九年级英语专题训练——短文填词

短文填词（九年级）1There was once a man from the city who was visiting a small farm, and during the v___1___ he saw a farmer feeding pigs in a strange w___2___. The farmer lifted a pig up tp a nearby apple tree, and the pig ate the apple off the tree directly. When the pig f___3___ the apples from one tree, the farmer would m___4___ the pig to another apple tree until the pig was f___5___. Then he started again with another pig.The city man w___6___ this activity for some time in great s___7___. Finally he could not help saying to the farmer, “This is the slowest way tp feed pigs! You waste a lot of time. You can s___8___ the apples off the trees and let the pigs eat them from the g___9___. Then time can be saved!”The farmer l___10___ puzzled(困惑) and replied, “What‟s time to a pig?”1_______ 2_______ 3_______ 4_______ 5 _______6.______ 7_______ 8_______ 9_______ 10.______2Do you want to the college? People are very p___1___ to be college students. China has a lot of new college students every year. When they g___2___, they do different j___3___. Many college graduates like to work in big c___4___ and towns, because they can get a high salary there. Few graduates want to work in v___5___, because the work conditions(形势) there are often poor and they get a l___6___ salary.But it is not e___7___ for every college graduate to find a good job in cities. So China will send about 20,000 college graduates to work in villages this year. At the s___8___ time, the villages develop(发展) w___9___ the help of graduates.The graduates will work as teachers, doctors, farmers and so on.23,520 college graduates went to work in villages last year.China also encourages graduates to work in western places.China is f___10___ a big problem with 34.5 million people looking for jobs between 2006 and 2010. About 1.24 million Chinese college graduates would not get jobs at once when they graduate this year.1 _______ 2________ 3________ 4________ 5_________6_______ 7________ 8________ 9________ 10________3For 13-year-old Luo Xing, the most difficult thing in life is getting up at 5:00 am every school day.“I don‟t want to get up so early,”the Junior 1 middle school student in Shanghai said, “I want more s___1___”But,like it or not,Luo has breakfast at 6:15 am, l___2___ home at 6:30 am and, after a 30-minute bus ride, he a___3___ at school at 7 am.Like most of his 40 classmates, Luo arrives at school a full hour before lessons s___4___ at 8 am.A study of 2,500 schoolchildren in six cities, i___5___ Beijing and Shanghai, showed that about 66% of primary school students and 77% of middle school students were s___6___ of sleep. Some parents also say, In China, young mothers and fathers have little time to play with their childen.Parents are b___7___ with their work and kids are busy with their study. That is not good for kids is growth. Kids need more time to have f___8___ with their parents,not just to study.To solve this problem, some cities cut their school hours to give childen more time to play. Some middle school students now go to school 30 minutes l___9___ than they did before.“The best way for childen to learn is t___10___ play. When pupils get more playtime, t hey can be relaxed and learn how to get along with other people,” said a school head.4Last week the manager of a jewelry shop received a letter. As he was very busy then, the letter l___1___ on his desk till tea-time. He opened it and 10 pou-nds d___2___ onto his desk.With the money was a letter which s___3___:Dear sir,I‟m Peter, In 1935 I got engaged. But u___4___ I lost my job. Though I got a job ag-ain six months later, I was very s___5___ of money.I came to your shop to buy a ring. The sales assistant took out some rings for me to lo ok at,but she was a___6___ for a moment, and I put one of the rings in my pocket. Wh en she cameback, I said I didn‟t know the s___7___ of my girlf-riend‟s finger. So I left the shop without paying for the ring.My wife died a short while ago and the fact that I never paid for the ring has been h ___8___ in my heart all these years. At that time the ring cost 2 pouns, so I think that i s 10 pounds at today‟s p___9___ and I‟m sending 10 pou-nds.