潍坊市中考15词汇运用

(1)It was a cold day in December in New York City. A little boy about 10 years old 1 (stand) in front of a shoe store on Broadway. He was looking through the windows, barefooted and shivering with cold. A lady 2 (walk) to the boy and said ,”My little boy, what are your looking at?” “ I 3 (ask) God to dive me a pair of shoes,” the boy said . The lady took him by the hand and went into the store. She asked the clerk 4 (take) a pair of socks for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin of hot water and a towel. The clerk 5 (quick) brought the things to her. She washed the boys little 6 (foot) and dried them with the towel. By this time the clerk 7 (return) with the socks. The lady put on the socks for the boy, and bought 8 (he)a pair of shoes. She 9 (pat) him on the head and said , “My little boy , do you feel more comfortable now ?” As she turned to go , the boy 10 (catch)her by the hand 11 (sudden) and looked up in her face. With tears in his eyes, he asked the question with these words, “Are you 12 (God) wife?” ”No, Im a mother,” said the woman. (2) A young man 1 (walk)through a supermarket to pick up a few things when he noticed an old lady 2 (follow) him round. Thinking nothing of it , he continued. 3 (Final), he went to the checkout line, but the old lady got in front of 4 (he). “Excuse me .”she said, “Im sorry if my staring at you has made you feel 5 (comfortable), its just because you look like my son, whom I 6 (not see) for a long time . “What a pity,” replied the young man, “is there 7 (something) I can do for you?” “Yes,” she said ,”as Im leaving , can you say Goodbye, mother ! It would 8 (make) me feel so much better.” “Sure,” answered the young man. So, when the old woman was leaving , he called out, “Goodbye, mother!” As he 9 (step) up to the checkout counter, he 10 (see) that his total was $ 127.50.”How can that be?” he asked. “I only buy a few 11 (thing) !” The clerk replied, “Your mother said that you 12 (pay) for her.” (3) Spiderman is one of the most famous comic book 1 (hero)of all time. He 2 (create ) Stan Lee in 1963 and was 3 (one)introduced to the world in the pages of Marvel comic books. Spidermans story is the story of Peter Parker, a child who lost his parents and lives with his aunt and uncle, Peter is a shy, quiet boy 4 (wear) glasses and has few friends. One day, on a high school class trip to a science lab, he gets 5 (bite) by a special spider, Soon Pater realizes he has amazing powers :he is as strong and quick as a spider and also has a type of sixth sense. He no longer needs his 6 (fly) through the city streets! Remembering something his Uncle Ben has told him, that “with great power, there must also come great power , there must also come great responsibility(责任),” Peter decides to use his powers to fight persons who do cruel things to people. And so ,Spiderman is born. Life is not easy for Pater even though he is a superhero. He is in love with Mary Jane but cannot tell her about his 7 (amaze) powers. Besides, his best friend Harry hates Spiderman! Peter is also short of money and time . He has to sell photos of Spiderman(himself!) to a newspaper and he keeps 8 (lose) his other jobs because hes so busy 9 (save) people! Yet he has to fight different kinds of cruel 10 (enemy) (4)1 (live) in a foreign culture can be exciting, but it can also be confusing. A group of Americans who taught English in other 2 (country) recently discussed their experiences. They decided that miscommunications were always 3 (possible),even over something as simple as “yes” and “no”.On her first day in Micronesia, an island in the pacific, Lisa thought people werent 4 (pay) any attention to her The day was hot. She went into a store and asked, “Do you have cold drinks?” The woman there didnt say 5 (something).Lisa repeated the question. Still the woman had answered her: She 6 (raise) her eyebrows (眉毛),which in Micronesia means “yes”.Jan remembered an experience she had in Bulgaria, a country in Europe. She went to a restaurant that was 7 (know) for its cabbage. She asked the 8 (wait), “DO you have cabbage today?” He 9 (nod)his head. Jan waited, but the cabbage never came. In the country, a nod means “no”.Tom had a similar problem when he arrived in India. After 10 (explain) something in class, he asked his students if they understood. They answered with many different nods and shakes of the head. He thought some people had not 11 (understand). So he explained again. When he asked again, they did the same thing. He soon found out that his students did understand. In India, people nod and shake their heads in different ways 12 (depend) on where they come from. You have to know where a person is from to understand whether they mean “yes” or “no”. (5)Sometimes I really wonder whether there is love between my parents. “ I love you” is too difficult for them 1 (say): My father has even 2 (much) a bad temper. When he is very tired from hard work, it is easy for him to get 3 (anger).One day my father suddenly got sick 4 (serious). My mother had to 5 (stay) with him in the hospital for a month. After they returned from the hospital every day in the morning and evening, my mother helped my father 6 (walk)slowly on the country road. It seemed they were the most harmonious（和谐的） couple.The doctor said my father 7 (get) well in two months. But after two months he still couldnt walk by 8 (him). All of us were worried about him.“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.