2020年中考英语短文填空实战练习及答案

2020年中考英语短文填空实战练习
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(一) 根据短文内容，用所给词的适当形式填空或根据上下文完成所缺的词，每空一词：
What makes a home? Love and confidence. It is a place (1) kindly affections are among all the members of the family. The parents take good care of their children, and the children are interested in the (2) (active) of their parents. So all of them find their home to be the (3) cheerful place in the world.
A home without love is no more a home (4) a body without a soul . Every person is a social being. No one should live (5) . A man may lead a successful life. Many great persons in the world history had deep affections for their homes.
Your home may be poor , (6) duty lies there. You should try to make it cheerful and (7) (comfort ). The greater the difficulties you meet, the richer you will get your reward.
A home is more than a family house. It is a school in (8) people are trained for citizenship. A man will not offer good (9) (serve) to his country if he can do nothing good for his home; for if he loves his home, he will love his country. The home is the birthplace of true patriotism(爱国主义). It is the secret of social welfare（福利）and national (10)
(great) .It is the basis and origin of civilization（文明）.
Answers: 1. where 2. activities 3. most 4.than 5. alone
6.but
fortable
8.which
9.services 10. greatness
（二）根据首字母提示及短文内容填入适当的词，使其意思通顺，每空一词：Remember, my son, you have to work. W (1) you are holding a pen or a set of books , you must work. If you look around , you will see the men w (2) are the most able to live the rest of their days w (3) work are the men who work the hardest. Don't be afraid of killing y (4) with overwork. The work gives you an appetite（食欲）for your meals; it g (5) you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday.
There are young men who do not work, but the world is not p (6) of them. It does not know their names, even it s (7) speaks of them as “old So-and-So’s boy s”. Nobody likes t(8_) ; the great, busy world doesn’t know that they are there. So find out what you want to be and do, and take o (9) your coat and make a dust in the world. The busier you are, the less harm you will be easy to get into, the brighter and happier your holidays will be, and the b (10) satisfied the world will be with you.
Answers: 1. Whether 2.who 3.without 4. yourself 5. gives
6.proud
7.simply
8. them
9.off 10.better
（四）根据汉语或首字母提示及所给词的适当形式填空，使文章意思通顺，每空一词：
A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today as it was before and it will n (1) change. It is the most (2) (耐心的) and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of difficulty or (3) （sad）. It always receives us w (4) the same。