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minds and hearts, into a culture(文化) very d 6 from the one of your own. This will make you richer, e 7 in things that money can’t buy. Even though you never set foot on a ship or a plane, you can be an armchair w 8 through books.
Like the mountain climber who stops now and then to l 9 at the scenery around him, everyone who is interested in reading will find p 10 in books as he fights on to learn more and more of that new language.
Passage 27
It was getting dark. Some children and two Canadian women were still s 1 on the ice near a big hotel. They were having a good time.
Suddenly the ice b 2 . One of the boys fell into the water. The children shouted, “Help! Help!” They didn’t know w 3 to do. The two Canadian friends heard t 4 and skated over to get the boy out of the water.
The ice was t 5 . The two Canadians fell into the water, too. But they tried their best to r 6 the little boy. They knew they must be q 7 . If they didn’t push him up onto the ice, he would soon die.
Many people ran over to h 8 . Some of them had ropes and poles(绳和竹竿). A young man jumped into the water to wave to the o 9 people.
The boy and the two Canadian women were out of water at last. One of the women didn’t feel well. She was sent to the h 10 at once. But she felt very happy because the boy was safe.
Passage 28
Most American families are smaller than the families in other countries. Most American families have one or two p 1 and one or two children each.
Children in the US will leave their parents’ home when they grow up. They usually live f 2 from their parents because they want to find good jobs. They often write to their parents or t 3 them. And they often go to v 4 their parents on holiday.
Parents usually l 5 their children choose their own jobs. Americans think i 6 important for young people to decide on their lives by t 7 Children are a 8 to do some work around their house. And in many families, children are p 9 for doing some housework so that they learn how to make money for their own u 10
Passage 29
Most people want to work, but it has become m 1 difficult in today's 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 old number of jobs for people. Often this is not p 4 and so more people are w 5 work. Some people have no jobs now because new machines can d 6 the work of many
people in a shorter time. Also, machines don't ask for more money and l 7 holidays. In all of the countries of the world machines are taking work from people, not only in factories but also on f 8 One machine can often do the work of forty people. About 75000 people are m 9 to the cities a day to look for jobs, but o 10 70% of them can find jobs.
Passage 30
Someone says, “Time is money,” but I think time is even more i 1 than money. Why? Because when money is s 2 we can get it b 3 However, when time is g 4 it’ll never return. That’s w 5 we mustn’t waste(浪费) time. It’s sure that the t 6 is usually limited(有限
的).Even a second is very important. We should make full use of our time to do something u 7 But some people don’t know the importance of time. They spend their limited time smoking, drinking and playing. They do not know that wasting time means wasting part of their own l 8
In a word, we should save time, we shouldn’t l 9 today’s work for tomorrow. Remember we have no time to l 10 .
Passage31
Can animals be made to work for us? Some scientists think that one day animals may be t 1 to do a number of simple jobs. They s 2 that in a film or on TV we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs, bears, or other animals doing a lot of things. If you w 3 carefully, you may find that those animals are given something to eat in return for d 4 them. The scientists say that many d 5 animals may be taught to do a number of simple jobs if they will get something to eat.
Of course, as we know, dogs can be used to guard a house, and elephants can be used to do some heavy
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j 6 And we can also teach animals to work in f 7 . Apes, for example have b 8 used in America to help make cars and scientists b 9 that these monkeys may one day get in crops and e 10 drive trains.
Passage32
If you don’t use your arms or your legs for some time, they will become weak; when you start using them again, they will gradually （逐渐地）become stronger again. Everybody knows this. Yet many people do not seem to know that it is the s 1 with memory. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he d 2 give it enough chance to become stronger.
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, many of us think that his p 4 are to blame, and f 5 of us know that it is just his own fault.
Have you e 6 found some people can’t read or write but they usually have b 7 memories? This is b 8 they cannot read or write and they h 9 to remember things; they cannot write them down in a little notebook. They must remember dates, names, songs and stories; so their memory is the whole time being exercised.
So if you want a good memory, l 10 from these people : practise remembering.
