(完整word版)2017年中考英语专题练习短文首字母填空(含答案),推荐文档

1、2017中考专题练习-短文首字母填空Passage 1Most people want to work, but it has become m 1 difficult in today's world to find work for e _ 2 The economies（经济）of the world n 3 to grow by 4% each year just to keep the oldnumber of jobs for people. Often this is not p 4 and so more people are w 5work. Some people

2、have no jobs now because new machines can d 6 the work of many people in a shorter time. Also, machines don't ask for more money and l 7 holidays. In all of the countries of the world machines are taking work from people, not only in factories but also on f 8 One machine can often do the work of

3、 forty people. About 75000 people are m 9 to the cities a day to look for jobs, but o 10 70% of them can find jobs.Passage 2Someone says, “ Time is money, " but I think time is even m ore i than money. Why? Because when money is s 2 we can get it b 3 However, when time is g 4 it ' ll never

4、return. That ' sw 5 we mustn ' t waste费）time. It ' s sure that the t is usually limited（有限的）.Evena second is very important. We should make full use of our time to do something u 7 But some people don ' t know the importance of time. They spend their limitedme smoking, drinking and p

5、laying.They do not know that wasting time means wasting part of their own l 8In a word, we should save time, we shouldn 9' today ' s work for tomorrow. Remember we have no time to l 10.Passage3Can animals be made to work for us? Some scientists think that one day animals may be t 1 to do a n

6、umber of simple jobs. They s 2 that in a film or on TV we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs, bears, or other animals doing a lot of things. If you w 3 carefully, you may find that those animals are given something to eat in return for d 4 them. The scientists say that many d 5 animals may be taught t

7、o do a number of simple jobs if they will get something to eat.Of course, as we know, dogs can be used to guard a house, and elephants can be used to do some heavy j 6 And we can also teach animals to work in f 7. Apes, for example have b 8 used inAmerica to help make cars and scientists b 9 that th

8、ese monkeys may one day get in crops and e 10 drive trains.Passage4If you don ' t use your arms or your legs for some time, ey will become weak; when you start using them again, they will gradually （逐渐地） become stronger again. Everybody knows this. Yet many people do not seem to know that it is

9、the s 1 with memory. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he d 2 give it enough chance to become stronger.If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we k 3 that it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his p 4 are to

10、 blame, and f 5 of us know that it is just his own fault.Have you e 6 found some people can ' t read or write but they usually have7b memories? This is b 8 they cannot read or write and they h 9 to remember things; they cannot write them down in a little notebook. They must remember dates, names

11、, songs and stories; so their memory is the whole time being exercised.So if you want a good memory, l 10 from these people : practise remembering.Passage5When I was walking down the street one day, I s 1 a small bag on the ground. I picked it up and opened it to see w 2 I could find out the owner&#

12、39; s name. There? was inside it exceptsome dollars and a picture of a woman and a young girl about twelve years old. I put the photo back and took the bag to the police station. Before I left, the policeman wrote down my name and my a 4. Hethought the owner might want to thank me.That evening I wen

13、t to have dinner with my aunt and uncle. They had also asked a young woman to have dinner with us. Her face was familiar, but I couldn 5 where I had iseen her. D 6 our talk, the young woman happened to say that she had l 7 her bag that afternoon. All at once I remembered w .8 I had seen her. She was

14、 the young girl in the photo, though she looked now much o 9than the girl in the picture. She was very s 10, of course, when I told her about the bag. Afterdinner we went to the police station and got back her bag. The policeman said to me, "It ' s a wonderful thing. You found not only the

15、bag, but also the owner of the bag.”Passage6Only mother love is true love. It gives e 1 everything all his life.When you are still a baby, mother takes good care of you as much as possible. In your waking hours she always holds you in her arms. When you are ill, she stops her work right now to look

16、after you day and n 2 and forgets about herself. When you are growing up day by day, she feels very happy. When you are old e 3 to go to school, mother still looks after you all the t 4. On cold winterdays, she always tells you to p 5 on more clothes. She always stands in the wind waiting for you ba

17、ck from school every day. When you hurry to leave home for school with little b 6 , she always feels worried about you at home. She u 7 knows about your study and spend much money on your school things. When you do well at school, you will see the brightest s 8 on her face. Mother can do everything

18、for you day after day.Mother is always ready to give everything she has to her children, not to receive. What true love that is in the w 9! We will r 10 Mother Love for ever!Passage7Seumas Mcsporran is a very b 1 man. He is 60 years old and he has thirteen jobs. He is a postman, a policeman, a firem

19、an, a taxi driver, a school-bus driver, a boatman, an ambulance man, an accountant, a petrol attendant, a barman, and an undertaker. Also, he and his wife, Margaret, have a shop and a small hotel. Seumas l2 and works on the island of Gigha in the west of Scotland.Only 120 people live on Gigha but in

20、 s 3150 tourists come by b 4 every day. Every weekdaySeumas gets up at six and makes b 5 for the hotel guests. At eight he drives the island' s children t6_. At nine he collects the post from the boat and delivers it to all the houses on the island. He also delivers the beer to the island' h

