九年级英语上学期选词填空专题训练

九年级英语上学期选词填空专题训练 One Mr White is the owner of a small newspaper He always tried to bring his 1 the latest news One day he received 2 important telephone call from 3 who told him that there was a 4 flood 洪水 in a village up 5 the mountains in the north and several people had 6 Mr White wrote it all down That evening the story was in his newspaper Mr Write was 7 to see that no 8 paper had caught hold of the news 9 angry telephone 10 soon came and he learnt that he had been fooled So in the next 11 paper he wrote We were the 12 and only newspaper to report yesterday that the village was in a flood Today we were proud to tell you that we were 13 the only newspaper to bring 14 readers the news that yesterday s story was not 15 TWO Look can see run live be name make send laugh we at parent great Chaplin About the year 1900 a small dark haired boy 1 Charlie Chaplin was often seen waiting outside the back entrance to London cinema He 2 thin and hungry He was hoping to get work in show business He could sing and dance and above all he knew how 3 people laugh But he 4 get work and therefore walked about the city street Sometimes he 5 away to a home for children who had no 6 But twenty years later this same Chaplin became 7 best known and best loved comedian 戏剧演员 in the world Any visitor to the cinema must 8 some of Charlie Chaplin s films People everywhere have sat and 9 at them until the tears 10 down their face Even people who don t understand English can enjoy 11 films because they are most silent It isn t what he says that makes 12 laugh It depends upon 依靠 little actions which mean the same thing to people all over the world It s a kind of world language Chaplin 13 most of his life in American and in Switzerland There 14 sadness all over the world 15 the news of his death Three Large it one money do and pocket hard but lie live if keep buy help For a long time the zoo didn t have hippopotamus 河马 Tex wanted 1 very much But a hippopotamus was 2 to find Then a circus 马戏团 closed down It had to sell all 3 animals One of them was Cleo Cleo the hippopotamus For a while Cleo 4 on a farm Poor Cleo A hippopotamus can t be let free on a farm so Cleo had 5 in a tub 木 盆 of water just 6 enough to hold her She couldn t move anything 7 her head Tex wanted to 8 Cleo But She cost 4000 The zoo didn t have the 9 Then Tex thought of his friends the children of Kansas City 10 they knew about Cleo they would 11 He wrote a story about Cleo and sent it to a newspaper Help save Cleo Children the story said Send in your 12 money The children 13 They sent in enough money to buy Cleo 14 Cleo came to 15 at the zoo Four Do you live in a city Do you know how city began Long long ago the world had only a few 1 people They moved from place to place They hunted animals 2 food No one 3 how and where these people learned about 4 crops 5 when they knew that the life of these people changed They 6 to move house any more They 7 stay in one place and grow it People began to live near one 8 And so the 9 village grew read lucky others true anyone suddenly a we one call please day down lose again Other and but so build one big thousand can grow know work have for small Many people came 10 in the village These villages grew 11 Then people had machines 12 life in the villages changed again factories 13 More and more people came to live near the factories 14 the villages grew into cities Today some people in cities like to move back to 15 towns Do you know why Five Once there was a mother swallow 燕子 She had three dear little 1 They 2 Fluffy Twenty and Nodule Every day their mother would go looking for food for 3 When they saw that they wanted very much to do the 4 So one day they asked Mother may we fly too Their mother answered No Your wings are not strong enough 5 Rest for a while So all the baby swallows waited 6 Fluffy He said to his brothers I want to fly I hate 7 in this unpleasant nest 巢 It s no use asking mother 8 us fly Then Fluffy thought out an idea One day when their mother went out 9 for food Fluffy walked out of the nest When he was out he tried his 10 to fly He nearly succeeded 11 he suddenly lost his balance Help help cried poor Fluffy Suddenly he saw his mother 12 back When his mother saw Fluffy she flew to her baby Then she 13 Fluffy home Fluffy said his mother I ve told you not to fly and you 14 You didn t listen to me Don t do that again Fluffy nodded and he 15 meant it Six delicious please as long before kill neighbour try she die late sure happen surprise time Mrs Smith the wife of a rich man invited some of her friends to lunch She 1 a new way to cook fish and she was very 2 with 3 when the fish was ready 4 the fish was very hot she put it near the open window to cool for a few minutes Five minutes 5 when she came back for it she 6 to find the 7 cat eat the fish She was in 8 to stop the cat 9 it was too late That afternoon everyone enjoyed the fish and they thought it was 10 of all They talked and laughed until four o clock After her friends left Mrs Smith felt tired but happy She was sitting in a chair near the window when she saw the neighbour s cat 11 in her garden She 12 the fish was bad What 13 to her friends