高考英语复习短文填空

(1)My kids and I were going to the supermarket on the weekend.On the way,we saw a man holding a sign that said,“Lost my job.Family to feed.” The man felt embarrassed but helpless.My 10-year-old child told me how bad it must be to have to stand outside in the 1. _ wind.While we were in the store,I asked each of the 2._ to pick something for the man.They picked a couple of apples,a sandwich,some cheese and a bottle of juice. Then my 7-year-old child asked,“Can we give 3._ a gift card?” “Thats a good idea.4._ we need to talk about it,because we dont have enough money,”I said.I told them that we might have to give 5. _ some of the things we were going to buy if we bought a gift card.All the kids 6. _.They said,“Hurry, Mom! Lets give him these things before he gets too cold and leaves.” We drove to the man quickly and handed him the coffee and the bag of food.He thanked us 7. _ tears in his eyes.When I handed him the gift card and said he could 8._ it for whatever his might need,he cried. This experience has been such 9._ wonderful opportunity for our family.We not only 10. _ a man in need，but also it gave my kids the sweet taste of helping others. (2)Last Saturday morning,I went camping with my friends.We were excited because it was a 1. _day.On the way,we kept singing and making jokes 2. _ the sun shining. However,in the afternoon,it was dark and windy.Soon,it started to 3. _.Unluckily,none of us brought an 4. _.We ran about but could find no place to hide. Twenty minutes 5. _ and it was still raining.There were hours to go before we could 6. _at the campsite (营地).It was even 7. _ that our compass (指南针) showed that we went to the wrong way.We had lost 8. _ way! At about five oclock,it stopped raining when we 9. _ got to the campsite.Though we were very tired,we set up our tents quickly.This camping trip was probably not very successful 10. _ we got to know each other better.(3)There was an emperor.He loved nothing 1_ new clothes. Two cheats told the emperor that they were the best weavers (织布工) in the world.They said they could make the most 2. _beautiful_cloth.The cloth was magical.Stupid people couldnt 3. _ it.A few days later,the cheats made the new clothes.The emperor took off all his clothes 4. _a pair of shorts.Then the cheats 5. _ him up with the invisible (看不见的) new clothes.The parade (游行) began.Everyone praised the emperors new 6. _ .“But he has nothing on but a pair of shorts!” 7. _ child said. People began to whisper,“The emperor is 8. _ nothing but a pair of shorts.” The emperor 9. _ the peoples words.“The weavers 10. _ me,” he thought.But he had no choice but to finish the parade.(4)One day,Tina sat 1. _the chair and watched her mother do the dishes in the 2._.Tina noticed that her mother had some 3. _ hairs on her head.She looked at her mother and 4. _ ,“Why do you have some white hairs,Mom?”Her mother answered,“Well,every time you do something wrong and make 5. _sad,one hair turns white.6. _ you dont make me sad anymore,I will have black hair.” The little girl thought for 7. _while and then said,“Mom,I am going to listen to your words carefully from today on and I would like to be a 8._ kid.Then you will not have so many white hairs,will you?” Her mother smiled and nodded (点头). Tinas grandma was 9. _TV in the living room.Tina glanced (看一眼) at her grandma and asked,“Mom,why is 10. _ hair all white? Her children arent good ones,are they?” (5)English is an international language.As a student in China,you work 1._ to learn English.Do you know American kids are trying to learn 2. _? About 50,000 American students now study Chinese. “3. _ of Chinas fast growth,Chinese is more useful than other 4. _ ,”said Scott McGinnis,a Washington language expert. 5. _ example,in 1999,only three Chicago schools had Chinese classes.This year more than twenty schools do.In many US 6. _like New York,students take Chinese lessons at school 7. _at weekends.But Chicago schools teach Chinese on school days.Last year China gave them 3,000 textbooks because they had 8. _a good job.Although Chinese classes are becoming popular,it is one of the 9. _ difficult languages.10. _ takes an English speaker about 1,320 hours to become good at Chinese,but he needs only 480 hours for French,Spanish or Italian. (6)How do you feel about your Chinese?Is it good or bad?If you think you are 1. _ at Chinese,you can take part in the competition 2._ the “Chinese Characters Dictation Competition(中国汉字听写大会)”.The competition became popular 3._teenagers.Nowadays,more and more computers and smartphones are used by teenagers.They 4. _ too much time on the Internet in playing or chatting.They are used to sending messages by computers and smart phones.As a result,some teenagers forget 5. _ to write the Chinese Characters by hand.The teachers and parents are very 6. _ about it.Not long ago,they found an interesting game called the Chinese Characters Dictation Competition.The program was similar to the American 7._“National Spelling Bee”.In this program,middle school students competed among themselves and wrote down the Chinese Characters by dictation.Over two hundred competitors were 8. _ forty-six middle schools.The audiences loved this new kind of competitions,too.They tried to write down the Chinese characters 9. _ the competitors were writing them.But they found it was also 10._ for them to write down all the Chinese Characters.