Passage33
When I was walking down the street one day, I s 1 a small bag on the ground. I picked it up and opened it to see w 2 I could find out the owner’s name. There was n 3 inside it except some dollars and a picture of a woman and a young girl about twelve years old. I put the photo back and took the bag to the police station. Before I left, the policeman wrote down my name and my a 4 . He thought the owner might want to thank me.
That evening I went to have dinner with my aunt and uncle. They had also asked a young woman to have dinner with us. Her face was familiar, but I couldn’t r 5 where I had seen her. D____6____ our talk, the young woman happened to say that she had l 7 her bag that afternoon. All at once I remembered w 8 I had seen her. She was the young girl in the photo, though she looked now much o 9 than the girl in the picture. She was very s 10 , of course, when I told her about the bag. After dinner we went to the police station and got back her bag. The policeman said to me, “It’s a wonderful thing. You found not only the bag, but also the owner of the bag. ”
Passage34
Only mother love is true love. It gives e 1 everything all his life.
When you are still a baby, mother takes good care of you as much as possible. In your waking hours she always holds you in her arms. When you are ill, she stops her work right now to look after you day and n 2 and forgets about herself. When you are growing 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 winter days, 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 home for school with little b 6 , she always feels
worried about you at home. She u 7 knows about your study and spend much money on your school things. When you do well at school, you will see the brightest s 8 on her face. Mother can do everything for you day after day.
Mother is always ready to give everything she has to her children, not to receive. What true love that is in the w 9 ! We will r 10 Mother Love for ever!
Passage35
Seumas Mcsporran is a very b 1 man. He is 60 years old and he has thirteen jobs. He is a postman, a policeman, a fireman, a taxi driver, a school-bus driver, a boatman, an ambulance man, an
accountant, a petrol attendant, a barman, and an undertaker. Also, he and his wife, Margaret, have a shop and a small hotel. Seumas l 2 and works on the island of Gigha in the west of Scotland. Only 120 people live on Gigha but in s 3 150 tourists come by b 4 every day. Every weekday Seumas gets up at six and makes b 5 for the hotel guests. At eight he drives the island’s children to s 6 . At nine he collects the post from the boat and delivers it to all the houses on the island. He also delivers the beer to the island’s only pub. Then he helps Margaret in the s 7 . He says：“Margaret likes being busy, too. We n 8 have holidays and we don’t like w 9 television. In the evening Margaret makes supper and I do the accounts. At ten we have a glass of wine and then we go to bed. P 10 our life isn’t very exciting, but we like it.”
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Passage36
Tim spent in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you go to a good s 1 , no assistant will come near to you and say, “Can I h 2 you?” You needn’t buy a 3 you don’t want. You may try to find out where the book you want is. But if you w 4 , the assistant will lead you there and then he will go away. It seems that he is not interested i 5 selling any books at all.
There is a story which t 6 us about a good shop. A medical student found a very useful book in a shop, but it is too expensive for him to b 7 . He couldn’t get it from the library, e 8 . So every
afternoon he went there to r 9 a little at a time. One day, however, he couldn’t find the book from its usual place and was leaving when he saw an assistant signing to him. To his s 10 , the assistant pointed to the book in a corner, “I put it there so as not to be sold out.” said the assistant. Then he let the student go on with his reading.
Passage37
( S=salesgirl; H=Han mei ) S: Good morning. Can I help you?
H: Yes. I b 1 this blouse last week, but there's something wrong with it. When I w 2 it, the colours ran. I can't w 3 it now. I want you to c 4 this blouse or give me my m 5 back. S: Let me see. Did you wash it in h 6 water? H: Of course not.
S: It s 7 as if it hasn't been washed following the i 8 . Did you leave it in water b 9 you washed it?
H: No, I didn't do that, e 10 . I didn't put it in cold water until I washed it.
Passage38
When you go to England you may find the traffic there is different from ours. As a f 1 . you must be c 2 in the streets, because the traffic d 3 on the left. You must look to the right and then the left before 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 5 then.