She at once telephoned the family doctor for help The doctor wanted each friend to meet him Mrs Smith was still tired but no 14 happy Just then the telephone rang It was her neighbour Oh Mrs Smith he cried My cat is dead She 15 by someone in a car and put in your garden Seven Paper inside useful million new cost by have outside family weigh little find make hold up All over the world men are searching for new techniques 技术 to provide a great deal of housing inexpensive and quick for 1 of low and middle income 2 and to meet the urgent 紧急的 housing requirements caused 引起 3 flood and earthquakes A company in Pennsylvania the U S A believes it 4 one method houses made of 5 About ten years ago the company supplied a number of the 6 model as urgent housing for thousands of farm workers in California Today the paper houses are still 7 well The builders now guess that the houses 8 a useful life of at 9 15 or 20 years The newer paper houses 10 of a specially designed 5 16 inch thick chemically treated kraftboard When coated on the 11 the board has a strength of 2 000 pounds per square inch 12 the paint on the walls and ceiling can withstand 经受 temperatures up to 1 900 degree F The kraftboard is water resistant 防水的 The basic housing unit which 13 about 950 is 20 by 20 5 feet 14 about 450 pounds and can be packed in two large boxes that are easily transported in a truck Once the base platform has been built three workers can set up let real come they do good yet be call same carry look but baby except one house in about five hours The basic design can be extended to any length or can be built in a wide variety of ways for some special 15 such as a classroom meeting hall or library Eight Basketball is still a young game It is only a 1 years old In the winter of 1891 the 2 was so cold that students 3 not go out to play One of the teachers 4 to invent a new game for the students It was not easy because such a game had to be played indoors 5 the place was not very large He thought hard for a few days and 6 a kind of ball game It was played between two 7 The ball had to be thrown into a basket ten 8 high 9 the floor on the wall At each end there was such a basket At 10 the teacher tried to use a box but it was difficult to find 11 of the right size so he had to use fruit baskets 12 That is 13 the game got 14 name Now this game can also be 15 outdoors Nine slow yet group many go mother have sing make kill if they talk be hear Whales 鲸 live in the sea but they 1 fish They are mammals 哺乳动 物 The baby whales drink milk from the 2 body Every spring 3 of whales swim hundreds of kilometers to warm places to have their babies Each mother whale 4 to the same place every year The mothers take very good care of 5 babies The whales 6 to each other with a high noise it sounds 听起来 like 7 This talking can 8 for 9 than 300 kilometres 10 people kill over a hundred whales a day They kill them 11 many things 12 them is a modern business The whales dies very 13 in great pain More and more whales are killed by people even the mothers and babies 14 the thing goes on like this there will be no young whales to grow up and no mother whales to 15 more babies Ten Watch feel be find player hold from do country we so for interest take ten Football is one of the most popular sports in the world Interesting and exciting football is popular among 1 of millions of people all over the world I am a football fan I began 2 football games when the league football match first 3 place in China 4 then on I became interested in football In the match I enjoy the wonderful goal shootings the great teamwork between the players Also the 5 courage and endurance 勇气和耐力 can 6 in the match The 7 thing is that even until last minute of the match can anyone hardly tell the result 8 anything can happen The world cup is 9 every four years It draws a lot of interest when teams from different 10 begin to fight for the world cup In the match many football fans make friends with one another and know different things of other countries 11 football match 12 simply a match it s an exchange of culture 文化交流 To support 支持 your favourite football team on the sport 13 so good To support 14 national team on the spot to fight for the world cup is the hope of all the Chinese football fans What we 15 is great what we will do will be greater Eleven Invent cheap with music use and be carry go but watch many million listen good Radio and television 1 very popular in the world today 2 of people watch TV Perhaps much 3 people listen to the radio The TV is of course 4 than radio On the TV you can see and hear It above play hundred instead weather can box invent and how one team tell foot what 5 on in the world But radio is not disappearing 消失 It is still 6 us And the number of 7 is becoming larger One reason 原因 for this is the 8 of the transistor 晶体管 radio A transistor radio is sometimes very small It is very easy 9 You can put one in your pocket 10 listen to it on the bus or on your bike when you go to work Besides 除此之外 radios are 11 for blind people The eyes of many old people are not good enough 12 TV Then when people are working they can t watch TV 13 they can listen to the 14 or the news over