“Well, well,” the manager said to himself, “Life is always full of s___10___!”5Bard came from a small village. His parents are poor farmers and he was in school for only two years. Later on their farm was flooded and all the crops were w___1___ away. They got into trouble. He had to work in the field in the daytime and taught himself English and math in the evening. When he was sixteen, he left his poor family and came to a city. Mr Robert, head of a factory, was f___2___ to him because he found the young man was clever and able. At first the foreman(工头) tried to bully(欺负)him. But after several years, he b___3___ an except. He was paid much, but he m___4___ a plan to learn to manage the factory. At last his plan came t___5___ and he has his own factories. But he still lived a simple life t___6___ he was one of the richest men in the city.One day his daughter asked him to buy a diamond necklace for her as a birthday p___7___. The girl often went to parties and had a lot of friends. So he found it was hard to r___8___ and had to agree. He went in the jeweler‟s(珠宝店) in old clothes. He found there was a nice diamond one in beautiful counter in the center of the shop.“How much does it cost, madam?” Brad asked the girl by the table. The girl had a look at him. She didn‟t say a___9___ because she didn‟t think the po or old man could buy such an e___10___ thing. It made him angry. He broke the glass with his stick and then called out, ”Call your manager here amd I‟ll ask him its price.”6Fire fighting is a serious matter. Knowing what to do during a fire can save people‟s l___1___. It is important to know the ways you can use and show them to everyone e___2___ in the family. From the lower floors of buildings, e___3___ through windows is possible. Learn the best way to get out from a window with the l___4___ chance of serious injury.The second floor window is usually not very high from the ground. An average(普通的) person, hanging by the fingertips(指尖) will have a drop of about 6 feet to the ground. It is about the h___5___ of an average man. Of course, it is s___6___ to jump a short way down than to stay in a burning building. Windows are also useful when you are waiting for help.Be sure to keep the door c___7___ before opening the window. Otherwise, smoke and fire may be drawn into the room. K___8___ your head low at the window to be sure you get fresh air.On the s___9___ or third floor, the best windows for escape are those which open onto a roof. From the roof a person can d___10___ to the ground more safely.7In January 1998 twp pigs escaped from west of London. The pigs were going to be k___1___ for meat. For almost a week, they h___2___ in the forests around the town of Malmesbury. When the local p___3___ began to look for the pigs, newspaper reporters from all over the country j___4___ them. Soon people everywhere were reading about the adventures(历险记) of Butch and Sundance with great i___5___. The owner of the pigs said that if they were found, he would sell them to anyone who would give them a h___6___. A number of newspapers tried to buy the pigs, and finally The daily Mail p___7___ a lot of money for them.One rainy n___8___, six days after the escape, a reporter from The Daily Mail and some people from the town found Butch in the forests. They caught her and put her in a c___9___. The next day, Sundance was caught, too.The pigs were s___10___ to a zoo. They were no longer free, but they were alive !8One Saturday afternoon, Mrs Blacks decided to visited her friend Mrs Green. Mrs Green lived in a nice house with a large garden far from the city center. Mrs Black t___1___ her dog with her. While the women were having coffee outside the house, the dog was r___2___ around in the garden. The two friends were very unpleasantly. Surprised when the dog appeared after some time with a d___3___ birf in its mouth. Mrs Green began to feel worried b___4___ she knew that her neighbor kept birds in a cage in his garden. As the dog and the bird were b___5___ covered with earth and dirt, the women took the bird into the bathroom and carefully c___6___ it. When it got dark, they went q___7___ through the tree into the neighbor‟s garden and put the dead bird into the cage.The next afternoon, Mrs Green‟s neighbor, the one with the bird, found her in the garden and called her over. She walked towards the neighbor and she f___8___ very afraid because she knew that she did something wrong. “You know what?”her neighbor said. “Yesterday morning I found o___9___ of my birds dead in the cage. So I put it on the ground in the garden, and this morning,” he started to whisper, “it‟s b___10___ to the cage! I‟m going to take it to a right pet cemetery().”9What are you going to do if you are in a burning house? How will you escape? Do you know how to save yourself? Please read the f___1___ passage.Escaping a fire is a s___2___ matter. Knowing what to do during a fire can save you life.It is important to