九年级英语上学期选词填空专题训练
One
Mr. White is the owner of a small newspaper. He always tried to bring his ____1____ the latest news. One day he received ____2____ important telephone call from ____3____ who told him that there was a ____4_____ flood(洪水) in a village up ____5_______ the mountains in the north and several people had _____6___. Mr. White wrote it all down. That evening the story was in his newspaper. Mr. Write was _____7___ to see that no _____8_____ paper had caught hold of the news.
_____9_____, angry telephone _____10___ soon came and he learnt that he had been fooled. So in the next _____11____ paper he wrote, “We were the ____12____and only newspaper to report yesterday that the village was in a flood. Today we were proud to tell you that we were ____13______ the only newspaper to bring ____14______ readers the news that yesterday’s story was not ____15______.”
TWO
About the year 1900, a small, dark-haired boy _1_______ Charlie Chaplin was often seen waiting outside the back entrance to London cinema. He _2_________ thin and hungry. He was hoping to get work in show business. He could sing and dance, and
above
all, he
knew how 3________ people laugh. But he _4________ get work and therefore walked about the city street. Sometimes he _5________ away to a home for children who had no 6_________.
But twenty years later this same Chaplin became _7__________, best known, and best loved comedian(戏剧演员) in the world. Any visitor to the cinema must 8________ some of Charlie Chaplin’s films. People everywhere have sat and _9_________ at them until the tears _10__________ down their face. Even people who don’t understand English can enjoy _11________ films because they are most silent. It isn’t what he says that makes 12_________ laugh. It depends upon (依靠) little actions which mean the same thing to pe ople all over the world. It’s a kind of world language.
Chaplin 13_________ most of his life in American and in Switzerland. There 14_
___
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__ sadness all over the world 15_________ the news of his death.
Three
For a long time the zoo didn’t have hippopotamus(河马). Tex wanted _1________ very much. But a hippopotamus was _2________ to find.
Then a circus(马戏团) closed down. It had to sell all _3________ animals. One of them was Cleo-Cleo the hippopotamus! For a while Cleo _4________ on a farm. Poor Cleo! A hippopot amus can’t be let free on a farm, so Cleo had _5________ in a tub(木盆) of water just _6________ enough to hold her. She couldn’t move anything _7________ her head.
Tex wanted to _8_______ Cleo. But She cost $4000! The zoo didn’t have the _9_________.
Then Tex thought of his friends, the children of Kansas City. 10_________ they knew about Cleo, they would 11________. He wrote a story about Cleo and sent it to a newspaper “Help save Cleo, Children!” the story said. “Send in your 12_________money.”
The children 13_________. They sent in enough money to buy Cleo. 14________ Cleo came to _15________ at the zoo.
Four
Do you live in a city? Do you know how city began?
Long long ago, the world had only a few 1________ people. They moved from place to place. They hunted animals _2________ food.
No one 3__________ how and where these people learned about _4_________ crops. 5________ when they knew that, the life of these people changed. They 6__________ to move house any more. They 7_________ stay in one place and grow it. People began to live near one 8_________. And so the _9_________ village
grew.
