武汉中考短文填词之妙语短篇A2

妙语短篇之短文填词A2 1Mrs. Tan was w_ about her weight.“Im much too fat,” she told her friend. “I need to l_ a lot of weight but l dont know how to do it.” “Go and see Dr. Wei,” her friend said. “Hell tell you how to lose weight.” Mrs. Tan v_ Dr. Wei and told him her problem.“It isnt d_ to lose weight ,”he told her. “All you need to do is go on a diet. Ill give you one.”He began to w_ on a piece of paper.“Eat lots of fruit and vegetables. Also eat a lot of lean(瘦肉) meat and grains.”When he f_, he handed her the piece of paper.“There you are,” he said. “Eat all those things and youll soon lose weight.”A few weeks later, Mrs. Tans friend c_ on her.She was s_ to see that she was even f_ than before and that she was eating a huge sandwich with chocolate cake and ice cream.“I t_ you were on a diet.” she said.“Oh, I am,” Mrs. Tan r_. “Ive already had all the food on my diet today. Now Im eating my dinner.”2 Tommy hated school and was always looking for e_ not to go.If he sneezed, he asked his mother to write a note saying he had a c_.If he a headache, he asked his mother to take him to the doctor d_ school hours.He spent more time at home than he d_ at school.On the days that he did go to school, he looked for excuses to come home e_.One day he came home from school in the middle of the morning.His father was s_.“Youre home early,” he said. “Is the school c_ today?”“No, Dad,” Tommy said. “Its open. I came home early.”“How did you do that?” his father asked him. “What did you say to the teacher?”“I told her that I had a n_ baby brother and that I had to come home and help you.”“But your mother has had t_,” his father said, “a boy and a girl. Youve got a baby brother and a baby sister.” “Yes, I know, Dad,” Tommy said . “ Im s_ up my baby sister for next week.” 3Jenny Gordon was a very kind and beautiful woman. before she m_ .many men were in love with her.Many of them wrote to her, telling her how w_ she was ,how much they loved her and wanted to marry her.Jenny kept all these letters. She t_ them up with a red ribbon （丝带）and put them away in an old box. She never looked at them as she was h_ married ,however ,they were a part of her life and she did not want to t_ them away. Jenny had a daughter ,Sue .Sue was six .One day ,Jenny had to leave sue a_ for half an hour.“Now be a good girl,” she said . “Play quietly. If you need anything, go to the lady next door.”When she r_ home ,she asked Sue, “Have you been a good girl?”“Oh ,yes, mommy,” Sue said.“What did you do w_ I was out ?”Jenny asked her.“I played mailman ,”Sue told her.“How could you play mailman, darling?” Jenny asked. “ You didnt have any l_.”“Oh, yes I did ,mommy,” Sue said. “I found some in an old box upstairs. They were tied up with a red ribbon .I put one in e_ mailbox in the street. Wasnt I a good girl?”4 A man took a pair of shoes to a shoe repair shop and said to the shoemaker(修鞋匠), “I d like you to repair these shoes for me ,please,” “C_ , sir,” the shoemaker said.“When will they be ready?” the man asked .“Im a bit busy ,but theyll probably be ready for you on Thursday.” he said .“Thats fine,” the man said, and l_ the shop.The next morning he r_ a letter, offering him a job in a_ country. Within 24 hours he was on an airplane to his new job. Twenty years p_ and he returned to his hometown .He remembered his shoes. “They were a good pair of shoes,” he thought. “I w_ if the shoemaker is still there and still has them. Ill go and see .” He was p_ to see that the shoemaker was still in the same shop, although he was an old man by now . “Good morning,” he said to him. “Twenty years ago, I b_ in a pair of shoes to be repaired. Do you think youve still got them?”“Name ?”the old shoemaker asked.“Smith,” the man said .“Ill go and see. They may be out back.”The shoemaker went out to the back of his shop and a few minutes later returned , c_ the pair of shoes.“Here we are,” he said. “One pair of brown shoes to be repaired. Im a bit busy now but theyll p_ be ready on Thursday.” 5One day Jacks wife was cleaning out a closet（壁橱）. “Look at all these umbrellas,” Jacks wife said to him. “There are eight and they are all b_”“Ill take them a_ to the umbrella shop and have them repaired,” Jack said. “They are too good to t_ away.”Jack took the eight umbrellas to the shop and left them there. “Theyll be r_ tomorrow,” the shopkeeper said.That evening Jack went home from the office by bus ,as usual . He sat next to an old woman .she had an umbrella on the floor near her.When the bus r_ his stop, he picked up her umbrella and stood up.“Hey!” the woman said, “Thats my umbrella.”“Im so sorry,” Jack said, g_ it to her . “I wasnt thinking. Please forgive me .”The next day he c_ the umbrellas from the umbrella shop and got on the bus.As he sat down, a v_ behind him said, “You have certainly had a successful day!”He t_ around and saw the woman whose umbrella he had almost taken the day b_. 