When you go by bus in England, you have to take care, too. Always r 6 the traffic m 7 on the left. You have to t 8 a look first or you will go to the w 9 way.
In many English cities there are big buses with two f 10 . You can sit on the second one. From there you can see the city very well.
Passage39
Which animal do we need m 1 ? Dogs? Horses? No! The a 2 to the question is cows. Why cows? Cows give us milk. And milk is one of our most important 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. The line of bottles would go all around the world 400 t 5 That is a lot of milk, less than half of it is used for d 6 and cooking. Most of it is u 7 to make butter cheese, ice
cream and many other things. It takes many cows to give us that m 8 milk. But not as many as it 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 in a year.
Why do cows give more milk today? Now farmers have better cows. The cows get better c 10 and better food.
Passage40
Here’s a part of an e-mail answer from Joe giving some advice to his son in college. “When I was young, I often met t 1 about what to do and what not to do. My grandmother told me not to worry about those things. I o 2 did them once a year or once a lifetime. I 3 , I should try to do well those things, and I do them every day. For example, I need to eat every day, so I should learn how to c 4 . I need to talk to o 5 every day, so I should learn how to work with d 6 people and know how to s 7 well. I walk every day, so my s 8 should be all right and comfortable. Every night I sleep, so my bed should let me have a good rest. Taking care of the e 9 things m 10 that you do a better job of the one in a lifetime things as well.”
Passage41
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Let me tell you a story. A good friend of mine lives with six hundred animals on an island. Ever s 1 he left school, he has travelled all over the world l 2 for animals for his own zoo. He writes books about his travels, and about his wonderful a 3 . The money for his books helps him to p 4 for all the animal food. My friend told me that when he was looking for water last week (There is not enough water on the island, 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 e 7 water for a long time, but he knows that if he tells anybody else about it, it will be the e 8 of his zoo and his life’s work. So I think he will not tell anybody e 9 you and me about what he found — because oil and water can’t be p 10 together. Oil may bring greater trouble to his animals than not having enough water. Do you think so?
Passage42
The u 1 means the earth, the sun, the moon and the stars and the space b 2 them. Many of the stars are so f 3 away that we can not see them. The moon, our satellite, travels a 4 the earth. It has already been visited b 5 man from the earth. Man-made satellites have been sent up i 6 space by many countries. They go round the earth. They are used for helping us to learn more a 7 the earth, the weather and other things. They are also used for sending and r 8 messages. It makes people f 9 different countries understand each other much better. So people say the world itself is becoming a much s 10 place. People call the small place “the global village”.
答 案
P1 1. river 2. land 3. friends 4.visit 5. uses 6. necks 7. taught 8. finished 9. shopping 10. own P2 1. instead 2. quite 3. gives 4. or 5. different 6. for 7. times 8. used 9. making 10. factories
P3 1. won 2. difficult/dangerous 3. carefully 4. played 5. early 6. few 7. learn 8. fast 9. safe 10. body
P4 1.usual 2.suddenly 3.thought 4. decided 5. pushed 6. shouted 7. everywhere 8. reached 9. lives 10. opening
P5 1. traveling 2. money 3. visiting 4. showed 5. on 6. worried 7. where 8. before 9. pay 10. sent
P6 1. jokes 2. day 3. laughs 4. thank 5. rest 6. life 7. presents 8. together 9. December 10. seen
P7 1. busy 2.reading 3.center 4.closed 5.friends 6.except 7.someone/somebody 8.another 9.delicious 10. took
P8 1. would 2. fell 3. heard 4. catch 5. when 6. angrily 7. looked 8. earlier 9. afraid 10. let
P9 1. became 2. interesting 3. run 4. full 5. with 6. away 7. back 8. telephoned 9. easy 10. caught
P10 1. best 2. game 3. for 4. passes 5. kicks 6. away 7. minutes 8. player 9. end 10. wins P11 1. use 2. talking 3. change 4. called 5. with 6. something 7. librarian 8. through 9. send 10. needn’t
P12 1. how 2. showed 3. down 4. move, 5. strange 6. because 7. flying 8. either 9. bring, 10. enjoy P13 1. talking 2. agreed 3. stronger 4. except 5. before 6. corner 7. move 8. enough 9. still 10. why
P14 1. with 2. cages 3. repair 4. unhappy 5. spend 6. telephone 7. pay 8. believes 9. record 10. newspaper
P15 1. planted 2. built 3. made 4. long 5. wide 6. reach 7. through 8. stopped 9. warm 10. being
P16 1. understand 2. meeting 3. expect 4. arrive 5. language 6. found 7. example 8. prefer 9. each 10. before
P17 1. know 2. lot 3. with 4. more 5. drive 6. plane 7. may 8. not 9. all 10. friend P18 1. first 2. started 3. which 4. miss 5. walked 6. wasn’t 7. again 8. somebody/someone 9.