know the ways you can use and s___3___ them to everyone in the family, such as stairways and fire escapes, but not l___4___.From the lower floors of the buildings, escaping through windows is p___5___, learn the best way of l___6___ by windows with the least chance of serious injury.The second floor window is usually not very high from the ground. An average(平均高度的)person, hanging by the finger-tips will have a drop of about six feet to the ground. It is about the h___7___ of an average man. Of course, it is safer to jump a short way than to stay in a b___8___ building.Windows are also useful when you are w___9___ for help. Be sure to keep the door closed. Or smoke and fire may be drawn into the room. Keep your head low at the window to be sure you get fresh air rather than smoke that may leaked(渗) into the room.On a second or third floor, the best windows for escape are those that open onto a roof. From the roof a person can drop to the ground more s___10___. Dropping onto cement(水泥) might end in injury. Bushes(灌木丛) and grass can help to break a fall.10A small man with a fat stomach got on the train at the last station before the frontier(边境).He c___1___ a paper bag. And four feet of ducks could be seen under the cover. The man found an empty seat, put the bag in the m___2___ of the floor, took out a newspaper and began to read.Then a policeman came in. Of course he saw the bag with the ducks‟ legs at once and said, “Whose is that bag?”Nobody answered. The policeman r___3___ the question, and said, “ I shall ha ve to take it a___4___ from the owner. Food mustn‟t be t___5___ out of the country.”“Well, then,” said the small man with a fat stomach. “Hurry up and take it. We want to go home.” The policeman took the bag and went on to the next carriage(车厢).At the next station, when they were safely across the frontier, the small man got up, smiled at the o___6___ passengers and said, “ I hope that they‟ll e___7___ the ducks‟ feet. The rest（其余的）of the bag had nothing but rubbish in it.” Then he opened hi s coat and pointed to a___8___ bag he was carrying under it. It was t___9___ tightly(紧紧地)over the stomach, which was not really fat. “I have the rest of the two ducks here,” he said. With these words, he got off the train.But while he was h___10___ walking to the exit with the bag in his hand, a policeman came up to him, saying, “ Hey, man ! Foreign food mustn‟t be brought in.”11Do you like to eat fruit? How much fruit do you eat every day? Fruit is good for our h_____ .Some days ago,more than 220,000students from 350 primary schools of Hong Kong e____ fruit at schools on a Tuesday-to support Fruit Day.Only around half of the 9,000 primary school students from 44 schools ate fruit twice or more e___ day,a student in Hong Kong said.Many k____ don't eat fruit every day.As we know ,fruit and vegetables could keep mang diseases(疾病）a____ from us,such as heart disease.If you eat enough fruit and v___, you will not get cancer.There are a lot of Vitamin C(维生素C）in fruit and vegetables.It can help your bones(骨骼）become s____.So children a____ 6 to 12 should eat one to two kinds of fruits a day to keep their health at its best.m, a health doctor in Hong Kong ,said at the Fruit Day party,“Schools and parents should help kids have the good habit of eating fruit .Every family can make a plan of healthy meals.”The schools have also promised to hold morn than 270 activities to e____ students to take morn fruit.12Western country music is very old. It came from the United States,Canada, Ireland , and Great Britain.It is a mixture of music f____ all of these places.In the west of America, cowboys had to take c____ of the cattle(cows). They had to watch them all day and all night because the cattle were nervous and sometimes ran a____. A cowboy's life was lonely and d____. When he was alone in the desert with the cattle, he drank strong coffee to stay awake at night. He also sang music to the cattle to make them q____. Of course, The cowboys also sang music when they t____ to town to relax and have a good time.In the south America,many people cane from Ireland,Scotland, and England. Other people came from France ,Canada. They e____ their own kind of music. When they visited their friends and families on h____ like Thanksgiving and Christmas , they usually sang and played country music.Western country music describes life. It talks about friends and enemies, farms and crops. People in many parts of the world like western country music b____ everyone knows something about these ideas.1.f____2.c____3.a____4.d____5.q______6.t____7.e____8.h____9.j____ 