(7)Jimmy was the top student in his class before he went to a boarding school (寄宿学校).But he 1. _when he was there.His grades started dropping.He hated being in a group.He was2. _ all the time.He felt no one loved him.His parents were very worried,so his father decided to go to the school and 3._with him. They stood 4. _ the shore (岸) of the lake near the school.His father started 5. _him casual questions about his classes,sports and teachers.After some time his father said,“Do you know 6. _ I am here today?” The boy answered,“To check my grades?” “No,no,” his father replied.“I am here to tell you that you are the 7. _ important person to me.I dont care about 8. _ .I care about you,9. _ your happiness.” Now the boy has everything he wants.He knows 10. _is someone on earth who loves him deeply.Today this young man is at the top of his class in college and no one has ever seen him get sad! (8)Dear Mummy and Daddy, Im sending you the photos you asked for.First youll find a photo 1. _ the house Im staying in.Its a very typical English house.You wont see many blocks of flats in England.The English 2. _ houses to flats.Sometimes you see 3._of houses and they are all exactly 4. _same. I enclose(附上) some pictures of the family Im staying with.You can see Sandy and Sue (the children I told you in my 5. _ letter),Mr.and Mrs.Clark.They have all become very good friends of 6. _.There are some pictures of the garden,too.Every English house has a small garden.The English people work very 7._ in their gardens.Mr.Clark 8._has_ a lovely lawn (草坪) and lots of rose bushes and he grows all his vegetables. Everything is 9. _green in England.Mr.Clark rarely(罕见地) has to water the garden because it 10._so often here!When it rains,my English friends say,“Nice weatherfor the ducks!” Ill write to you again soon. (9)In a national spelling competition,1._11-year-old girl,Sara,was asked to spell a word.But because of her low voice,the judges (裁判) were not sure if the girl spelled the word with B 2. _ D.They asked her to repeat what she said.By then,Sara realized that she had made a mistake.Instead of 3. _ a lie,she told them that she said the wrong letter.As a 4. _,she lost the competition. As the girl 5. _back to her seat,all the people stood up and cheered for what she said.She smiled.Many newspapers 6. _the girls story the next day.In fact,she won great respect from others 7. _she was honest.The young girl could simply tell a lie and nobody would find it out except 8. _.But she was brave enough to tell the 9. _ .She made the right choice. Its true that the choices we make today will decide what we are like tomorrow.Our children will follow us.So if you want them to grow up to be 10. _,we must show them that we are honest ourselves. (10)There was a little boy on a farm.He had to 1. _ up before the sunrise every morning to start his work on the farm. At sunrise he could 2. _a house with golden windows far away from the farm.He thought how great it would be to live there！He then made a promise to 3. _， “Someday I will go there and see that wonderful place.” Then one morning he got a chance.He took a sandwich and started walking to the house 4. _the golden windows. He walked for 5. _long time and in the afternoon he got close to the house.But he saw 6._ golden windows.There was a very old house.He went to the door and 7. _ .A little boy of his age opened the door.He asked him 8. _ he knew where the house with the golden windows was.The boy said， “Sure I know！” and invited him to sit in 9. _of the door.As he sat there he looked back where he just came.He saw the sunset (日落) made the 10. _ of his home golden. (11)Its 7:45 in the morning,and 26-year-old Steve Clarkson is going to work.He 1. _ on his jacket,and picks up his mobile phone and laptop (笔记本电脑).As he leaves the house,he turns on his MP3 player 2. _ puts on his headphone.He is ready to go. Today,for millions 3. _ people,gadgets (小配件) like Clarksons are a normal part of life.“Im a reporter for a magazine,and Im usually not in the office.My mobile phone and laptop help me to do my work 4. _on the road and at home,” says Clarkson.Today many people can check e-mails,send 5._ ,or surf the web,using 6. _ mobile phones.Tina Fang is studying photography in New York City.“Some of these gadgets are expensive,but they can 7._your money in the long run.I have a digital camera.I can use it to take eighty pictures and shoot videos (record an image onto the video) at the 8. _ time.I listen to 9. _ on my MP3 player,and I can download and 10. _books on it,too.I use the camera and MP3 for both learning and having fun.”