band/bus-stop/bookstore/bar 10. quickly
P19 1. interested 2. called 3. hospitals 4. zoo 5. ways 6. ill 7. medicine 8. heart 9. operate 10.
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owners
P20 1. like 2. here 3. move 4. new 5. don’t 6. there 7. answer 8. later 9. flew 10. another 11. last 12. on 13.
All 14. what 15. back
P21 1. living 2. quickly 3. anywhere 4. in 5. saves 6. back 7. but 8. learning 9. watching 10. online
P22 1. for 2. way 3. much 4. heard 5. sure
P23 1. along 2. rain 3. following 4. above 5. least 6. seriously/badly 7. when/after 8. were 9. useful 10.
homes
P24 1. As 2. even 3. him 4. when 5. drew 6. old 7. Then 8. couldn’t 9. become 10. but
P25 1. Hospital 2. who 3. open 4. with 5. me 6. so 7. bottles 8. opened 9. difficult 10. but P26 1. top 2. around 3. higher 4. thinking 5. foreign 6. different 7. even 8. walking 9. look 10. pleasure
P27 1. skating 2. broke 3. what 4. that 5. thin 6. reach 7. quick 8. help 9. other 10. hospital P28 1. parents 2. far 3. telephone 4. visit 5. let 6. it 7. themselves 8. asked 9. paid 10. use P29 1. more 2. everybody 3. need 4. possible 5. without 6. do 7. longer 8. farms 9. moving 10. only
P30 1. important 2. spent 3. back 4. gone 5. why 6. time 7. useful 8. lives 9. leave 10. lose P31 1. taught 2. say 3. watch 4. doing 5. different 6. jobs 7. factories 8. been 9. believe 10. even.
P32 1. same 2. doesn’t 3. know 4. parents 5. few 6. ever7. better 8. because 9. have 10. learn. P33 1. saw 2. whether 3. nothing 4. address 5. remember 6. During 7. lost 8. where 9. older 10. surprised.
P34 1.everyone/everybody 2.night 3.enough 4.time 5. put 6. breakfast 7. usually 8. smile 9. world 10. remember
P35 1. busy 2. lives 3. summer 4. boat 5. breakfast 6. school 7. shop 8. never 9. watching 10. Perhaps
P36 1. store 2. help 3. anything 4. want 5. in, 6. tells 7. buy 8. either 9. read 10. surprise. P37 1. bought 2. washed 3. wear 4. change 5. money 6. hot 7. seems 8. instruction(s) 9. before 10. either, P38 1. foreigner 2 careful 3 drives 4 busy 5 dangerous 6 remember 7 moves 8 take 9 wrong 10 floors
P39 1. most 2．answer 3．kinds 4．into 5．times 6．drinking 7．used 8．much 9．give 10．care P40 1. trouble(s) 2. only 3. Instead 4. cook 5. others 6. different 7. speak 8. shoes 9. everyday 10. means
P41 1. since 2. looking 3. animals 4.pay 5. found 6. needs 7. enough 8. end 9. except 10. put P42 1. universe 2. between 3. far 4. around 5. by 6. into 7. about 8. receiving 9. from 10. smaller
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2010年英语中考专题练习短文首字母填空（42篇）
