In ___6___ grade he decided to join the school running team. Every day he trained. He ran more than any of the others, ___7___ only the top seven runners would be chosen to run for the ___8___. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know.
He ran four to five mile every day—even when he had a fever. I was ___9___, so I went to ___10___ him after school. I found him running ___11___. I asked him how he felt. “Okay,” he said. He has two more miles to go. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept ___12___.
Two weeks later, the names of the team ___13___ were out. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had ___14___ the team. He was in seventh grade — the other six team members were all eighth graders. We never told him he couldn’t do it … so he didn’t know. He just ___15___ it.
1. A. spent B. taken C. cost D. paid 2. A. talk 3. A. after
B. sit
C. study D. walk
D. till D. yet
B. beforeC. during
C. though
4. A. either B. too 5. A. able 6. A. sixth
B. sorry C. glad D. afraid B. seventh
C. eighth D. ninth
7. A. so B. if C. then D. because
B. family
C. school D. worried
D. grade
8. A. neighborhood
9. A. excited B. tired C. pleased 10. A. think about
B. hear from C. agree with D. look for
D. already
D. running
D. teachers
11. A. alone B. away C. almost 12. A. riding B. walking 13. A. jumpers 14. A. got 15. A. did
C. playing
B. runners C. doctors
B. kept C. made D. found B. had C. left D. took
【答案与解析】文章讲述了Joey一出生便被医生认定不能正常地跑动，但是Joey的父母一直没有把这个情况告诉他。因此Joey就在这种毫不知情的情况下，凭借着自身的努力，终于如愿以偿地入选了校田径队。
1. A。联系此处的语境，再对照选项，可知这里应是“他生命中的头三年是在医院里度过的”。spend有“花时间于??，度过”的意思，并且spend还可做及物动词，所以放在此处，不仅符合此处的语境，而且也符合此句的语法结构。故答案选A。
2. D。根据前文中The doctors said that with treatment he would be able to walk，可知医生认为作者的儿子在经过治疗后是能够走路的。因此可推出此处是“在他8岁时，当你看到他走路，你察觉不出他有什么问题”。故答案选D。
3. C。联系此处的语境，再对照选项，可知这里应是“邻居家的孩子在他们做游戏时总是跑来跑去”。during的意思为“在??期间”，放在此处符合此处的语境。故答案选C。
4. B。前文提到医生认为作者的儿子将不能正常地跑动，而后文则提到作者没有把这个情况告诉给他的儿子，因此Joey不知道。所以综合前后文，可知此处是“Joey也跳、也跑、也玩耍”。故答案选B。
5. A。联系此处的语境，再对照选项，可知这里应是“他也许不能像其他的小朋友那样能够正常地跑动”。be able to do的意思为“能够做??事”，故答案选A。
6. B。根据后文中“He was in seventh grade — the other six team members were all eighth graders”，可推知这里是“在七年级时他决定参加校田径队”。故答案选B。
7. D。前文提到Joey每天坚持训练，而且练得比其他任何人都勤，后文则讲述只有顶尖的七名选手能被选中，因此综合前后文的内容联系，不难得出前后文之间形成了一个因果关系，即Joey每天刻苦训练是因为只有顶尖的七名选手能被选中。故答案选D。
8. C。联系此处的语境，再对照选项，可知这里应是“只有顶尖的七名选手能被选中代表学校参赛”。故答案选C。
9. D。这里提到Joey每天坚持跑4~5英里，即使在他发烧的时候也没有中断，而前文提到Joey早在出生时就被医生认定是不能正常地跑动，所以根据逻辑思维，作者作为Joey的家长此时一定感到很担心。故答案选D。
10. D。根据前文综述，再对照选项，可得出这里是在讲述作者决定在Joey放学后来找他。故答案选D。
11. D。 根据后文中He has two more miles to go，再对照选项，可推知此处是“我发现他已经在跑了”。故答案选D。
12. D。 联系此处的语境，再对照选项，可知这里应是“他径直地看着前方，并且一直跑着”。故答案选D。
13. B。 联系此处的语境，再对照选项，可知这里应是“两周后，队员名单被公布出来了”，再因为Joey选择的是跑步运动，故答案选B。
14. C。根据前文中We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team，再对照选项，可推知此处应填make，即根据前文中的相同或类似表述可得出。再因为make有“作为??的一分子”的意思，放在此处，意思为Joey加入了田径队。故答案选C。
15. D。根据前文中“We never told him he couldn’t do it… so he didn’t know”，再结合Joey入选校田径队的事实，可推知此处要表达的内容是“他确实参加了”，即Joey是在一种毫不知情的情况下参加了田径队。take的意思有“参加，加入”，故答案选D。
做完形填空的五个注意点
1. 完形填空的短文通常没有标题且文章的首句和尾句，一般不设空，要特别注重对首、尾句的理解，因为它们往往提示或点明文章的主题，对理解全文有较大帮助。
2. 第一遍通读带有空缺单词的短文时可能一时把握不住短文内容，弄不清头绪，这是很正常的。此时要注意克服畏难情绪和急躁心理，应稳定情绪，再将短文读一、二遍，直到明确大意为止。
