2017年包头中考英语新题型---短文填空

中考英语短文填空

Passage 1

I had a part-time job as a w________ in a Chinese restaurant. One time, when I was serving food to a middle-aged couple, the wife asked me how the food could be served so quickly. I told her that I had ___________(确保)they got their food quickly b_______ I always respect the elderly. ___________ _(一…就)I said that, her face showed great displeasure. My manager, who happened to hear what I said, took me aside and gave me_______ long lecture about how sensitive(敏感)Americans are and how they dislike the description “old”. I then walked back to the table and apologized to the wife. After the couple heard my reason, they understood that the problem _________(cause) by cultural differences, so they la ughed and were ___________(不再)angry.

In my village in China, people ____________(对…感到自豪) being old. Not so many people live to be seventy or eighty, and people _______ reach such an age have the most knowledge and experience. Young people always respect older people because they know they can learn from their rich experience.

________, in the United States, people think “growing old” is a problem since “old” shows that a person is going to retire or that the body is not working well. Here many people try to keep themselves away from growing old by ____________（做运动）or jogging, and women put on makeup, _______(h ope)to look young. When I told the couple in the restaurant that I respect the elderly, they got angry be cause this caused them _______(feel)they had failed to stay young. I had told them something they did n’t want to hear.

After that, I c_______the way I had been with older people. It is not that I don’t respect them any more; I still respect them, but now I don’t show my feelings t_________words.

Passage 2

Jean is a bright young woman who ___________(来自于) a rich and famous family. She goes to______good university and has everything that money can buy. Well, almost everything. The problem is that the people in Jean’s family are so busy that they can h_________find time to be with her. In fact, Jean is quite lonely.

So Jean s_________a lot of time on her QQ. She likes being anonymous(匿名), ________(talk)to people who do not know about her famous family and her rich life. She uses the name Linda on QQ and has made a lot of friends who she_________________（保持联系）quite often.

Last year Jean made a very special friend on QQ. His name was David and lived in San Francisco. David was full _____stories and jokes. He and Jean had a common(共同的) i__________in rock music and modern dance. So it always took them hours to talk __________(happy) on QQ and sometimes they even forgot their time. ____________(当然), they wanted to know more about each other. David sent a picture of himself: He was a tall, good-looking young man with a big, happy smile. As time ___________(流逝), they became good friends and often sent cards and small things to each other.

________ Jean’s father told her that he was going _______________(出差) to San Francisco, she asked him to let her go with him so that she could give David a surprise for his birthday. She would take him the latest DVD of their f________ rock singer. But when she knocked _____David’s door in San Francisco, she ________(find) that her special friend was a twelve-year-old boy named Jim!

Passage 3