中考英语12选10短文填词选词填空练习含答案

阅读下面短文，然后从文前方框内所给的词中选出适当的词，并用其正确形式填空（每空限选一词）。

一

well , soft, second ,better , may , strongly, afraid, sand , stay up, if, now, house

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 are 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.

1.good 2.two 3. may 4.sand 5.strong 6. stay up 7. afraid 8.houses 9.now

10.if

二

forget, bring，mend，beside，luck，pick，same，differently, I ，every , stop，each

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.

1.brought 2.mended 3. forgot 4. beside 5.picked 6. stopped 7. mine 8.each 9. same 10. lucky

三

before, discover , fast, in, come, watch , so, fast it, ago , shine, not can

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. ”

1.faster 2.In 3. watching 4. come 5. before 6. so 7. ago 8. its 9. cannot 10. shining

四

other, move, enough, find ,desert, make, use , another, friend , carry , trouble, friend

You may think there is nothing but sand in the desert of the world, but it is not true. In the

desert we can 1._______ stones. We can see hills, too. There is a little rain in the 2.________, but

it is not 3. ______ for most plants.

The animals are 4. _______ to the desert people in many ways. The desert people eat the

meat and drink the milk of the animals. They use their skins to 5. ________ shoes, water bags and

even tents(帐篷). They use the camels(骆驼) for 6. _______ things.

The people of the desert have to keep 7. _______ from places to place. They must always

look for grass or desert plants for their animals. They usually live in the tents. When there is mo

more food for their animals, they take down their tents, put them on the camels and move to 8.

_______ place. The desert people are very 9. _______. No man in the desert would ever refuse

to help the people in 10._______ and give them food and water.

1.find 2.desert 3.enough eful 5.make 6. carrying 7. moving 8. another 9.friendly 10.trouble