中考英语完形填空专练一

完形填空专项练习

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My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors said that with treatment he would be able to walk, but would never run very well. The first three years of his life was ___1___ in hospital. By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he has a problem when you saw him ___2___.

Children in our neighborhood always ran around ___3___ their play, and Joey would jump and ran and play, ___4___. We never told him that he probably wouldn’t be ___5___ to run like the other children. So he didn’t know.

In ___6___ grade he decided to join the school running team. Every day he trained. He ran more than any of the others, ___7___ only the top seven runners would be chosen to run for the ___8___. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know.

He ran four to five mile every day—even when he had a fever. I was ___9___, so I went to ___10___ him after school. I found him running ___11___. I asked him how he felt. “Okay,” he said. He has two more mile s to go. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept ___12___.

Two weeks later, the names of the team ___13___ were out. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had ___14___ the team. He was in seventh grade —the other six team members were all eighth graders. We never told him he couldn’t do it … so he didn’t know. He just ___15___ it.

1. A. spent B. taken C. cost D. paid

2. A. talk B. sit C. study D. walk

3. A. after B. before C. during D. till

4. A. either B. too C. though D. yet

5. A. able B. sorry C. glad D. afraid

6. A. sixth B. seventh C. eighth D. ninth

7. A. so B. if C. then D. because

8. A. neighborhood B. family C. school D. grade

9. A. excited B. tired C. pleased D. worried

10. A. think about B. hear from C. agree with D. look for

11. A. alone B. away C. almost D. already

12. A. riding B. walking C. playing D. running

13. A. jumpers B. runners C. doctors D. teachers

14. A. got B. kept C. made D. found

15. A. made B. played C. had D. took

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Several years ago I studied in a university in the biggest city in our country. It’s beautiful but it’s hot in __1__. So I usually returned to my hometown when my __2__ began. It is not big, but it’s cool and quiet.

I could __3__ in the daytime and have a good sleep at night.

One day I had some __4__ to solve. But I didn’t take the dictionaries home. My father told me Charlie, one of my __5__, had a good library. I went to his house at once. We didn’t see each other after I __6__ middle school. A t first he didn’t recognize me. He __7__ me up and down. And then he called out, “Oh, dear! It’s you, Fred!”Of course we were __8__ to meet each other again and talked a lot about our schoolmates and __9__. Later on he showed me around his library. It wasn’t big but there were

a lot of nice books in it. And the dictionaries I __10__ were in them too. At last I said, “__11__ you lend some dictionaries to me, please”“I’m sorry I don’t lend any books to __12__,” said the young man.

“Are you afraid I’ll __13__ them”“No, I’m not. I’m afraid you won’t __14__ them to me. Look! All the books are not __15__, but borrowed!”

1. A. spring B. summer C. autumn D. winter

2. A. birthday B. Saturday C. Sunday D. holiday

3. A. study B. play C. rest D. run

4. A. words B. sentences C. problems D. stories

5. A. brothers B. sisters C. aunts D. classmates

6. A. finished B. heard C. saw D. met

7. A. lifted B. carried C. looked D. pulled

8. A. angry B. happy C. worried D. sad

9. A. doctors B. teachers C. workers D. drivers

10. A. looked for B. read C. wrote D. looked at

11. A. Need B. Must C. May D. Can

12. A. other B. the other C. others D. another

13. A. lose B. sell C. throw D. know

14. A. pay B. return C. use D. look after

15. A. made B. picked C. won D. bought

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Many animals use some kinds of “language”. They use signals(信号) and the signals have meanings. For example, __1 a bee has found some food, it goes 2 its home. 3 is difficult for a bee to tell __4 bees where the food is speaking to them, but it can do a little dancing. This tells the bees where the food is and 5 it animals show 6 they feel by making sounds. It is not difficult to tell if a dog is angry because it barks. Birds make several different sounds and 7 has its meaning. Sometimes we humans make sounds in the same way. We make sounds like “Oh” to 8 how we feel about __9__ or we 10 something on our feet.

We humans have languages. We have words. These words have meaning of things, action, feeling or ideas. We are able to __11__ each other information, to tell other people 12 we think or we feel. By writing down words, we can remember what has happened or 13 messages to people far , like people, live and die. If a language is not used by people, it is called