10.b____13When I opend the first“Body Shop”in 1976,wh at I wanted to do was to m____ enough money to feed my children.Today “Body Shop”is a great company growing fast all around the world.In the years since we began,I have l____ a lot.Much of what I have learned will be found in this book,because I believe that we,as a company, have something worth saying about how tor____ a successful business without g____ up what you really believe in.It's not an o____ business book.It is not just about my life,e____. The message is that to succeed in business you have to be different. Business can be fun, a business can be run with love and it can do well.In business,as in life, I n____ to enioy myself,to have a feeling of my family and to feel e____ by something unusual.I have always wanted the people who work for “Body Shop”to f____ the same way.Now this book sends these ideas out into the world,makes them public.I'd like to think there are no limits to our“family”, no limits to what can be done. I find that an exciting thouhut.I h____ you do ,too.1.m____2.l____3.r____4.g____5.o____6.e____7.n____8.e____9.f____ 10.h____14All the housewives who went to the new supermarket had one great wish : to be the l____ customer who did not have to pay for her shopping. This was w____ the notice just inside the entrance promised .It said,“Remerber, o____ a week, one of the customers gets free goods.It may be your lucky day.”For several weeks Mrs Edwards had h____ , like many of her friends , to be the lucky customer. Unlike her friends , she n____ gave up hope. The cupboards in her kitchen were f____ of things which she didn't need. Her husband tried to stop her, but he failed. She dreamed of the day w____ the manager of the su permarket would come to her and say,“Madam, this is your lucky day.Everything in your basket is free.”One Friday morning, after she had finished her shopping and had taken the goods to her car, she found that she had f____ to buy some tea. She rushed back to the supermarket,got the tea and went towards the cash desk(收银台）.As she did so, she saw the manager w____ towardsher.“Madam,” he said, holding out his h____,“I want to congratulate you...”15Mr. and Mrs. Jones's flat was full of boxes, small and large, trunks and furniture. The two of them were busy with pencils and paper, checking the l____ of luggage when there was ring at the door. Mr. Jones went to aoen it,and saw a well-dressed middle-aged lady outside. The lady said that she had come to w____ them to their home.Mr. Jones i____ her in.“I hope you'll e____ us for all this mess,”said Mrs. Jones.“We're trying...”“Oh, that's quite all right,”said the lady.“Do you know, in some p____ of this town n eighbors are not all friendly. There are some streets-where people don't know their neighbors-not even their next-door o____. But in this building, everybody is a friend with everybody else. We are one big , happy family.I'm sure you'll be very happy here.”The lady was greatly s____ when she visited the flat the next time, because she found a quite d____ man and woman in it. Mr. and Mrs. Jones had not the h____ to tell her that they were not the new owners of the flat, but the old ones ,who had lived beside her for two years .All this time she had never visited them or even n____ them who were her nextdoor neigubors.16Jerry and Carla were asked to choose a person for class president.As they looked through the list of k____ in the room, they stopped at Tina's name. Tina had lots of ideas , and she never said unkind things about other people.“I really like Tina, and most of the classmates will accept her, I i____,”said Carla.“But she look t____! She puts on too much makeup(化妆品），and she wears strange and u____ clothes. Sometimes she wears things that don't even f____ her. ”“Do you think we could get her to use l____ makeup and never wear decent(讲究的）clothes?”Carla asked.“We couldn't. It would make us and her not feel c____,”replied Jerry.“She goes around with high schools girls, and she must know by now how she looks, My mother says it is wrong for eighth graders to look like those m____ stars,”“Yes,”Carla a____,“and what will the teachers think if we s____ Tina?”17Do you know Sweden(瑞典)？It l 1 in the north of Europe．