2020年中考英语完形填空专项训练题三（附答案）
一、完形填空（共10题；共94分）
1.Choose the best answer and complete the passage.
In today's English class, students had a speech competition. They talked about whether e-books should take the place of print books. The following are the speeches given by two students. Joshua Lee:
While many people argue that e-books don't feel the same as \printing industry does a lot of harm to our 1 . Producing books means cutting down millions of trees for paper, and the processes of printing requires a great deal of energy. E-books need no papers at all. They will probably 2 our use of energy and natural resources.
3 e-books allow people to get information more easily. E-books can be stored and selected from huge digital libraries. These libraries can hold many more books than a traditional bookstore or library can People can quickly find and read their books on an e-reader at any time and in any place.
Joy Pamnani
I strongly believe that print books must 4 . In my opinion, e-books have many disadvantages. E-books aren't as environmentally friendly as you think. A common argument used by e-book supporters is that e-books save paper. But isn't it also true that there's more carbon being let out by the electronic devices(设备) ? Since you have to spend extra money on those devices before you can buy and read e-books, they aren't 5 at all. Besides, you can't easily write notes on an e-reader, and you can't read anything when they run out of battery.
E-books are unhealthy too. The light given off by these devices can lead to 6 problem. A study showed it took e-book readers an average of ten minutes longer to fall asleep than those who read print books.
1. A. tradition B. environment C. health 2. A. reduce
B. protect
C. describe
D. culture D. limit
3. A. As a result B. By the way C. On one hand D. What's more 4. A. change 5. A. cheap 6. A. reading
B. help B. useful B. memory
C. stay
D. return
C. interesting D. different C. sleep
D. eating
2.Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage.
You either have it, or you don't—a sense of direction, that is. But why is it that some people could find their way across the Sahara without a map, while others can lose themselves in the next street?
Scientists say we're all born with a sense of direction, 1 it is not properly understood how it works. One theory is that people with a good sense of direction have simply worked harder at developing it. Research being carried out at Liverpool University supports this idea and suggests that if we don't use it, we lose it.
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\of the project. \ 2 develop the skills.\
Jim Martland also emphasizes that young people should be taught certain skills to 3 their sense of direction. He makes the following suggestions：
If you are using a 4 , turn it so it relates to the way you are facing.
If you leave your-bike in a 5 place, put it near something like a big stone or a tree. Note landmarks on the route as you go away from your bike. When you return, go back along the same route. Simplify the way of finding your direction by using lines such as streets in a town, streams, or walls in the countryside to guide you. Count your steps so that you know 6 you have gone and note any landmarks such as tower blocks or hills which can help to find out where you are. Now you need never get lost again! 1. A. or 2. A. never
B. so B. always
C. as
D. but
C. possibly D. almost
3. A. remove B. improve C. discover D. reach 4. A. phone 5. A. empty
B. compass C. map B. strange
C. nice
D. sign D. free
6. A. how long B. how much C. how soon D. how far
3.Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage.
Every year, our school has a dance for all the students. It's a little funny seeing friends in clean shoes and trousers or colorful dresses, instead of the usual school uniform.
Most of us think the dance is great fun-even the teachers enjoy being there. 1 , two weeks ago someone said that there would be no live band this year-only CDs.
\！\ 2 a band, and they think it's too noisy anyway,\
\ Angela was as good as her word. In the afternoon she went 3 to see the school headmaster who agreed to give the situation some more thought. And he suggested that one possibility for having a band was to increase the price ticket from $ 5 to $ 10. Angela had to find out whether the students would like to do that.
\
\ 4 about the band and the extra cost.\feelings about the band and the cost.
We were amazed how much support there was for the band and 5 agreed to pay the extra $5, \wanted their band and that the cost would be too high. OK. Angela, your next task is to find a good band and line them up for the dance.\
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Angela jumped 6 and broke the news to Amy and Daniel. \Angela as he thought how close they came to having a less than perfect dance. 1. A. Besides B. However C. Therefore D. Finally 2. A. afford
B. from
C. help
D. book
3. A. regularly B. quietly C. immediately D. slowly 4. A. task
B. ability
C. opinion
D. experience D. no one
5. A. anyone B. everyone C. someone
6. A. in horror B. with joy C. in surprise D. with anger
4.先通读短文，掌握其大意、然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。 In a 1 , a couple had to move out of their big house because of bankruptcy(破产). The husband worked day and night but with no care of 2 , So she thought,\more, he just thinks about his work.\
One day, she wanted to take a shower, but her husband 3 her at the door.\OK?\ 4 let me first?\ 5 , dear You take it later, OK? \very sad.
