中考英语短文动词填空

1、中考英语短文动词填空(1)There is a beautiful island located(位于) at the outer east side of the Zhujiang River mouth, which(1)_(call) Hong Kong. It lies to the west of Macao and (2)_(face) to the South China Sea. On the north it is connected(相连) with the Shenzhen Special Economical Zone. It (3)_(cover)about 1,07

2、5 square kilometers (平方公里)and includes three main partsHong Kong Island, Kowloon Peninsula(半岛) and New Territories. There are more than six million people in Hong Kong, of which about 98 percent are Chinese. Its weather is suitable and its scenery（风景） is very beautiful. Although its area isnt very l

3、arge, its economy（经济）（4）_(develop)quickly. Todays Hong Kong (5)_|_ already_ (become) the famous heart of the international trade, finance(金融), shipping, travel and information. It (6)_(keep) the foreign trade relations with over 170 countries. It has a lot of skyscrapers(摩天大楼) and docks. It attracts

4、 several million travelers all over the world. About 109 years ago, Hong Kong (7)_ (occupy) (强占) by the English invaders （侵掠者）and (8)_(rule) for nearly one century. This is the great shame（耻辱） for the Chinese nation. On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong returned to the embrace(怀抱) of our motherland again. Thi

5、s is one of the greatest events in the 20th century. It (9)_ (end) the English rule. It shows that Chinese people have wiped out the shame. It(10) _(write) in the historical records forever.中考英语短文动词填空(2) Once there lived an old man in a town. He always 1_ (forget) a lot of things. So his wife always

6、 had 2_ (say) to him, “3_ _ (not forget) this.” One day, he went on a long trip alone. Before he left home, his wife said, “ Now you 4_ (have) all these things. They are what you 5_ (need) for your trip. 6 _ (take) care of your things during the trip.” He went to the station. He bought a ticket and

7、got on the train with it. About an hour later, the conductor began 7_(check) the tickets. He came to the old man and said, “Will you please show me your ticket?” The old man looked for his ticket in all his pockets, but he 8_ (not find) it. He was very worried. “I cant find my ticket. I really bough

8、t a ticket before I got on the train,” said the old man. “I think you are right. I believe you 9_ (buy) a ticket,” said the conductor kindly. But the old man still looked worried and said sadly, “You dont know why I am worried. If I dont find my ticket, I 10_ (not remember) my station. Where am I go

9、ing?”中考英语短文动词填空(3) Bananas dont grow on trees. They grow on a thick stalk(茎) that (1)_(look) just a little like a stalk of corn. The stalk is soft enough (2)_( cut) with a knife. It takes about a year before bananas are ready to be picked. Some are as small as fingers. Others are as long and thick a

10、s mens arms. Some banana plants grow as tall as a house even taller! Not all bananas are eaten as fruit. Some never get sweet, and they (3)_(cook) as a kind of vegetable. People in most countries never see a banana until it reaches the store. But if you visited a country where its hot and rains a lo

11、t all the year, you(4)_(see) a banana plantation(种植园), a large farm where bananas grow. The tasty fruit doesnt come from a seed （种子）but from a root(5)_( plante) deep in the ground. First a stalk pushes up into the air. Then leaves (6)_(appear). In the beginning the banana plant grows very fastsometi

12、mes as much as the length（长） of your feet in one night. Soon, sweet-smelling flowers appear, and when their flowers drop off, bananas begin to grow. As they get bigger, bananas start(7)_( turn) up. It looks as if theyre growing upside down!Bananas are ready to eat when they turn soft and yellow. But

13、 they(8)_( pick) long before this when theyre hard and bright green. This is because bananas have to travel many miles before they arrive at a store. On trucks and boats and trains bananas travel all over the world. There are special boats just for bananas and special trains that keep them just cool

14、 enough so that they (9)_(get) ripe while(10)_( travel). If bananas are picked when they are ripe, they will spoil(变坏) on the way.中考英语短文动词填空(4)UN Year of Deserts The United Nations 1_ already _(name) 2006 as the International Year of Deserts（国际沙漠年）. The UN wants people 2_(notice) the beauty and wond