the radio What s more radio is much 15 than TV Twelve him new one come idea but do and strong try he make can ask say One day James Watt was sitting at the fire in 1 grandmother s home He was watching the fire 2 thinking about things A teapot was over the fire Soon the lid 盖子 began to move up and down What makes it move up and down the boy asked himself He looked under the lid but he 3 see anything Grandma what s in the teapot he asked Water my child nothing 4 water But I know there is something more And what makes the lid up and down His grandmother laughed and 5 Oh that s only steam 蒸汽 You can see it 6 out of teapot Why my dear it comes out of the hot water The hot water makes it The grandmother began to think that the boy 7 too many questions The steam must be very strong 8 the heavy lid move up and down said the bright boy to 9 Well if the steam comes from a lot of water it must be much 10 Why can t we use steam to work for us The 11 grew with him as he grew up He tried out his idea and failed then tried again failed again But each time he learned something 12 Some people laughed at him 13 be foolish 愚蠢的 they said But he went on 14 and at last he reached his goal and gave the world the 15 team engine 蒸汽机 Thirteen feel she someone give him drink long health arm face a through can die in A grown up 成人 person has ten or eleven pints 品脱 of blood 血 inside his or 1 body We can lose a pint of blood without 2 anything but if we lose a lot of blood we feel weak and cold Our 3 become pale 苍白的 We may 4 This is what often happens when somebody is hurt in 5 accident or a soldier 士兵 is hurt in a battle 战斗中 Many people used to die in this way But nowadays 现今 they can be taken to hospitals and 6 more blood Almost at once they feel better Their faces are no 7 pale They do not die Where does this blood come from People who are 8 give some blood so that it can be used in this way Every three months they go to a place where blood is collected A special kind of needle 针 is put into the 9 It does not hurt The blood runs 10 the needle and through a rubber tube into the bottle Blood is taken in this way Then the person who has given the blood 11 a cup of tea or coffee He sits down for a few minutes Then he feels quite well and goes off Three months later he comes back and gives another pint A person who gives blood in this way feels happy He knows that his blood will be used to save 12 life Perhaps one day he 13 will need blood When you are older you may decide to give blood 14 this way But you 15 do this until you are eighteen Fourteen Slow save hardly fill die when much teach time because be work he hour fly The Americans think a lot about time Even from as a child they learn 1 time As children they 2 to be on time to go to school to do work and to do everything 3 they are having a good time they say that time 4 When a person 5 they say he is living on borrowed 6 Time is money Time is knowledge Time is everything in America A 7 American has forty 8 work a week This is the working time In his spare 业余的 time he also works hard for 9 money Even Saturdays and Sundays 10 with something to do He enjoys 11 all the time In the street you can 12 see a man who walks 13 They walk very fast Or we may say they are running They love time 14 time brings them money happiness and everything But sometimes they also hate time for they feel they 15 slaves 奴隶 of the clock Fifteen dead try be travel have when woman work during dad soldier visit but do need Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 At that time hospitals were not as good as they are now When she was a little girl she liked 1 the poor people near her house and looked after them 2 they were ill She wanted very much 3 a nurse 4 her father told her that nursing wasn t the right work for a young madam But I 5 she said with a smile As her father had plenty of money he let Florence 6 to many other countries He hoped that she would forget about being a nurse But Florence 7 not forget When she went to France and Germany she visited hospitals She worked in them and learned all she could When she returned to England Florence started a nursing school of her own for 8 9 the war in 1854 many soldiers were wounded and became ill More nurses 10 Florence went with thirty eight nurses to a hospital near the front When they arrived there she found the thing was much 11 She and her nurses 12 to work hard Florence herself worked harder than anybody else She and her nurses saved hundreds of 13 lives Florence fell ill because she had kept 14 too hard for a very long time On August 13 1910 Florence Nightingale 15 quietly in her sleep Sixteen tall reach live hard sit still try food perhaps become during get At different times in a man s life his food has different effects on his body Among children 1 is quickly changed to the power to run and play games Most of a young man s food is spent on growing 2 We grow upwards only 3 the first twenty years of our 4 not later Work ing men get their strong bodies from their food and if they work 5 the y do not get fat Office workers eat well and 6 down a lot and may begin to grow fat when 7 young Many older people 8 to work much and w alk often 9 the m