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1、 最专业的中小学教学资源共享平台最专业的中小学教学资源共享平台新课标教学网（）-海量教学资源欢迎下载！第- 1 -页 共 10 页2010 年英语中考专题练习-短文首字母填空（请选择使用） Passage 1 Heres a story about Mings life on the waters. Ming has lived all his life on a wide r 1 in china. His home is a large house-boat with a roof, one of hundreds that move up and down. In about six y
2、ears he has not once been on l 2 but he is never lonely. He is a strong swimmer. In fact, he could swim before he could walk. When he wants to play with his f 3 he just swims across to their boats or asks them to v 4 him. Mings father is a fisherman, but he never u 5 a line or a net（网）. Great black
3、birds called cormorants do the fishing for him. Rings（圈）have been put around the birds n 6 so that they cannot eat the fish they catch. They have been t 7 to bring the fish to people. And then people reward（奖励）them with a fine big fish as soon as their work is f 8 Ming loves watching the cormorants,
4、 but better still he likes going s 9 with his mother. The shops, of course, are boats very like his o 10 .Passage 2 Can animals be made to work for people? Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained（训练） to do a number of simple jobs i 1 of people. They say that at a circus（杂技场）,for ex
5、ample, we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs and other animals doing q 2 skillful（熟练的）things. Perhaps you have seen them on the television or in a film. If you watch closely, you may find that the trainer（驯兽 员）always g 3 the animal some sugar o 4 a piece of fruit as a reward（报酬）. The scientists say th
6、at many d 5 animals may be trained to do a lot of simple things if they know they will get a reward f 6 doing that. Of course, as we know, dogs can be trained to look after a house, and soldiers in both old and modern t 7 have u 8 geese to give warning（警报）by m 9 a lot of noise when an enemy comes ne
7、ar. And also it may be possible to train animals to work in families or f 10 .Passage 3 In recent years, playing kite-board seems to become more and more popular in Alaska in America. It is a new and old game. The game has w 1 the interest of many young people. The game is interesting but a little d
8、 2 One needs to play it very c 3 A kite-board is in fact a skateboard（滑雪板）drawn（拉）by a few big flying kites. The old game was p 4 by some young people in Holland and Spain as e 5 as the last century. Since the board was hard to control（控制）,f 6 people dared（敢）to play it. With the development of the d
9、esign（设计）of kite and skateboard, many people can l 7 how to play it. A kite board may go as f 8 as about 50 kilometres an hour. If you havent had any practice, youd better not play it. It is not s 9 It is said that the game can exercise not only your b 10 but also the sensitivity of your brain（大脑的 敏
10、捷）.Passage 4 British Milkman Steve Leech saved some shops and flats with milk and won a National Bravery Award（国家勇敢奖）. Leech, 35 years old, said that when he was sending out milk as u 1 along Pine Street, he s 2 heard a loud, strange sound behind him and then he saw smoke coming out of a shop in Cor
11、nwall, southern England. “That must be a fire, I t 3 ” Leech said. “Then I quickly d 4 to do something. So I p 5 the door in and then I s 6 for the people inside. Then I started pouring milk e 7 ” He used 320 pints of milk to stop the fire. When firefighters r 8 the shop, the fire was under control（
12、得到控制）. Leech helped save the l 9 of eight people in the flats above the shops. “It was hard work o 10 all those bottles. But it was even harder trying to tell my boss where all the milk had gone,” Leech said jokingly.Passage 5 While t 1 in Russia, Ed Jackson ran short of（缺少）money. So he wrote to his
13、 brother, asking for 500. “Send the m 2 by telegram（电报）to the bank（银行）here,” he wrote. After a week Ed began v 3 the bank. He s 4 his passport（护照）to the bank clerk（职员）. “Nothing has come for you, Mr. Jackson,” he was told. This went o 5 for three weeks, and Mr. Jackson got very w 6 He then phoned hi
14、s brother, asking w 7 the money was. The brother said it had been sent three weeks b 8 That evening Ed Jackson was arrested（被捕）for failing to p 9 his hotel bill（账单）. He tried to tell 最专业的中小学教学资源共享平台最专业的中小学教学资源共享平台新课标教学网（）-海量教学资源欢迎下载！第- 2 -页 共 10 页the police what his problem was, but no one would bel
15、ieve him. At last he was s 10 to the police station for fifteen days.Passage 6 April Fools Day is on April 1st. People can play j 1 on others on this special d 2 If you succeed, you usually laugh and say “April Fool!” The person who has been fooled by you l 3 too, and he will never be angry with you. Mothers Day is on the second Sunday of May. Its a day to t 4 mothers. On that day mothers usually receive flowers and cards from their children. Fathers and children do the housework so that mothers can have a r 5 Easter Day falls on t