“Susan, 9 (not worry) about me,” he said kindly. “To tell you the 10 (true), I just like walking with your mom.” Reading his eyes, I knew he loved my mother 11 (deep).From this experience, I understand that love is just a thread in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, 12 (make) life strong and warm. (6)Once there was a piano player in a bar. People came just to hear him 1 (play). But one night, a lady asked him 2 (sing) a song.“ I dont sing,” said the man. But the lady told the waiter, “ I am tired of 3 (listen)to the piano. I want the 4 (play)to sing!” The waiter 5 (shout) across the room, “Hey, friend! If you want to get paid, sing a song!”So he did. He had never sung in public before. Now he was singing for the 6 (one) time! Nobody had ever heard the song. He sang so 7 (beautiful)!He had talent(天赋) he as sitting on! He may have lived the rest of 8 (he)life as a no-name piano player in a no-name bar. But once he found, by accident, that he could sing well, he went on 9 (work) hard and became one of the best known 10 (sing) in the US. His name was Nat King Cole.You, too, have skills and abilities. You may not feel that your talent is great, but it may be 11 (good) than you think. With hard work, most skills can 12 (improve). Besides, you may have no success at all if you just sit on your talent. (7)Are you going to high school 1 (go) on with your studyt? What will you do if you cant? Dont worry, vocational (职业的) schools are open for you because our country is in need of people with special skills. 2 (compare) with common high schools, vocational schools have more advantages. Firstly, in order to promote the development of vocational education, our country spends a lot of money on it. So you need 3 (pay) only a smaller half of the school fee. Secondly, in here you have already started learning 4 (practice) skills that you can use all your life. But some other students may still worry about how 5 (spend) the long three years of high schools. Why? Because they didnt choose the school that suits them. And finally, when they are still wondering where to go, you are already able to live on your own hands 6 (proud). And perhaps it wont be long before you are on the road to success.People like different roads because they have different potentials. So different students should choose different schools. Go to high school if you think that you can go 7 (far) on that road. Choose a key high school if you are 8 (luck) enough to have the chance. Enter a vocational school if you are 9 (interest) in the lessons there and you are better at 10 (make) things with your hands.In a word, think 11 (careful) and see what kind of person you are. Remember, always choose things that suit you. (8)It was almost 9:00 p.m. When Mary left her office to go home, it 1 (snow). She started her car and drove back to her home in the country. The snow was heavy. Then Mary crossed a small bridge. 2 (Sudden) the car rushed out of the bridge which 3 (cover) with ice. Mary 4 (hit)her head on the steering wheel and lost consciousness.When she 5 (wake) up, her head was bleeding(流血), and she was shaking from cold. She didnt know where she was. Mary opened her car door and looked around. She was under the bridge, and her car 6 (sit) on the frozen river! She 7 (feel) very sad. She knew the ice could not hold her car for very long. She tried 8 (climb)up to the bridge several times, but she kept 9 (fall) in the snow. Mary tried again and again, but still she couldnt get up. She realized that 10 (somebody) could see her under the bridge. She was lying in the snow, and she couldnt move. Mary closed her 11 (eye) and waited to die.Then she heard a voice. Mary opened her eyes. There was an old man 12 (stand) over her. With the help of the old man, she stood up and walked up. (9)When you see the girl for the first time, you may 1 (think) she is a boy. She is very outgoing. Who is she? Wang Meng, the Chinese top 2 (skate).On the evening of February 26th, 2010, Wang Meng first got the 3 (finish) line in 1 minute and 29.213 seconds in the 4 (woman) 1000 meters short track speed skating final(短道速滑决赛) at the Vancouer Olympic Winter Games. After she 5 (succeed) in the 500-meter and 3000-meter races, she won her 6 (three)gold medal this time. With this one China won four gold medals in the womens short track speed skating. That helped China 7 (one) win the team gold medal in Winter Olympics history.Just before the final race Wang Meng 8 (catch) a bad cold and coughed 9 (terrible). With the words “ You can do, you can do !” she won at last. She said, “I really feel these three gold 10 (medal) belong to my team, to China. It was with the great help of my dream that I won the prize.Though Wang Meng is only 24, she 11 (be) the most successful Chinese skater. Chinese are proud of her and her team. We hope she will be 12 (fast) in Sochi Olympics in 2014. (10)Have successful people ever felt sad? Do they have any “secrets” to success? The answers to these questions can 1 (find) in Us president Barack Obamas “ Back to School” speech. Here is an except （摘录）from his speech.I know that sometimes, you get the sense that you can be rich and 2 (success) without any hard work-that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a TV star, when chances are, youre not going to be any of those things.But the 3 (true) is, being successful is hard. You wont love every subject you study. Not all homework will seem 4 (complete) important to your life right this m