6 Old peter liked fishing w_ he had any free time he drove into the countryside, found a good place to fish, and s_ a few hours fishing.The problem was that most of the best places to fish were on private land, and peter often had to pull his rod(鱼竿) out of the water q_ and run off with it when the owner of the land came along.One day he was sitting by a river that ran t_ a rich mans property(房地产) when he fell a_. He was awakened by a voice s_, “youll never catch anything using that bait.”Peter looked up and saw a man standing behind him.“What do you m_?” Peter said. “Theres nothing wrong with this bait. I always use it. Ive c_ thirty fish with it today already.”“How very interesting,” the man said. “Do you know who I am ?”peter shook his head. “Im the owner of this land .”Peter thought very quickly “Do you know who I am?” he asked.The man shook his head. “Im the b_ liar（撒谎者） in the country,” Peter told him.And with this he p_ his line out of the water and ran off as fast as he could.7Johnny lived with his mother and father in a small town in the m_.One day there was an earthquake near the town. Many houses were damaged(损坏). Everyone thought that there would soon be a_ earthquake.They were worried that the second earthquake would be w_ than the first.“We must send Johnny to a safe place,” Johnnys mother said to her h_. “Many of our friends are sending their children to r_ in other towns.”“Well send him to my brother, Peter,” Johnnys father said. “He lives a long way away. Johnny will be s_ with him.”He t_ Johnnys uncle Peter and asked him if he would let Johnny live with him.“Hes a good boy,” he said. “He wont give you any t_.”“All right,” Johnnys uncle Peter said, “but Im not used to children. I live a very q_ and peaceful life.”“You wont know Johnnys in the house,” his father told him.So Johnny, who was five, went to live with his uncle.Two days later, his mother and rather r_ a telegram（电报） from peter.It said： “Am returning child. Please send earthquake.”8Arnold Wu was a proud man. “I am sure my family is one of the oldest in the country,” he often told people. “It has a long h_.”One day he went to see an expert in family history, Mrs. Li.“I want you to find out e_ about my family,” he said. “Where do we come from? Who was the first Wu? Were there any f_ people in the family? Do I have any rich relatives?”“O.K” Mrs. Li said, “but it will c_ you $2,000.”Arnold thought about this. Two thousand dollars was a lot of money.At last he said, “All right. But for $2,000 I want a c_ history. I want full details.”The expert agreed. “Come back in three months,” she said.Three months later Arnold visited Mrs. Li a_.“Well,” he said, “have you f_ out everything about my family?”“Yes,” she said. ”It is a very interesting family. H_ , my price is now $5,000.”“Five thousand dollars!” Arnold s_. “but you told me the cost was only $2,000.”“I know. It was $2,000 to find out about your family,” she said. “it is another $3,000 to keep s_ what I found out !” 9Two days a_ Simons fifth birthday. He went to school for the first time.His mother bought him new clothes. And a s_ bag to carry his pens and books in.The school was a long way from his home, so Simons mother took him to school in the morning, and l_ him at the school gate.“Enjoy yourself, Simon,” she said, “and be good. The teacher will tell me if youre not.”Then she left him and went back home. At half past three she went back to the school to p_ him up. She waited outside with many other mothers. Soon he came out and ran up to her.“Did you enjoy your first day at school?” she asked him.He s_ his head.“No,” he said, “and Im n_ going back there again.”His mother was very surprised.“Whats the matter?” she asked him. “Has someone been u_ to you?”“No,” he replied.“Did you m_ me ?”his mother asked him. “Is that why you dont want to go to school again?”“No,” he replied,“Then tell me the r_,” his mother said.“All right. I cant read. I cant write. I cant spell. I cant do math and the teacher wont let me talk. whats the point of going to school when I cant do a_ there?” 10A man was selling medicines at a fair(集市). At first he sold bottles of a cure(药剂) for colds for just a dollar a bottle.Many people wanted to buy it and the mans young assistant moved quickly through the crowd c_ money and handing out bottles of the cold cure.Then, when he had a big crowd, the man h_ up a very small bottle.“And now ,ladies and gentlemen,” he shouted, “here is the medicine you have been waiting for. The cure for old age . D_ just one bottle of this and you will live forever.”“And, ladies and gentlemen,” the man c_, “Im not going to charge you a hundred dollars a bottle for this w_ medicine, Im going to charge you just ten dollars a bottle. Think, my friends, for ten dollars you can live forever.”Most of the people in the crowd did not b_ this. One person shouted, “If it make you live forever, why dont you dink it ?”Then another person cried, “Yes , you look as if youre at l_ sixty years old.”