15、ers of deserts throughout the world.But the United Nations also wants to pay attention to the dangers the world faces as more and more land becomes desert. Large amounts of land that could once grow crops 3_( become) desert. Food 4_no longer _(grow) in those areas. More land is lost to be desert eac

16、h year. Special habitats Deserts are special environments,Tt's home of many different animals and plants. For thousands of years, deserts have also been home of many civilizations（居民）. Deserts are fragile environments. The UN is hoping to protect the older deserts as well as _(stop) new deserts

17、from forming. The dangers Experts believe that one-third of the earths land surface 6_( threaten)（威胁） by the loss of farmland. When the land dries up and becomes desert, people cannot grow enough crops to eat. Experts believe this danger 7_( effect) 1 billion people.Africa has been especially hard b

18、y 8_(grow) deserts. Experts believe about two-thirds of Africas people are threatened by this loss of farmland. Causes People and climate change 9_( cause) much land to turn to desert. People cutting down too many trees has harmed the land. So more cropland is lost each year, more and more people tr

19、y to live for the remaining good land. This speeds up the harm to the land. Scientists are using pictures 10_(take) from space to describe the growing deserts. 中考英语短文动词填空(5)Protect wild animalsA thousand years ago, Hong Kong 1_(covered) by a thick forest. As more and more people came to live in Hong

20、 Kong, these trees 2_(cut) down and burnt. Now there is no forest 3_(leave), though there are still some small areas are covered by trees. We call these woods. Elephants, tigers, and many other animals used to live in the thick forest. When people came to live in Hong Kong, the animals began to die

21、out. Early farmers grew rice and 4_(keep) pigs and chickens in the valleys（山谷）. They cut down the trees and burnt them. They needed fire 5_( keep) themselves warm in winter, to cook their food and to keep away from the dangerous animals. Elephants quickly disappeared because there was not enough foo

22、d for them. So 6_(do)most of the wolves and tigers. Monkeys and many other animals soon died for the same reason. You might think that there are no longer any animals in Hong Kong except in the zoos. But there are still about 36 different animals 7_(live)there. One of the most interesting animals in

23、 Hong Kong is the barking deer. （赤麂）These are beautiful little animals with a rich brown coat and a white patch under the tail.It8_(look) like deer but they are much smaller. They are less than two feet tall. They make a sound rather like a dog barking. There are now not many barking deer 9_(leave).

24、 So it is important for people to protect them and other wild animals.中考英语短文动词填空(6)Heavy schoolbags Are you carrying too much on your back at school? Im sure lots of children of your age (1)_( say) “yes”. Not only do the students in China have this problem, but also children in the United States hav

25、e heavy schoolbags. Experts (2)_( start) to worry that younger and younger students (3)_ (have) back and neck problems as a result of schoolbags being too heavy for them. “Its hard for me(4)_( go) upstairs with my bag because its too heavy,” said Rick Hammond, an 11-year-old student in the US. Rick

26、is among students who have common schoolbags with two straps(带子) to carry, but many students(5)_( choose) rolling(有滚轮的) bags.But even with rolling bags, going upstairs and getting on buses are still problems for children. Many of them hurt their backs or necks because of the heavy schoolbags. But ho

27、w much is proper for them? Doctors say students(6)_(carry) no more than 10% to 15% of their own body weight(重量).Scott Bautch, a back doctor, said children under Grade 4 should stay with 10%. But it is also important that other children dont stay with over 15%, because their bodies (7)_ still_( grow)

28、. “Children are losing their balance and falling down with their schoolbags,” he said.Parents and teachers are starting to tell children to only take home the books they need (8)_( read) that night. Some teachers are using pieces of paper or thin workbooks for students (9)_(take) home.One of the bes

29、t answers is, as some children (10)_(say), to have no homework at all! 中考英语短文动词填空(7)If you look at the sky one night and see something （1）_(move) and shining that you (2)_ never _(see) before, it might be a comet (彗星).A comet sometimes looks like a star. Like a planet, a comet has no light of its ow