It is the fourth largest country in Europe with an a 2 of 450, 000 square kilometers and the population of about 8.5 million. Over one third of them live in the three largest cities, namely Stockholm, Goteborg and Malmo. More than half of Sweden is c 3 with trees. It is one of the r 4 countries in the world. About 100 years ago Sweden became industrialized(工业化). Today less than one third of the people are f5.Sweden is the country where the famous Nobel Prizes are awarded. Many people who have been to Stockholm, the c6of Sweden, must have visited the places where Nobel Prizes are awarded.The first language of Sweden is Swedish. English is the first f7 language in schools. Many middle-school students can s 8 two to three languages. Most of the Swedish people，men and women, o9and young, can speak English. So there is no p 10 to speak with them in English．18I still remember visiting Moscow. It is the capital of Russia, the b 1 country in the world. I went there w 2 my parents when I was eight years old. I lived and studied there for one year, I had some happy memories.One of the most interesting things of that city was that t 3 were many dogs. Perhaps Russians l 4 dogs very much. You can see dogs here and there. Almost each of the families had a dog. I made friends with many Russian children w 5 I was living and studying there. They were all very nice. They had fair hair and fair skin. I played with them h 6 though I could only speak a little Russian at first. They were f 7 to me. The weather in Moscow was very cold. It snowed almost every in winter. The ground was always c 8 with a lot of snow. We often made s 9 together.Now I am b 10 in China, but I miss them so much. I will never forget my happy memories of this visit to Moscow.19These years, with the development of society, more and more teenagers have suffered from stress. Some of the problems can make them feel very w 1 and unhappy all day. Who can help them? A teacher from a college tried his best to help them. He thought of a lot of w 2 to help them. On Monday and Thursday, you can v 3 him. Here are some ideas how to keep the young men healthier in every way.F 4 , it is very important to keep healthy. To get e 5 sleep every day is also necessary. Try to have a healthy d 6 . Secondly, maybe you are not the top students. It doesn‟t m 7 . The most important thing is to work hard. If you try your best, your teachers and parents will understand you. If you have some problems, you should be a 8 to talk with your teachers and parents. They can help you. Remember to s 9 your happiness and s 10 with your good friends. Sometimes you can go out for a walk.In a word, you can try to make you happy by yourselves. I‟m sure you can be happy every day.20Before windows were used, old h 1 in Europe and Britain were very dark. Their great rooms were high w 2 only one hole in the roof to let the smoke o 3 from cooking fire. Later, people began to make the holes b 4 __ to have more light and air in their homes. The first English window was j 5 _ _ a small opening（口）in the wall. It was cut long to let in as m 6 light as possible, and narrow to keep out the bad w 7 . But, more wind than light would c 8_ __ in if the window was cut long. This is why it was c 9 _ “The wind‟s eye”. And the word “w 10 _” comes form two ancient（古代的）words for “wind” and “eye”.21Thirty years ago, I walked into your bakery and asked for some loaves(条) of bread to sell. At that time, I was 12 years old. A young lady s 1 me that day. She gave me five loaves and wished me good l 2 .I took the loaves and went out to sell them. It t 3 me all day, but I sold them all. At the e 4 of the day, I had some money. I was the h 5 boy in the world as I walked home that evening.The next day, I went to a bicycle shop. I paid a deposit(定金) on a new bicycle.. And then I started my next j 6 as a newspaper delivery() boy. Soon I c 7 pay the rest of the money for the bicycle and the bike was mine. I was so proud of m 8 !Today I still work in the delivery business. I have a lot of trucks to send goods all over the country. I live in a beautiful house, but I don‟t ride a bicycle these days. I drive a large nice car.I don‟t know e 9 that young lady was. But b 10 she gave me the start, I have becomea success ful man. I‟d like to show my thanks to her.22Long ago, people used bells more t 1 __ they do today. The postmen used to ring a hand bell when they delivered letters. Fire engines had bell i 2_ of sirens(号笛). People who sold things came past houses, ringing a bell and shouting w 3 _ was for sale. Every village had its church bell to let people know it was t 4 to go to church. At night, this bell was ringing so that travelers would find the village in the d 5 _. In most countries bells were hung r 6 _ the necks of animals. The bells helped owners to find lost cows or sheep. Today, in India, animals still wear bells. Now