(12)Wu Dajing won the gold the Mens 500m Short Track Speed Skating at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on February 22nd. Before this race, the Chinese short-track team got only silver and bronze(铜牌).They met 1. _many troubles that it made Wu Dajing Chinas last hope of 2._ a gold medal(奖牌) at these Games.The 23-year-old entered the final with a lot of pressure. However, he didnt give his competitors 3. _ chance.He just kept his speed from the start. “I am just so 4._ of myself to have been able to hold on and bring out my best in the race.I only realized I was the winner at the finish line and Im very happy that I have won the 5._ gold medal for China in these Games,” said Wu. Chinese team head coach Li Yan said excitedly, “Many thanks to our people for 6. _ support.In 7._ to get ready for the races, we have turned 8. _ our social networks(网络), but still saw some reports from Chinese media(媒体).These reports are important 9. _ they give us encouraging messages and now there are more people caring about this sport.It 10._ never been easy for all of us, but we finally got our long-awaited gold medal on the last day of the short track competition.”(13)Today,a number of people spend most of their free time watching their cell phones.These people are 1. _the “Heads-down Tribe (低头族)”.Heads-down tribe members now can be seen 2. _. More and more traffic accidents are happening 3. _ more drivers use cell phones when they are driving.In order to make drivers drive more carefully,some traffic 4._ have been made.For example,in Taiwan,if a driver watches his or her cell phone while driving,he or she will be fined. Keeping heads down and using cell phones may 5._ accidents. Besides,more and more strange and interesting facts happen to the “Heads-down Tribe”.Lets have a look at 6. _ interesting TV report.A man in America kept using his cell phone on his way home.As a result,he bumped into a big lost bear.When he 7. _his head,he was so frightened that he turned around and ran away as 8. _ as possible.Cell phones are 9._ and necessary tools for modern people.Are cell phones good or not? It depends 10. _how people use them.Lets be smart users and try to be the “Heads-up Tribe”.(14)Today,people in the world have busy lives,and they often feel unhappy under so much pressure.In fact,keeping happy is 1. _and necessary for everyone. Most people want to be happy,but few know how to be happy.Money and success can bring pleasure,however,it wont 2. _ long.Actually,happiness depends 3. _ourselves. Here are some 4._ to help you be happy. The first secret is to enjoy the 5. _things in life.We often spend too much time thinking about the 6. _,for example,going to a famous university or getting a good job after graduation.You should enjoy the simple pleasures in life,such 7. _reading a good book,listening to your favorite music and spending time with good friends.The second secret is to be 8. _.Many people enjoy dancing or playing sports.You can forget all your 9. _and only think about the activity you are doing.The third secret is helping others. 10. _ is a good way to keep happy. （14）Learn to share One day,while I was sitting in my car in a parking area,I noticed a young boy in front of my car.“What is the boy doing?” I asked myself and looked closely.“Oh,he is 1. _ up a coin from the ground.” When he stood 2. _,we saw each other clearly.He was not 3. _than ten and was wearing one blue glove and one brown glove.His coat was too 4. _for him. As he walked away,I saw his shoes,which were 5. _ old to wear.I rolled down my window and called him over. I asked him if he 6. _ some money.He replied, “No.Thats okay.” The parking area was wet.I could tell that his 7. _were cold because he kept moving his weight from one foot to the other. “Please,” I held out a five-dollar bill.“Its not much,but when the money is shared,it is 8. _more useful,” I said. He took off 9. _of his gloves and took the money from my hand.His small hand was red and cold. He smiled and went away after saying “Thank you!”10. _ me. That smile made me feel warm in the cold winter. （15）Mr.Green liked junk food so much that he 1._on so much weight.One day he went to see a doctor and asked the doctor to help him 2. _weight.The doctor looked over him 3. _and said,“Oh,youll die 4. _forty days.” The fat man was very sad.After he returned home,he lay in bed all day long.He didnt do 5. _and just waited for his death.With each passing day,he 6. _ less and less and was becoming thinner and thinner.Forty days passed,but he didnt die.He waited for another day.Then he went to the 7. _and asked,“Forty days have passed,but Im still 8. _.Why did you cheat (欺骗)me?” The doctor smiled and asked the man, “Didnt you ask me to help you lose weight?” “Yes,I did,” the man answered. “Then,” said the doctor. “Look at 9. _.” The man looked down and laughed. In the 10. _ ,he always chose healthy food instead.（16）Boys and girls, this summer vacation is the time for you to prepare yourself for the future. The following is some 1. _on how to have a wo