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1、 精品文档英语中考专题练习-短文首字母填空Passage 1Heres a story about Mings life on the waters. Ming has lived all his life on a wide r 1 in china. His home isa large house-boat with a roof, one of hundreds that move up and down. In about six years he has not once beenon l 2but he is never lonely. He is a strong swimme
2、r. In fact, he could swim before he could walk. Whenhe just swims across to their boats or asks them to v 4 him.he wants to play with his f 3Mings father is a fisherman, but he never u 5 a line or a ne（t 网 ）. Great black birds called cormorants do thefishing for him. Rings（圈）have been put around the
3、 birds n 6 so that they cannot eat the fish they catch.They have been t 7to bring the fish to people. And then people reward（奖励）them with a fine big fish asMing loves watching the cormorants, but better still he likes going s 9 withsoon as their work is f 8his mother. The shops, of course, are boats
4、 very like his o 10 .Passage 2Can animals be made to work for people? Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained（训练）to doa number of simple jobs i 1 of people. They say that at a circu（s 杂技场）,for example, we may see elephants,monkeys, dogs and other animals doing q 2 skillful（熟练的）thin
5、gs. Perhaps you have seen them on thetelevision or in a film. If you watch closely, you may find that the trainer（驯兽员）always g 3 the animalsome sugar o 4 a piece of fruit as a reward（报酬）. The scientists say that many d 5 animals may betrained to do a lot of simple things if they know they will get a
6、 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 7have u 8 geese to give warning（警报）by m 9 a lot of noise when an enemy comes near. And also it maybe possible to train animals to work in families or f 10 .Passage 3In recen
7、t years, playing kite-board seems to become more and more popular in Alaska in America. It is a new andold game. The game has w 1One needs to play it very c 3the interest of many young people. The game is interesting but a little d 2A kite-board is in fact a skateboard（滑雪板）drawn（拉）by a few big flyin
8、g kites. The old game was p 4 bysome 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 desig（n 设计）of kite and skateboard, manypeople can l 7 how to play it. A kite board may go as f 8 as ab
9、out 50 kilometres an hour. If you haventhad any practice, youd better not play it. It is not s 9It is said that the game can exercise not only your b 10 but also the sensitivity of your brain（大脑的敏捷）.Passage 4British Milkman Steve Leech saved some shops and flats with milk and won a National Bravery
10、Awar（d 国家勇敢奖）.Leech, 35 years old, said that when he was sending out milk as u 1loud, strange sound behind him and then he saw smoke coming out of a shop in Cornwall, 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 inalong Pine Street
11、, he s 2heard aand then I s 6 for the people inside. Then I started pouring milk e 7 ” He used 320 pints of milk to stopthe fire. When firefighters r 8 the shop, the fire was under control（得到控制）.Leech helped save the l 9 of eight people in the flats above the shops.精品文档 精品文档“It was hard work o 10 al
12、l those bottles. But it was even harder trying to tell my boss where all the milk hadgone,” Leech said jokingly.Passage 5While t 1 in Russia, Ed Jackson ran short of（缺少）money. So he wrote to his brother, asking for 500.“Send the m 2 by telegram（电报）to the bank（银行）here,” he wrote. After a week Ed bega
13、n 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 his brother, asking w 7the money was. The brother said it had been sent three weeks b 8 That evening Ed Jackson
14、 was arrested（被捕 ）for failing to p 9 his hotel bill（账单）. He tried to tell the police what his problem was, but no one wouldbelieve him. At last he was s 10 to the police station for fifteen days.Passage 6April Fools Dayis on April 1st. People can play j 1 on others on this special d 2 If you succeed
15、, youusually laugh and say “April Fool!” The person who has been fooled by you l 3 too, and he will never beangry with you.Mothers Day is on the second Sunday of May. Its a day to t 4 mothers. On that day mothers usually receiveflowers and cards from their children. Fathers and children do the house
16、work so that mothers can have a r 5Easter Day falls on the first Sunday after the full moon which is on or after March 21st. Its also called EasterSunday. It is said that on that day Jesus Christ comes back to l 6 Many people go to church and children oftenget p 7 such as toy rabbits.Thanksgiving Day is on the fourth Thursday in November. I
