in the dark .The kites were fixed so that they made strange sounds .Men _ were at war with them would hear these sounds and run _ because they _ those strange sounds were made by gods in the sky .The ancient Chinese also flew to bring g

24、ood luck and to make _ grow rich and tall .Sometimes they tied long strings and books to their kites .Then they would fly the kites over water ,letting the books down to _ fish . The Chinese use sticks ,strings and _ to make their kites .Some of these kites look like _ or trees , and others look lik

25、e birds or houses.firstbeforewarswhoawaythoughtcropscatchpaperanimals10. When Martin was a small boy ,he lived in a little town of Holtham . Then ,he thought the town was a big _ . Well , Martin went back to Holtham last week .”Its a small town !”he thought .Holtham has changed little during the _ f

26、orty years ._ Martin has changed a lot .He has _ into a man .He is now in _ life .His thoughts are a mans thoughts ,and he sees things through a _ eyes . Martin _ in Holtham for five hours .He walked from street _ street .He could see no friends . Was Holtham ,then ,a town of strangers ? No ,Martin

27、suddenly _ it all .Only he _ was a stranger in the town.placepastbutgrownmiddlemansstayedtounderstoodhimself11. All fruits have a bright colour when they are ripe(成熟), but they grow on green o _ dark brown trees. Why? Perhaps you do not know the reason. Here is the a : The tree wants birds and anima

28、ls to see its fruit c . The fruit has seeds(种子) i . There will be no y trees if the seed is not carried away and put into the ground somewhere else. Birds and animals eat the flesh(果肉) of the fruit w they see its bright colour and they drop the seeds here and there. For example, the orange tree grows the