2017年中考英语专题练习-短文首字母填空

2017 中考专题练习 短文首字母填空 Passage 1 Most 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 old number of jobs for people Often this is not p 4 and so more people are w 5 work Some people 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 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 2 Someone says Time is money but I think time is even more i 1 than money Why Because when money is s 2 we can get it b 3 However when time is g 4 it ll never return That s w 5 we mustn t waste 浪费 time It s sure that the t 6 is usually limited 有限 的 Even a 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 limited time smoking drinking and playing They do not know that wasting time means wasting part of their own l 8 In a word we should save time we shouldn t l 9 today s work for tomorrow Remember we have no time to l 10 Passage3 Can animals be made to work for us Some scientists think that one day animals may be t 1 to do a number 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 to 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 in America to help make cars and scientists b 9 that these monkeys may one day get in crops and e 10 drive trains Passage4 If you don t use your arms or your legs for some time they 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 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 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 have b 7 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 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 Passage5 When 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 s name There was n 3 inside it except some 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 He thought the owner might want to thank me That evening I went 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 t r 5 where I had seen 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 the young girl in the photo though she looked now much o 9 than the girl in the picture She was very s 10 of course when I told her about the bag After dinner 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 bag but also the owner of the bag Passage6 Only 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 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 winter days she always tells you to p 5 on more clothes She always stands in the wind waiting for you back 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 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 Passage7 Seumas Mcsporran is a very b 1 man He is 60 years old and he has thirteen jobs He is a postman a policeman a fireman 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 l 2 and works on the island of Gigha in the west of Scotland Only 120 people live on Gigha but in s 3 150 tourists come by b 4 every day Every weekday Seumas gets up at six and makes b 5 for the hotel guests At eight he drives the island s children to s 6 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 s only pub Then he helps Margaret in the s 7 He says Margaret likes being busy too We n 8 have holidays and we don t like w 9 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 it Passage8 Tim 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 h 2 you You needn t buy a 3 you don t want You may try to find out where the book you want is But if you w 4 the assistant will lead you there and then he will 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 e 8 So every afternoon he went there to r 9 a little at a time One day however he couldn t find the book from its usual place and was leaving when he saw an assistant signing to him To his s 10 the assistant pointed to the book in a corner I put it there so as not to be sold out said the assistant Then he let the student go on with 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 the colours 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 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 you washed it H No I didn t do that e 10 I didn t put it in cold water until I washed it Passage10 When you go to England you may find the traffic there is different from ours 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 by 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 there you can see the city very well Passage11 Which animal do 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 Suppose 假设 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 around 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 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 Passage12 Here s a part of an e mail answer from Joe giving some advice to his son in college When I was young I often met 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 to talk to o 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 things as well Passage13 Let 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 helps him to p 4 for all 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 e 7 water for a long time but he knows that if he tells anybody else about it it will be the e 8 of his zoo and his life s work So I think he will not tell anybody e 9 you and me about what he found because oil and water can t be p 10 together Oil may bring greater trouble to his animals than not having enough water Do you think so Passage14 The 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 many 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