2017年中考英语专题练习-短文首字母填空(含答案)

1、2017 中考专题练习-短文首字母填空Passage 1Most people want to work, but it has become m 1_ difficult in todays 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 oldnu mber of jobs for people. Often this is not p 4_ and so more people are w_5_work. Some people

2、have no jobs now because new machines can d_ 6_ the work of manypeople in a shorter time. Also, machines dont ask for more money and l 7_ holidays. In all of thecoun tries of the world mach ines are tak ing work from people, not on ly in factories but also on f8_One machine can often do the work of

3、forty people. About 75000 people are m 9_ to the cities aday to look for jobs, but o 10_ 70% of them can find jobs.Passage 2Some one says,“Time is mon ey,”but I thi nk time is even m ore i tha n mon ey. Why? Because whe nmoney is s 2_ we can get it b _3_ However, when time is g 4_ itll never return.

4、 Thatsw _5_ we mustn t was浪费）time. Its sure that the t is usually limited（有限的）.Evena second is very important. We should make full use of our time to do something u 7_ But somepeople dont know the importance of time. They spend their limitetime smoking, drinking and playing.They do not know that was

5、t ing time means wasti ng part of their own I 8_In a word, we should save time, we shouldn 9todays work for tomorrow. Remember we haveno time to l 10.Passage3Can an imals be made to work for us? Some scie ntists thi nk that one day ani mals may be t 1 to do a nu mber of simple jobs.They s2_ that in

6、a filmor on TV we may see elepha nts, mon keys, dogs,bears, or other ani mals doing alotof thin gs. If you w 3 carefully, you may find that thoseani mals are give n someth ing to eat in return for d 4 them. The scie ntists say that many d 5 ani mals may be taught to do a number of simple jobs if the

7、y will get somethi ng 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 alsoteach animals to work in f 7. Apes, for example have b 8 used inAmerica to help make cars and scie ntists b 9 that these mon keys may one day get in cr

8、ops and e_10_ drive trains.Passage4If you dont use your arms or your legs for some time, ey will become weak; when you start using them aga in, they will gradually（逐渐地）become stron ger aga in. Everybody knows this. Yet many people do not seem to know that it is the s 1 with memory.When some one says

9、 that he has a good memory, he really means that he d 2 give it eno ugh cha nce to become stro nger.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, manyof us think that his p 4 are to blame, and f_5_ of us know that it

10、is just his own fault.Have you e 6 found some people cant read or write but they usually have7b memories? This is b 8 they cannot read or write andthey h 9 to remember thin gs; they cannot write them dow n in a little no tebook. They must remember dates, n ames, songs andstories; so their memory is

11、the whole time being exercised.So if you want a good memory, l 10 from these people : practise rememberi ng.Passage5When I was walk ing dow n the street one day, I s 1 a small bag on the gro un d. I picked it up and opened it to see w 2 I couldfind out the owner_s name. There? was inside it exceptso

12、me dollars and a picture of a woma n and a young girl about twelve years old. I put the photo back and took the bag to the policestati on. Before I left, the policema n wrote dow n my n ame and my a 4. Hethought the owner might want to tha nk me.That evening I went to have dinner with my aunt and un

13、 cle. They had also asked a young woma n to have dinner with us. Her facewas familiar, but I could n 5 where I had iseen her. D_ _6_ our talk, the young woma n happe ned to say that she had l 7 her bagthat after noon. All at once I remembered w _8I had seen her. She was the young girl in the photo,

14、though she lookednow much o 9than the girl in the picture. She was very s 10, of course, whe n I told her about the bag. Afterdinner we went to the police station and got back her bag. The policeman said to me,Its a wonderful thing. You found not onlythe bag, but also the owner of the bag.”Passage6O

15、nly mother love is true love. It gives e 1 everyth ing all his life.When you are still a baby, mother takes good care of you as much as possible. In your wak ing hours she always holds you in herarms. When you are ill, she stops her work right now to look after you day and nand forgets about herself

16、. When you aregrowing 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 wi nterdays, 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

17、 home for school with little b 6, she always feelsworried about you at home. She u 7 knows about your study and spe nd much money on your school thin gs. When you do well atschool, you will see the brightest s 8 on her face. Mother can do everyth ing for you day after day.Mother is always ready to g

18、ive everyth ing she has to her childre n, not to receive. What true love that is in the w 9! We will r 10Mother Love for ever!Passage7Seumas Mcsporra n is a very b 1 man. He is 60 years old and he has thirtee n jobs. He is a postma n, a policema n, a firema n, ataxi driver, a school-bus driver, a bo

19、atma n, an ambula nee man, an acco untant, a petrol atte ndant, a barma n, and an undertaker. Also, he and his wife, Margaret, have a shop and a small hotel. Seumas l2and works on the island of Gigha inthe west of Scotland.Only 120 people live on Gigha but in s 3150 tourists come by b 4 every day. E