30、n. It shines from the sunlight it reflects (反射). Like the earth, a comet (3)_(go) round the sun, but on a much longer path (轨道) than the earth travels. If a comet isnt a star, what is it then? Some scientists think that a large part of a comet is water frozen into pieces of ice and (4)_(mix) with ir

31、on and rock dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock. When sunshine melts (融化) the ice in the comet, great clouds of gas go trailing after it. These clouds, together with the dust, form a long tail. Many people perhaps (5)_(see) a comet. However no one knows how many comets there are. There (6)_( b

32、e) millions of comets, but only a few come close enough for us to see.An Englishman (7)_(name) Edmund Halley, who lived from 1656 to 1742, found out a lot about the paths that comets take through the sky. Some comets move out of our sight and never come back. Others keep (8)_(come) back at regular t

33、imes. A big comet that keeps coming back was named after Halley because he was the one who worked out when it(9)_(come) back again. Maybe you have ever seen Halleys Comets because the last time it came close to the sun and the earth was in the year 1986. Then people all over the world were outside a

34、t night to look at it. You (10)_probably _( see) Halleys Comets when it comes near the earth again.中考英语短文动词填空(8)Mr Clark (1)_ (bear) in a small town of England. When he finished middle school, he (2)_(find) work in the police station and he (3)_(work) there for 42 years and hell retire(退休)this autum

35、n. He tried to work hard in the past 42 years but he wasnt a lucky man and never caught a thief. He was often sorry for it.Last weekend, when Mrs Clarke (4)_ (cook) supper, she found there was no sugar. So she asked her husband (5)_ (buy) some in the shop near their house. He came in the shop and fo

36、und a young man (6)_ (steal) some money from a womans bag. He ran to the thief quickly, but the young man found and (7)_ (run) away at onec. Mr Clarke ran after him. The thief ran into a blind alley（死胡同）and Mr Clarke (8)_ (catch) him at last.“Please give me a chance, sir, said the young man. “I neve

37、r stole before.”“Who (9)_ (give) me a chance?” said Mr Clarke. “Ill soon retire and I (10)_ (catch) a thief for the first time!” 中考英语短文动词填空(9) A sudden ringing woke Peter up. He turned on the light, got up and went to answer the phone. “ 1 you still _ (lie) on the bed?” Came Henrys voice. “Yes,” sai

38、d Peter. “But its only four.” “ 2 your watch _ (not work)? Open the window and look outside. I 3 (arrive) at the bus stop already.” Peter did as his friend said. It 4 (snow) heavily and it was white everywhere. Skiing was both Peters favorite hobby and mine, too. I ran to the telephone and said, “Wa

39、it for me there and I 5 (get) there in a quarter of an hour.” After half an hour Peter and his friends were on the bus. It was cold and the roads 6 (cover) with snow. The old driver seemed to be careful. He drove slowly and all the passengers 7 (understand) why he did so. Suddenly a woman in the fro

40、nt of the bus called out. People 8 (not know) what happened and they looked ahead. A truck quickly approached our bus. We were too 9 (frighten) to say a word. At the last moment the driver turned the bus aside and it hit a tree by the road. The truck passed by quickly and fell into the river. Luckil

41、y, none of the passengers 10 (hurt). But they were not happy. They had to save the truck driver!中考英语短文动词填空(10) Once a boy came to ask a fisherman how (1)_(become) cleverer because his mother always called him “foolish boy”. “That is easy, ” answered the fisherman. “I know one way to make you (2)_(be

42、 ) a clever boy.”“Really?” “Of course. A fish head is good for brains. If you eat one a day, you (3)_(become) much cleverer. (4) _(pay) only three pounds for one fish head.” The boy paid him three pounds and the fisherman (5)_(cut) off a fish head and gave it to him.A raw(生的)fish head is no good- no

