(完整word版)初中英语短文填空专练附答案

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英语专题练习 ---- 短文填空 (10 篇)

Passage 1

Here’s a story about Ming ’s 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 years he has not once been on l 2 ,but he is never lonely. He is a strong swimmer.

In fact（实质上） ,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.

Ming ’s father is a fisherman, but he never u 5 a line or a net （网） . Great black birds

called cormorants( 鸬鹚 ) do the fishing for him. Rings （圈） have been put around the bird’s

n 6 so that they cannot eat the fish they catch. They have been taught to b 7 the fish to

people. And then people reward （奖赏） them with a fine big fish as soon sa their work is f 8 .

Ming loves watching the cormorants, but better still he likes going s 9 with his mother. The

shops, of course, are boats very like his o 10 .

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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 example, we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs and other animals doing q 2 skillful

（娴熟的） 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（酬劳） . The scientists say that 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 near. And also it may be possible to train animals to work in families or f 10 . 1. i 2. q 3. g 4. o 5. d 6. f 7. t 8. u 9. m 10. f

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.

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The game is interesting but a little d 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 Holand 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 design（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 haven’thad any practice,

you’d 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 （大脑的矫捷） .

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Passage 4

British Milkman Steve Leech saved some shops and flats（公寓） with milk and won a

National Bravery Award （国家英勇奖） .

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

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 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 （获得控制） .

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.

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Passage 5

While traveling in Russia, Ed Jackson ran shout of （缺乏） money. So he wrote t 1 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 began v 3 the bank. He s 4 his passport（护照） to the bank clerk

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（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 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 the police what his problem was, but no one would believe him. At last he was s 10 to