On a rainy day, she found nothing to do and 6 his computer. 7 a few minutes, her eyes were full of tears… it was his 8 : \ 9 I was always taking the shower first, and I said I was tired. She was unhappy. I wasn't as 10 as before! We moved to the small house and it was very cold. But I 11 that if one person took the shower first, the bathroom could get a 12 warmer. So I 13 rushed to the bathroom first. When she took the shower, the bathroom 14 get warmer, at least 1°C or 2°C. Now I can't give her more. but at least I can give 15 1°C love.\1. A. spring 2. A. himself 3. A. stopped
B. summer
C. autumn D. winter
D. his daughter D. put
B. his mother C. his wife B. took
C. got
4. A. What about B. Why not 5. A. happy
B. sad
C. Why don't D. How about C. tired
D. excited
6. A. turned on B. turned off C. took away D. repaired 7. A. Before 8. A. book 9. A. why 10. A. poor 11. A. said 12. A. a lot of 13. A. never 14. A. can
B. For
C. After
D. Since
B. dictionary C. computer D. diary B. how B. proud B. found B. more
C. what C. rich C. told C. most
D. where D. valuable D. showed D. a little D. always D. shall
B. hardly ever C. seldom B. may
C. could
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15. A. me B. her C. us D. them
5.Choose the best answer and complete the passage.
Around 80 examples of failed products, businesses and ideas are showed in the newly opened museum in Sweden. It is to celebrate modern history's 1 designs-from Coca-Cola Blak, a coffee-inspired drink, to Bic pens made just for women.
Besides showing long-forgotten failures, founder Dr Samuel West is on a task to help us learn from our mistakes, Samuel set up the museum after growing 2 success stories. He said understanding bad design could be more valuable than 3 good design.
\museum's website. \ 4 ; that failure is connected with success, and that they should understand the importance of learning from failure.\
\of the products in a video. \ignore(无视) them and pretend they 5 happened
Many of the museum's items were available online. West believed that 6 products have little in common with one another. One of the items, for example, is a frozen beef lasagne(意式千层面) made by Colgate(Yes, the company that makes tooth-paste) . West described this as a classic case of \failure.\
A collection of nine objects from the museum is on tour. The travelling collection of failures will then visit Los Angeles, New York, Shanghai and Tokyo in 2018 and 2019.
History may be written by the winners, but we should not ignore the losers. At least, that's what the Museum of Failure wants us to believe. 1. A. best 2. A. satisfied with 3. A. copying 4. A. stories 5. A. always
B. cheapest B. tired of B. printing B. bargains B. never
C. worst C. keen on C. imagining C. tools C. sometimes
D. easiest D. surprised at D. making D. messages D. usually
6. A. poorly-designed B. well-designed C. carefully-designed D. newly-designed
6.阅读下面短文，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入文章中相应空白处的最佳答案。 Velma, a US high school student, is busy with her studies every day. But after school, she puts down her books and goes off to 1 . She takes care of cats, helps teachers at school and cleans up the beach. Why? Because students in US public schools are 2 to do at least 20 hours of community service in order to graduate.
\ 3 of the real world, create a habit of volunteering and perhaps 4 a career.\ 5 volunteering takes time, Velma enjoys it. \keep volunteering even after she has finished her required hours of work. Velma is now on her way towards 250
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hours to get a silver medal at graduation. She hopes the medal will help her 6 her dream university.
But some have 7 about the project. Phil, a single parent of four, has to drive his children from one activity to another every weekend. I have no time to work and rest, he said, \finish their 20-hour volunteering by just sleeping in their fathers office!
Mike Roland, a volunteering manager, has heard those complains. He said, \Volunteer hours are 8 than for graduation; they are life lessons.''
Unlike Phil, some parents agree with the project and want their children to 9 more time volunteering. Michael, a junior, spends Saturdays at JFK Medical Centre guiding patients and bringing them newspapers and meals. He's at 258 hours. Michael's father said, \ 10 . Children should have more contact with the world. 1. A. relax B. volunteer C. work 2. A. Invite B. requested C. required 3. A. chance B. taste 4. A. explore B. change 5. A. But
C. picture C. invent
B. Although C. However
C. enter
6. A. realize B. accept
7. A. Doubts B. experience C. agreements 8. A. rather B. more 9. A. spend B. take 10. A. true B. short 7.完形填空
In your schoolbags, you may have pencils, some kinds of pens, rulers and some books. 1 of these things grow in the fields. They were all 2 in factories. And, of course, they were 3 by some people. There have not always been pencils or pens, rulers or books. Thousands of years ago, no one 4 about these things. Even the 5 invention has the greatest technological advance at its time.
Who invented them first? How did they have such clever 6 ? We don't always know. There have been thousands of inventions, large and small in the human history. Some of these inventions have greatly 7 the world, such as paper， printing, radios, telephones and computers, and we know the inventors. But we have forgotten most of the other inventors. 8 invented the clock, for example, or the lock to the door? We don't know.
There have been thousands of inventors and we should be grateful to them for their clever ideas. New ideas are 9 . They can change our lives. Without inventions, we would still live in forests, with nothing to wear and no ice cream to eat. Will you be one of them when you 10 ? 1. A. None 2. A. make
B. Each B. makes
C. Any C. made
D. All D. to make
C. less C. pay C. enough
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2020年中考英语完形填空专项训练题三(附答案)
