中考英语选词填空专项训练
We can’t stop an earthquake(地震), but we can do things to make sure they don’t destroy(毁坏) whole cities. First, it is not a 1 .________ idea to build houses along lines where 2. ________of the earth’s plates(板块) join together. Second, if you think there 3. ________be an earthquake, it is better to build houses on rocks , not on 4. ________. Third, you must make the houses as 5. ________ as possible. Weak buildings will fall down in an earthquake, but strong ones may 6. ________ . .
Scientists are 7. ________ that one day an even bigger earthquake will hit the part around San Francisco(旧金山) . They call it “ The Big One ”. However, people today a re still building more 8. ________ . The population in and around San Francisco is 9. ________ ten times
more than it was in 1906. This means that 10. ________ there is another earthquake, a great many houses and buildings will be destroyed.
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Mr. Brown had an umbrella shop in a small town. People sometimes 1 ________ him broken umbrellas, and then he took them to a big shop in London. They were 2 ________ there.
One day Mr. Brown went to London by train. He
3 ________ to take an umbrella with him that day. Sitting in front of him was a man with an umbrella standing
4 _______ the seat. When the train arrived in London, Mr. Brown
5 ________ up the umbrella as he often did during his journey by train. Just as he was getting off, he was
6 ________ by the man. He said angrily, “That’s 7________ !” Mr. Brown’ s face turned red and he gave it back to the man at once.
When Mr Brown got to the big shop, the shopkeeper had got his six umbrellas ready. After a good look at 8 ________ of them, he said, “You’ve mended them very well.”
In the afternoon he got into the train again. The 9 ________ man was in the same seat. He looked at Mr Brown and his six umbrellas, “You’ve had a 10 ________ day,” he said.
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A farmer saw an old man growing something on the other side of the river.
The farmer 1 out to him, “ What are you growing , Grandpa? ”
The old man 2 _for a moment, then said, “Swim over 3 I’ll tell you.”
The farmer didn’t like the 4 of swimming across the river. But he wanted to know 5 the old man was doing. He swam over. The old man said
very 6 in his ear, “ I’m planting peas in my 7 .”
“ You should have shouted. I would have 8 quite clearly on that side.” Said the farmer.“ Oh, no, I wouldn’t 9 that . The sparrows would have heard me and 10 my peas.”
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Mrs Andrews had a young cat, and it was the cat’s first winter. One evening it was 1.________ when it began to snow heavily. Mrs Andrews looked 2. ________it everywhere and shouted its name, but she did not find it, 3. ________ she telephone the police and said, “ I have 4. _______ a small black cat. Has 5. ________ found one? ”
“ No，madam, ” said the policeman at the other end, “ But cats are really very 6. ________ animals. They sometimes live for days in the snow,
and when it melts (融化) or somebody finds them, they are quite 7. ________ .”
Mrs Andrews felt 8. ________ when she heard this. “ And ,” she said, “ Our cat is very 9. ________. She almost talks. ”
The policeman was getting tired, “Well then, ” he said “ Why don’t you put your 10.________ down? Maybe she is trying to telephone you now. ”
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Here are some old ways to sending messages. An Egyptian(埃及人) put his ear to the ground. He 1 . ________ the horses coming this way. He ran to 2. ________ his people . He was a 3. ________ . That was one way for Egyptians to send messages.
People in 4.________ countries sent message, too. When enemies came, one man beat his drum. In
the next village people heard the drum and beat their drums, too. The messages went from village to village by 5.________ .
Much 6. ________ , some armies (军队) kept many pigeons(鸽子) . These pigeons always 7. ________ back. When a soldier was sent far away from his own 8. ________ , he might take a pigeon along. He could tie a message to the bird’s leg. It would fly back 9. _______the soldier’s message.
These are shown ways to send messages. Can you think of more 10. ________?
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Light travels at a speed(速度) which is about
a million times 1 . ________ than that of sound.
2. ________ one second, light travels about 300,000 kilometers, but sound travels only 340 meters. You can get some idea of this difference
by 3. ________ the start of a running match. If you stand far away from the starter(发令员), you can see smoke 4.________ from his gun 5.________ the sound reaches your ears.
The fast speed of light produces some strange facts. The nearest star is 6. ________ far away that light which you can see from it tonight started to travel to you four years 7. ________ at a speed of nearly two million kilometers every minute. The light from some of tonight’s started on 8. ________ journey towards you even before you were born.
So, if we want to be honest(诚实), we 9. ________ say , “ The stars are shining brightly tonight.” We have to say, “ The stars look nice. They were 10. ________ four years ago but their light has just reached our earth. ”
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