21、enohly pulpsTMargaret in the s 7. He says： ” Margaret likesbeing busy, too. We n 8 have holidays and we don ' t likew television. In the evening Margaret makes supper and I do the accounts. At ten we have a glass of wine and then we go to bed. P 10 our life isn ' t very exciting, but we like

22、 it.”Passage8Tim spent in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you go to a good s 1 , no assistant will come near to you and say,“ Can I 2 you? ” You needn ' t buy3a you don ' t want. You my to find outwhere the book you want is. But if you w 4, the assistant will lead you there and then he will

23、go away.It seems that he is not interested i 5 selling any books at all.There is a story which t 6 us about a good shop. A medical student found a very useful book in a shop, but it is too expensive for him to b 7. He couldn ' t get it from the library, e8 . So everyafternoon he went there to r

24、9 a little at a time. One day, however, he couldn' t find the book from it;usual place and was leaving when he saw an assistant signing to him. To his s 10, the assistantpointed to the book in a corner,“I put it there so as not to be sold out. Then he let theaid the assistant.student go on with

25、his reading.Passage9(S=salesgirl; H=Han mei ) S: Good morning. Can I help you? H: Yes. I b 1 this blouse last week, but there's something wrong with it. When I w 2 it, thecolours ran. I can't w 3 it now. I want you to c 4 this blouse or give me my m 5 back.S: Let me see. Did you wash it in h

26、 6 water? H: Of course not.S: It s 7 as if it hasn't been washed following the i 8. Did you leave it in water b 9 youwashed it?H: No, I didn't do that, e 10. I didn't put it in cold water until I washed it.Passage10When you go to England you may find the traffic there is different from o

27、urs. As a f 1 . you must be c_ 2 in the streets, because the traffic d 3 on the left. You must look to the right and then the left before you cross a street. In the morning and in the evening when people go to or come back from work, the streets are very b _ 4. Traffic is most d 5 then.When you go b

28、y bus in England, you have to take care, too. Always r 6 the traffic m 7 on the left. You have to t 8 a look first or you will go to the w 9 way.In many English cities there are big buses with two f 10. You can sit on the second one. From thereyou can see the city very well.Passage11Which animal do

29、we need m 1? Dogs? Horses? No! The a 2 to the question is cows. Why cows?Cows give us milk. And milk is one of our most important k 3 of food.Supposed所设）that all the milk cows make in one year were put i 4 bottles. And suppose these bottles were put side by side. The line of bottles would go all aro

30、und the world 400 t 5 That is a lot of milk, less than half of it is used for d 6 and cooking. Most of it is u 7 to make butter cheese, ice cream and many other things. It takes many cows to give us that m 8 milk. But not as many as it used to. A cow used to give only about 1,500 quarts（ 夸脱）of milk

31、a year. Now a fine cow may g 9 more than 3,000 quarts in a year.Why do cows give more milk today? Now farmers have better cows. The cows get better c 10 and better food.Passage12Here ' s a part of an- mail answer from Joe giving some advice to his son in college., I " When I was youoften me

32、t t 1 about what to do and what not to do. My grandmother told me not to worry about those things. I o 2 did them once a year or once a lifetime. I 3, I should try to do well those things,and I do them every day. For example, I need to eat every day, so I should learn how to c 4. I need totalk to o

33、5 every day, so I should learn how to work with d 6 people and know how to s 7 well. I walk every day, so my s 8 should be all right and comfortable. Every night I sleep, so my bed should let me have a good rest. Taking care of the e 9 things m 10 that you do a better job of the one in a lifetime th

34、ings as well.”Passage13Let me tell you a story. A good friend of mine lives with six hundred animals on an island. Ever s 1 he left school, he has travelled all over the world l 2 for animals for his own zoo. He writes books about his travels, and about his wonderful a 3. The money for his books hel

35、ps him to p 4 forall the animal food. My friend told me that when he was looking for water last week （There is not enough water on the island, though there is a lot all around it, he f 5 oil. He n 6 money for his travels and for his zoo, and a little oil would buy e7 water for a long time,but he kno

36、ws that if he tellsanybody else about it, it will be the e 8of his zoo and his life' So wthrink he will not tellanybody e 9 you and me about what he found - because oil and water can ，t be p together. Oil may bring greater trouble to his animals than not having enough water. Do you think so?Pass

37、age14The u 1 means the earth, the sun, the moon and the stars and the space b 2 them. Many of the stars are so f 3 away that we can not see them. The moon, our satellite, travels a 4 the earth. It has already been visited b 5 man from the earth. Man-made satellites have been sent up i 6 space by man

38、y countries. They go round the earth. They are used for helping us to learn more a 7 the earth, the weather and other things. They are also used for sending and r 8 messages. It makes people f 9 different countries understand each other much better. So people say the world itself is becoming a much s 10 place. People call the small place“the global village ".答 案P1 1. more 2. everybody 3. need 4. possible 5. without 6. do 7. longer 8. farms 9. moving 10.