43、t even for a hungry boy (6)_(eat)-but the boy ate it up in two gulps.“Do you feel anything?” asked the fisherman after the boy ate the fish head.“Not in my head,” said the boy.The boy sat on the ground and (7)_(think), “One whole fish (8)_(cost) only two pounds, but I (9)_(pay) him three pounds for

44、the fish already. Why couldnt I have the whole fish for soup, a head for brain and one pound left over?” He jumped up and shouted at the fisherman, “The fish head(10) _(work) now, you see?”中考英语短文动词填空(11) Peter went into a restaurant because he was very hungry. The weather was cold and so he asked th

45、e waiter (1)_(bring) him a bowl of hot soup.“What kind of soup, sir?” asked the waiter.“Chicken,” said Peter. “I feel like (2)_(drink) some thick chicken soup.”“No problem, sir.” After a short time, the waiter came back with a bowl of hot soup. Peter looked at it and said, “The soup cant (3)_(eat),

46、I think.”“Then, Ill bring you some fish soup. Im sure you(4)_(like) it. ”Ten minutes later, the waiter brought Peter a bowl of fish soup. After (5)_(look) at it, Peter said again that he couldnt eat the soup. When the waiter was on his way to the kitchen, he met the head of the restaurant and (6)_(t

47、ell) him that Peter was very hard. When he (7)_(hear) this, the boss went up to Peter and asked him politely, “Sir, I wonder if there (8)_(be) anything wrong with the soup .”“Nothing at all, but I (9)_(not see) the spoon but a knife and fork on the table since I came in.” Peter answered with a smile

48、. Can you show me how (10)_(eat) the hot soup without it?”中考英语短文动词填空(12)Olympic 110-meter hurdles （障碍）world record holder Liu Xiang said that he 2_(retire)(退役) after the Beijing Olympic Games. In fact, he plans to run until he is 30 or even older. If he retires , nobody in China can compete （竞争）with

49、 him, he 3_(feel) very sad.He said this while 4_(give)an interview to a reporter from Shanghai Youth Daily. “I'm not kidding（开玩笑） at all,” he said to the reporter. “I'm serious. Life is just like this: sometimes you 5_(be)too serious, while at other times, you have to be careful. ” Because h

50、e seldom（很少） talked seriously most of the time, the reporter thought that he 6_(joke) again this time. However, he said he was not. “I want to prove myself that I didn't make the achievement by luck.” “My performance 7_(prove)that I'm not worse than Western runners. Now, I want to run for an

51、other two Olympics in order to show that I can run for a long time, just like Allen Johnson.” Liu Xiang still said that he 8_(run) after the Beijing Olympic Games. “As long as I follow my coach's training program, I can prove that my good condition 9_(last) for a long time. I can run for another

52、 two Olympics, no problem.” He also expressed his hope that some young players 10_(come) out in China. 中考英语短文动词填空(13) INo one knows how man 1_(learn) to make words. Maybe he began by2_(make) sounds. As time went by, he made more and more sounds and more and more words. This is what we call languages

53、.Even some animals also have their languages.When some food 3_(find) , a bee goes back to its home. It wants 4_(tell) the other bees where the food is .But it cant speak, so it does a little dance in the air. In this way it 5_(tell) the other bees where the food is. IIThere are boys who think themse

54、lves men and who go to barber's（理发店）to be shaved (shave v.刮脸).Once a boy came into a barbers, and 7_(ask) the barber to shave him. The barber asked him to sit down, and soaped his face. Then he left the boy alone. He stood at the door 8_(laugh) and talking with another barber. The young gentlema

55、n waited for some minutes and then shouted, “Well, what are you leaving me here all this time for?” The barber replied, “ I _(wait) until your beard 10_(grow).中考英语短文动词填空(14) Scientists are trying 1_ (make) deserts into good land again. They want 2_ (bring) water to the deserts, so people can grow crops and 3_ (live) there. They 4_ (learn) a lot about the deserts. But more and more of the earth is 5_ (become) deserts all the time. Why is this true? Scientists think that people are making des