“Thank you , sir, thank you,” the man replied, “Im so glad you said that. My real age is three hundred and twenty-nine.”The crowd laughed at this but there were s_ a few people who wanted to believe the man. One of them spoke to the mans assistant as she p_ by. “Is that true,” he asked, “that hes three hundred and twenty-nine?”“Dont ask me,” the assistant said, “Ive o_ worked for him for a hundred and fifty years.” 11A bank was robbed by an armed (有武器的) robber.He walked into the bank, went up to the bank teller(银行出纳员),p_ a gun at her and said, “Give me all the money or Ill shoot.”The bank teller was f_ and did as the robber asked.The police later asked the bank teller if she could tell them a_ about the robber. “He wore a stocking over his face,” the bank teller said. “Im afraid I cant tell you what he looked l_.”A week later, the bank was robbed again.“Im sure it was the same man,” the bank teller said. “I didnt see his face, because he had a stocking over it again, but the v_ was the same when he said, Give me all the money or Ill shoot. ”A week later, the bank was robbed for the t_ time.“Was it the same man?” the police asked the bank teller.“Oh, yes, Im s_ it was,” the bank teller said. “I didnt see his face because he wore a stocking over it again, but it was the same voice.”“Are you sure you didnt notice anything e_ about the man?” the police asked. “A little detail. Anything that might help us find him.”The bank teller t_ for a minute, then she said, “There is one thing.”“And what is that?” the police said h_.“Every time he comes in and robs us,” the teller said, “hes better dressed than before.” 12 “Youll have to take care of the baby today,” a woman told her h_ .”Im not feeling well. “Then you must stay in bed and rest, dear, ”her husband said. “Ill be p_ to look after our baby.”“Thank you. Ill have a q_ day and Ill soon get better,” his wife told him.“Shall I do the shopping for you as well?” her husband asked.She was very pleased and said , “That will help me very much. Ill give you a l_ of things to buy.”She wrote out the list and gave it to him.“You can get all these things at the supermarket,” she said.“You can put the baby in the shopping cart, then you wont have to l_ him outside.”The man took the baby to the supermarket and put him in the shopping cart. Then he pushed the shopping cart a_ the rows of things to buy and looked for those that were on his list.At first a_ was well, but then the baby began to cry.Then he started to scream.And scream!And SCREAM!“Keep calm, George,” the man said. “Dont get e_. Dont shout, George. Dont lose your temper, George.”A woman in the supermarket heard him s_ these things. She walked up to him.“I think you are wonderful,” she said. “You are so p_ with your little George.”“Madam,” the man said, “Im George. Hes Edward.” 13Matt and his wife lived in the country. Matt was very stingy（吝啬的） and hated s_ money. One day a fair came to the nearby town.“Lets go to the fair, matt,” his wife said. “We havent been a_ for a long time.”Matt t_ about this for a while. He knew he would have to spend money at the fair. At last he said, “All right, but Im not going to spend much money. Well look at things, but we wont buy anything.”They went to the fair and looked at all the things to buy. There were many things Matts wife wanted to buy, but he would not l_ her spend any money.Then, in a nearby field,(露天场地)， they saw a small a_.“Fun flights!” the n_ said, “$10 for 10 minutes.”Matt had never been in an airplane and he wanted to go on a fun flight. However, he didnt want to pay for his wife, as w_.“Ive only got $10,” he told the pilot, “Can my wife come with me for f_?” the pilot wasnt selling many tickets, so he said, “Ill make a bargain with you. If your wife doesnt scream or shout, she can have a free flight.”Matt a_, and got into the small airplane with his wife.The pilot took off and made his airplane do all kinds of things. At one moment it was flying upside down.When the plane landed, the pilot said, “O.K. your wife didnt make a sound. She can have her ride free.”“Thank you,” matt said. “it wasnt easy for her, you know, e_ when she fell out.” 14Two unemployed(失业的) men , Len and Ted ,were sitting in a restaurant d_ tea.Outside, on the o_ side of the road, there was a bank, A security (保安的)guard was standing outside the bank .Len stood up ,” I must go”, he said. “Ill see you tomorrow”.“O.k.”. Ted said. “Ill be here”.Len walked out of the restaurant and c_ the road .Then he walked up to the security guard, said something to him and ran off as fast as he c_.The security guard was very a_ and he ran after Len shouting at him.“Come back here! How dare you insult(侮辱) me!” he shouted, but Len kept on r_.The security guard could not catch him and he was soon out of sight.Still angry the security guard h_ back to his