bells are used l 7_ _ and less, Buzzers, sirens and horns have t 8 __ their place. Now people try to keep the old bells in school and churches so t 9 they will not l 10_ their beautiful sounds for ever.23Life gets noisier every day and very f 1 people can be free from noise of some kind or another. W 2 you live in the centre of a modern city or a village far away --- the chances that you will be disturbed by planes, cars, radios, etc. are almost everywhere. We seem to be used to noise, too. Some people feel quite lonely w 3 background music while they are working.Tests have s 4 that total silence can be very frightening experiences. H 5 , some people enjoy listening to pop music which is very loud, and this can do harm to their ears. The noise level in some places is far a 6 the usual safety level for heavy industrial areas.One recent report about noise said that a 7 a lot of people say that any noise disturbs their attention, only a sudden c 8 in the level of noise really affects people‟s attention. It goes on to say that a background noise, which doesn‟t change too much (music, for example) may even help people to pay attention.People are testing ways to make less noise. There are even laws c 9 noise. We can‟t r 10 to the “ good old days ” of peace and quiet. But we can ma ke less noise --- if we shout loudly enough about it24There are t 1 _ many accidents in cities. Accidents often happen when people c 2 the roads or streets. Read the passage c _ 3 __ and learn to be careful later on. Be careful when it is r 4 __. Many accidents happen on rainy days. People are in a h 5 because they don‟t want to get w 6_ _. They often cross the roads quickly. Often they can‟t see c 7 _ _ as they holdtheir umbrellas in front of t 8_ . Remember that cars take l 9_ __ time to stop when the roads are wet. When it is raining, we must be more and more careful, not l 10_ _ careful.25Most American families are smaller than the families in other c 1 __. Children in the US will l 2 their parents‟ homes. When they grow up, they usually live f 3 from their parents because they want to f 4_ _ good jobs. They often w 5 _ _ to their parents or telephone them. And they often go to v 6 their parents on holiday. Parents usually let their children choose their o 7 __ jobs. Americans think it I 8 for young people to decide on their lives by themselves. Children are asked to do some work around their houses. And in many families, Children are p 9_ _ for doing some housework so that they can learn h 10 to make money for their own use.26Someone says: “Time is money,” but I think time is e 1 __ more important than money. Why? Because when money is spent, we can get it back. However, when time is g 2 _, it will never r 3 _ . That‟s why we mustn‟t waste time. It goes without saying that the t 4 _ is usually limited（有限的）. Even a second is very important. We should make full use of our time to do s 5 useful. But it is a pity that there are a lot of people who do not know the i 6 of time. They spent their limited time smoking, drinking and p 7 _. They do not know that wasting time means wasting part of their own l 8_ _. In a word, we should save time. We shouldn‟t l 9_ _ today‟s work for tomorrow. Remember we have n 10 time to lose.27Andy was born in China 15 years ago．In 2005, she m 1 to the USA with her family．As a high school student，she has found many differences b 2 Chinese and Americans：About money1) Americans like to spend m 3 than they have，so many of them are always in debt(欠债)．But Chinese usually spend less than they have, so many 0f them always have m 4 left in the bank．2) The American kids themselves make their own money．Most Chinese kids alwaysa 5 their parents for money．3) Many American parents think there is n 6 need to send their children to an expensive university．It‟s different in China．Many Chinese parents would do anything to send their children to expensive universities t 7 their family isn‟t rich enough．About school1) Many American girls take part in sports，dancing and singing groups while many Chinese girls take part in study groups．2) Many American students think that B is good while many Chinese students think that B is too b 8 .About friendsMost American parents let their sons or daughters make friends by t 9 . They never ask them about their friends while Chinese parents usually enjoy knowing more about their children‟s friends i 10 many different ways，and usually stop them from staying out too late with friends．28Do you have bright ideas? Ideas for inventions that c 1 the world or, at least, make life。