3. 做题时切勿一看到一个空格就急着选出一个答案，这样往往只见树木不见树林。由于缺乏全局观念，极易导致连续选错。因为完形填空不同于单个句子的选词填空，其空白处是位于一篇文章之中，因此必须纵观全文、通篇考虑。
4. 每篇完形填空所设的空多以实词为主，所提供的四个备选项中只有一个是正确的，其他三项均为干扰项。而干扰项也多半与前、后的句子或词组可以形成某种搭配，即如单从语法角度判断则无法确定，还必须从语篇意义上加以鉴别。
5. 动笔时先易后难，先完成容易、有把握的答案，这样可以增强自信心，然后再集中精力解决难点。对于实在无法确定的，可以从文中同样结构或类似结构中寻找提示，大胆地作出猜测。
Fashion not only in Clothes
For most people，the word “fashion” means “clothes”. But people may ask the question，“What ___1___ are in fashion?” And they use the adjective “fashionable” in the same way: “She was wearing a ___2___ coat.” “His shirt was really a fashionable color.”
But of course there are fashions ___3___ many things，not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and books. There are ___4___ fashions in school subjects, jobs…and in languages. Fashions ___5___ as time goes. ___6___ you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will see that fashions have always changed. An English house of 1750 was different ___7___ one of 1650. A fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1850.
Today fashions change very quickly. We hear about things ___8___ more quickly than in the past. Newspapers, radios, telephones and televisions send information from one country ___9___ another in a few hours. New fashions mean that people will ___10___ new things, so you see there is money in fashion.
1. A. color 2. A. nice 3. A. at 4. A. even
B. clothes
C. food
D. money
B. beautiful B. by
C. expensive C. in
D. fashionable
D. with
B. just B. changes B. When B. for
C. only D. already
D. changed
5. A. change 6. A. Where 7. A. on 8. A. very 9. A. in 10. A. buy
C. are changed C. If
D. As D. from D. quite
D. with
C. with C. too C. to C. get
B. much B. by
B. sell D. use
【答案与解析】
1. B。根据首句“时髦意味着衣服”，很容易推测出要问的是“衣服”。
2. D。根据上文“用同样的方法使用形容词 fashionable”，下文自然是含有fashionable的句子。
3. C。根据下文中的in holidays，in restaurants等，运用语感感知法立刻就能锁定正确选项。
4. A。上句“假期时髦、餐馆时髦??”和本句的“学科时髦、工作时髦??”之间是进一步说明的关系，因此，要选表示递进关系的副词。这四个副词中只有even表示递进关系。
5. A。“时髦随着时间的推移发生变化”，属于客观事实和普遍真理，因此，要用一般现在时(from www.zkenglish.com)。
6. C。“看过去的像片或物品”和“看到时髦总是在变化”是条件与结果的关系，因此，本句应选引导条件状语从句的连词。
7. D。表示“与??不同”，要用固定词组be different from。根据下句中的different from，运用就地发现法，也能立马锁定选项。
8. B。从句子结构方面来看，这是一个表示两者进行比较的句型。根据语法规则“修饰比较级时要用程度副词much”，就可以排除其他选项。
9. C。此处是指“从一个国家，到另一个国家”。表达这一意思时，要用连词词组from... to...。
10. A。根据后半句“明白钱的时髦”，运用科学推理法可知“只有买东西才能知道”，因此，应是“买新东西”。
中考英语完形填空训练·附详解
完形填空No. 01
The best way of learning a language is always using it. The best way of learning spoken English is ___1___ in English as much as possible. Sometimes you’ll get your words ___2___ up and people will not ___3___ you. Sometimes people will ___4___ things too quickly and you can’t understand them. But ___5___ you keep your sense of humor, you can always have a good laugh at the mistakes you ___6___. Don’t be unhappy if people seem to be laughing ___7___ your mistakes. It’s ___8___ for people to laugh at your mistakes than to be angry with you, ___9___ they don’t understand what you we saying. The most important thing for learning English is: “Don’t be ___10___ of making mistakes because everyone makes mistakes.”
1. A. listening 2. A. mix 3. A. like
B. talking B. mixing B. know
C. reading D. writing
D. mixed D. understand
C. to mix C. help
中考英语完形填空