20、very weekdaySeumas gets up at six and makes b 5 for the hotel guests. At eight he drives the islands children t6_. At nine he collects the post from the boat and delivers it to all the houses on the isla nd. He also delivers the beer to the islandhen)hly (pelpslMargaret in the s 7. He says： “Margare

21、t likesbeing busy, too. We n 8 have holidays and we don t likew television. In the evening Margaret makes supper and I do the acco unts. At ten we have a glass of wine and the n we go to bed. P_10_ our life isnt very exciting, but we like it.”Passage8Tim spe nt in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you

22、 go to a good s 1, no assista nt will come n ear to youand say, “ Can I B_ you?”You needn t buy3a you don t want. You m&Y to find outwhere the book you want is. But if you w 4, the assista nt will lead you there and the n he will go away.It seems that he is not interested i 5 selling any books a

23、t all.There is a story which t 6 us about a good shop. A medical stude nt found a very useful book in a shop, but it is too expensive forhim to b 7. He couldnt get it from the library, e8 . So everyafter noon he went there to r9 a little at a time. One day, however, he could nt find the book from it

24、susual place and was leaving when he saw an assistant signing to him. To his s 10, the assistantpointed to the book in a corner,I put it there so as not to be sold out.Then he lettheaid the assistant.stude nt go on with his readi ng.Passage9(S=salesgirl; H=Ha n mei )S: Good morning. Can I help you?H

25、: Yes. I b 1 this blouse last week, but theres something wrong with it. When I w 2_ it, thecolours ran. I cant w 3it no w. I want you to c 4 this blouse or give me my m 5 back.S: Let me see. Did you wash it i n h 6 water?H: Of course not.S: It s 7 as if it has nt bee n washed follow ing the i 8. Did

26、 you leave it in water b 9 youwashed it?H: No, I did nt do that, e 10. I did nt put it in cold water un til I washed it.Passage10Whe n you go to En gla nd you may find the traffic there is differe nt from ours. As a f 1. you must be c_2_ in the streets, because the traffic d 3 on the left. You must

27、look to the right and then the leftbefore 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 5the n.When you go by bus in En gla nd, you have to take care, too. Always r 6 the traffic m 7 on the left. You have

28、to t 8 a look first or youwill go to the w 9 way.In many En glish cities there are big buses with two f 10. You can sit on the sec ond one. From thereyou can see the city very well.Passage11Which an imal do we n eed m 1? Dogs? Horses? No! The a 2 to the questio n is cows. Why cows?Cows give us milk.

29、 And milk is one of our most importa nt 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. Theline of bottles would go all around the world 400 t 5 That is a lot of milk, less tha n half of it is used for d 6 a nd cook

30、 ing. Most ofit is u 7 to make butter cheese, ice cream and many other thi ngs. It takes many cows to give us that m 8 milk. But not as many asit 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 ina year.Why do cows give more milk t

31、oday? Now farmers have better cows. The cows get better c 10 a nd better food.Passage12Heres a part of an- mail answer from Joe giving some advice to his son in college., I When I was youiofte n met t 1 about what to do and what not to do. My gran dmother told me not to worry about those thin gs. I

32、o 2didthem once a year or once a lifetime. I 3, I should try to do well those thin gs,and I do them every day. For example, I n eed to eat every day, so I should lear n how to c 4. I n eed totalk to o 5 every day, so I should lear n how to work with d 6 people and know how to s 7 well. I walk every

33、day, so my s 8 shouldbe all right and comfortable. Every ni ght I sleep, so my bed should let me have a good rest. Taking care of the e 9 things m 10 thatyou do a better job of the one in a lifetime things as well.”Passage13Let me tell you a story. A good friend of mine lives with six hun dred ani m

34、als on an isla nd. Ever s 1 he left school, he has travelledall over the world l 2_ for animals for his own zoo. He writes booksabout his travels, and about his won derful a 3. The money for his books helps him to p 4 forall the ani mal food. My friend told me that whe n he was look ing for water la

35、st week （There is not eno ugh water on the isla nd,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 e7 waterfor a long time,but he knows that if he tellsan ybody else about it, it will be the e8of his zoo and his lifeSo wthriki

36、k he will not tellan ybody e 9 you and me about what he foundbecause oil and water can 1 be ptogether. Oil may bring greater trouble to his ani mals tha n not hav ing eno ugh water. Do you think so?Passage14The u 1 means the earth, the sun, the moon and the stars and the space b 2_ them. Many ofthe

37、stars are so f 3 away that we can not see them. The moon, our satellite, travels a 4 the earth. It has already bee n visited b 5man from the earth. Man-made satellites have bee n sent up i 6 space by many coun tries. They go round the earth. They areused for helpi ng us to lear n more a 7 the earth,

38、 the weather and other thin gs. They are also used for sending and r 8 messages.It makes people f 9 differe nt coun tries un dersta nd each other much better. So people say the world itself is becoming a muchs 10 place. People call the small place“the global village”.P1 1. more 2. everybody 3. n eed 4. possible 5. without 6. do 7. l on ger 8. farms 9. moving 10. on lyP2 1. importa nt 2. s