中考英语十二选十经典题

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It was a few days before Christmas, so when the office __________ at half past five, most of the young men and women ____________ and had a party. They ate an d drank, danced and __________ songs, and __________ wanted to go home. But Joe had a wife at home, and lived quite a long way _________ the city. Every few min utes he look at his ___________, and at last, when it was very late, he began to leav e.

“Joe!” shouted his friends, “Are you ___________? Why don’t you stay and ____ ______the party?”

“I am not leaving,” said Joe, “I am only going down to the station to miss the l ast __________back home. I will be back here ___________ a few minutes.”

Bob was a gardener and he had no ___________ for a few months. One day he went out __________ for a job. While he _____________ in the street, he saw a po ster（海报）at the gate of a big restaurant. It said that the restaurant needed to hir e(雇用) a man who could grow flowers and trees well. Bob was so _________ that he went straight to _________ it . There Bob was told to go __________ home and ___ _______ his old work clothes with him. And Bob did so.

The boss looked at his work clothes carefully and then decided to let Bob _____ _____ the job. Bob asked the boss why his work clothes were so ___________. The b oss answered with a ____________, “Oh, your work clothes are all with pa tches(补丁) on the knees. I have hired two men recently. They had work clothes with patches o n the buttocks(臀部). They were too lazy.”

Long long ago, there was an old merchant(商人). He had t hree sons. “To which one shall I __________ my fortune(财产)?” he thought. “It must be to the _________ son.”

He called his three sons to him. “Here is __________ money,” he said, “Each of you take one coin to __________ something that will fill this room. Who can do thi s? He’ll _________my fortune.”

That evening, the oldest son bought straw(稻草) with his coin. But the straw onl y covered a ________ of the room.

The second son bought sand with his coin. But the sand covered half of the roo m.

The youngest son b rought home a candle. His brothers asked him, “What will y ou do?”

“Watch,” said the third son. He lit (点燃) the candle, and at once the room was filled, from wall to wall, from ceiling(天花板) to __________, with light.

When the old merchant saw ________they b rought back, he said, “My _________ son is indeed the cleverest of all !”

And that old merchant, gave his fortune to his youngest son, for his candle fill t he whole room with_________.

ng, and quickly _________ her hands and face. She got to school early. She ________ _ hard in class all day. She __________ basketball after school, and then walked ho me.

Wei Hua’s pen was _________, so she needed a new one. On her way home, she bought a new pen at a __________. When she reached home, she had a short _____ ____. After that she ________ her parents. She cooked supper and cleaned the house.

She watched TV for an hour after supper. Then she started her homework. She finished it at half past nine. She went to _________ before a quarter to ten. She was very _________ yesterday.

When the American were getting ready ________ their first men to the moon, an old French was__________ them on TV in a restaurant. There was an Englishman in the restaurant too, and he said to the French man, “The ____________ are very clever , aren’t they? They are going to send men to the moon. It’s very long way __ _______ the earth.”

“Oh, that’s nothing,” the Frenchman answered __________. “The Frenchmen are going to send some men to the sun in a few ___________ time. That’s much ______ ____ away than the moon, you kno w.”

The Englishman was very __________ when he heard this. “Oh, yes, it is.” He said. “But the sun is _________ hot for people to go to.”

The Frenchman laughed and answered, “Well, the Frenchmen aren’t foolish, you know. We won’t go to the sun ______ the day, of course. We’ll go there at night.”

B: I ___________ to the cinema. Why?

A: You _________ at home when I called you.

B: What did you want me to do?

A: What was the ____________ yesterday?

B: It was November 22nd, Friday.

A: It was my _________ birthday. Some of my good friends came to have a _______ ___. We made dumplings, __________ vegetables, fish, chicken and some meat. _____ ____ supper, we sang, danced. We enjoyed __________.

B: I’m sorry. You told me about it two days ________. Your birthday is two days __ ______ than mine.

A: It doesn’t matter. I must come to your birthday.

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